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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday september 16, 1985 earthquake disaster Drill smooth As silk Andrews fab my. A hundreds of military and civilian personnel cared for 600 victims of a hypothetical Missouri earthquake saturday in the first test of a National disaster a conical system. The emergency medical and evacuation Drill which organizers called the largest joint military civilian disaster exercise Ever held involved hundreds of local emergency medical workers and about 50 hospitals. Volunteer military personnel posing As victims were brought to designated hangars at Andrews fab and Balti More Washington International Airport where they were tagged according to injuries and transported by helicopter and bus to area hospitals. La. Col. Michael Lyons said he was very pleased with the exercise calling coordination Between military person Nel and their civilian counterparts very effective the National disaster medical system was established following the 1982 crash of air Florida flight 90 into the Potomac River and on the same Day the crash of a Washington metro train. The system is designed to supplement state and local emergency resources in a major disaster and to augment military medical facilities overloaded by War casualties. It is not designed to handle the consequences of a nuclear War. Reserve Brig. Gen. Charles Jones commander of the 459th tac Airlift Wing which shuttled casualties be tween Baltimore and Andrews said the operation went smooth As  had this been an actual emergency the people would have been Well taken care of Jones said. Harold Rebuck of the . Public health service said the exercise should serve As a prototype for similar drills across the country. He said the adms Hopes to have 150 units in place nationwide within the next three years. Air Force personnel in saturday s exercise used pow dered and liquid blood plastic wounds and mortician s Wax to simulate amputations facial injuries and an Assort ment of limb wounds. . Mary Hoey 22. Interrupted her moaning momentarily to display her artfully created amputated thumb As she awaited transportation to a suburban Maryland hos Pital. Although her injury entitled her to a Stretcher ride from the triage area to the bus she said she had to walk because there were no More stretchers. Marine 2nd it. Mark Badgley 22, tagged As a seriously injured victim Lay strapped to a military Stretcher in the hangar awaiting evacuation. I m a recycled victim he said. The first time i had a Small Bowel obstruction and was taken to a  he was Back again this time with a blood clot in his leg. Marine 2nd it. Pat Mullally 22, receiving attention for an abdominal injury said the exercise was a Little shaky at the beginning Tat now everyone knows what they re  s. Africa from Page 1 capt if possible to meet  and if South africans separated by. Race distance and often also by unsubstantiated fears of stereotyped perceptions of each other can find a Grain of Unity in their identity with the beloved country it must also do some Good said Myburgh in a signed article. The newspaper is centrist in South Afri can terms critical of apartheid but not Liberal. Botha in an interview saturday with an afrikaans newspaper beheld criticized the meeting and accused the South african executives of showing weakness to the  the government refused South african newspaper requests to lift its ban on Tambo being quoted leaving most Whites and Blacks largely ignorant of Tambo s optimistic remarks after the meeting. The guerrilla Leader said the meeting could Mark the beginning of the peace process for South Africa. The state controlled radio however has emphasized by quoting relly that the Anc will not renounce violence and would nationalize major corporations if it won Power. Deputy foreign minister Louis Nel said on saturday there was no Point in the government talking to the african National Congress. They want the violent overthrow of the government and we Don t allow that the South african press association quoted no As saying. The Anc has conducted a Low level sabotage Campaign for More than 20 years and claims it is behind most of the unrest in Black townships an Effort to make them ungovernable. Miss from Page 1 suit Competition. Akin said she eventually wants to work in Public relations. Cochran appeared to be the favorite going into the finals after capturing prelim Inary victories in both the Talent and swim suit competitions. But Cochran was not even among the runners up. The finalists were selected from among representatives of 50 states and the District of Columbia on the basis of their scores in a week of preliminary Talent swimsuit and evening gown competitions and interviews with the seven judges. After the announcement of the finalists the 10 women were to compete anew in the swim suit Talent and evening gown divisions. Cochran was the Only contestant to win two preliminaries the swimsuit Competition and the Talent category for her piano performance of variations on chopsticks Tower and Akin won preliminary swim suit awards while bronc Nick and Fitzgerald who took up the fiddle four years ago won Talent preliminaries. Masalkoski broke new ground in miss America Talent Competition with her demonstration of karate. Her martial Ballet came Between an Entrance in which she stomped Barefoot through 100 pounds of broken soda bottles and a finale in which she pushed her foot through four Inch thick pieces of Cement. Thrift brought the Southern Art of clog Ging to Atlantic City for her Talent presen tation. Fitzgerald fiddled knee slapping versions of Zardas and Orange Blos som  Castro a Lipina who became an America citizen at age 6, Sang a Broadway show tune. Broderick a University of Iowa senior who has the Only full tuition Baton twirling scholarship in the big