European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday november 5,1993 at a glance a construction worker comforts fellow builder who was injured when Ger dry collapsed at the construction site of Chicago s new Nln pout office. The Accident killed two men. For detail see 7. Military Justice studied the supreme court is considering a Case that could Force great change in the military Justice system. Troops leave about 3,600 american sailors and marines sailed away from Somalia on thursday. -pag�5 police measure backed _ the House has voted to put 50,000 More police officers on City streets. Page 6 puerto Elcans strike puerto rican teachers have gone on strike against the Island s Public schools to protest reforms pages English fans upset English soccer fans say turkish police unfairly victimized them. Tourism dives Florida s tourism plummeted 12 percent in August following a series of highly publicized crimes against tourists. Page 12 l Index Abby Ann Landers. 16 classifieds 25-27 comics 16,22-23 commentary 15 crossword 6faces n places 24 focus. 17-21 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 letters. 14 Money matters 12 sports. 29-38 to listings 35 weather 13 arsonist from Page 1 sea air thursday helped 5,000 firefighter battling the Blaze around Maliti a Community of mansions and ranches owned by Hollywood s Rich an famous. Some firefighters napped amid their trucks others battled hot spots inthe Hills. Malibu was mostly Calm with virtually no wind to stir even the ashes among charred beams and twisted Metal fixtures of obliterated residences. The forecast called for the rising humidity and quiet winds to last through today. We re finally getting a break said in Spector Dan Ertel of the los Angeles county fire department. Just one House burned wednesday. But Ertel warned if the winds pick up it s the same old fire was 70 percent contained in Spector Steve Knevelbaard said than 900 fire engines and 18 aircraft were in use. On wednesday afternoon the flame jumped Topanga Canyon on the Eastern Side of Malibu and threatened to move to Ward the densely populated Pacific Pali Sades Section of los Angeles about 20 Miles West of downtown. But helicopters and c-130s dumping water and fire retardant kept them from spreading. The outbreak of wildfires in Southern California has destroyed More than 1,000residences and burned 200,000 acres since oct. 26. Several of the blazes have been blamed on arsonists. The Malibu Blaze has burned 200 Resi Dences and 18,500 acres since it first roared through this mile wide 27-mile Tong coastal strip on tuesday. Thuv re sure that it was arson Wilson said wednesday. He refused to give details. A $250,000 Reward was pos Ted for information leading to the capture and conviction of the arsonist or arsonists. At least four agencies including the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms Gret schem an eight year resident of Malibu calif., walks past the charred Rains of his Home on thursday morning. Were looking for clues and question ing witnesses who saw two men in a pickup near where the fire broke out. One of the unidentified witnesses told the los an Geles times that investigators wanted to hypnotize me to get me to relive it in some Way to find out who was responsible for this catastrophe actor Sean Penn s $4 million Spanish style mansion was among those destroyed in Malibu. Homes belonging to Larry Gibbins Hagman Dennis Weaver Charles bran son Mark Hamill Richard Gere met Gibson and Dick Van Dyke were spared. Just yesterday morning i was taping Aradio show about the homeless and i said yeah there Are a lot of winos and druggies on the Street but a lot of us arc one incident away from being Home less " said movie publicist Laurence Cohen whose Las Flores Canyon Home was destroyed. I Don t consider myself homeless. I m in Between in Washington president Clinto promised an immediate $15 million for firefighting costs and More in the weeks to come. He also offered prayers for the victims and the Gallant heroic men an women who Are fighting these . From Page 1 their own blood collection and processing services Slifer noted. The . Army Europe blood Bank is licensed by the . Food and drug administration and certified by the american association of blood Banks Slifer said. She also said specialized blood products needed by . Facilities in Germany Are purchased in the United states. Germany recently has been shocked bythe news that since 1985 several Hundred people have been infected through theol a Contorni Natch blood in German hospitals and clinics through transfusions. Some German experts estimate that a Many As is million people in Germany should be tested for his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. German Federal health officials have said anyone who has had a transfusion should be tested. The German Media have reported some blood processing organizations in Ger Many May have pooled blood samples for testing procedures that May not be Sensi Tive enough to detect the aids virus in such a form or they May have pooled untested blood with tested blood thereby tainting the entire Pool. In the past two weeks German police have arrested several people operating or working for blood processing firms on suspicion of knowingly Selling blood tainted with the virus. _ meanwhile the tainted blood scandal spread to Switzerland and Sweden where health authorities have recalled products traced to the suspect German company the associated press reported from Ber Lin. In Romania a pharmaceutical company said it 1,545 liners about 1,637 quarts of untested plasma in May to the German company which had said i would test for his a said. Bild Germany s largest circulation daily used the front Page headline "15million germans to aids test Basing the number on the 1.3 million transfusions in the state of Niedersachsen since the early1980s and factoring that out to Germany s population of 80 million. Berlin s health department said its hot line was jumping with 70 Calls a Day and similar reports came from around Ger Many which has been hit by one of its worst health scandals since world War ii. About 200 bavarian flooded the Munich health department with Calls. People Are terribly afraid said Munich head in spokeswoman Edith von Loeffelholz. Anything concerning blood is scaring can Bufani to a report the Amoco company from Page 1 _. Mental was in Rosemont to unveil the Model at the Chicago Model and Hobby show which runs through sunday. The $10 Model about 13 inches Long represents a two person 80-foot plane with and from technical journals available to the Public. Also doughnut on a rope vapor trails rings of smoke surrounding a steady Stream have been spotted in some areas Andrews said. Jane s defence weekly a British Jour Nal suggested the existence of the plane last december. It said a trained aircraft Potter had seen the plane from North sea Oil Rig More than three Yean 43-foot wingspan and a Speed of about Andrews believes the plane & devel 5.200 Raph. That s approximately Mach 7, oped at least in part by Lockheed seven times the Speed of sound. The cur and is being flown by the Pentagon s National reconnaissance office. The t see things that Way. We re noticing anything at All with Anxr-7 or anything like it said capt. Renee Strickland spokeswoman for the no an i Sou rent record Holder the sr-71 Blackbird can travel 2,193 Mph. Andrews a member of the aviation writers association said he pieced together the design from sources in the military Agency so secretive that it did not admit it sown existence until 1992. Air Force spokeswoman maj. Monica Aloisio said we have no aircraft that does Mach 7 or Mach 8, and we have no such air Craft in at Lockheed spokesman Jim Ragsdale said if the United states air Force is planning or flying or even has on a drawing Board a vehicle like that lock heed would not be authorized to discuss it besides the coup with the stealth fighter Andrews said Testor withheld Model of the u-2 spy plane at Lockheed s request year before Francis Gary Powers was shot Down Over the soviet Union in 1960, forc ing the government to acknowledge its exis tence. A in Naa
