European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. August 14, 19b6 the stabs and stripes f Page sense of humor helps pm hang in Mere by Dave Diehl . Burean Raf up Wood England when master sgt. Don Nichols and his co worker were told about their temporary assign Mem 10 England they knew they would t to Maying at the Ritz. They knew their accommodations would t he quite As Nice As that London landmark. Afler Alt they trav eled from South Carolina to practice War. They told us what it would be like but Here was nothing like seeing it in person said Nichols a Sheet Metal specialist from Shaw fab . Nichols and 314 other men most from the 363rd tac fighter Wing Are sharing a world War ii aircraft hangar for 35 Days while on deployment with their of 4cs to participate in nato exercises at Raf Alcon Bury. The football Field sied building at Raf Linwood is lined with 20-Man cubicles formed by makeshift Walls of would and the Green plastic sheeting similar to trash bags. We played it Down said the group s first sergeant master sgt. Gary Floyd. We Tola them it was going to be real bad. When they walked in and saw it they did t think it was too  Floyd said his men arc coping Well. It s been years since some of them have slept on the Gray Metal framed Bedi Between Crisp White sheets and Olive drab itchy Wool blankets. They gave up things like showers with water pressure. Privacy is unthinkable. Many moments serve As re minders they arc living with a few Hundred other men like waking to the Bells Chimes beeps and Buzzer of dozens of alarm clocks timed to go off almost at the us phoney do 0 n the world War ii hangar it Raf i Pwood where 315 american ire quartered while on temporary duly. Same Lime. When they first arrived Only four sinks about 20 showers and a dozen toilets in three trailers outside were shared among them. About five More trailers have pulled up beside the building since then. Floyd said. We can live Wilh them the conditions said tech. Sgt James Hopkins an aircraft maintenance specialist. But you have to have a sense of  Hopkins and his males joke Aboul the Field conditions and things like having seven men crowded around one sink shaving and trying not to Cut each other. It s not that we enjoy it. But it could be worse tech sol Robert Smith said. Three Hois and a col. You can t beat  British copter set Speed record firm says this u a photo of the Wealand Lynx helicopter thai reportedly has taken the world Speed record from the soviets. London up a British built Westland l no helicopter has set a world Speed record beating in.1 current soviet Mark by ii Tuph the Westland helicopter company said tuesday. The Lynx s Speed of 249 Mph is subject to verification by the International aviation federation a wet land spokeswoman said the Lynx made four runs monday night covering a minimum of nine Miles Over the Glastonbury area in Southeast England Aboul 100 Miles from London she said. The previous fastest helicopter was a soviet kind which clocked in at 228 Mph in 1978 in a course near Moscow according to the guinness Book of world  the High Speed Lynx performance was due to a revolutionary new shape of composite Blade and improvements in computer design the was Lynnd spokeswoman said. The Lynx originally designed in the 1960s, was first produced in the late 1970s and has been widely used since then by the British and French navies. The record breaking version flown by lest Pilot Trevor egging on was a Model supplied to the British army. Libya May sell its shares in Fiat italian papers say Rome up a senior libyan offi Cial was quoted tuesday As saying Libya is ready to sell its minority slake in the Fiat Industrial corporation. After the announcement Fiat shares Rose sharply on the Milan Stock Exchange. Italian newspapers quoted Moham med Shet Ewi Naas the director of the Rome office of the libyan foreign in vestment company or la flip As say ing Only the Selling Price remains to be agreed upon. If the Agnelli family is prepared to buy Back the Fiat shares in our posses Sion paying the Price we set we Are ready to get out Naas said. Lafico a state owned holding com Pany owns 13 percent of common Vot Ine shares  1s percent of non voting preferred shares in Fiat Italy s largest private company and Europe s largest Auto producer. Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli has said he would like to buy Back the shares from Lafico through his family s hold ing company 1fi. In May the Pentagon decided against awarding a multimillion Dollar contract for combat bulldozers to the fial Adjis co., Fiat s Earth working subsidiary be cause of the libyan interest in Fiat. In april police arrested a former libyan Diplomat working at the Lafico office in Rome on suspicion of involvement in a plot to assassinate . Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb. Authorities released Are i Mohammed Filurin monday Pend ing trial on an illegal arms Possession charge. The remarks by Naas jacked libyan Ordinary share prices up from 14,750 lire to 15,100 by close of trading on the Milan bourse tuesday. Traders appeared to disregard subsequent comments by the head of the libyan people s Bureau and the president of Lafico. Both denied Lafico will sell its stake. Memorial rites mourners weep at Japan Jet crash site Tokyo up mourners Well and prayed during a Twilight memorial service held tuesday on a Remote Mountainside where a jumbo jul crashed one year ago killing 520 people in history s worst single plane Accident. Earlier in the Day a group of rela Tives tiled a fifth complaint to the Tokyo prosecutors office requesting that 12 lop officials of Japan air lines Boeing co. The plane s manufacturer and the japanese trans port ministry be charged with negligent manslaughter and endangering air travel. The memorial service on mount Tsutaka was Only one of a number held across Japan on the first anniversary of the aug. 12, 1985, Japan air lines crash. Elsewhere victims families and the four survivors participated in services in Homes and Buddhist temples. Jal employees also observed a moment of silence to Pray for the victims and airline president Susumu Yamaji pledged absolutely Safe air travel. As Twilight descended on mount Osu aka in Central Japan some two dozen relatives bowed their Heads in silent prayer at 6 56 . The moment the plane slammed into he Mountainside. The family members had been shuttled by bus from the Mountain Hamlet of Jen Omura to the crash site 15 Miles away and walked up a dirt path to the scarred Mountainside marked by Bare patches and burned tree slumps. It seems like just the other Day said Kunik Miyajima whose son was killed in the crash. I m a bit sur prised to see the reminders of the crash. 1 spent the year realizing the magnitude of the