European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A at a glance a agent with the Birta of Alco hot tobacco and firearms takes a peek through a special 2,000 my Lens used by news photographers As the standoff of the Branch Davidl an cult near Waco Texas Contin us Tsee Story on Page 4. Drama on the stand in the opening Days of the Rodney g. King Clyile rights trial Lour witnesses gave accounts that were As conflicting As they were powerful. A Page 4 Justice May step Down Justice Byron r. White a former All american halfback who was pres tent Kennedy s Only appointment to the supreme court apparently is considering stepping Down. A pages Reno hearings to begin president Clinton s Effort to find an attorney general moves into a crucial Public phase this week As the Senate judiciary committee questions nominee Janet Reno. A Page 7 image problem the level of crime in Britain is beginning to threaten the country s image As a peaceful and Law abiding nation a government official said. A Page 10 Bias Protection the Treasury department soon will adopt tougher procedures to keep National Banks from discriminating on the basis of race when they approve Home mortgages. A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers .21 action line. Classifieds. Comics. Crossword. Education. Faces a places focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters. 16 sports. To listings. Weather. Bomb in . Equi by the los Angeles times new York a authorities investigating the world Trade Center terrorist explosion have found bomb making paraphernalia in a vacant new Jersey apartment believed to have been occupied until last week by an associate of Mohammed a. Salameh the prime suspect sources said saturday. In addition these sources said hundreds of pounds of chemicals discovered by the Fri in a Public storage locker in new Jersey on Friday proved to be a very unstable when detonated by bomb experts. A can you imagine anyone driving around new York with that stuff in a Van a asked an astonished official who declined to be identified. If these chemicals prove to be identical to the materials used in the blast it could support a theory held by some investigators that the bomb May have gone off prematurely feb. 26 in a parking garage underneath the massive twin Tower Complex in Manhattan. Salameh 25, a palestinian with a jordanian passport has acknowledged that he rented the truck that is believed to have transported the explosives into the world Trade Center. In addition investigators said that they have identified him As the same Man who rented the storage locker where the chemicals were found. On saturday investigators were . Man admits his car was blown up new Milford no. Apr a had parked the car on which he Stid Man whose car was destroyed in the explosion at the world tirade Center was charged with filing a false police report that claimed it was stolen authorities said. Louis Norcia 53, admitted to police that he reported the 1991 Mercury stolen after discovering his insurance policy did to cover acts of terrorism said police sgt. Mike Burns. He was released on his own recognizance. Norcia works for the port authority of new York and new Jersey which operates the world Trade Center. He d parked the car on Wonica no Sou owed $9,000, in the centers garage before the explosion Burns said. A a the figured the car was gone period and it was Safe to report it stolen Burns said Friday. But on thursday investigators at the blast site found the remnants of the car and called police who had listed the vahide on a National computer network for stolen cars. The Case was turned Over to the state attorney general s insurance fraud division for further investigation. Searching for a Man described As a a jordanian associated of Salameh who accompanied him to a Ryder rental office in new Jersey on feb. 23, when the truck was rented after $400 in Cash was  said that this unnamed suspect apparently lived in an apartment at 40 Pamrapo ave. Ini Jersey City where Fri agents found the bomb making paraphernalia. A neighbor told the los Angeles times that the occupants of the apartment who kept Odd hours moved out shortly after the world Trade Center explosion by any Standard the investigation of the bombing has been unusually productive in its Early stages with the arrest of _ thursday to Quot _ a two separate caches of bomb making a two suspects the disco cry of trials Friday and an apparent link to a Radical islamic group. Yet while Federal officials Are known to be optimistic about the inquiry investigators admitted saturday that they Are a Ong Way from being Able to organize these Puzzle pieces into a conclusive criminal Case. They still have not resolved the Basic question was it a Well planned act of International terrorism or simply the Handiwork of a few fanatics bases of Navy and air Force installations along the nation s perimeter. From Paget Urban areas to federally owned Sites in lower Cost areas