European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                � women veterans want their own memorial Page 5 q lurking along the Border Page 13 p cowboys beat redskins 13-7 in nil action Page 21 the stars and stripes vol. 44, no. 208 tuesday november 12, 1985 lie Don Ana Sandoy q 8693 a planes collide Over new Jersey a photo firefighters in Cliff Side Park ., Battle one of several blazes that started after two planes collided Over the City. Cliffside Park  A two private air planes collided sunday and plunged into inc new York is burbs Selling five residential buildings afire and killing at least five people. Another photo. Page 3. Authorities Earlie feared the fuel fed inferno had trapped 10 families living in the buildings but by 5 30 a.m., All b it one Man had been accounted for said state police capt. Joseph Craparotta. Two victims were found in a Light propeller plane thl struck the front porch of a two Story apartment building in nearby Fairview and a mangled body was found be Neath the wreckage. The other plane a Nabisco brands inc. Falcon 50 Jet with two aboard slammed into two two Story apartment buildings leveling them and igniting a roaring fire hat engulfed three other structures. The flames were extinguished at about ii . Sun Day but firefighters were kept at Bay Early monday by inc heat of the soldering rubble. At least eight people injured on the ground were treated at hospitals. Transcripts of conversations with the nearby Teterboro Airport control Tower showed that the pilots of both planes were aware of each other As they cruised Over the densely populated suburbs across the Hudson River from Manhattan shortly after 5 . Sunday said a a spokesman Peter Nelson. The Jet s Pilot said he saw the Piper Cherokee and the Pilot of the smaller plane said he was Clear of the area where the Falcon 50 was supposed to be. Nelson said. The spokesman said no determination was made of the cause of the crash but that it appeared the air traffic controller acted properly. Nelson said controllers can do Little More than Issue see crash on Page 28 super sara7 basks in glory of interception by Masinia Hamilton Haifa. Israel a aboard inc aircraft curler Saratoga they arc Al Cady taking order it to shirts sporting president Reagan s boast you can run. But you can t  a Hole Chain in Ash Villa . Is offering a free overnight slay to the 6th Fleet ship s Crew and the ship s officers have enough congratulatory letters to fill a scrapbook. The 4,700 men aboard super Sara As they fondly Call the 30-year-old car Rier have emerged As heroes for their role in the oct. 10 interception of an egyptian plane carrying four palestinian hijackers of the Achi Ilc Lauro cruise ship. People Pat us on the Back when we go in for Shore leave. They Tell us. Thanks for a Job Well done " la. . Burdon a Saratoga spokesman said sunday while conducting a tour of the Carrier which is docked in the Northern israeli port. Four f-14 tomcats from the ship supported by eight other aircraft carried out the interception Over the Mediterranean sea. The tomcats flew for 70 minutes with the chartered egyptian Boeing 737 until it landed at a nato base in Sicily where the hijackers were arrested. The interception strained . Relations with both Egypt and Italy but left Many americans feeling proud As their response to the Saratoga Crew has shown. I Etters have come from general elec tric co. Workers in North Carolina and a woman in Leesburg a. A newspaper in Anchorage Alaska printed a half Page thank you to the Saratoga s Crew. Oils id the ship s Ward room someone has pasted up a newspaper clipping from Jacksonville fla., bragging of the Saratoga s role in inc successful operation. Other notes came from England Australia and Germany. We had no idea everyone would be so excited about what we did said sea Man John Wright of Knoxville tcnn., to us it seemed like just another Day at  Burdon declined to answer most questions about the interception operation but did provide a few details. The Saratoga one of two 6th Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean w As headed away from the egyptian coast when the hijacking occurred Burdon said. He said the Carrier Learned of its mis Sion to intercept the egyptian plane just 20 minutes before the warplanes were sent aloft and the interception occurred about an hour and 20 minutes after the Takeoff. These things seem fast to civilians but thai interception is just the kind of thing we practice daily Burdon said. Our operation he said was not aimed Al one terrorist or one terrorist organization but was a response to terrorism around the  Burdon stressed that not just the fighter pilots but the entire ship s Crew played a role in the Mission s Success. That feel ing was echoed by others. I really see Sara on Page 28 Reagan leads nation s veterans Day rites by the associated press the nation saluted its soldiers on veterans Day with parades for those who fought and lived and Wreath Lay Ings for those who fought and died while Vietnam Veter ans remembered the War with events in snowy Colorado and Spokane Wash. President Reagan beginning a week that Wil take him to Geneva for a Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev marked veterans Day with the re minder that All those who died in War were victims of a peace process that failed.". Reagan said he resolved to take common sense with him to the bargaining table. All we can do is remember them and what they did and Why they had to be Brave for us Reagan said in a ceremony at the Tomb of the unknowns at Arlington National cemetery. All we can do is try to Sec that other Young men never have to join them. The ceremony was held As the nation saluted its military forces Mon Day a National Holiday. Today As never before we Musl pledge to remember the things that will continue the  Reagan said. Parades were planned in los Angeles. Boston and new York where a homosexual veterans group was excluded from inc March sponsored by the american legion. We would t have minded them marching As individuals we have Gays in our organization. But we did t want them coming in with signs about aids said John Morahan a spokesman for the new York county american legion. John Paine president of the Gay veterans association denounced the legion s decision and two court Rul Ings upholding its action. In West Hollywood calif., former soviet  sol Diers from world War ii joined with homosexual Viet Nam veterans sunday at a local Park Afler a Parade through the recently incorporated City. America is for everyone California Secretary of stale March Fong eur told the crowd a place where people arc not judged by their heritage or  in Tarzana calif., restaurateur Tuan Vinh a former South vietnamese  officer offered free Beer to about 30 american veterans who came losing songs Swap talks and Sec slides of Vietnam. We always re member the Lime we were in the service Vinh said la is ingrained in our daily thinking and nightly dreaming. We May suffer with it but we Are proud of  a Texas town planned to observe the Day with a real bang repeating a 67-year-old tradition that began As a Way to spread the word of the nov. Ii 1918, armistice see Salute on Page 28