European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes . 1 thursday March 4,1993 Trade Center towers May stay closed for a month new York a the world Trade Center could remain closed for As Long As a month a rather than a week or so As previously thought a while re Eairs continue and investigators look for clues to the bombing of the twin towers. The Fri said it is examining several groups including a palestinian organization and a Muslim fundamentalist one. Can reported that investigators suspect the bomber was from one of the former yugoslav republics. The search for clues at the world s second tallest buildings gained Speed. Ten cars were pulled tuesday from the bombed out underground parking garage. New York new Day reported wednesday that at least two vehicles in the parking garage were involved in the explosion citing unidentified sources. A Large Yan or truck carried the explosives and a second car was used to detonate the bomb. And after trained dogs sniffed out the area officials said they had not ruled out a theory that the bombers May have died in the blast the daily news and new Day reported. Officials initially estimated the Trade Center would be closed at least a week. But workers Are encountering complications said Stanley Brezenoff executive director of the port authority of new York and new Jersey the Center s owner and operator. The City estimated that companies and government agencies stand to lose nearly $700 million through the first week including lost Revenue and repair costs. Five people Are known to have died in Friday s lunchtime blast which Shook the towers with the Force of an earthquake. One person is unaccounted for. Mayor David Dinkins posted a $100,000 Reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bombers. The port authority raised that to $200,000. The names of two militant groups came up in response to questions at a news conference tuesday the popular front for the liberation of Palestine and Hamas a Muslim fundamentalist group. The pulp in a Jan. 22 Call to the . Embassy in Algeria threatened a bombing in new York City within 48 hours unless palestinian deportees were returned to Israel police commissioner Raymond Kelly said. A second Call two Days later extended the deadline to Jan. 26, which passed without incident. Kelly said the City gets about 10 to 12 such threats a year. Hamas is a Quot group with a known propensity for Vio Clinton reassures nato on . Military presence for Onnrie reports Washington a president Clinton told nato chief Manfred w6mer on tuesday that the United states will maintain its commitment to a significant military presence in Europe even though troops Are being reduced. Clinton and Werner held an introductory meeting in the Oval office discussing nato the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and Steps that nato could a passerby examines the remains of the first car pulled tuesday from the world Trade centers underground garage. More than 200 cars Are expected to be removed. Lence a Fox said. Can quoting unidentified sources reported tuesday that the first of 19 Calls received within hours after the bombing came from someone claiming it was the work of the serbian liberation front a group unknown to authorities. With help from an informant authorities now consider that Call credible can said. The state department is compiling a list of travellers with yugoslav passports who entered the United states in the last six months the network reported. Kelly has said a Call received about an hour after the blast connected it to the serbian cause. Polio vaccine Pioneer Sabin Dies of heart failure at 86 Washington of medical Pioneer Albert Sabin who developed the Oral vaccine dispensed in sugar cubes that helped end the polio epidemic in the United states died Early wednesday. He was 86. Quot he enriched my life and 1 think he enriched the lives of Many people said Heloisa Sabin his wife of 20 years. Sabin died at Georgetown University medical Center of congestive heart failure said his daughter Amy Horne. He had been admitted to the Hospital feb. 22 after suffering heart failure. The Oral polio vaccine that Sabin developed along with an inject Able Type found earlier by or. Jonas Salk helped eliminate one of the most Sabin frightening of diseases from the United states. Folio also known As infantile paralysis swept the United states As a summer epidemic for Many years. It affected mainly children but sometimes adults were its victims. One was president Franklin d. Roosevelt who was crippled in midlife by the disease. Sabin tested his vaccine on himself and prison volunteers before it gained wide acceptance. Sabin himself suffered years later from a different form of paralysis from which he fully recovered in seven months. In 1952, there were 21,269 cases reported in the United states 10 years later after the introduction of the Salk and the Sabin vaccines 893 cases were  a inject