European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday wednesday. January 1/2, 1991 the stars and stripes a Pago 5 Michigan lab boosts vaccine production for germ warfare Flag of Honor Larry Clarksr. Receives a folded american Flag from a member of a Navy Honor guard during funeral services in Decatur la a a for his son Navy airman Larry m. Clark jr., 21. Larry Clark sr., is holding his granddaughter tilt any whose Mother Sabrina Homber stands to his right. 1 Clark was one of 21 sailors from the aircraft Carrier Saratoga who were tilled in a ferry Accident off the coast of Israel i Ansing Mich up a 1 he state of Michigan s Public health Laboratory Wall increase production of a vaccine against the deadly disease anthrax As the threat of biological wart arc in the persian Gull looms a published report said sunday. Until recently the lab prepared an estimated 1,000 serum closes a year Lor use by Industry and researchers. Now the state department of Public i health is being pushed to step up production so the . Military can inoculate As Manv tint one troops As possible be Tore and combat with Iraq the Detroit news said. Britain is the Only other producer of the anthrax vaccine within the anti iraqi coalition. Pentagon officials said Friday that . Soldiers on the front lines m saudi Arabia would soon begin receiving inoculations of Fenny some Protection against biological agents if Iraq resorts to germ warfare. Gia director William Webster warned last fall that Iraq already known to have used chemical weapons during its War with Iran and on its kurdish population had biological weapons. The news said officials in Washington on Friday confirmed published reports that eve with increased output not enough dosages Are available to vaccinate All --. And Allied personnel who might be exposed to anthrax or. Other germ agents. At Michigan a Lansing lab no additional guards have been put on patrol according to the newspaper report but Ottic mls Are tight lipped about the highly sensitive activity inside the fenced in lab. A or. Kenneth Wilcox Deputy director of the state push cd i Walth. Department declined to reveal How much vaccine the army has ordered saving Only that the lab a has had to increase its activities Quot to keep Pace. A a a pent aeon officials refused to answer Spee Itic questions about the vac me including How Mam soldiers  inoculated. A. A Wilcox  has bail a contract with the army Lor Quot live to 10 years to produce Small amounts of the vac me. However Federal a officials contacted the a department last Spring or summer asking a the production be increased significantly lie said. A ii exposed to anthrax bacteria humans develop skin ulcers and Black scabs plus lesions on the limes that Are fatal it  said. A a vaccinated Soldier infected with the Haleria Milit Suiter relatively minor Side Ellets but would not die. Lie said. A a a a a Stephen Ross a Michigan stale University i Olessor and infectious disease specialist said anthrax As a. Biological warfare agent causes disease by. Inhalation. Quot it can produce aggressive pneumonia with a High la Talili rate Quot be said. 1 be thick walled spores of the bacteria Ean survive , making it a danger to soldiers in the desert. Michigan a health department began producing Small amounts of the vac me in the 1960s,. Through an employee Salty program with the us is. Centers for disease control m Atlanta. Ross said the anthrax disease is Silti Cuit to diagnose Early and it progresses rapidly. .l.a. Police foil gang s plan to kill cop los an gulls apr a gangs plot to murder a police Allicer on new years eve was foiled by the arrests of three Young men and seizure of weapons police said.  .����. A a a Quot the plot apparently was in retaliation for police crackdowns on gang controlled drug operations in the Van Guys and Sylmar areas of the san Fernando Valley said it. Jim Vojtecky. Quot a was Early As september we began getting information that local Street gangs were getting a Little irritated and we had indications they were going to attempt to Kijl a  w e were screwing up their drug operations in the  Vojtecky said. T gang violence in. The nations second largest City reached record Levels during 1990, As of nov. 30, gang violence had accounted for 315 deaths a 12.4 percent jump Over 1989, when 303 people died in gang attacks. Vojtecky said tension bet Cen police and gangs in the Van  been building for months. Recent information irom informants convinced police that an attempt to kill police would be made on new years eve Vojtecky said in Early morning raids satterday police seized two rifles one with a sawed off barrel on handgun and 163 rounds of ammunition. Sergio Camarena Cesar Reveles and Hector Aleman All is were taken into custody. Camarena and Reveles were booked for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder. Aleman was  for Possession of a sawed off  belonged to the same gang w hich Vojtecky declined to identify in keeping with departmental policy designed to deny publicity to individual gangs. L Vojtecky said Oll cers did not have time to determine  alleged murder plot was to be earned out. Saturday s Ai Icsis followed by hours a spate of gang violence in the Region that -1 cd t a 13-year-old boy dead and a girl critically wounded. The Bov was shot while sleeping in the living room of. His grandmothers Home in suburban Pomona police a said the gunman apparently mistook the youth visiting from Claremont for a member of a local gang. The girl was shot m the head when several rounds were fired through the living room window of her Home in South invest los Angeles i lie 13-year-old was listed it critical condition at Cedar Sinai medical Conte. A. Police spokesman said he did not know ii the girl was the Inci Hlad victim of a gang a Tjuk a Punk rockers tear up Hall concert  amp a Rastl los  i i s a Punk Rock fans-ordered., to leave an overcrowded concert Hall went on a rampage ripping out seats hurling bottles at police and smashing the windows  and offices outside authorities said sunday. A police Allicer was Cut on the head by a bottle and several concertgoers were injured in the Quot saturday night Melee at the. Classic theater in North Hollywood officials said. Lire fighters briefly turned hoses on the crowd to restore order. Three people were arrested one for vandalism one Tor an alcohol related of sense ind one on a felony warrant. Quot Assn yet l ire chief Jim Mulien said nearly -11900 people had jammed into the theater several Hundred More than its capacity. Fire officials ordered the Hall dose fat about 8 30 . Most fans left quietly but a Brawl erupted and about 200 scats were damaged in an ensuing rampage Mulker said. Some fans started a fire in a trash can on the second floor. But it was quickly put out he said. Outside fans smashed windows in shops offices and a Bank building. Property damage was estimated by. Police at about s20,000. A a in be been doing this for 10 years and As soon As i saw the police and their Trun Cheon Sll know the show was Over a a said Peter Firestone drummer for the shows headline act bad religion. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. \ Jan. 1, 1951�? Gen. Douglas m a Arthur toll Japan dial it the in Anrce old Iuliu Nabon Al lawlessness . It would become japans duty to Jom  inns acid Quot mount Force to repel  30 years ago today Jan. 1, 1961 a president elect John p. Kenne appointed civil i  Robert re. Weaver of n Newyork As director of the i  i he Sig and Home i  a Kiev 20 years ago today. 4. Jan. 1, 1971 a the russian supreme Cut Tommus d the  a Numis a two. Jews co indicted of treason in a Leningrad Hijack plot and pm  i a in g Chism a. Labor Camp. A a10 years ago today. Jan. 1, 1981 a an iranian defense mems try of Licini told a Iliae. M the Navy waa in a need of three British made warships which were Pui phased hut not a divvied because of the . Hostage crisis. Britain had honoured the . Boycott imposed by president Carter Quot after the american embassy in Tehran was seized on n in 4. 1979. Quot