ten conference per formed a dance and twirling number to a Medley of songs. Keller combined singing and Ballet to Don t cry for me Argentina from the Broadway show  Tower in a flaming red costume she de signed herself performed Ballet to chariots of  Faber played polonaise opus no. 6" on the piano. Miss America receives a s30.000 scholarship can expect to earn More than $100,000 in appearance fees during her year s reign and May gain a springboard into a career. The first runner up wins a 117,000 scholarship and the other eight finalists get scholarships ranging from $4,000 to $11,000 each. This year s event capped a year in which the 64-year-old pageant licked its wounds from the resignation of miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams of new York after nude photos of her with another woman were published in a men s Magazine. However the past year has not been without controversy. It was just a week be fore the contestants arrived that it was Clear who would represent the Host state. Miss new Jersey Toni Georgiana 21, was sued by first runner up Laura Ann Bridges of Jersey City who claimed the Winner did not deserve the title because she was a Pennsylvania resident who competed in new Jersey by registering for a two week summer College course she never attended. Georgiana s right to Wear the Crown was upheld by two courts and she has moved across the Delaware River to Penman Ken. Al Bert a. Marks jr., the pageant s chairman of the Board has said the rules will be clarified. Britain studies counter moves against soviets London up the British govern ment stunned by Moscow s vindictive expulsion of 25 britons in retaliation for eng land throwing out 25 soviets sunday urgently studied counter moves that could include new expulsions. One Diplomat said that new soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev apparently wanted to show he was Tough Ana to warn other coun tries not to move against soviet spies. The spy War was triggered by the defection of the soviet Kab London station chief and double agent whose revelation of russian spy activities in Britain thursday led to Brit am kicking out 25 soviets for spying. The sunday Telegraph newspaper re ported that in addition a number of Bri tons named As soviet spies by the defector master spy olog Gordievsky have already fled the country. News reports said prime minister mar Garet Thatcher s government had ready a second list of soviet spies for expulsion to be announced if the soviets retaliated. Officially the foreign office denied there was a second  but official sources said All possible countermeasures including new expulsions were being Stu died. Temperatures greek radicals vow War against . Bases from staff and wire reports Athens a Radical left Wing group threatened saturday to wage an unrestricted and continued War against the . Military presence in Europe. The presence of the american military Calls for violence. The War against them will be unrestricted and continued. Every base every car every american installation will be a target the Christos Kassi mis commando said in a statement published in the pro government  newspaper. On Friday the group claimed responsibility for the bombing of an american Bank and two cars belonging to . Mili tary personnel. In the vehicle attack a bomb was placed in the front tire Well of a military car parked in an Athens suburb near the residence of master sat. Joe Brownlee an air Force spokesman from hell Nikon a told the stars and stripes. The bomb exploded about 2 . Friday destroying the military car and damaging a car belonging to Brownlee s wife the spokesman said. No one was injured in the explosion which occurred about 2 . Friday. This is the first actual bombing of a vehicle. The other cars were damaged by arson gasoline was poured on the cars and then lit the spokesman said. The attacks on the cars brought to 10 the number of vehicles belonging to . Military and embassy personnel destroyed this year. In july the commando and the Peoples revolutionary struggle claimed responsibility for a bomb explosion in the parking lot of Apollon hotel a recreational facility for . Military personnel causing dam age but no casualties. The statement hinted at cooperation with other militant groups in Western Europe that Are opposed to a . Military presence. Police said they believed they had smashed the Peoples revolutionary Strug Gle Olaof which the Christos Kasimis commando is an offshoot. Police sources said 52 people have been detained for questioning and 17 houses in the Athens area have been raided. The sources said 50 of those detained were being released. The spokesman said that Daniel Crys Tallis a reporter for state owned television and mathematics teacher theodores by Curakis would be charged monday for their terrorist activities. Crystallise wife journalist Lora Lora Pipilis also held for questioning was to be released. Police found in their apartment in the port of Piraeus lists of names of politicians judicial officials and journalists who have been targeted for assassination the spokesman said in March the Christos Kassimis com Mando claimed responsibility for a bomb at the West German embassy that was detected by police before it went off. 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Adana f Amsterdam m Athens f 6m 59 at Valano f s9 79 Madrid m 57 w Berlin r. 55 55 Munich d 52 of Bremerhaven m 55 of Paris f 55 44 Brussey p 54 of Rome p a3 12 provided by Del 13, 7ln weather so. Treben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures Hloch Low High Low u Al Montreal d  a3 u Moscow f of 41 of 55 Oslo d s3 50 Cairo f Dublin d Helsinki d Jerusalem Lisbon f 97 Al Toronto d Vancouver d 70 4341 41 supplied by the associated Preu. Of far a per Ftp Douds a to Surv Cloudy it to Odd a Ralrh  
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