European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D powerful remedy prescribed for appointment headache Page 2 d shipmates Quick reaction saved 7 . Sailors Page 5 q Many service members defaulting on car payments Page 13 the stand gripes a a author Iii unofficial Ruil cation of Jim in � vol.45. No. 131 wednesday. August 27. 1988 i my shifts to Ahmid Force s hit 044 Iskiw d 8693 a move count soviet presence Anchorage Alaska up1 a major shift in Navy operations in creasing ships and Sailor in inc North Pacific to meet a growing soviet pres ence was announced monday by Secretary John f. Lehman or. A myopic Bias of Tooki has been dropped and a 0wet Pacific presence is  substantial head. A r svy has a new Northern naval Gas Cloud kills 1,200 in Cameroon by the los Angeles times Yaounde Cameroon a poisonous Cloud of Gas that erupted from the Boom of a volcanic Lake and waited Over sleeping Lakeside villages last Friday night killed at least 1,200 persons and injured 300, president Paul Hiya said Here monday. Hiya who visited the disaster area sunday added that while the seepage had apparently stopped there were remnants of the toxic but still unidentified Gas Cloud in a mountainous Silt Square mile Region around Lake Nios. About 250 Miles Northwest of Yaounde Cameroon s capital. Precautions have to be Lateen the president told Small group of israeli and Western journalists who travelled Here monday with visiting israeli prime min ister Shimon Peres. I was told the Gas had subsided but we must still be  hundreds of villagers Are still being evacuated an the army add police Are searching for More victims of the disaster Hiya said. Other officials said that the nearest targe settlement the town of Wum with about 10,000 residents was also evacuated. The death toll could go higher As the army continues to report on its findings Hiya warned. Earlier in Tor see was on Paye 28 strategy involvingalg0pc�hirian said in a speech  North Stop Alaska he said in inc United states Imp the Union have a common Border some of which is in dispute. Most of the Navy s Pacific fled has used san Diego but Lehman said san Francisco Bay and Seattle s puget sound will become increasingly important ports. Alaskan Waters will become a Stag ing area for Navat his goal Lehman said fs"1more of our Fleet farther  we Are now conducting exercise several limes a year in the guff of Alaska and Northern Waters. Why because that s increasingly where our National interests lie and where the vulnerabilities the soviets Are beginning to focus on lie and that s where a have to  the naval air station at Adak in the Aleutian islands soon will see a buildup Lehman said. Major Alaska naval exer in this summer and will in i lhinkyo1nhkmoing to see continuing Stream a lot More familiar with decades ahead than you in the past Lehman said. Alaska is now a fundamental part of see Navy on Page 28 cashing in on new rules a new Job helmet Wilcher was created when the la lust Interior ministry ruled thai soccer bits cannot late motorcycle helmets into it alums. Here soccer fans hang of their helmets outside Rome s olympic stadium an sunday paying an entrepreneur 1,000 lire less than a Dollar la keep an Eye on hem Sherrill once taught at Raf Milden Jall 5 dle hmm Raf m1ldenhall, Tri Patrick Sherrill the postal employee we murdered 14 co workers and then killed himself last week in Edmond okla., spent two weeks at this base in England in july As a weapons instructor. Air Force officials said monday. Sherrill a technical sergeant Oklahoma air National Gua the required. Ing with 104 theum proof his unit the 137th  so according to  g. Francis Public jeer for the Oklahoma air National  on duty Sherrill taught the operation of Small arms and the m-16 Rifle phase s Rifle Range according to a monday by inc Rived at the base jul Sherrill 44jml a aug. 2tyhrnond Post office a maj threatened with dismiss. Poor work performance. A former . Marine Sherrill had Benin the air National guard from 1976 to August 1982 As a radio repairman Franci said. He then joined the air Force Reserve where he became a Small arms repairman and weapons instructor. He rejoined ule guard in october 19s4.the 137th combat. Made up num Phr alive work i iras turn England is Epport k.c-135 Aerial refuelling and c-130 Hercules transport planes in  said Sherrill served the okla f. National guard  he said no record of disciplinary pro blend Tau warded special recognition for Neve a Gaul scheduled training Day. He was feb the five person Oklahoma air guard marksmanship  said two weapon Sherrill used in lie slayings both .45-caliber pistols. The guard. Sherrill had a Cess to them because he was a member of the marksmanship team he  said he did not know where the ammunition used in the shootings came from. A full Lime weapons specialist based at Mildenhall said Sherrill did t impress him As being out of the  did t notice anything abnormal about him master sgt. Steven heal said. He seemed like a Normal person. He was a Little bit standoffish , who runs the tiring Range at the   by in a i Milden half usually in Pago 28