European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 29,1986 digging into the past at left Passera by watch As technicians uncover an Raf spitfire that has own buried on san Gatte Beach near the northeastern coast of Dunkirk France since being shot Down by the German army in 1940, at right Andre do pity stands near the spitfire s engine after twas dug up. Dupuy my the spitfire being shot Editn when he was 20 years old and Aid the Pilot was Elron Refuge by his parents until he was Able to re turn to England. News update for some Dodds students it was hands across the sea by the stars and stripes the Atlantic Ocean did nol stand in the Way of Young americans in Germany determined to show their support for hands across America. Inspired in the week leading up to sunday s event students at Mainz elementary school and Vilsick High school demonstrated their Unity with their counterparts in the United slates with symbolic gestures and fund raising events. Mainz elementary school raised $2,000 in the two week period before the hand holding May 2s in the United slates said Jamie Roy an organizer of hands across America events at the school students created banners with Han prints id Send to the fund raising Headquarters in its Angeles fund raisers at Mainz elementary school included bake sales two run Athons and a pie throwing contest with the principal As the target. At Vilseck High school Friday the student body sur rounded the building hand in hand in a gesture of Unity with the hands across America people in the Stales said Scott Tiede 15, an organizer of the event. He said $50 was raised by students some donated their lunch Money. 7 injured in terrorist explosion at Frankfurt awarded purple hearts Frankfurt is seven soldiers injured in the nov. 24 terrorist blast at the Post Exchange shopping Center received purple hearts wednesday. It. Gen. Robert l. Wetzl v corps commander presented purple hearts to capt. James Fergle 97th general Hospital col. Charles Kennel 97th general Hospital. Sgt. Warren Polk. 97lh general Hospital. Sgt. Howard breeder284th military police co. Staff sgt Mark Spencer Isih area finance support Center Sec. Jesse Jordan he co 3rd army div. Pfc Randy Knight he Del 21sl replacement in. France sets off nuclear test angering new zealand government Wellington up France set off its third underground nuclear test of the year at muru Roa atoll in the South Pacific wednesday and the new zealand govern ment roundly condemned the blast. Acting prime minister Geoffrey Palmer announced thai the test took place at s i5 . Wednesday and was registered by new zealand s Seis ologies station on Raro Tonga in the Cook islands. He said the test was rated at 2 Tilo Lons and compared with France s two previous detonations this year of 4 and 2 Kilotons. Last year France carded out seven underground tests at muru Roa about 3,000 mites Northeast of Welling ton with the largest having a yield of 12-14 Kilotons. France knows that new zealand is adamantly opposed to All nuclear testing said Palmer. Transmissions on half of Bradley to undergo modifications in summer by Mike Heronemus staff writer nearly half of the army s Bradley infantry fighting vehicles will Bove transmissions improved ibis summer according to a message from tank automotive come in Warren Mich. Bradley were first fielded in Usa eur in september 1983, but Fielding has not been completed. The number of Usa eur Bradley needing modification it classified said Sec. De Ralph a Usa eur spokesman. Modification kits containing five parts to improve the general electric co transmissions used in the Bradley arc being bought by the army and will be installed at army expense. Army spokesman it. Cot. Craig Macnab told the associated press. Work on Bradley in Europe will be done with mini mum disruption to unit operations said la col. Jerry Rogers senior tank automotive come Tacoma representative in Europe. Work will require special Effon but i Don t think the Bradley will be taken off scheduled training for repairs he said. The Bradley transmission also is used in the multiple launch rocket system but no information was available wednesday on whether transmissions in the Mars also need repair. The five parts have corrective changes in initial design to improve the transmissions not to Correct critical or imminent failure of those parts the Tacoma message said-. During an exercise in Hohenfels Germany in october 1985, 36 of 162 Bradley had transmission related Feil. Ures. In july 1985, during exercises at fort Hood Texas 20 of 180 Bradley broke Down the most frequent failure involves the coupling Between the input and Hydraulic drives the Tacoma message slated under heavy loads it will Shear off an article in defense week quoted a Tacoma Bradley program manager As saying. Modifications to the Bradley transmission Are expected to increase reliability by 17 percent the Tacoma message slated. The army expects to save i it million in maintenance costs by investing $2.6 million to repair the trans missions. Parts and labor Cost is estimated at $96s per vehicle two army spokesmen told the a. The one year warranty be gave on the transmissions has expired but warranties Are Only Given to cover production Quality the Tacoma message stated not to Coyer product improvements such As the five parts in the modification kit. New arrest warrants issued in Italy for Abu Nidal other terror suspects Rome Cap prosecutors issued 14 arrest warrants tuesday for palestinian terrorist Leader Abu Nidal and other suspects in the dec. 27 Rome Airport massacre italian news agencies reported. The Agency dispatches quoting judicial sources they did not name said top anti Terrosi prosecutors Domenuco ska and Rosario Priore signed the warrants on charges of membership in an armed band a Blanket charge often used by italian authorities against terrorists Sica confirmed in a Telephone interview tuesday night that the warrants had been issued but said he could not furnish details. Abu Nidal s was the Only name revealed in the Agency reports. Italian authorities also circulated an International arrest warrant a few months ago for Abu Nidal whose real name is Sabry Al Banna it charged him with Moss murder some of the warrants named palestinians and Leb anese already imprisoned for other terrorist acts but other suspects besides Abu Nidal Are at Large according to the Agency ag1, the report from Ansa said Many of the accused be Long to palestinian splinter groups including the martyrs of Palestine Black september and the Arab revolution Ary brigades. Four palestinian terrorists hurled hand grenades and fired automatic weapons into lines of people at the Al Al and Twa ticket counters at Leonardo a Vino Airport on the morning of dec. 27. Sixteen people were killed including five americans and three terrorists and More thin 75 were wounded. A nearly simultaneous attack at the Vienna Airport claimed four lives. The latest attest warrants were based largely on hours of testimony by 20-year-old Mohammed Sart Tam. The Lone terrorist suspect who survived the Rome attack. The report of his testimony runs to about 300 pages. Although Media reports have indicated syrians would be implicated the news agencies said the list of 14 names apparently did not include any syrians the news agencies said those named in the warrants might include the people responsible for terrorist attack in Rome last year at the fashionable cafe de pans of the via Veneto a British airways office and the jordanian embassy. One person was killed and so were injured Sica has said previously thai investigators blame Abu Nidus s followers for the Rome attacks and Sarbaum has said the terrorist Leader directed the Airport massacre