European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 26, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 supplying Ocean safari was t easy flight Crews faced rough weather Long hours tots of cargo by Gary Smith and Dooley the co Pilot instinctively pointed out the Pray Stern of the aircraft Carrier America. A half mile Aua. The giant ship s deck disappeared in fog momentarily and then reappeared outre clearly. Three seconds mild determine if the Pilot Unold trap aboard the Carrier. If he could t land on the first try. He would have to return to the Field where he had started hours before no diversion airfields ashore were within Range and he did t have enough fuel reserves for another try the twin engine c-2a greyhound Navy cargo plane from meet logistics support so 24, based in is Gonella Italy slammed Down on the flight deck. Its arresting Hook grabbed a Strong Cable to Slop i Tomt 200 feet. The plane carrying mail spare parts and Passen Gers was part of exercise Ocean safari 85. This year marked the first major participation of the Navy s Eastern Atlantic come in the exercise. What was happening this september Day affected service members of 10 Allied nations on More than k 0 ships la was also the visible result of the Orv of hundreds of Navy men and women ashore. Exercise Ocean safari which wound Down last Lri Day tested nato s ability to carry out Supply and reinforcement missions Between the United slates and Northern Europe. Fim Phasis was placed on the coordination Between Shore and sea commands. The Shore support aspects of Ocean safari 85 brought together Active members and naval reservists from the United slates and Europe and involved the pc positioning of Carrier on Board delivery aircraft from As far away As is Gonella and As far North As Bodo Norway. c-9b Jet transports from the states were also flown by naval Reserve air Crews. The entire movement was orchestrated from a logistics readiness Center operating from the Navy s Eastern Atlantic command Headquarters in London. Reservists worked alongside their Active duty counterparts with the unit s aircraft. They sorted loaded and unloaded cargo and mail. It was not unusual for them to work into Early morning and then sleep in the warehouse with the next Day s cargo to be ready for Early loading. Nor was being in the air pleasant. In the Mcd we normally have 10 Miles visibility. But Here in the North Atlantic we have half a mile visibility said photo lors a by David Adner arc members aboard the aircraft Carrier America unload a c-2a cargo plane during Ocean safari 85. Unit Pilot it. Cimler. John i. Labilla. In addition pilots had to Deal with violent winds and decks pitch ing and heaving 30 or More feet. In addition to the final leg of delivery from Pryst Wick Scotland and later Bodo Norway cargo had to move from entry Points elsewhere. Navy reservists flying c-9b jets the military Cru Ivilene of the dc-9 moved cargo from Raf Mildenhall to Prestwick and Bodo. Some was segregated for express ship ment via the c-2as. The rest was scheduled for ship ment on surface ships moving out to support others Al sea. In 31 sorties More than 55,000 pounds of cargo. 51,000 pounds of mail and 137 important passengers were moved from Shore to ship and from ship to Shore. Chile Petty Ohio for san Len and i. Cmdr. Dooley Are Salt Ned Loha aids drugs linked to guru by sex Secretary pcs a Bhagwan Shree rain my Hamburg up the former personal Secretary of Indian guru Bhagwan Shorce Rajnesh said wednesday some members of his j300 million commune in Oregon had the disease aids and some members used narcotics. A Anand Sheela in an interview with the German Magazine Stern said she had nol been exiled As the 53-year-old bearded guru maintained but left for Europe because she no longer wanted to take the bread out of people s Mouths to buy him Rolls royces. She also could not tolerate drug traffic she said. And in a statement the night before during a German television interview Sheela said Rajnesh had drugs brought into the commune to get donations from commune members. She called nonsensical the guru s accusation that she embezzled j55 million had tried to Poison him and others and had turned the commune into a concentration Camp. They will kill me she said because 1 know everything about Sheela denied a report she had wanted to bring to the commune incurable aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome victims and keep them in a Large pen in a barn. That s another lie she said. There was a proposal to bring them in and make then a human defensive Wall against possible attacks from outside. Sort of Don t come any closer. There s aids Here i stopped that because it was inhuman and because we already had some deaths from aids on the farm she said. A Anand so Tala 5 turks missing after soviet ship hits boat Istanbul a the naval command of Northern Marmara on tuesday. The announcement carried by the Semi official Anatolia new Agency said rescuers were searching for five noncom Maui one officers of the stricken ship Meltem which was diced into pieces after it was smashed by the soviet vessel Jacab no. 233 in heavy fog Early tuesday morning. Turkish news agencies tuesday reported that the five turkish seamen were missing after the collision but the state radio reported turkish government officials As deny ing the reports. According to the announcement turkish Navel authorities originally denied the reports because of a misunderstanding among the several units involved in Rescue efforts. The Accident occurred tuesday morning about 7 Miles offshore in the sea of Marmara after the soviet vessel passed through the narrow bosporus Strait. Fourteen turkish crewmen were rescued from the sea by the soviet vessel and the turkish Salvage boat. Divers from the soviet vessel worked to prevent the turkish boat from sinking. Anatolia reported the mid or Tion of the ship Sank while the Bow was Lowed to safety and the Stern was still afloat. The 1,600-ton turkish ship Meltem was built in West Germany in 1968. Port officials in Istanbul said. No details were available about the soviet vessel which was detained by turkish authorities. Its cargo and destination were not known As soviet ships arc not required to give that information to turkish officials when they pass through the Strait controlling the soviet dominated Black sea. The passage of civilian and naval traffic through the strategic water channels is regulated by the 1936 Mon Tucux convention
