European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. December 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7drug-feud gunfire kills 2 leaving party the stars and stripes Baltimore apr two women walking Home from a birthday party were shot to death Early thursday when a Street Corner dispute Over drugs ended in gunfire. Four other people were wounded in the attack but Only one of the victims was the intended target police said. Quot they just kept firing Quot 25-year-old Craig Taylor one of the bystanders said from his Hospital bed. Quot they did t care who was in the police said Helen Davis who turned .19 wednesday was returning from her birthday party with her Niece Joanne Curbeam 30, when gunfire broke out on a Street Corner in a drug plagued neighbourhood. The four wounded men were All hospitalized thursday. None of the injuries la. Bans ammo sales for week los Angeles apr authorities have banned ammunition sales for a week in an Effort to persuade new years eve merry makers not to fire guns into the air. A Celebration that has killed and injured bystanders in years past. A it was the second consecutive Vear that ammunition sales in los Angeles have been banned during the week before new year s. Quot a we be reduced the problem by 90 percent police la. Bruce Hagerly said. Before the crackdown began in 19s9, at least one death and dozens of injuries were reported each Vear. Since then the number has dropped sharply and nobody has been killed or wounded by a stray Bullet in the City on new year s eve Hagerty said. Hagerty said most people who shoot guns Oil to celebrate the new year in a Law abiding citizens. They done to realize the dangers was considered to be life threatening said police spokesman Dennis Hill. Quot the suspects remain at Large police said. Hill said three armed men apparently confronted the intended target of the plane crashes on Connecticut interstate emergency workers surround the wreckage of a single engine plane that crash landed on interstate 95 thursday in Stratford Conn. The Pilot Stanley Postyn of Bridgeport avoided hitting cars As he landed on the interstate about 60 Miles Northeast of new York. He had reported engine problems shortly after Takeoff from nearby Sikorsky Airport police said. Postyn 47, suffered multiple fractures and cuts and he was listed in critical condition at Bridgeport Hospital. Interstate 95s southbound lanes were closed for four hours. Shooting Jason to Hallcy. 1 Halley 23. Told detectives that one of the men began Yelling at him about drugs he said lie ran when he saw a gun. At least one of the gunmen then opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon spraying at least is bullets into the air and hitting shall cd in the Abdomen 1 fill said. I Curbeam and Dav is had just emerged irom a cab and were walking toward their Homes when they were shot Quot 1 Lill said. Quot both ran about a half Block before collapsing in the Street 1 Lill said. The other victims were identified As Dandy Worth. 1 it and i into in Brown 19. Many drug related shootings have occurred in the area Over the past several months police said. Plane crashes kill 11 in . From wire reports Bluffton. . A a twin Emigine plane crashed thursday in Eastern South Carolina killing All five people aboard an official said. The crash was one of three this week that killed six other people a i Hereu people died in the crash of a single engine plane that disappeared Christmas Day in Colorado. A a crash in Ohio killed three family members during a flight to look at Christmas lights. The been Herall air plane that crashed in South Carolina was travelling from Rowan county ., to Hilton Mead Island ., said Mary Ann Cassano spokeswoman for the l ederal aviation administration in Atlanta. She said the cause of the crash or the names of the victims weren t immediately know n. In Colorado. The wreckage of the single engine plane was found about a mile South of the Monte Vista Airport. The plane had taken off for a two hour flight around the san Luis Valley said Carla Medina of the Rio Grande county sheriffs office. She identified the victims As Pilot Jolt James 37, and passengers James Newham 30, and Tom Page til 20, All of Monte Vista. The Ohio plane went Down wednesday night in a Field about 25 Miles Southeast of Dayton. Killed were David j. Schweller 30, of the Dayton suburb of Kettering his daughter. Nielli Lynn i and his father John e. Schweller 57, of Wilmington Ohio who was the Pilot police reinstated to nuclear Plant position Wilmington A Federal officials have ordered Carolina Power amp Light co. To reinstate an employee after an investigation found he was unfairly demoted for complaining about safety problems at the Brunswick nuclear Plant. James b. Debose filed a complaint with the . Labor department after he was demoted oct. 18 from a relay technician to a substation maintenance Crew worker. The department notified up amp a in a letter dated dec. 16 that the demotion violated the Federal whistle blowers act which protects nuclear Industry workers who complain about safety problems. The department ordered the company to reinstate Debose and give him his annual salary increase which amounts to $152 per month. Up amp a officials said they will Appeal. Debose said he filed the complaint because he was moved from his technicians Job after he spoke out about a Foreman who he says frequently violated maintenance procedures at the unit i reactor. Debose said he once spoke with the Foreman when he noticed Brittle wires in a piece of Back up Power equipment. A i was told that this was not my Job and none of my business Quot he wrote to the labor department. Wells to be used after Gas leak Aiken A a water treatment Plant will switch temporarily to a backup water Supply because of the discharge of a Small amount of radioactive Gas from a reactor at the Savannah River site an official said thursday. The treatment Plant serving Beaufort and Jasper counties about 75 Miles downstream from the reactor plans to begin using a backup system of Wells today said Thom Berry spokesman for the state department of health and environmental control Quot they re switching just As a precaution. A Berry said. Coolant laced with the radioactive Gas tritium leaked from the k reactor at the Savannah River site sometime Between sunday and wednesday Plant operator Westinghouse Savannah River co. Said wednesday. Westinghouse said the leak would pose no health or safety risks. Water tainted by the coolant flowed into a Creek and was expected to reach the Savannah River late thursday. The reactor is the nation s Only source of tritium a Gas used to enhance the explosive Power of thermonuclear warheads. The department of Energy began to restart the 37-year-old atomic weapons reactor dec. 13, alter three years of mechanical and safety improvements that Cost $1 billion. Last week tests were suspended because of a broken safety Rod. The leak came from a heat exchanger a device about the Sie of a Railroad car that functions much like a a Quot. The Doe and Westinghouse Are proving that they Are attempting to restart an unsafe nuclear Tom Clements of Greenpeace Diatom officials said. Plant officials could t say exactly How much coolant leaked. The environmental group Greenpeace which opposes restarting the reactor said the leak shows the facility is unsafe. Quot with this current radioactive spill the Doe and Westinghouse Are proving that they Are attempting to restart an unsafe nuclear reactor which poses an immediate Hazard to citizens of Georgia and South Carolina said i of Lemens a spokesman for Greenpeace. The Savannah River separates Georgia i my South Carolina. Asked to comment on the Greenpeace . Plant spokesman Laruee Adolth said �?o1 think we already did. We said this would riot have any significant Impact on health and safety. 1 just emphasize that
