European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagett the stars and stripes wednesday March is 1967 army acts to reduce number of gis run Over while asleep Washington api the army alarmed by the number of in soldiers who arc being run Over in to ctr sleep by tank and other vehicles has launched a new safely Campaign and demanded Al Richcr disciplinary action by officers against troops who ignore safely guide lines. Getting run Over by a tactical vehicle is not an should not be something soldiers expect to happen especially when they Are sleeping. Bui happen it docs and too often according to a report appearing in  an army safely  report said that from March 25, 1984, to oct. 28, 1986, 22 sleeping soldiers were run Over in 19separate accidents during Field raining exercises. Seven of inc soldiers died the report said. Eight of the accidents involved tracked vehicles the other 11 involved wheeled vehicles. In three of the accidents iwo soldiers were run Over the report concluded that Moil of the accidents occurred for two reasons soldiers went to sleep in areas where they should t have and vehicle drive failed to Send Oul Crew members As walking guides to spot sleeping soldiers it found that 74 combat vehicles had been involved in accidents Over he past three years because of improper ground  those accidents resulted in 12 fatalities and 71 injuries and left is million Worth of damage in their Wake the report found. The army was unable monday to provide precise figures on accidents involving sleeping soldiers before 1984 but acknowledged that such mishaps appeared Tobe increasing. In launching the new safety Campaign count Ernie sure included a photograph on ils cover showing an armoured personnel Carrier bearing Down on two sol Diers zipped into sleeping bags. Lax weather reports poor data from controller tied to fatal crash Columbia. . A failure to relay Laic breaking weather reports and poor instructions from an air traffic controller were factors in a fatal of a Jet fighter crash in october according to records obtained by the associated press the problems allowed it Ralph a. Cyr to try to land in weather worse than he was expected to land in the official air Force investigation concluded. The a used the Federal Freedom of information act to obtain the report on the oct. 9 crash near Shaw fab. Which is about 30 Miles Easi of  weather also contributed to a second fatal f-16 crash near Shaw on nov. 12, in which u. Col. Eric  died a preliminary report by the air Force said. The base commander and the Man in charge of radar tracking and air to ground communications were reassigned following he crashes but the air Force gave no reason Why they were reassigned and their names did nol appear in the investigative report obtained by the a. That report said Cyr 24, described by his Superior Sas an average Pilot who had some difficulties flying the sophisticated plane by instruments had logged 172hours flying figs. His superiors were concerned enough about his abilities thai they had him Fly the Mission on oct. 9 with a highly qualified Pilot in a second f-16.the worst weather Cyr was supposed to tackle was a Cloud ceiling of 500 feet and visibility of in Miles. On oct. 9, he tend to land with a 300-foot ceiling and one mile of visibility investigators  obtained by the a said maj Randall c. Harville the supervisor of flying the night of cyr1 crash did nol pass along weather reports from pilots who said the weather was worse than it should have been for a Landing by someone with Cyr s qualifications Harville old investigators he did t give As much credence to weather observations from a Pilot who had just landed As he did to observations by forecasters Onich base. Cyr tried to make an instrument Landing and the report said that during the last four Miles of the approach the controller s trend and distance information was poor. ,. The controller did not take Posi Tive control actions to recover the approach and did nol use Standard phraseology in issuing instructions it said. The Walher was similar the night Olivcr crashed an died. Olver 38, had 366 hours in figs. Detailed re ports on that crash have not yet been released by i hair Force. Sex Fri informant called lawmaker agent of influence for Nicaragua Washington up rep pal Schmo Cdr d-colo., is described As an agent of i influence. Openly working on behalf of Nicaragua s government in profile a former Fri informant says he prepared for a Bureau Book on suspected terrorists Schroeder is also accused in a error isl photograph album of