European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 6 350 inside today thursday april 23,1992 d 8693 a there a More inside your thursday and sunday stars and stripes beginning today. On thursdays we Are expanding our news coverage with an additional news Page. Also you la find classified advertising within the newspaper beginning today on Page 20. T in stripes Magazine we be added three feature pages and redistributed our display advertising throughout the publication. On sundays we will offer two additional news pages plus classified advertising in our regular pages. In sunday Magazine we have added three additional feature pages and a new arrangement on display advertising. Amphetamine pills ruled out for pilots by Joseph Albright Cox news service Washington a the air Force said tuesday that it has forbidden fighter pilots to take amphetamine pills to stave off fatigue a practice it now says became widespread before and during the persian Gulf War. A it appears that All pilots who deployed were offered the Chance to use amphetamines a said Patti Turner a spokeswoman for the air Force surgeon general a office. She confirmed that an internal air Force Stucy has found that 65 percent of a group of 464 tac air come pilots said they used amphetamines at least once during the six month buildup to the airstrikes against Iraj. And during the six week operation desert storm 57 percent of the same pilots said they used amphetamines according to the study which was first reported by air Force times. In most cases the pilots took dexedrine the Trade name for Dextroamphetamine sulfite the stimulant drug first patented in Britain in 1939. On March 13, air Force chief of staff Merrill a. Mcpeak issued a worldwide order directing that flight surgeons could no longer dispense amphetamine pills pending a a policy review of the pros and cons of their usage to keep fighter pilots Alert. Map cake a order puts the air Force in line with the Navy which wont permit its combat pilots to take amphetamines. Civilian airline pilots Are also forbidden to take mood altering medicines under Federal aviation administration regulations. Turner and two other air Force spokesmen insisted that no crashes have been traced to the use of amphetamines. As for the five air Force pilots known to have been involved in Friendly fire accidents during the persian Gulf War none had taken amphetamines according to it. Col. Mike Gannon. A there is no medical indication that the use of amphetamines was harmful and their use was Only allowed when the risks of flying with amphetamines outweighed the risks of flying in a fatigued state a Turner said. The pills were used under the supervision of flight surgeons by pilots of single seat models who had to Fly Long missions with Little rest the air Force said. Some flew f-15 interceptors on monotonous orbits Over the saudi iraqi Border waiting for iraqi planes that almost never took off. Others flew f-117s, f-16s and a-10s on lengthy bombing and strafing runs inside see pills on Page 2surging lava blocked from sicilian town Zafferano Etna Sicily up a experts claimed Complete Success for a spectacular operation that stopped mount Etna a River of lava from engulfing the Mountain Village of Zafferano Etna. A the Choice was right and the method Correct a a jubilant professor Franco barbed the italian Volcano expert in charge of the project shouted by radio from the scene tuesday. A the project was Well conceived and carried out to  but the experts said further action would be required wednesday to Complete the blockage of a Tunnel that had funnelled the fast moving lava toward the town. Barberi described the lava As a swelling up like a stuff it As it surged away from the blocked Entrance to the Tunnel. On the surface it will Cool quickly and pile up on the lava that flowed earlier in the four month eruption experts said. The operation took place slightly More than 6,600 feet up Etna a Southeastern flank near the source of the eruption of Europe a highest and most Active Volcano. The operation worked this Way . Marines from the nearby Nassi Gonella flying huge ch-53e sea stallion helicopters first dropped 14 Concrete blocks weighing Between 5 and 7 tons. The blocks fell onto a net of steel rods see lava on Page 2 a Elowyne River of lava slides Down the Side of mount Etna on tuesday night after workers using Concrete blocks and explosives were Able to shut the Entrance to a Tunnel that allowed the molten Rock to flow toward Zafferano Etna Sicily. Fighting still pounds Sarajevo Muslim serbian Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr heavy fighting gripped the capital again wednesday As Muslim and serbian militiamen ignored civilian leaders emotional pleas for a cease fire in the 7-week-old conflict. Mortar shells exploded in downtown Sarajevo and heavy gunfire reverberated in the City s outskirts a Day after at least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in a new upsurge in fighting. At least one person was reported killed and 10 were wounded wednesday. More than 200 people have been killed since Muslim and croatian voters who make up a majority in Bosnia and Herzegovina voted feb. 19 to secede from Yugoslavia and serbian fighters went on the offensive. Serbs pounded ethnic Muslim positions in downtown Sarajevo All Day tuesday with heavy machine gun and mortar fire stepping up efforts to seize the states capital. On wednesday Muslim fighters attacked the serbian held suburb of Lidza at 6 . With mortars. Serbian militiamen ran for cover in a nearby physical see Sarajevo on Page 2