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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday september 23, 1978 . Brigade to get German Upkeep Bonn a an agreement signed Friday Between West Germany and the United states makes German authorities responsible for maintaining Garrison facilities for a 4,100-Man . Brigade arriving in september to boost nato forces in Northern Germany. The agreement was signed in the Bonn defense ministry by Gen. George s. Blan Chard commander of . Forces in Europe and German state Secretary Joa Chim Hiehle. A statement said . Secretary of de sense Harold Brown will be present when German defense minister Hans Apel ceremonially hands Over new Garrison facilities to the brigade on october 17 in Garls Tedt about 20 Miles North of Bremen. The tank brigade to be known As the 2nd armoured division Forward will be formed from members of the 2nd armoured division now stationed at fort Hood Tex As who will Start transferring to West Ger Many late this  the brigade to Northern Ger Many Well away from main . Units now stationed in the South Aims to strengthen nato defences on the tactically vulnerable North German Plains. West Germany is spending about $86 million to build the Barracks mess Halls offices and garages on the Karlstedt site. Under the new agreement the West Ger Man army will take Over building repairs garbage removal Street cleaning and fire Protection for the . Brigade. National guard controls Esteli american ship standing by off Nicaragua from press dispatches Washington a . Guided missile Cruiser standing off the nicaraguan coast is listening in on radio messages to help the . Government Monitor develop Juk panel hears Helms continued from Page 1 Security adviser Mcgeorge bund the National Security Council Helms said. All kinds of people knew. It was a government wide operation to get rid  although the Senate intelligence com Mitte concluded in 1975 that there was no proof any president knew of the assassination plots Helms said Kennedy knew and president Lyndon b. Johnson knew As Well. The Castro murder plots reportedly continued into the mid-60s, with mafia Fig ures aiding the Cia efforts. Earlier Helms said he never heard of a Cia proposal to kill or drive insane soviet defector Yuri Nosenko who kept insisting Lee Harvey Oswald had no links with rus Sian intelligence. Helms acknowledged he approved three years of solitary confinement and hostile interrogation of the russian defector. He also said he does not believe the Cia Ever succeeded in proving or disproving Nosenko s Oswald Story. Helms said he was not told How badly Nosenko was treated but contended it should be no Surprise that a defector with  information was held in isolation. What would you do with him Helms said. Put him up in the Hilton in its hearings into the John f. Kennedy assassination the House committee is Pur suing the question of whether the Cia and Fri adequately investigated claims the murder was a plot fomented by foreign agents. Oswald identified As the Assassin by the Warren commission spent about three years As a defector in Russia. Nosenko defected to the United states in january 1964, two months after the Dallas assassination. He said he was a High rank ing Kab officer and insisted soviet Intelli gence had had no interest in Oswald whatever. John Limond Hart a Cia spokesman had testified on sept. 15 that Nosenko was for almost three years in a costly and specially constructed vault that was camouflaged by a fake building. Saying the Cia s handling of the prisoner was an abomination and the most dismal i have Ever seen Hart related How Nosenko was watched continuously and not allowed to read or occupy himself in another Way. He said that when Nosenko fashioned a chess set out of clothing the Cia took it away from him. When Nosenko made a Calendar out of lint on the floor desperately trying to keep track of time Hart said it was swept away and Nosenko would Start another  now is employed by the Cia As a consultant and lives in the Washington area under a new identity. Ments in the civil War there Pentagon sources said Friday. The defense department and the Navy on thursday acknowledged the presence of the 7,800-ton Richmond k. Turner off Nicaragua s Pacific coast but refused to Dis cuss its Mission. The Cruiser which normally carries a Crew of nearly 400 officers and enlisted men is armed with anti aircraft missiles and anti submarine weapons. The Cruiser passed through the Panama canal from the Caribbean on sept. 20. The Navy said it is due to return to its Charles ton s.c., Home port by oct. 8. Meanwhile the nicaraguan National guard established control Over the North Ern City of Esteli Friday ending a 14-Day siege that devastated the town and turned it into a cemetery. Official sources said Between 400 and 500 persons were killed in the bloody fighting Between the guardsmen and the sandinista guerrillas who launched a nationwide up blast fire Rock 1st underground Oil storage tank Hackberry la. Up flames towered 300 feet High and billowing Clouds of Black smoke spread across the Marsh lands of coastal Louisiana Friday Mark ing the site of an explosion and fire that turned president Carter s first National underground Oil storage tank into an inferno. See photo pages one Man died and another was seriously burned thursday when Hen explosion of unknown origin ripped a pipeline feeding Oil into the huge Salt dome. We will probably Burn off about 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of Oil until the pressure neutralizes said William Parker a Deputy director of the storage project. Carter had  storage site be built last year to protect the nation against the Impact