European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page o the stars and stripes Friday april 28, 1978 service in Rota the Fleet s in cattle car7 Rolls by Mike Spear staff writer Rota. Spam -s4s like a great Levi Athan from the sea. The mass of bulk moves slowly away from the docks the Vijh to morning Mist. At first Only the Hay outline is visible it it s Couch to fire the imagination his this thine been suddenly last ashore for m the Baj is it following some inside us cattle car at Rou naval base. Primordial i Kraft r. Instinct that will Start new a Send i a vein of big foot a new fear the sen As stirred by what is its destination what Are its intention Pim the radio to in Tower at the i s station he re its Progress is watched Vith interest and some alarm. There Over there near the docks see it there where the sub tender the Cano pus. Is tied up see it moving along there whatisit0" a Sailor looks up briefly then continues what he doing with the bored comment Fleet s Fleet s in yen. That s the cattle car whenever it starts making the rounds that Means the Fleet is the Sailor says. Even As he Speaks the bulk becomes More defined. Soon it takes on the form of a huge tractor trailer truck. But it s not an Ordinary trailer truck it could t be. Be cause it carries passengers. And. As it eases farther away from the docks its peculiarities become More apparent. There Are Large windows along its sides and an emergency exit at Back that looks like the door on a refrigerator truck. Later a look inside reveals that it is huge. It will seat 100 persons on two Levels the upper level coming at the front Over where the trailer is hitched to the cab. It looks like the ingenious work of some Sailor possessed with a Good imagination and ability to solve transportation prob lems who along with some welders and carpenters turned it out one weekend surely nothing like it exists in Many places. But in fact it s an item of Navy Issue says senior chief Petty officer Richard Trimble transportation division director for the base. It is used when ships of the Fleet Call at Rota the base has two of them. They run from the time sailors first Start coming ashore ail during the Day at regu Lar intervals until 30 minutes after the clubs close at night he says they Are Good at moving Large numbers of sailors around the base when Normal shuttle buses t handle the traffic. One old hand said he d seen them else where at the Navy base in san Francisco and at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Peeping out of the porthole is one a to gel a look at the sights at the Rota station. The bus seats 100 passe sailors May i All it the cattle car their Weli known irreverence a they know a Good thing when they see g that s obvious by the Large numbers who use the buses. West Bank bomb kills 2 w. Germans Tel Aviv not two Teea my West germans doing humanitarian Wrt in Israel As atonement for wartime German crimes against jews were tilled wednesday in a terrorist bomb stuck Nablus. Five others were hospitalized As a rank of the explosion of a bus that had Bett taking them Back to Jerusalem after four Day tour of Galilee. The casualties were among 34 men Tod women in their late teens or Early 2k participating in the atonement Mission Oren sized by an association sponsored by fee lutheran Church. They worked in All parti of the country with the aged had mapped and other needy persons. During the passover vacation this week the lutheran Church assembled the veto Teers from All Over the country or the four Day tour. They travelled in a chartered bus armed by the Orient taxi co. Of East Jenna Lem. An Arab Enterprise. The bus parked wednesday afternoon to the main Square of Nablus while the tar Isis called at the Home of a local notable. After they re boarded the bus for the la leg of their tour the explosion occurred. An israeli radio reporter in Nabb Ataii an explosive had been thrown through � open window while the bus was parked. The West German embassy Here add the dead were an 18-year-old woman and i 19-year-old male. The wounded received first Aid treat Mem in Nablus before being flown in an Fraeli air Force helicopter to a Hospital near Tel Aviv. A Hospital report wed Neader night said one patient was still in the operating room in serious condition. The com Lions of the others were described As Good. Meanwhile in Nablus. The israeli Blary government proclaimed a area of the attack was sealed off for an intensive search for the assailant. A undisclosed number of arabs were takes into custody. Brig. Gen. David Yacoel the military governor of the West Bank of Jordan River took personal command the operation. Nablus. The largest City in the occupied West Bank has been a hotbed of Arab Lence and political protest. Attack Soo Rae i vehicular traffic through the de have been regular occurrences but us by the ammunition has been stones. In a separate development the mule government announced wednesday the arrest of 11 suspected men bewail palestinian guerrilla organization. An."1 Cia communique said the suspends a residents of Kalandis. North of jew Aasc and that they were alleged to a tacked military vehicles with cocktails earlier this month injure soldiers probation in Carter threat Rochester by a i a1m id t Tiawanda. N v Man w a threatening to kill Carter. A St Nti a Ned m federa f of ears or Matiun on a Nuzik a u interfering with secret ser i Ifni los the Cut r,.i.ir.t Lih e Nevis. of i. 0 it. Reduced count Eart
