European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 air defense battalion shoots to top during Crete exercise by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau Span Dahlem Germany until a recent trip to a missile Range in some members of the 2nd 62nd air defense knew More about Hawk missiles from blackboards and books than they knew from real that not the Case any the trip to Crete put that classroom experience to the test and gave unit members the Opportunity to see the Hawk Speed from its launcher and Light up the destroying a target Miles As a result of exercises on the a record score of for live missile fire belongs to Btry d of the 2nd 62nd air defense Btry a scored Btry 98 and Btry for an Overall score of the 2nd bus Overall average of 98 is also one of the highest scores Ever fired by a european Hawk in any said Evans executive officer of the the Hawk missile is a medium Range guided missile system designed to defend against tude air you should see the soldiers Spiceland it is hard to imagine the adrenalin that flows when it All comes together and they see the missile go off and do exactly what they were told it would there were no handpicked he some of those people were Al new if we packed for War these same Guys would before the moment of firing the operators of two types of a command Post and communications people have done their All of it under the critical eyes of evaluators from several nato Spiceland evaluators begin taking Points during initial acceptance of missiles and which Are maintained at cretes nato activity missile firing we can lose Points for safety methods in Basic Steps such As removing missiles from loading and we Are graded on methods of communicating with command and with according to James commander of Btry the first to High scoring Btry d faced special equip ment problems prevented the Battery Crew members from being Able to although they were Able to pre pare their they were allowed to choose Between preparing another missile or going Home without the unit would have retained the score it had earned so choosing to prepare another missile and fire put the unit under scrutiny for four Days instead of three and under double jeopardy for certain to add to water was that made sanitation a but few people according to one when they finally get after All their they Are so hot to fire that nothing like that is going to bother said 1st Daniel executive officer of Btry the last of the four batteries to visit Stoneking and other officers in the Battery Are now having bet their soldiers that the Battery would Rethi non Adios o Khora Sfakios Praestus Ler Petra Mediterranean sea Chicago Tribune map come up with the highest score among the when the Battery became the Honor soldiers had the privilege of shaving their leaders not a bad Price to said Spiceland stresses although performance was unusually the exercise was essentially routine Busi Ness for a missile we dont drop everything and train up for an neither do we we dont have time for As a part of business As Btry a left for the Field one Day after its return to Btry b had returned from exercise Central Enterprise just the Day before its trip to danish threatened by Tanker Oil spill Denmark a doomed Birds were being shot by the hundreds tues Day As High winds pressed tons of heavy fuel Oil from a West German Tanker further up the beaches and into the wetlands of the Island of it is located in the Kattegat sea be tween Denmark and at the same the wind blew out to sea a film of Oil that threatened a 10mile stretch of Beach on the East coast near the top of the Jutland John Ostergaard of the governmental environment Protection Agency said a civil defense unit of 70 trained men were joined by More than 100 volunteers in efforts to contain an estimated 200 tons of pump it up and Transfer it to temporary dumps on the Westergaard estimated counting is nooks and the Oil from the Tanker Jan of Bremen has so far polluted about 31 Miles of Beach in an area that is a preserve for migrating Joergen head of the islands engineering reported that several thousand Birds were already doomed and feared that the number would he said it could take weeks or months to remove the a photo environmental official holds Birds which were shot to death because of the Oil ornithologists feared that As Many As including May eventually the Jan was still Riding at Anchor off the Entrance to Lim Fjorden Strait where it struck the foundation of a Small automated Lighthouse last saturday As it was heading for Norr Sundby port with a Load of about tons of heavy fuel the Tanker was being watched by two environmental Protection vessels pumping up Oil that was still leaking in Small Quanti the Agency said the Jan will not be allowed to proceed until it has been exam ined at a danish shipyard and All tanks safely Agency spokesmen predicted the costs of combating the Oil spill will run into hundreds of thousands of they said Bremen Tan Schiff owner of the will have to pay the representatives of the owners and sever Al insurance companies arrived on Laessoe to inspect the the collision with the Lighthouse occurred in International and the Captain cannot be prosecuted in 4 puerto Picans convicted of bombing plot Chicago a a jury monday found four people suspected of belonging to a terrorist group supporting puerto rican Independence guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to bomb two military the Federal panel deliberated 25 beginning Fri before returning the verdict in the trial that began july 1 amid tight the four were accused of plotting to bomb a Marine training Center and an army Reserve Center on july no bombing was carried prosecutors said the from puerto Are members of the group a Spanish acronym for the armed forces of National District judge George Leighton set sentencing for when the four will face penalties ranging from 20 to 81 years in the fall has claimed responsibility for More than 100 bombings or planned bombings since prosecutors say six people have been killed and More than 100 wounded in fall puerto Rico is a com in closing arguments assistant attorney James Ferguson ridiculed the Contention by three of the defendants that they were prisoners of War As Freedom had a right to stockpile bombs and plan prison Breaks and As described in Estimo As More than a dozen guards ringed the courtroom during the Daylong closing one Edwin read portions of the declaration of Independence to the Only by engaging in an armed struggle can you shake the colonial Cortes the defendants Alejandrna Alberto Rodriguez and Jose Luis Rodriguez were arrested in suburban Evanston after Federal videotape surveillance of two prosecutors Cortes and speaking also for Alberto did not dispute the charges in opening arguments but said they were acting As Freedom three of the defendants were convicted of planning to Rob a Public transit Money collector to finance their activities and of stockpiling weapons and blasting materials in Safe Jose Luis the Only defendant represented by an denied the prosecutions Contention that he was a member of the who said they did not recognize the authority of represented themselves and neither con firmed nor denied at the governments extensive Security was or dered for the Security measures included extra Meta Detector package searches and canine patrols to prevent smuggling of weapons and expo Jose Luis was convicted on one count of seditious he faces a maximum 20 years in prison and a was convicted on seven counts of she faces a maximum 61 years in prison and a the jury could not reach a verdict on an eighth charge of was convicted on eight counts of he faces a possible sentence of 81 years in prison and an Alberto Rodriguez was convicted on five charges of seditious he faces 65 years in prison and a
