European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q financier Boesky pleads to securities charge Page 4 d drug use in military hits six year Low Page 9 q Aba nil playoff action sports Page 21 ii a a Domicim. Public Ilion fou Akmid Foickel vol. 46, no. 8 saturday. April 25, 1987 f ,., d 8693 a nes Cut embassy guards in i4 cities to serve 12 months by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Marine corps responding to the sex and spy scandal involving embassy guards has decided to reduce he tour length for marines pol led to 14 hardship posts the Pentagon said thurs Day Ruben Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman said the duty assignments Tor Marine guards assigned to the 14 cities most of which arc in communist countries would be reduced immediately from the Standard 15 months to one year in reviewing our procedures and having concerns about soviet efforts to use their hostile intelligence capability and to seduce or otherwise have some Way or mis leading our people we believe hat one or the problems that could be associated with dealing with that hostile intelligence threat a the tour length Sims said. A slightly Shorter tour length in an area where there arc already travel restrictions where there is a limitation on social Contact and where there is an obvious Opportunity for hostile intelligence to work upon our people a Shorter Lour length would be one Way to help us Cope with thai intelligence  Sims said the 12-month duty assignments would apply to the . Embassy in Moscow and the . Consulate in Leningrad As Well As to the embassies inthe capitals of Yugoslavia East Germany Hungary Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Poland Yugoslavia Leb anon Afghanistan China Cuba and  spokesman discussing the espionage scandal at see Tours on Page 28 App Tou rescuers carry an injured Workman from the collapsed building. Building s collapse kills 9 19 trapped in the rubble Bridgeport Conn. A a High Rise apartment building under construction collapsed thursday kill ing nine workers injuring a dozen and trapping 19 others under tons of Concrete and twisted steel beams the mayor said. The chances of finding anyone alive Are very minimal mayor Thomas Bucci said shortly before 10 . We Haven t Given up Hope. We re hoping there Are pockets within the destruction where survivor arc located he said. I m not optimistic. There s not a Bright Prospect we will be successful in finding any survivors alive but Well keep  forty no people including the 12 hospitalized survived. Bucci said. There were conflicting reports ear Lier of the number of casualties. Two people who had been counted among those on the site had called in sic that morning officer Brian Mccarthy said. Police said the search for those missing could take a week. Families gathered at a High school a few blocks away to await news of their  think some of the Guys Are still alive. There arc some tunnels where they could be getting air from Larry Edmonds a construction worker from another site who went to help with. The Rescue said late thursday night. There were voices earlier said Kenny Brett an ironworker who said he was on the ground floor when the Accident occurred. Most of them have stopped he said As night fell. I was Al the scene and 1 could hear see collapse on Page 28 gunman kills at least 8 in 2 Florida shootouts Palm Bay. A. A a Man armed with High powered rides an handguns opened fire at two downtown shopping centers thursday killing at least eight people and wounding at least 11, authorities said. The gunman then look three people hostage in a supermarket but he let them go about i a.m., 6ft hours after the shootings began police said. He s released the last hostage we Degassed he store and he says he s going to kill  said police it. Candice Leek. It s a wailing  police had been negotiating with theman Over a special Telephone line according 10 police spokeswoman Louise Brown who said he told authorities he did t want to Hurt any More  Marc than 200 police plus air Force canine units converged on the scene an police snipers were stationed on roof lops according to witnesses. Brown said a second Man was arrested in relation to he shootings bul authorities later determined he had not taken part in gunfire and thai there was in fact Only one  said rive people were found dead in the parking lot of one of in shopping centers. Officials at Holmes regional medical Center said three shooting fatalities were brought there. Brown said two of the dead were police officers. Initially police had said 12 were believed slain. In he confusion during the siege i remained Uncertain How High the death toll might climb. Several hours after the shooting began five buses rolled out of the shopping Cen ters crowded with people who were taken to a nearby k Mart for police inter views. Officials said the shooting started in front of a Public grocery store at the Sabal Palm shopping Center in this town 70 Miles Southeast or Orlando then continued across the Street at a Winn Dixie store where the hostages were taken. Cologne police believe of Pope not a threat Cologne. Echt any a pos ters showing the face Olla pc John Paul ii in the Center of a gun Silt Are pasted on the Walls of several building i a rough out the City police said thurs Cologne will be the first Slop on pontiffs five Day trip to West Germany which starts Panl 30. Police said they did not believe posters were the work of a group Ujj Ning an attack on the Pope. We Sec this instead Asj being something in grossly bad Lejk police spokesman Werner Schmo Tom the associated press. We in sight is superimposed on the the Pope. 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