European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 3, 1995 . The stars and stripes Page 7 2 women killed 1 Hurt in Maine plane crash from the associated press Portland Maine a Small plane carrying three women to lunch in Cape cod mass., crashed Friday soon after Takeoff killing two and critically injuring the third. The Cessna 172 burst into flames after crashing nose first at the end of a runway at Portland International Jetport said a fire spokesman and a witness who ran to help. Two of the women were trapped in the burning wreckage and the third was hospitalized in critical condition with cuts broken Bones and severe Burns fire spokesman Jerry Dimillo said. The women were planning to Fly to Chatham mass., on Cape cod for lunch Dimillo said. Their identities were withheld pending notification of relatives. Santa Volunteer files suit Bridgeton . A portly Santa Volunteer who tumbled out of his Sleigh when the Back of his seat broke during a Parade is suing a float company and Parade sponsors Over his extensive injuries. William n. Hickman who weighs 300 pounds sustained injuries to his head neck and Knees said his lawyer Alan Boyd. He has had neck surgery has worn a series of neck braces and had three knee operations Boyd said. In the lawsuit which names Blundi floats on Parade of Ocean City and the Bridgeton Jaycees Hickman claims the Back of the seat separated from the Sleigh because of dry rot. He tumbled about 10 feet and landed on his head during the dec. 8, 1991, Parade. Hickman 49, who works at the City department of Public works is seeking $713,000 for past medical expenses $40,000 for the knee operations about $38,000 to cover net lost wages for two years and compensation for pain suffering and permanent disability. One sensitive cafeteria Charlottesville a. Stung by a bad review of cafeteria food at the University of Virginia a food service official hid 4,000 copies of the student newspaper to keep the criticism from his eating Public. John Darmstadt a resident District manager for Saramark hid the copies of the school newspaper Early saturday. He returned them Lateran the Day after editors of the Cavalier daily asked him where they were. The free papers had been delivered to a Campus dining Hall where parents and freshmen were scheduled to gather saturday for the students first Day on Campus. About 6,000 papers were printed. The scathing Story about the food service was headlined beware of inedible horrors lurking in University s dining  Pell reportedly quitting Providence . Sen. Claiborne Pel has decided not to  for the seat he has held since 1960, a source said. I think he would like to run again but his wife wants him Home lie s clone his service to the. Public said the source who is close to the senator and involved in state democratic politics. War to in Providence quoted Washington sources As. Also saying Pell will retire. Pell s office would  the decision. The 76-year-old Democrat is to announce his intentions tuesday at a news conference 7 speculation has been rampant that Pell would step Down since he disclosed in april that he has Parkinson s disease a degenerative disorder that attacks the nervous system. Pell has refused to. Comment on the rumours. Kassebaum still undecided Washington sen. Nancy Kassebaum will announce in november whether she plans to run for a fourth term she said Friday adding that her decision will be personal not political. Eighteen years is quite a while the Kansas Republican told reporters after a speech in Wichita Kan. While i m no poker player i think it s important to know when to fold and when to hold the popular Kassebaum who most observers believe would win a fourth six year term easily it she sought it next year said she would not allow outside political pressures to Sway her decision. Quits House. ././.,. /,., ,. During televised tirade by the new York times Chicago . Rep. Mel Reynolds convicted last week of having sex with a 16-year-old girl three years ago announced his resignation Friday night Dur ing a television interview in which he continued to maintain his innocence and bitterly criticized some other congressional democrats. Reynolds who overcame poverty in Mississippi cot ton Fields and Chicago housing projects to become a Rhodes scholar and later a rising Star in democratic politics in Chicago made the announcement in los Angeles on the can television program Larry King live with his wife Marisol at his Side. He said his res ignation would be effective oct. 1. Reynolds characterized some fellow democrats As fair weather friends saying that they were not with me when i was picking Cotton with my grandmother and declaring that they had called on him to resign his seat even though they knew that he intended to quit. They were trying to pretend or show that they were More moral than republicans he said. He was especially critical of rep. David e. Bonior of Michigan the House minority whip and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado both of whom had urged his resignation. He said that Bonior had acted without speaking to him and that from the time he was first elected to Congress in 1992, Schroeder never said Hollo to me walked by me like 1 was t even  in contrast Reynolds praised House speaker Newt Gingrich saying the Georgia Republican had urged him not to resign in haste. The 43-year-old Reynolds whose District stretches from the South Side of Chicago to the Southern suburbs again denied that he had engaged in sex with his Young accuser Beverly heard saying that he had Only talked about it with Heron the Telephone i m sorry for getting involved in the phone Calls he said sitting beside her husband Marisol Reynolds Lent him support telling King it s very difficult to Sec someone come from so Little and be destroyed by one  what happens in our marriage she added is our  Reynolds whose announcement Friday night came As his Case was under investigation by the House ethics committee is to be sentenced sept. 22 for criminal sex Ual assault aggravated criminal sexual abuse child pornography and obstruction of Justice. He faces at least four years and prison but has said he will Appeal his conviction. Among those who have said they now intend to run for Reynolds seat is Jesse Jackson jr., son of the for Mer presidential candidate. Top Billing workers erect a billboard promoting retired Gen. Colin Powell s upcoming Book my american journey on new York City s East Side on Friday afternoon. The billboard is part of a personal publicity barrage across the country to promote the Book which is due to Arrhe in bookstores sept. 15. V support for Powell dips poll says Washington a support for a possible in dependent presidential Campaign by former joint chiefs of staff chairman Colin Powell has sagged since last year a poll released by Newsweek Magazine says. In a three Way matchup with president Clinton and gop presidential front runner Bob Dole Powell got 21 percent among registered voters compared to 36 percent for Clinton and 33 percent for Dole the sen ate majority Leader. Those results from a Telephone Survey of. 758 adults aug. 30-31, show Powell Down from 30 percent support in a similar hypothetical matchup last october. Then he was two Points ahead of d a ant4 behind Clinton. But if Powell were Dole s running mate on the gop ticket the two would beat Clinton and vice president Al Gore by 51 to 44 percent according to the Survey re leased Friday. The margin of error was plus or minus 5 percentage Points. Powell has not announced whether he intends to run for the White House and has not declared a party affiliation. In a separate poll by Usa today and can califor Nia gop gov. Pete Wilson moved up As he launched his official Kickoff tour last monday but he and other candidates still trailed far behind Dole. Wilson had the support of 10 percent up from 4 per cent in the Usa today can poll of aug. 4-7. Dole was at 45 percent compared with 46 percent at the begin Ning of the month. ,. Pat Buchanan dropped slightly from 10 percent to 7 percent while Texas sen Phil Gramm picked up two Points going from 9 percent to 11 percent. Other candidates had 4 percentage Points or less. Undecideds were at 15 percent Down from 19 percent in the aug. 4-7 poll. The Survey of 444 republicans and those leaning re publican was conducted monday though wednesday