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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, June 26, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 houses not open to All Iii supreme court upholds protester conviction Washington a the supreme court ruled monday that protesters May be prosecuted for demonstrating peacefully at Public celebrations on military bases if the Mili tary previously barred them from entering the in a 63 Justice Sandra Day Oconnor said for the court the important government interest in assuring the Security of military installations overrides the protes ters first amendment nothing in the first amendment requires military commanders to wait until persons subject to a valid bar order have entered a military base to see if they will conduct themselves properly during an open Oconnor the court ordered the reinstatement of the conviction and three month prison sentence of James Albertini for illegal entry onto Hickam fab in in Albertini poured animal blood on secret Doc sife located in Nevada desert Zuments in an office on the base and served 90 Days for conspiring to destroy government As a he was barred from reentering the base unless Given written permission by the base Albertini and four companions distributed leaflets protest ing the arms race during an armed forces Day open House at Hickam on May they also unfurled a Banner which denounced the Celebration As a carnival of the 9th circuit court of appeals in 1983 threw out Albertinis the appeals court said the air Force had converted the base into a Public forum by inviting the general Public to take part in the the air Force had advertised extensively to attract sponsored aircraft displays and carnival concessions and a Beauty the supreme court said that even if the base was turned into a Public forum for the the military still had the Power to exclude Albertini and to prosecute if he entered the Oconnor noted that after he was involved in the blood pouring incident in Albertini received a bar letter excluding him from further she said that with a Large crowd on the base that there May have been an even greater need than usual to preserve Justice John Paul in a dissenting said the Federal Law barring illegal entry to military bases did not authorize prosecution of a civilian who accepted a military base commanders invitation to attend an open he was joined by justices William Brennan and Thurgood Navy Jet training facility proposal clears hurdle by Norman Black Washington a Navy Secre tary John Lehman approved an environmental Impact statement monday that concludes the Only suitable site in the United states for a supersonic Jet training Range is nevadas Dixie Valley near fallen lehmans decision clears the Way for the Navy to proceed with its plan to create the new the Secretary also the Navy would not Fly any jets at supersonic speeds Over the area for one year to give Congress time to consider appropriating Money to buy nearby residential Lehman said he was recommending the Navy Purchase roughly acres of land in the area to help mitigate the Impact on the environmental Impact statement signed by Lehman states that creation of the new training Range will subject area residents to an average of 27 sonic booms per on worst Case the Navy has the residents would face up to 109 booms per Day and some property damage is Likely to occur pre dominantly confined to Glass the Dixie Valley is a sparsely populated desert area located about 50 Miles due East of roughly 370 people reside under the airspace that would be designated a supersonic operations about More live within 15 Miles of the areas lehmans decision to sign the Environ mental Impact which was completed May came on the first Day he could legally take action and just one Day before the Start of hearings in Nevada to discuss the matter with the Navy has Long maintained that creation of a supersonic flight training area is essential if it is to provide its pilots titular by fighter pilots with realistic the Navy has no designated area within the United states where it can Send up squadrons of fighters to practice at supersonic fallen Nas and nearby Dixie Valley already Are being used As a training area for Navy but operations now Are limited to subsonic officer rejects accuses army of improper response in child abuse Case fort a an army doctor publicly refused a promotion to major saying the military had failed to respond properly to charges that his 3yearold daughter and other children were sexually abused at a West Point Day care Walter a 33yearold inter said at the normally routine promotion ceremony that he was refusing his promo Tion in an Effort to fight for the human rights of All Edward acting com Mander at the Walson army Community stared at the floor with his face taut during grates but he later one of the things the army stands for is Freedom of a Federal grand jury has been reviewing allegations that 11 ranging in age from 13 months to years were physically and sometimes sexually abused at the childcare facility at the military last Grote and his were among the first to complain to West Point officials of child abuse at the he was transferred to this Southern new Jersey Post two months when it came time for Grote to step Forward in his promotion he told italian Jet crash kills Pilot Sicily a an italian military Jet on a training flight crashed in Western narrowly missing a Highway and killing the authorities witnesses said the plane was making a turn when it suddenly lost Altitude and crashed and burst into Burkhalter he would like to make a Reading from a seven paragraph Grote said he could not accept promotion in a system that at first refused to acknowledge and now refuses to Deal with the victims of extensive child his voice modulated with quoted 18thcentury British writer Edmund the Only thing necessary for the Triumph of evil is for Good men to do Noth he who enlisted in the army on a scholarship program at the Kansas City College of osteopathic said his protest would Cost him about in Sal Ary during the last year of his fou year at West John Yeagley said the child abuse allegations were referred immediately last August to the army criminal investigation he said the Case was turned Over to the Fri when the army determined that the two suspects were civilian the suggestion there was a coverup on this is he were very concerned about the subject and did everything we could to bring any criminals to Yeagley said one of the workers was transferred to administrative while the other refused a Transfer and left the the army will not release the names of the women before a decision is made on whether they will be he were satisfied that the childcare Cen Ter is a Safe place for Yeagley but the Groves said the facility should have been closed after the allegations and that treatment and counselling should have been offered to children who May have been after the Grote saluted Burk Halter and returned to his seat to receive an embrace from his Burkhalter later asked Grote if he would care to join two newly commissioned majors for a photo Grote Grote said she was permanently grateful for the Graceful Way Burkhalter handed the especially after experiencing what she called the West Point treatment of we would see people at the commissary or the people who used to say who would just turn around and walk Grote Grote said she and her husband had talked about his protest before the Ceredo he was obviously very she but we were saying it is fortunate we were to live in a country where we could do this without worrying about being sent to Man shoots Swiss Consul after visa denied in Turkey Istanbul a Swiss Consul Gen eral Hans shot twice by a turkish Man irate because he  get a was reported in improving was treated for wounds suffered when a Bullet grazed his but doctors postponed operating on a Bullet wound to the Chest until his condition had according to Swiss ambassador Andre in the Navy plan Calls for reserving the airspace Over roughly Square Miles of land for supersonic the original plan would have allowed jets to descend As Low As feet above sea which is Only about feet above the average ground As approved by the Impact statement Calls for a supersonic floor of feet above sea the Navy said in a prepared statement monday that Lehman also had approved the installation of three noise monitors within the area and had pledged to continue working with state and local officials to ensure the safety and health of the Citi Zens of the environmental Impact statement says residents will face sound exposure Levels As High As 112 decibels per sonic possibly inducing stress sleep irritability or the Quality of life in areas underlying the supersonic operations area could de Cline due to the annoyance and startle effects related to sonic the Impact statement despite such the naval air station Fallon Complex is the Only suitable site for the proposed the statement Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 1945 in new two of the army top commanders in Jacob Devers and William asserted on their return overseas that the no fraternization order in Germany must be 30 years ago today june 1955 Senate Republican Leader William Knowland charged that the soviet attack on a Navy patrol plane was a deliberate incident which be lies the soviet unions peaceful new 20 years ago today june 1965 a military Iet trans port carrying marines bound for Oki Nawa crashed and exploded after All 84 aboard were 70 years ago today june 1975 underworld figure John Rossellia account of Cia attempts to kill Fidel Castro in the Early 1960s involves Cash Poison High pow ered rifles and Powerboat dashes to columnist Jack Anderson  
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