European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 18, 1977 copter service in . Suspended continued rom Page 1 spinning off the roof when the helicopter collapsed on a broken wheel strut. When investigators searched nearby skyscrapers tuesday morning they found a severed foot on the roof 01 the nearby new York general building. The limb matched the body of one of the victims lying in the City morgue. Philip a. Hogue of the National transportation safety Board said 25 to 30 investigators from his Agency the Federal aviation administration the airline pilots association new York airways Sikorsky aircraft co. And the new York City police and fire departments were participating in the investigation Hogue said investigators will be look ing into such things As the Airport s operating procedures what kind of history the aircraft has has it had bad landings maintenance problems and what the weather was like when it   apparent cause of the Accident was a collapsed Landing gear but head dded i Don t know Why it collapsed and i Don t think anyone else at this Point knows  immediately after the Accident the Cit suspended new York Airway s operating permit pending the outcome of the investigation. The crash also brought angry pro . Urges its allies to spend More i continued from Page 1 than for five As it does now and to concentrate on High priority  would like to see nato follow . Practice by studying the Job at hand an developing it program to meet it rather than putting together a joint program fro what the individual countries decide to do. This is nato practice  each High priority item. Brown asked for consideration from the Start for standardizing weapons and methods. If this can not be done he wants equipment a least to be interoperable that is radio equipment made for one country s troops fur example should at least be Able to talk with the equipment made by its  is not always possible now. Brown was reported to have criticize Das a weakness nato s machinery for gel Ting its plans put into actual  outlined the areas where he consid ers the allies should improve their forces greater readiness of troops especially for an attack that comes with Little warning reinforcement arrangement naval strength air defense communications and the command and control of forces arrangements to Supply fighting troops electronic warfare. . Officials said Brown was no making a Pleat to buy american but they added it would realistic to recognize that the europeans would always buy More from the United states than the United states would buy from them. . Equipment is usually cheaper and most experts agree that it is often belter. They pointed out thai so far As the bal Ance of International payments is concerned spending by . Troops in Europe makes up and More for the military buying of the europeans in the United slates. At the same time they suggested types of equipment that the . Forces might be interested in buying in Europe communications equipment for Small units elec tronic devices to Jam enemy radar an weapons munitions for both planes and ground troops As Well As antitank and anti aircraft weapons. The officials said Brown would like Tosee the Alliance As a whole do More than just urge the individual member countries to increase their defense budgets. Brown s speech made behind close doors was summarized for reporters by the officials who did not quote from it directly. He spoke after nato s new Mili tary chief. Gen. Herman Fredrik Zeiner Gunderson of Norway. Zeiner Gunderson called for additional resources that is More spending from the Alliance to meet what lie called a very real and growing military threat from the soviet Union. Tests from Public officials and citizen demanding that the heliport be abandoned  Landing pad was reopened feb. 1 after closing Down nine years ago because of the Airway s financial difficulties and complaints that the flights were too noisy and too dangerous. One Blade sailed Over the Biltmore hotel to land on Madison Avenue striking Anne Bam Coll 29, of the Bronx in the Rush hour pedestrian traffic. She died instantly. Another Blade Boom ranged into window of the pan am building but no one was  described the scene As a heliport opponents cited noise danger new York up the heliport atop the pan am building in Midtown manhat Tan has been opposed since the skyscraper was built in 1963 by Many residents of the area on the grounds it is too noisy and to dangerous. Testimony Given at hearings last Yea when new York airways proposed re sumption of helicopter service Between the59-Story building and the metropolitan area s three major airports echoed the Tes Timony Given at similar hearings almost a decade  feb. 1, the heliport was reopened for the first time since february 1968, when the the flights were discontinued for eco nomic reasons. New York cily s Board of estimate approved the reopening unanimously despite opposition from neighbor Hood groups who cited noise and safety As their main  seeking to resume the flights this year. New York airways had told City officials that the larger 30-passenger helicopters now available would make the operation economically feasible. East Side residents organized to protest the reopening. Actress Katharine Hepburn who owns Brownstone on East 49th Street was among the Many opponents who gave writ ten or Oral testimony against the airways request at a City planning commission hearing last november. Surely