European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday january 16, 1969 25 die 85 Hurt in Carrier fire continued from Page 1 fires until they were out. There was one explosion after  said training flights were in Progress with 14 planes Al ready launched when the explosions and flames swept across75 Yards of the rear end of the flight deck shortly after 8 . Soviet linkup in space is Likely today continued from Page 1 proach or a Docking operation during the first Day of tandem flight. Shortly after 6 . When soyuz 4 had made 21 orbits and soyuz 5 had completed five the dropped Over the radio horizon from their main ground control and it was considered unlikely that they would attempt such delicate operation As Docking until they regained ground Contro Contact thursday morning. The russians said they had auxiliary communications Cen ters throughout the user fro Central Europe 6,000 Miles to the Pacific. Two research vessels Are in the Gulf of Guinea and an other in the Northwestern Atlan tic presumably in Case of Emer gency landings. As usual soviet scientists were close mouthed about the Aims of the Mission. Some sources her believe a linkup would be accomplished by a space Walker prob ably it. Col. Yevgeny Khz nov 35, from soyuz 5. Khz nov Yasback up Man for Alexei Leonov who made the first space Walkin March 1965. Khz nov like soyuz 5 com Mander it. Col. Boris vol nov 34, and flight Engineer Alexei Eliseev made several live Tele vision appearances from orbit showing off the Craft and its  linkup was considered an essential step in the soviet  of creating a manned Orbital plat form in space. There was also question of whether there were sufficient launching pads for the big Vostok boosters which Send the soyuz Craft into orbit. Each pad must be resurfaced after a shot meaning two presumably Are out of action for some time. The television Tours of the soyuz 5 gave More indications than previous pictures of it spaciousness particularly of the cylindrical Orbital Compart ment with at least one full length Couch two chairs food and Medicine lockers and a Bank of instruments including what appeared to be a Small computer. An elaborate Airlock passage joined the spherical command module to the Orbital Cylinder. The planes were loaded with rockets bombs and 20mm am munition to be used in a mock attack on the Small Island of Kaho Slawe a frequent bombing target used by Navy Carrier planes before assignment to Viet Nam. The blasts and Blaze ripped three Large holes from the flight deck to compartments three lev Els below and touched off a res Cue Mission involving dozens of emergency helicopters and More than 1,000 persons from  jumped or were blown overboard by the explosions said a Navy spokesman. Some crewmen were trapped in compartments just below the flight deck he  said the ship s eight nuclear reactors deep in the Hull of the 25-Story vessel were not  James Helton 36, said everything lit up right in front of me. As we fought the fire we dragged the injured out of the danger area and called for  were multitudes of he roes Helton said. I saw Oneman physically blown from the scene by an explosion. He re turned to fight the fire and was knocked Down again. He was knocked Over several More times and each time he came  fires were brought under control within 40 minutes leaving the flight deck charred and torn with three fairly Large holes the Enterprise skipper  said As soon As the fires broke out he turned his ship largest fighting vessel in the world into the wind so that the flames would blow off the Back of the  most seriously injured were evacuated by helicopters to Tripler army Hospital near Honolulu. Forty four were under treatment As the charred Enterprise slowly returned to Pearl Harbor to Send More casualties to the Hospital and to seek repairs. About 2,000 persons were atthe pier where the Carrier tied up. Mrs. Mary Valente scanned the deck with binoculars and broke into tears when she Sawher husband waving to her. Waiting ambulances took the injured crewmen to the Hospi Tal. Some of them were to be flown to the army Burn Center at it. Sam Houston tex.,tuesday night. Weather mostly Cloudy with Occa clonal sunny interval a and a few Ihn wern. Let ten change Friday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 46, Low 33. Temperatures recorded wednesday get j 44 44 am pm 39 65 Adana c 69 67 Aii Ieni c 4 48 Valano cd 30 39 Berlin r 41 41 Bru Eli r 3-1 36 cop no incl 34 43 Frankfurt p of clean cd Cloudy rain. Am pm 37 43 London p 45 48 Madrid p 38 39 Munich p 39 43 Parl. R 39 41 , p 64 m Roma p 67 83 we Maui p a partly cd Rudyi p 2nd weather Wing Welcome Back of it. Col. Robert  left is introduced to Harlan Cleveland . Ambassador to nato by it.  n. Smith vice commander of Safe. Carter commander of the 417th tactical fighters led the Squadron s f4 phantom jets into Span Dahlem a Germany tuesday on exer Cis crested Cap 1. Of photo 2nd Squadron of dual based jets arrives Span Dahlem Germany up another Squadron of . F4d phantom Jet fighters taking part in the giant american War games reformer i and cres Ted Cap i flew the Atlantic non Stop wednesday to Spang Ahlemeir base. The 7th so 49th tactical fighter Wing like the 417th so 50th tactical fighter Wing which touched Down tuesday flew from Seymour Johnson fab . The 7th so dual based at hol Loman fab n.m., and