European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday june 1,1987 Tempelhof s open House draws 700,000 people Berlin a record 700,000 people at tended the iwo Day open House at Tempelhof Central Airport for a weekend of air shows Mili tary Drill teams musical entertainment and Dis plays of historic planes. Retired col. Gail a Halvorsen known As the Candy bomber for dropping treats to Berlin children during the Allied Airlift spent the week end by a c-s4 aircraft similar to one he flew in the Airlift. People who were children during the Airlift spent up to 45 minutes wailing in line 10thank Halvorsen a Berlin military Community spokesman said sunday the open House has been held every year since 19 0, except in 19ft2. It was co sponsored this year by the District of Tempelhof As part of Berlin s 750th anniversary Celebration. The theme of this year s event was from balloon to Jet the dream of kids parents to continue with suit against Landis los Angeles up the parents of two children killed during the filming of the twi Light zone movie intend to press heir civil suits against director John Landis despite his acquittal of criminal charges it Means nothing. The verdict in a criminal Case has absolutely no nit eco on civil proceed Ings said Eugene Bir Chenon saturday. Birchen is i representing the parents of Irente Chen 6, who was i killed in 19s2 with actor Vic Morrow 53, and Myca Dinh Lee 7, when a Heli-1 copier crashed on them during filming of a Viet-1nam War scene. Ned Good the attorney representing the Lee family also said that his clients i Case will absolutely go for Birchen said that it will be easier for Bis clients to win their suit against Landis and his associates because they Are clearly guilty of neg 125. Pacific neighbors offer help in Fiji s crisis Apia Western Samoa a leaders of 12 South Pacific nations have offered to Send a delegation to Fiji to help solve the country s political crisis touched off by a military coup on May 14. Australian prime minister Bob Hawke said sat urday if the offer was accepted be would Lead the three person delegation that also would include so Lomon islands prime minister Ezekiel a Ebua and South Pacific forum official Henry Taisali. Hawke said at the end of he two Day Confer ence the offer had been sent to Fiji s governor general Ratu sir Pena a Tanilau. But Hawke did not say if there had been a response. Hawke said he was not aware of a radio Australia news report that Tanilau already had rejected the South Pacific forum includes Australia new zealand Papua new Guinea Western Samoa Tonga Niue Solomon islands Vanuatu Nauru coot islands. Tuvalu Kiribati and Fiji which did not attend this year. Future of bases linked to greek National issues Athens Greece a Premier Andreas Papandreou on saturday said talks on the future of four american military bases in Greece would be related to the country s major National issues. Speaking to reporters after a session of his ruling panhellenic socialist movement s Central committee Papandreou said the Basic con Lent of such a dialogue with the United Stales would concern our major National Papandreou said in parliament last week that Greece will not sign a new bases agreement with the United states until the Accord has been approved in a an agreement is reached we will Call a referendum so that the people May decide before this Accord is initiated or signed Papandreou reiterated. Talk of embassy destruction premature official says Moscow a the new . Embassy in mos cow needs Radical restructuring bul it is premature to talk of tearing it Down the head of a presidential review commission said James Schlesinger appointed by president Reagan in february to report on Security at the embassy poured the Structure for two hours saturday. He had arrived in Moscow Friday afternoon to assess the unoccupied embassy and to hold meetings with embassy officials. . Officials have charged that the soviet Union riddled the red Brick Structure with bugging devices during construction. The Senate intelligence commit tee has recommended it be torn Down and Reagan has said he May have o order it destroyed. Schlesinger a former defense Secretary and Cia director Wilt be in Moscow for about a week. He said be plans to make his report to Secretary of state Georg Shultz in a month. He told reporters saturday that a great Deal of reconstruction needs to be done to make the embassy or. Shutlz when he was Here described the Struc Ture As honeycombed indeed it is honeycombed. We Are working at attempting to get a full inventory of the attempts 10 intrude on the embassy at the present time. We re going to have to have Radical restructuring of the building bul it would be premature to decide Toter the entire building Down Schlesinger said he said he had seen a Good a a of poor workmanship As Well As some Good construction in Side the building. In an apparent reference to soviet bugging efforts he added unfortunately the poor work is what we paid the embassy which has been under construction for eight years is far behind schedule and far above its original Price estimate. The Complex located on a Hill in bade of the current embassy compound is about two thirds Complete. There had been . Media reports of bugging but the United states said nothing about them officially until this Spring when charges of espionage Mush roomed into a bitter dispute. Kremlin from Page 1 red Square. But officials at the German embassy in Moscow said sunday they were told they could meet with the teen Ager Early this week. Falin a former ambassador o Germany also was quoted As saying soviet air defenders mistook rust s plane for a soviet aircraft. Falin said soviet radar picked up the .