European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday december 14, 1985 250 soldiers 8 Crew killed in Jet crash continued from Page 1 thai 40 percent of the bodies had been re covered. He described he flight recorders y being in relatively Good ?�hape." the Charier flight operated by Arrow air of Miami carried members of the lost airborne div who were being rotated Home after six months service in the Multi National peacekeeping Force in the Sinai pen insula. Military authorities said it might take a Day or two o notify All the next of Kin and As Long As a week to id Nti a the remains. Csc television showed debris soldering in the Snow beneath tall evergreens in sparse Hilly Woods where the plane went Down about a half mile from the runway near Gander Lake. Airport manager John Pitman said the aircraft carried  pounds of fuel on Takeoff. Roads to inc Airport were blocked and emergency vehicles with yellow lights Flash ing stood by As shivering Rescue workers searched in vain for survivors. Smoke Lin gered in inc air hours after the crash. There was a Flash just like a Sunburst said Judy Parsons a car rental agent who witnessed the crash from the Gander Park ing lot. It lasted for just two seconds and then i heard an explosion. There was a to of Black  Hedley Gill another car agent who also was outside said "1 saw this big mushroom Cloud of inc  Canadian transport minister Don  said the plane climbed no higher than 1,000 feel before crashing. Transport Canada spokesman Bruce Reid returning from a helicopter tour Over the site said there was no suggestion that inc plane exploded in flight where it came Down it obviously exploded on Impact. Everything in the area is charred he said. It s not Nice to look  children s clothing apparently in tended As gifts and pieces of Gray fuse Lage were strewn across the ground at the North end of Gander Lake. A fort Campbell base commander maj. Gen. Burton d. Patrick told a news Confer ence that an  team would help trans Fer the remains from Newfoundland to Dover fab in Delaware for identification of the bodies. A temporary morgue was established at the Airport Boag said. In Washington White House spokesman Larry Speakes said initial reports indicate no evidence of sabotage or an explosion insight. We have no indications of explosions prior to the crash or of hostile action said the Pentagon s chief spokesman Robert Sims. But we just have nothing to indicate the cause at this time and until an investigation is carried out we d not be Able to go further than  the Pentagon dismissed a claim made by an Anonymous caller in Beirut 1? a Western news Agency Inal islamic jihad was responsible for the crash. Maj. Larry icon Ogle another Pentagon spokesman said the troops boarded in Cairo. He said it was possible that some of the victims might not have been attached to the 3rd in of the 101st airborne div but we believe ail of them were attached to the 101st." however base commander Patrick said after returning from Washington that 248 of the passengers were members of the 101st. He said the unit s weapons were carried in the cargo hold. Federal aviation administration spokes Man Vodder Steed in Atlanta ga., said Arrow air was among More than 400 air lines whose operations were the subject of a 1984 a a probe. The airline agreed last june to pay a $34,000 Fine in connection with a series of enforcement actions mostly involving poor record keeping according to documents re leased thursday in Washington. The documents showed that a detailed inspection of the airline by the Faa in March 1984 uncovered Sloppy records excessive and Long overdue deferred maintenance and the use of outdated maintenance manuals. None of the problems was consid ered serious enough to warrant grounding the airline. Mattell said thursday s crash was the first fatality we be  the flight had originated in Cairo and refuelled in Cologne Germany before re fueling again in Gander. President Reagan offered condolences. The crash victims were some of 750 to 800 soldiers in the peacekeeping Force and were returning Home on rotation according to Icenogle. He said a first group of 250 soldiers arrived at fort Campbell a week ago. The Airport was overcast with Light Snow and Light winds at the time of the crash according to the aviation weather report. There had been Light free ing drizzle a few hours earlier. Gander International Airport about 150 Miles Northwest of St. Johns the capital of Newfoundland on Canada s Atlantic sea Board is often used by planes travelling be tween North America and Europe. The crash the worst air disaster Ever in Canada adds to this year s record death toll in commercial aviation which now stands at 1,948, according of the International civil aviation organization in Mon Treal. The multinational Force and observer on Sinai Peninsula has troops from Che United states Fiji Colombia Autralia new zealand the Netherlands Italy uru Guay France and England. They Are under the command