European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars an stripes saturday october 1 1994 at a glance a worker in Bombay India collects rats As authorities attempt to pre vent the spread of plague to the City. A Reward of about 17 cents is being offered for every rat killed by the Public and sent to the collection Point. See Story on Page 12. Sex Premier charged former French Premier Laurent Fabius was charged in connection with the contamination of Haemophiliacs with aids tainted blood. Page 5 making the Grade Rafael Barrei High school valedictorian top student at the University of Chicago and illegal alien passed one of his toughest tests.,he got a visa. Page 7if we have a liftoff " after a 1vfe-month delay endeavour thundered into orbit with the world s most powerful civilian space radar. Page 8 Moscow sets probe a Moscow prosecutor has decided to open a criminal investigation into the Case of an american student who died last week at a dormitory. Page 11 it s magic Sony porn. Began Selling magic Unk a portable unit that catches e mail and paging messages through the air. -.-.  v Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 25 classifieds. 28-32 comics.25-27 commentary. 17 faces n places. 24 focus. 19-22 Horoscope. 31 Jumble. 31 letters. .16 Money matters. 18 religion. 14 sports 32-40 to listings 39 weather 15 says Waves d through Stockholm Sweden a crashing Waves ripped open the Bow door of the ferry Estonia and let in a flood of sea water that Sank the doomed ship Sweden s maritime safety director said Friday. Search Crews using sonar devices located the wreck at the Bottom of the bal tic sea late Friday afternoon the finnish coast guard said. That clears the Way for the use of a camera equipped underwater robot to. Examine the Hull 264 feet below the surface. The Estonia Sank Early wednesday off the finnish coast killing More than 900 people. About 140 people were rescued by w most of them Strong Young men who pushed aside children and the elderly to reach life boats. Bengt Erik Stenmark the swedish maritime safety chief said the excessive forces of the sea pushed through a Small Gap in the cargo door and eventually ripped it open. The Waves crashing into the Hull reached 33 feet and higher. Apparently the Bow door disappeared in a later phase Stenmark told a news conference in Stockholm. The disaster sent fear through a Region that depends on cheap reliable ferry transportation. An army of maritime investigators fanned out across Stockholm area ports Friday to look for similar problems in other ferries before they could head to sea with hundreds of passengers on  investigators at first seemingly caught off guard by Stenmark s statements in Stockholm later  they were focusing attention on the Bow of the 515-foot Estonia. To the swedish news Agency quoted finnish investigating commission chair Man Kari Letoia As saying there were certain indications that the front cargo door had in fact been ripped off shortly before the ferry Sank. Pm Union reach Accord in strike Flint Mich a the United Auto workers and general motors corp. Friday settled a strike by nearly 12,000 Buick City Complex workers that was be ginning to shut Down pm plants around the country. The president of Law local 599, Dave Yettaw said an agreement was reached about 10 45 . Not slightly More than 72 hours after workers left their jobs tuesday. He said a ratification vote would be taken today and pickets would stay up pending that vote. Pm said in a statement that some operations could resume at the Flint com plex by sunday if the contract is  re confident both Union and management Are committed to ensuring Buick City remains competitive while continuing to meet employee and Cus Tomer needs the automaker said. The workers walked Over issues include _ ing overtime they considered excessive. The Law said the enormous workload placed on workers to satisfy rising de Mand for cars and trucks was making them sick and resulted in an unsafe work place. The Union said pm was refusing to hire enough permanent workers to give them  that a settlement was possible began spreading when a adj Argain Erc left a morning session with pm with hands raised in Triumph cheering. They scheduled emergency committee meet Ings then a news conference. Buick City is a key pm opera Kuun As Sembly and for the parts i supplies to other plants for cars and trucks. Pm managed to delay inevitable wide spread shutdowns As parts ran out by shifting the mix of cars and trucks being built and redirecting parts shipments to reduce the use of those made at the strik ing factories. Seven plants had been affected by Friday. Obviously they pm anticipated a Little bit of a problem Yettaw