European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 9, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7texas spill diverted from wildlife Refuge High Island Texas apr workers using skimmers absorbent pads and booms managed saturday to keep the remnants of a 40,000-Gauon Oil spill out of a Galveston Bay wildlife Refuge Oil company officials said. But the spilled crude still stretched 4/ Miles forcing closure of the Gulf of Mexico coastal waterway until saturday evening when the . Coast guard reopened it to one Way traffic Only. A the coast guard is now letting 10 barges move in one direction and then 10 in another a Amoco spokesman Tom Mueller said from the company s spill command Center at High Island. A 10-Inch pipeline ruptured before Midnight thurs Day when Amoco workers were transferring Light crude Oil to a Barge at the company s High Island terminal in Galveston s East Bay said another Amoco spokesman. Ray Thompson. About 1,000 barrels a or 40,000 Gallons a spewed into the waterway. About 4,200 Gallons of the crude Oil seeped into the intr coastal canal before the spill was contained. More than 90 percent of the spill was diverted into a ditch or Barge slip and damage to the environment was Light Thompson said. Pockets of Oil remained along the Shoreline and Amoco officials had been concerned it would move into the marshy areas near the Anahuac National wildlife Refuge. Cleanup Crews used boats and Low pressure water pumps to flush pocketed Oil out of Shoreline areas then gathered the crude using deflection booms and recovered it with absorbent pads or vacuum trucks. At least four Birds were affected by the spilled Oil Mueller said. Amoco operates a Large Barge terminal chemical plants Gas companies and a transportation line out of the Houston Galveston area. High Island despite its name is a Low lying Section of the Texas coast adjacent to  police arrest 57 More abortion foes police remove a protester outside the Wichita women s Center on saturday. Wichita Kan. Up police arrested 57 anti abortion demonstrators saturday for blocking the doors of an abortion Center not covered by a Federal judges order forbidding protesters from hindering clinic Access. A we arrested 46 adults and 11 juveniles a it. Darren Moore said. A they were All arrested for trespassing. They blocked the East Entrance to the  trespassing is a Misdemeanour violation of a Wichita City ordinance. The arrests were made at the Wichita women Scenter clinic which is not party to a lawsuit brought by the women s health care services clinic and the Wichita family planning Center clinic. The suit led to a preliminary injunction by . District judge Patrick Kelly forbidding protesters from blocking Access and ordering . Marshals to enforce the order. Seven weeks of demonstrations and clinic blockades orchestrated by the National anti abortion group operation Rescue mainly at the women s health care services clinic led to More than 2,600 arrests. Jennifer Hickerson a spokeswoman for the Wichita Rescue movement a Loose knit coalition of anti abortion activists said about 300 people took part in the clinic demonstration saturday. Quot basically we just did what we have done in the past even before operation Rescue came a she said. A we blocked the entrances so sidewalk Counselor could offer the women alternatives. It was peaceful and prayerful and very  she said the action caused two women to change their minds about having abortions. Quot we had two confirmed saves a people who told us they changed their minds about abortion because of our action today Quot she said. Quot that s the greatest  the organization also had people counselling and praying outside the family planning Center but no blockades took place Hickerson said. Deputy police chief Tyler Brewer said protesters tactics have grown increasingly Nasty. Quot the officers arc taking an insurmountable amount of verbal abuse from these people and we be never had to do that in the past a he said. He said one demonstrator almost knocked him Down. Quot i had a person Rush Forward. He was going quite fast and he about took me from under my  Brewer said. A a it a quite different than what it was 50 or 60 Days ago. It s taken on a whole different kind of complexion and it s a Little disheartening Quot he said. Hickerson said the group wanted the demonstrations to remain peaceful and said it has nothing against the officers. A we Don t instruct people in hurling police officers a she said. Quot we done to instruct people on anything except How to Block the doors and not get Hurt themselves and that they done to Hurt others a we have people who done to always comply and when we identify them we ask these people to do it our Way or not come Back a she  testifies evangelist wanted him Quot hanged fort Smith Ark. A a Federal judge took the witness stand in his own courtroom and was grilled by Tony Alamo s lawyers saturday the second Day of a trial in which the evangelist faces charges of threatening the Jurist. During three hours of testimony Friday . District judge Morris Arnold testified that Alamo said Quot i was a nazi a traitor and ought to be  he also testified that Alamo said he should stand trial in front of him Quot and if anybody Dies As a result of my actions i should be  Alamo 56, and his late wife Susan were founders of a Street ministry that grew to a multimillion Dollar conglomerate of businesses in Arkansas California and Tennessee. The preacher whose business conglomerate included a glitzy Nashville store where celebrities bought rhinestone encrusted jackets is charged with threatening to have Arnold kidnapped in order to have him stand trial before him. . District judge g. Thomas Lisle of Little Rock is presiding Over the trial in Arnold a courtroom. Alamos lawyers say the government misinterpreted religious and political Fervour for threats. They also say Alamo was exercising his first amendment right to criticize the government. Prosecutors say Alamo made the threats by Tele phone and on taped radio sermons in retaliation for a $1.4 million judgment Arnold issued against Alamo. The judgment which has since been amended to More than $2 million was awarded to former followers who said Alamo ran a cult in a subdivision like Community atop a Ridge in Western Arkansas. The judgment was entered after Alamo did no to respond to the 1988 lawsuit. Defense attorney Jeffrey Dicks Cin said Alamo knew the lawsuit was pending but did not respond because he feared Federal officials would kill him. If convicted. Alamo could be sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $5,011 1. Nurse s credit card Nightmare May be Over Boston apr seven years ago someone began taking plane trips buying cars and running up a $100,000 Bill in the name of Helen Turley a 41-year-old nurse. The scheme invoked multiple phony credit cards phony Bank accounts counterfeit licenses and numerous purchases made in Turley a name including two automobiles and two plane trips. Police believe they have at last nabbed the culprits. A Boston couple Robert w. Ander son 49, and Kimberly a. Marland. 33, were arrested thursday in front of their condominium when they pulled up in a car registered to Turley. They were charged Friday with larceny of a motor vehicle Possession of a .22-caliber pistol and larceny of property. Marland also was charged with Possession of a counterfeit License. Boston police detective John Mulligan said the License had been taken out in Turley a name in 1987 and renewed this year. The couple were held on bail and a court appearance was scheduled for sept. 16. Turley of Dover n.h., a former nun and a surgical technologist at Portsmouth Hospital said she is still trying to comprehend what happened. Quot in a so overwhelmed a she told the Boston Herald. Quot i done to know whether to laugh or cry. I think in be done both so far. Quot in a going to have to buy a car next year and i done to know if i can Quot she said. Quot and at this Point i owe my life in Bills to the phone company Quot in trying to clean up the financial  Atlas to list 3 Baltic nations Indianapolis up Rand Mcnally the worlds largest Independent mapmaker says it will begin printing a new world Atlas this week reflecting the political Independence of the three Baltic nations. Presses will begin rolling tuesday at Rand Mcnally s Book manufacturing Plant in Indianapolis As the company prints the new cosmopolitan world Atlas. Rand Mcnally said thursday it interrupted production of the Atlas on aug. 26, then made revisions in the Baltic states of Latvia Lithuania and Estonia alter the United Stales officially recognized the new countries sept. 2