Able vaccine that used a dead virus was declared effective in 1955, and polio s toll plunged. Sabin s live virus vaccine a swallowed on a sugar cube a was approved in 1961. Many experts believed it to be More effective and it ultimately gained favor though Salk s vaccine continued in use. Both vaccines made polio a fear of the past except in less developed nations where vaccination is less than  his Long career Sabin developed vaccines against other viral diseases including encephalitis and Dengue and investigated possible links Between viruses and some forms of cancers. He was born in 1906 in Bialystok Poland and came to the United states with his family in 1920. He received a medical degree in 1931 from new York University. Sabin served on the staffs of Many medical institutions including the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where he did the bulk of his polio research a jew he was deeply interested in israeli affairs and was president of the Weizmann Institute of science in Israel from 1970 to 1972. Sabin and Sylvia Tregillus were married in 1935 and had two daughters Deborah and Amy. Sylvia Sabin died in 1966. He then married the former Jane Warner but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1972, at age 66, he mar Dunshee de branches w Hom he met in Brazil. Take to promote peace other a a a United states is rapidly withdrawing its be aiming for a reduction to trently there Are about 180,000 s from Europe aiming for a reduction to Ops. Cut. . Troops there 100,000 troops Quot the president reaffirmed the fundamental importance of nato and the trans Atlantic relationship and his commitment to maintaining a significant american military presence in Europe to defend the interests of the United states and its allies and friends a said press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. Archivist tells of Bush talks Washington-. Archivist Don Wilson said tuesday he talked to president Bush arid his son about heading Bush a Library at Texas a amp a just weeks before Wilson approved a Deal giving Bush control of 5,000 White House computer tapes. The Tabe Deal and Wilson a role in it have been attacked by members of Congress and private archival groups because electronic mail messages on the tapes concern All aspects of the National Security councils activities during the Reagan and Bush administrations including the Iran Contra scandal. J Wilson disclosed the conversations with Bush and his son during a deposition tuesday in a lawsuit that blocked the Bush administration from destroying the tapes in its closing Days. Wilson a deposition was taken at the offices of one of the plaintiffs. The computer material including hundreds of millions of electronic mail messages was turned Over to the National archives headed by Wilson on Jan. 20, based on a Jan. 6 order by a Federal judge. But a Transfer document Wilson signed on Jan. 19 gives Bush Quot exclusive Legal control of All presidential information on the tapes. Three weeks after signing the agreement Wilson announced that he will become executive director of the Bush presidential Center at Texas a amp a University. Space station costs mount Washington a space station Freedom will wind up costing $31.3 billion a $1.3 billion More than planned a and wont be ready for permanent occupancy by astronauts until june in the year 2000, Nasa officials told Congress on tuesday. The estimate was based on current plans for the station a and did not take into account a White House directed redesign that has just got underway. Arnold Aldrich associate administrator for space flight development told the House space subcommittee that estimate is one Quot we do not now  through refining the estimates stretching out the program and making technical and managerial changes he said the three year Cost overrun projection now is $503 million. He said Nas a expects to bring the overrun Down further. Death Row inmate freed Bay Minette Ala. A an inmate who spent the last six years on death Row was freed wednesday As prosecutors told a court he was wrongly convicted for a 1986 murder. Walter Mcmillian walked out of court into the arms of relatives after Baldwin county circuit court judge Pam Baschab granted a defense motion to drop All charges. Prosecutors told the judge that three witnesses lied at my Muliano a trial. I guess  get what a coming to them Down the Road Quot Mcmillan said. Quot in a innocent. God knows in a  Monroe county District attorney Tommy Chapman said he did not handle the 1988 trial that resulted in Mcmillian a capital murder conviction and death sentence. Chapman also said the statute of limitations on possible penury charges against the witnesses has expired. Last week the Alabama court of criminal reversed the capital murder conviction for Mcmillian 52. The court said the state had suppressed evidence that could have demonstrated Nis innocence or damaged the testimony of a key witness. C