European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes . Units impress Schulze Floyd Harrington Kaiserslautern Bureau chief Ramstein Germany is appear ing tired but enthusiastic after his 12-hour flight German Gen. Franz Joseph Schulze commander of Allied forces Cen trial Europe accent returned Here monday after visiting autumn forge bound and air Force units in . Schulze visited the 4th tac fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson fab n.c., and the 5th inf div at it. Polk la., to watch those units prepare for their deployment to Ger Many. Both units will be under his com Mand during the exercise. He also visited the tac air come s head quarters at Langley fab va., and Mili tary Airlift come Headquarters at Scott fab 111. He returned Here aboard a c-141 Star lifter transport along with elements of the 5th inf div. Very impressed during a plane Side press conference Schulze said he was very impressed with the preparations he had witnessed. For example he said at. The 4th tactical fighter Wing no aircraft Crew gets the tactical proficiency certificate unless they can follow european flight procedures and of the 5th inf div he said they really have focused their training and preparation on their participation this year. What i saw there. Was a Clear reflection of their motto we will and they will Schulze also said the exercises will be a unique Opportunity to identify and solve problems which face nato forces which must operate together. He said the autumn forge series of exercises will be More Multi National in character than in past years and that at the conclusion of those exercises selected american units will be Given additional training with various German and dutch units. Nothing has helped us More in solving interoperability problems than this Sai Schulze. Commanding general accompanying Schulze was maj. Gen. William Steele commanding general of the 5th inf div. They were welcomed by Gen. George s. Blanchard Usa eur and seventh commander in chief and Gen. John w. Pauly Allied air forces Central Europe Aaice and Safe commander. Of the 13,500 . Forces personnel who will deploy to Europe 6,300 will be from the 5th inf div said Steele who also pointed out that the 5th is the s newest division. Our last unit was just activated last August said Steele so we re looking Forward to this exercise As a sort of graduation exercise for us and our training pro Gram. We re Happy to be a part of Schulze will assume command of the . Forces from Gen. Alexander m. Haig jr., supreme Allied commander Europe during a ceremony Here at 11 . Tuesday september 5, 1978 worst German tremor in 35 years 300 homeless in quake Stuttgart Germany up Ger Many s worst earthquake in 35 years drove 300 persons from their Homes injured 25 and caused damage of millions of Marks authorities said monday. The University of Stuttgart s seismological station registered the quake which entered in West Germany s swabian re Gion at 5.3 on the open ended Richter scale and said it probably had reached 6.5 in some places. The tremors also were Felt sunday in parts of East Germany Switzerland France and Austria. It was described As the strongest Earth quake recorded in Germany since 1943, but there were no deaths and no serious injuries. All of the 25 persons hospitalized Sun Day were released monday authorities said. Three Hundred persons were evacuated from their damaged Homes and they spent the night with neighbors in tents and pub Lic buildings. There still was no estimate of total dam age. Authorities said there was at least $9.9 million Worth of damage to buildings but the amount of damage to furniture roads and such things As Power lines and sewage systems was unknown. The epicentre of the quake was in the Schwa Bische alb Mountain Range about 30 Miles South of Stuttgart. In the towns of Tail Fingen and Altstadt chimneys tumbled Walls of buildings cracked and holes were torn in roofs. At Hechinger the Hohenzollern Castle the ancestral Home of the prussian Kings and German emperors sustained Exten Sive damage. Police chief Hans Joerg Mayer of the town of Emigen said it sounded like a heavy tank rolling past. First we heard a bang and then a rolling rumble like that of red Square demonstrations 4 american pacifists detained in Moscow Moscow a seven americans demonstrating for .-soviet disarmament held up a red and White Banner in red Square monday and handed out Leaf lets. Four members were promptly seized by soviet police questioned and released Short time later. The . Embassy said the four were Al Lowed to return to their hotels. Two . Correspondents and a camera Man covering the protest also were drag ged away by uniformed and plainclothes police detained for a Brief lecturing and released a Short time later. Steve Somerfield 24, a Community organizer from Chapel Hill n.c., was one of the four protesters taken away and said All of them were treated very politely Dur Neucom chief of staff Heiser is retiring Stuttgart is it. Gen. Rolland v. Heiser Neucom chief of staff has announced his intention to retire from the oct. 1, a Neucom spokeswoman said. As of this Date it is not firm whether retirement will be oct. 1, or nov. 1, but on sept. 27, Heiser will return to the states for retirement the spokeswoman said. Heiser arrived in Germany As a major general on Malch 1, 1973, and assumed command of the 1st div in Ansbach. He left the 1st div in August of 1975 and became Usa eur chief of staff. Less than a year