actively raising Money for Nicaragua government according to a copy of a form inc former informant Frank Varelli gave to United press inter National. In his affidavit Varelli said the photograph album was intended to provide a collection of the individuals who were Active or interested in Central american policies who might have terrorist  the listing on Schroeder gives her terrorist affiliation As "sandin1sta marxist Leninist and her official position As agent of influence under a narrative of activities it says that sch Rooder is affiliated Wilh groups backing the Nicaragua government. She is openly working on behalf of the sandinista government in the ., i says. Schroeder labelled Varelli s comments in the profile absurd monday and expressed outrage at the characterizations of her , who is suing inc Fri for Back pay now acknowledges thai he had no reliable evidence when rewrote the allegations on the form in 1984, he has previously said he wrote similar sketches for the album on about 700 american critics of Central America  asserts that while working As a paid informant for the Fri s Dallas office from 1981 to 1984, hews instructed by his Bureau supervisor special agent Daniel Flanagan to use literature from conservative groups in writing the profiles. Varelli said Flanagan also gave him copies of the form and he names of clergy and elected officials to be included inthe  in reality i have serious double that every one that ended up in this Lburn can truly be characterized As a terrorist Varelli said in an affidavit filed in connection with his Federal court suit he said in an inter View thai Flanagan told him the profiles were Tel exed to Fri Headquarters in Washington and pm of. Distributed to several Schroeder Fri Field office. Flanagan who resigned from the Bureau in 19s4and now is a Dallas insurance Salesman is facing an internal Fri inquiry into allegations he kept some of Varelli s informant s fees and May have shared Classi fied information Wilh him. Flanagan refused to comment on Varelli s allegations. Stateside Dill to legalize killing of cats draws big howl Augusta Maine a activist monday criticized the sponsor of a legislative proposal to legalize the killing of cats that attack Domestic animals. Priscilla feral director of new englander Cindi or animals inc., said inc proposal by rep. Paul of Jacques is More than  comes from an angry Baleful Point of View but Jacqui defended the Bill which would allow livestock and poultry owners to kill marauding cats. Dog killing in similar circumstances is Legal in Maine. It s about time cat owners take a Little responsibility. If All else fails somebody should be Able to shoot a cat Jacques said. He said he sponsored the Bill to help a couple of Bird raisers who were in a dispute with a neighbor Over Ca mucks. 6 boy scours Leader rescued by helicopter Ojai Calif. A a helicopter airlifted is boy scouts and their Leader from a wintry Wil Durness monday after they became trapped by Snow during a weekend Caro pout sheriffs deputies  boys aged 12 to 16, Sel out saturday afternoon with their Leader Bob Ashbrener fora two Day hike on Pine Mountain but poor weather conditions prevented their return sunday afternoon it. Lou Mccombs said. The weather prevented a helicopter from Fly ing in on sunday and forced Ventura county sheriffs deputies to halt Rescue efforts. But the youths were dressed warmly and had food with them for an extra  monday afternoon the Walher cleared. Mccombs said. They spent the night at the 4,500 to i,000-foot level of Reyes Peak on Pine Mountain. 14 Miles North of Ojai he said. Unarmed minuteman Iii flies 4,200 Miles to target Vandenberg fab. Calif. Up an unarmed minuteman Iii missile was launched Early monday and flew 4.200 mile to its targeting the Kwajalein missile Range air Force officials said. The 12 22 . Launch was the 127th in series of operational lest launches of the missile system. Senior Amman Mike Addison said after a flight of about 30 minutes the unarmed re entry vehicles were tracked 10 the tar get in the Kwajalein missile Range some 4.200miles Southwest of Vandenberg Addison said the airborne launch capability allows Crew flying in specially modified Boeing ec-j35 jets to provide a backup in Case ground based launch Crews Are unable to Send missile launch com mands to minuteman  Addison  s launch culminated More than three months of work by a 32-person task Force fro the 320th strategic missile so based at , War Ren fab in Wyoming Addison said. 2 test records broken by California seniors Sacramento Calif