European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Olivier at 80 the greatest actor of our generation Page 13 d celtics top pistons take 2-0 series Lead sports Page 21 d the Dollar through monday buys 1.76 Marks rates Page 27 the stars and self clues vol.16. No. 36 saturday. May 23,1987 author cd a Morrical Pual Catick d 8693 a Reagan eulogies dead sailors 2,000 offend memorial service sign of grief Fredo Behring of Mayport Fla erects � luge sign Over a Motel la pro claim that total people share the Heartbreak of families who lost loved ones in the persian Gulf attack on the frigate Stark. The sign overlooks the Road leading to nearby Mayport Natal station Home Bak of i he Stark. Of for a s Florida Home port May of is Fla. A presi Dent Reagan Obday led the nation in mourning the 37\iilors killed aboard the Stark telling tier survivors that heir loved ones were Orf Hnnry men who did extraordinary things is hey were in a somber held in a hot hangar at the Stahl Home port the president said the saints killed in sunday s missile attack in we persian Gulf gave up their lives wider War and greater conflict of child be two thousand people filled the1 Gar including 300 relatives and Fric Nof the victims whose remains have no yet been resumed to the United stale for burial. Among the mourners we Crew members at Honic on leave the iraqi Jet carried out its Surprise Altac Reagan and his wife. Nancy of to the base near Jacksonville for Secretary of defense can Wein Berger and other in the hushed steaming hangar no hers and children fanned pro Grams and hugged one Ano Fer. It was the Siart of aug Morial Day weekend made even Nore real by the week s events in the Jap Riddle East Naif a world away. Rear adm. Jorj Mcnamara chief of naval chaplains be first praying to god in this air fall hangar made your Temple to Caj sole us now with the Faith conviction that one Day we will be with them aft in your lord to rec Young sailors invested their life so Good in the future of Ameri Ca. May i redeem thai invest men by our of Devotion to the land they loved Mcnamara prayed. New Secretary of the Navy James we vhf promised the families "1 pledge to in that neither you nor they will before Riblen la her chaplains added their prayers and rear adm. Michael Lyre res the group commander of the Suk and other ships in inc Gulf read a of Asp from the Hook of Wisdom for no Oung they Are in it of ,. " he read. They arc truly Aan Catly blessed be cause god has Jred them and found them worthy a himself. As Gold would be proved inn Macc so were hey " Reagan Pra to Solace the families by explain Zimnal peace is at stake in . A hostile Power Ever to Domi Nat Phis strategic Region and its re it would become a choke Point Freedom that of our allies and our the president said. After his speech sailors fired a 21-gun Iule outside the hangar and the Plain sound of taps echoed through the r. Loud sobs and cries filled the air. In bar music from a Navy band the pee Sidcot and the first lady slowly walk Down inc rows of Nusl of Kin shaking ends and offering a few words of Congo non to each. He slopped to find a Chaj for an elderly woman who had fail i Reagan Nylk his wife took More than half an hour Nemake their Way through the rows of miners. It was a chore we reagans have per formed before -5fcjncluding memorial services for the Allan Ger astronauts for servicemen kill a in Lebanon and Grenada and for Aitken killed when their plane crashed in and the audience was Emch the same Young mothers cradling suing babies parents almost overcome a Trief men and women accepting hugs of sorrow from the reagans. In his remarks Reagan lame Rad that the Burden of our time is so diff Wal from that faced by earlier generation recalling the casualties of world ii he said while our sorrow was see Reagan on Page 23 sailors say Stark s defense system was down1 Manama Bahrain up Navy technicians from the . Middle East naval Force say the Stark s Phalanx anti missile system had computer problems at least one Day before iraqi missiles slammed into the american warship. The two sailors allegations add fuel 10 the controversy emerging Over the ship s Bailie procedures in the strife torn per Sian Gulf and dispute official remarks that the vessel was Mission ready when it was attacked sunday and 37 americans were killed. The Navy has said the Phalanx system was in a manual Mode until it was too late to intercept the incoming iraqi mis Siles. Shark capt. Glenn Brindel has said the Phalanx was not activated because the missiles were not detected until i was too late to engage them. The allegations came hours before a memorial service Friday attended by president Reagan at the Mayport naval station in Florida the Slark s Home port. The two sailors in Bahrain spoke to United press International and another . News organisation thursday on condition of anonymity hours after rear adm. Grant Sharp and six other officers opened 1 lie Navy s investigation into the attack. The Slark was in port saturday and the Phalanx was Down one Sailor said. "11 was something he said Stark sailors requested a spare part far the Phalanx and we did t have it. They never had i As far As we know the guns were Down one technician said. They just see sailors on Page 28 Usa eur stiffens penalties for driving drinking Heidelberg in its Liesl move to Degla Noffz the us of alcohol by soldiers the army has tightened up the penalties for Drunken driving in of n the latest version of usar Eui 7n which quietly went intndjk0wTtr contains stiff new a or sound assigned in Ger Many vt0gona10 be under the influence of Alco hol and behind the wheel. Ulai Ion outlines driven he tougher penalties apply to sonnet in the Federal Republic since some sections refer airmen to separate air Force regulations. The officials said they bad just received the regulation and we re reviewing it. A spokesman for the army s motor j/chicle_reei5tr on Nav we be made what happens at those Levels a lot More " under the new regulation Drivers with an alcohol Ito 0.79 per Mill liter of whole blood will Impi Days. Be assessed six traffic Points and brass Diat driving and
