European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday March 14,1991.1 by he Washington Post Washington Exxon corp. Agreed wednesday to acknowledge criminal responsibility and pay a $ 1 h million Fine As part of a s1.1 billion agreement with the Federal and alaskan govern Nientsu to Settle civil and criminal charges stemming from the nation s worst Oil Tanker spill according. To informed sources. A a a a. A a a a a a a. Ai lie settlement by Jar the largest Lor environmental damage in the United. States apparently dealt with one of live a oderal criminal charges tiled against the company. And its shipping subsidiary. Exxon. Shipping co Iliev sources said Exxon laced Uvo Lelov and three a nude Meanor charges related to the spill.  on the. Criminal charges was to a. Begin april 1 1 in . District c ourt in a Anchorage a. A a a a a a a. A Hall of the criminal Fine  of the six a billion in civil damages to be paid  i i years would he used to restore be fragile alaskan Shoreline damage burning Jet shuts Down Juk Airport new York a a cargo plane burst into flames during an aborted take a Ott tuesday forcing the shutdown of Kennedy International Airport Lor 2 leg hours. .1 he six member Crew escaped with bumps and bruises authorities said. I he plane Aid Rasport International plight 102, began smoking Midway Down the runway and burst into flames As it came to a Stop. The pcs s Landing gear wheels and two engines were led strewn across the ground about 21 0 Teet irom the flaming fuselage. T he right we tip was Hunt into the ground. Deep Black skid Marks were clearly visible on Itie ii Nav. The lire spread quickly through the Zeintl s cargo. Bire fighters used Loam and water to extinguish the Blaze. It. Was not immedi icly. Known How a Maiv rights were Ait cited by the Airport shutdown but All incoming flights were doer Ted. Said Beliera aviation administration spokesman Pill Glass erg. An incoming flight with 400 returning persian Gulf soldiers was among the did Vertex planes said another Airport spokesman. T of Middlemiss. When the Tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a a irked reef m arch24, 1-989. Nearly ii. Million Gallons of crude Oil gushed into Prince William sound event la ally spreading for Miles. I. Under the settlement signed in Washington d.c., Exxon is i a heated. To pity another $. Million if significant environmental problems can he traced to the spill after the 10-year payment period. Negotiators reached Basic terms of the settlement Days ago but . District court judge Stanley Sparkm barred tinal. Agreement until he heard arguments monday by. Live native alaskan villages seeking to protect their rights to pursue damages separate irom the government a agreement. 1a. On 1 be slav Sparkm listed his ban alter warning government lawyers not to trample on the villagers Legal rights. Walter j Mickel who took it Niceas Alaska s governor last december and has been represent my the state in negotiations in Washington said the settlement terms Are Quot in the Best interests of alaskans. A a. Rut environmentalists and some alus leans criticized the agreement or failing to provide enough Motiey and specifically target its use tar  restoration. Actual distribution of  payment. Won id be decided by a Board of trustees that is to include representatives of the Federal and stale governments. J Michael Hau Sidd an  who represented the native Aht Eurt villages in the hearing before Sparkm. Said the two governments should have held out Lor an a open ended settlement m which Exxon agreed to pay Voli Kievet is necessary to restore Prince William sound to its Pristine  the spill. Exxon has spent s2 billion., on the cleanup leaving shorelines  of Oil. I he huge alaskan dishing Industry badly dislocated by the spill gradually is. Returning to Normal. A. Fitial authorities have hares begun to calculate damage to wildlife As sic Nettie studies continue to Ted new evidence of Long term damage to certain varieties of sea Birds Salmon Trout and other Marine life. A a v. According to confidential  scientists have conduced that some colonies of diving Birds have suffered total failure a it a reproduce Asre suit of the spill while some species of Marine Fife were so affected that Thev Quot May not. Respond to i Vival a torts Lor decades. Although the agreement times 1 won of further obligations to the state and Federal governments the company laces More than 300 lawsuits by alaskan Resi Dent s and a a business executives claiming. Larue losses caused by lie  i he alaskan villages that tiled Sun m of a Washington said they feared that the gov. Ern ment was a bartering away their right to. Pursue spill related claims later. Lint Sparkm assured lawyers Lor the vib lures that the government. I think in. Ders tails  cannot play last and Loose with oui rights. Firefighters pump Loam onto a dc-8 cargo plane  burst into names during Takeoff tuesday at new Yorkus Kennedy Airport Fri declines to probe . Police washing Ion Uit a he i director William sessions declined a request from several Black House members tuesday for his Agency to conduct a wider in pcs ligation of police brutality in los Angeles urging them instead to seek a Justice department inquiry. At the same time. Rep. Donald de Wauls chairman of. The House of representatives judiciary committee s subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights Saivii his pane would begin hearings next week on police brutality in America. Quot the panel headed by Edwards May hold subsequent hearings in eos Angeles where critics have said the problem of police brutality dates Back More than a decade. A. Sessions met for roughly 3 1 minutes behind closed doors with about in democratic lawmaker most of whom were members. Of the. Congressional j Lack caucus. A rep. John Conyers told reporters after the private meeting with sessions that the lawmakers would try to meet a wednesday with attorney general  Thornburgh to request a probe of what they said was systemic police brutality in eos Angeles. Quot they Are investigating if but. They Are investigating Iuchs a single incident of brutality a Conyers said of the eyes probe of the videotaped beating of Rufus King by several White eos Angeles police officers he said he and the other lawmakers who met with sessions wanted Quot a systemic investigation of this Long history of. Violence a but that sessions was Quot declining to take the responsibility to conduct a wide probe and bucked the request up Tii Thornburgh. A. A it that decision is in the pay Gride of somebody above or. Sessions then so be it Quot Conyers said of the request Tor a. Wider inquiry. A Conyers said he had Quot every Confidence that or. To Horn Hugh Wilt act positively on the lawmakers s request for a -wider1 probe of police brutality in los Angeles. Hut. C Conyers said a it the attorney general id the United states declines to  racism in the Civ of eos Angeles he will have made a new statement about the Depths to which we have sunk in the United states of Ameri Ca. Quot nobody believes in the police system anymore in the eos Angeles  Conyers said. A _ rep John 1 wis d-ga., said he had Quot never seen the Type of police  against a single person As he saw a it inst  s walk. T. A. A a leads to arrest san Juan puerto Rico Quot Kupij a cruise ship Sailor whose Peculiar gait aroused the suspicion of �. Customs agents was arrested and charged with smuggling 2.2 pounds of cocaine inside the soles of his shoes. I he suspect Daniel Alfredo , was a crewman aboard the cruise ship Victoria which Are Rived monday in san  agents working at the pier noticed him and then searched him because he a was walking in an unusual  said George Mcninney customs special agent in charge of the Caribbean area