European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1985 us Reurs fliers Are High on safety by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau chief Germany theres one record Book that army fliers in Europe arc careful to keep their names out of the Book of of the 37 serious flying accidents in the army this year those in which an air Craft was More than in damage occurred or people were killed four took place in two of those were caused by equipment but us Reurs safety officials have no intention of becoming complacent with their aviation safely that was one of the messages of the Stuttgart Community aviation safety held wednes Day at incl Lingen this is to get an awareness in your mind to keep you busting your killing or injuring yourself for the rest of your tearing up the army which is hard to come those Are the goals of this entire said Elmer the Usa eur aviation safety Sci Gas was addressing pilots and Crew members from flight units in the Stuttgart he said the aviation Community in Europe was feeling pretty Good about its record in we were going along Riding he then came and we lost the Chinook biggest single army aircraft Accident that Ever occurred As far As so you dont Ever want to sit Back and chuckle at the rest of he the Chinook crash in Mannheim killed 46 Geiges said safety awareness Days were instituted As a result of the number of aviation accidents and deaths in but flying is a Safe business when com pared with All types of accidents that kill Geiges he said the army loses the equivalent of a battalion every year in accidents of All do you realize that every year an average of 140 soldiers Are killed in All types of Acci dents in this command he said about 50 percent of those deaths Are caused by drinking and putting it in 140 casual ties a we had gone two years Here in Usa eur without a single fatality in an aircraft fliers within usar eur went from october 1983 to March of this year without any deaths related to aircraft in an ah1 cobra crashed near Ger killing two chief warrant James Stewart and William met Geiges disagreed with an article that appeared recently in aviation digest that said most Pilot error accidents Are the re sult of Crew members wilfully disregard ing rules and established Safe operating i dont believe he he quoted an army safety Center publication that said of All accidents involving Crew roughly 40 percent re sult from disregarding the Geiges said of the four accidents in Usa eur this two were entirely the result of equipment very Seldom do you find an Accident that is Only he usually they find something that the Pilot failed to global jukebox7 concern ready of Rock by United press International workers on two continents thursday began preparing the stages for the historic live Aid concert featuring some of the biggest names in american and British Rock v Roll who will play 16 hours of music to Benefit african famine but the times of London newspaper reported chances Are increasingly slim the event will turn into the global Jukebox promised by everything is going according to said Barbara spokeswoman for electric factory which is producing the Philadelphia the concert is scheduled to Start at 7 not saturday in London Wembley stadium and end at 11 at Phila Delphias Juk the perform expected to raise up to Mil lion for african famine will feature Mick Tina Bob Dylan and Paul a live broadcast of the concert will be transmitted in its entirety Over the Cable television network mtg and Abc television will broadcast the concert from 8 to 11 the concert can be seen live on German televisions third program starting at the concert will alternate Between the Wembley and Juk the 16hour to be attended by fans in Philadelphia and in will be beamed live by satellite to about 90 nations in South Ameri the Middle India and some Eastern bloc including also will receive the live concert but there was to indication when it would be shown to television worldwide sports and which is coordinating broadcast has estimated More than 500 million Tele vision sets and billion people would be although British television officials have said that number was too the times reported China has refused to show any of the while there were also no firm agreements for showings in some parts of Asia and South the paper said the shows would be received in the United new Hong Kong and Trinidad and 11 killed by bombs in Kuwait cafes Kuwait a an Arab extremist organization claimed responsibility Friday for twin bomb blasts at sea front cafes in Kuwait the bombs killed 11 people including a local police and wounded in a telephoned statement to a Western news Agency in the shadowy Arab revolutionary brigades organization demanded that kuwaiti authorities give up their policies hostile to Arab and palestini an residents said the first blast jolted the Alshari Seaside cafe As families gathered on the eve of the moslem holy Day on Fri and the second explosion occurred in the densely populated Samiyeh the blasts were the result of time said a Security who spoke on the condition of he said authorities closed Kuwait inter