European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 overseas mail ordered held 24 hours by Charlie to when staff writer mail and other cargo transported from overseas by air carriers is being held a Day before it is put on military postal officials said the new policy went into effect Mon Day after postal officials were notified of a change july 11 in Federal aviation administration safely the Faa regulations now require that no cargo or mail May be transported by air unless it has been out of the Possession of the originator for 24 according to the military postal service Agency Mes Sage announcing the new the Faa order was issued in response to the hijacking of Twa flight 847 june 14 and the suspected bombing of an air India jumbo Jet june an Faa spokes Man in Washington it is an attempt to Check otherwise in checkable mail and other cargo on selected flights Over High density routes that never have been the Impact is More Polit ical than another Faa official the postal service and the joint service Mesa Are responsible for ensuring that All postal outlets meet the new guide army and air Force Post offices in Europe on monday began staging mail to be transported by air the mail is being held at the local Apo for one Day before being transported for said Bill chief of the services Branch for army postal military postal officials believe the Impact of the change on mail delivery times and other postal operations will be neg i he it is anticipated that mail transit times will be increased by no More than one military postal officials expect no Back log of mail to develop As a result of the new Tyler except for the 24 hour mail will be processed and transported As the directive to airlines scheduled and Public charter if you cant physically search freight and hold it until it has been out of the hands of the originators 24 the Faa offi Cial the hold order involves foreign but the executive Branch wont release the names because of the lists he theres no practical Impact on car he by the time mail has gone through some postal system like Zurich and the Carrier gets its been 24 he said the order would not affect de liveries to Apo or Fpo addresses unless the mail for on a Twa flight that began at one of the listed youd never know about he the mail would just Start 24 hours officials do not know How Long the order will remain in he Clint Swift of the Washington Bureau contributed to this the Alert and the of Hospital was ready by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Wiesbaden the Alert came in to the air Force Hospital Here at thursday possibly five victims of a bomb blast at Rhei main a were this was not a when the ambulances arrived at teams of nurses and medics were ready and waiting at the emergency room six medics rushed up to the ambulance doors and began easing out the litter with a badly injured Ramon a paediatrician at the re Finmain was among those who cared for the Man during the ambulance it was just his third Day on the Job and he had been walking to work when he heard the the injured Man was wearing an oxygen mask and an in solution dripped into his veins to help replace lost Stan a nurse with the 2nd acro medical evac so at held up the in Calm a medic said to his col watch his another the Hospital personnel quickly Learned that Only one victim was being sent to them and cleared away the unneeded a less seriously injured Man arrived an hour once in the emergency 16 nurses and medics surrounded the injured Man and began evaluating his condition and starting he groaned another 15 or so stood ready if youre better off having your whole team it can easily go the other Way and you need said Wynn chairman of the depart ment of the Man had lost a lot of blood and his blood pressure was his left Arm was severely and he had suffered Chest and Side Hospital personnel put rubberized Mast trousers on him to push blood up to his heart and the trousers gave the medical personnel some time to stabilize the injured explained Charles Hospital As the personnel worked on the bombing Ortaliz and Lenz wrote up their report on the mans in 10 medics wheeled him out of the emergency room to the operating he was in surgery for More than seven late in the Maffet said the Man was stable but very seriously and his prognosis was after the emergency room was cleaned another bombing victim showed he had been in a building near the bomb site and was knocked Down by the a flight Crew from the army 63rd medical who had flown in extra blood from Lan Stuhl in Case it was stood outside the emergency the Crew members waited for word on whether the Man had to be sent to the army Hospital at which specializes in neurological but the Man was to be kept in the air Force Hospital overnight for Maffet the attention on the emergency caused some delays to elective surgery scheduled for thursday but other medical appointments were not Maffet in Aid copter got to blast site by Don Tate staff writer when an urgent Call the Mem Bers of the 4th 421st medical co air ambulance at Darmstadt Crank it up and launch our chopper As fast As we about thursday the Call came from the army Hospital in Frankfurt urgent hurry to Rhei main a bomb had it took four minutes for the emergency first up Michael Mokri and chief warrant officer Kevin Buck to wind up the rotors of their uh1 Huey and get the ship in the by they had landed at Rhein in Mokri a nurse and medics rushed out from the bases clinic Wheeling a woman patient on a and got her on her body was covered with a Blanket and her face with we didst know her but they told us she was and we lifted off about 8 with head injury we Fly said and we never got Over flying at 115 the pilots said the nurse and the choppers flight 5 Dorothy worked constantly administering ivs and resuscitation to the who was having a hard time but the medical team was unable to save the who died before she reached the Buckrucker said the flight to the army Hospital at Lan Stuhl took 47 minutes fast both pilots but it Coul Dve been even faster in a Mokri the units Blackhawk Are currently we would have been flying at 165 which could have saved about 30 a second medical evacuation chopper was dispatched to the pilots but was not experts link explosion to red army faction by de Reavis staff writer Germany the of fice of Germany top terror specialist said the circumstances or the thursday bomb ing at Rhei main a that killed two americans and wounded 11 Point to the red army a spokesman in the office of Kurt Reb the German Federal said the act was reminiscent of the bomb ing of Ramstein a in september 1981 and of the foiled attempt at the nato officers school in Ger last it was carried out in typical red army faction fashion the object they chose Headquarters on a military and the car he Only one suspect was arrested in the Safe which injured 15 people and left much of the Headquarters build ing in three 60pound homemade bombs in propane Gas tanks had been placed in a Van parked in front of the the bombs exploded at the spokesman said his office is Uncer Tain How much explosive was used in the Rhei main at the experts a faulty timing device prevented the 55 Pound bomb packed in the trunk of the car from the red army which evolved from the student protest movement of the has a Long history of after the movement splintered in the the red army faction grabbed headlines in 1968 with militant action against Berlin police in the the group was known As the Baader Meinhoff after its Andreas Baader and Ulrike Baader was and Meinhoff was a the group quickly escalated from fire bombings to Bank sky jacking and killings of prominent on May the group killed a officer and injured 13 other people in a bombing at the Terrace an officers club in thirteen Days later they killed an officer and two cos with car bombs at Usa eur Headquarters in the major members of the group were captured in the Early and Baader and Meinhoff both committed Sui cide in four teams of nurses and medics formed to staff the emergency even before they were officially operating room nurses cleared the decks and put elective cases on hold in Case the operating rooms were Maffet the following information on military Airlift come commercial contract flights arriving and leaving Rhei main Ger and Raf be tween 12 and is provided for customer All times Are local and the schedule is subject to american military passengers May Fly to and from the United states with a valid identification card and proper leave or travel american citizen passengers who Are not in the military need a valid but children listed on a parents passport do not need a separate no american passengers need a passport and valid military members must be in a service uniform unless civilian clothes Are authorized in their All passengers leaving Rhei main Are reminded that they May Check in As Early As six and a half hours prior to the no later than not 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