European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 8 the stars and stripes saturday december 17,1994 searching for answers a National transportation safety Board inspector looks at an facial said thursday. A fire in the right engine had been report engine that came to rest in an apartment living room after an Edas a possible cause of the crash. Pilots Richard Anderson air National guard Learjet crashed wednesday morning in and Brad Sexton both of Klamath Falls ore., were killed in the Fresno Calif. Both of the Jet s engines apparently failed an of crash. Eighteen people were injured one critically. Fri probing sabotage of jumbo jets at Juk by new Day new York an airline s jumbo jets at Kennedy Airport Are being sabotaged making them dangerous to Fly and the Fri is investigating. In the past three months saboteurs got inside the inner Workings of five Boeing 747s belonging to Tower air and Cut numerous wires connected to vital systems Federal investigators said. In each Case the sabotage was discovered after Tower Crews received false readings from cockpit instruments during preflight checks Ana had mechanics Check them out said sources involved in the investigation. Had the sabotage not been discovered be arc Berchtesgaden learn to Foft it it includes 5 Days ski instruction lift pass ski equipment ski clothing ski week race certificate & souvenir Mug arc s Skytop ski Lodge features convenient location to hotel Gen. Walker. Excellent slopes for beginners and children. Variety of beginner & intermediate slopes. Snow making machines. Slope Side snack bar and indoor restaurant. Sledding area. Equipment Issue area for your rental needs. 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The whole thing has been completely out of hand said Paulette Dean executive director of the Danville area humane society Smokey s current Home. She said the society has been bombarded with nearly 400 Calls and letters protesting the decision. Even former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger is urging a Pooch Pardon. Kissinger who owns a lab named ame Lia said he s thinking about asking gov. George Allen to Grant the dog  the dog to the owner and Tell the mailman to take a different route Kissinger said tuesday in an appearance on the to show american  Smokey s bark really is worse than his bite postal workers testified that the dog had menaced them but never bitten them. The postal service had threatened to Stop mail delivery to the Street where Smokey lived unless hews restrained. Owner Craig Jackson who was convicted of harbouring a vicious animal has appealed. He said he wants Smokey Back Home. I Felt like Justice would prevail said Jackson. Hell have a Good of plate of Deer hindquarters waiting for him " Atlanta a despite the out break of aids americans Are living longer than Ever an average of almost 76 years the government reported thurs Day. -. V the Overall death rate in the United states was the lowest Ever in 1992, falling to 504.5 deaths per 100,000 people the Federal centers for disease control and prevention said. A total of 2,175,613 peo ple died. A the 1992 infant mortality rate reached an All time Low of 8.5 deaths per 1,000 live births compared with 8.9 per 1,000 in 1991 a f the average life expectancy climbed to an All time High of 75.8, the number of years a person born in 1992 could expect to live. That was up from 75.5 in 1991. Death rates for 12 of the 15 leading killers dropped in 1992, said cd statistician Ken Kochanek. But deaths from aids jumped sharply and there was Little or no change in the rates of death from diabetes and kidney disease. Things look very Good Kochanek said. Unfortunately the main increase was in his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. His is definitely holding Back bigger gains in life expectancy he said. The death rate for aids jumped 11.5 percent aids which killed 33,566 americans in 1992, Rose a notch to be come the eighth leading cause of death that year. The cd expects the aids death rate t6 jump even highe for 1993, in part be cause of a change in the government s definition of the disease. Overall death rates for the six leading causes of death heart disease cancer stroke lung disease accidents and pneumonia influenza All dropped in 1992. Adjusted for age the death rate for heart disease the nation s no. 1 killer fell 2.6 percent from 1991. The biggest drop a 7.7 percent de Cline came in. The rate for atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Airline shuts Down after probe by Faa by the Washington Post Kiwi International airlines has sus Pended All operations temporarily after a special inspection found problems with Pilot training records the Federal aviation administration said thursday. Kiwi based in Newark n.j., operated scheduled flights along the East coast and Midwest. It served Newark Atlanta Chicago Orlando Tampa and West Palm Beach Fla. And san Juan puerto Rico. Essentially the airline shut Down voluntarily rather than having the aviation administration take the action. There was no indication How Long the shutdown would  administration offered few details of Why the airline halted operations. In a statement the Agency said that problems j were uncovered during routine surveil a Lance and that inspectors decided to con duct a More  inspection