European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday March 6,1991 stateside Ditardo readers heading for wilds at record Pace Rohn roadhouse Alaska a the leaders in the id Tarod Trail sled dog race set out for the Tundra of Central Alaska slightly ahead of last years record Pace but heading into weather that could slow things Down. A everybody is going crazy a said Joe runyan0 of Mcnana who won the race in 1989 and was in ninth place monday. A there Are quite a few. Front runners who  ahead of  organizers of the 1,163-mile, Anchorage to Nome race have been optimistic that hard fast trails of the first three Days would result in a faster finish than last years record of 11 Days 1 hour and 53 minutes. Terry Adkins of Sand Coulee mont., led a group of leaders out of the checkpoint at Rohn on monday. Rohn is 274 Miles into the race. Lie was followed by Dee Dee Jonrowe of Willow Lavon Barve of Wasilla and Tim Osmar of Clam Gulch. Farther Back Are defending Champion Susan Butcher of Manley and Rick Swenson of two Rivers. Each is trying to become the first competitor to win the race five  news will close March 15 barring Sale new York up a the new York daily news the nations largest circulation daily news taper just two years ago will close March 15 uness the debt Ridden strike bound tabloid can be sold by then the papers executives said. A barring a Sale 1 regret that a shutdown of the business will be necessary a daily news publisher James Hoge said monday. He said  will cease publication March 15, unless a binding agreement to sell it is reached by that Date. A the problems facing the daily news remain unsolved a challenging economic and compel Tive conditions in the new York area the failure to achieve new labor agreements with the unions and a violent strike that has significantly damaged the circulation and advertising revenues of the newspaper a Hoge said. A a Quot with operating losses still mounting at the rate of $700,000 a Day it is simply not possible to continue publication a he said. Suda fed tampering Case Broadens with 5th pack _ by the los Angeles times a filth package of Suda fed 12-hour capsules was. Turned Over to the Fri in Tacoma Wash., on monday after a woman noticed it appeared to have been tampered with. It was the latest incident in a cyanide tampering Case that has killed two people and. Injured a  v. To a a a Quot Jeff Nesbit a spokesman for the  and drug administration said the woman had taken two of the 10 capsules in the package  about the nationwide recall of the product. A she Only noticed this today after All of the publicity Over the weekend a Nesbit said a this re emphasizes the necessity for Consumers to look in their Medicine cabinets their purses and their travel bags for Suda fed 12-hour capsules and return them a the unidentified Tacoma woman did not become ill and returned the package to the store where she bought it Nesbit said. The store called the Fri. The Blister pack of capsules had clearly been Tarn Perez with Eyen though it appeared intact said Fri spokesman Dave Thurston. ,. A it was slightly different in size and did not have tre safety bands that the manufacturer would have placed on the capsules prior to putting them in the Blister pack a Thurston said. Nesbit said the capsules would be Analysed in Washington . A the Fra said earlier monday that it examined 10,000 Cartons of Suda fed 12-hour capsules that have been pulled from retail stores in the Tacoma Olympia area and found no evidence of tampering. The Agency was still awaiting test results on a suspicious capsule found by another Tacoma woman. That capsule found in a Blister pack with a lot number identical to those containing capsules taken by the victims was being Analysed by the Fri to determine if it contains cyanide. / the Fra said that it has received further confirmation of cyanide poisoning in the death of one of the victims a Man from Lacey Wash. After his death the Many a body was cremated and his organs removed for donation. However authorities were Able to obtain blood samples which proved positive for cyanide Poi a zoning. _  evidence of cyanide poisoning already had been found in the body fluids of two of the victims one of them a woman who survived after her stomach Wass dated so Tuisl Art a it a a. I i k is / it  to it re a  it / two deaths and an illness in Washington state Are linked to cyanide laced Suda fed 12-hour capsules. Pumped. All three had taken Suda fed. Two of the victims collapsed within-10 minutes of taking the product. Burroughs wellcome co., the manufacturer of the capsules announced a nationwide recall of the product sunday. The Fra advised Consumers to return Suda fed capsules that carried a lot code of 8u2846 and an expiration Date of november 1991, the numbers found on All the contaminated Blister  Jet crash victims All from Louisiana Glen View,.111. Kupij a All three