European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 4, �?T1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3record Snow is followed by big chill by the associated press record cold moved in saturday after record snowfalls in the Midwest where football games were cancelled emergency snowmobile brigades delivered food and Medicine and More than 200 people spent the night in a Minnesota mall. A Ridge of Arctic High pressure stretched from Canada into the sout Central United states driving Down temperatures. The Snow forced the closure of several highways across the Midwest. Blizzards raged in parts of Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Wyoming. At least seven weather related deaths have been reported since the storms began last week. There were no reports of fatalities saturday. Business doubled for yellow cab in Sioux Falls s.d., said Sherill Kinsley the owners wife. A a it a nuts a she said. A a we re taking people to bars work malls we re taking deliveries of food milk booze in Duluth minn., where nearly 3 feet of Snow had fallen by late saturday residents relied on a Volunteer snowmobile brigade to bring them urgently needed baby food and prescriptions. A almost everything is closed in this town right now a malls restaurants Many grocery stores a said City spokesman Stan Plucinak. A if people done to have what they need they go out and in Albert Lea minn., More than 200 people escaping a blizzard spent the Alyson Hartle skis to work As others trudge along a Minneapolis Street Friday while record snows fall on the twin cities area. Night in a shopping mall the Only place in town with heat and electricity. Blizzards produced 30 to 45 Mph winds and near Zero visibility saturday in Western Minnesota. In North Dakota wind gusted to 45 Mph whipping Snow into drifts that blocked some roads and pushing wind chills As Low As 40 below. All College football games in the North Central conference were cancelled in South Dakota North Dakota and Minnesota on saturday because of the Snow and cold. In Fairmont minn., a baby girl was born in a Community Hospital after her parents drove 120 Miles from their Home through a blizzard. Three doctors tried and failed to make it there before their arrival. The first two got stuck in Snowbank and the third Peter Lachiewicz got his neighbor to bring him to the delivery room on a snowmobile. Stephanie Stensland was born 10 minutes later. A the baby was ready and the nurses and the emergency room doctor were telling me to try not to push a Debra Stensland said. A the the doctor came right in the Nick of record cold temperatures settled in on Nebraska. Low temperature records included 9 in Omaha 2 in North Platte and minus 2 in Scottsbluff. Those records had stood for 40 years. Wind gusts of 40 Mph combined with Low temperatures to produce wind chills of 40 below in Western Nebraska. A a lot of people who depend on electric heat Are going to friends and neighbors who have alternative heat like propane or Wood burning stoves a said Judy Schulze wife of Pawnee county sheriff John Schulze. About 62,000 people were without Power in Omaha and surrounding areas due to fallen lines Omaha Public Power District spokesmen said. Truck stops and motels along Nebraska highways filled while travellers waited for highways to be cleared. A a it a blowing like Heck. Nobody a moving too far a said Cheryl l. Huebner assistant manager at Bossel Many struck Plaza in grand Island. She said trucks were lined up for a five or sue . Probing reputed death of iraqi Deal maker Miami apr Federal prosecutors want to know if a mysterious iraqi Deal maker who May have helped set up Poison Gas programs in Iraq and Libya is still alive a and not dead As reported. Ihsan Barboutis death of heart disease at age 63 in july 1990 in London was officially reported. He was supposedly cremated. At the time . And German investigators were probing his role in building factories in Boca Raton fla., and Libya. The factories were suspected of being involved in chemical weapons manufacture. But the Lloyd a of London insurance company has refused to pay Barboutis life insurance claim. So last week Miami Federal attorney Lynn Summers wrote to the insurer asking for records on the Barboutis claim citing civil lawsuits. Prosecutors working on a libyan arms smuggling Case have seized a $3 million Bank account in Barboutis name. And a Miami Federal grand jury has been investigating the Boca Raton Plant. The Plant made Cherry extract a byproduct of which is cyanide. Barboutis was believed to Nave shipped the chemical to Iraq. John Mattes a lawyer for Louis champon Barboutis business partner in the Flavouring Plant said saturday that the renewed focus on Barboutis was a Good sign. A a it a a total change of direction and its a Welcome Day a Mattes said. Champon told the state department in 1989 of Barboutis suspicious activities. The Cia also has acknowledged that it was told of Barboutis activities a in support of weapons proliferation in the Middle East and turned the matter Over to the Fri. Champon is now the target of the grand jury probe. According to Mattes his client is an innocent victim who became a Scapegoat after Barboutis death was reported. German authorities also investigated Barboutis who designed libyans rata Complex. Libya says the Plant outside Tripoli was designed to make pharmaceuticals but the United states says it is really a chemical weapons factory. Summers on Friday refused to comment on the Barboutis investigation. At the time she was attending a Federal court hearing in another Case that May have links to the mysterious iraqi. That hearing concerned jordanian National Munther Bilbeisi an arms merchant and Coffee importer accused of tax evasion. Bilbeisi who lived in Boca Raton is now a fugitive in Jordan. Lloyd a also insured Bill Cisin a Coffee , wife die in plane crash Suppes Ville Kan. Apr an air plane crashed in a Field and burst into flames on saturday after the Pilot lost consciousness and his wife tried to Fly the plane. The husband and wife were both killed authorities said. A the information we have at this Point is that the Man flying the plane blacked out or became unconscious and the woman tried to Fly the aircraft Back to Wichita and she did no to make it Back a said Sedgwick county sheriffs it. Jim Mckeel. The victims were identified As James g. Gould 65, of Wichita and Kathryn b. Gould age unknown the sheriffs department reported. The Faa said that the air plane had been bound for Phoenix. Nuclear Power Plant penalties continue Washington a . Commercial nuclear Power plants average More than one Fine a week and have paid $18.5 million in penalties since 1987 for safety violations according to government documents. While Industry and nuclear regulatory commission officials say safety at nuclear Power plants has improved Over the past decade the number of violations resulting in civil penalties has remained fairly constant from year to year Accord ing to a review of enforcement records. Fines for a single offence ranged from $2,500 to $1.25 million. None resulted from infractions that posed immediate threats to residents around the plants although some were indicative of conditions that if left uncorrected could prove dangerous. Commonwealth Edison which operates a dozen reactors in Illinois has paid nearly $1.5 million in fines responding to 23 violations at five of its plants since 1987, More than any other Utility. The penalties have ranged from $25,000 to $150,000 each for infractions such As failing to Seal a reactor containment vessel and control room operators skipping re qualification classes. Other utilities with nearly a dozen or More violations during the period Are Carolina Power and Light 15 fines totalling $1.3 million Duke Power co., 14 fines totalling $625,000 and Northeast utilities 11 fines totalling $426,250. 100 abortion foes arrested at alternate rally site Cranston . A nearly 100 abortion protesters were arrested on saturday at a rally that was hastily moved from Boston and caught Rhode Island police off guard. About 1,000 people divided nearly evenly Between supporters and opponents of abortion converged outside the women a medical Center of Rhode is land. The main rally was to take place in Boston where police had braced for major demonstrations. However organizers hastily shifted it to Rhode Island to allow Massachusetts it olice to attend the funeral of a col Cague according to the Rev. Mike Mcnamara of the anti abortion group operation Rescue. Between 30 and 40 protesters rushed four police officers outside the clinic and 15 chained themselves to handrails said capt. Vincent Mcateer. Police officers closed part of a Busy Street in Cranston. They then called in reinforcements As abortion opponents faced Down a counter demonstration
