European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Dod phasing out Auto on with defense switched network Page 2 d rolex girls steal $130,150 at Kentucky Derby Page 5 d Bucks pistons win in Aba playoffs., sports Page 21 the says and of ripes Ruth Otheo ukoffici1l put location Fob Ujj vol. 46, no. 23 sunday May 10, 1987 co forces 08693 a Chart withdraws from race blasts scrutiny of private life Denver a an angry and defiant Gary Han dropped his 26-Day Campaign for the 1988 democratic presidential nomination Friday denouncing the intense scrutiny of his personal lire As an intolerable situation for himself and his family. I believe i would have been a successful Candi Han said in an impassioned 10-Minutc statement to hundreds of reporters and Campaign workers jammed into a howl ballroom. And i know j could have been a very Good president particularly for these times. But apparently now Well never the departure of the front runner iffy a crowd of Distant also rans to fight for the nomination. Hart whose Campaign disintegrated in less than a week after the Miami Herald reported about his week end activities with a Miami Model entered with his wife. Lee at his Side. I be made some mistakes. I be said so the former Colorado senator told his supports. Maybe big mis takes but not bad mistakes. Bui he said. Now clearly under present Circum stances. Ibis Campaign cannot go on. "1 refuse to submit my family and my friends and innocent people and myself o further rumours and gos sip. It s limply an intolerable the Man who until last week was by far the demo cratic front runner snid he had intended to come to inc nationally televised news conference and read a Short carefully worded political statement saying that i was withdrawing from the race and Hen quietly disappear from the and , after frankly tossing and turning All night As 1 have for the last three or four nights 1 woke up about 4 or 5 this morning with a Start he said. And i said to myself hell nor " that caused a surge of excitement to Ripple through the crowd of supporters some of whom held to a taint Hope thai he might have changed his mind since deciding thursday to abandon his Campaign. Gary Hart announce his decision to withdraw. A photo the supporters seated in folding chairs applauded As Hart continued i m a proud Man and proud of what i be when applause interrupted him again. Hart winced and said i appreciate it but let s gel through this. I m not a beaten Man i m an angry and defiant Man Hart said. I be said that i Bend but i Don t break. And believe me i m not Hart s Campaign which had been years in the Mak ing but formally opened april 13, began to fall apart sunday when he Miami Herald reported he had spent most of last weekend with Donna Rice a 29-year-old Miami actress and Model at his Washington own House while his wife remained in Denver. We take no Joy in the announcement or. Hart made today Heath Mari Wilher inc Herald s executive editor Saij in a prepared statement. Hart 50, has maintained that his relationship with Rice was innocent and that he had done nothing mor ally wrong. He insisted that his marriage of 28 years was stronger because hear his wife had survived two separations. But the reports fanned rumours Ihal Hart is a Womanizer rumours that have dogged him throughout the Campaign. And in a new Hampshire news conference on wednesday Hart refused to answer when asked whether he had Ever committed adultery. The Washington Post reported in Friday s editions that Han had made his decision to withdraw from the race after inc paper presented his staff with documented evidence of a recent Liaison Between Han and a Washington woman with whom he had had a Long term the Post quoted a senior Han aide As saying the Post s information accelerated the inevitable withdrawal of Hart from the race. In his Farewell speech Friday Hart sharply criticized the scrutiny he had received from the press during the past week. I guess i be become some kind of rare Bird some extraordinary creature that has to be dissected he said. We re All going to have to seriously question the system for selecting our National leaders that reduces the press of his nation to Hunters and presidential candidates to being hunted that has reporters in Bush is false and inaccurate stories printed photographers see Hart on Page 29 8 Ira guerrillas killed in police ambush Belfast Northern Ireland up Security forces Friday ambushed Irish Republican army guerrillas who at tacked a Village police station 30 Miles Southwest of Belfast with explosives authorities said. Eight Ira men and a passer by were killed and two policemen and 8 Soldier were slightly Hurt police said. Security sources said the Ira men placed explosives packed into Beer kegs into the shovel of a Bulldozer then rammed a Wall of the police station of the Rural Village of Lowig Hall As gunmen Riding on the Earth mover raked the area with gunfire. Theys said the six officers based in the Village were tipped off in Advance and elite units were moved in to replace them at teas 48 hours before the attack. The defenders opened fire on the attack ers killing eight Ira men in a in min ulc Exchange of fire. A passing civilian Driver was killed and his passenger was injured with head and Chest wounds police said. Authorities said the death loll was the highest in a single operation by the Ira since 1969. The Ira is fighting to end British Rule in mostly proles am Northern Ireland so it can be United with the Catholic Irish Republic. It was bloody Superb said a police reservist who was called up to Lake part in the operation. Gerry Adams the president of sinn poll fein the political Wing of the outlawed Ira accused British troops Ofta tog Thi ambush As pan of a shool to kill poll by against Catholic guerrillas. I can Only offer my sympathy to the families of the dead volunteers who were murdered while in service on behalf of the nationalist Cai Homie Community he said. A witness said that As soon As the Bull see ambush on Page 28 belgian town honors american As a fallen son he died fighting for b Mark Walsh Billburg Bureau ber1smenil, Belgium in a Little s modest memorial inscribed with residents who died Ujj the Jilg i Wrt tiie memorial belongs to an _ tier whose plane was shot Down near the i by German fighters. When someone Dies in War we do not Distin sons Aid to Navor of bar Ismenio therefore sergeant Young is a on april 13, 1944, staff sgt. James Young was a gunner on a by returning from an aborted combat Mission in Schweinfurt Germany. The 0 crewmen on the plane were on their Way Back to their base in Britain when German planes caught up with them at 21.000 feet. Young was killed by gunfire before the plane crashed in flames in the Woods outside Menil. The other nine crewmen survived
