European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 b the stars and stripes wednesday March 20, 1991rail cars derail cutting California phone line from wire reports Vandenberg fab Calif a Twenty four Railroad cars including tankers carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and severed a main Telephone line tuesday after heavy Rains washed out a rail bed. The derailment shut Down Southern Pacific Railroad s main North South coastal line Between los Angeles and san Luis Obispo forcing am Trak officials to bus coast Starlight passengers to their destinations. Three people aboard the 31-car freight train _ escaped injury in the 4 25 . Derailment and there were no evacuations in the Remote area eight Miles South of the Community of surf 140 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. Two Hundred Gallons of jellied Petroleum naphtha a combustible chemical spilled from one of the Tanker cars the air Force said. But the chemical poisonous if inhaled had been safely contained by 9 30 . A it is not anticipated that the Accident will present any health risk to the local Public Quot said air Force col. Alex Abela vice commander of the Western space and missile Center. Quot All chemicals Are  Peoria police suspended Peoria 111. A two police officers have been suspended for 60 Days without pay for allegedly beating a Man during an arrest last month. Police chief Keith Rippy said the penalties which the men began serving monday Are the most severe in years in his department. The chief said an investigation found the men Dwight Bor Neman a 12-year Veteran and Jack Baize who has been on the Force for seven years used excessive Force in the arrest feb. 25 of Terry Stephens of Peoria. / 5 Stephens was arrested on suspicion of Drunken driving and other traffic charges. During a Chase police said Stephens hit a House with his car backed into a squad car and tried to ram another squad car. A v Stephens said he was beaten by officers because he was a homosexual. Asbestos claims settled Rochester . A an agreement has Bee reached to Settle hundreds of Asbestos related injury and death claims and a judge said monday it could become the blueprint for dealing with a crushing backlog of such cases nationwide. The agreement reached Friday makes Unn cacs sary a trial of More than 400 product liability claims against the producers of the cancer causing Materi aha a a a a a a a the trial had been scheduled to begin this week in Federal court in  Over meat out Day Lincoln neb. A gov. Ben Nelson said a staffer mistakenly affixed his signature to a proclamation designating March.20 As great Ameir can meat out Day in Nebraska a one of the nations leading meat producers. The governor promptly revoked the ant beat proclamation and declared instead that he is a meat eater and proud of it. A a id rather eat Steak than Crow a he said monday. A a  March 20, it turns out is also agriculture Day in Nebraska which years ago called itself a the beef state on License  plans expansion Seattle a the Boeing co. Is proposing a $1.5 billion expansion of its Everett production Plant that would add nearly 10,000 new jobs in the next four years. The expansion would accommodate construction of Boeing a newest plane the 777 jetliner and stepped up construction of its 747s and 767s. Everett is about 30 Miles North of Seattle. The documents show Seattle based Boeing could nearly double the amount of space at its 1,000-acre Everett Plant by 1995, adding some 30 new or expanded buildings. Boeing the worlds largest builder of Commer. Cial aircraft said in the proposal that it could be turning out As Many As seven 777s each month and seven each of its 747s and 767s. Detroit up a the chairman of a Federal inquiry into a runway collision that killed eight people warned monday that the nation is courting catastrophe by a relying Tod  perfect human performance and Luck to assure Airport safety. The National transportation safety Board began a we Klong inquiry into the fiery collision of two Northwest airlines jets on a fog bound runway at Detroit metropolitan Airport on dec. 3. Seven passengers and a flight attendant died aboard a dc-9 that wandered into the path of a Boeing 727. Jim Burnett safety Board member and chairman of the Board of inquiry said the Detroit crash and the feb. 1 collision of a us air Boeing 737 with a sky West metro liner in lbs Angeles Quot highlight the continuing danger that runway incursions present at the Busy airports across this  a the runway incursions that occur in the United states and the numerous close Calls we hear about convince me that we Are relying too heavily on perfect human performance combined with Luck to assure the Safe movement of aircraft in and around today