European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 28, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3senate oks Bill to funds amp Laid Washington a for the fourth time in three years the Senate has approved a Bill to use taxpayer Money to clean up failed savings and Loans by a 52-42 vote thursday night senators sent the $25 billion Bill to the House where it faces an unusual partisan snarl. Republicans led by House gop whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia Are the principal opponents even though it is the Bush administration that is asking for the additional Money for the Resolution Trust corp. Rep. Henry b. Gonzalez a Texas chairman of the House banking committee has warned president Bush in a letter warrant issued for retired chief in Bhopal deaths Bhopal India apr a court issued an arrest warrant Friday for the retired chairman of Union Carbide corp., who is charged with homicide in the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster that killed More than 4,000 people. Chief judicial magistrate Gulab Sharma ordered the extradition from the United states of Warren Anderson who was Union carbides chief executive when lethal Gas leaked from the company a Bhopal Plant. The company is based in Danbury Conn. The orders come nearly three months after the magistrates court charged Anderson with a culpable homicide not amounting to murder and ordered him to appear in court feb. 1. Anderson did not appear. A enough Opportunity has been Given to Anderson a said Sharma in his order. A the Only Way to get him is to initiate extradition  an extradition order must go to the Indian government for approval and be relayed to the state department in Washington for action. At least 4,035 people have died and about 20,000 were injured when they inhaled Methyl soc Nate Gas from the pesticide Plant in Bhopal operated by Union carbides Indian subsidiary. It is ranked As the worlds worst Industrial disaster. In its previous ruling the court threatened to seize Andersons property in India and abroad unless he appeared in court. On Friday the court gave Andersons attorneys until May 22 a the next Date fixed for the hearing a to explain Why the property should not be confiscated. More than 600,000 people have demanded compensation for the disaster. That democrats will not vote for the Bill unless a majority of republicans do. In the Senate democrats supported the Bill 29-25, and republicans 23-17. Gingrich and rep. Bill Mccollum r-fla., Are pushing for inclusion of a provision to assist troubled but still solvents amp is protecting their shareholders and creditors in addition to depositors. They argue that such a open Thrift assistance a by preventing failures would be cheaper for taxpayers and easier on the Economy avoiding the forced Sale of billions of dollars of Loans and real estate owned by a amp is. Unlike the House version the Senate Bill includes a provision by sen. Terry Sanford d-n.c., that would earmark $1.85 billion of the new Money for open assistance. Opponents argue that open assistance would put the government in the awkward position of picking favored institutions to survive and accomplish Little beyond delaying failures ultimately making them More expensive. Both Chambers Bills would bring the total taxpayer Cost of the a amp a cleanup to $130 billion still Short of the $160 billion the administration says is needed to finish the Job. However it would be enough to carry the Etc until april 1993, five months past the november elections. Without More Money the Etc would be unable to clean up the 70 failed thrifts it already has seized but not yet closed and the 100 or so a amp is expected to fail this year. Opponents said the Agency deserved no More Money until it can demonstrate it was not wasting what it has already received. But proponents argued that voting against Money to shut Down Money losing institutions although politically tempting would add More than $2 million a Day to the ultimate Cost of protecting depositors. Psi.  look a no hands John Thompson co owner of Memphis motor sports Park in Tennessee leaps off a 130-foot-High plat form thursday with the help of a bungee Cord jump site was to open to the Public Friday. A the High winds sandbag areas in Mediterranean by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Strong winds blowing off the Sahara aused skies to glow eerily yellow thurs Lay and dumped Sand Over Sicily Sardinia and Southern Italy. The sirocco As such storms blowing off the desert Are called whipped up enormous seas in the Central Mediterranean forcing the cancellation of Many ferry runs. Naples Cap Dichino Airport was closed for most of thursday and flights were diverted to Rome International Airport about 150 Miles to the North. A one . Military flight managed to take off and another to land thursday at Cap Dichino a said Navy chief Petty officer Terry Briggs a spokesman for the naval support activity in Naples. The maximum recorded wind gust hit 54 knots about 62 Miles per hour at 2 . Thursday in Naples said chief Petty officer Mark Griffith a weather forecaster at the naval oceanography come det at Cap Dichino. The winds were stronger than Gale Force winds which Range from about 39 to 54 Miles per hour. Griffith said sirocco Are capable of transporting huge amounts of dust Over Long distances. A this is the first sirocco in be seen in the three years in be been stationed in Naples a Griffith said Friday. The sirocco produced 8-foot seas in Naples inner Harbor Griffith said. The dust Laden sirocco appear to rain Down mud and thursdays storm left vehicles in the Naples area covered with a thick orangy red scum. At the naval support office at la Maddalena at the Northern tip of Sardinia the sirocco brought Strong winds but passed with Little notice. A a it a kind of Normal for us to get Sand blown Here from Africa but i heard that they had yellow Snow in the mountains on the Island a May Trova a spokeswoman for the Navy at la Maddalena Sardinia said Friday. Although Nas Simonella reported wind gusts thursday As High As 46 Miles per hour the sirocco had no Impact on Navy flight operations there and no damage was reported at the installation sait Navy Petty officer 1st class Anne Lewis of the air stations Public affairs office. San Vito Dei Normanna air station near the East coast of Italy was also rocked by the sirocco but Little damage was reported there. Quot one tree was knocked Over and fell against the Side of our Security police building causing slight damage to its surface Quot said capt. Larry Cox the spokesman for the air station. In Naples damage was widespread but slight Briggs said. Some tree1 were toppled windows were blown out of several buildings and corrugated Metal roofs were blown off two Small storage Sheds Briggs said. No injuries were  viewing uses fewer calories than lying in bed study says new York apr watching television May pro Mote obesity in children by making them Burn fewer calories than they do even while lying in bed a study suggests. Obese girls showed an average reduction in metabolism of 16.5 percent when watching television compared with simply lying in bed and girls of Normal weight had a 12.5 percent reduction the study found. The average drop of 14.5 percent is a quite a substantive difference a said researcher Robert Klesges. The reason for the slowed metabolism is not known but perhaps watching television produces a a kind of deep relaxation experience Quot that causes it Klesges said. He noted that the study used a non violent to show the wonder years and said the results might have been different with More action oriented programs. Quot you can to generalize everything that son television based on one episode of the wonder years a he said. Previous studies have linked television to obesity the reasons probably include Lack of physical activity and the influence of food commercials As Well As the apparent Impact on metabolism he said. Klesges an associate professor of psychology at Memphis state University in Tennessee and colleague Mary Lee Shelton reported the work thursday at a meeting of the society of behavioural Medicine. I he study included 31 girls who had not reached puberty. Their average age was about 10, and about half were obese. Klesges said that he suspects the effect applies to boys too and that he wants to look for it in adults