European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday april 17,1992 at a glance a ii Winnie Mandela announces her decision to step Down As social welfare director or the african National Congress. For details see Story on Page 8.first dog rakes in Money the big breadwinner at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. Last year was Millie president and Barbara Bush a pet Springer Spaniel. A Page 4dod questionnaire blocked the Pentagon May not require employees to make Broad disclosures of personal information to get Security clearances a Federal judge ruled wednesday. A Page 5cheyenne minds manners the votes Are in people say Cheyenne wyo., is really the most polite City in the  Page 7 Leader reportedly quits afghan president Najibullah installed by the soviets six years ago resigned As guerrillas closed in on the capital France said thursday. A Page 9tax fighters suffer setback British spouses of . Service members stationed in Britain plan to keep up their fight against the Community charge even after an appeals court ruled against them. A Page 10generation of electric vans Chrysler corp. Will be the first . Automaker to sell an electric Van that meets Federal safety standards chairman Lee Iacocca said wednesday. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. .13 crossword. Faces no places a .18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. .27 weather. .11 Seabee marines hoping hot Rock diverts Etna s lava by Jim Derheim staff writer mount Etna Sicily a As the lava flow from this sicilian Volcano crept to within a mile of the town of Zafferano Etna . Navy Seabee from naval air station Simonella and marines from the amphibious transport Dock Shreveport battled the elements in a round the clock Relief Effort dubbed by participants As operation hot Rock. High winds gusting in excess of 80 Mph together with Low Clouds and fog on thursday Cut Short the Relief Effort being staged from a ski resort on the Snow covered Active Volcano which has been spewing molten Rock since dec. 13. On thursday a Marine ch-53e super stallion dropped two 15,000-Pound Concrete slabs on thursday into a 10-foot wide Hole the entry Point above Zafferano where molten Rock is pouring at a rate of six feet per second. Coming wards t _ . North a spokesman for the 24th Marine expeditionary unit from the Shreveport. North is one of 17 marines involved in the operation. Some estimates placed the Speed of the lava at Between three and five meters a or 9 i to 16 feet a per second although local italian news reported on wednesday evening that the flow had abated. The lava is flowing into a Long Tunnel underneath lava that has already cooled to a crust of broken Rock. Local . Military and italian  officials Are attempting to create a bottleneck situation within the Tunnel to divert the lava away from a City of worried residents. Three Homes already have been destroyed with the leading Page of the lava  creeping into an Apple Orchard about 40 feet past an earthen Barrier that proved no obstacle to the flow. According to it. Robert curia officer in charge of the . Effort Quot we re going to throw everything including the Kitchen sink into this Hole and Hope it sends the lava in a different  this May include trash dumpsters filled with Concrete Laden 55-gallon steel Drums and 15,000-Pound Concrete slabs. Thursdays operations halted because of the weather just 90 minutes after they began at 10 a.m., came after several of curiae a men had spent two consecutive nights on the freezing slope preparing a steel launching platform and a sled built from scratch which planners Hope to be Able to Send into the Mouth of the Tunnel above Zafferano Etna. The steel a a sled was built to careful specifications Given by the on site italian explosives expert directing the operation. Officials Hope it will act As an 8-foot-wide-by-10-foot-Long 100,000-Pound a a Corky of 10 to 12 8,000-Pound roadblocks nicknamed a Beirut busters a to Stop the tide of destruction Long enough for the lava to find a  path of least resistance according to cmdr. John Carpenter base air operations officer at Simonella. On thursday afternoon marines and members of the italian  smeared sled and launch platform surface in preparation for a planned Early morning lift by helicopter to the site of the lava diversion. First though the winds gusting across the face of the Mountain must die Down enough for the super stallions to lift the Dat forms into place North said. That Ike the tide of lava that is the cause of operation hot Rock is up to Mother  from Page 1 Acy against the Muslim world. A the imperialist Campaign. Is really a spiteful crusade against islam Ana muslims aimed at preventing them from occupying their High status a Tripoli radio quoted Jalloul As saying in a speech wednesday night. The radio report thursday was monitored in London. The United nations has asked the world not to sell  to Libya to Cut air links and trim libyan diplomatic staffs. Cooperation with the sanctions was Swift even from Arab