European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The  Sass do a hex i vol. 500 Friday september 30,1994 d 8693 a by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington Deadbeat parents beware Congress is making it tougher to Duck out on child support payments even if you re overseas. Under a Bill being drafted in the House the defense department would build a new data base with addresses of All service members retirees an civilian employees that could be made available to courts in child support proceedings. We do a pretty Good Job in getting Access to Parent sin the United states who have not provided for their dependents Jeanne Fites Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for requirements and resources told the House armed services committee on thursday. That system which garnishes the paychecks of parents with delinquent payment works quickly and efficiently Fites said. The defense finance and accounting service currently is managing about 60,000 child support enforcement actions and nearly 5,000 new cases arc added to the system each month she said. But one of our biggest problems is reaching someone deployed overseas to serve them with a summons Fites said. The Bill would seek to solve that by creating new data Banks with the Home addresses of All defense department Jalc Ronnel in the United states and the duty station addresses of All those stationed overseas or deployed on ships. As originally drafted the Bill Calls for each service and each individual installation to maintain data bases with addresses of defense department personnel. Fites suggested simply expanding the existing fifes of the defense manpower data centers that All the necessary information would be available from one  the a Mac currently does not keep Home Ana duty addresses of defense department personnel Fites said that data could be gathered and see parents on Page 2 search still on for sunken ferry cold weather May delay until 95 Turku Finland a the surging Waters of the Baltic sea prevented Salvage workers from finding the sunken ferry Estonia on thursday and the provisional death toll from the maritime disaster topped 900. In a setback for victims families finnish news Media said the com ing cold weather will push Bac until next year any possible at tempts to haul the ship to the sur face. Salvage Crews and investigators will use an unsophisticated robot to examine the wreck and locate bodies. After a Small ceremony thurs Day afternoon 41 bodies were taken from a makeshift morgue on the swedish Island of Uto and Luton a ferry for transport to the Mainland and a truck Convoy trip to Helsinki. There they were to be identified and turned Over to family members. Various investigations have Bee started hoping to pinpoint the cause of wednesday s disaster. The latest provisional death toll provided by finnish authorities stood at 909, while 140 people were con firmed rescued. Survivors described scenes of panic in which the strongest lived while the weak and elderly perished. When i was in the water i Felt somebody grabbing my foot. They were pulling it and i Felt myself going Down. So i knew i had to get rid of that hand said Marge Rully a dancer in the ship s variety show. I Rull wearing a red Robe and talking to reporters at Turku hos Pital in southwestern Finland then leaned slightly and Shook Herleg demonstrating the gesture that saved her life possibly at an other s expense. Estonia s Captain arvo Andre sen was among those reported missing in the disaster off Fin land s southwestern coast. Bodies were still Bobbing to the surface of the wind whipped Waters and surging seas driving Back Salvage workers trying to locate the vessel More than 264 feet Down. The heavy seas prevented sonar electronic device from locating the vessel once they have the ship s exact location finnish and swedish Crews plan to Send Down the robot equipped with three Cam eras. Sweden has used the robot for underwater search and Salvage operations before. The robot s grasping devices Are capable of at Taching a Cable to something such see search on Page 2 to of it Fly Titoni to to Baltic so inflow of water Waves break in through leaking Bow. Water also enters engine room. Electricity goes outland ship cant Man Euver. Water gets about 1 foot deep on truck car deck. Keeling Over sinking in ship turns Long Side to the wind and Keels Over. Water flows to one Side. The Load of trucks and cars is displaced. Estonia disappears from swedish radar screens Only six minutes after the first mayday is sent. Is /g"1 tons of water is Estonia length 515 feet built in Germany 1980 Beds 1,190 passenger capacity tons 15,500 2,000 Power 24,000 Brake car capacity 460 horsepower Ida b 6rn Gustafso Orvia a . Troops respond to grenade attack port a Prince Haiti a a grenade exploded thursday near the . Positions at the port a Prince seaport. The red Cross said three haitians were killed and witnesses said at least 18 people were injured. . Army soldiers and military police raced to investigate and a half dozen gunshots were fired at them injuring at least one woman. Civilians at the scene fell to the ground to avoid gunfire then ran away. One Man was detained. American troops then f4red at least 100 rounds into the door of a warehouse near the port yanked open the door and fired at least 100 rounds inside. The explosion took place about a mile from City gis warned about aids in Haiti Hall where just hours before haitians welcomed the City s democratically elected mayor Evans Paul who returned to office for the first time since being forced out at gunpoint by Haiti s military last september. After cheering Paul a crowd of 3,000 marched past . Positions and the explosion occurred. The blast sent hundreds of people running from a stretch of the port that is guarded by some of the nearly 20,000 american troops in Haiti. Are we never going to Stop suffering wailed a 26 year old woman at the scene who identified herself Only As Jesula. It was not immediately Clear who set off the explosion or Why but witnesses told the associated press that a Man threw the grenade then ran away. The sea front area has been the site of numerous pro democracy rallies and clashes with military police since Ameri can forces began Landing in Haiti on sept. 19. Haiti s army Leader it. Gen. Raoul Cedras had predicted there would be trouble thursday the first of three Days of planned protests by pro democracy forces Loyal to ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Thursday was the third anniversary of the beginning of the 1991 military coup that overthrew Aristide