European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Star wars fans rejoice the Saga will continue Page 3 q soviet historian downgrades Stalin s wait role Page 9 d stories co help keep you healthy pages 16,17 author died unofficial push Kitich for the amid Force vol. 46, no. 39 tuesday May 26, 1987 n,i, 0 8693 a Iran Iraq get senator s warning Manama. Bahrain a sen. James a or sonic monday after his fact finding Mission into the tit Vas Laling Iii raid against the Navy frigate Slark. The United state will not any armed Al Lark in american ships by any a his remarks were ohm Nusly targeted at warring Iraq and ran. An iraqi missile strike on May 17 killed 37 american sailors on the Navy warship. Kuwaiti officials said the Tennessee Democrat assured them the United slates is determined to protect Freedom of navigation in the persian Gulf and ensure the How of Oil to Industrial cd countries. A Lisset spent ,16 hours in Brt brain he visited Ilie nearly damaged Stark now at Anchor and later met with Bahrain s ruler. Sheik Isa bin Sulman Al Khalifa and foreign minister Sheik Mohammed bin Mubarak. The san nor then flew 10 Kuwait where he explored Security measures for kuwaiti Oil tankers due to sail the Gulf sea lanes under the american Flag. Talking to reporters at Kuwait Airport before he left for Washington. W the a Popover in Europe Sasser said that the alack on the might Lei frigate was Acci dental and that Iraq apologised for it Sasser was the first of three senators dispatched to tic Gulf by Senate majority Leader Robert Byrd. . To look into the incident. Sasser told a news con Ference in Bahrain sunday he had not been Able to determine whether the Slark could have prevented the attack. Later in the House of saw Zakhem . Ambassador to Bahrain Sasser Dis cussed the episode with rear adm. Harold i. Born san commander of the . Middle is task Force and adm. David n. Rogers Deputy director of operations with the joint chiefs of staff. After an overnight stay and a Quick trip to he Stark Rogers flew to Baghdad he capital of Iraq on monday at the head of an eight Man joint team of state department and Pentagon investigators. A five member delegation of staff members of the . House armed serv. Ices committee led by John Lally a in Bahrain trying to ascertain whether see warning on Page 28 Golden finale honouring the Golden Gate fireworks provide a Lin ring Climax to the Daylong Soth anniversary Celebration of san Francisco s Golden Gate Bridge. The sunday Celebration Fea a photo a regalia tilth hundreds of ships yachts and pleasure twats an air show a so gun Salute and a Parade of until us curs Sec stun photo i age 5. From sea to sea . Remembers its military dead by inc associated press Wilh parades prayers and the playing of laps americans or snored their War dead monday on a me Morial Day made freshly somber by the painful Mem Ory of the 37 Sai Jorj killed on the Stark. For Many like the 300,000 expected in South Caro Lina s grand strand beaches the Day was also the Start of swimming Pool and Beach season. But High in the Colorado Rockies Trail Ridge Road through Hocky Mountain Naiona Park was closed by Snow. And. In Philadelphia a summer Long party opened fora 200-year-old document called the Constitution. Memorial Day ceremonies and services were held in communities across the nation from solemn Obser Vances with 2-gun salutes to Small town parades and speeches and dedication of new Vietnam veterans memorials. At the Arizona warship memorial in Pearl Harbor. Hawaii military representatives were to present a Lei Coj Taini � 2,335 Flowers one for each of the men killed in the japanese attack on dec. 7, 1941. At fort Campbell kj1., a Black Granite Monument was unveiled to Honor the 248 soldiers of the 101st airborne div who died in a 1985 plane crash at Gan Der Newfoundland while flying Home from a peace keeping Mission in the Middle East a season of grief has come to a close said maj. Gen. Teddy Allen the base commander. All of the men we recognize Here today with our Little flags they saved America for us 70-year-old Helen wit said at a cemetery at fort Worth Texas. God forbid thai we Ever forget Why we do these things an memorial Day that these men Laid Down i hair lives and saw their comrades die at Dover del., site of he air Force mortuary preparations were made for tuesday s arrival of a plane carrying the remains of 36 of the Stark victims. The body of one Sailor was not recovered. " Hope we can one Day rededicate ourselves nol in the memory of the 37 men and their families who Grieve for them today but for the cause of world peace Massachusetts gov. Michael s. Dukakis said after marching in the annual memorial Day Parade in Brookline mass., his Hometown. Navy Secretary James Webb placed a Wreath from president and Kirs. Reagan at the Tomb of the unknowns in Arlington National cemetery. It is by Lier to spend dollars for readiness than it is to spend lives Webb told people gathered in an Amphitheater near the unknown dead from America s last four wars. At the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington sen. Albert Gore jr., d-tenn., told a crowd of about 3,000 people that the Best memorial we can possibly create to Honor the dead from Southeast Asia would he to make War itself the next War if in is a nuclear confrontation could be the most obscene thing in history said Gore a see remembers on Page 28
