European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june 1985 says sacrifice needed7 by Charlie Bowden staff writer Germany responding to critics of increased defense spend ing on both sides of the Howard Crowell on Friday called their effect both influential and potentially the coming together of these concerned May be but the effect is truly influential and could one Day threaten the very fiber of our extraordinarily successful said Crowell during a change of command ceremony for the 3rd inf who was promoted to Lieuten ant general during the elaborate ceremony held at Leighton Barracks on the 21 oth anniversary of the is moving to the Headquarters of the european come As chief of George Stotser assumed command of the division that Crowell had commanded for 28 longer than any other commander in the units Crowell told the massed formations of French and american soldiers that sacrifice is still needed despite peace in int it asked that the longer we Are at peace and the longer we enjoy the Freedom of the More Distant the perceived threat to our Well being becomes and the less inclined we Are to make that necessary sacrifice our armies must modernize and our soldiers must train or their skills will atrophy to the Point of said Cro men and machines alone do not guarantee a viable during the ceremony attended by a Host of senior military commanders from the three Crowell each one of us has an obligation to seek a real under standing of our to learn about the threat to our Well being and to inform and educate those who possess Nei ther the ability nor the inclination to look beyond lifes immediate the sights and sounds of the weapons 2 so Afef copiers suspected of spying Frankfurt up1 american and German officials detained and questioned Crew members from two soviet helicopters suspected of spying when one overflow a air German government sources said a spokesman for the air Force at re Finmain a said late Friday that his office had no comment on the news reports said the questioning took place at the adjacent Frankfurt International Airport on the helicopters had landed there for refuelling on their Way Back to Eastern Europe from the Paris air the Rhei main spokesman and a spokesman for the United states information service at the embassy in Bonn declined to give details of the according to news one of the civilian soviet helicopters flew under the radar screen at Pitburg a on the Luxem Bourg Border and monitored traffic at the in the state department told the stars and stripes that two soviet helicopters were Given permission by the German government to Fly from the Paris air show to on the return flight june they overflow they were detained overnight at while they were there an initial investigation was made and the is investigating further in cooperation with the a Pentagon spokesman its a German americans were involved because it was an american base they flew but its being handled As a German incident and the germans Are doing the government sources in Bonn and the respected Frankfurter All Gemeiner newspaper Friday confirmed the incident and said officials suspected but could not prove Espoo the two helicopters were later permitted to continue their flight to Prague and War it was not Clear How Many soviet Crew men were aboard the two both in service with the soviet the All Gemeiner said they were an m26 helicopter and the bran new Al shown in the West for the first time at the Paris the sources said both machines departed from their prescribed flight plan in poor but one crossed from Luxembourg into and flew Low under the radar screen at Pitburg Home of the 36th tac fighter the Wing includes the air forces 36th combat support 22nd tac fighter 53rd tac fighter so and 525th tac fighter president Reagan visited the base on his state visit to Germany last two years a soviet mi16 chopper overflow Ramstein South of on a similar return flight from the Paris who saw the machine arrive in said it had automatically controlled cameras fastened to the of War Are of Little Comfort to those who have no vision or realization of their real value in deterring or of the devastating consequences of their absence should deterrence warned Crowell awarded against taking free Dom for granted and resting on successes of the awareness is he and the responsibility for tomorrow belongs to each one of Soldier and civil before assuming command of the Divi Stotser was Deputy chief of staff for operations at he also has commanded the 2nd army div fwd at Nicaragua from Page 1 have the ability to defend itself rapidly by battalion from Page 1 throw a lot of other people off since there was also going to be an addition Al today time loss because of the weekend if we didst receive her inputs until i gave her until wednesday to get them one of five specialists who acted As a com Pany commander during the fou Day absence of the real commanders said people in her unit definitely knew nothing was going to be differ ent when she was in an e5 assigned to our company decided he didst want to stay at pc primary leadership course at so he just said 4 Diana com Mander of the 524th Maint co in Parma when he got Back to the i told him to go Back to the school and Clear he didst want to go but he when the company was told to assign a sergeant first class to a Post detail for 30 Hampton handled i looked at the roster and picked the next alphabetically eligible no and As signed him to the she my first sergeant said it probably want the Best Choice since the Man i selected was the personnel