European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 10, 1992 Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder Middle looks Over the soldering Entrance of South Mountain Coal  no. 3 mine tuesday. An explosion monday trapped eight miners at the site in Norton. Rescuers Boring into mine to Check gases after blast Norton a. Apr mine safety officials began drilling a narrow Hole tuesday to test Gas Levels in a chamber near where an explosion trapped eight Coal miners. Inspectors will read Gas Levels at the Point where Rescue teams were forced to turn Back Early tuesday to determine whether it is Safe to continue the remaining 300 feet to where the miners were believed to be. T he opening May also provide additional ventilation and allow inspectors to lower a camera into the chamber 1,000 feet below the surface said Benny Wampler assistant director at the Virginia division of mines. By 9 p.m., rescuers had drilled 419 feet. A everybody s tired but we re making Progress a said Opie Mckinney of the division. A a we re not having any difficulties at this  rescuers have had no Contact with the men who included a pair of Brothers but relatives kept up a Vigil at the mine. A a in a one of those that still has Hope a said Michael Gentry 17, Nephew of trapped Miner Danny Ray Gentry. A it he family is waiting hoping they find the  Black women married study says Washington a Black women Are far less Likely to marry than White women the government said tuesday. Researchers blamed the phenomenon on unemployment Low income and High imprisonment rates in big cities. At age 40, one in four Black women has never married compared with one in 10 White women a census Bureau study said. In its report marriage divorce and remarriage in the 1990s, the Bureau also found that younger women Are More Likely to divorce than older women. The statistics showed up to 42 percent of women Between the Ages of 30 and 44 will divorce As will up to 39 percent of women under 30. Of women Between 45 and 54, up to 36 percent Are Likely to divorce. Women also Are marrying later thirty eight percent of women 20 to 24 years old married for the first time by 1990. That compares with 63 percent in 1975. They done to believe they re  the drilling began after searchers retreated from the mine monday. They had detected smoke heat and dangerous Levels of explosive and suffocating methane Gas about 300 feet from the chamber where the miners were working. Drilling the narrow Shaft Down 1,000 feet could take at least 18 hours before a Camcro could be lowered. A there is the possibility that there is healthy atmosphere elsewhere in the mine that they could have travelled to a Wampler said. A we never give up  the explosion Early monday blew through South Mountain Coal  no. 3 mine in Rural southwestern Virginia. The blast wrecked a mine office building outside one Entrance to the mine and burned the paint off vehicles parked nearby. Smoke continued to seep out staining the Cliff above the Entrance. A ninth Miner working closer to the Entrance crawled out and was hospitalized for treatment of  cleared of Epa charges Washington apr the environmental Protection Agency has been ordered to reinstate a senior scientist and pay him $50,000 for distress after he was fired for alleged whistle blowing his attorney said tuesday. The reinstatement of William Marcus a senior toxicologist in the Epars office of drinking water was ordered by a labor department administrative Law judge. Steve Kohn Marcus attorney called it a the most significant Case to Date for an environmental whistle Blower involving the  a a in a elated a said Marcus 52, who said he plans to return to his $87,000-a-year Epa Post soon. A i feel like a building has been lifted off my Chest. Its removed a Cloud from my reputation that was unjustly put there through lies and manufactured  Marcus who had worked at the Epa for 18 years was fired May 13 after a lengthy investigation of the scientists outside activities As an expert trial witness and their relationship to his Epa position. Marcus said his superiors at the Epa knew about his outside work. He said his dismissal stemmed from a memo he wrote in 1990 challenging the Agency a position on the Adverse health effects of  milk poses Hazard health officials warn from wire reports Chicago a hundreds of schoolchildren who take Field trips to Dairy farms around the country drink raw milk and get sick despite warnings a study says. Milk that has not been pasteurized a the process in which it is heated to kill bacteria a May carry several kinds of germs that can make people sick. The study was conducted by the Federal centers for disease control and prevention in Atlanta and the Minnesota department of  ban Book bags Buffalo . A Book bags have been banned from buffaloes 76 Public schools for fear they could be used to conceal weapons. X the ban ordered after a school guard was shot has had a pleasing Side effect administrators said students Are More attentive because they re less Likely to sneak radios or video games into class. David Moore an 18-year-old student is charged with shooting the guard in the leg nov. 23.abortion vote set Cheyenne Wyo. A Wyoming voters will consider on the 1994 ballot a measure that would ban most abortions in the state. The Secretary of states office announced tuesday that the unseen hands prayer Circle an antiabortion group had collected enough signatures a 24,646 a to place the Wyoming human life Protection act on the ballot. The measure would ban abortions except in cases in which a woman has become pregnant through incest or rape or when the mothers life is endangered by the  against judge Memphis Tenn. A a court clerk testified tuesday that a judge stuck his hand Between her legs and fondled her for 30 minutes As she sat beside him while he presided Over a courtroom. A a it Sok a she said he told her. A a in a the judge. I can do what i  she was the last of several women to testify against chancery court judge David Lanier. The judge is charged with violating the civil rights of eight women by using the Power of his office to Force his sexual attentions on  yorker editor Dies new York a William Shawn the longtime editor of the new yorker who provided a nurturing Home for writers such As John Updike James Thurber and . White has died. He was 85. Shawn died of a heart attack tuesday. He was the shy retiring soul of the nations Best known literary Magazine. He commissioned every article approved every word on every Page and stroked every writer and  asian student Dies Carbon Dale 111. A a fifth student has died from injuries suffered when a weekend fire swept through an apartment building that housed foreign students attending Southern Illinois University at Carbondale police said wednesday. Mazlina a Wahid 28, who had been on a life support system died monday night police said. She came to the United states last August from Malaysia. A task Force of Federal state and local investigators appealed for help in catching the arsonist who caused the deaths of the five asian born students.. Official reassigned Washington a Steven Berry a state department official chastised for his role in the search of president elect Clinton a passport files has been assigned new duties it was announced tuesday. Berry will a review critique and advised Secretary of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger on studies relating to Aid Trade and investment programs for developing countries into the 21st Century the department said. Berry a political appointee was acting assistant Secretary of state for legislative affairs until last month when Eagleburger asked him to step Down following a report on the Clinton file search by state department inspector general Sherman Funk