victims of sundays crash of. A Navy Jet Trainer on a City Street in Glenview were from Louisiana and the pilots wife is an army nurse serving in the persian Gulf the military said monday. Navy capt. Robert Mckenzie identified the victims As it. Cmdr. George t. Sullivan and it. Cd. Meredith Hamm Iii both of new Orleans and Petty offi car James m. Holcombe of Gretna la Sullivan was piloting the plane when it nose dived into a residential Street in the Chicago suburb and disintegrated into a pillar of fire and Black smoke Mckenzie said. Witnesses said Sullivan was a hero for steering the plane away from the houses that line both sides of the Street and possibly averting greater loss of life. Mckenzie said Sullivan a wife Sharon is a Captain in the army Reserve serving in operation desert storm. He said she was flown from the 159th Mobile army surgical Hospital where she works As a nurse to Spain in route Back to the United states after being notified of her husbands death. The sullivans have two children me Kenzie said. Hamm and his wife have two children and Holcombe and his wife have four children. Quot he said Sullivan was a highly qualified and a a person who managed other pilots and trained them. He was As Good As they  Mckenzie said the Trainer was on its Way to the Glenview naval air station to pick up him and it. Cmdr. Bill Mcintryre wound up in a driveway for a flight to Dallas. He said he Likely a the Pilot of this plane in my mind is would have flown the aircraft from Glen a hero a said Mark Vogel who lives a View to Texas. Block from the crash site a the saved All two investigations Are under Way me our lives.�?�. V. A a a. Kenzie said. One will attempt to deter Navy chief Petty officer Roy Griggs mine the cause of the crash and the Sec said the investigation will be a priv Ond will assess benefits to be paid to the Quot families of the victims. Navy investigators from Norfolk va., arrived at  site monday to begin their investigation. Crews used a Crane to Load the Tail Section and the engines a the Only parts of the Small Jet that remained intact a onto trucks for transport to an investigation site. The Tail lodged against a tree Only about 10 feet from a House. An engine Bird discounted As cause Colorado Springs Colo. Apr an investigator looking into a Jet crash that killed 25 people discounted the possibility that a Bird caused the Accident despite the discovery of feathers stuck to a Wing of the Pla Het instead the investigation into sundays crash of United airlines flight 585 has focused on other possible causes including Pilot error Low fuel Supply and wind Shear when wind Speed reverses across a planets wings and causes it to drop like a Rock. Quot the cockpit recorder and the flight data recorder were recovered and sent to Washington for examination. A Quot at this Point it is a very wide open investigation a said John k. Lauber head of the National transportation safety Hoard team investigating the Accident. A there is nothing we w Ould Rule out at this Point and nothing we would Rule in a feathers were found on Small pieces of Wing Lauber said. Collisions with Birds or instances in which Birds were sucked into Jet engines have caused plane crashes but Lauber said monday that was unlikely in this Case. Regarding the Bird theory Lauber said no one Quot has gotten excited Quot about it Quot there a no evidence of any kind of internal engine fire prior to  the same United Jet had to return to Cannon International Airport in Reno nev., in january 1987 when a collision with a Bird damaged one of its engines. Earlier monday workers used a Crane and a fire truck with a snorkel Boom to dig deep into the Earth to recover charred chunks of the plane. Body bags were carried from the crash site to a coroners . The twin engine Boeing 737-200 went Down sunday five Miles Short of the Colorado Springs municipal Airport in a Small Park narrowly missing an apart meaning no information about the cause will be released until the invest ligation is Complete. Routinely such investigations take two to four weeks a some longer he said. A there were no reports by the Crew of problems before the Jet went Down and investigators will have no flight data recorder to retrieve like they would on a commercial Craft Griggs said. Flight recorders Are not usually kept in such  crash mint Complex and houses. All 20 passengers and five Crew members were killed. Witnesses said the plane was making its final Landing approach when it pitched steeply downward and rolled to the right hitting the Park almost straight Down. The Airport had issued wind Shear alerts sunday morning before and after the crash but none was in effect when the Jet went Down. The Pilot Wras warned of Strong w ind gusts just before the crash. The National weather service said that at the time of the crash visibility was 100 Miles and winds were 23 Mph with gusts of 32 Mph