European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 6,1995 at a glance Radical Jerry Rubin kisses Willia Kunstler in 1973 after the two were freed from serving any jail time Fol lowing the Chicago seven conspiracy trial a Case that grew out of the 1968 democratic , an attorney who spent his life defending outcasts and under dogs died monday at 76. See Story on Page 6. Key defense Bills the Senate moved toward votes tuesday on two defense Bills that could fundamentally change the cold War ground rules for National missile defense systems. Page 5 Boulder tumbles Down a Rock the size of a bus dislodged from mul Tomah Falls ore., on Mon Day injuring 20 people at the tourist attraction. Page 6 Osha shortcomings most workplaces rarely get preventive safety inspections from the occupational safety and health administration a study shows. Page 8 homosexual study British officials have ordered a re the country s ban on homosexuals in the armed forces. Page 9 Hoffa s son to run James p. Hoffa on monday opened a Campaign to become president of the teamsters the Post that made his father a legend in american labor. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers .21 classifieds. 22-26 comics. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword. 18 faces n places. 20 focus. 16-17 Horoscope. 23 Jumble. 23 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports. 26-32 tvs stings. 31 weather 11 France to controversial Trucl ear tests Papeete Tahiti a France May Cut Short a planned series of seven or eight underground nuclear tests in the South Pacific that has prompted wide spread protests president Jacques Chirac said tuesday. Chirac refused to respond to a report that the first test could come this said simply that the first test would take place As soon As the technician consider the time has come " France says the tests which would endurance s three year moratorium on nuclear testing Are needed to update its nuclear Arsenal and develop technology Forest simulations. If we have the information we need to change Over to simulation before the eight tests obviously regardless of the opinions of whomever i will Stop the blasts my objective is not to carry out eight tests Chirac said in Paris in a Tele vision interview. In any Case we will Stop the tests be fore the Date i have indicated which was May 31st." the French polynesian Leader Gasto Flosse said monday that he expected a blast this week under either the muru Roa or Fang Taufa atoll 750 Miles Southeast of Papeete. French warships warned the 14 pro test vessels to stay out of territorial water Sand told them the passage Between muru Roa and Fang Taufa atolls Wasoff limits Chirac provoked. Cousteau an outcry by Many governments and nuclear activists when he announced in june that the tests would be conducted Between september and the end of May. Chirac reaffirmed that at the end of the7 tests France will sign the nuclear test ban treaty and will support the Zero option that would prohibit eve Small test blasts Washington has sought to continue. Earlier underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau added his voice to the anti nuclear outcry pleading with Chirac to scratch the testing which he said shows a worker helps Board up the governor s mansion in san Juan puerto Rico tuesday. Luis from Page 1 Gin islands closed at midday tuesday and the last flight out of puerto Rico was scheduled for 6 45 ., hours before the expected arrival of Hurricane Luis 140mph winds. Those people without reservations should not come to the Airport because there1 Are almost no seats left,".said Castro an american airlines offi Cial at san Juan s main Airport. Officials fearing the wind would implode windows in the control Tower boarded some of them up. The scene was repeated throughout is lands in the path of one of the Caribbean s most powerful storms of the shantytowns to gleaming tourist hotels boards and Metal sheets were Ham mered Over windows. People flocked to boarded up stores Tostock up on water candles flashlights and other essentials. On the . Virgin islands gov. Royl. Schneider declared a state of Emer gency and imposed a 6 To 6 . Cur Tew to prevent looting. At 11 ., the Center of the Hurricane was 260 Miles Southeast of san Juan and was moving Northwest at 9 Mph. With confirmed wind gusts up to 160 Mph and a 60-mile-wide Eye that is big Ger than any of the islands it is lashing Hurricane Luis threatens even More devastation than Hurricane Hugo in 1989, in Guadeloupe Waves As High As 9 a 29-year-old French tourist from a jetty where he was trying to photograph these. He drowned while the Edge of the Hur Ricany was More than 100 Miles away / it s like a million ghosts howling out Side said Jackie butter a briton who teaches in Davic Fla. Butler 35, got caught while vacationing with her husband and live children. ".,. Antigua government radio went off the air Early tuesday listeners switched tothe Baptist station radio Lighthouse which continued broadcasting warnings and news that some roofs had been wrenched from their houses and Man Telephone lines were Down. Luis is following in Hugo s path Accord ing to meteorologist Scott Stripling. Insan Juan the shrill of drills arid drum of hammers rang out monday from com Mercial and suburban areas of puerto Rico As people drilled wooden shutters int Metal window frames and merchants tried to protect shop windows with Metal sheets. I be been in hurricanes but i be never been m anything this Strong before Stripling said at the National weather serv ice s san Juan office. In Washington the Federal emergency management Agency assembled a disaster strike Force monday and sent communications teams and equipment to puerto Virgin islands. Hugo pounded South Carolina in 1989alter causing extensive damage in the Caribbean. The Power of the nuclear Cousteau later announced his Resig nation from a government advisory Bod called the Council for the rights of future generations saying the future of our descendants is. Incompatible with the nuclear the French foreign ministry mean while criticized some 100 foreign politicians for taking part in an anti nuclear demonstration in Papeete on sunday. And new zealand s foreign ministry called in the French ambassador tuesday to protest what it described As excessive Force against Greenpeace protesters Dur ing the seizure of a protest ship last week. Australia and the Netherlands lodged similar protests monday. Two Greenpeace motorized entered muru Roa atoll s Waters after leaving their Mother vessel monday morning Penelope somites a spokeswoman for the group Sai d in Paris. Each carried two people and a letter to the French military. The foray came three Days after the French Navy intercepted Greenpeace s two main protest vessels nine rafts an two divers. Hurricane threatens endeavour Cape canaveral Fla a worried that Hurricane Luis could head this Way Nasa prepared space shuttle endeavour for a possible Retreat from the launch pad that could cause another delay in the Mission. With the countdown clock tick ing toward a thursday liftoff the space Agency will decide today whether to move the shuttle to the hangar for Protection against Luis damaging wind. That could delay the flight As much As a week. Even if the powerful Hurricane avoids Florida s East coast the chances of acceptable weather for the 11 09 . Launch were put at Only 40 percent. Endeavour had to be moved off its pad. In Early August for Protection against the much weaker Hur-., Richane. Erin. -. The Mission to release a pair of science satellites already is More than a month late because of re pairs to Oring joints on the solid rocket boosters and because of a overheated Power Generator that forced Nasa to scrub a launch at tempt hours before liftoff last week. Rough seas from Hurricane Luis also could delay the flight. It s Uncertain whether Nasa would launch endeavour if the shuttle s two solid rocket boosters could not be retrieved promptly from the Atlantic said shuttle test director Bill Dowdell. Engineers want endeavour s boosters Back Assoon As possible to Analyse the re pairs. The boosters Peel away from the shuttle two minutes into flight and drop into the Ocean a leak in a Booster joint caused challenger to explode in 1986, kill ing All seven astronauts aboard
