European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 28, 1993 i . The stars and stripes a Page 5 canine cargo one Hundred dogs Are unloaded thursday at Fairbanks inter National Airport the mushers arc getting ready to compete in the sled dog world championship races in Fairbanks begin Ning wednesday and running through Friday. Dogs from Ger Many Austria and Italy will be pitted against american and Canadian entries in the Competition. . Teachers vote to take 10% pay Cut los Angeles a teachers in the nation s second largest school District voted to accept a contract with a 10 per cent pay Cut and not go on strike Union leaders said Friday after counting ballots. Thousands of los Angeles teachers had flocked to ballot boxes wednesday and thursday to vote on a proposal presented last week by Assembly speaker Villic Brown who was called in As mediator after talks stalled. If the teachers had rejected the terms of the two year contract. United teach cars los Angeles the Union representing the districts 32,000 teachers had been prepared to strike monday. The Union said 15,741 teachers voted to accept the contract while 7,137 voted to reject for a 68 percent approval rating. Helen Bernstein president of the United teachers of los Angeles said teacher voted reluctantly for the pay Cut. A 12 percent pay Cut was imposed last fall by the 641,000-Studcnt school District to help Bridge a $400 million deficit in its $3.9 billion budget. Brown s plan Rolls Back the pay Cut from 12 percent to 10 percent and guarantees that salaries won t be Cut again next  salaries in the District Start at $28,000 and Range to $63,000. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 28,1983 an army officer whose 11 year old son is hospitalized at the University of Arizona hos Pital and needs a heart transplant within two weeks appealed for help in finding a donor Organ. 20 years ago feb. 28,1973 the White House accused Hanoi of violating a prisoner of War agreement and called on North Vietnam to release immediately at least 120 additional american pos. 30 years ago feb. 28,1963 pvt. Frank Wim Berkey was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by a general court martial convening in Stuttgart Germany. 40 years ago feb. 28,1953 Gen. Matthew b. Ridgway announced at shape Headquarters in Paris that he has asked for a unified command in Central Europe for his Atlantic pact forces. World War ii j 50 years ago today feb. 28 norwegian commandos parachuted into their Homeland to seriously damage the Norsk Hydro Power station near Yukan which is being used by the germans to produce heavy water for atomic bomb research. On the soviet front fighting rages in the Orel Bryansk area while the Spring thaw bogs Down soviet attacks in the Kuban and North of Tagan Rog. Source 2194 Days of War. W publishers inc. Work almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. 1 98 1 Apel Nino s growing strength indicates More wet weather for West coast Byle Siegel a science writer Pasadena Calif. Al Nino the global weather disturbance that has drenched the West coast chilled the East and brought abnormal warmth toothed areas is growing stronger again scientists said Friday. The current Al Nino had seemed to end last summer but forecasters said last month that it still was lingering. Now recent measurements by a . French Ocean research satellite revealed a huge Pool of warm water expanded West to East across the Pacific Ocean starting in december and will reach South America within weeks. That indicates Al Nino is growing stronger again promising that rainstorms will continue to drench California and the West through March or april said oceanographer James Mitchell of the . Naval research Laboratory at Sten Nis space Center in Mississippi. It s also quite possible the renewed Al Nino will make next Winter equally cold and wet for Western states plagued by years of drought until this Winter said Lee Lueng fun Nasa s project scientist for the Tope Poseidon satellite. Intensification of the global weather disruption also raises the Prospect of continuing cold in the East into Spring and More abnormally warm dry weather during the current Southern hemisphere summer in Southern Africa Indonesia and Central South America including Brazil Mitchell said. It also May foretell another hot dry summer in Europe including France meaning the wine is better said Jean Francois Minster a scientist at France s space Agency the Centre National d e tubes Spati ales. Al Nino s reinvigoration was announced As . And French scientists outlined the latest findings of their Tope Poseidon satellite during a news conference at the National aeronautics and space administration s Jet propulsion Laboratory. The satellite was launched from Kou Rou French Guiana in South America aug. 10, starting a $706 million Mission to use radar beams to measure sea level Sand calculate Ocean currents. An Al Nino starts when weakening Trade winds make a Large Pool of warm water normally in the Western Pacific expand eastward to South America. The warmer water usually is noticed off Peru and Ecuador around Christmas thus the name Al Nino a Spanish refer ence to the Christ child. Tope Poseidon can detect the eastward expansion of the warm water because heat makes water expand Rais ing sea level which is measured by the satellite. The latest Al Nino started in Spring 1991, and the first pulse of warm water hit South America in january 1992, then abated. Tope Poseidon s measurements show another giant wave of warm water measuring about 6 inches above nor Mal sea Levels moved eastward at about 6 Mph starting in december and accelerating in january Mitchell said. The greatest warming along the peruvian ecuadoran coast should happen within weeks and sea water there already is about 9 degrees fahrenheit above nor Mal which May kill Many fish that de Pend on colder water Mitchell said. City shaken by fake earthquake broadcast Santa Cruz Calif. A a University radio station apologized to shake listeners for its War of the worlds style report of a major earthquake in Southern California. I did t intend to do this harm to any one. I m sorry. The station is sorry said student Roger Takacs who created the fictional program that was broadcast thursday night on Kosc at the univer sity of California at Santa Cruz abut 300 Miles North of los Angeles. The broadcast said a major quake had just occurred in los Angeles killing thousands of people and causing huge fires floods and mudslides. It was in tended to increase earthquake aware Ness Takacs said. A disclaimer was read twice but Many listeners thought the broadcast featuring bulletin updates and comments from a seismologist was real. The phones began ringing nonstop ail the lines at the station that could pos Sibly ring Takacs said. A lot of people were caning me an idiot saying it was in appropriate to create so much  Twenty minutes later station manage Maggie o Grady who did t know what had been planned ordered the show off the air replacing it with apologies. The situation is that this Young pro Grammer who is Overly eager decided Todo a simulation with a faculty member o Grady said. It was a very bad mistake and judgment on his part and we will do everything we can to rectify this with our audience and any member of the Community who has been unduly alarmed.". Takacs earlier contacted the Federal communications commission to make sure the broadcast would be Legal. He also warned local fire stations but neglected to Tell station management. The program resembled Orson Welles famed 1938 broadcast based on the War of the worlds . Wells1 novel about a Martian invasion.  people were panicked by that realistic program. Takacs broadcast also was realistic beginning with a bulletin this is a Spe Cial report. Los Angeles has just been hit by a major earthquake estimated at magnitude 8.5 to 9.0. Initial reports indicate it is entered on the san Andreas fault. Damage reports arc