European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1977 yanks work together Parachute packing is binational Nyji Colonna staff writer the Netherlands tests say it in dutch or Swami it Doest when a parachutist pulls the rip he wants positive re that the Job of the fabrication and Parachute specialists Here and at other bases around the Bui at this air which houses both and dutch air Force members of both Milit Aries work together to keep both personnel and aircraft deceleration commonly called drag chutes operation we pack about 125 f4 drag chutes a said Nathaniel who is also a qualified we dont have Loo Many personnel probably about five or six a but every personnel Chute must be repacked every four packing is what it is All Moore said it takes As much As two hours to inspect and test a it has to be done the most intricate part is the final Lockings on the that has to be done just when a Parachute has been used or is due for it is Hung in a Tower for eight to ten hours for airing and wrinkle re airman Charles Steinberg Ledi and dutch airman Leon Van we Khoo Tim consuming but vital Ven inspect a drag Chute from an it takes two hours to inspect and test one and their shop handles 123 every Jim Cole to help people end their lives suicide clinic is urged by doctor Stockholm Upil Ragnar a distinct medical wants to open a suicide clinic in help people die if they want writing in the swedish medical toss said people who Are seriously ill or aged should be Able to ask for help in dying and should be allowed to go to sleep peacefully Wuh the help of death those who Are tired of their lives ought to be allowed to decide themselves when to bring them to a he toss cited three categories of people who should be considered for suicide help the seriously ill who Are in agony be cause of their sickness despite Lon term Hospital old people who simply think they have lived Long enough and want to end their people who for other such As personal do not want to continue living the latter cases should be thoroughly examined by doctors and he then the decision would be made either they would be Given help in dying or i hair applications would be refused precisely the same Way it was done before abortions became free one can easily sift away people who suffer from temporary Japan National railways reports record annual loss Tokyo up Japan National rail ways has reported that it suffered record losses last year they estimated the losses at billion for i he 1976 fiscal year that ended March the latest losses arc believed to have raised jars indebtedness to Between billion and billion he about people commit suicide every year in lately it has become very common Lor people to take their lives in suicide hides behind Many single car toss suicide candidates in traffic Are a danger for other i heard about a Case of a Man who crashed into a train at an unguarded he and a week later he shot himself he simply wanted to toss if he were hit by an incurable illness which would mean a painful struggle with toss said he would put an end to his own there Are very few doctors who die in wards for the chronically he he believes that Only 25 per cent of swe Dens doctors share his ideas about suicide or mercy but says the time is Ripe for debating these questions in Earnest Moore said that the dutch and Ameri cans Here use pretty much the same meth ods and work closely although they have their own we try to help each other it help is said dutch airman Leon Van it is interesting working with someone from another the Parachute specialists also repair slightly damaged parachutes and the there is almost always some damage on the drag Chute Moore when the Pilot releases the the bag goes to the ground and rubs against the they Are Nylon and always come in with a Tew holes or runway by regulation we repair the bag up to 30 per cent of its so sometimes the bag looks pretty ragged before we turn it after each the bag is Moore said the bags will usually last about is the parachutes also receive some minor damage from time to time and Are also re of course the repair regulations Are much the regulation says How much repair can be for after so a Parachute is Only authorized repairs that would cover no More than two per cent of its that amounts to just about so a Chute is usually Good for no More than so deploy according to packing is not All that difficult just you have to be but if there was a a Guy could bring the Chute Back and wed refund his he said most Parachute failings Are caused because a jumper is not familiar with his if a Guy Doest know his he can run into the Parachute shop Here consists of four military personnel and six permanent party dutch and two temporary dutch per the added dutch personnel came As a result of a dutch f1m Squadron from Northern Holland which is temporarily stationed Here while their runway is being re As a the americans Here have seen some different equipment such As a 10man life raft the dutch air Force we dont do much in the Way of Over water flying so we really dont work much with flotation in fact we have another Section that works with that kind of but the dutch have some and their raft 1 belter than said airman Charles it has All kinds of equipment and is really a Nice raft the raft is Complete with a canopy and takes less than one minute to according to dutch Reinoud de we inspect them and keep the supplies he the supplies consist of a survival a pamphlet on How to survive in the fishing a Porta ble Beacon Light and radio Heyerdahl to sail from Iraq to India Italy up norwegian navigator Thor Heyerdahl said thurs Day he will make another sea voyage on a primitive raft next november from the Gulf to who earlier sailed from Pery to Tahiti on the Kon Tiki raft and crossed the Atlantic seven years ago on a papyrus Craft named a is to take 12 other people aboard a Large Woven Rush raft from the Mouths of the Tigris and the euphrates in Iraq to the new expedition is to Sec whether re lations might have been possible Between the ancient Peoples of Mesopotamia Bab sumerians and assyrians and those of
