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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 15, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes August 1985 Security tightened at american bases by Charlie Bowden staff writer Raki main Germany in the Wake of last weeks car bombing at Rhei main in which two americans were killed and other terrorist acts american installations in Germany Are paying even More attention to although no formal Security awareness program has been military officials say the terrorist threat has made Security an informal topic of aside from the bombing last week at the need for Security was reemphasized by the arson at tempt monday on cars belonging to the Frankfurt Berlin duty train and the possibility that terrorists murdered an american Soldier for his identification at Rhei main where an estimated 500 people packed the base Chapel tuesday for a memorial spokeswoman Lorrie Bourland said commanders and first sergeants have been discussing Security aware Ness with the men and women in their arc Security said commanders and first sergeants Are reminding their people to stay there telling them to lock their to watch for unusual people or objects and not to be afraid to report them to the Security we remain in a High state of Alert to the terrorist said a Safe Security police we have continued to place emphasis on awareness and re porting of suspicious behaviour to Safe Security police or army military in there has been a tremendous increase in the number of reports of suspicious bogus or expired License plates and possible terrorist sightings by our personnel off in following a series of attacks against Ameri cans in military officials issued some Antiterrorist these include Locking car doors Park ing in lighted areas when possible checking for signs of forced entry before getting into the car looking around the car for unusual or  objects watching for strangers lingering in and around family housing areas closing curtains at night and avoiding while Security officials will not discuss specific tac the most obvious measure adopted since the bomb ing is the use of multiple identification checks at the entrances to military Security police at outside started the procedure shortly after the base was hit last Drivers Are being asked to produce their vehicle Drivers licenses and id similar checks Are being made at other other obvious Security although not a direct result of the Rhei main include lanes that weave through reinforced barricades armoured cars and the presence of heavily armed guards at some most of these defences appeared following the suicide bombing of the Marine Headquarters in Beirut in octo Ber 1983 that killed More than 240 one drawback to the tightened id checks is traffic at the wait in the morning work traffic can be an hour or with cars and trucks backed up onto the autobahn that runs past the at Ramstein Home of the air forces european head the wait runs 30 minutes or at Stuttgart Patch location of the head quarters for the european the wait usually runs Only about 15 minutes As Security guards Check individual random car searches Are not nor Are armed foot Beirut from Page 1 peals for blood As charred and disfigured bodies were dumped in corridors and the staff conducted emergency operations on the critically the blast coincided with a sixth Day of fighting Between rival factions in and around military sources said army units pushed Back a moslem militia push on the Hills East of Beirut after a nigh Long two soldiers were killed and five were wounded in the Battle with artillery and the sources police reported a civilian killed and nine wounded in overnight bombardments of East and West temperatures August 13 Antiterrorist unit takes Over Case of go slain in Wiesbaden by de Reavis staff writer Germany Ger Many top Antiterrorist unit has taken Over the investigation of the killing of a Soldier whose identification card was sent to a news Agency after last weeks car bombing at Rhei main Alexander chief spokesman for the Federal prosecutors which handles All terrorist said the office decided to take Over the Case of the Mur Der of 4 Edward Pimental from Wiesbaden police after analysing the let Ter sent to the Reuters news Agency taking credit for the Rhei main two people were killed and another 20 injured in the blast last the id card turned out to be genuine it was pime taps card and the letter sent to Reuters is the second Carbon copy from the the other Carbon copy was sent to the Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper shortly after the Prechtel two other Carbon copies of another original were sent to another newspaper and a news the originals have not yet turned up on this we know there is a con l h 49 63 78 los Angeles 54 90 93 Louisville 53 59 92 Memphis 73 89 89 Miami Beach 63 88 Atlantic 79 Paul 62 92 96 Nashville 49 63 91 new Orleans 70 92 85 new York 47 81 90 Norfolk 60 72 95 Oklahoma City 58 87 85 Omaha 51 82 90 Orlando 78 89 85 Philadelphia 69 96 105 Phoenix 70 88 92 Pittsburgh 73 92 72 67 88 91 78 97 78 Providence 50 84 92 Raleigh 62 85 Des 91 Reno 67 89 92 Louis 52 56 94 Petersburg 55 72 85 Salt Lake City 