European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday june 26, 1991 cleanup of puget Tacoma Wash. Apr the nations first superfund cleanup of Marine sediments has been completed on a Shoreline once so polluted that no fish survived the . Environmental Protection Agency said monday. A a a ? \ /. The Agency also announced an agreement to clean up other spots on industrialized commencement Bay by having polluters pay not just for damages but for restoring fish and wildlife habitat. A environmentally it represents a major Milestone Lor puget sound a said Dana a. Rasmussen the Epars Northwest regional administrator. Rasmussen said the settlement will help restore commencement Bay to a its full potential for fisheries navigation commercial and recreational  a it was probably the most contaminated Siten commencement Bay a added Lori Cohen Epa superfund site manager. A it was cited by biologists As a biological desert.�?�. A the 12-party agreement was signed monday in . District court after five months of negotiations and 10 years after the St. Paul waterway and other Corn me Cement Bay Sites in puget sound were added to the Federal toxic waste cleanup program. The agreement is unusual because it encompasses both cleanup and natural resource damage liabilities officials said. It includes a Trust fund valued at More than $1 million a which will come primarily from to jitters a that will be used to help restore fish and wildlife in the Bay. A in going beyond cleanup by emphasizing rehabilitation of the environment and restoration of wildlife habitat the consent decree offers a Model for other parts of the country a Epa administrator William k. Reilly said in a statement from Washington. _. The agreement also didst bog Woffin Legal Battles As Many efforts elsewhere have Quot. A if you go to court for 10 years and the polluted property just sits there All that time you re not accomplishing much for Marine life a said Morgan Bradley environmental biologist Lor the Muckle shoot Indian tribe,.wluch  the Puyallup tribe is a party to the agreement. With the St. Paul agreement As a Model cleanups on seven More commencement Bay targets should move More quickly said Lori Cohen Epars project manager. Those projects include More than 100 parties and could Cost $30 million. The consent decree confirms the Success of a $5 million 1088 project in which Simpson Tacoma Kraft co. And Champion International corp. Used clean fill material to Cap 17 acres of contaminated sediments in St. Paul waterway  the Mill also shifted its discharge pipe and changed practices to Stop dumping dangerous chemicals. The area once a biological wasteland from decades of pollution now has Young Salmon nibbling on crustaceans while smelts scout the Shore for spawning Sites. Salmon from the White Carbon and Puyallup Rivers must pass through the Bay on their Way to and from the Ocean. Picnic in Park quickly turned tragic by Nancy Shulins the associated press Panama City Fla. A in a voice ragged from too Many cigarettes and too Little sleep Bonnie Thornton describes each dead child the same Way a extra extra  it never occurred to hint that a picnic in the neighbourhood Park could be dangerous. He took them there All the time. A stay out of the water until i get Back a he told them that sunday. Just another picnic in the Park. But in the time it took him to put meat on the Grill for their lunch and remove san spurs from a 4-year-old�?Ts shoe All was lost. Five children Ages 3 to 15, drowned in the intr coastal waterway. Three were his Sisters. One was his girlfriends. Thornton 35, had been a second father to them All. The tilth was a Friend who a been playing with them on a Sandbar. Thornton had left them scratching their names in Sand and building a Castle. None could swim but the water appeared Calm and shallow. It was t even up to their Knees. At night while others Are sleeping a i lock myself in a room and cry hard. It hurts so had Fin breathless. I Slid see them there in the Back seat of the ear. They were always  on june do  Gilbert Park had been crowded but nobody saw the children go under. Signs warn against swimming w without a lifeguard. Cubia Thornton Bonnier a sister lost three if her four children to the Bay. Quot it was t his fault. Nobody blames him a she said. At first. A i did t want to talk to  said Kenneth Stanley the lather of one victim. Then Wiley Mcqueen Boertje Thornton grieves during the funeral for four of live drowned children. Jr., Bonnier a and Cubias godfather and minister gently intervened. Now Stanley a no longer angry. A i got no grudge with Bonnie a he a said. A if he could turn Back the hands. 1 know he  Thornton loomed Large in the lives of his Sisters children in part because she had had them out of Wedlock. A i was always the baby Sitter a said Thornton. A i was their father figure. They trusted me.�?�. Weekdays they stayed with grandparents. Weekends they roamed happily Between Cubias Mobile Home and one next door. Thornton shares it with Carolyn Fennell and Monique a  brother. Stephanie 4. And James 1 1. A week after the drownings Mcqueen delivered the Eulogy. A who knew that this would happen certainly not you or. I. We May not understand but god does. We will understand belter by and  dealt drugs like fast food new York a a colombian drug Cartel marketed cocaine Here in much the same Way As franchisers set up fast food restaurants state authorities said monday As they announced the indictment of 50 suspected drug dealers. Gov. Mario m. Cuomo said authorities seized More than 6 tons of cocaine in new York and 5 tons in Texas and Florida during a six year investigation. A those indicted today Are not a group of loosely affiliated drug dealers but Are part of a sophisticated organization that s rigidly and brutally controlled from Colombia a Cuomo said. The Cali Colombia Cartel believed to control 80 percent of the cocaine Market in new York is a a highly organized institution every bit As effective As a Fortune 500 company a said state police. Superintendent Thomas Constantine. A it is structured As a classic franchise business but instead of a variety of hamburgers or Gallons of ice Cream the Cartel deals in tons upon tons of cocaine a said Ronald Goldstock director of the state organized crime task Force. The top figure indicted was Jaime or Juela identified As the director of the cartels new York operations. He is at Large in Colombia Constantine said. Orjuela a immediate subordinates Are called managers and they Deal in ton level quantities of cocaine officials said. A each manager is responsible Tor a. Number of franchises a Goldstock said. A was part of their responsibilities the managers were required to turkish storage facilities for the cocaine obtain cars and vans for transporting the drugs and collect the hundreds of millions of dollars front the customer groups and pass the Money along.�?�. A a of those indicted monday 20 have been arrested. The others were at huge some in Colombia and beyond the reach of extradition Goldstock  y. Educators want broader View of history Albany , apr Christopher Columbus did t discover America he sailed to an already inhabited land. Pilgrims May have celebrated on thanksgiving but american indians mourned. Skies should be called a enslaved  a report by a panel of educators recommends rewriting the states Public school curriculum and textbooks to replace the prevailing european White male View of history with views it says Are broader and More accurate. A. The report says the new curriculum would promote ethnic Pride by recognizing contributions of women and minorities and removing. What a stale study panel called Quot hidden assumptions of White  critics of the report say teaching other perspectives of history could create divisions among the state s Many ethnic  should Public education move in this direction it will Only increase the fragmentation. Desegregation and self Ghat Toi action of american  historian Arthur Schlesinger or. Wrote a dissenting report. \ 1 he report t says textbooks should be examined to eliminate language and perspectives that intended or not convey Bias. Quot enslaved persons a for instance better expresses the humanity of slaves. I he Quot Middle East Quot would be More accurately described As a Southwest Asia and North africa.�?�. State education commissioner 1 Hom As Sobol appointed the 24-member Pant of historians teachers and proles Soi it find ways schools can better serve its. Million culturally diverse student twelve of the 24 panellists Are Luu eight Are women