European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 4.1986 Clews update suicide victim named Augsburg Germany Sas the Soldier suspected of Corn milling suicide by hanging june 26has been identified As pfc. Rad Ford v. Brandon 23, of c Btry 1st8n, 36th Field any. Brandon is survived by his parents Priscilla b. Crawford and Henry Brandon of Boston. Brandon s body was roundabout 8 is . On june 27, in a maintenance Bay at Reese Caser by German employees reporting Tor work. A preliminary investigation revealed the Soldier had committed suicide but military police Are still investigating a Community spokesman said thursday. Chernobyl victims new York a five of 13chernobyl nuclear Accident Vic Tims who received Bone marrow transplants Are still alive and will Likely survive says the Californi doctor who assisted soviet physicians with the operations. Because of the severity of the patients injuries and the difficulty in performing the transplants we re pleased with the results or. Robert p. Gale told the Newyork times. He also said he had signed i agreement on behalf of his institution the University of Californi Aat los Angeles to cooperate with soviet scientist in a Long Ter study of the health effects of the Accident on about 100,000 people who lived around the stricken re actor in the Ukraine near Kiev. He predicted a Small but perceptible increase in cancer among those people Over the next 30yean, and an even smaller increase in disease among people living far ther from the Plant. Temperatures ju.t1 l 73 h  a 71 St n74 n h 7h by fun b h u71 81 Tuum to a h 7671 91 70 b of of a 71 pub nah w  7t  h b european weather my Wmk Otanm Inu Tau in be i Tonkin unlit my to mar tic Low i inv 6 Sun fran u7 pin. Surb. Simn is to. A fax to 8amv to synd pm Humn. Myfit two Fraum Nav def Tammi air m n � a main in 77  72 Murtari. I pm p 76 � b2i n 17 m 79 rum. , p Yov few by it u. 7 a Matt set of Trad Cal governor names Broyhill to finish sen. East s term Raleigh . A gov Jim Martin thursday named rep. Jim Bray Hill to Complete the term of .  East who committed suicide Sun Day. Broyhill a 23-year Veteran of con Gress won the Republican nomination to succeed East who had announced his retirement. Broyhill and Martin Are Long time friends and political allies having served together 12 years in the House before Martin was elected governor in1984. I had no idea 1 would be taking office under these circumstances said Broy Hill who appeared at thursday s Tiew conference with Martin. This task be fore me is not easy. I want to work closely with the people of this state. I ask for your prayers As i undertake this great  Broyhill who has called the novem Ber election a referendum on the presi Dency of Ronald Reagan praised East Asa Man dedicated to the Agenda of the president of the United Stales which was changing the direction of this great country the democratic nominee Tor the sen ate Seal is former gov. Terry Sanford. Many Broyhill supporters said i would be a plus Tor him to succeed East enabling him to run Ai an incumbent an giving him added stature and exposure. Others said the appointment could backfire on Broyhill. Forcing him to stake himself out on controversial issues he could avoid in the House and perhaps convincing some voters that he was being Given an unfair advantage. Sanford s Campaign manager Sam Poole he said wednesday that if Broy Hill were selected Sanford will not com Plain. We re ready logo on about our Busi Ness Poole said we re ready to Point out to the people of North Carolina that they re the ones making the decision on who the Rient senator win  had supported Broyhill s primary opponent but later endorsed Broyhill did East s political Mentor. Sen. Jesse Helms. Helms said wednesday he would support whatever decision Martin mule. East who announced last year he would not seek a second term because of his health was discovered in the Ganu Nof Hii Home sunday by an aide. A medi Cal examiner said he died of Carbon Mon oxide poisoning and police ruled he death a suicide. Wife held in shooting murders of fort Benning go 2 children Columbus a. Up police filed three murder charges thursday against a woman who killed her army husband and two Small children and then held off a swat team for nine hours by barricading herself in a closet. Police capt . Kirkland said the charges were tiled against in Hye Sharpe 31. The korean wife of a for Benning Soldier. The couple were having marital problems and had separated. Kirkland said Sharpe killed her Hus band Jim Sharpe 29, and their children Kevin 7, and Kathy 5 months old wednesday. I Don t know Why she did it unless she just flipped out said Columbus police spokesman Sam Goodau. Other than the fact they were having marital problems thai is