European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 25, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 i Patriot battalion to deploy in Pitburg new facilities housing units planned for Community Ramstein a Germany a . Army Patriot air defense battalion will be deployed to Pitburg a in 1989, requiring new housing and support facilities for the troops and 500 families involved in the move Safe officials said monday. The Patriot battalion s move from the states to bit Burg a will be the first deployment of the system to a . Air forces in Europe base officials said. There already Are two army Patriot battalions in Germany. The Patriot is the army s newest medium and High Altitude ground to air missile system. It can simultaneously track up to 50 targets and can guide five missiles in flight to a Range of about 40 Miles. The 108th air defense arty brigade and its support ing signal company also will relocate from Kaiserslautern to Pitburg a. The Patriot battalion which has not been formed yet will be assigned to the 108th, a 32nd army air defense come spokesman said. The battalion will come from fort Bliss Texas. Before the troops and families arrive construction of housing and other facilities will get under Way at bit Burg a and in the local Community. The area needs 970 new housing units to meet exist ing requirements and new ones associated with the additional families Safe officials said. Plans Call for the construction of 370 military funded housing units at a Cost of $35 million in fiscal year 1987, which begins oct. 1. The remaining units will be acquired through a build lease program under which private entrepreneurs Are contracted to finance and construct housing units that Are then leased to the . Government. The private Developer would be responsible for securing the necessary land financing and All required permits and approvals. Contracts for the build lease housing will be negotiated in fiscal years 1987 and 1988. About $42 million of nato and . Funds will be used for construction of a primary support Complex at Pitburg a and other facilities at of Crucis Idun him and no Heilenbach. The construction includes maintenance storage and administrative facilities Barracks a dining Hall a heat ing Plant pavement sewage treatment and Security fences. There also will be a new s9 million commissary Al ready under design an expanded school and recreation and Exchange facilities. A new $25 million Hospital has been proposed to meet existing and projected Community needs. The deployment is part of the modernization of nato air defences. The Patriot system which will be fielded by the United states Germany and the Netherlands replaces the . Nike Hercules system and several Hawk missile battalions. The Patriot system uses ground based phased array radar to detect threatening targets and to control the missiles from launch to intercept. The missiles Are con trolled by a weapons control computer operated by sol Diers thus maintaining human control of the equipment. Syria refuses to hand Over fugitive sex nazi Damascus Syria a the Syri an government has rebuffed a West Ger Man request that it hand Over the fugitive Alois Brunner no. 1 on nazi Hunters most wanted list. West German embassy officials say. The former is officer and convicted War criminal denounced by holocaust historians As a second Eichmann has been re ported living in Damascus since 1960. Ger Many first sought his extradition from Syria in december 1984 and repeated the request four months ago. They told us we Don t know this Man " a German Diplomat recently told a visiting reporter. That was orally. In writ ing we have received  but the Diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity said there was no doubt that Brunner 73, is living in the syrian capital. The German Magazine bundle said it inter viewed the sex nazi Here last year. It s obvious the syrians do not want to extradite him because that would be a Vic tory for Israel the Diplomat said. Israel is one of six countries seeking to prosecute Brunner who allegedly was responsible for the deportation of More than 100,000 european jews to nazi death Camps during world War ii. With the death of Long hunted Auschwitz doctor Josef a Englc in Brazil verified last june Brunner s Case has gained new attention. Brunner was the specialist the crafts Man Herbert Rosenkranz an austrian born historian at the israeli holocaust me Morial had Washem said in a Jerusalem interview. He was Eichmann s Man in Vienna at the head of the office that concentrated the jews deprived them of everything and made them ready for shipping to Auschwitz and other death  according to documentation compiled by French nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld the austrian born Brunner began his career with Hitler s elite is in 1938 at Vienna s Central office for jewish emigration directed by Adolf Eichmann one of the architects of the nazi genocide of the jews. He eventually took Over from Eichmann in Vienna and in 1942 moved to Berlin to organize the Roundup and deportation of Berlin jews to the death Camps Klarsfeld says. From there Eichmann sent Brunner to Greece where he deported 46,000 greek jews and later to France and Czechoslovakia the French investigator says. On one Day in 1944, in