European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 19, 1991 the stars and stripes mechanics gear up for demolition Derby of conventional arms German workers on tuesday demonstrate the dismantling of a tank in Potsdam. Potsdam Germany apr mechanics Clumber around the empty Shell of a 40-ton, soviet made tank. A roaring Crane lifts off the Turret. A few Bangs with a Hammer and the Crane slips the 1-ton gun free. The next step is a Blowtorch then the Furnace where the armoured steel will emerge As molten Metal fit for Plo shares. Eager to follow up on diplomatic treaties drastically reducing conventional weaponry in Europe German mechanics demonstrated tuesday How the physical work will be done a and hoped for a chunk of one of Europe s biggest destruction jobs Ever. Once All 22 nations have ratified the conventional forces in Europe treaty they have 40 months to destroy about 39,500 offensive cold War weapons a tanks armoured vehicles artillery warplanes and attack helicopters. The Starling Date for the demolition Derby however is Uncertain. The nato allies and the Eastern nations arc to be left holding the same numbers in each category. The East which has More of everything has to do about three fourths of the total destruction to meet the limits. German officials estimate it May Cost $19,000 to destroy each tank thus the entire Job will Cost hundreds of millions of dollars. A i believe there never has been such a process in the history of Mankind Quot German col. Alex Berger said. Germany must destroy its weaponry and that of the former East Germany. It has arms from the soviet Union the United states Britain Denmark Canada Belgium and the Netherlands on its territory. An East German t55 Lank and a Btr-60 armoured vehicle were Guinea pigs for the demonstration. _ mechanics had prepared the two Green hulks by removing the treads wheels and engines and stripping seats sights lights and everything else so that they were Down to painted Metal. In \ i hours the tank was in three parts a Hull Turret and loonie gun. I Orchys Cut away the housing for drive wheels the key step in rendering the offensive weapons systems incapable of being repaired. Other than Selling the Metal for scrap officials said it was also possible to abide by the treaty by blowing up weapons encasing them in Concrete or Selling them outside the Region. Some May also be put in museums or other historical displays. The demonstrating company Masihi Neuhau Bah Elsberg a Mph is one of 14 German firms bidding for the work. It Hopes to add the project to its Normal menu of building cranes and trailers and provide More jobs for Potsdam a City suffering High unemployment like others in former communist East Germany. General manager harm Drahim said the company once had 2,000 workers but now is Down to about 600. A this Job would help keep our people Busy for quite a while a he said. The disarmament treaty signed in november 1990, has been approved by the . Senate but awaits Complete ratification. When it was signed the soviet led Warsaw pact still existed and the soviet Union looked like a fixture in world affairs. Union i Okcu like a fixture in world affy official discusses dismantling of Moscow arms by William j. Broad he under a joint control Quot with washing i a by William j. Broad the new York times Moscow a a top official of a soviet nuclear arms Complex said tuesday that destruction of Moscow s Short Range weapons would Cost $2 billion and take 10 years. He also said that a pledged 1400 million in american Aid for that Effort should be used to build one of two storage Sites for materials from retired warheads. He added that the Center should be under ton. The remarks appeared to be the most detailed exposition to Date of How Moscow wants to use the american Money. The official Viktor n. Mikhailov directs the defense programs of the ministry of atomic Power and Industry which designs and makes Moscow s nuclear arms. He spoke tuesday to a delegation of 14 american weapon experts in Moscow to discuss the technical aspects of warhead dismantlement. A this is an urgent urgent problem and requires urgent solutions Quot Mikhailov said adding that the sooner the storage Center is built a the sooner the liquidation of weapons Quot can begin. Sweeping arms cuts threaten to put Mikhailov out of business and he is now lobbying to keep his legions Busy. The ministry a a construction Crews he said with mock Gravity a Are almost unemployed these  in his presentation tuesday he argued that the whole $400 million should go to his workers and not those of the defense ministry. Last month Congress allocated $400 million in emergency funds to help Speed the storage and destruction of soviet nuclear weapons after soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev announced dramatic cuts in october. Scheduled for elimination Are 15,000 Short Range weapons like artillery shells land mines air defense warheads and naval  faxes order for prison release Tucson Ariz. Apr a convicted forger escaped from jail by having a phony faxed release order sent to jailers authorities said. Jean Paul Barrett was released from the Pima county jail Friday within hours after being transported from a state prison to Tucson for a court nearing. The error was discovered monday when the court inquired Why Barrett did no to appear for the hearing. Barrett 26, serving a 33-year sentence for forgery and fraud remained at Large tuesday. Maj. David Bosman the jails commander said the false order was probably made by someone who took an actual court document erased some information made a copy and then typed in the false information. The signature of judge Nannette Warner who presided at mondays hearing was forged on the order Bosman said. Sheriffs sgt. Rick Kastigar said tuesday authorities believe an accomplice faxed the order to the jail on barrettes behalf. Sex keyboard types win damages London apr a judge awarded two former keyboard operators 6,000 pounds $10,000 each in damages this week for pain and suffering caused by High Speed typing. County court judge John Byrt ruled that British telecoms failed to provide suitable chairs for the two former account workers and ordered the Telephone company to pay the costs of their lawsuit estimated at $182,000. But the judge ruled that British telecoms was not negligent in the amount of work that contributed to Angela Mcsherry and Denise Lodge s pain commonly known As repetitive stress injury. Sri is one name for the painful and often disabling problem that causes a variety of troubles mainly in the arms after Long periods of rapidly repeated Short movements. Mcsherry 48, and Lodge 50, sued British telecoms for negligence in failing to explain or minimize the risk of their Job. They Are two of 11 women suing British telecoms Over their injuries. The ruling on the remaining nine women was adjourned to a later Date. Mcsherry and Lodge produced invoices and accounts for Telephone Bills. At an earlier hearing officials heard that British telecoms keyboard operators were graded on How Many strokes they could achieve in an hour a Lodge at one stage reached 17,000. The judge said that in 1982-83, when the two women were developing sri British telecoms could not have been expected to be aware that the keying in movement at High Speed would cause injuries. Simon sapper health and safety officer of the National communications Union said he was delighted with the judgment. A a today a judgment is a significant decision because it does clearly link the work on video display unit keyboards with various forms of  said sapper whose group filed the suit on behalf of the women. A unfortunately these women will always have to live with the results of their injuries but we have at least succeeded in getting them some  Mcsherry who still works for British telecoms doing clerical work said she still finds it painful to do housework Peel vegetables and clean windows Byrt awarded the two women $1,200 interest and granted British telecoms a stay of execution for 28 . Cje com spokesman said the company would study the judges decision carefully. We believe that British telecoms took All reasonable Steps Quot in these cases in the Light of knowledge at the time the spokesman said. A however the work processes involved which were common in the 1970s and 1980s, have since