-built Cessna 172 As it entered soviet airspace Over estonian thursday and monitored it on it Way to Moscow. But people assumed thai this was a soviet aircraft and no attempt was made to positively identify it he was quoted As saying. The soviet defense minister and the commander of the nation s air defense system were both dismissed from office saturday night two Days after rust s sensational touchdown in Moscow s red Square next to the Kremlin. The soviet Union s ruling politburo said that soviet radar detected the Cessna and soviet fighter jets had twice flown around it but apparently did nothing. This event has shown How incomplete the air de sense system is a system that was set up to keep our airspace under control Falin said in the report. Falin s comments suggested that air defenders misidentified rust s plane even though in bore a German Flag on its Tail and letter markings that do not exist in the russian cyrillic alphabet. Falin according to the Morgen Post said the Dis missed defense minister and air defense commander had borne the necessary harsh in september 1983, soviet warplanes hot Down a South korean Airliner after in strayed into siberian airspace killing All 269 people aboard. Soviet official alleged the Airliner was on a spying Mission. Western officials denied it. The Falin interview was to appear in the Morgen Post s monday editions bul was Tel exed in Advance to news agencies on sunday. The Morge Posl did not specify when or where it spoke to Falin. Meanwhile the mass circulation newspaper Bild am Sonny a published a four Page Story profiling rust and tracing his two week voyage in the borrowed Elisna through Scandinavia preceding his Odyssey from Helsinki Finland to Moscow. The newspaper interviewed friends and acquaint ances of rust in an attempt to pin Down possible motives for his flight to red Square. He s a person with a Strong sense of Justice Bild quoted a school Friend. Axel who was not further identified As saying. Rust was not known to have been politically Active but he wanted the world to find Justice. He wanted to do anything for that Axel was quoted As saying. Growth from Page 1 Standard of living of americans overseas but said the Dollar s drop was a necessary adjustment aimed at strengthening the world Economy. However Poehl repeated a familiar German theme in warning that such adjustments cannot represent the sole Means of reducing America s Trade deficit there might be in theory a Dollar Exchange rate thai could rapidly Lead to a balancing of the american deficit but 1 am suit such a rate would also be the cause of inflationary pressures higher interest rates and finally recession in the . And worldwide he said. About 1,500 people were on band Tor Poehl address including nearly 300 of the 800-Studetil graduating class the largest in the european division s 40 year history. Before receiving their degrees the graduates watched University officials present Poehl with a honorary doctorate. Valmari m. Mason received the school s Bentley memorial award Given annually to the graduate with the highest cumulative Grade Point average. Mason 34, graduated with a 4.0 Grade Point average earning a Bachelor s degree in sociology. The award is named for col William a Den Ley the european division s first graduate. Kohl May offer Compromise arms pan Hamburg up Chancellor Helmut Kohl seeks to end a dispute in his coalition Over nuclear disarmament with a Compromise policy that accepts Mikhail Gorbachev s double Zero option under certain conditions a newspaper said sunday Welt am sonntag newspaper said Kohl summoned the leaders of the coalition parties and key Cabinet ministers to a meeting on nuclear disarmament policy slated to Start on monday at his chancellery. The coalition partners Kohl s Christian demo cratic party and foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher s Liberal free democratic party have been arguing openly for weeks Over what West Germany s response should be to the latest soviet proposal on nuclear disarmament. Genscher has welcomed Gorbachev s Call for the removal from Europe of All intermediate Range atomic missiles with ranges exceeding 300 Miles the so called double Zero the Compromise formula it reported would mean West Germany supports Quick agreement Between the superpowers on removal of intermediate atomic missiles with ranges Over 1,000 Kilometres 600 Miles. The country accepts the proposal to remove the Shorter Range missiles Down to ranges of 500 kilo me ters 300 Miles on condition that West Germany can keep its 72 Pershing i s for which the United states has custody of the atomic warheads West Germany asks political guarantees that agreement on such nuclear disarmament will be Fol Lowed immediately by negotiations toward global arms control for chemical conventional and tactical nuclear weapons ranges under 300 Miles. But Bonn will not insist on formal linkage of this demand to intermediate Range nuclear disarmament