54 85 75 san Diego 73 90 70 san Francisco 76 88 89 san Juan 71 89 84 Seattle 73 91 89 Syracuse 71 83 Kansas 100 Tucson 70 102 Las 94 Washington 74 92 Little 87 Wichita aids from Page 1 european weather forecast for thursday partly Cloudy Over most of Germany except for Northern coastal regions and areas along the which will have partly to mostly Cloudy skies with rain showers and isolated afternoon Thunder High temperatures lows Sunset thursday Sunrise Friday Outlook for Friday partly Cloudy to occasionally mostly Cloudy skies with widely scattered rain showers and afternoon Thunder temperatures expected to remain about the same temperatures recorded wednesday 4am 4pm 4arn 4pm f 59 73 f 64 90 m 61 68 f 64 70 f 63 88 cd 61 72 How efficient is the transmission from women to men we dont Redfield it female soldiers need to be aware they can get infected Independent of sexual in he the risk relates to the number of sex they should avoid sex with bisexual intravenous drug users and men who have Many sexual part male soldiers should avoid sexual con tact with women who have multiple part ners who also May be Intra venous drug he they should avoid other intravenous drug users or sexual encounters with women who have multiple partners or partners in High risk risk factors refer to characteristics that crop up repeatedly in people infected with the people said to be in High risk groups for homosexual men intravenous drug abusers Hemphi who need blood clotting concentrates and babies born to members of High risk according to statistics from the centers for disease the blood of about one donor in shows signs of exposure to the aids if that rate is True of the population at the risk of one sex partner carrying the virus is Redfield in the some gis had 100 or More sex partners in five he at that the Chance of meeting that one in who is infected is greatly Redfield said in a recent study of 45 military members who developed aids or related 15 were nine of those were and eight of the nine reported they had had frequent relations with Korea and new York were the places the men reported having sex with Redfield but he said that did not mean the women in Germany were for theres a Good Chance women known to be attractive to these gis were imported from other he he said almost All of the gis risk part ners were in the United states or Ger Section Between the Pimental murder and the persons responsible for the the letter writers themselves imply this by including the id card in their we still dont know if Pimental was murdered for the id card or if the card was used to get on the air although we tend to think that what Prechtel a new yorker assigned to the 563rd Ord co in was found dead of a head wound in the wooded area on the outskirts of the City on the Day of the police at first believed the incident was unrelated to the he said the disease still is relatively rare in the far theres a very Small likelihood that prostitutes in Korea have the he Redfield said the fact that children could live with infected parents for a prolonged period Means theres Little cause to be concerned about picking up the virus through casual Contact in the Barracks or dining the aids virus May lie dormant five to eight so at least one Parent Proba Bly was infected for a Long time while the kids were growing sharing ten kissing and Redfield a Soldier who tests positive for the it Viii antibody can sleep in a bunk Over somebody who tests he but they  have and they  share blood through a Transf the numbers in the studies Are Small be cause its still Early in the army experience with the Redfield Walter Reed physicians and researchers have seen Only 60 to 70 and 60 percent of those have been in people in traditional High risk p p f f f Bremer f 100 61 73 79 91 73 93 70 90 61 86 57 66 f 72 95 by Del 7th weather Graben other worldwide temperature High Low 93 n 63 48 66 52 70 f r f cd f 99 82 63 f f cd r f High Low 81 61 73 54 65 50 62 64 73 54 c by the associated of far Pearlly Cloudy a Cloudy air crash from Page 1 told her Story of the disaster from a Hospital bed in Fujioka there was a big then a sudden drop in Cabin pressure and a wild yawing before the plane 26yearold Yum Ochiai she told two Jal directors that she noticed the ceiling above a rear lavatory was but she did not know whether a fuselage door blew out prior to the according to Jal spokesman Geoffrey she told the officials the crash itself was a series of three accompanied by a swirl of seats and she said the next thing she a helicopter was flying she said oxygen masks came Down and a White cloud5 swirled through the airline officials suggested it was Condensa Tion from sudden pressure there was no announcement from the but a Purser made an emergency and a stewardess instructed the passengers to put on life jackets and assume a crash Ochiai the Pilot reported to Tokyo air control lers that he had problems with a broken door in the rear of the Cabin and a loss of and he could not control the Ochiai was sitting in the rear of the Jal Boeing 747 when the jumbo Jet went Down she is one of Only four people known to have survived the  
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