European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Leavay urges More warplane funding Seattle up retired air Force Curtis Lemay told world War ii veterans gathered for a tribute to the b17 bomber to lobby their Congress men for More spending on military air air Power has something wonderful to offer Lemay said but too often its gotten the Back of the hand from the Public and the going Back to the Wright our Job since world War i has been to educate the Public about air the Kickoff speaker for the 50th anniversary Celebration of the plane known As the flying said american air Power alone could have Defeated Germany in world War ii without a land speaking of the b17s firepower and reputation for Lemay theres no doubt in my mind we could have concluded the War in Europe without a land the scheduled opening ceremonies of the Celebration had one of the few existing b17s with five medal of Honor recipients on Board flying Over the Boeing Airfield while Lemay addressed the the first b17 rolled out of a Boeing Hanger in july the which carried a 10man Crew and a ton of was dubbed the flying fortress by a War time and the nickname pathologist says he is convinced body exhumed in Brazil is that of Mengele a it would have been practically impossible to fake the remains of Josef according to a forensic pathologist who was a member of the Justice department team that examined remains said to be those of the nazi we can say within a reasonable scientific certainty that this Skeleton is this Ali chief medical examiner of the state of said Friday at the annual meeting of the american Assoc a a photo Ali Hameli displays photo of the alleged Skull of Josef Tion of clinical scientists from the Justice depart the Simon Wiesenthal and Brazil reported they found dozens of apparent similarities Between photos of Mengele and of Wolfgang the Man whose identity Meng ele apparently adopted in hiding in Bra and Between the skeletal remains exhumed at on june but Hameli said he is not ready to close the Book on the Mengele Case be cause scientists do not have any rays of Mengele to compare to the scientists need those rays for several matches in order for the evidence to be Hameli for he they have the dentures of the re Mains but have no Complete dental record for they know the Corpse had signs of a Long healed hip fracture and other he but have no x rays that might have been taken of Mengele after a motorcycle Accident he had decades the level of documentation is Hameli we could not pick up one item and that the is in my has been purged but he said he remains convinced that the Bones of Gerhard Are those of the nazi anger of who supervised grotesque medical experiments and mass killings at the Auschwitz death practically impossible Hameli said it would be practically impossible for Mengele sympathizers to Plant a Corpse and stage his scientists know the Corpse is not that of the real and they know it is similar in height and age to he in staging these one could not have known about All these Ham Eli referring to the similarities be tween the Corpse and it just Doest happen that you cannot change the age of you can change the appearance of but we didst just depend on there were no Points of inconsistency Between the remains and what is known of Hameli adding that All Points of comparison strongly or reasonably investigators will meet next month in Delaware to prepare their final report on the which will be submitted to the Justice department and then to other Hameli the heavily armed planes flew thousands of missions in the european and Pacific although less than a Hal dozen of the wartime b17s remain intact most were Cut up for scrap after the besides their the planes were known for their colourful monikers Hells Angels and miss to name a few and sexy likenesses of women that adorned the noses of the air German paper reports wine scandal grows Bonn up a West German news paper said saturday at least eight Quality German wines have been contaminated with Munich such Cutsche one of the country most respected said it has reliable information that several tests by government agencies made independently of each other have disclosed tra Ces of Dieth Ylene glycol in at least eight Quality until the German health ministry has said 350 austrian wines and Only four Rhine wines have been found to be contaminated by adding a chemical used in anti the chemical makes the wines the newspaper said More tests of the contaminated German wines Are being made so the investigation will be legally it said an official announcement can not be expected in the near it said its sources assured it the tests were and an error in the findings could be ruled the newspaper said most of the although they were supposed to be Quality were sold in supermarkets in Ger Many at relatively Low the newspaper said the amount of the chemical in the German wines was under one Gram per much less than the amount found in most of the austrian West German authorities estimate Grams per quart is a Safe dose and about 15 Grams a lethal it is illegal to add even the smallest amount of the chemical to the West German health ministry both German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and health minister Heiner Geissler have called for stricter Laws to prevent a repetition of the wine Pope John Paul ii names new Bishop of Leeds Vatican City up Pope John Paul ii has named Bishop David constant Bishop of Leeds to succeed Bishop William who resigned because of vat ican officials has been serving As an auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and As titular Bishop of Wheeler turned 75 in the age when Vatican prelates Are required to contractors picked for i depth Star wars studies Washington a the de sense department announced Friday it had selected its first team of contractors for phase ii research on How a Star wars antimissile system should actually be the Pentagon said in a prepared statement it plans to select four or five such teams from a group of 10 that began phase i studies last but was prepared to announce Only the first the team to receive a phase ii con Worth about is headed by Sparta in its team includes Sparta systems analyses Schafer associates of Nich ols research group of Huntsville and the aerospace group of the general electric in the Star wars known formally As the strategic defense is a project to research lasers and other weapons that could be deployed in space to automatically shoot Down attacking soviet last the Pentagon awarded 10 contracts for million each to contractors for system architecture the firms were told to Survey All the technologies needed for a Star wars system and to suggest How the shield should be co Fig the Pentagon called that research phase saying it would select the Best proposals for additional the Penta gon declined Friday to release any information on the results submitted by the Sparta