European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 19,1993 . 1 the stars and stripes b Page 5at least 8 die when trains Gary ind. Apr two commuter trains collided monday morning killing at feast eight people in a mangled pile of metal.,. Local hospitals reported at least 38 injured two Crit really. T a the eastbound and westbound trains collided at 9 37 . Cost said John Parsons spokesman for Northern Indiana commuter transit District. Quot the Glass was flying. It was a tremendous Impact passenger Margaret Mcneill said in a broadcast interview. She. Was uninjured. The two trains ripped into each other Quot like a razor Quot said Gary fire chief Benjamin Perry. He gave the number of dead As at least eight. Officials at the site said a number of people remained trapped in one train car. The front car of each train was mangled and the Metal on one Side ripped away. A. A a Rescue workers were passing stretchers from a gaping Hole in a car. At least seven figures wrapped in cloth apparently bodies could be seen but officials had no precise death toll. Quot we understand there Are fatalities but we done to know How Many at this time Quot he said. The crash site was in a residential area on the City a West Side where tracks merge. Quot it was just devastating Quot said Brenda Macii non a hotel housekeeper who was working a half lock from the crash. Quot i saw where two trains had collided. The people up there were screaming and . The two trains were a no. 7 eastbound that left Chicago at�?o8 45 . Cost and a no. 12 that left South Bend at 9 05  est Parsons said. The eastbound train had two cars the westbound a amps train three Parsons said. Each car can carry 93 people but Parsons said the cars were not near capacity. The time was after the Rush hour and monday was a Holiday honouring civil rights Lender Martin Luther King  a a Quot a. A pc Diane were taken to St. Catherine a Hospital in East Chicago said spokeswoman Susan o Leary. Gary is about 30 Miles Southeast of downtown Chicago. A a a a Quot Northern Indiana commuter transportation District bought the commuter Railroad for $3.9 million in 1989 after the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad went  commuter line has electric cars that carry workers to and from Chicago daily. Mike Bensen spokesman for the National transportation safety Board said investigators were being sent to the site. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago Jan. 19,1983 a soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko at a Berlin news conference rejected the. American Zero option proposal for limiting intermediate Range nuclear missiles in Europe. 20 years ago Jan. 19,1973 a the White House and Hanoi announced that top level Paris peace talks would resume in four Days Quot for the purpose of com-1 plating the text of an  30 years ago Jan. 19,1963 a most of Europe s capitals endured near Zero temperatures As severe cold clogged vital Road and water arteries and heightened the continents fuel crisis. 40 year Sago Jan. 19,1953 a prayers for world peace in More than 500 churches in the nations capital marked the beginning of the official program for the inauguration of Dwight d. Eisenhower As president 50 year Sago Jan. 19,1943 a Raf bombers transformed a Large area of Berlin into a particularly hot Comer of Quot hell on Earth Quot according to an american reporter who Rode on one of the planes. L world War if 50 years ago today Jan. 19 1�?T9�?T4�3 . Warships bombard japanese positions on Attu Island in Alaska s Aleutian Chain. In the South Pacific the japanese commander at san Ananda on new Guinea orders his troops to slip through Allied lines in the Jungle and move Westward along the coast. Britain s 8th army captures tar Una out flanking the German defense line in Western Libya source1. 2194 Days of War. W h. Smith publishers inc. Wild almanac Book of world War ii b son books corp. I9fj1 Bay Shore . A a Jack Hammer and Power saws screamed into the Chilly air sunday As police began dismantling a Carport above the subterranean Concrete Bunker where 10-year-old Katie Beers was held captive. Shortly after Sunrise workers started tearing away the roof and wooden Walls of the Carport chopping up the Concrete Carport floor and digging up dirt surrounding it creating a 6-foot-tall Mound. A a we re just cutting and sawing Quot said a police sergeant who asked not to be identified he said he expected the work to be finished by Friday. The demolition focuses on the area around the Carport which was attached to the converted garage where Beers family acquaintance John Esposito lived. Police planned to tear apart some of Esposito a Home but the sergeant said it would be left standing. They want to leave no clue unearthed in the bizarre Case that ballooned from a missing persons report to a sordid tale of child abduction and Captivity. Suffolk county police detective it. Dominick Varrono said authorities Hope to remove intact As much of the Bunker where Katie was kept As they can. She. Was rescued wednesday from the Bunker beneath the converted garage. Police said she was imprisoned there for 16 Days. Authorities said Esposito forced Katie into a coffin sized Box in the Bunker after she resisted his sexual advances. She survived on Bologna sandwiches sodas and junk food As she watched a officials use heavy equipment sunday to break up a slab of Concrete that covers the Bunker in Bay Shore ., where 10-Ycar-old Katie Beers was held for 16 Days. Television placed in the Box with her. At times she was chained around the neck police said. A a Esposito remained jailed sunday on a second degree kidnapping charge with bail set at $500,000. His attorney Andrew Sibun said he met with Esposito for two hours sunday before coming out to watch the excavation. Quot he a under a great Deal of stress Quot he said. Quot he is under constant watch by the sheriffs department. He s very Dis traught. He looks very  Sibun said Esposito is spending 23 hours a Day in his cell. A i told him Katie is doing Well. He was certainly Happy to hear that Quot he said. Katie was found after Esposito who reported her missing admitted he knew where she was. The child is in the custody of county child welfare officials and is awaiting the outcome of family court proceedings to determine whether she May be returned to her Mother. 2 of generals accused in financial scandal by the los Angeles times the Pentagon inspector general has called for disciplinary action against two air Force generals and the services former procurement chief for secretly bailing out Mcdonnell Douglas. A 100-Page report says that in 1990 air Force officials advanced payments of nearly $500 million to the financially troubled company. The charges which focus on the company a troubled c-17 cargo Jet program Are Likely to Lead to a criminal investigation a Pentagon official said. The report recommends disciplinary action against among others it. Gen. Edward p. Barryjr. Barry is a former program executive officer for the c-17 and currently the commander of the air Force space division in los Angeles. It it also named maj. Gen. Michael j Butchko jr., a former c-17 program manager and John Welch jr., a former assistant Secretary of the air Force. Air Force Secretary Donald b. Rice said sunday that he was initiating an Independent review to Quot provide a factual basis Quot to act on the reports recommendations. Mcdonnell spokesman Pete Sloan said the company had not seen the report. But Quot from what we have heard it Only raises old issues a Sloan said. In the past Mcconnell Douglas the nation s largest defense company has denied any bailout occurred. Sources familiar with the report said that in the closing months of 1990, the service undertook Broad efforts to funnel Money to Mcdonnell s c-17 program by shifting contracting funds and accepting incomplete aircraft and other technical contracting actions. The report concludes that air Force offi dais created an elaborate cover up of the bailout including relaying false information and Overly optimistic reports about the c-17�?Ts Progress to other Pentagon officials. The air Force officials funnelled payments to Mcdonnell that circumvented Pentagon procurement regulations it found. The report will not be released until Mcdonnell reviews it for any potential proprietary information but details of the report became known sunday. Rice acknowledged that it called for disciplinary action against a several