European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes july 1985 when Klaxon theres no delay Pitburg a s 36fh tac fighter Wing is Seffo Fly by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau chief Pitburg Germany some afternoons arc tranquil in the Zulu Alert hangar of the 36th tac fighter fully flight suited pilots and members of the Crew read some in front of the reference lists banded to the leg of their flight someone passes the time in the control room by idly listening in on the radio voices of air if the listener hears an increase in it can mean he has Only a few seconds before the peace will be before he can open his the Klaxon will sound and set people and inside and outside the into coordinated before the Klaxon Dies each of four pilots is in his before it is four massive double doors begin to slide before they Are fully pilots arc making adjustments on one Side of the As Crew chiefs strap them leaning in from the other when the pilots right Side tasks Are he turns to the left As the Crew chief finishes and Springs out of the flight line vehicles Start up and move into positions away from the Security police vehicles Streak from several directions to positions at the left takes three minutes for the inertia navigational system to Mark the beginning position of the aircraft and be ready to Chart its moves from those minutes Are full of coordinated motions and communications in the cockpit and in the which Are Complete As the ins is one of four f15 eagles Rolls taxis onto the runway and picks up As it a second aircraft picks up Speed and As the first completes a Sharp right the second attains height and begins the remaining two pilots watch until they see that the scramble is they shut their inns now preset for the next for which they will be first and second at this the two airborne pilots know to which area of the country they will they do not know what they will see radar Sites All Over Europe can initiate a scramble in response to an unidentified Blip on blips can indicate enemy civilian aircraft flying without proper identification or flocks of As pilots and Crews respond to the the precision movements Are made in the belief that the Mission is in response to the first the Blip May fade during the scramble or shortly and the Mission will be declared a training that May mean that a flock of Birds caused the radars response or that it was an aircraft that has landed or gone below radar sometimes the cause of the Blip is never pilots continue into the area and Check it that practice intercept missions Are programmed by the closest air traffic control facility and pilots Fly against each other for Pitburg routinely responds to alerts from All parts of the country and to practice scrambles initiated Crews and pilots remain in the facility for 24 answering the Klaxon almost stateside viewers will see scramble in pcs series on War television viewers in the states will be Able to watch Pitburg Abs 36th tac fighter Wing scrambling in response to an Alert later this the unit will appear on the knife Edge of a Public broadcast ing service show being filmed at defense installations in the 2nd Cav regt near Hof will be a part of Border scenes used in the the show is the eighth segment of the series the first seven parts were made by the National film Board of can Ada on the methods and consequences of the series was created with the cooperation of the armed forces of the allies and the soviet the final now in deals with nuclear deterrence and re lated a four person Crew was put together by a Community supported television station in to film the armed forces at they also will interview defense leaders such As British defense minister Michael Heseltine and nato Secretary general lord strategic analysts at the French Institute of International studies also will said producer Jim Edwin Newman will Host the final pro nearly will go into the last segment of the Jean Albright rebels attack Rob kill 4 sandinista Nicaragua up rebels intercepted a passenger boat travelling on a River near the Caribbean coast and set it burning alive four sandinista soldiers hiding below survivors said most residents in the English speaking town of Blue Fields on the Caribbean coast said they were stunned by the rebel considered the largest ambush involving civilians in the 4yearold officials said about 100 passengers including nine uniformed soldiers boarded the Blu Fields express in Rama at midday Friday for the four hour trip to Blue 132 Miles East of the about one hour into the 30 rebels forced the boat to Shore by firing bullets into the survivors said they asked the sandinista soldiers to Lay Down their arms for fear of provoking a there were women and old people said Jose a technician with the state communications the rebels took All the civilians off the robbed them and ordered the soldiers out from below four but five remained it appears they thought they would be killed had they come Garcia a rebel commander doused the deck with fuel and torched witnesses four of the soldiers perished below one jumped into the but sustained critical they gave no explanation for Why they wanted to Burn the said Roger a Blu Fields resident who teaches in the after robbing the the rebels disappeared into the Woods with the four soldiers who the ships Captain and no one has heard from them they warned us that the next time we were on a boat with soldiers they would Burn us said they told us they were fighting for our said Ray a but Freedom is not depriving people of their some of the Many managed to return to Blu Fields by hitching rides in passing others were rescued by army first Jose commanding military officer in said the rebels identified themselves As Mem Bers of the nicaraguan democratic or the largest of five anti sandinista Contra thousands of refugees plead for weapons wont Arm rebels in Shultz says Bangkok a Secretary of state George Shultz has indicated in Thailand that no weapons would be forthcoming for cambodian guerrilla groups despite pleas from tens of thousands of that nations refugees demonstrating for arms to drive vietnamese troops from their the cambodians chanted num Ber 1 and we want to go Home As Shultz toured a refugee evacuation site at the thai cambodian a sea of placards and posters also greeted Many asking for a Large White Banner read we have we need arms and please help us turn vietnamese killing Fields into cambodian farming we want to go god bless following what he called a stirring tour of the Shultz told a news con Ference in Bangkok that the United states fully intends to continue providing economic and humanitarian support for the Refu gees and thai villagers at the As Well As Security assistance for but he did not include military Aid to the cambodian resistance groups fighting Viet although he was specifically asked about he also declined comment on a washing ton Post report that the Cia has been pro Viding millions of dollars of non lethal assistance to two no communist resistance at the news Shultz said he was pleased by Vietnam announcement this week that it would turn Over the re Mains of 26 americans killed in the Viet Nam we Welcome the statement that we have from Vietnam that they would like to see this problem resolved within a two year so perhaps this Issue May be on its Way to we certainly Hope we have been working on that for a Shultz but he had harsh words for Vietnam record of aggression and said the United states would support initiatives by the association of Southeast asian nations to find a solution to the cambodian Shultz flies wednesday to Malaya to meet with Asean foreign who concluded their 18th annual conference Shultz indicated that he had no plan to solve the cambodian problem and that the United states would follow asians the Asean ministers have agreed to push proximity talks Between the Cam Bodian resistance groups and the Vietnam with the pro Hanoi government in Cambodia sitting in with the vietnamese the negotiations would be conducted through an referring to the pro Hanoi cambodian Shultz said there was no Point in talking with people who have no dont represent in sure the Asean countries dont want in any Way to seem to legitimize that he adding that the Issue would be discussed in earlier Shultz flew to a thai military base the thai cambodian Frontier and then to three other he was the highest ranking american official to visit the Border since it became a Battle zone and a tragic scene of mass refugee nearly the entire population of site 1 people welcomed Shultz with chants and he heard stories of alleged vietnamese atrocities in we have no we need we have not had one for Many cambo Dian Camp chief thou Thon told the residents of site 7 Are followers of the Khmer Peoples National liberation front and were driven from a vast Border Encampment during the last vietnamese dry season Shultz drove through the adjacent Refu gee holding Center of Khao Dang from which thousands of cambodians have gone to the United states and then went by helicopter to Thap a Village affected by Border the Village is receiving american the Secretary of state inspected weapons reportedly captured by the thai army from the vietnamese and later flew to Hanat Nikom refugee processing Center nearer to Hanat currently housing refugees from Laos and cambo is designed for those who have been accepted for resettlement in third