of military officers from nor Way. 11 was created to police the disengagement of israeli and egyptian troops under their 1979 peace treaty. It. Col. Don Brownlee an air Force spokesman at the Pentagon confirmed thai the crash was the worst in military history. The worst previous incident he said Wai the april 4, 1975, crash of a c-5 cargo plane carrying babies and orphans from South Vietnam. That crash resulted in 155 deaths. Families from Page 1 ing word. We have suffered a tragic loss that will be everlasting and our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of the Brave soldiers who were on their Way  said maj. Gen. Burton d. Patrick the base com Mander. Some relatives had arrived when first word of the disaster in Newfoundland filtered through channels to the fort about two hours after the crash he said. The festivities were to include songs by the fort s band a few speeches by com manding officers and hugs and kisses. Base officials established an assistance Center Wilh 30 soldiers who answered a flood of Telephone Calls from relatives. They had names of the troops who were supposed to be on the plane and told relatives that but they did not confirm any fatalities. In addition to infantry troops the fort Camp Bell contingent sent to the Sinai included soldiers from 35 units. It includes 1st in 32 St Field arty 1st in 326th engr Bri Gade 163rd aviation co Forward 101st my co military intelligence in and Divi Sion support come. The unit which has Aboul 970 soldiers had been leaving the Sinai in groups. About 70 returned for thanksgiving and 250 arrived Home dec. 4. The detachment scheduled to arrive thursday was to include the unit s com manding officer la. Col. Marvin Jeffcoat Peake said. A final group is scheduled to arrive at fort Campbell next week. While in the Middle East the troops operated checkpoints and made reconnaissance patrols of the 12,000-Square-mile strip inthe Sinai. Some the soldiers aboard the plane May not he from fort Campbell but might have been returning from other assignments on emergency leave Gleisberg said. He did not know where they had been stationed or where they were picked up. I Hope the men i knew weren t on that plane but that s probably impossible said Anne Vazquez owner of restaurant latino in Clarksville near the regional Airport. Many puerto Picans in the 3rd in were frequent customers Vazquez said for such Home cooked specialities As Spanish Rice with octopus or Pigeon peas when they left for Sinai they said to me i la be Back in sin months for the new year s eve party now we might have to cancel it she said. Bill from Page 1 the end of the decade. Under the proposal the per Bushel income subsidy Levels for those two crops would be Frozen at present Levels for the next two years then be reduced in Small increments in each of the following three years. Income guarantee Levels in 1990 would be about 90 percent of present targets. A separate House Senate conference committee has Laboured All week on disputed portions of a Bill designed to reduce deficits by about $80 billion in the next three years. The Bill would commit Congress to making the spending cuts and tax changes envisioned in the budget passed last summer. President Reagan on thursday signed a balanced budget Bill that would Force even further cuts including up to is 1,7 billion this fiscal year. The so called Gramm Rud Man amendment Calls for budget deficits to be reduced in stages to Zero by fiscal 1991. Soon after Reagan made the Bill Law rep. Mike Synar d-okla., filed suit in Federal court to Block the measure s key provision that the spending cuts take place automatically if Congress and the president fail to perform the task. The suit contends that the automatic cuts would violate the Constitution s separa Tion of Powers because congressionally appointed officials would be dictating executive Branch actions.  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Most recently Baxter played the role of Victoria Cabot a wealthy widowed hotel owner in the television series  Baxter joined the weekly show in 1983 when Bette Davis who had starred As hotel owner Laura Trent became ill. Baxter granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Michigan City. Ind. She made her Broadway debut at age 13 in seen but not heard and her feature film debut in 1940 in Twenty  she went on to appear in such films As the magnificent amb croons the pied Piper and five Graves to Cairo while under con tract to 20th Century Fox studios. In 1946, Baxter won an Oscar for Best supporting actress in the razor s  her marriage in 1946 to actor John Hodiak ended in divorce. In 1960, she left Hollywood to Settle on a cattle station in Australia with her new Hus band Randolph gait. She later wrote of her experience and disillusionment in the Book intermission a True  her marriage to gait a Honolulu land Developer was dissolved in Santa Monica,calif., in 1970. 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