European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 spit n polish being booted out of military a spi shined boots Are being kicked out of the Mili tary because american foot soldiers wearing them Are too easily spotted by enemies using infrared the de sense department the spi shined boots produce a Sig nature that can be detected via infrared lenses even from the the department by the soldiers in most of the services will be sporting a new non Brown leather Boot they won t be allowed to Shine minus the the new footwear will be similar to the old clod hoppers of yesteryear Brown leather boots that carried soldiers into world War the lacklustre new footwear is an army project scheduled to be adopted by All the Marine corps has set a july 1983 target Date for trying on the new the rough leather Side will be on the with the polished Glove like leather inside the the new boots will have a steel plate a fibreglass protected new High traction tread and a Speed lacing design to allow for fast and the boots wont show up under infrared lenses searching for american Citrus growers Battle record cold wave by the associated press a record freeze spread across the Southeast dipping deep into Florida where Citrus and vegetable grow ers fought to save their crops against the worst Winter onslaught of the record demand for electricity forced Florida Power Light to rotate Power outages of 15 to 20 minutes duration in All cities served by Utility from Miami to the Georgia Citrus growers spent the night in their Groves firing Heaters and running sprinklers and windmills to try to Ward off the officials said it was too Early to assess the damage to this years abundant Orange and Grapefruit the National weather said re Cord Low temperatures for january were set in cities across the including the 7 degrees at 8 at Talla 22 at and 41 at key the previous january Low for Tallahassee was 11 degrees in in a morning Reading of 14 degrees bettered a 95yearold january re Cord by one Miami was at the freezing 32 the coldest 13 on other communities set these record lows for the Day minus 21 Glens and minus 20 minus 1 Windsor minus 9 in the trapped in a cold wave that began at cars by the thou Sands refused to heating systems went on the blink and people yearning for warm islands began plaguing travel Many apparently didst get the word about the freeze in rarely have i seen so Many requests for Florida in one Florida everyone wants to go to Flor said Tom Donnelly of Foley travel in id say its definitely the cold weather that making them psychiatrist says he became sympathetic to Gar Wood Camp a an air Force senior psychiatrist testified tues Day that he changed his mind about Marine Robert Garwood and became sympathetic to the Man after evaluating him for nearly 45 one can have sympathy for one who has suffered so said James Corcoran at the court martial of charged with desertion and collaboration with the the 34yearold Marine spent 14 years in Vietnam Brand returned to the United states in 1979 after passing a note to a foreign businessman in chief psychiatrist at the air Force school of Medicine at Brooks san testified Mon Day that Gar Woods judgment during Captivity was 100 percent impaired by the coercive behaviour of his communist Cap government lawyers challenged his Corcoran has been evaluating prisoners of War since 1973 and said Gar Woods Case was special because of his Long he testified that before nearly 45 hours of evaluation of i believed he was guilty because of what Ive read in the but that was just a Layman i sought overwhelming evidence during my evaluation of him to convince me that the situation was not As it had first appeared to Corcoran said his air Force background included counterintelligence work and that he holds a to secret Security Corcoran testified monday that Garwood was separated from other american pos when his North vietnamese captors prom ised to Send him Home after his Reduca the psychiatrist said Gar Woods removal from Normal pow Camp life occurred in 1967 As the Viet Cong attempted to make a Goodwill gesture to visiting Antiwar activist Benjamin Spock and Folk Singer Joan for the next Garwood kept asking his captors Why they had not Ful filled their Corcoran told a five officer jury at Gar Woods he said Garwood was always told that conditions were not right for his Gar Woods lawyers were expected to rest their Case this a Marine Billy Ray Conley of testified monday that a jeep was on an authorized run on the Day of his disappearance in september 1965 near a it could have been it was just my Lucky that is Why i remember it Clear Conley both soldiers heard a dispatchers Call for Drivers and raced to be he i Felt like doing a run that Day and was sorry that Garwood happened to get the Conley but Garwood never returned and con icy did not Sec him again until he appeared on television upon his return to the United states in chief defense attorney John Lowe said during a recess that conveys evidence conclusively disproves the charges that my Man a Radical Leader Dohrn gets 3year Tine Chicago a former fugitive weather underground Leader Bernardine Dohrn was sentenced on tuesday to three years probation and fined on charges stemming from the 1969 Days of rage disturbance in faced a maximum penalty of up to eight years in in a negotiated she withdrew her earlier plea of innocent to All charges against her and pleaded guilty to four of those circuit judge Fred suria denied a prosecution request to sentence Dohrn to 30 Days in jail in addition to the but said not perhaps because the Case does not warrant but you have paid a penalty by giving up Contact with your friends and relations As the Media being Dohrn surrendered in december after 11 years in during the Antiwar Days of rage disturbance in Many policemen were and windows were smashed in cars and businesses by suria lectured Dohrn on nonviolent methods of achieving change in we do have Freedom of but it is conditioned upon Mutual respect and Mutu Al understanding you dont have to take to the suria Are you ready to join regardless of our political color or nationality she replied you and i have different views of the i understand what you said and i understand what happened that Dohrn chose to be sentenced under an old Illinois sentencing meaning that she now has a Misdemeanour had she been sentenced under the current in effect since february she would have had a felony she pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated Battery and two counts of jumping Bond after the demonstrations in of time dishing out support while Plains is still staunch Jimmy car Ter president elect Ronald Rea Gan has made some impression in this Southern Georgia Robert and Vera Gray of Stop Ping by on their Way to show off a plate with Reagan on it which they found in a gift up in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 president Truman was scheduled to ask for the biggest peacetime tax boost in history at least billion which would mean a 30 percent or More increase in the tax 20 years ago today 1961 president in a move to halt the Drain of Gold barred citizens and firms overseas from holding Gold or Gold Securi ties deposited the imbalance of payments Between imports and exports was blamed for the 10 years ago today 1971 the prosecution continued for the sixth week with the trial of William Calley was charged with personally killing 102 civilians in a raid on the vietnamese Hamlet of my