European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday August 4,1991 5,000 jobs to be lost at pan am by the new York times More than a fifth of the employees of pan american world airways will lose their jobs in the next few weeks the troubled Carrier said Friday. Pan am which is operating under . Bankruptcy court Protection and is in the process of Selling most of its assets said it would dismiss 5,000 of its 22,300 employees worldwide a in All work  about 10,500 of pan am a work Force Are located in the new York area. The announcement came at a time when new Yorkus Economy is already losing thousands of other jobs to Bank mergers and when its once thriving financial services sector is shrinking. 1 a spokesman for the airline Jeffrey Kriendler acknowledged that the cuts go deeper than the usual yearly reduction after the Peak summer season. A we Are going to be cutting schedules unrelated to any future asset sales to reflect what we feel will be continued soft demand in the fall a he said. On Friday the carriers Parent company pan am corp., released its second Quarter results which showed that the company lost $125.3 million on an operating basis in a period when traffic and profits usually pick up. The airline had an operating loss of $8.5 million and a net loss of $49 million for the Quarter last year. Affected employees will be notified starting monday Kriendler said. Asked where the cutbacks would be concentrated he said they would hit management the hardest. But Georgc Miranda a vice president of local 732 of the International brotherhood of teamsters which represents 5,400 reservation agents and other pan am workers said he would be surprised if management bore the Brunt. Although Job losses had been expected for some time because of the airlines dire Straits Union officials took the news hard. A five thousand is a big number a Miranda said. A we done to Lay off 5,000 every year. Under Normal circumstances you May get some adjustments 100 Here or 200 there As you adjust your schedule but 5,000 a this is a major  teen to escape match wielding Stepfather Dawn Hess jumps from a second Story window while the Rev. Stephen Rhoades partially blocked and assistant District attorney Rich Knecht prepare to catch her. Hess Mother Paula Winn scoops up peepers the family s terrier. Berwick a. A a woman who was doused with paint thinner and held captive by her Stepfather jumped from a bedroom window As officers stormed thes House and stopped the suicidal Man from setting the two on fire police said. Police ended the two hour standoff thursday by wrestling Wells c. Winn 45, to the floor and spraying him with fire extinguishers As he struggled to strike a match. Officers said he begged them to let him commit suicide. His 18-year-Oid stepdaughter Dawn Hess Flung her Yorkshire terrier peepers out the second floor window and then jumped out of the window into the arms of a. Clergyman and a District attorney standing below. Her Mother and winns estranged wife Paula Winn scooped up the dog. Police chief Eugene Golla one of three officers who stormed the bedroom said the fumes were so Strong that the House would have exploded had Winn struck the match. Winn had barricaded himself and his stepdaughter in the family a Home after nearly a week As a fugitive. Police accused him of kidnapping and assaulting Paula Winn last week. Hess told police she had returned to the House with her Boyfriend to feed the family dogs and get some clothes when her Stepfather jumped from a bedroom closet. The Boyfriend Chris Joline said he heard Hess scream and he went inside and saw Winn holding his stepdaughter at the top of the stairs. A the said a you come any closer and ill blow us All up a a Joline said. Police surrounded the House and waited. A the situation had really deteriorated rapidly a said police sgt. Robert Mccormick. A the had poured a flammable liquid onto his daughter and was showing us the matches. That a when we determined to go  after being arrested Winn was arraigned on charges involving the alleged abduction of his wife. Bail was set at $145,000, and Winn was taken to Geisinger medical Center for psychological evaluation. Cholera epidemic nearing ., officials say Elpaso Texas apr a cholera epidemic that has stricken More than 250 mexicans is moving toward the . Border health officials said. The warning came thursday at a cholera prevention conference in Elpaso called by the pan american health organization to Stem an epidemic that has killed More than 2,500 people in South America. More than 250,000 cases of cholera have been reported in seven Western hemisphere countries this summer the National centers for disease control in Atlanta reported thursday. Fourteen cases have been reported in the United states the cd said. Or. Laurance n. Nickey head of a regional cholera prevention task Force recommended shipping clean water to poor neighbourhoods in West Texas at risk of getting the disease. Cholera bacteria Are spread by water and food contaminated by the focal matter of the infected generally in areas with no water purification or sewer systems. Symptoms which usually appear two or three a after infection include severe diarrhoea. Cholera is Easly treatable but it can be fatal if antibiotics or Salt an sugar solutions Are not promptly available. Cholera vaccinations last three to six months by have been found to be Only partially effective. All recent cholera cases in the United states a been linked to commercially imported food. Judge rejects Appeal to halt killing of Seal Washington a a Federal was unclear precise la How soon it would the. Rillina Ienner a 1 Washington a a Federal judge Friday refused to order a halt to the summer killing of Alaska Northern fur seals rejecting the humane society a argument that native alaskans Are wasting meat from animals already killed. . District judge John Garrett Penn without comment upheld the Commerce departments decision to allow native residents of the Pribilof islands off Western Alaska to kill More of the seals which were declared a a a depleted species in 1988. The Seal kill had been suspended pending a ruling from the judge and it was unclear precisely How soon it would resume. A a we re very disappointed a said humane society attorney Mark d. Colley. A we done to think there a any further action we could take that would be  he did say the group would continue to work with the Commerce department to Monitor the annual killing of the seals. At one time it was customary for native alaskans to club tens of thousands of Youngdale seals to death each summer for the Sale of their pelts. But the last International agreement allowing those massive kills expired in 1984. The killing is now restricted under the Marine mammal Protection act. The native alaskans receive exemptions to kill a specified number of seals each year to provide meat to live on. The humane society argued that the natives were taking Only Choice cuts of meat from Many of the seals and that the earlier massive Seal Puls had encouraged wasteful habits. It said the kill should be allowed to continue Only if the government could show the natives were not wasting the meat. The Commerce department contended however that the annual Seal kill did not harm the animal population that the natives thus far had never n aged to provides much Seal Mea they needed for the Winter. The Commerce department origin limited this years  to 1,145 of Paul Island and 181 on St. George isl after the native alaskans this v sought authorization to kill More is the Agency said it would allow Ano 500 seals to be taken on St. Paul and on St. George. Of that amount 94 More were k wednesday on St. Paul and 65 on George before the kill was suspended await the judges decision