services no and he might want to get even with me later for putting him on a but he was the next eligible person and i assigned Hampton took some Good natured rib Bing from the other acting company com Manders because she kept a physical train ing formation running through the it want a she but we were part Way through the run when it started to rain a i dont like running in the rain but it has to be so i did 4 Milton the he det commander for the said the Only thing out of the Ordinary he had to Deal with was a sergeant first class who was on emergency leave in the states and needed the leave when he got to the port to return to his leave had expired and he was technically Dickinson the maps were going to take him into so he got on the phone to i just approved the necessary Extension for him same As the commander would in a Case like Merrill said the fact that decisions made by the specialists were As legally binding on the battalion As if the regular commanders made them was a Factor of some if we made a the unit and the customers were stuck with it at least until the commander got he knowing that the real commander would have to live with some of our actions made us a lot More conscientious about what we did during those four 4 Benjamin who acted As the battalion sergeant said the program taught him something about i had to be the go Between for the com Mander and the first he that put a Load on me that i want aware of i found myself unwilling to go off the Post for the because i knew the commander was off somebody had to stick around in Case something went 316th air div becomes Parent unit Ramstein Germany the 316th air div and two subordinate units were activated according to Safe the which will be commanded by Cecil becomes the Parent unit for the newly formed 377th combat support Wing and the for Mer base Host the 86th tactical fighter command officials said the 377th com Bat support Wing will take Over support responsibilities for the air and for the real estate and property in the Kaiserslautern military the 86th tac fighter wings responsibilities and assets will be restricted to those necessary to perform its combat officials the purpose of the change is to realign the 86th along the Standard organizational lines of tactical fighter wings and to Sepa rate the support including those of the Kaiserslautern military from the officials Graham the present 86th tactical fighter group will command the 86th tac fighter Leslie now the 86th combat support group will take Over the support the 86th civil engr so was designated the 377th civil engr group with two subordinate the 377th civil engr so for Ramstein and the 564th civil engr so at Einsiedler Hof As in kaisers the 564th will assume responsibility for civil engineering work in the to Jelweh housing area and in officials in a related the assets of the 86th Security police so were formed into the 7086th Security police group on May it was predesignated the 377th Security police group on Friday Banff has have four subordinate present 86th spa commander rus Sel reaver will command the new officials have said the acquisition of High performance Jet aircraft by Nicaragua would upset the balance of Power in Central in his Ortega said the govern ment has decided to suspend the measures in unilateral our government has taken in the Field of defense in an attempt to further the Contador peace process in the he said that includes the moratorium on arms imports he announced the moratorium included a ban on importation of interceptor Ortega said he declared the moratorium to further attempts by the Contador countries Panama and Venezuela to get the Central american nations to sign a peace the sandinista sent Home 100 cuban military advisers in in his speech Ortega indicated he would accept additional military advisers from any country willing to Send House members approved million in nonlethal Aid to the rebels in a 248184 vote it was a major Victory for president temperatures june 13 l h 53 59 Albany 57 93 Albuquerque 42 58 Anchorage 53 75 Atlanta 59 68 Atlantic City 55 67 Baltimore 58 86 Billings 52 77 Birmingham 51 84 Boise 52 68 Boston 46 55 Buffalo 53 58 Burlington 68 84 49 67 40 71 Chicago 45 70 Cincinnati 47 67 Cleveland 60 84 56 89 Denver 46 76 Desa Volnes 44 68 Detroit 49 61 Fairbanks 49 73 Fargo 53 69 Hartford 72 87 Honolulu 67 86 Houston 48 71 Indianapolis 70 84 Jacksonville 47 73 Kansas City 82 109 Las vegas 53 78 Little Rock l h 63 80 los Angeles 46 72 Louisville 56 75 Memphis 67 88 Miami Beach 46 72 48 72 Nashville 71 82 new Orleans 60 66 new York 62 72 Norfolk 53 80 Oklahoma City 54 75 Omaha 71 86 Orlando 58 69 Philadelphia 81 109 Phoenix 45 63 Pittsburgh 51 57 57 80 52 71 Providence 53 75 Raleigh 52 94 Reno 50 73 75 86 59 95 Salt Lake City 63 73 san Diego 56 73 san Francisco 79 92 san Juan 52 61 Seattle 49 56 Syracuse 70 105 Tucson 58 68 Washington 47 82 Wichita european weather forecast for saturday partly Cloudy skies with ral showers throughout Central Germany isolated thunderstorms in Northern morning fog in Central Hills will Burn off by High temperatures in the upper 50s in the mld70s in the lows in the mid to upper Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook for partly Cloudy skies with isolated High tempera Tures in the Low 60s to temperatures recorded Friday f p f cd p m p of far partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy by Del 7th weather tra Bentzar 4am 4pm 73 84 48 77 68 82 61 73 52 61 n 48 55 50 4pm m 46 55 p 46 66 53 61 f 64 82 9 45 66 50 m p 63 94