European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday August 5,1993economy helps put crimp on vacations Survey finds from wire reports Radnor a fewer than half of All americans Are taking Long summer vacations away front Home this year and Many Are taking no significant vacation time at All blaming Uncertain economic conditions. That a the conclusion of a Survey of 500 households nationwide released tuesday by the Radnor based Chilton research services. Only 42 percent of those surveyed said they plan trips away from Home of a week or More and of 1 those Only 7 percent Are going  to mayor probed. Washington a the re election Campaign of a flavor Sharon Pratt Kelly is being investigated for accepting an apparently illegal $2,000 contribution from the saudi embassy the Washington Post reported wednesday. The Federal election commission said it was investigating the contribution. Federal Law prohibits Campaign committees for any local state or National office from accepting contributions from a foreign government. A it is one of the areas where there is a Complete prohibition said Scott Moxley a spokesman for the Federal election , human site found Akron Ohio a Mastodon Bones and human artefacts dating Back about 10,000 years have been unearthed next to each other in Northern Ohio. A it could have been a site where humans actually killed the mastodons or it could be where they butchered mastodons that were already dead or it could be a place where they herded them a researcher Forrest Smith said. Its one of a handful of cases where evidence of human Adi Vity has been found near remains of the extinct elephant like ice age mammals said researchers at the University of Akron. The remains were found in Holmes  suit unchallenged fond do Lac wis. A a couples proposal to split a record $111 million lottery Jackpot is going unchallenged leaving them free to accept the Windfall publicly a lawyer said tuesday. Les Robins 30, a teacher and his franc la Colleen Devries 24, a nurse filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the state to write checks to each of them splitting the prize rather than issuing single checks for each instalment. A Friend of Robins has said Robins purchased the ticket at the urging of his franc do. Dane county circuit judge Gerald Nichol was expected to Issue the order during a Brief hearing today said Donald Schott the couples  Glacier heading out Anchorage Alaska a Bering Glacier North americans largest has begun what May be a two year movement toward the sea the . Geological Survey said monday. In a worst Case scenario the front of the Southern Alaska Glacier could Advance More than five Miles across a Lake and drop Large icebergs that might disrupt shipping in the Gulf of Alaska one scientist said. But another scientist called that far fetched and a coast guard official said the Agency was not worried. Town keeps fighting flood with onslaught of its own Prairie Durocher Iii. A work Crews continued dynamite no one levee and furiously shored up another wednesday in a desperate bid to save this a a Storic town by fight Reg water with water. Scores of volunteers formed a human Chain to Heap sandbags on the levee closest to Prairie Durocher. Among those answering an urgent plea for help were a Hal dozen striking Coal miners who came straight from the picket line. A if we had something like this happen to us id Hope somebody would help me. It just seemed like the right thing to do a said Brent Pien a Marine from nearby red Bud. He was Home on emergency leave from Parris Island s.c., for his grandfathers funeral and stayed on to join the Sand baggers. A with the town in the path of billions of Gallons of Muddy Mississippi floodwaters flowing South the . Army corps of engineers decided earlier this week to try something it had never done before it intentionally broke a levee farther from town tuesday and flooded tens of thousands of acres of prime Farmland a dozen or More houses and a restored French fort. The idea Wasto create a Wall of water that would crash into the encroaching floodwaters and reduce the Strain on the levee closest to town. Quot Early wednesday National guard members and volunteers Tore away More of the outer levee. An explosion echoed through the night As work Crews used dynamite to Widen the breach. A they Felt that previous measures weren to working so they decided to Knock another Hole in the levee a said a spokeswoman for the Engineer corps sue Janota Summers in St. Louis. A they used dynamite because they did no to feel they had time to dredge. They Felt they needed to take More drastic measures a the last 25 residents of the town of 600 fled to High-. Court backs Cincinnati a John Demjan Juk cleared of charges that he was the nazi death Camp guard a Ivan the terrible a must be freed by Israel Ana allowed Back into the United states a Federal appeals court ruled., if Israel tries Demjan Juk on new War crimes charges As is