European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. March 20, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5smell of oily beaches wafts Over Malibu by Maura Dolan and Louis Sahagun the los Angeles times Malibu Calif. A Oil from a weekend pipeline spill in Santa Monica Bay washed up along 3v5 Miles of Malibu. Beaches monday permeating the Well heeled Surfside Community with the stench of Petroleum. A you can smell it before you see it a said California coastal commissioner Madelyn Glickfeld a Malibu resident. A the smell is absolutely  cleanup efforts were halted late monday afternoon As winds of up to 25 knots made it unsafe for Small boats to remain at sea. Officials also said that the wind and surf had so dissipated the Slick that there was Little mechanical equipment could do. An estimated 21,000 Gallons of a Light a diesel like Oil mixture spilled into Santa Monica Bay on saturday night when a Tanker punctured a pipeline while attempting to Dock at chevrons  Oil terminal off Al Segundo to the South of Malibu. A we Are real optimistic that the Impact of this spill on the natural resources will be pretty Small a said it Reed Smith Southern californians Oil spill coordinator for the state department of fish and game. About 18 Oil soaked Birds most of them Western grebes were found 10 of them dead. Among the oiled Birds found alive were two loons. By monday afternoon damage to the beaches was a slight a said . Coast guard spokesman capt. James b. Morris. He said that he expected winds from a storm forecast for monday night to a push the Oil to the East and toward Santa Monica  throughout the Day about 300 workers Clad in yellow rain slickers and knee High rubber boots stood in Malibu a Waters and tried to soak up Oil from the foam with absorbent materials. Many of the workers also prepared the beaches for More Oil raking up kelp and other material that could get in the Way of cleanup later. Malibu residents complained repeatedly that a foul odor made them nauseated and gave them headaches. Spill workers use absorbent booms in an Effort to remove the oily Sheen from the surf at Malibu Calif a coast guard spokesman acknowledged that the fumes could cause respiratory distress but that they would not persist or cause Long lasting problems. Investigators said that they Are continuing to probe the accidents cause and will be reviewing Docking procedures to help improve future safety. By monday morning patches of a Rainbow Sheen of Oil covered an area More than 6 Miles Long and 2 Miles wide from Malibu toward the East by afternoon Only Small a a blotches of Sheen remained most of it less than a mile  a coast guard Marine Sci ence technician Shawn Lootens. Protective booms were stretched across the Mouths of Malibu and Ballona creeks sensitive wetlands areas. Marina Del Rey Harbor which was closed saturday night was reopened monday  Bug not biting folks so hard this Winter Atlanta a maybe you saw the to commercials this Winter plugging an Over the counter flu remedy a a a a a. A a a a a. A. A a a. A flu outbreaks in 47 states three virulent strains millions stricken True enough. But according to Federal health officials the Winter of 1990-91 has been among the least severe influenza seasons in two decades. A it s been an incredibly slow flu year a said or. Joe Kent a medical epidemiologist with the influenza be Federal centers for i Branch at the disease control. A a it a one of the lightest we be had in 20  cd researchers done to keep score of each flu Case in the United states most cases Are never reported. But the Atlanta based Agency does Monitor trends in flu activity on a state by state basis and this Winter there does no to seem to have been a lot of it. Forty eight states have reported confirmed or suspected flu cases this Winter but Only one has reported an outbreak since late january the cd reported and there has been no evidence of excessive deaths from the flu this Winter the cd said. One reason May be that this Winters dominant flu was a relatively mild Type. While some isolated cases of flu types a-i1in i and a-h3n2 have been reported the vast majority of cases have been the third major flu Type typed. And it historically goes easier on older people who Are at greatest risk of serious illnesses or death from flu. In their latest weekly Check a network of doctors reporting to the cd said that just 10 percent of their flu related visits were patients older than 65. A a that a probably part of it a Kent said. A a Type b definitely does not hit As hard. And this has been almost exclusively a b  a a in the stars and stripes 10yearsago March 20,1981 a former president Jimmy Carter told Princeton University students at a private meeting that he had not As Quot effective Quot in the White House As he had wanted to be and Quot might have been More forceful with Iran a student said. Teacher on trial in husband s death admits to withholding information20 year Sago March 20,1971 a about 240 gis from a sergeant missile unit near Wiesbaden / West Germany threatened to strike unless a major reasons of discontent were dealt with.  30 year Sago March 20,1961 a House speaker Sam Rayburn donated $1,000 to launch a Campaign seeking Public contributions target world  hero sgt. Alvin e. York out of debt. .40 years ago March 20, 1951 a the Senate crime investigating committee agreed to seek the deportation of Frank costello reputed Boss of the underworld in the Eastern United states sending him packing to Italy on the heels of Charles a Lucky Quot Luciano. Exeter . Api a High school teacher testified that one withheld information about her husbands murder from police for months because she believed they a made a mistake by arresting her teen age Lover. A my initial reaction was a of my god they found out about the affair and they arrested the wrong person a a Pamela smart told jurors monday As the defense began rebutting two weeks of testimony from prosecution witnesses in her Mur Der conspiracy trial. Smart 23, said she Felt a total Shock and disbelief when she Learned last june that the student Lover she says she had broken up with Days before her husbands Deatly had been arrested in the Case. Gregory Smith 24, was shot to death May 1. Prosecutors say smart seduced William Flynn 17, and then persuaded him and two friends to kill her husband. They say she was afraid of losing everything in a divorce. The defense says the three killed the Young insurance Salesman on their own and then framed his widow to avoid life prison terms with no Chance of parole. They agreed to testify for the state in Pamela smart is sworn in monday during her murder conspiracy trial. Plea bargains carrying minimum prison sentences of 18 to 28 years. Smart admitted driving Flynn and his friends to Haverhill mass., the Day of the killing to pick up the car they drove to the murder scene. However she said she did not Tell police because she did no to want them to know of the affair. But when the prosecution asked smart Why Flynn might have wanted to kill her husband smart said a because i guess Bethought we could be  smart a school District Media coordinator in Hampton said she was so obsessed with finding her husbands killer that she falsely told her 16-year-old student intern and a Friend Cecelia fierce that she knew about the murder beforehand. A i figured if she knew about the murder a she would Tell me if i acted like i knew More about it. In my mind i thought i would play a name with her and act like i knew More Quot smart told jurors. In july police gave fierce concealed taping equipment for conversations with smart. The secretly recorded tapes played before jurors last week seemed to show that smart knew about the murder plot. A month after smart s arrest Iasi August she was charged with talking to two fellow prison inmates about hiring someone to kill fierce who testified against her last week