a Busy airports a he said. / a a a a while the Federal aviation administration has made Progress on managing aircraft in the air Burnett said a the Faass Progress on management of aircraft in and around our Busy airports has been dim by  Quot a a. A a a a a. A. Burnett said among the issues to be investigated during the hearing were a Why the Airport had no ground radar system. I Twar a was the weather worse than reported a was there pressure on controllers to keep the Airport open a were Airport runway signs confusing to the pilots. A did the runway lighting operate correctly Robert Benzon the chief investigator into the dec. 3 crash and the Only witness monday said that although the Tower reported visibility of a Quarter of a mile some witnesses said at times it was Down to 200 feet. Transcripts of voice recorders released earlier monday showed pilots of both aircraft growing increasingly apprehensive about thickening fog. A a we re out Here we re stuck we can to see anything out Here a capt. William v. Lovelace of flight 1482, the dc-9, told the Tower less than a minute before the crash.  Aav / although the dc-9 was entering runway 3c-21c, an Active runway the Tower responded that flight 1482 had crossed 9-27, which was inactive at the time. A nah we re not sure a replied Lovelace 52. A a it a so foggy out Here. We re completely stuck  i there were More exchanges about the planets location before the Tower called out six seconds before the crash a Northwest 1482, Roger if you Are of two one Center. Exit that runway immediately  then an unidentified voice aboard the plane is heard to say a ooh of of a followed by the sound of the Impact. / v. V a a a Quot a o investigators will submit findings for consideration by the full Board at a later Public meeting in  a a a. A a. A. Detroit apr a Soldier who returned from the persian Gulf War earlier this month was shot and killed monday in his Home neighbourhood police said. Army spec. Anthony Riggs came Home March 8 and had been scheduled to return to duty next week at fort Bliss Texas relatives said. Riggs 22, was loading a Van for his wife a move from her aunts Home to an apartment in a Detroit suburb when someone shot him and fled in his car police of cer John leavens said. Riggs wife Toni ran outside to fed her husband in the Street and the car gone. A i heard shots and i went to the door a said mrs. Riggs 22. A someone shut the lights out and told us to stay Back. A when i went onto the porch the car was gone. I could t see him at first he  have fought for the car a she said. Leavens said Riggs was taken to a Hospital where he died. A a a a a. A a a. A a police had made no arrests and the car remained missing late . Riggs lived with her aunt Marjorie Cato Northeast of Detroit. A the did no to deserve this a Cato said. A they shot him Over what a car. Something he gladly would have Given them. He did no to care anything for personal possessions a ripped by twister an american Flag lies crumpled in a Mobile Home Park while a Man searches for his belongings after a Tornado touched Down monday morning in Lakeland Fla. Several Mobile Homes were damaged but no injuries were reported. 30 counties now top 1 million Mark Washington a. A thirty counties had a million or More people in. 1990 a five More than in 1980, the census Bureau said monday. Los Angeles county was the nations largest with 8.9 million people followed by Cook county 111., at 5.1 million and Harris county Texas at 2.8 million. Chicago is in Cook county and Houston is in Harris. Of the nation s 3,141 . Equivalent areas 45 percent lost population in the 1980s, midwestern counties fared worse than those in other regions in the last decade. Sixty three percent of counties in the Midwest lost population compared with 39 percent in the South 30 percent in the West and 27 percent in the Northeast. Here Are other facts concerning counties from the 1990 census a. A los Angeles county added the most people 1.4 million. A the five counties of new York City All gained population for the first time since 1950. A nine counties lost More than one fourth of their population. They were Platte Wyo a and Lake colo., each Down 32 percent Mineral colo., Down 31 percent Hall and Hemphill Texas and Greenlee ariz., each Down 30 percent Mcdowell w.va., Down 29percent Shoshone Idaho Down 28 percent and Dickens Texas Down 27 percent a t he population in eight counties More than doubled during the 1980s Flagler Fla., up 163 percent Douglas colo., up 140 percent Hernando,.Fla., up 127 percent Camden ga., up 126 percent Matakuska Sustina Alaska up 123 percent , Fla., up 119 percent Fayette ga., up 115 percent and Gwinnett ga., up 112 percent. Pie. There were 458 counties with at least 100,000 peo