Omaha World-Herald du lieu suivant : Omaha, Nebraska • 1

Thunder Omaha Council Bluffs Wide ly scattered thunderstorm to night low 71 Possible thunderstorm Saturday high 87 (tnaha World herald OMAHA NEBRASKA RIDAY AUGUST 17 1990 OUR 125TH YEAR NO 286 46 PAGES EDITION? 25C Metropolitan Edition V' jV' Inside Today Trade Deficit or US Hits 7 YearLow The US trade deficit dropped to a seven year low of $507 billion in June Business News Page 18 YOSEMITE CLEANUP: Rangers clear the way for the return of visitors to Yosemite National Park as California crews mop up after major blazes Page 13 MISPLACED WASHERS: A mis placed set of household washers in a testing device may have caused the flaw in the primary mirror of the crippled Hubble Space Tele scope the chairman of an investi gatory board says Page 13 SPLIT PERSONALITY: A Wis consin woman who says she has 21 personalities testifies in court pro ceedings against a man accused of raping her Page 14 Index Advice Columnists 42 Business 18 21 Classified Ads 29 35 LU11UU3 Deaths 16 Editorials 22 23 Living 37 46 Midlands News 15 24 Movie Listings 38 39 People 3 Puzzle 45 Sports 25 29 36 TV Listings 45 Weather 46 World Greenhouse Gas Worries ederal Agency inds Carbon Dioxide Up Washington (AP) Carbon dioxide the most common of the so called greenhouse gases is increasing in the atmosphere faster than in the 1960s and early 1980s a federal agency reports According to a study by Dr Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmo spheric Administration (NOAA) the concentration of carbon dioxide rose at an average rate of 171 parts per million over the last four years That is somewhat faster than the 15 parts per million rise reported in much of the 1980s In the 1960s the increase was reported at only seven tenths of 1 part per million annually think there is a tendency for the rate to be still increasing but it go smoothly just like the Tans said Thursday (carbon dioxide) increase varies a lot from year to year One year it can change very little and the next year it makes up for the slow he said in a telephone interview the moment it seems to be increasing fairly Causing Concern Concentrations of carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide CC 11 and CC 12 are monitored by Cli mate Monitoring and Diagnostics Labo ratory in Boulder Colo The increasing amount of these gases in the air has caused concern in recent years They are produced by industrial processes heating and other human activities as well as some natural sources Many scientists worry that the gases will act somewhat like a greenhouse causing Earth to overheat The shortwave radiation from the sun that warms the Earth passes through the gases easily but they can trao the longer wave radiation from Earth that normally cools the planet and keeps overall temperatures in balance Global concentrations of carbon diox ide have increased about 25 percent since the mid 1800s to just over 350 parts per million However scientists disagree over whether any global heating has already occurred ossil uel Burning Increasing the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide by 1 part per million requires the addition of 213 billion tons of carbon to the air Much of this occurs through the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil Other greenhouse gases are much less common Methane concentrations rose by 12 parts per billion per year although officials said this growth rate may have declined slightly Nitrous oxide increased at a rate of seven tenths of 1 part per billion per year CC 11 was rising at 10 parts per trillion while the rate for CC 12 was 16 parts per trillion Both of these chemi cals are chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigeration and other industrial pro cesses They also can damage the protective ozone layer and an international agreement has been signed to reduce their use Major Increase Seen In Teen Birth Rate The New York Times Washington An 18 year long de cline in teen age birth rates has re versed itself abruptly with the sharpest increase among mothers 15 to 17 years old the federal government reported The finding by the National Center for Health Statistics drew concern from health experts and social scien tists who chart the health risks and economic hardship long associated with unwed teen age motherhood "Any time you see an increase in births to younger teens alarm said Ron of the Defense und a non profit advocacy group based in Washington pregnancy is a roadblock to all kinds of things for young people and the younger it happens the more of a roadblock it Researchers said it was not clear whether the rise in births to teen agers reflected more sexual activity less use of contraception and abortion services or a combination of both factors US Seeks Access WOMEN SOLDIERS: Women in US armed forces raise eyebrows among Saudi men Page6 1 Amencans Iraq for Saudi Arabia Page 11 Bill BatsonWorid Herald s' msL I Congressman Issues Warning The Associated Press Concern about three dozen Americans detained in Bagh dad intensified riday with word they had been moved to an undisclosed location As the Persian Gulf crisis caused by invasion of Kuwait entered its third week US officials in the Iraqi capital were demanding access to the American detainees understand the 35 Americans who were in the Rashid: Hotel have been moved We think we know where they are but we have not seen a source at the State Department said riday A US congressman warned Iraq that it would face American military retaliation if trapped Americans were harmed any US citizen in Kuwait or Iraq is in any way brutalized or tortured or killed the United States will retaliate in a way that will result in the destruction of the military and economic infrastructure of Rep Stephen: Solarz NY told reporters at Ben Gurion airport Solarz is a member of the House oreign Affairs Committee Tanker Turned Away There were a number of other developments Saudi Arabia reportedly turned away an Iraqi tanker trying to break the oil embargo i Iraq seeking peace with its old enemy Iran began withdrawing troops from Iranian territory and freeing Irani an POWs Iraq apparently plans to focus its attention and resources on the escalating confrontation with the Unit ed States Defense Secretary Dick Cheney headed for Riyadh to visit US troops standing guard in the Saudi desert against a possible further thrust by the armed forces of president Saddam Hussein President Bush expressed pessimism Thursday that Iraqi forces would end their occupation of Kuwait In the Persian Gulf the military buildup and economic: embargo intensified but American efforts to squeeze Iraq with a trade embargo faced difficulty at least of a political nature The United Nations secretary general said that military enforcement of UN sanctions against Iraq requires UN approval Soviet oreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said riday that his country would send troops if the