European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 192007 stars and stripes Page 9 passengers stranded overnight on planes by David b Caruso and Jenneter Peltz the associated press new York hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight on airliners that  take off from John f Kennedy International Airport because of the ice and Snow storm that pummelled the Northeast the exact number of planes stuck on the Tarmac was unclear but irate passengers reported that the problems seemed to affect several airlines and May have been linked to shortages of deicing fluid at the Airport Rahul Chari ran said he was trapped aboard a Ca thay Pacific airways Jet from Midnight until nearly am saturday when the flight to Vancouver was finally cancelled throughout the night the Pilot repeatedly de scribed problems with deicing equipment including a Lack of fluid that kept the plane waiting endlessly to have its wings sprayed when the airline finally gave up and tried to return the plane to its terminal it took at least another hour to arrange a Gate he said you cant keep your passengers on the plane for 9vi hours said Chandran 30 of new York City they kept saying half an hour More 45 minutes More but by the thine it got to hour six we were pretty much accepting that we we rent going to go at least in the terminal you can get up and walk around the port authority of new York and new Jersey which operates the metropolitan areas airports said airlines not the Airport Are responsible for sup plying and maintaining terminal deicing equipment fridays Snow ice and rain storm closed schools in parts of the Northeast and made highways Treach Erous the weather was blamed for nearly a dozen traffic deaths in new Jersey Pennsylvania and Maryland Frank Franklin passengers wait out the storm Friday at new Yorks Laguardia Airport not Nurrit Bush democrats using troops As leverage Washington president on saturday accused democrats who Are moving Antiwar Legisla Tion through Congress of using troops As leverage to win domes tic political Battles unfortunately some in con Gress Are using this Bill As an Opportunity to micromanage our Mil itary commanders Force a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq and spend billions on Domestic projects that have nothing to do with the War on terror Bush said in his weekly radio address sen Patty Murray a Democrat from Washington state said sat urday that the nation needed a new direction not More of the same failures rail fire forces trains on 125mile Detour Sacramento Calif the fire that destroyed a Railroad trestle on a key East West link through Sacramento forced Union Pacific and Amtrak to Cre ate a 125mile Detour across Northern California on Friday the Detour will add hours to interstate passenger trips and re route rail traffic through Down town Sacramento a move that is expected to clog the state capital with freight trains Day and night nearly twice As Many freight trains As Normal Are expected to slice through Midtown Sacramento each Day state department dont adopt from Guatemala new York citing rampant problems of fraud and extortion the state department says it no longer recommends that Ameri cans adopt children from Guate Mala the no 2 source of orphans coming to the United states some adoption officials Are out raged calling the move a de Facto suspension and an overreaction that will cause More harm than Good leaving hundreds of Chil Dren stranded in guatemalan Fos Ter Homes its inflammatory its insensitive to Peoples feelings Thomas Atwood president of the National Council for adoption said Fri Day people All across the coun try in the process of adopting from Guatemala Are frightened right now from the associated press