countries that had objected to the sanctions. Countries across Europe and the Middle East cancelled All flights to Tripoli. Algerians state radio announced thursday that air algerie the National Carrier also had suspended All flights purportedly because they would be uninsurable. Even Switzerland said it was joining in the sanctions despite its tradition of Neu Tualii or sanctions. Lily. Only Iraq a under an even . Embargo itself a rejected the actions. Libya summoned diplomats from Britain France Germany Italy Sweden Belgium Czechoslovakia and Japan and Tola them some of them would be sex sled in retaliation for expulsion of i an envoys libyan broadcasts reported wednesday night. Italy _ announced thursday that six of its diplomats had been ordered Home. The United states has no diplomatic relations with Tripoli. But As Host of the United nations it was expelling three of the 12 diplomats at libyans . Mission. At this Point the sanctions could prove More troublesome than crippling for Libya. The sanctions do not include a Boycott of libyans Oil sales which account for 90 percent of the country a earnings. Libyan crude Oil is vital to the West especially Italy and some Oil experts believe an embargo could backfire on Western economies. But Libya would be Hurt by an embargo too. Despite the grounding of flights land and sea links remained including ferry service to the nearby Island of Malta. Traffic through Saroum the Egypt Libya Border crossing Point was reported Normal. At the United nations the Security Council met and set up a committee to Monitor enforcement of the sanctions. The Council was to consider thursday emergency requests for humanitarian flights to evacuate foreigners remaining i Libya. Libya said no libyan airline tickets would be sold to citizens of nations supporting the sanctions. Hie United nations demands that Libya turn Over two men charged in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 flight Over Lockerbie Scotland that killed 270 people. It says Libya also must prove it has renounced terrorism and cooperate with France in the investigation of four other libyans suspected in the 1989 bombing of a French Airliner that killed 171 people. Qadhafi has offered to have the suspects surrender to a Neutral foreign country but Washington London and Paris reject  from Page 1 time thursday to determine How oms was audited. Cafes initiated the review following a series in the stars and stripes in March. The articles cited Price quotations of some  cars being offered for Sale on caverns which exceeded 7 percent the absence of a consumer Protection Quot Lemon Law and customer complaints. Cafes contracts with oms and Ford state that final sales prices cannot be More than 7 percent above invoice or wholesale costs. Quot your recent stars and stripes articles on the  and air Force Exchange service  car sales program although not entirely accurate were useful in refocusing our attention to this important sales program of . Cars a Wheeler wrote. The review of oms was conducted Between March 31 and april 4 at their Headquarters in Woodbury n.y., Wheeler wrote. Auditors inspected Fords records Between March 31 and april 3 at Riverside Ford military sales in Kearny n.j., he added _ Skees said the pricing review found that both companies charged 7 percent or less on  cars auditors approached oms and Ford differently in their method of selection of final car sales. Quot it was not possible to readily draw a random Sample of sales to cafes customers at Riverside Ford because sales files Are maintained alphabetically by customer for each Model of car sold Skees noted. Documentation for both Domestic and overseas sales As Well As delivered and cancelled vehicles Are filed alphabetically by customer he also noted. Quot As such the auditor in charge elected to conclude the judgmental Sample when no examples were round of prices in excess of contract limitations and it was confirmed that a Mark on of no More than 6.5 per cent was applied to dealer invoice costs a Skees wrote. Wheeler said the oms Sample is Quot statistically accurate at the 95 percent level of confidence.�?�. Quot Riverside Ford was sampled judgmentally because of its record filing system. However we have a High degree of Confidence in our Sample results a Skees said. In a statement released april 6 by an oms attorney the executive director of oms Eugene t. Leavy was quoted As saying Quot the cafes audit covered the period feb. 1, 1991, through Jan. 31, 1992, and involved 12,814 deliveries made during that  however wheelers statement said the audit was of Quot recent sales transactions and did not specify the number of oms car transactions checked. Leavy said in a previous stars and stripes interview that salespeople can make mistakes in their Price computations but that the errors Are caught before transactions become final. Oms was asked thursday Why computer Price checks cited by company executives missed the two cases of overcharging listed by cafes. As of press time no response had been received