European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 25, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 hotline set up for visiting nato seamen fort Laudi real Fin pull the  set up a Oil a Sailor hotline monday for anyone who d like to help entertain five ships full of nato sailors due to Dock at i Ort Everglades people can Call in and offer to have them Over for a Barbecue for example master chief Petty officer buddy Murray said at the naval surface weapons Cen Ter Here. Sailors at the Center record the names phone num Bers and details on the activities offered by callers then draw up a list to be posted when the ships Dock wednesday. Murray said. Sailors can then Moniaci he callers and make their own arrangements. The phone Tine were opened monday morning arid the response had been Good by midday. Murray said. One Man offered to Tain tour sailors on a dinner cruise up the Imra coastal waterway. A veterans of foreign wars Post offered to hold a Barbecue for 15 to 20 sailors. One woman caller who sounded elderly requested a mature non smoking Sailor but was vague about what entertainment was being offered Murray said. He recorded the offer As play it by car asked if there had been any offers for amorous entertainment Murray replied you arc going to gel some. All we can a is just try to use common sense and judgment. It s kind of up to he individual. We screen them. Inn of it sounds anywhere near reasonable we write it Down then let the sailors  the ships one each from Canada he nether lands. Germany. Britain and the United slates carry 200 to 250 sailors each and arc just coming off a series of nato exercises. Similar programs have been used extensively for american sailors visiting overseas ports but this May be the first Lime in has been used domestically. Murray said. It s Good for the sailors. It gels hem off the ship for the Day and lax them meet some local  he said. Pilots Call criticism of b-1b bomber Hogwash Washington Lui l pilots who Fly the hew us b bomber and their Boss called criticism of the aircraft Hogwash monday terming it the Best air plane in the world and saying its problems arc Well on the Way 10 being fixed. The primary problem they told a sen ate armed services subcommittee involves its defensive Black boxes or electronic  equipment but testing is under Way to bring the sys tem up to Par. It s the Best warplane in the world today on anybody s Side and it s even going to be a better warplane  Gen. John to Chain jr., head of Floc strategic air come told the panel. The plane s trouble from fact leaks 10 electronic problems to glitches in radar to stability difficulties have put 11 in the headlines. The air Force plans to buy 100 of the new bombers for $20.5 billion and officials said monday inc program will stay within its budget targets. They have however asked Congress for $800 million in fiscal i98b and 1989, with some of the Money o be used for improving the Black  it. Cot. Mike Kenny a b-1b instructor Pilot said he new plane can do a far belter Job of penetrating soviet air de lenses than the b-52. The kindest word for that criticism about the plane is Hogwash said Kenny. Capt. Fred Strain an electronic War fare crewman said without a double i d take he i in to War Omorrow. It s much belter than the b-52, even in its preset  it gun. Bernard p. Randolph air Force Deputy chief of staff for research development and acquisition said gel Ling inc plane s defensive electronics 10 meet specifications is the lop Priori i y and is the Only major Clement running behind schedule. Randolph also said bugs in Ilia Low. Level radar have been fixed unit Chain said the fuel leakage problem was solved by scaling rivets in compartments that hold fuel. Strain said allegations the plant1" elec tronic offences and defences Jam each other Are entirely untrue absolutely  the House armed services commit tee also plans hearings on the plane later this week. 7-year-old boy awaits donor liver Pittsburgh a Organ procurement officials said monday they have begun searching for a liver for 7-Ycar-old Ronnie Dewillers whose desperate need for a transplant has won inc nation s attention and president Reagan s support doctors say the frail bespectacled Miami boy May not live much longer without a suitable donor liver. He s very pleased to be on the waiting list his Mother Maria Dewillers said monday evening. Bui he s still very scared. He talks a lot about them not being Able to find a liver and would he  i try to Tell him we re Only going of think positively de Sitters 31, said from her son s bedside at Chil Dren s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Ronnie s name was added to the Pittsburgh trans Plant foundation s waiting list Friday after tests deter mined he was a suitable transplant candidate. Ronnie was bom with liver duds lop Small to expel fluids a condition that has caused his liver to fail. His need for a liver transplant became news two weeks a after hic pcs stole $4,000 collected by classmates at his fort loud Cradle Fia. School 10 help pay for the operation. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago . 25, 1947 electric switches were thrown on in Britain s Industrial midlands restoring Power to thousands of factories blacked Oul for two weeks by the worst Coal shortage in he nation s history. 30 years ago today. Feb. 25. 1957 an israeli official said Israel would not regard the United nations As a mediator in the Middle East if it invoked sanctions against hem. Meanwhile. Egypt declared it would return 10 he area. 20 years ago today ,.feb. 25. L%7 District attorney Jim Garrison claimed in new Orleans to have solved the Kennedy assassination. Two Days earlier. David w. Ferrie. A Man Garrison claimed was a conspirator was found dead. Garrison called it suicide. 10 years ago today. Feb. 2i. 1177 former heavyweight Boxer Joe Louis. 62. Was ordered by i doctor in Las vegas to rest for a few Days at Ler suffering angina pains that the Brown bomber Saiu he believed were from an old wrestling injury clinic target of bomb an unidentified Man examines a piece of a pipe bomb thai was discovered and detonated at a Cincinnati abortion Dink no one was injured when firefighters removed the bomb from the flu mrgaret Sanger Center which offers abortions and family planning services. Ann Mitchell local Leader of planned parenthood said the clinic is determined to remain open. Skydiver saved by Reserve Chute after lengthy fall Kalamazoo. Mich. Up a skydiver is tips pit Alicd in Good condition monday after plummeting 2,200 feet during a demonstration jump before his Reserve Chuie caught in tre Clops about 40 feet from the ground authorities said. Terry Urban 2b. Of Portage was among four Mem Bers of the free flight skydiving Cam perform ing Sun Day Al a festival at the bittersweet ski resort near Olse go. Fellow learn members said the main canopy on Urban s Chute failed to open and he was unable to activate a Reserve Chute unil he was about 1 10 feet from he ground. Urban s Reserve Chute was snagged by a tree and he calmly directed his hour Lone Rescue while he was sus Pended about 40 feel from me ground said free flight team member Brett Mansburger. Mansberger said Urban was still travelling at Termi Nal velocity or about 100 rope when he Hii the Trees breaking his left leg. Urban was listed in Good condition monday it Bur Gess medical Center in Kalamazoo a Hosp ii ii spokes Man said. Urban instructed paramedics and firefighters who immobilized the injured leg and ran a ground line through the straps on his Parachute harness. Tho Chute was then released and Urban was lowered to the ground. Urban has been skydiving for about in years and team members said learning How to handle such emergencies As an unexpected for Mcfall due to Chuie failure has become second nature to All of them. The Cam had performed without incident at he same ski resort saturday and Al nearby Timber Ridge ski resort a week ago team members said. Bookie takes a Gamble on Oral Roberts Las vegas nov. \ p a Las vegas spoils honk is asking stale gaming officials for approval to Post Odds on whether evangelist Oral Roberts will raise the s4.5 million he says is needed to keep him aim. Bui the head of the state gaming Ron int Hoard said inc Odds of such a Wager being allowed Are slim. "1 think it s fair of assume. That Obeji Neswit would be no said Board s chairman Bart Jacka. Gene Maday of link Asars Spons Book posted the be Friday but said no Odds would be placed and no Money taken unless Gam ing officials gave their consent. Maday Send a Klier to Jacka on Friday asking fur permission to offer the Wager. Jacka said monday he had not Yel received the letter. Roberts announced on his National television shows Jan. 4 and Jan. 11 thai god had spoken to him and told him to raise 54.5 million for medical and Mission Ary scholarships by March or i m going to Call you  officials at Oral Roberts University in t Ulvi okla., announced that ii.6 million was raised in inc first 10 Days following the Appeal. The Appeal earned a juror among some stations carrying the broadcasts and school officials mopped announcing the amount thai had been raised