the most Noto rious incident in the Brunner record he is said to have ordered the arrest and Deporta Tion of More than 300 French jewish Chil Dren none of whom survived. No one was As effective As Brunner said Rosencranz who has chronicled the tragedy of austrian jewry. He was a Sec Ona  after the War Brunner lived quietly under a pseudonym in Germany Bunte Magazine reported. But in 1954 a French military court condemned him to death in absent a and he fled to Egypt with a false passport under the name Georg Fischer. He settled permanently in Damascus six years later working As an adviser for the syrian secret services Bunte said. In that same year i960, Eichmann was kidnapped by israeli agents in Argentina taken Back to Israel tried and hanged. Brunner is said to reside now in the quiet Well to do Abu Rumanes District of dam ascus a neighbourhood of tree lined streets foreign embassies and Small shops and restaurants. The sex nazi s wife Anni still lives in Vienna and maintains Contact with him Klarsfeld says he does t do much of anything said the German Diplomat. He docs no  is supported by the syrians. Apparently he raises rabbits on the roof. He is disabled you  two letter bombs one in 1961 and the other in 1980, reportedly blinded Brunner in one Eye and damaged his left hand. It is not known who sent the Booby trapped let ters. The extradition request is based on an arrest warrant issued in Cologne Germany in 1984. A previous warrant was issued in Frankfurt in 1961. The syrians clearly Are reluctant to Dis cuss the Case. When asked about it an in formation ministry official said privately i know nothing about the  Spain s King in Germany King Juan Carlos of Spain right and German president Richard von Weizsaecker take a walk along the Rhine in Bonn monday during the firs Day or the King s he Day slate visit to Germany. The King thanked von Weizsaecker for Germany support of Spain s entry into the european eco nomic Community Jan. 1. Accompanied by his wife Queen Sofia the 48-year-old Monarch is also scheduled to visit Cologne Hannover Dusseldorf Berlin Munich and the Volkswagen Plant at wolfs Burg. Protests mount in South Africa against segregated beaches Johannesburg South Africa a protests mounted monday against segregated beaches in port Eliza Beth following weekend patrols by armed police and soldiers to prevent an expected Rush of non Whites onto Sands reserved for Whites under South african apartheid Laws. Fears of a racial confrontation on the beaches develop a after Bob White local managing director for the . Auto giant general motors said sunday the company would give Legal and financial help to any of its 1,800 non White employees who defied Beach segregation in port Elizabeth. Andrew Savage a parliament member of the White opposition progressive Federal party said monday the City Council will have to make up its mind whether port Elizabeth is going to have employment or whether it s going to have segregated beaches. The International world is not prepared any More to do business with people who preserve an antiquated and vicious system of Segre a  but no Rush to the beaches occurred As the weekend weather was Windy and Rainy. Security forces some in armoured cars had to watch Only a White lifesaving Competition and a Charity Benefit flotilla of homemade boats launched by students at the White attended University of port Elizabeth. Apparently by coincidence former australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser and former nigerian military Leader Olusegun Oba Sanjo visited the beaches saturday As Heads of a Commonwealth committee investigating racial strife in South Africa. Legislator John Malcomes a member of the pop said the visitors got a True picture of  the Commonwealth group went sunday to Lesotho a Mountain kingdom surrounded by South Africa where they conferred with King Mosho Esloc ii and maj. Gen. Justin Lek Hanya Leader of Lesotho s new military govern ment. The group flew to Botswana monday and were scheduled to visit Zimbabwe and Zambia. Elsewhere in South Africa National police Headquarters in Pretoria reported a Black youth was killed sunday night As police battled crowds throwing stones and gasoline bombs at policemen s houses and vehicles in wide near port Elizabeth. Police said five people were injured and four arrested in five Black townships across the country. About 1,100 people most of them Blacks have been killed in 18 months of anti apartheid unrest. Most died Ai a result of police and military action to quell riots others in Battles Between rival Black groups opposed to apartheid. In Alexandra the Johannesburg township where at least 23 died in rioting last week police raided a Community clinic and seized medical records. Blacks wounded in riots often refuse to seek treatment because police later locate them through medical files and prosecute them. Meanwhile 21-year-old Eric Peter was found guilty of treason in a Johannesburg supreme court after the court had been told he took military training with the banned african National Congress in Botswana. The South Afri can press association said Pelser was believed to be the first White charged with taking military training with the guerrilla movement that seeks to overthrow South Africa s White led government