National Airport to outgoing flights As a the bombs were the latest in a string of terrorist attacks in this Oil Rich nation of Kuwait Cabinet the Council of ministers met in emergency session under foreign minister Sheik Sabah who is the acting prime minister in the absence of the prime Crown Prince Sheik Saad Sheik Saad is in London for medical the Council issued a statement deploring the Security forces sealed the areas around the two blasts and detoured civilian witnesses police cleared a Public Park near the apparently out of fear of More Samiyeh is a residential District about nine Miles South of the City but does have a number of High Rise office buildings and the Council said the Council reaffirms that acts of treacherous violence will never alter Kuwait Kuwait will remain an Oasis of Security and stability despite these attempts by begrudging desperadoes to shake its the persian Gulf Seaside which runs the entire length of Kuwait was the scene of a 1983 bombing that wrecked the embassy administrative the 1983 attack on the embassy was one of a series of bombings that also hit the French embassy and four strategic eco nomic Bush names director of ant terror Force Washington up vice presi Dent George Bush says he is naming the former chief of naval James to be executive director of his task Force to combat the vice president told the National press club on thursday that his task Force will include representatives of the defense and transportation As Well As the the Cia and the office of management and Bush said he would report task Force recommendations to the president by the end of the the goal of this task Force is to be cer Tain that we Are using every Means at our disposal to combat this modern he administration officials have told United press International that several options Are being considered As potential responses to the threat posed by but that no action on any is officials say the president believes military Force should be a component of a response to the Washington Post reported Ornong options being considered is the bombing of terrorist training the officials told the military officials Are said to have pin pointed prospective using unto Date Aerial photographs considered improvements Over any the administration has had in the the discussion within the administration follows the release of americans held hos Tage in the hijacking of Twa flight 847 by the or party of a Radical shiite moslem faction in the seized june 14 in route from Athens to was forced to land at Bei ruts Bush said the United states wants to see the Beirut Airport made Safe for american and he expressed Hope that the warring factions in Lebanon could secure the Geiges said us Reurs biggest aviation safety Hazard is one of the accidents this year occurred when a Pilot tried to land a helicopter on a Sno Cov ered he set it and the right gear hit the ground As he reduced it rolled Over on weve had 13 accidents resulting from Snow in the last six he but Geiges said aviation safety has come a Long in this command weve come Down from the when the Acci Dent rate was about 25 out of every flight he usar eurs Best year was with a rate of rates for 1982 and 1983 were and he so far this the Accident rate is when were getting Down to Fin tuning two or three accidents a and an Accident rate of weve come a Long he weve come a Long Way because people Are involved in he people Are made to think about it All the and that what saves news updates reactor test hailed Idaho Idaho a a controlled nuclear reactor meltdown designed to simulate the three mile Island Accident was the most significant and severe fuel damage test say scientists who termed it a nearly 100 government officials and reporters filled monitoring rooms at the Idaho National Engi Neering Laboratory to watch the half hour the Success we had is a very Good end to the loft and the significance will be recognized worldwide very said Douglas loft manager for a prime operating contractor at the Bhopal Plant closed India up Union Carbide has closed its pesticide fac tory Here despite protests by 500 workers who refused to leave the saying they received inadequate the employees occupied the sprawl ing Bhopal Plant a month refusing to leave until Union Carbide increased their compensation and the local government found them new the plants closing comes More than seven months after toxic Gas spewed out from its chemical storage the disaster killed More than pasta War ends Brussels up the United states and the european economic Community have announced a truce in their pasta War after weeks of wrangling Over moves against italian to which Europe retaliated with extra duties on Lemons and the dispute involves millions of dollars for both sides with euro san pasta exports to the United tates totalling million a and Lemon and Walnut exports to Europe Worth corrections an article in yesterdays stars and Hahn a airmen backing up misidentified the fire Protection specialist who will represent the 50th civil engr so providing support for the shuttle launch As John his name is John the stars and stripes regrets the