European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 16, 1978 Airport Aid by Merle Jacobsen staff writer Frankfurt is we really love helping people said one Soldier. Even fit s just carrying a bag out to a taxi added his fellow i. If you think attitudes and services like that no longer exist then Check out the in formation Booth at the Frankfurt Airport operated by the 21st replacement in. You la have a 50-50 Chance of meeting spec. 4 Brian d. Hawn or pfc. Lee Oberdiear who made the above statements. Hawn and Oberdiear along with two other soldiers operate the Booth for the 21st replacement in s Rhein main det from 5 30 . To 2 30 . Seven Days a week according to capt. James g. Cole assistant detachment commander. Spec. 4 Kevin Durant of Newark n.j., and spec. 4 Wallace Bailey of live Oak calif., Are the other members of the team. Cole a 31-year-old native of Riverside calif., said their primary purpose is to meet and Greet pcs passengers on pan american  except for wednesday which has Only one flight Cole said the soldiers meet two pan am flights daily to assist incoming personnel. If the de planing gis orders Are Correct personnel at the information Booth enjoy their Job helping incoming military others and their sponsors Are there Cole said the new arrivals Are soon on their Way. But if that in t the Case his people begin work to smooth out the difficulties. That May in clude finding out where the new arrivals Are to report for duty making travel arrangements and if necessary arranging overnight lodging. Secondarily Cole said his personnel at the Airport Are there to help arriving de Pendents in conjunction with the Uso lounge and to assist the 42nd my group customs with vips. Their official functions Cole said account for Only part of the work they actually do. They answer As Many questions from germans As americans he said. Hawn said the . Side of the Booth which is shared with civilians from the German social services who perform a similar function opens two hours earlier. The Booth began operating in 1972 under the now defunct Usa eur Liaison team. We assumed that function in 1974," the Captain said. You can usually Tell somebody who s posing Oberdiear said. They re carry ing a yellow folder and looking  ordinarily the 24-year-old native of St. Robert mo., said one Man stays in the Booth while the other meets the flights at 6 20 and 9 05 . Hawn a 20-year-old from Fayette Ville n.c., said there in t a two to five minute interval without someone asking a  the situations they Cope with Are diverse. Today we had a Burn patient from Cairo Oberdiear said. I met . Ambassador Andrew Young once said hawn in addition to swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg and Singer Stevie wonder. Oberdiear recalled having to talk one woman out of returning to new York when she missed her plane to Warsaw. She stepped off the plane and wanted to get right Back on it Oberdiear said. The woman he said missed her connection to Warsaw because she waited to collect her baggage in Frankfurt not realizing the lug Gage had been checked through to the polish capital. He said the woman was accompanying her grandmother to the older woman s native land. I escorted her to the Gate and watched her and her grandmother get on the next plane to Warsaw he said. What s really funny hawn said is americans come off the plane and ask if you speak  he said that even though they re in uniform some people try to pay you tip  men they said Are More reluctant to ask for help than women. It s More common for germans than americans to Send their wives to the Booth hawn said. The most polite people Oberdiear Saidi Are the japanese and the people from  americans Cole added Are the worst about Reading signs although information signs have English and German text in addition to symbols. Probably around 700 people a Day Oberdiear said Are helped at the Booth. Sometimes they said travellers misunderstand their purpose or expect too much. Hawn recalled an instance when a group of japanese tourists on a charter flight associated the Booth with a Bank directly behind the Booth and began throwing Money on the counter for Exchange. In an other incident hawn said an irate Ameri can woman insisted he do something about getting an engine fixed faster on her delayed Chart erf Light. Oberdiear summed up their philosophy you have to give them the Best service possible because you usually Don t seethed  no gets involved helps save cop s life sunday excursion turns into subway Chase by Leah Larkin staff writer Lakenheath England is it started out As a sunday morning excursion to the zoo. For Susan Bronson it was her first weekend in London. Her husband sgt. Mike Bronson was about to introduce her to London s tube for her first subway ride. As they entered the Lancaster Gate Sta Tion across from Hyde Park they noticed a police car outside. They went on in and waited in line to buy tickets. Suddenly a group of people came running up the stairs. It was obviously a Chase Complete with All the elements of big screen drama. One of the Young men who had run up the stairs in the Chase joined the ticket line. One of the chasers came Over an threw him against the Wall. At first i thought he was a maniac Bronson