European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december6, 1.994 to i.  2 killed As Snow buries Many areas of Turkey from the associated press Istanbul Turkey two people died thousands of villages remained isolated and schools were closed As heavy snowfall paralysed much of Turkey the Anatolia news Agency reported monday. J a Man was killed under an Avalanche near the Southern City of Adana and a child froze to death during a blizzard Over the weekend Anatolia said. Flights from Eastern Turkey to the West were cancelled until further notice As snowdrifts measured up to6feet. / 0 elementary and secondary schools were closed in Eastern and Northern Turkey where thousands of villages were stranded and left without electricity after Power lines snapped Anatolia said. French collision kills 5 Grenoble France a fiery collision involving two trucks and nearly 30 cars killed at least five people and injured 10 monday on a wet fog bound Highway North of Grenoble police said. One truck burst into flames upon Impact. The fire spread quickly killing five people trapped in their vehicles Between the two trucks police said. The Accident occurred about 11 30 . On the a41 about six Miles North of Grenoble. The cause was not immediately known the Accident coincided with the Start of a trial in Sens 75 Miles Southeast of Paris of two trucking executives and one of their Drivers charged with involuntary homicide in a 1993 crash that killed six. People. _ ,._.- i Al Santa goes High tech Sydney Australia r Santa is now cruising the. Electronic Highway. La " hopeful children can put Down their pens and paper and Send their Christmas wish lists by computer to Santa s internet address and receive a personal reply. The service is offered by soft Way one of Australia s largest unix system software companies. Santa s request for an internet connection was most unexpected said soft Way managing director Paul Antoine.  i i if a a Santa s new electronic address is  at ,. 1 the stars and stripes Page 5 an injured and disoriented baby Northern right whale conies to the surface of the Delaware River near the Philadelphia Side sunday under the watchful Eye of a Marine police patrol. Rescuers on River Fry to guide lost baby via Vej ack to sea Philadelphia a  were trying to direct an injured disoriented whale Back to the open sea after it wandered 60 Miles up the Dela Ware River. \ ".". \. Biologists said the baby a rare Northern right whale was weak. By looking at the bruises and the loss of skin around the Rostrum the snout the animals been wandering for some time. It May have gone a week or longer without food we know that said Bob Schoelk Piv director of the Marine mammal stranding unit in Brigantine , also on sunday biologists were monitoring an other whale meandering in the Potomac River. Specialists were trying to get a closer look to determine if the two wandering mammals were related. If the whale in the Potomac is also a Northern right whale then maybe we have a reunification of the Mother and calf Schoelkopf said. The baby whale s head was bleeding fro Jan apparent run in with a boat during its trek from the Mouth of the Bay at Lewes Del to Philadelphia where it was first spotted saturday. Officials discouraged would be whale watchers warning boat and helicopter operators that they could race $25,000 fines imprisonment and seizure of their vessels if they came closer than about a Quarter mile. Right whales Are the rarest of the great whale with a population of about 350 in the North Atlan tic. They grow to up to 55 feet in length. The Phila Delphia whale is about 20 feet to 25 feet Long. Harbor yet rusting at a Dock in the Bay san Francisco a the last Navy boat left from the attack on Pear Harbor is slowly rusting at a Dock neglected by a nation scaling Back its armed forces. The tugboat hoga might have gotten More attention if it had been larger and More menacing such As a destroyer or air Craft Carrier. Instead the Ito foot Long boat seems fairly commonplace Asit swings on its moorings at treasure Island naval station the Navy base in the Middle of san Francisco Bay. " but the hoga had the right stuff when japanese planes zoomed Down on the unsuspecting . Pacific Fleet on dec. 7,1941.a a s.  hoga a Sioux word for fish  Battle fires and rescued wounded sailors from the Oil covered water of Pear Harbor s battleship Row. Its greatest moment came when it helped each the a turning battleship Nevada hit by bombs As it tried vainly to reach the open sea. The hoga s action thwarted enemy efforts to sink the Battle Wagon in the Channel and Block the Harbor. Photographs show the hoga off the Nevada s port l of pouring water onto the burning partially sunken ship. / _ the hoga built in 1940 and still kept on the Navy s list of inactive ships is listed on the National Register of historic places. There have been All sorts of plans to re turn it to Pearl Harbor said treasure is land harbormaster Robert Sullivan. There was even talk of putting it on the  Missouri and sailing it there on its deck but that fell through Sullivan said. The problem with the hoga Sullivan said comes Down to Money. It would take a lot of Money to get it there on another ship under Tow or to make it seaworthy enough to return on it sown he said. Survivors assail Achille Lauro Crew lifeboats Mombasa Kenya a although Happy to be alive some survivors of the sunken cruise ship Achille Lauro came ashore monday with harsh criticism of the italian cruise ship s Captain and  behaviour left a lot to be desired said Pauline Best 58, of Britain. She accused some Crew members of abandoning elderly passengers in lifeboats As the Crew scrambled nto Rescue ships. Hille Sieckmann 68, said that the Crew appeared Tobe inexperienced in launching the lifeboats and that the lifeboats themselves were an absolute  there were no supplies not even a bucket to bail in Case we took on water Sieckmann said. There we Reno engines in some of them no water to drink no blankets no nothing. The Captain did not keep his Crew in line. He showed his face to the passengers. He never gave us  j she and her husband Friedrich 72, a commercial Flower grower from Cape town South Africa said they saw the Captain on the Bridge of the Achille Lauro for hours As his Crew battled the fire that broke out in the engine room Early wednesday. But he never said a word to passengers huddled on the decks below Hille Sieckmann said. She said she and her husband joined about 50 other passengers and three crewmen on one of the lifeboats and were on the Indian Ocean for about two hours be fore being picked up by a Rescue ship the Oil Tanker hawaiian As soon As they hawaiian King Drew up the Crew jumped out and there was nobody to help the Passen Gers she said  by now a swell was getting up and it was bad. The boats were banging against the Rescue ship. I thought they were going to be smashed to Smithereens. They crewmen hopped from one boat to the next to the next up the rope ladder and  they abandoned the boats Best agreed. They had bags with them. They took their bags their jackets and they went up the rope  the ill starred italian cruise liner which gained notoriety when it was hijacked by palestinian terrorists in .1985, was carrying 979 passengers and Crew members when it caught fire. Abandoned it Sank Friday about 125 Miles off Soma Lia