European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes sending 24 advisers to Costa Rica by Norman Black Washington a the United states will Send 24 military advisers to Costa Rica later this month to train four companies of Costa rican civil guards in Basic military the defense department members of an army special forces detachment in Panama will oversee the training at a Small Village near the nicaraguan Border starting May the Pentagon said they will remain in Costa Rica at the request of that government for 12 Fred a Pentagon said the training would begin in the Village of near Costa Ricas Northwest coast about 12 Miles below the nicaraguan approximately 750 men in Costa Ricas civil guard will be Given Basic he the spokesman declined to characterize the courses As antiterrorism describing them As offering training in Basic military lash said that 47 Costa rican officers had just completed similar training at a special Center run by the United states in those officers will work with the americans in training the civil guard lash said the 750 men who will receive the training will be divided into four 175man companies plus a Small Headquarters he said he did not have any information available on How much the training would Cost or How Long it had been military advisers have been sent to Costa Rica at least once before during the past few a Small team of about a dozen advisers travelled to the country in 1983 to offer training in patrol and Border Costa Rica has been the most stable democracy in Central America and has lived without a standing army since As tensions in the Region have grown in recent Costa Rica has begun efforts to strengthen its Small internal Security or civil Costa Rica lies directly South of where leftist sandinista came to Power in the govern ment has expressed concern about the use of its Border areas by Contra guerrillas fighting the fear ing a nicaraguan invasion in Pursuit of the Costa rican leaders have been quoted in recent months As saying the country civil guard policemen were ill prepared to respond to such Border at the request of the Costa rican a Mobile training team consisting of four officers and 20 enlisted men will be deployed to Costa Rica for a 12 week period in order to train four companies of Costa Ricas Security the Pentagon said in a prepared difficult words removed after protest Georgia parents Abuzz of spelling Bee a an eighth grader won the state spelling Bee but not before the 20th annual event was halted temporarily when parents complained the words were too after words such As a serous and Zym Osis caused six of the 10 contestants including eventual Winner Cyndy Chan to be eliminated in the first round Mon parents complained and the judges called a 30minute a new list of words was compiled and the Competition started Over again with All 10 it was the first time the state spelling Bee finals had been officials the judges of the sponsored by the Georgia association of educators and the Atlanta daily world halted the Competition after Only three of nine Stu dents had spelled their words if it had not started there would have been said Jim gae executive the feeling is that the words were too difficult to begin the Way it ended i think every one Felt it was Joe Frank Harris Eliza who presented the agreed with the judges and the audience that the Competition should be started Over be cause of the difficulty of the first round Williams a 14yearold student at rum ble Junior High school in Warner Rob won the contest when she correctly spelled Michael a sixth grader at Clarke Middle school in Clarke finished second after misspelling cad Cyndy then spelled it correctly before spelling her Cyndy advances to the National spelling Bee sponsored annually by scrip Showard to be held june 38 in the 10 contestants in mondays com petition represented each of georgias 10 congressional 50 dogs and cats killed in arson up1 fifty cats and dogs awaiting adoption were killed and nine others injured at the Elmsford animal shelter in a fire investigators said was purposely a passerby spotted flames coming from the shelters main building at monday and alerted said William Mcdonald of the town of Green Burgh police Mcdonald said 28 cats were killed and eight others the death toll for the dogs stood at with one other All of the dead animals were so its unlikely there Are he the injured animals were not seriously Mcdonald said investigators determined the Blaze was a Case of arson and were German in Reagan tale runs bakery in Hawaii Honolulu a when presi Dent Reagan told the Story of How a German woman and her Young son sheltered american and German sol Diers together in world War the son was Fritz now heard the Story on the radio sunday As he took a break from work at his Honolulu Bak he left West Germany in 1959 and has lived in Hawaii since i was very Vincken in a great admirer of the presi in a 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