European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday september 18,1990statesideplant explosion injures 6, sets off huge fireball Huntington ind. Apr an aluminium Furnace at a wheel manufacturing Plant exploded monday morning spewing molten Metal around a room and injuring 16 workers authorities said. Two workers were in critical condition after the blast at the Western wheels Plant which manufactures aluminium wheels for cars. Huntington fire marshal John Kaiser said the Furnace blew up shortly after Midnight. The blast spewed hot aluminium around the inside of a Furnace room and blew a Hole in at least one Wall of the Plant. John Alamo a worker inside the Plant said the explosion Shook the Plant and set off a huge fireball. The cause of the blast was not immediately determined. Two workers were listed in critical condition one with bums Over at least 20 percent of his body and the other with head injuries. A third person was hospitalized with a concussion while 13 others were treated and  Airport planners study costly design flaw Washington apr planners at Washington a National Airport Are saddled with what could be a multimillion Dollar Blind spot in their designs for a new terminal building. The master plan for the $200 million terminal it was recently revealed contains a fundamental Haw one of the terminals wings will Block the control Tower s line of sight to part of a runway. Airport codes require that the Tower must have an unobstructed View of All runways. James a. Wilding general manager of the metropolitan Washington airports authority said his office has been aware of the problem for several years and believed it could be handled with minimal adjustments. After several weeks of discussions the authority is leaning toward relocating the control Tower a solution that will boost the Price tag for the $735 million renovation project by Only $15 million or $20 million and not seriously affect the scheduled 1994 completion  of teachers in new Orleans walk out new Orleans apr More than 4,000 Public school teachers went on strike monday Over wages and benefits a the first walkout in new Orleans schools since 1978. Pickets were out before Dawn their signs bearing messages such As a no raise no  school officials said classes would Start on time with substitutes in the classroom. The teachers who initially had demanded $45 million in increased wages and benefits scaled Back Over the weekend to demanding $1 million in additional health benefits. The school Board turned them Down and stuck to the $600,000 it had on the table. The teachers who receive pay from both the school system and the state have already received a 7 percent wage increase from the state this year. Salaries Range from $19,455 for a starting teacher to $35,111 for someone with a doctorate and 25 years of experience. Evacuees from the Middle East Are helped off a chartered plane As they arrive in a drenching rain sunday at Baltimore Washington International Airport in Linthicum  americans foreigners arrive on 3rd flight from Kuwait Linthicum my. Apr a plane arrived with 160 westerners and other foreigners aboard who had been trapped in Kuwait by the iraqi invasion and some described deteriorating conditions in the annexed country. A i feel very Happy. In a glad i came to this country a said an Indian paediatrician who arrived sunday on the plane with his wife and six children. The Man who declined to be identified because of fear he would endanger people left behind in Kuwait said he heard reports of atrocities but had not witnessed any. The charter flight brought a group of 54 americans and 106 . Citizens. Sixty six were children or infants 50 were women and 44 were men said Helen Szablya a spokeswoman with the state department of human resources. It was the third charter to Fly evacuees from Kuwait to Baltimore via Baghdad and London. A flight carrying 285 people arrived saturday. An american evacuee said military action should be taken to oust iraqi forces from Kuwait. A the kuwaiti people want military action. We can to wait for the sanctions to work a said the woman. She described random killings deserted streets and nights punctuated by gunfire. Many of the evacuees left behind husbands and fathers who have been barred from leaving after the aug. 2 invasion. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has used some Western men As a human shield at key installations to deter possible military Force. Store fired 30,000 for alleged theft paper reports Philadelphia apr Cumberland farms inc. Officials fired More than 30,000 convenience store employees after they were questioned by company Security for alleged theft according to a published report. The Philadelphia inquirer reported sunday that records it obtained and corroborated in interviews with former employees showed that Cumberland farms attempted to question 30,903 Cashiers As part of a systematic Effort to recover inventory losses by demanding Money from employees accused of theft. Virtually All were fired the newspaper reported. Fourteen former Cumberland farms employees have filed a lawsuit saying the company has a policy of falsely accusing Cashiers of stealing and then threatening and coercing them into signing confessions. The company based in Canton mass., denies the allegations. Cumberland farms kept at least two sets of records on each employee questioned from at least 1976 to 1989, according to the inquirer. One set of records assigned a serial number to identify the employee accused and listed the reason for questioning his or her employment status and whether the accused paid any Money to the firm. A each person fired was Given a num Ber a Edward f. Breau a former Cumberland farms Security official told the newspaper. Breau said he left the company after refusing to question an employee without evidence. Since aug. 1, the newspaper has reported that 275 former Cumberland farms employees have said they were falsely accused of theft. They said that company Security officials would take them into a Back room of the store and threaten them until they signed confessions. The civil lawsuit filed in . District court in Camden n.j., accuses Cumberland farms of extortion fraud racketeering malicious prosecution and wire and mail fraud. A spokesman for Cumberland farm Foster g. Macrides said the compan would not comment on the newspaper1 findings because of the pending lit gation. Three former Cumberland farms los prevention specialists told the inquire that the company had a policy to coerce employees into signing confessions c theft even though the company ofte had no evidence in those cases. Two of the Security officials said the obtained confessions at least two third of the time. Cumberland farms is one of then Tiona a largest convenience store Chain with 1,200 stores and hundreds of Gasc line stations in 11 states