recalled. Then a policeman from outside came in to help. I realized it was a plainclothes an who was chasing Heyoung  it was so much like the movies it did t seem real. Nonetheless he and his wife bought their tickets and went on to catch the subway. But the excitement was far from Over. A German tourist was waiting on the subway platform obviously upset and nervous. Bronson noticed that All the other travellers had moved across the tracks. Suddenly he saw the  officer who had thrown one of the Young men against the Wall. He was slumped on the ground. Noone was helping him. I remembered that two of the group being chased had doubled Back Down the Steps to the subway tracks. I thought the Sas photo by Schuettler sgt. Mike Bronson policeman had been kicked. " no one was around so i went Over and asked him if he was All tight. He said he had been stabbed. I saw a knife then the blood. He had been stabbed twice in the Back. There was blood on the  Bronson realized the policeman who was slipping in and out of consciousness needed help and no one else was about to assist. He left his wife and the tourist with the victim and ran to get help. He found a policeman outside but it was hard to con Vince him that his buddy had been stabbed Back in the station. The policeman figured All the officers had run into the Park Chas ing the gang of purse snatchers. After what seemed like Ages he got the officer to follow him. We rolled the Guy Over. It was kind of strange. Like we had just come out of a classroom on first Aid. We held his head up to keep him off the Concrete. He had lost quite a bit of blood. We pulled his shirt up. My wife had a package of kleenex. We put it on the wound while we waited for the ambulance. It seemed like everything was happen ing in slow motion. I can remember every detail. It took the ambulance 15 minutes  during that time the 23-year-old Bron son and his wife feared the policeman might die. Later they Learned he had a punctured lung and had been in danger of dying. Today the policeman is Back at work. The gang of purse snatchers has been apprehended. Apparently the police had been watching great Pyramid joins the Rock Era Cairo Egypt a the grateful dead one of America s most durable Rock bands got a helping hand from the great Pyramid in staging a concert that sent 2, 000 hand clapping music lovers dancing Down the aisles. The 4 is hours of music reverberated Over the desert Sands for several Miles around and gave Many egyptians their first taste of ear shattering hard Roc thursday night. I really love them said Mamdouh Khorshid a 25-year-old engineering student As he swayed to the driving beat of a Chuck Berry tune. To have such an american group Here is  about half the audience was made up of egyptians who had to pay a minimum $1.50 admission about a Day s wages forthe average worker. The rest were expatriate americans working in the Mideast or hard Core grateful dead fans who flew to Egypt fro California. Among those following the band were professional basketball Star Bill Walton and Ken Kesey a novelist who became a cult figure in the Early Days of the hippie movement. The Sphinx illuminated with flood lights loomed to the right of the stage and the three giant pyramids towered in the background. A sound technician named ramrod spent two Days wiring the 5,000-year-old great Pyramid Tomb of the pharaoh Cheops As an Echo chamber. The live music was fed into the Tomb where microphones recorded and relayed it. The group who singled out women As Vic Tims. The gang members would wait until a subway car was almost full the doors ready to close. Then they would grab the purse of a woman standing by the door just before it would shut automatically. Bronson a los Angeles native who works in the consolidated base personnel office Here was later visited by detectives who questioned him about the incident. He has since received letters from London police officials thanking him for his efforts. Everything was instinctive yet i think did the right thing he said. No one de serves to lie at the Bottom of a tube station and bleed to  . Paper says Markov murdered London up doctors studying the death of bulgarian defector Georgi Markov have found evidence he was murdered with a Stab from a poisoned umbrella Point As he claimed on his deathbed the daily mail newspaper said Friday. Markov 49, one of Bulgaria s most influential and popular playwrights before he fled to the West in 1969, died in a Hospit known causes monday four Days after he claimed an assailant jabbed him in the leg with a sharpened umbrella Point. He said the attacker struck on a crowded sidewalk outside the external ser vice Headquarters of the British Broad casting corp. Where Markov worked. Theman escaped in a taxi he said Markov repeatedly told doctors and police he had been poisoned but medical examinations failed to find a cause of death. Tiny Mark found the daily mail report said doctors at St. James s Hospital where Markov died now have found a tiny circular Mark on and Ray of Markov s leg. It is thought to show the presence in Side the leg of a Pellet of slow acting Poi son the newspaper s medical correspondent reported. It was Small enough to have been injected by a Needle he said