European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday january 17,1987 doing beautifully Washington a presi Dent Reagan is doing Cauti Jelly and no problems in any Ivery from pro Slali wednesday j Hullon Thop in a statement Iwhite House i is said the pro Tomalty within j Idem we the amount a the Oval Ivice Percsi Hie Fofol iter will r Frank is Hain his hindi col physic ii porters Tarry a covery Spe Alrui. The Creasi spend there Wil Bush an re an an1cunty and gun copter Squadron comma Der Wake hts Strash Tustin Calif a the Squadron commander for five marines killed in a helicopter crash last week has been moved from his duties a Marine spokeswoman said. La. Cot. Sam j. Warewj�4�rnoved a commander of  squad Rons of ch-53eir a stallions at Tusti Marine go fir station said 1st it Shawn wiper a Marine spokeswoman Toto Marine corps air station. He was relieved for the stated reason Lence Cooper said r full her Mai. German Der of the 34rd marry Wing who made the decision nor c. 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 Salton sea. The super stallion came into serv Muky of seven Ruu a Crane and 13 Otti Byci Jive involved hat Squadron their the Navy and  five squadrons of super stallions the Mili tary s biggest and most expensive Heli copters. Helicopter inspections turning up of Ona problems Arm no by Norman Blai a military writer Washington the army has been unable to meet its original timetable for inspecting a grounded Fleet of 750 Aht cobra helicopter gunships but the inspections conducted to Date have no 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 is that about 77 percent through and a turn up any additional Bielic problem he added. Cobra  in Europe have been Eom wed Usa eur spokeswoman say Elaine Venema told the stars and Bipes thursday roughly 570 of the 750 ground a choppers had passed to spec of their main Rotor Blade fillings received clearance to return to serv Wilh a he declined to estimate when the re ining inspections would be Corn led. By announced dec. 22 Hitler Naporan jul under 750 of map cobras. Thclma twas pro Alra by the results of an  conduct Din november and Philipn those co bras equipped a Palmar Type of main to Lafmae Root end of Rhu the Arr tiling known As the k747 fitting is made by a subsidiary of the. Aman corp. For the copter s prime con tractor Bell helicopter text Ron. The fit Ting has been used on both older Viet Era cobras As Well As newly refurbished a is missile carrying ver Sions. According to the army two cracks in k747 fittings 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 fittings of that Type that had flown for 200 hours or less. That inspection in turn led to the crack and prompted de order to impede ill  regardless of flight time. At this Point we still have Only the three cracks discovered originally Soucy said  to the army the Root end fitting is a key piece of the Assembly by which the main Blade of the copier 11 attached to the Rotor spindle. Were i actually to fail in flight a copter could lose its main  army has described the grounding y precaution and said thereto accidents or crashes attributed to Fly coining. The army and Kamanar using urmanic equipment to inspect the fittings on Fluke Opter the ah-1 cob pcs a single engine two seat attack  saw Exten Sive service in  army in tends to gradually replace a cobra with the new ah-64 Apache Guy top Bat in the meantime is upgrading Robu of the cobras to Cany Tow anti tank this Silea in addition to Hydra 70 rocket and20mm Cannon. Dod Central american policy chief planning retirement this month Washington a Nestor d. Sanchez the defense department s ranking civilian official for Central american affairs has decided to retire for personal reasons at the end of the month the Pentagon said thursday. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman said Sanchez just wants to go Home to live on his farm in Leesburg  the retirement has nothing to do with the investigation of the iranian Arras controversy the spokesman said addin defense Secretary Caspar a Weinberg or ii sorry to see him  Sanchez 59, retired from the Central intelligence Agency in 1981 after 30 years of service to assume his Pentagon Post of Deputy assistant defense Secretary for inter american affairs. A native of Magdalena n.m., Sanchez holds a Bachelor s degree in political Sci ence from the new Mexico military Institute and a master s in geopolitics from Georgetown University. In an interview with the new York times Sanchez said be would not be surprised if he was called As a witness in the Iran Contra probes but added that no one had requested his testimony As yet. He also said he had not been involved in any improper activities. Several congressional committees Are investigating revelations that profits from the Sale of american weapons to Iran were secretly diverted to the . Backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua at a time when Congress had barred financial assistance. Weinberger has denied that any officials within the Pentagon knew of the diversions. Sanchez in his position was responsible for formulating defense department positions on Central american  also represented the Pentagon routinely at Inie Agency meetings with officials from the state department Cia and National Security Council. Sanchez s Job also involved Monitor ing both official and unofficial military Aid to the Contra. He has acknowledge that he and others in government were aware of private Covert Aims shipments but stressed he did not know where the shipments originated 2 Conrail crewmen used pot tests show Ashington a both Crew men  ill  that ran a Slop signal  path of a speeding Amtrak p found to have marijuana in the at the time of the Accident Federal investigator said wednesday. One source close to the invest said the amounts of Marijuan and urine samples take of Fern the two men  Jan. 4 Accident near a Lantere were a sufficient Gnu 10 indicate possible chronic or recent use of the drug. It remained Uncertain however whether the marijuana was sufficient have affected the perforrnancuu0ior  Ihne of the who asked not loj meanwhile  in Maryland confirmed that Richard Gates has a number _ vehicle violations. They said he was cited for speeding and negligent driving in the past and last month was arrested for Drunken drive in 11-year email and the Bra Lemau Edward Cromwell showed no evidence of alcohol in either of the men. Tests on tissue samples of the a Trelc Engineer who along with 15 Pau Engen was killed in the Accident showed no evidence of either alcohol or Kugal us the Federal Railroad Adrai Nistis mid. The tests were conducted by the of few Medica Institute in okla homa City