European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. December 16. 1991 the stars and stripes Page 5some sex hostages Given . Benefits by George Esper the associated press what could turn out to be a Christmas Bonus awaits some of the 15 american hostages held in Lebanon whose salaries and benefits were  off after they were kidnapped. The state department said letters Are being mailed out offering those who qualify up to $25,000 a year retroactive to the time they were abducted plus Federal health and insurance benefits. The Money comes from a $10 million congressional appropriation for americans taken hostage in Lebanon Iraq and Kuwait. Moreover the government provided for their transportation Home and medical care in military and veterans administration hospitals. The state department said it had no figure on the total Cost. While the medical care was free Frank Reed who was in a military Hospital for 2 i months said he was billed for his room. He said he ignored the Bill and a Dunning notice. A a we re still not on solid ground financially a said Reed who was freed 19 months ago after being held for nearly four years. He was self employed As an education consultant. A a in a $75,000 in debt a said Reed a resident of Malden mass. A we re not in a position to spend anything we want. I do whatever i can to have a Good Christmas. My son missed four christmases with me. In a still trying to make up for that.�?�. Under an amendment to the hostage Relief act passed six weeks ago some of the former hostages will also receive government life and health insurance for five years following their release if those benefits were discontinued by their employers. A a that a far More important than any Cash to most of us still unemployed who done to have easy Access to health insurance especially in my Case a said Robert Polhill of Arlington. A. A i Quot have pre existing conditions that make me almost totally uninsurable. Insurance companies wont touch  pol Hium a Larynx was removed because of Throat cancer shortly after he was released april 22, 1990. He was held for 59rewl months. He said Beirut University College where he was a business professor continued his pay in lebanese pounds while he was i Captivity. A i can t spend lebanese pounds Over Here Verv Well a he said. He said the state department is going to make up some of the difference and that officials told him they plan to be As generous As they can. Polhill and Reed Are both jobless. Polhill said he is living off savings. Reed pays his rent by lecturing and writing. Some of the former hostages will not qualify for the government Money since their employers kept them on the payroll. Robert Berry a spokesman for the american University of Beirut said the University continued the salaries and fringe benefits for All five of its american employees taken hostage. Thev were a David Dodge acting president kidnapped july 19 1982, and released july 20. 1985 a Frank Regier 05, chairman of the electrical engineering department kidnapped feb 10, 1984, and rescued april 15, 1984. A David Jacobsen 60, administrator at the University Hospital kidnapped May 28, 1985, and freed nov 1 1986. A a a Thomas Sutherland >0, acting agriculture Dean abducted june 9, 1985 and released nov. Is 1991. A Joseph Cicippio 61. Comptroller kidnapped sent. 12. 1986, freed dec. 2, 1991. The associated press kept its chief Middle last correspondent Terry Anderson on its payroll and provided for his family throughout his 6 / year Captivity officials of the news organization said. Anderson released dec. 4, was held longer than any other hostage. The original legislation was passed in november 1990 after hundreds of americans were taken hostage by Iraq in its invasion of Kuwait in August of that year. They were released in december 1990. Some applications for benefits from that group Are still coming in a state department official said. In the stars and stripes 10years ago dec. 16,19b1 a Solidarity activists occupied factories shipyards and steel Mills across Poland in a growing protest that threatened to provoke military intervention from the soviet Union. 20years ago dec. 16,1971 a the Indian army responding to a cease fire Appeal from Pakistan gave that nation s army until the following morning to surrender.30 years ago dec. 16,1961 a the Jerusalem District court sentenced former nazi is officer Adolf Eichmann to death by hanging saying his actions exceeded most criminal acts against individuals and exterminated Quot an entire people from the face of the earth."40 years ago dec. 16,1951 a . Negotiators rejected the communist six Point Compromise proposal for limited troop rotation and policing the armistice. They accused the communists of trying to win at the truce table what they lost in Battle. Report on nuclear waste cites it As problem that won t go away Washington up a although it has been 50 years since the worlds nuclear industries began generating radioactive waste not a single nation has found a Safe and permanent Way to dispose of the waste the world watch Institute said saturday. A in 1990, accumulated spent fuel from nuclear electric plants exceeded 