Spang Dahlem made four Aerial rendezvous during the flight to refuel from air Force kc135 Strat tank or Jet transports. The 417th, dual based at Moun Tain Home fab Idaho and Hahn a was diverted to Spang Dahlem tuesday because of fog. A total of 96 Jet fighters rescheduled to take part in combined army and air Force exercises opening Jan. 29 at the Grafe Woehr training area near the West German czech Border. It. Col. Miguel Encinias 45,from Las vegas n.m., the 7th so commander touched Down inthe Lead phantom at 11 46 . And was greeted with a kiss Anda cup of wine from Elizabeth Steffes local Mosel wine  drinking a Toast to his Squadron Encinias said  was not unfamiliar to his men since they had Bee there before and Are glad to be  republicans Call budget deceptive meaningless Dock strike could end this week new York up negotiations Between the striking inter National longshoremen s association and shippers began at ports along the East coast tuesday and will begin on the Gulf coast thursday raising the possibility that the 25-Day-old Dock strike might end this  new York shipping association and the Ila agreed on local contract terms but the pact will not be submitted to the Rantand Hie for ratification until agreement on local issues tire ached at other ports. Ila president Thomas w. Gleason warned that the Union would not tolerate delays in negotiations outside the port of Newyork. If they other shippers Dilly Dally i will put pressure on to bring them to  he said. Talks were held tuesday in Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Hampton roads a and Are to begin in Miami and Gal Veston tex., thursday. Gleason stressed that there would be no work by the 75,000 member Union until All port reach agreement on the master contract with whatever local modifications Are  port Down All ports Down Gleason  strike has tied up about 300 ships and Cost the economy1375 million it has been particularly hard on truckers who serve port cities causing Many layoffs. New York Ana Philadelphia shippers have offered the Dock workers a wage and fringe Bene fit increase of $1.60 an hour Over a period of three years. The Ila also has been Given jurisdiction Over the packing and unpacking of the companies trailer size containers within 50 Miles of a port. Washington up republicans wednesday labelled pres ident Johnson s Farewell budget misleading and meaningless. Chairman Russell b. Long d-la., of the Senate finance committee said Prosperity and jobs were More important than balanced figures. Sen. John j. Williams rank ing Republican on Long s finance committee said the budget surplus was a manipulation of  sen. Wallacef. Bennett Utah top Republican on the Senate banking committee labelled the document  sen. Jack Miller a Iowa another finance committee member said Johnson budget shave become meaningless  praised Johnson for submitting a balanced budget and added i Hope Congress can hold to that  but headed that Prosperity and jobs Are More important than whether the budget is in precise  Wilbur Mills of the House ways and Means com Mittee perhaps the key Man on finances in Congress decline comment until he could digest the Mammoth document. Williams and Bennett questioned Johnson s projected $3.4 billion  said this figure is based on including As general Revenue Trust fund receipts and on the premise they won t pay the full losses of the commodity credit  he added that without these additions the budget would show a $7 to $8billion deficit. Bennett agreeing with Wil Liams said government Trust late sports Annapolis my. Up Hick Forzano a former assistant coach at the Navala c a d e m a wednesday was named Navy s new head foot Ball coach. Forzano who spent the postseason As a Backfield coach for the american football league  bengals succeeds Bui Kun. Who was fired at the close of the 1188 season. Funds Are not available for the operation of the  Bennett said As has Williams that he would support Extension of the 10 per cent surtax in a Effort to control inflation. Long said i Hope it won t be necessary when the time  sen. Jack Miller a Iowa said past Johnson budgets have become meaningless document because spending programs were increased after the budget was submitted. I Haven t seen a Johnson budget yet that was t changed by several billions of Dollar before the end of the year As a result of supplemental appropriation requests said Miller a member of the finance com Mittee. Egypt is eying atomic weapons Cairo up Egypt hinted wednesday that it might seek atomic weapons if Israel acquired them. A government spokesman  Hassan Al Zayat told a press conference the nation would feel bound to take some action if Israel obtained the atomic bomb. President Gamal Abdel Nas ser in a Public speech some time before the june 1967 War had stated that he would Seik atomic weapons should Israel Ever get them. Zayat did not specify what action Egypt would take in such an eventuality but observers be Lieve the Only course open to it would be to seek soviet Aid. Stock Market rises with healthy volume new York a the Stock Market Rose in a healthy Man Ner wednesday on better to immoderate volume. Bengue the philippine min ing Stock was the most Active and was Down sharply. The com Pany Hud planned to buy a Bahamas company for shares but the Deal has been held up on orders of the philippine govern ment