United Nations calls for a multinational military force to resolve the crisis Earlier the Soviets had said only that they would consider such a move in the event of a UN call A special Security Council committee on the embargo was to meet privately riday and Canadian diplomats said they intended to discuss how the committee would monitor Monotonous orecast Sees Little Relief By Julia McCord World Herald Staff Writer The Omaha Council Bluffs metropoli tan area's daily forecast is getting monotonous and no relief is in sight forecast matched the con ditions for the past five days: hot and humid with a chance of late aftemoon showers and thunderstorms Susan Anderson a meteorologist at the National Weather north Omaha station said Saturday's high should be near 90 with a "quite dew point temperature in the upper 60s to produce uncomfortable weather She said skies tonight were expected to be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of late night thunderstorms and a low in the lower 70s Ms Anderson said this pattern will persist until the southerly flow of moist and unstable air over the Midlands has moved on Stan Bostjancic The World private weather consultant said the shift is not likely to happen soon unless a cold front which is stretching from Montana to the northern Great Lakes dips into the area Ms Anderson said the Panhandle might have some thunderstorms to night as a low pressure trough begins to move east Lows from around 60 in the northwest to the lower 70s in the east were expected Scattered thunderstorms throughout the state were also predicted for Satur day Highs were expected in the 80s in the north and west and around 90 in the southeast Thunderstorms and possible heavy rain that was forecast for Thursday largely failed to materialize Eppley Airfield recorded a trace of moisture alls City with 28 of an inch as of 7 am riday reported the only appreciable amount More rain fell in Iowa Mason City received 101 inches Other stations reporting rain were Des Moines 03 Lamoni 35 Waterloo 71 Cedar Rap ids 48 and Dubuque 70 The Iowa forecast called for scat tered showers and thunderstorms to night and Saturday with locally heavy rain possible in the north Lows in the middle 60s to around 70 and highs in the lower 80s in the north to around 90 in the south were expected The Nebraska extended forecast for Jacqueline Darroch orrest of the Alan Guttmacher Institute a non profit research organization said recent stud ies indicated an increase in teen agers who are sexually active and an increase in use of some contraception particu larly condoms It was not clear she said whether pregnant teen agers were more reluc tant to seek abortions or were finding them harder to obtain The number of doctors clinics and hospitals performing abortions has de clined in the past five years The health statistics center a divi sion of the Department of Health and Human Services said the teen age birth rate reached bottom in 1986 after de clining steadily since the late 1960s It began climbing in 1987 and in 1988 the last year covered by the statistics it recorded a sharp increase returning to Please turn to Page 2 Col 1 Preparing for possible call up Natalie reiberg an Omaha nurse spruces up her wardrobe: spit shined boots camouflage fatigues and uniform Reservists Ready for Call up By Kevin Kelly World Herald Staff Writer If President Bush calls thousands of military reservists and National Guard members in Ne braska and Iowa stand ready to answer With tension building in the Middle East the president has reportedly discussed with Penta gon officials a call up of military reserve units to bolster active duty units depleted by the deploy ment of troops to Saudi Arabia Some reservists in the Midlands waiting They are volunteering to assist without orders Particularly eager are Marines said Capt Rick Martin commander of the Marine Corps Reserve Engineer Maintenance Co Omaha where about 200 reservists are based got Marines champing at the bit to Martin said our motto: Semper idelis always Martin said that three Marine Reserve units are based in Iowa each with between 100 and 250 men Exact troop numbers he said are classified Martin said some former Marines in Omaha have rejoined the reserves since the Middle East crisis began had a captain call to rejoin so he can get in the swing of it He had been away from the Marines for several Martin said had another guy come in last week and said ready to go Where do I sign Pamela Nault chief of media relations at Air Please tum to Page 5 Col 1 compliance beyond official government statements Bush has ordered US naval commanders to use minimum force to interdict shipments to and from Iraq That could include firing across the bow to halt a ship Gulf based shipping executives reported riday that Saudi authorities had refused to permit an Iraqi tanker to take on oil from pipeline at the Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu The tanker was identified as the 80000 ton Al ao said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity Another Iraqi tanker tried to load at the terminal Sunday night oreigners Stranded The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait has stranded more than 2 million foreigners including 3000 Americans whom Iraqi authorities have prevented from leaving Iraq and Kuwait About 4000 Britons and more than 450 Japanese also are trapped Thursday Iraqi authorities in Kuwait ordered some 2500 Americans to assemble at a hotel because of "unspecified Please tum to Page 10 Col 1 Phil JuhnsonWorid Herald A new home for an old plane Gen Chain at lectcm addresses audience "SI 'b 4 1 Sunday through Tuesday called for a chance of thundershowers each day Highs in the mid 80s to around 90 and lows around 60 west to around 70 southeast were expected The Iowa extended forecast Sunday through Tuesday called for a chance of showers and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s The high in Nebraska Thursday was 94 at Chadron The overnight low as of 7 am CDT was 56 at Kimball Oftuit Adopts a Restored By Jeff Gauger UorkJ Herald Staff Writer The "Homesick is homesick no more A 17 bomber like the thousands that helped the Allies win World War II this airplane was given a home during a dedication riday at Offutt Air orce Base The aircraft newly restored after spending four decades in storage has been placed on display inside the base's south gate The restored airplane was named after one that actually flew in the war the Homesick Angel In a ceremony attended by about 200 people the Strategic Air Command unveiled the bomber and a plaque commemorating the thousands who built flew and maintained the 17 victory in World War II was contributed to significantly by the 17 and by the gallant men who flew it and maintained said Gen John Cham Jr commander in chief "We thank you for your heroics and for the standards you set that guide us so much Attending the ceremony were about a Please tum to Page 2 Col 1.