new York is noisy and danger Ous enough without this nerve racking and fundamentally unnecessary addition of luxury Trade operating in the Center of our City to the distress of Many and to the Benefit of the few Hepburn wrote. Too Many British generals nato disproportion bothers Bonn officials Brussels. May 17 up West German defense minister Reorg Leber tuesday questioned the preponderance of British generals in nato s top command German sources  sources said Liber was holding bilateral conversations with colleagues Tanato s Spring meeting of defense minis Ter to discuss what Germany sees As disproportion in command posts. Leber produced figures showing Britai has 26 generals in lop nato functions As Many As the United Stales whereas West Germany Only has 10. In terms of stars the disproportion Isle bar s figures was even More marked the sources  United Stales has 73 stars Britain has 66 and West Germany 24. The source alleged. This seems in inverse proportion to troop strengths a senior German officer  Germany has 500,000 men committed to nato. Britain has less than 400,-000, and Many of these Are committed to the civil War in Northern  wrong distribution no longer Corre sponds to the times the officer  years ago already Britain had 32 per cent of the generals in nato and only16 per cent of the troops the officer said. The situation has not gotten any Bette since  there was no immediate comment fro British officials. The German sources made it Clear Leber was not questioning the ability of British generals assigned Lonato Only the number of them. Bad news for Coffee lovers continued Iron Page dining to build Back its Coffee production. No exact estimate of the damage to ihe1978-79 crop was available. Gomes said. The current 1977-78 crop is expected lot Otal 17 million 132-Pound bags a 79 per cent gain from last seasons 95 million bags but Well under Prerost Levels of 25.2 million bags a  Coffee prices in the . Have tripled since the Frost Cut supplies. Other factors driving Coffee Price. Past $3.50 a Pound include earthquakes in Centra America drought in Colombia and civil War in  350 million Trees were planted after the Frost two years ago. Gomes said in a Telephone interview from his new York  Gomes had no exact damage Esti mates one unidentified dealer was quoted by the Dow Jones news service As saying As much As 30 per cent of the Trees i Parana were affected. The estimate was not confirmed however and Gomes said reports of damage had not yet been received from Sao Paulo stale to the  said monday s winds that caused the Black Frost had died Down tuesday but the weather remained Chilly. The cold snap occurred unusually Early in what i autumn in the Southern hemisphere. Gory mess after the Landing gear of the new York airways helicopter about to take off for John f. Kennedy International Airport collapsed. There were people decapitated said fireman Dick Martinson. It was a very grim scene. There Are ribs and brain showing All Over the  the four rooftop victims were believe to have been among those waiting to Board the Craft for the return trip to Kenned Airport said an airline spokesman. They were identified As Enrico Gnaga,45, of Milan Italy who died at Bellevue Hospital David Toomey of Montclair,. Michael Findley of Manhattan and a Man who remained unidentified Earl tuesday. Reported in satisfactory condition was Jean Koski. Of Neptune Beach Fla. She was travelling with her husband George and their 9-year-old son John who were injured less  was the first major Accident at the controversial Landing site that had Bee used for 26 months before operations were stopped in 1968 because of a variety of fac tors including noise and fear of crashes. The service was resumed last feb i. Mondale in Spain continued from tape 1 erotic  anything he told Suarez As they began a two hour Long meeting our people Are As excited As you about the democratic process underway  told reporters accompanying him aboard air Force ii the . Is concerned about Spain s plans for the disposal of nuclear waste created by future Spanish nuclear reactors. Spain Hopes to produce 30 per cent of its electricity by 1980 by re actors. The vice president indicated to report ers he hoped to encourage the Spanish government to work towards International arrangements for handling nuclear wastes and any eventual reprocessing of spent fuel. The major purpose of Mondale s trip isto lend full support of the . To the revival of democracy in Spain looking to the Day when Madrid May become a member of the North Atlantic treaty organization nato and the european economic com  flew to Madrid after a three Day visit in Lisbon to be greeted by the news of an Early morning bomb explosion at the . Cultural Center. Two nightwatchman were slightly injured. The october 1 anti fascist revolutionary group Grapo claimed responsibility or the blast which devastated a classroom Section of the Center and damaged a film Library. A Man who said he was a spokes Man for Grapo told the newspaper Al pais the bomb explosion was  the  the .-Spanish talks got off on a upbeat note with Mondale telling Suarez you and president Carter got along very very Well. He spoke to me about How impressed he was by  is to run for parliament june 15 in Spain s first free elections in 41  Mondale has not disguised his admiration for the prime minister he has steadfastly denied that the . 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