of possible future Arab Oil Boycotts. The fire was under control at Daybreak Friday burning within a 200-by-200-foot enclosure surrounded by earthen embankments. But flames and smoke were so thick that engineers were unable to deter mine the size the pipeline leak. Rising sept. 9 against president Anastasio Somoza s government. The National guard reported late thurs Day night that All guerrillas had been expelled from Esteli but no Independent Sadat offers w. Bank role continued from Page 1 nearly 2vz hours of talks at the King Hus Sein air base near the North jordanian town of Lafrak. They emerged smiling and swapping jokes and walked a Short distance to lunch. At the end of the visit Hussein embraced both his visitors. The King told re porters the talks were useful but that his moderate stance toward Israel was unchanged. In Rabat Morocco Sadat said Friday that the rights of the palestinians have been fully guaranteed in his Camp David peace accords in Israel. Speaking at a news conference Sadat said i have come to Rabat to show that the resolutions of the Arab Summit held Here in 1974 have been fully guaranteed in my negotiations at Camp David wit begin. In Tel Aviv meanwhile thousands of israelis gave prime minister Menachem begin a hero s Welcome on his return from the Camp David Summit. He told cheering crowds he brought them a peace agree ment with Security and  police and soldiers provided unprecedented Security at Ben Gurion Airport which was jammed with Well wishers carrying banners with  phrases As we Are proud of you and peace  Europe Cloudy with dense morning fog and intermittent rain saturday and sunday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66, Low 48. Sunset saturday 6 23 . Sunrise sunday 6 is . Temperatures recorded Friday. 4am 6450 54 48 55 50 4pm 79 Adana p 68 Aviano m 64 Brussels m 64 Frankfurt cd 88 Madrid p Paris 4am 4p 59 64 50 57 48 52 54 73 52 .64 50 77 Athens m Berlin r Copenhagen r London m Munich m Rome p a partly Cloudy cd Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain. Det 25,31st weather so verification of the claim was possible. A number of communiques this past week have claimed government control of Este i but All were incorrect. The red Cross led an evacuation March of 6,000 refugees from Esteli thursday the frightened civilians abandoned their Homes Only after an epidemic of malaria broke out. Guardsmen patrolled the streets of Este i firing occasional shots into the air to scatter looters while two warplanes Buz zing overhead fought for control of the skies. Survivors of the siege told of repeated atrocities carried out by the National guard. But an official announcement by the National guard said the atrocities were carried out by communist rebels wearing stolen guardsmen uniforms. A government broadcast said guard Smen in an efficient and patriotic opera Tion totally reconquered Esteli. It said the last sniper had to flee and the Resi dents of the City slept peacefully for the first  col. Juan Martinez the local commander of the National guard and red Cross spokesmen both said they thought Between 400 and 500 persons had been killed. Free fall. Continued from Page 1 stars in the movie had hired Bakunas to do the stunt. Neither would say beforehand How much Bakunas was being paid al though several actors said they believed the amount was Between $20,000 and$30,000. The stuntman had said before jumping that he wanted to accomplish the feat be cause somebody s got to do  i am a professional stuntman and i have Pride in what i do Bakunas said. He said he had always wanted to Excel at one thing free falling from great Heights. Bakunas said he had been injured Only twice in 2,500 jumps four of those from Heights of More than 200 feet. Britain oks Independence London up Britain has agreed to Grant full Independence to the Small carib bean associated state of St. Vincent the foreign and Commonwealth office said. San Diego losing the Cha Gettes san Diego a the san Diego chargers have ordered their Cha Gettes cheerleaders to turn in their scanty Blue Gold and White uniforms after one of the girls posed nude for Playboy Magazine. The Only thing i can say is that this is All male chauvinism said the charge ettes director Rhonda Bosworth. Bosworth said thursday that the cheer leaders were dismissed after she had a heated Exchange with the team s Genera manager tank younger. She said the woman who posed nude for Playboy 27-year-old Elizabeth Caleca was dismissed from the Cha Gettes tues Day. But when Bosworth called younger on thursday in Memphis tenn., to discuss the situation with him she said he just got upset and told her if you be got problems you ought to turn in your uni forms " she said the chargers have been say ing we have been doing appearances not okayed by the Charger office. They always say get it okayed in t that what a director is for to that she said younger replied you girls Are meeting tonight right of col Lect the uniforms and bring them to the Charger off ice " when i said to him you re going to have trouble he said no we won t. We won t have the Cha Gettes " Bosworth said Playboy was planning a pictorial on girls from Many of the cheer leading units for nation football league teams and had invited several charge Testo pose. She said she posed wearing leotards and was unaware until tuesday that Caleca had posed nude. Caleca could t be reached for com ment but Bosworth said the woman did t think she was doing anything wrong. What makes me mad the Cha Gettes director said is that when Playboy talked to me it did t Tell me it wanted any of the girls to pose nude. That s not the image we   
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