80,000 tons twice As much As in 1985 and 20 times the 1970 amount a the Institute said in a new report nuclear waste the problem that wont go away. A this radioactive material which will remain deadly for tens of thousands of years is accumulating in temporary storage facilities the report said. A by the year 2000, the global total of waste could pass 190,000  Nicholas Lenssen research associate at the non profit environmental think tank and the reports author said that civilian nuclear Power has produced roughly 95 percent of the waste. Quot yet governments continue to promote nuclear Power without any certainty that the waste problem can be a solved a a he said. Lenssen said that most government authorities argue that a geologic burial a packing the radioactive waste deep in the Earth a crust a is the safest Long term option for irradiated fuel rods and other a High level radioactive waste. But he said scientists still have not reached any kind of consensus Over the possibility of disturbance of the waste by ground water movement geological activity or human intervention. The report also noted that the Salt rooms at the waste isolation Pilot Plant in new Mexico for example were expected to be dry but brine seeps through the Walls. This corrosive ground water could eat away steel containers and Cre ate a radioactive slurry that would seep. Into a nearby aquifer. A a . Government officials frequently suggest that the waste Issue has been solved in other countries a Lenssen said. A yet no nation has contained radioactive waste permanently. In the United states he noted there were plans to open a High level waste burial site by 1985. A the target Date slipped to 1989, then to 1998, 2003, and recently to 2010 a a goal that now appears unrealistic. In other nations meanwhile Large protests in France forced a nationwide moratorium on studying radioactive waste burial grounds and no decision on a final burial place will be made for at least 15 years. Meanwhile Germany is experiencing continued technical problems and protests that Quot Render plans to Bury waste by 2008 unreal Isle a Lenssen said. Arizona governor faces Odic lawsuit world War 50 years ago today 16 dec.1-9-4 �1 japanese troops invade Borneo seeking to capture the dutch and British Oil Fields and refineries the outnumbered defenders manage to set the installations on fire. On the Central soviet front the red army recaptures Kalinin. The Washington Post Washington the Federal government has decided to file a multimillion Dollar lawsuit perhaps As Early As today against Arizona gov. J. Fife Symington Over his role As both a director of a failed Phoenix savings and loan and its largest Borrower sources said. Federal Deposit insurance corp. Chairman William Taylor has authorized a civil suit against Symington alleging breach of care in his duties As a director of Southwest savings and loan association which failed in 1989 at an estimated Cost to taxpayers of $941 million. Sources said the complaint which was sent to Symington a lawyers thursday is slated to be filed in Federal court in Phoenix today. Government sources said the Justice department is also conducting a criminal probe of Symington a activities at Southwest based on a referral two months ago from investigators at the Resolution Trust corp. The Etc the Federal Agency created to dispose of failed thrifts assembled the civil Case against Symington and other members of Southwest a Board of directors. Symington a Republican who won office in a special election in february was the Developer of Phoenix a huge Camel Back is Planac hotel office retail Complex a joint venture financed by Southwest. Symington was a director of Southwest in 1985 when approval was Given for the project which ended costing Southwest $52 million. Symington a attorney could not be reached for comment and his spokesman Doug Cole said he was unaware of the suit. Up 7 guardsmen Hurt when mine detonates source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. 19q1 a Philadelphia up a seven members of the Pennsylvania army National guard were injured saturday when a mine Detonator exploded during a training exercise at a Philadelphia armory officials said. The explosion occurred about 11 50 . As a group of guardsmen were conducting a routine training procedure inside the armory in West Philadelphia said fire commissioner Roger Ulshafer. The exercise called for the soldiers to set off a Dummy mine with a Dummy Detonator but something went wrong. A there was some kind of a mix up a Ulshafer said. A instead of being an inert Cap it was a live Cap. So when they activated the mine during the training process the Cap went off detonating the  in addition to the guard members who were hospitalized with undetermined injuries the explosion blew the windows out of several military vehicles in the armory. Ulshafer said that had the Claymore mine contained explosives the damage would have been Mach worse. A there was no c-4 in it Quot he said referring to a Type of plastic explosive used in the mine. A but it did  investigators Are trying to determine How the live Detonator came to be used during the training exercise