later he was assigned Euco chief of staff. No one has been named to succeed Heiser the spokeswoman said. Ing the interrogation. As far As we know we re free to stay in Moscow he said. Jerry coffin organizer of the protest said the police inside the station were obviously very puzzled and hostile but not As hostile As they had been on red also detained and released were six British tourists from Kent England who were believed to have picked up some of the leaflets. Charles Bierbauer of the american broadcasting co., Jim Gallagher of the Chicago Tribune and Kurt Hafle a West German cameraman for the Columbia broadcasting system were taken away by police. Simultaneous with monday s Demon stration coffin said was a planned protest by 7-10 persons at the White House. This should give us some kind of talk ing room if the russians say we Are All Cia agents coffin said a Day before the pro test. In Washington 11 persons were taken into custody on the White House Lawn after staging a Brief demonstration. The demonstrators among hundreds of tourists taking a regular morning tour of the presidential mansion left the tour path jumped Over ropes and walked slowly to the Center of the Lawn without attract ing notice. When they were about 15 Yards inside the Fence they unfurled a Large Banner saying no nuclear weapons no nuclear Power Usa or some handed out leaflets to tourists. Secret service spokesman Thomas a. Farrell said six men and five women were charged with unlawful entry and failure to move 7 die in syrian lebanese fighting act to tit t a / a a _. Beirut Lebanon a syrian forces and right Wing militias clashed in three Christian neighbourhoods monday and police reported seven persons were killed and 13 wounded in overnight duels. One syrian Soldier and one lebanese presidential Palace guard were among the dead in fighting that jolted Many of Bei rut s residents out of bed. A police spokesman said the rest of the dead were rightists in the residential quarters of Ein rum Maneh Hadath and Baarda where the Hilltop presidential Palace stands on the Southern outskirts of the capital. The outbreak aggravated violations of a three Day truce president Elias Sarkis had both sides pledge to uphold Dur ing his absence in Rome to attend the installation of Pope John Paul i. Each Side accused the other of shooting first. The syrians who police a 22-month old civil War armistice charged rightist gunmen in Ein rum Maneh opened fire when peacekeepers warned them against digging new trenches opposite syrian positions. A communique said militiamen killed one syrian Soldier and wounded two others in the squabble prompting a massive retaliation with rocket launchers and heavy artillery from the syrians. The rightist voice of Lebanon radio station said the syrians opened an unprovoked four hour barrage that killed one presidential Palace guard and wounded nine others. The syrians make up the bulk of a 30,000-Man Arab league that halted a 19-month civil War Between Lebanon s rightists and an Alliance of leftist moslem and palestinian guerrillas in november1976. A Panzer. We ran outside thinking the Shock had passed but the ground still was the first Shock took place at 6.08 a.m., followed by three More in the next 20 min utes and a number for the next four hours. In Tail Fingen mayor Guenther Schmidt said that while homeless families were be ing sheltered by neighbors several of the town s factories would be unsafe to oper ate for several Days. Firemen said that about 20 smokestacks in the town were cracked and would have to be pulled Down. At least 10 buildings in the town were so badly damaged that they were condemned and will have to be demolished. Many other building Walls cracked and roofs col lapsed but they can be repaired. If there had been one More Shock we would have had a terrible disaster the mayor said. March seeks better pay conditions Belmore Ohio a striking migrant workers began a 100-mile March to Columbus monday to dramatize their de mands for better wages and conditions in Ohio s Tomato Fields. About 100 strikers gathered before the Start of the March at a Park in Findlay 30 Miles from a tent City at Belmore where Many strikers have been living. Leaders said they expect As Many As 1,000 migrants to join the March before it reaches Testate capital. The strikers left a few of their forces be Hind at the tent City located on four acres rented to the migrants by Belmore mayor William Kelley. Kelley has said he was pressured by threatening phone Calls into evicting the strikers by Midnight monday night. Refuse to Harvest strike leaders say about 1,500 migrant workers in All have refused to Harvest the crops. Baldemar Velasquez 31, president of the farm labor organizing committee who has been leading the strike Effort said we want to Tell the governor what we think of the Tomato Industry in growers meanwhile said they also would mount a caravan monday to dramatize their opposition to strike leaders who have been urging migrants for 11 Days to leave Northwest Ohio Tomato Fields and Lethe crops rot. Temperatures l h 56 78 58 84 64 61 79 70 58 84 64 88 63 77 63 84 58 88 60 101 68 95 63 82 76 92 57 74 73 81 68 81 56 77 61 83 60 83 57 84 76 98 58 90 61 90 51 8354 68 46 72 56 83 52 86 74 90 78 92 55 87 to 93 49 66 Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charleston . Charleston Eva. Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dallas it. 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