said. Yettaw said one of the main issues in talks was How Many workers pm should hire at Flintro ease the pressure of prof auction speedups and overtime. The Union said workers at the Plant were averaging 57 hours a week on the Job. In addition to the closing of the Buick City Complex at Flint pm said the strike s effects were the shutdown of two Lansing car As Sembly plants tuesday the Day the strike started. About 6,550 workers were Laid off. The shutdown Friday of a pickup truck and sport Utility vehicle Plant in Linden n.j., with the Layoff of 3,700 workers. Shortened schedules thursday at transmission plants in Warren and Ypsilanti in Michigan. Pm said 1,000 of the 8,600 workers at the plants would be sent Home Early Friday. Cancellation of today s overtime pro. Auction shifts at car Assembly plants in Wilmington del., and Oklahoma City. Pm has sped up production and scheduled overtime at Many plants this year because of a hot Market for new cars and trucks. Under pressure from Wall Street shareholders and competitors it has eliminated 52,000 hourly jobs since 1991 to boost productivity and profits. Workers at Flint say they feel those pressures six or seven Days a week up to 10 hours a Day. We see these Union members trying to do their Best running to where the parts Are stored and running to get Back to the line said Dean braid local 599 s education director. Mark Liberty a 41-year-old assembler at one of the Flint plants guides 15 Pound Brake boosters into car engine compartments at a Pace of about 500 a Day. That Pace recently has increased about by five by posters an hour. _ jury from Page 1 and if they own any special knives other than for cooking such As Hunting or penknives " defense attorneys expressed satisfaction with the jury Pool thursday and Superior court judge Lance to did t even bother  in the remaining Batch of 200 prospects. He said More could , later if the  exhausted. Many of the prospects pleaded hard ship. The trial could last six months and the jurors May be sequestered in a hotel. In documents filed sept. 14 and re leased thursday the defense argued against sequestration saying it could make jurors hostile and incapable of making rational decisions. Sequestered jurors would be subjected to censored mail monitored phone Calls limited visits with family and friends and no conjugal relations All tothe detriment of Simpson said defense papers filed in response to a prosecution request for sequestration. A the defense May be facing a jury who Are like the proverbial scorpions Inja bottle " the papers said. The defense suggested less drastic options to protect jurors from predatory Media these ideas include giving jurors Stern warnings not to watch or read new reports of the Case arts haying the jurors meet at a rendezvous Point and be trans ported to Jed from the courthouse. The judge has yet to schedule a hear ing on the sequestration arguments. Attorneys agreed to meet Friday to set ground rules for Oral questioning of prospective jurors. The next court hearing i scheduled for wednesday when the de sense plans to Challenge More evidence seized by police. Or Vito stays Active despite or Bwana Down.  i. R a. Dei Normanna air station Italy is As of Friday san Vito Dei Normanna air station officially ceased to exist As an Active air Force base. However that does t mean the base will be deserted. About 600-800 Tempo Rary duty personnel will support operations in the former Yugoslavia from the air station near  probably be Here As Long As deny flight and provide Promise Are going on said col. Raymond Yoh san Vito s temporary commander. Only the faces will change since most of the peo ple here1 Willoe on four to six month toy  _. According to an air Force spokeswoman that situation is unique in the . Air forces in Europe. We Don t have any other bases where we be drawn All the people Down and the base has stayed Active she said. We were supposed to return san Vito to the italian government but we have worked out an agreement where we Are still authorized to use the base for As Longas we need  staff sgt. Robert Villarreal will be one of the last permanent party to leave. The 33-year-old assistant postmaster and his family will leave today. He extended his tour by eight months in order to help with the draw Down we came Here from griffiss fab at Rome  he said. There s a Large italian population there so we went from Little Italy to the real Mccoy. We really enjoyed our stay Here. We lived off base for about a year so we met a lot of very hospitable Pepple Learned a Little of the language and really had a great time. We wanted to come Back someday Batrof course the base is  he will Transfer to Rhein main a near Frankfurt Germany