in order to save rent and other expenses. The army offered up eight to 10 bases for closing while the air Force suggested about half a dozen Sites the sources said. The closure list is expected to incite outrage on Capitol Hill and in the communities near which the bases Are located. But with Clinton a plan to slash $122 billion from defense Over the coming ears  closures Are deemed also utely necessary. Clinton also wants to reduce the current 1.8 million men and women in uniform to 1.4 million and Cut 95,000 civilians from the million non uni formed workers in the defense department. A you can to cry smaller defense budget and keep things like this open one of the sources said. The installations on the preliminary list would hit coastal states particularly hard because of the heavy concentration included Are Mare Island naval shipyard in Vallejo Calif. The Navy training Center and the Navy Hospital in Orlando Fla. The naval aviation depot at Pensacola Fla. The new London naval submarine base in Connecticut and the Charleston naval shipyard in Charleston s.c., the sources said. Sen. Ernest f. Hollings , disclosed a similar list last week saying he had Learned that virtually every naval command in Charleston a including the shipyard a naval air station and a Navy Hospital a was being considered for closure or realignment Hollings also said that air Force bases including the one at Homestead Fla., and Mcguire fab near Wrightstown ., were on the list As Well As army bases at fort Mcclellan and Redstone Arsenal both in Alabama. The sources said the Navy also was expected to target one or More of its so called Home ports located in new York City Ingleside Texas and Mobile Ala. In addition to the recommended closings disclosed to the associated press by the Pentagon sources and discussed by Hollings the new York times reported in its sunday editions that nine additional i Blue Dye escapes from Frankfurt Plant in i note to readers 1-1 because of transportation problems at Frankfurt International Airport in Germany sunday s edition of the stars and stripes did not make the flight to Italy. Frankfurt German leak sunday spewed a Cloud of Blue Dye from a trouble plagued Plant owned by the chemicals giant Hoechst a but of a a plants car Wash. Chemicals companies is under heavy facials said the spill was not toxic. It was the third incident at the Frankfurt Hoechst Plant in two weeks. A worker at a Hoechst subsidiary Plant in another Frankfurt neighbourhood was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire there saturday. In sundays incident textile Dye leaked during the filling of a barrel covering several cars parked near the Plant with a Blue film. Plant officials said the substance was not toxic and would Wash away easily. They offered to clean the cars at the criticism for a pan feb. 22 spill of a mixture Hoechst one of Germany a major Ider spill o of chemicals that dusted about 75 acres of residential area in the Frankfurt neighbourhoods of Griesheim and Schwa Nheim. An Over pressurized tank released about 10 tons of chemicals. The spill was said initially to be a mildly poisonous Quot but later Hoechst admitted that the mixture included of Nitro Enisol which the company a own reports said had caused cancer in Laboratory rats. On Friday 117,000 Gallons of Oil ill Ted water leaked into the main Iver from the Hoechst Plant. Facilities in California were on the preliminary list Mcclellan fab Oakland Navy Supply Center treasure Island naval station Nas Alameda Presidio of Monterey Long Beach naval shipyard Tustin Marine corps air station Eltoro Marine corps air station and March fab. The times also reported these other installations on a list it obtained Nas a Ana in Guam Kyj. Sawyer fab in Michigan the Newark depot in Ohio griffiss fab the Staten Island Hook port in new York and the Newport nil station in Rhode Island. The base at Homestead was virtually destroyed last year by Hurricane Andrew. Former president Bush pledged in a Campaign Promise to rebuild it but president Clinton has stopped Short of  a pledge. All the services were expected to suggest cuts in Reserve stations As Well in order to support planned cutbacks in the part time military establishment the closings Are expected to begin within two years under the current service recommendations the sources said. Airdrop from Page 1 of 27 tons to both Srebrenick and Kopje in that according to the associate press landed close to hungry refugees. When the . Airdrop began critic said it would be difficult Lor the c-130s t pinpoint drop zones from the High altitudes at which they were flying. Initially reports suggested that the re Lief cargo was falling into areas controlled by serbian soldiers instead of Thos where bosnian refugees were. The air Force however defended the accuracy of its Airdrop by saying that re cent serbian advances had overrun designated Relief drop zones before the Ai reached the refugees a , official said