the main  Woodall said each of the victims was shot at least twice. The Little girl was shot twice through the Back. The Little boy was shot once through the Chest and once through the right Side of the head,11  husband was thai four or five times in the right shoulder head an neck 1 authorities Taid Sharpe ambushed he husband As he approached his apartment wednesday afternoon. When he at tempted to flee the woman followed him into toe parting lot of the apartment Complex and snot him several More  then returned to her husband s apartment and shot her two children authorities said. She fled the apartment Aad barricade herself in the water Heater closet under Neal a stairwell after a swat team sneaked into the building and removed the bodies of her  decided to wait out the woman rather than use tear Gas said police spokesman Jim Wetherington. It s wry very tragic and i just hop nobody else has to lose their life As a result of this incident today Weth Cring Iod Laid Boun before the Stando tended. An off duty police officer who lived inthe same apartment Complex apparently witnessed the shootings in the afternoon Ltd called police a swat team was sent to the apart men not far from the sprawling fort Benning military base and other police converged on the area for the Long tense  police attempted for More than nine hours to talk the woman into sur rendering but she refused. We be been having trouble communicating with her because she speak so Little English Kirk and said at  minister who Speaks korean was brought to toe scene to talk with the woman. Around Midnight police stormed in apartment and captured the woman. First yearly drop under Reagan military strength declines by 5,000 Union i  Washington a the combined Active duty strength of the nation s military services is below year earlier Levels for the first time since president Reagan assumed  four services had a combined a lived Uty strength of2,143,95s As of may31, or a drop of 11,560 from the pre Vious month. More significantly however the new total represents a decline of 5,188 compared with. The total of2,149,143 reported by the services on May 31,1985. The decreases were disclosed wednes Day in the Pentagon s monthly military strength  attributed the dip to the effects of the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law which forced the services to offer Early outs to several thousand military personnel to hold Down fiscal 1986  is not unusual for the nation s Mili tary strength to Rise and fall during the course of any Given year because of an uneven flow of recruits. For example Active duty strength normally dips to some extent during the course of the Reg ular school year. For the last six years however even with those cyclical swings the total military strength reported each month has always exceeded that of the year earlier  a Complete review was not possible wednesday Pentagon record suggest the last Lime an Overall decline was reported compared with the pre Vious year was on dec. 3j, 1979, when the Active duty strength totaled2,020,239. That compared with 2,040,753 reported on dec. 31,1978.lt col. Pete Wyro a Pentagon spokesman said the May decline can be attributed almost entirely to the liberalized release actions taken by the serv ices in response to  the army alone had 5,700 soldiers leave on Early oat in May Wyro continued. The recruiting pattern of people coming in has not matched that increase of people going out the new report shows the other three services also had lost strength because of Early departures in May when compared with april although not to the same extent As the army. But the Navy and air Force managed 10 remain ahead of year earlier totals in May. Wyro could t say when All four serv ices last had a decline in the same  much of the attention on the new balanced budget Law has focused on whether it will be triggered in fiscal 1987, the Law did require Ifie defense depart ment to dash spending by $5.1 bunion during the current  Reagan exercised hit prerogative under tee Law to protect military salaries from this year s cuts along with research on his Star wars missile de sense program. The army ended the month of May with 770,904 men and women on Active Dun a decline of 5,91 1 compared with Agni and a drop of 10,062 compared with May 985.the Marine corps ended the month with a Active strength of 196.273, a dip of 57 i compared with april but a drop of 2.182 compared with May 31,198 the air Force finished the month with 605,805 on Active duty a drop of 3.569compared with april but still ahead of the 602,964 reported on May 31,1985.the Navy completed the month with 570,973 men and women on Active duty a drop of 1,509 compared with april but still ahead of the 566,768 reported on May 31,1985