European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars and stripes april 1977 Squadron of f 15s the Eagle has landed in Europe by Brad Durfee stall writer Germany Twenty three Fis eagles arrived at the air base Here wednesday introducing to Europe and nato the first operational k1s fighter at 4 Frederick Kylor touched Down on the Airstrip after a 6hour and40minute transatlantic flight that originated it we had a said who is known in Safe circles As Kagle the commander of the 36st tac fighter Wing called the flight he said the weather was better than and we had 90to 100knot Tail winds putting us in Europe about on half hour ahead of the 23 eagles came Over in three flights of six aircraft and one flight of we had very Little no prob lems at All in the that in itself says a lot or the said Kyler in his plane Side remarks shortly after Landing at this base in Germany Eifel the Squadron that arrived Here wednes Day is the first of three tac fighter squad Rons which will become the Fis fighter two More undergoing training Back in the will be Here in a few said Benjamin commander of 17th air whose Headquarters is at sem Bach was the original project officer for the Fis aircraft and was among those who welcomed the first March imports topped pushed Trade deficit to record High Washington api imports boosted by sharply higher Petroleum Pur chases exceeded the billion Mark for the first Lime Ever during March and helped push the nations Trade balance into a record monthly the government said the March Trade deficit of billion represented the fourth time in the last five months that the size of the deficit has set a the previous High was billion in in releasing the monthly Export import Trade the Commerce department said the deficit for the first Quarter of 1377 was slightly higher than the billion deficit registered for the entire year of the March imports were valued at nearly exceeding a previous High of billion recorded in exports totalled nearly the highest monthly amount since billion in december the March figure was 3 per cent higher than february Bil lion in the department said Petroleum imports Rose per cent in March to a seasonally adjusted rate of up from feb Rarys would be lowest rate since 1974 most of the Rise consisted of greater Oil entries at sharply higher reflecting heavy Energy consumption during the exceptionally cold the depart ment the department said the Export in crease stemmed largely from shipments of which had been held up in the pre ceding two months because of transportation problems resulting from the cold aircraft deliveries also were if exports and imports continue running at the current the will wind up with a Trade deficit for the year of Bil roughly four times the 1976 billion deficit is projected Washington up the Federal budget will run Only billion in deficit for the second half of fiscal the trea sury department said in the latest monthly Treasury said the Federal government spent billion in the first half and took in Bil Texas experts within one step of capping Well Norway a a disaster control team led by two Texas Blowout specialists hailed work wednesday for workload and safety reasons after coming within a single crucial step of shutting off the runaway Eko Fisk Bravo Oil a statement by Phillips Petroleum operators of the Well that blew out Friday endangering the North seas prime fishing said that attempts to Cap the Rig would be resumed All Steps in the operation require Well rested a Phillips spokesman the led by boots Hansen and Richard of worked with five assistants from Daybreak at to about a spokesman said they were one step away from activating Blind half Moon shaped steel that would close off the flow of were making very Good with a Little Luck its a matter of said an operations chief at Eko Fisk the Blowout team was Rushing to halt the spread of the widening Oil Slick from the estimated to cover 150 Square environmental specialists have warned that failure to close the Well soon could result in immense ecological damage to the North this left a deficit of for the full Treasury projected a deficit of leaving Only Bil lion for the six month period that began april it would be the lowest deficit rate since fiscal 1974 when the budget was Only billion in the red for the full the Defi Cit in the last fiscal year was Treasury estimated spending of billion for the full fiscal year with revenues of Only a month Treasury was projecting a second half deficit Only slightly improved from the first six the major reason for the big drop in deficit financing was president Carters decision to drop the tax rebate for in the government has spent about billion less than it the decline in spending resulted from a faster economic recovery that increased tax Rev roues while reducing unemployment com another Factor was the lower inflation which reduced Treasury borrowing roots author tells soldiers to learn about themselves up roots author Alex accompanied by the eighth and ninth generations of the family tree he told soldiers they can improve race relations by first learning about them Haley spoke to More than Many of them new army in con Junction with Rainbow Power which is designed to improve race relations in the the history of different races will be Fea tured each Day and Haley noted with a laugh it was a matter of scheduling that he arrived on Post on White was accompanied by his 12 year old William Alex Haley and his William Alex Haley a race relations instructor assigned to it drawing heavily on events from his own Haley encouraged the soldiers to discover their own i think the Blacks and Whites ought to be distinctly aware of who they said whose Book traced what the author said was the history of his family Backoo kunta a West african taken in Bond age to slavery in colonial America i developed in order to acquire Van and ice technical air fighter for the Post costs and allowed All government agencies to Purchase goods and services at prices below even before elimination of the presi dents economic stimulus the deficit was running behind last the deficit in the first six months of fiscal 1976 was Spanish King named in suit Over Canary Island crash los Angeles up King Carlos ii of Spain was named a defendant in a wrongful death suit filed by the brother of a woman killed in the collision of two planes in the Canary Clifton brother of Lorraine Kroon of Santa filed the suit in Federal the suit claims air traffic controllers at Santa Cruz de Tenerife were government workers and liable for alleged negligence in the pan am and Kim also were named As Squadron of eagles Bellis called the f15 the most Superior weapon system weve Ever been acquainted he noted that the Eagle has set eight world time to climb and the introduction of this aircraft will give nato Al weather surveillance of the entire Border for the first Bellis said the introduction of the f15 gives us a shoo Down Cap Abil we can close the door on anyone coming in at All altitudes for the first air Force officials Here said the Eagle Vance 1975 Robert current Fis system the Fis is truly a fighter pilots it is a great air superiority he said the million which was first flown in october is now at maximum As youll see today in the deployment Eagle squadrons Are at Luke Langley and Neilis air Force experts Here said that Israel is flying the f15 and that Japan is considering its among those at the Eagle welcoming ceremony were nato Secretary general Joseph Walter ambassador to West and Franz Josef commander in chief of outright according to senior air Force the Fis was designed to out Fly and outright any enemy aircraft in the foreseeable they called the single seat aircraft the greatest fighter every at the welcoming ceremonies Schulze said that during the past few years Russia and the Warsaw pact nations have added aircraft that have doubled their Range and tripled their Are very capable of offensive he he the introduction of the Fis into the Central Region will provide Low dash level defense in addition to any High level we the efforts of the United states in i the Fis to Kyler went Back to Langley for final fun training about six weeks upon his he told us Crew chief tech Thomas Hensley of it was a Good its Good to be temperatures l h 4j Aimna 41 74 Amir Llo a 4 an Norw 1 h Samv lilt u Alundu 47 ii  to n Austin u Biltl Mori 40 u by Limos 43 u Birmingham 34 01 bismark pc 41 u 4554 Botton u Buflo Burlington 71 choir 51 71 41 51 l h 14 i 31 u Imi Wilt 417 Kiuon 50 74 3 u jump 41 4 Al m pm hmm 45 n Utt mrock 54 74 malt Tim 40 u Louic Vulto 41 70 atm Oil u Cut Scigo v u Cincinnati 40 57 con Stikl o u 40 51 Colin but is n Worth h Dutton 4 74 donor n in Minn a it Droit 41 71 Dulun u it i Piso m s n fat Gilill 4 in great or lord a h Honolulu 71 31 41 47 Mew Tom n nor Tom 4t 10 a Myers 54 u Norfolk 45 71 Okumi Mciff 51 75 or unto u  Skomil 11 31 Piru Margli ii 50 47 u 44 51 42 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