European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday August 10, 1991sailor killed in fire aboard Carrier a photograph of the . Aircraft Carrier Independence arriving in the persian Gulf last october during operation desert shield. San Diego up a crewman aboard the aircraft Carrier Independence was killed and seven of his shipmates injured in a fire thursday during exercises off the Pacific coast. The Blaze broke out in an avionics oxygen equipment room on the ships hangar deck about 1 45 . As the Independence conducted training exercises before the Start of a cruise to its new base in Japan. A the fire has been extinguished a said senior chief Petty officer Doug Gorham spokesman for the . Pacific fleets air forces in san Diego. A preliminary reports Are that one Sailor was killed Ana Seyen suffered minor smoke inhalation  the Navy would not release the names of the sailors. Gorham said the injured sailors were treated and returned to duty. Gorham described the Blaze As an a Alpha class a one that produces a White Ash residue. He said the Alpha designation was not a measure of the fires severity. He said the cause of the fire was not known and was under investigation. The compartment where the fire started is primarily a storage room for empty oxygen bottles and parts for aircraft oxygen equipment. The Independence left san Diego on monday for its voyage to Yokosuka Japan where it will become the Navy so Forward based Carrier in the Western Pacific replacing the aging Carrier Midway. The ship which took part in operation. Desert storm and returned to san Diego in late december was due to arrive in Japan on sept. 11. Suicide Aid Book leaps to top of . Times Best seller list by the new York times a new Book advising terminally ill people How to commit suicide has surged to no 1 in the hardcover advice category on the new York times Best seller list to be published on aug. 18. The list was compiled thursday night. The Book is final exit by Derek Humphry who is executive director of the Hemlock society an organization in Eugene ore., that advises on How to commit suicide. The Book which is published by the society and distributed by Carol publishing of Secaucus n.j., outlines a variety of ways to commit suicide and provides specific instructions. Controversy has swirled around publication of the suicide manual because Many experts fear that it will be misused by people who Are depressed or who might even commit murder. Others believe that it is a loud protest against the medical profession for allowing terminally ill patients to suffer. Final exit shot straight to the top position the first week it appeared on the Best seller list. A that is an indication of How Large the Issue of euthanasia looms in our society now a said Arthur Ca plan a Biol Hirist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. A it is frightening and disturbing and that kind of sales figures is a shot across the Bow a said Caplan. A it is the loudest statement of protest of How Medicine is dealing with terminal illness and  Humphry a native of Britain who said he had worked for a number of British and american newspapers wrote an earlier Book about How he helped his first wife Jean take her life when she was terminally ill with cancer. He said in an Telephone interview thursday that people Are a tired of ethical debate among theologians and philosophers a a a there a tremendous desire for personal control and Choice Over ones dying a Humphry said. The books sales spurt follows a decision by a grand jury in Rochester ., on july 26 not to indict or. Timothy e. Quill who had referred a patient with leukaemia to the Hemlock society and helped her commit suicide using its recommended methods. Quill said he had a mixed feelings Quot about the Success of the Book. Quot part of me says its unfortunate that Laws barring physician assisted suicide make such a Book necessary he said. A a there a a Strong need for that kind of information a Quill said adding that when it is offered in this context a there is no control Over who gets the information and whether it is used under the right  study finds Gap still growing wider Between poor affluent Black americans by the los Angeles times Washington a the distance Between poor and affluent Black americans is widening and the expanding Black Middle class increasingly is distancing itself from Blacks locked in poverty and inner City despair a private research group reported thursday. A since the 1960s, the percentage of Black americans defined As affluent More than doubled according to a study by the population reference Bureau. But Blacks at the Bottom of the income ladder have made Little Progress with roughly a third still mired in poverty. A a you be got one segment moving up and the other stuck at the Bottom Quot said William p. Of Hare a social demographer at the University of Louisville and one of the authors of the Black income study. The report notes that Over the past two decades widening economic fault lines among the nations 30 million Blacks have undermined their sense of Solidarity. Indeed some sociologists predict that racial identity will continue to recede in significance As class stratification assumes More relevance among Black americans. As Blacks struggle with that situation the report states a the Middle class Blacks of the future May feel Little in common with poor Blacks because their experiences will have been dramatically different in so Many  who admitted murder of wife in letter ruled sane from wire reports Santa Ana Calif. A a jury ruled thursday that a Man who confessed to murder in a Tetter to a newspaper was sane when he shot and killed his wife. David Lee Schoenecker 50, was convicted wednesday of first degree murder. The Superior court jury then deliberated about four hours before concluding thursday that he was sane when he committed the crime. He faces sentencing oct. 4 and could get life in prison without parole. Authorities arrested Schoenecker in May 1989, the Day after a newspaper columnist in Anaheim Calif., received a mailed confession saying he had killed his wife Gail Mae  disease spreading Atlanta a a rare form of Mosquito borne encephalitis highly fatal to humans and animals is spreading in the Southeast infecting five elderly Florida residents and killing two health officials reported. The Florida department of health and rehabilitative services confirmed the five human cases of Eastern Equine encephalitis in elderly residents of three counties in Northern Florida. Two of the patients died two remain comatose and one partially recovered. Florida health officials issued an Alert thursday for All counties in the states Panhandle urging stepped up Mosquito control efforts.12 gis Hurt by lightning Sierra Vista Ariz a twelve soldiers were injured none seriously when lightning struck near where they were working thursday military officials said. Three of the soldiers members of the 209th signal co. At fort Hua Chuca were hospitalized in stable condition. The other nine were treated at the Post Hospital and released Oakland paper May fold Oakland Calif. A the 117-year-old Oakland Tribune will fold wednesday unless it can wipe out its debt and get More Cash the publisher said thursday