European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o property weight limits for gis under further study Page 2 d Senate confirms Webster As chief of Cia Page 5 o remembering the spirit of St. Louis Page 8, Magazine the s rms and Ives �u5 authorized unofficial pubuc1tion Fob vol. 46, no. 34 thursday May 21, 1987 Stark death toll Sisemo 37 . Gulf Fleet now has shoot first orders d 8693 a from press dispatches Washington the United slam tuesday vowed to maintain a naval presence in the persian Gulf under new fire first orders As the death loll from sunday s iraqi missile attack on the . Frigate Stark Rose to 37, making it the worst incident or its kind in recent us peacetime history. President Reagan praised the victims As heroes saying he has told . Ship patrolling the Gulf defend yourselves. Defend american  defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said to saudi arabian f-15 fighters had scrambled from their base if. Response to a . Radar surveillance plane that picked up the iraqi jul As it headed for the frigate and signed to give Chase. Bill saudi ground controllers Refus Edlo give permission to their pilots to Fol Low the iraqi plane telling Ihm to Lake no further action Weinberger told a Senate defense subcommittee. Related the radar plane was a . Air Force airborne warning and control system Azacs aircraft one of four based in saudi Arabia since 1981. Iraq formally apologized for he strike against the Stark saying it was in Inion Tiona the while House accepted the apology but demanded that Iraq pay compensation to the families of the dead sail on and for repairs to the Stark. But the families of the sailors await ing word of their Fate in Mayport ra., a photo rear adm. Harold Belsen answers reporters questions Ghoul the attack on the Stark. The Slark s Home port dismissed the apology. There was no excuse for the attack said sue Renner of Tennessee whose son Dante an operations specialist sur Vived the attack. " i m sorry Josl docs l gel i. Even if he s Fine sorry in t enough. There better be an inquiry said Robert heart Oclis of new Jersey the father of Christopher 24, an electronics technician who died. The question remained tuesday As Towhy cmdr. Glenn Brindel Captain of the Stark Wilh held his fire against the iraqi Jet and the missile despite More than a minute s warning time after the weapon was launched. Rear adm. Harold Sernsen com Mander of the Middle East forces in the Gulf said a watch Sailor spotted the iraqi missiles seconds before they hit the Stark but did not have Lime to warn the Crew. The Stark was towed to Bahrain by the guided missile destroyer Conyngham re ports from the scene said. Talking with newsmen in Manama Bahrain Bernsen said inc electronic de lenses aboard the Stark had not been Lumen on because the officers did not fear a missile attack. The Crew of the Stark did not believe the j were in any danger he said even though they saw the iraqi fighter bomber homing in on  said in was his understanding that the frigate was hit by two missiles sea Stark on Page 28 2 burned Stark sailors doing very Well by Drenda Hoster stuff writer Wiesbaden two sailors seriously injured in the attack on the frigate Stark Are i n stable condition atthe Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center Wilh Burns Over 40 percent of their bodies a Hospital spokesman said. They were flown to the Hospital Earl tuesday morning. They have weathered the first 24 hours of their condition very very Well or. Col Robert a. Gil More director of Hospital services at Wiesbaden said tuesday. Oil Nore speaking to reporters at Lindsey As near the Wiesbaden Hospital identified the iwo Crew Mem Bers As Petty officer 3.c, Lawrence m. Bareford and Petty officer 3.c. James Wheeler. Bareford 23, is from Fredricksburg va., and Wheeler 28, is from Elpaso Texas Pentagon official said. Twenty five members of the flying ambulance surgical trauma team from Wiesbaden and two surgeons from the Amy regional medical Center in Frankfurt flew to Bahrain Early monday to accompany these piously injured sailors on the flight to Germany. Gilmore who headed the team said the ship s physician treated 15 other Stark Crew members for minor shrapnel wounds while still on Board the ship. Those sailors were then returned to duty. Four other Crew members were treated for minor injuries of a civilian Hospital and returned to duty. Gilmore said there Are no Stark Crew members still hospitalized in Bahrain. Bar Fprd and Wheeler arc in Wiesbaden s intensive care unit where they arc being to cried for numerous shrapnel wounds and Burns Gilmore said. Their medical care in Bahrain was fell to be Excel Lent and the two Are not in immediate threat of life he said. Certainly the primary risk to them in terms of their lives is thai of infection. If they arc going to get in trouble with thai in won l be until Aboul a week from  he said. These individuals being basically Young and healthy people will probably do Well battling in acc see sailors on Page 28 middleman fes of role As North Contra courier Washington a Robert w. Owen depicting life As Middle Man in the Iran Centra affair to Day testified about picking up Enve Lopes stuffed with Cash attempting to arrange secret Airdrop of weapons nicaraguan rebels and joking or tit . Oliver l North abour going to jail if discovered. On a couple of occasions we would ,j6out in and joke Owen said whar asked if there was any Dis Cussion about we Wincer he might go to jail far his re Druh a secret Supply operation ruffle contras at a time when .m was banned. Qwyn recalled Hal North who was an am on the National Security Council Laid of several occasion she would Alwi e the fall Guy if the pc Rel arms 5upp1y tort became publicly known. Testifying under oath with limited sen middleman on Pijoe 28 military s 1988 pay raise Likely to be limited to 3% Washington is almost certain thai a pay raise fur sew  will be limited to 3 Percy no effective Jan. I 1988. On monday the House during debate on the fiscal 1988 defense authorization Bill voted to push Forward in  Date of the pay raise from april i to Jan. The House armed services commit tee in drafting the Bill had set the Lak r Dale Lus the Aboul shoo million in the defense budget. The full House was Able to move Ihm up by three months after stripping he same amount of Money from the Pentagon s funding request for the strategic defense initiative. Tace Senate armed services Corr nit Lee in in version of the Bill recommended a by recent raise effective Jan. I. But most Swette com mince staffers said it s Likely thai Mill be lowered to 3 Pynx no when conferees cd 10 Iron out differences in the two Hills. I m nol too sure we can Sustin the higher figure said a Senate committee staffer. The pay raise is always a High profile Largel Lor budget