now contemplated it will violate its extradition treaty with the United states a three judge panel of the 6th . Circuit court of appeals said tuesday. And if Israel frees him Demjan Juk must be allowed to return to the United states while his 1986 extradition is investigated the judges ruled. Last thursday israelis supreme court overturned Dema Njuki a 1988 conviction and death sentence on charges he was a Ivan the terrible a a guard who tormented and mutilated prisoners and operated the Gas Chambers at the Treblinka death Camp in Poland. About 850,000 jews were killed at Treblinka. But on sunday the court ordered the 73-Ycar-old retired autoworkers held while prosecutors consider allegations he was a guard at another death Camp. It scheduled a hearing aug. 11 to Leam the prosecutors decision. Sandbags lie stacked on pallets tuesday in the parking lot of a Catholic High school in Ste. Genevieve to. Local folks Call the parking lot a desert since Many sandbags have been full cd there before being used to protect the town from Mississippi floodwaters. Or ground late tuesday when the floodwaters pressing against Prairie do Rock Era a last line of defense Rose faster than expected. Elsewhere the atmosphere was Calmer. Rivers in most other areas were dropping and people were assessing the damage from the flood of �?T93, which contributed to 47 deaths and at least $10 billion in damage in nine midwestern  St. Louis which suffered vast damage to its suburbs Over the weekend the Mississippi dropped about a foot and then held steady. Nearly All the 30,000-Gal Ion tanks of propane that had been Bobbing dangerously in the floodwaters had settled Back into their cradles. S returned guard at death Camp May face deportation Miami apr a former is concentration Camp guard now living in Florida shot and killed two prisoners during world War ii and should be deported the Justice department said tuesday. The name of Alexander Schweidler 71, turned up during a routine Check of the names of guards at the Mau Hausen Camp near Linz Austria said Neal Sher director of the office of special investigations in Washington. Schweidler a British citizen who lives in Inverness North of Tampa Bay said the deportation request took him by Surprise. Schweidler said a when i went to England i told them what i was a he said. A when i came Here i told them what i  Forest service investigated for giving away planes Washington apr the Justice two of the aircraft turned up hauling department is investigating possible cargo for pay in Kuwait in the Spring of 1991 criminal violations in the Forest services Giveaway of firefighting aircraft that ended up in the persian Gulf. A it is a very serious matter Quot assistant agriculture Secretary Jim Lyons said tuesday adding that documents in the Case have been turned Over to the Justice department. A they Havu in fact been conducting a review to determine if any criminal activity  agriculture department investigators reported in november 1992 that the Forest service improperly gave 28 old military planes Worth $67 million to private airborne firefighting companies. After the persian Gulf War the departments inspector general said in an audit. A broker who arranged the Giveaway also made More than $1 million in reselling four of the aircraft and one of the ing the Forest service said he and Forest service chief f. Dale Robertson were to testify before a House panel today about the arrangement a my understanding is that several planes did in fact a against what was previously agreed to Fly Supply mis rep. Charlie Rose d-n.c., chairman of the House agriculture subcommittee on specially crops and natural resources said his panels hearing today would review the Case. A this was a systematic plan worked out with the cooperation of numerous peo contractors negotiated the Sale of two of Sioni Over in Kuwait during the desert i cooperation of numerous pc the planes to a company in Mexico for storm operation a Lyons said a 0vmf.a number years that no one a a a a a r it 1 was Ali my to Stop a r0se said in a it was contrary to what they were per melted to do a he said. A when it was de $2.8 million each the audit said. The audit questioned the Way 28 c-130 cargo planes and p-3a anti submarine warfare aircraft ended up in the hands of several private companies that fight wildfires under contract with the government Lyons assistant Secretary for natural resources and the environment oversee Ter mined that had occurred they were sent Back. A it is important the Forest service get out of the business of running an airline As far As the air tankers go a he said. The contractors were not identified. Was willing to Stop statement last week. Rose told the oregonian newspaper in Portland that he suspected the Cia was involved. He said there was a cold War partnership Between the spy Agency and the Forest service in which the forestry Agency provided Coyer recruitment and Money for Cia air operations