European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes Friday january in. 1987 doing beautifully Washington api pre Deal Reagan is doing beautifully and is having no problem in any respect in his recovery from pro Tate surgery i doctor said wednesday. Col. John Mutton the presiden tial physician in a statement read1 to reporters by while House Points Man Larry speaker said the president s recovery is totally within the Normal spectrum of the pc Idem to is gradually increasing the amount of Lime he spend in the Oval office met there with vice president Georee Bush and chief of staff Donald t. Regan and later with National Security adviser Frank c. Cariucci. Gunman indicted fort Worth Texas a a Federal grand jury Haj indicted a Man on charges of holding a 10-year-old boy hostage at t Allas fort Worth International Airport. Solar Kaisim Abou Kassem a 26-year-old syrian National was arrested after a hostage incident that lasted nearly eight hours on Ian. 5. He is accused of holding the boy at gunpoint and threaten ing 10 kill Liim minorities did nol meet i demand for a flight 10 gunman freed the child unharmed and surrendered after police gave him a false immigration document that promised passage out of the country. Temperatures 44 m whew Doti european weather copter Squadron commander removed in Wake of fatal crash to Justin Calif. A the Squadron commander Tor five Marine killed in a helicopter crash last week has been re moved from his duties a Marine corps spokeswoman said it. Col. Sam j. Ware was removed As commander of one of two combat squad Rons of ch-53e super stallions Al Tustin Marine corps air station said 1st Cooper a Marine spokeswoman at Eltoro Marine corps air station. He was relieved for the slated reason of Lack of Confidence Cooper said tuesday. Neither Mai. Gen. Lot a Hudson com Mander of the 34rd Marine aircraft Wing who made the decision nor Coop or would provide further explanation of Hudson s action. Records show the heavy Marine Heli copter Squadron 465 that Ware and his predecessors commanded has been involved in More crashes and deaths than any other super stallion unit the Orange county Register reported thursday. Last thursday five Squadron Mem. Ben died when their super stallion crashed in the desert near the Sallow sea. Since the super stallion came into serv ice in 1981, four of seven major crashes and 13 of 20 Keithi have involved that Squadron the newspaper said. The Navy and Marine corps hive five squadrons of super Sla Luoni the Mitt Ury t Biggett and most expensive hot copters. Helicopter inspections turning up no additional problems army says by Norman Black a military writer Washington the army has been unable to meet in original timetable for inspecting a grounded Fleet of 750 Aht cobra helicopter gunships but the inspections conducted to Date have not turned up any problem a spokesman said wednesday. Mai. Phil Soucy said the army had hoped to Complete All the inspections by this week but the process is taking longer than we had the Good news though it that we re about 77 percent through and have yet to turn up any additional helicopters with a problem he added. Cobra helicopter inspections in Europe have been completed Usa eur spokeswoman sgt. Elaine Venema told the Stan and stripes thursday Soucy said roughly 570 of the 750 grounded choppers had passed inspection of their main Rotor Blade fittings and received clearance to return to serv ice. He declined to estimate when the remaining inspections would be completed. The army announced dec. 22 it bad temporarily grounded 7iu it 1,084cobras. The move was prompted by the results of an earlier inspection conducted in november and focused on those co bras equipped with a particular Type of main Rotor Blade Root end fitting the army said the fitting known As the k747 Root end fitting a made by a subsidiary of the Kaman corp. For the copter s prime con tractor Bell helicopter text Ron. The fit Ting has been used on both older Viet Nam Era cobras As Well As newly refurbished a is missile carrying ver Sions. According to the army two cracks in k74t findings were discovered during routine maintenance inspections in no vember. That discovery fed to a nov. 21 order for an inspection of All ah-1 co bras equipped with new fining of that Type that bad flown for 200 hours or less. Thai inspection in turn led to the discovery of a third crack and prompted the army wide order to inspect to tuck copiers Rutgar Datsi of right time. At this Point we still have Only the three in ski discovered Ori cushy Soucy said wednesday. According to the army the Root cad fitting ii a key piece of the Assembly by Whitfi the main Blade of the copter attached to the Rotor to Phuoc. Wen it actually to fail in flight a copter coot i Teitt main Blade. The Anny by described the Groa Dinas a safety precaution and hid there have been no accidents or Cribei Afi rib it a to the fitting the army and Kamu Are using ultrasonic equipment to inspect the fittings on each copter. The ah-1 cobra is a single engine two seat attack helicopter that a Exten Sive service in Vietnam. The army in tend to gradually replace the cobras with toe new ah-64 Apache gunship Butin the meantime is upgrading Many of the cobras to carry Tow anti tank mis Siles in addition to Hydra 70 rockets and 20mm Cannon. Germany seeks sex i s extradition in rape murder of German woman by thes Bui and Stripe a 23-year-old former Soldier has been charged in a rape and murder Case in Schweinfurt Germany and is appealing the court s extradition request Donald Dale Pentecost i is charged with the february 1986 rape and murder of Sabine Schoberth a 19-year-old Ger Man. Her nude body was found March 9 wrapped in a Green military Type poncho in a wooded area Between the Theun and Lipfeld Southwest of Schweinfurt. The charges against Pentecost Are based on statements Given an army investigator by Brian d. Knight the associated press reported. Knight 25, a former sergeant with Btry a i sign 10th Field arty is serving a life sentence in prison for the murder. District attorney Waller Mulzer in Schweinfurt said his office applied for the extradition of Pentecost from the United state tin May 21 after they realized be was also possibly involved in the rape and murder. The army tried and sentenced Knight in this Case but by the time the Penl Coit americans and we found out about the probable complicity of Penl Ecott in the killing Pentecost was in the . And a civilian Muzer said. A change in american Laws allows americas citizens to be extradited to. For eign countries to stand trial for crimes committed there he said. Germany does not extradite 111 Citi Zens but tries them Here at the request of foreign countries he Laid. A District court in Spokane Wash ordered Pentecost extradited but 8 fed eral court of appeals in san Francisco i reviewing the Case he said. We expect Pentecost s lawyer to take this All the Way to the supremo court before he it extradited so we May Hove to wait a few months Mulzer said. Gun Newi Cento a fatty led to a cohr Ibum Ion 0 Gnu Numis he Vohy we Nom of i. I2 Conrail crewmen used pot tests show Timp Nuh we Tim tend a sir miss Friss i 11 Patat g to u m. 9 11 a b b53 us Washington a both Crew men of the Conrail locomotive that ran a Stop signal and Slid into the path of speeding am talc passenger train were found to have marijuana in their system at the time of the Accident Federal investigators Taid wednesday. One source dote to the investigation said the amounts of marijuana on blood and urine samples taken from the women within hours of the Jan. 4 Accident near Baltimore were a sufficient amount to indicate possible chronic or recent use of the drug. It remained Uncertain however whether the Marijuan was Uff ident to have affected the performance of the Engineer or Bra Occman at the time of toe Accident said the source who asked notto be identified. Meanwhile motor vehicle officials i Maryland confirmed that the Engineer Richard Gates Tat a number of motor vehicle violations. They said he was cited for speeding and negligent driving in he past and last Monin was arrested for Drunken driving. The tens on gales 32, an 11-year employee of Conrail and the brakeman Edward Cromwell showed no evidence of alcohol in either of the men. Testa on tissue samples of the amen Engineer who along with is cute Gen we killed in the Accident showed no evidence of either alcohol or of facial drugs the Federal Railroad administration said. The tests were conducted by the civil aeromedical Institute in okla homa City
