European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Pago 6 to me shopping for battleship is Tough Houston a along the Gulf coast from Florida to local officials Are battling each other Over the selection by the Navy of a Home port for an old battleship that Hast been used since the korean the Navy wants to establish a presence on the nations third presumably to be closer to potential trouble spots in latin it plans to renovate the uss now part of the Mothball Fleet anchored in the real prize is not the Wisconsin but the Mil lion annual payroll that accompanies the 41yearold battleship and its five vessel and the City that is designated the Wisconsin Home port will Benefit from estimated million in construction expend the creation of civilian jobs and the relocation of Navy people and their out of an initial Field of 19 cities from to key the Navy chose six finalists Lake and two Texas Houston Galveston and Corpus a similar Battle is occurring on the West where san Francisco and Long Are vying for selection As the Home port for the uss last Navy Secretary John Lehman officially designated Staten As the Home port of the uss Iowa and its escort now the High stakes game on the Gulf coast is get Ting Down to Money and political Louisiana Edwin for is promising the Navy Texas Mark White is promising in George Wallace says the state will pay the estimated million Bill to dredge mobiles Channel to the navys required 600foot Width and 42foot each state holds a key card in the political poker vice president George Bush is a texan who Calls Houston his assistant Navy Secretary Chase Untermeyer also is from in House Republican whip Trent Lott is from Russell could use the port decision As a lever when Reagan administration tax simplification measures come before the Senate finance commit where he is the ranking two Republican Paula Hawkins of Florida and Jeremiah Denton of were elected by Nar Row margins in 1980 and face difficult reelection bids in they could Point to the base coming to their state As a reason to keep them for a second Lehman will make the final Choice later this the project is to be completed in the in a battleship base would join extensive Navy operations that already account for the spending of million the base would be carved out of vacant acres at the naval air Mobile officials Are secretive about their calling it a sealed were not going to reveal the facts and figures of our said mayor Lambert Pascagoula is offering a 135acre plot on singing River the City also is Home to the Ingalls Divi Sion among the nations largest private ship building Lake hit by the petrochemical views the base As a possible economic shot in the we have the highest unemployment rate in the Pat a Lake Charles real estate told Navy officials at a luncheon we dont just want this we need the joint Houston Galveston at the East end of Galveston is cited for its proximity to the Down the Texas coast in Corpus Navy officials were greeted by a High school band playing anchors port boosters plastered the area with color posters of battleships and Palm file photo Louisiana Edwin Edwards Alabama George Wallace Navy Secretary John Lehman up photo certain additional documents found army dredging files for Mengele info Washington a the army will study More than documents containing at least 1 million pages Over the next few months in the investigation of the whereabouts of fugitive nazi War criminal Josef a Federal judge was told Darrell an army said in a statement submitted to District judge Thomas Flannery that there Are Stolichnaya Vodka Boycott still in effect in up new Hampshire Vodka lovers wont be Able to find Stolichnaya in state run liquor stores because the state has rejected a Call to end the Boycott launched with the Downing of a korean attorney general Stephen Merrill said the importers of Stolichnaya didst meet a dead line to Appeal the state liquor commission Boycott of the popular russian it is our View that Monsieur Henri wines failed to seek timely review of the commissions decision and thus waived any objection to the Merrill Over reels of poorly indexed or Unin deed microfilm of records from the Early pos world War ii years which could con Tain information on searching these files could take More than Man hours and Cost Well Over Peck he said an army task Force created to Aid the investigation by the Justice depart ment also has begun to search army re cords now in the National As of this we have located certain additional documents pertaining to he we anticipate that the extraordinary search Effort will take several months to Complete and that More relevant documents May be Neal director of the Justice departments office of special said the task Force has located documents relevant to the i believe it to be imperative that the department of army not be required to disclose any documents pertaining to the Osi investigation concerning Mengele until such time As the investigation has been or has at least progressed to a stage where successful completion of the investigation will not be impeded by the disclosure of documents on which its con duct has been he after hearing Flannery granted the government request to stay for four months the proceedings in a lawsuit brought to Force the army to release More documents on attorneys for rabbi Marvin Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal a los an Gele based Center for holocaust did not object to the in Hier said the Center had obtained declassified documents indicating that Mengele May have been arrested and freed by forces in Austria in he said the documents were obtained under the Freedom of information the suit was filed by the Center for Access to four other documents withheld by the army on National Security As chief physical at Mengele is said to have had a role in the murder of jews at the nazi death Camp and to have performed surgical experiments on More than 200 of the Camps most of them twins or who would be 73 if still fled to South America after world War ii and was believed living last in Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today March 1945 the holding almost All of the East Bank of the Are massing their forces for assaults on Berlin and Vienna As the germans cling to their precarious positions at Dan Zig and in East 30 years ago today March 1955 the Yalta papers disclose that the United states planned a decade ago to present then its with an air Force of strategic Long Range 20 years ago today March 1965 police in birding have found 140 Sticks of Dyna mite rigged to alarm clocks set to go off at three negro Martin Luther King and his civil rights legions began a five Day March under tight military guard to 70 years ago today March 1975 reports from Sai gon indicate that communist led forces have stepped up their attacks throughout South Vietnam and