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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, June 11, 1987

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. June 11,1987 getting a Clear picture of Security measures a photo Wor Cen la West Berlin pot final touches a m it fit of is by crop on the put form where or tsp pumped do tag Rogi i i but Urf the Day said it b potting 10,980 Polke officer into the of nets Friday Tat  i visit to the divided to protect the president protest or Gulden predicted tar Friday. The Berlin Wayand the bad admit they will Hare 15,000 people i Gate Are m the background. Massive protests Are Center of toe dry. Lurch Long through the no on unit run has difficult time helping out stricken fellow Soldier by Janet Howells Tiersky staff writer Darmstadt Germany while doing double time a Soldier is Seldom called on to do More than sweat and keep in step. But sgt. David n. Cabe with cob 440th signal in 22nd signal brigade was called to Aid a fellow Soldier during his unit s regular run wednesday morning. Cabe noticed that pvt 2 Linda k. Gray 20, had stopped running and was holding her head. She complained of a headache cabe said. As we walked the headache got progressively worse until it got to a Point where she could t see. I carried her on my Back for 200-300 meters he said. Then she started complaining of real intense pain in her head so i set her Down. She s a Good runner and never had a problem be fore so i was really concerned cabe said cabe checked her pulse which was irregular and made her As comfortable As possible on the ground inthe Woods. Then he ran for help to a Road about 200 meters away. Morning traffic was heavy when cabe emerged from the Woods at about 7. It took 20 minutes for anyone to top and help be said. I speak enough German to get my Point across but no one wanted to help cabe said i even tried to jump in front of a car to Stop it finally a minibus full of disabled students stopped and the Driver radioed for help. When he returned to Gray she was unconscious an having trouble breathing. The 27-year-old Multi Chan Nel communications team chief carried her out of the Woods on his shoulder. As cabe was coming out of the Woods with Gray George p. Hoffman a retired master sergeant and his wife Irene the Darmstadt military Community Public affairs officer pulled up. We saw him doing jumping jacks in the Middle of the Street and had to turn around to get to the Side of the Street he was on Irene Hoffman said actually we did t do anything but cover her with my coat. He cabe is the kind of Guy you would want to have around in an emergency. He was keeping his Cool and doing everything he could while comforting her an talking to  soon a German ambulance arrived and took Gray to the army dispensary in Darmstadt Gray regained consciousness in the clinic 30 or 40 minutes later cabe said. She was examined and put on quarters awaiting further tests he said she was unavailable for interviews. It was really frustrating that no one would Stop Andi Felt helpless cabe said but later when i thought about it i figured i looked pretty wild waving my arms out m the Middle of the Road All sweaty and dirty. I probably looked pretty Anima Listic. I think anyone would have stopped if they had known what happened purple hearts go to 2 sailors burned in attack on Stark san Antonio Texas is two sailors who were severely burned in the attack on the Navy frigate Stark last month received purple hearts wednesday at the medical facility where they Are recovering rapidly. Lawrence m. Bar Ford 23, of Fredericksburg va.,and James r. Wheeler 28, of Elpaso Texas received second degree bums May 17 when an iraqi aircraft made an unprovoked attack on the . Ship which was on patrol in the persian Gulf. Thirty seven sailors died in the ensuing explosion and fire. Bareford had Burns Over 20 percent of his body while Wheeler had Burns Over 35 percent of his body. The two Petty officers both fire control technicians Are recuperating at the Brooke army medical Center at fort Sam Houston Texas. They re rapidly recovering a Brooke spokesman said. They re both listed in satisfactory condition and Are up and moving  the spokesman could t say How Long the sailors would have to stay at Brooke or when they would be allowed to return to duty. Recovery from Burns depends a lot on the individual and on the severity of the Burns. Pm say they re going to be Here at Brooke for at least a few More weeks he said Bareford and Wheeler were Given their purple hearts in a Brief ceremony wednesday morning by rear Adful. David r. Morris chief of the naval air training Center at Corpus Christi Texas. Pope hails Solidarity urges support for Farmers Union Tarnow Poland a Pope John Paul ii spoke out forcefully wednesday in favor of the outlawed Solidarity movement urging Poland s communist government to implement its accords with the Farmers Branch of the organization. The roman Catholic Leader said living up to the Soli Darity accords would prevent private Farmers from being condemned merely to the struggle for  Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro told reporters the pontiff insists the agreements signed with the government Are still valid even though Solidarity was outlawed by parliament in 1982. More than 2 million people including pilgrims from Hungary and Czecho Slovakia jammed into a huge Field for the pontiffs mass in Tartow just 72 Miles from the soviet Union. German from Page 1 raised his neck to open his  while Pagan cleared the Man s Airway Allen dashed off to a nearby Field where a Farmer was working. In broke German he asked the Farmer to cad an ambulance. Medics arrived 23 minutes after Golden radioed for help. When they carried him away he was in pretty Good condition Fagan said. He was conscious and he spoke a Little. He could speak Only  the Man is in a Hospital in Lauterbach. He s going to be of a Fulda Community spokeswoman said. The rescuers Are a unit curiosity. They re All asking what happened people Are congratulating All of us Fagan 26, said As an my Fagan said he responded to Many Simi Lar incidents. He said the Rescue was a close Call ten More minutes and he would have been  Bonn again protests abuse of reporters at Wall Berlin a West Germany wednesday renewed its diplomatic pro test Over the mistreatment of Western reporters by East German police during demonstrations by Rock music fans near the Berlin Wall officials said Carl Duisberg an official in the Bonn chancellors delivered the protest during a meeting with Lothar Glienke a top rank ing representative of East Germany s Diplo Matic Mission in Bonn a West German government spokesman said East Berlin officials rejected a protest on tuesday and accused Western journalists of reporting lies in their coverage of the demonstrations. Except for a Short report by the stale run adn news Agency tuesday East German official Media ignored the controversy. Neither the West German diplomatic pro test nor the East German reaction were mentioned in East Berlin newspapers. Police beatings and arrests of scores of Young East berliners who tried to gather near the Wall to hear outdoor Rock con certs staged on its Western Side provoked a chorus of criticism in West Germany on tuesday. The violence began saturday night and peaked monday night when Young people threw firecrackers bottles and rocks at police. Witnesses said More than so people were arrested television foot age of the Melee also showed West Ger Man journalists and camera Crews being shoved and roughed up by police. On tuesday Hans Otto Braeutigam chief of the West German diplomatic Mission in East Berlin went to the East German foreign ministry to protest the attacks on Western journalists. I filed a Sharp protest against the mishandling of Western journalists last night and against the obstruction of legitimate news reporting he told reporters afterwards. But the protest was rejected they disputed the version of events As reported in the Western  adn had reported that clashes be tween East Berlin police and youth can absolutely not be talked about they exist Only in the figment of some West Ern correspondents  West Germany s Adf television net work in a report by its East Berlin correspondent accused the East German new Agency of Brazen lies in its report on the disturbances. Many West German political Leader son tuesday denounced the violence and contended such incidents could be avoided if East Germany allowed its peo ple to travel freely at least to the West pm sector of the partitioned  the disturbances Young East Berlin. Ers chanted the wad must go this was not reported by adn  
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