European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May the stars and stripes a photos capsized Oil drilling Barge juts out of the water of a South Louisiana Bayou left at rescuers remove the body of a worker from the wreckage of the seventh body recovered from capsized Barge up divers and Rescue workers wednesday pulled a seventh body from a murky stretch of South Louisiana Bayou amid fading Hope for More survivors of a capsized Oil drilling four men remained missing and were feared there was no immediate word on whether the seventh body was freed from the wreckage or discovered in the Waters of the six bodies were pulled from the 200footlong Tonkawa after the Barge began to take on water late monday and then capsized while most of the Crew was preparing for Shore leave at the of a two week of the 22 half survived and were listed in Good the search for the remaining five resumed at Daybreak wednesday and was widened to include five Miles of the the coast guard said victims might be in the barges engineering areas or nine men were rescued from the water immediately after the Accident monday before Daybreak tues divers followed the faint sound of Cut into the vessel and rescued two the tapping reportedly had died Down As rescuers continued their we cheated said a speaking on Condi Tion he not be i saw my life in front of if it would have flipped to the other we would have been spaniard soars through air traffic control course by Brian Mcshane Zaragoza Spain it was a rare Opportunity for a Spanish air Force air traffic Fernando who works Side by Side with air traffic went to the air Force air traffic control school at Keesler last i was a Little scared at but figured i was no different from the other foreign and we might be Able to help each other Solsona then he Learned he was the Only foreign student to be taking the air traffic control course and would be in an otherwise Al american that when i really began to he As it turned Solsona had nothing to he made the commanders Honor Roll after the third week and graduated with a 90 percent Grade Point i think the course gave me a tremendous insight into the air Force Way of doing which is a big since we work Side by Side at the Zaragoza Tower and Are constantly coordinating with each when the american controllers do something different from at least i have an idea the toughest part of the he was getting Solsona had to beat out other Spanish controllers on an English language test before representing his com Mand at the Solsona also attended four weeks of language indoctrination at Lackland before going to staff Macshane is an air traffic controller at photo by Stephanie James from Fernando master Manuel Avila and tech James summer in control nato ministers pledge efforts to remedy weaknesses Brussels a nato defense ministers reached rapid agreement wednesday on the alliances major weak Nesses and pledged a stronger Effort to Rem Edy a senior nato official in the opening session of a today Strat egy the ministers also reaffirmed a longstanding goal of increasing military spending by 3 percent a the official few nato nations have consistently met that the official said the ministers accepted an internal nato report that said the Alli Ance is poorly prepared to Deal with a conventional Warsaw pact attack because of inadequate standing ground forces and re insufficient stocks to sustain a conventional Lack of facilities to receive and protect reinforcing aircraft and inadequate ability to identify enemy air the ministers agreed that the 16 nato countries should buy military equipment jointly More the official they also called for better planning and setting of the meeting brings together the defense chiefs of the United Brit the nether Turkey and Spain is represented by an official observer and France is absent because it is not part of natos integrated military com the ministers Are Apt to be less Harmo Nious when they turn to president reagans space based Star wars defense senior officials said although it was not on the formal defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger almost certainly will push for an endorsement of the even before the 14 ministers assembled for the semiannual meeting of the defense planning the Reagan plan was the subject of a Freddy the belgian defense min on tuesday denied a report that his government had committed itself to participating in the known formally As the strategic defense who discussed the program with Weinberger on told a news con Ference tuesday that Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch had been mistaken in Sug Gesting he had told Weinberger that Bel Gium Imd decided to participate in Star wars the main item of business on the defense ministers Agenda was a report from nato military authorities on their newly devel oped blueprint for future decisions on technology and the blueprint is designed to Lay out natos needs for the next 20 based on assumptions about the potential Warsaw pact to give the political authorities a better basis for decision dutch Cor de chairman of natos highest military the military said the blueprint was a great leap the defense ministers Are to review the secret document and pass it on to leaders in their National capitals for de Jager told reporters that the Warsaw pact was pulling further ahead of nato in military