European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 23, 1986 stars and stripes Page 3 glamorous visitors cheer service members by Joe Mapother staff writer bad Muender Germany it s a Long Way from the cheering crowds in a Texas stadium to the Hilltop Home of the 609th tac control so 4,999 Miles according to a hand painted directional Marker posted in the air Force compound. Eight cheerleaders of the Dallas cowboys football club breached that distance this week with handshakes hugs and words of encouragement As they wandered through the Remote site before one of their last performances on a Dod Uso tour through Northern Germany Iceland and Greenland. . Lori Baer a Pennsylvania native and cowboys fan decided she would Shine her boots in Honor of the visit. I wanted to look pretty like they do Baer said gesturing toward the nil cheerleaders engulfed in a sea of Blu Clad admirers. But a Normal duty Day at the Mobile tactical control Squadron had taken the spit out of the boots Shine. They Don t look too Good right now she said with a Grin and a downward glance at her footwear. The two week tour geared toward Small and smaller military Sites allowed the squad the Chance to visit service members at work said Suzanne Mitchell who for the past 11 years has picked the squad of cheerleaders that performs at cowboys games. In Germany shows at Karlstedt and Bremerhaven were among the larger ones. Syke Nienburg and Helmstedt were among other Sites visited. The tour concluded saturday in Fulda. The group has turned Down previous opportunities to visit Large bases in Europe preferring to meet individual serv ice members and perform before Small aus Siil l n Sph Julee Graham a member of the Dallas cowboys cheer leading squad signs her autograph for tech. Sgt. Bob Shippy. Joe asap other Dences Mitchell said. Although Mitchell said she prefers to avoid the Large bases for years the squad director has taken groups of cowboys cheerleaders to Korea the Indian Ocean and selected areas such As the Sinai and Beirut in the Middle East. We be done this show on a Mountain top in Turkey. We can make it work any where Mitchell said. . Kent Mchale stood inside the darkened operations Center and watched air men quickly switch their attention from radar screens to the visitors from Dallas. We re glad that they came Here he said in apparent understatement. It s not glamorous but it s where we  they re human too just like we Are. We just have different jobs he said. Although glamorous was a word air men often used in talking about the dal Las women Cindee Doughty said the life of a cheerleader is far from it. Doughty 20 years old and a College student was one of about 1,600 applicants who went through tryouts for the 36 woman squad. To Doughty whose father is a brigadier general in the army Active reserves foot Ball season Means going to school in the morning work in the afternoon and cheer leading practice in the evening. We get $15 every Home game which is $ 13.94 after taxes Are taken out she said. Income from cheer leading comes from supermarket appearances and to a lesser degree the Tours Mitchell said. Doughty said she would be a cheerleader for As Long As she could although she is planning a pharmacy career. Most of the cheerleaders stay an aver age of two years Mitchell said. The Job is not a springboard to a show business Ca reer she said. I have had none cheerleaders that have gone on to become movie stars Mitchell said. I almost go out of my Way not to pick them because they Aren t real  the cowboys organization picked up the travelling expenses on the tour to allow the cheerleaders to keep the $50 per diem Given Dod Uso performers Mitchell said. The cowboys also paid about $8,000 for tour promotional material she said. It s a Way to serve our country Mitchell said. Publicity for the Dallas cowboys is not the reason behind the Tours she said. Sindona Dies 2 Days after swallowing cyanide in prison Voghera Italy a convicted former financier Michele Sindona who Lap sed into a coma after swallowing Poison thursday died at a local Hospital saturday the Voghera Hospital announced. Sindona had been brought to the Hospital thursday after he collapsed during break fast in his prison cell in the Northern italia City of Voghera. On tuesday he was convicted by a Milan court for contracting the murder of a Bank examiner and sentenced to life imprisonment. After a series of tests doctors said Friday that Sindona had swallowed a massive dose of cyanide. He had been kept alive by drugs and life support machines. Investigators have refused to speculate whether Sindona had been poisoned or whether the cyanide had been self administered. Justice minister Fermo Mino Martinaz Zoli told the italian parliament Friday a guard at the prison had heard Sindona say just before he passed out i have been  Sindona was extradited from the United states in september 1984, where he was serving a 25-year sentence for fraud in the collapse of the Franklin National Bank America s largest Bank failure. In 1980, before he was sentenced Sindona nearly died after giving himself an Over dose of digitalis a drug used As a heart stimulant. An experimental antidote flown from Boston was credited with saving his life at that time. Sindona was once regarded As a mysterious financial Whiz whose fabled deals stretched from the Vatican to the United states and whose Empire was reportedly Worth $500 Mil lion. In his heyday he was praised by a for Mer . Ambassador to Italy for help ing build a Bridge Between the two countries and he was proclaimed As the Savior of the italian lira by a for Mer italian Premier. Sindona but the one time poor boy from Sicily spent the last years in prison in the United stat Sand Italy. Prior to his tuesday conviction he was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in Pris on on a charge of Bank fraud in the collapse of two italian Banks he controlled. Born in Patti Sicily where his father sold vegetables Sindona studied Law and opened an office in the Northern italian financial capital of Milan after world War ii. He specialized in tax Law a Field that became profitable As italian Industry got off the ground. Here he made the contacts among leading industrialists that were to prove personally profitable for him. His techniques buying and Selling companies to turn a profit foreign Exchange transactions and Public takeover bids were Well established in the United states but stunned the italian financial world. In 1962, he made his first major move obtaining control Over Banca private italia a one of Italy s largest private Banks. Over the next 10 years he pushed Forward with acquisitions and moved into the United states. But his troubles came As quickly As his successes As first his Bank and then his huge real estate holding company went under in the 1970s. The Vatican which invested Money in Sindona s ventures is believed to have suffered substantial financial losses following the failure of Sindona s group. Sindona also had a close relationship with Roberto Calvi another Vatican Fina Nacial adviser whose Banco Ambrosiano collapsed in Italy s largest Bank failure after he was found hanging from a Bridge in London in june 1982. Before his fall Sindona was hailed As the Savior of the italian lira by Giulio Andreotti then Premier and now foreign minister. In 1974, he was presented the american club award As its Man of the year. Later that year he moved into a luxury apartment in new York a few months be fore italian magistrates issued the first arrest warrant for him in connection with banking irregularities in Italy. A decade later he was extradited to Italy. Under the treaty he was to return to the United states to finish out his prison term when italian proceedings against him were completed. In the Milan murder trial Sindona was accused of paying $50,000 for the assassination of a lawyer investigating the Finan Cial collapse. Italian prosecutor Giudo Viola charged that Sindona had links to the mafia in Sicily and new York. Italian investigators have suspected that Sindona was helped by the mafia and members of the mysterious scandal Ridden p-2 masonic Lodge during a 55-Day stay in Sicily in 1980 after he disappeared from his new York apartment while awaiting trial there. Sindona claimed he was spirited away to Sicily but a new York court ruled that he staged his own kidnapping