European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 19. 1087 Texas troops show up with War on their minds world today by Tim Boivin staff Wiler bother Germany the Mission War. The men for the Mission mounted warriors of co a 1st in sch Cav from fort Hood Texas. The Battle front Northern Ger Many. Only this was t a real War. It was part of a Blue Forte assault attempting to dislodge the enemy Orange forces from the area during certain strike held exercise Friday. The warriors were on he hum for the hot and heavy action near Bothel a Small Village nine Miles outside of . Pivot left Pivot left bellowed staff sol. Cain a cram Lopez the Bradley fighting vehicle commander. The company mane Vered off a one Lane Road to engage the enemy in a tree line ahead. The. Intercom crackled with comma on the status of the Forward scout platoon and the positions of the enemy armoured person Nel carriers. Spec. 4 Rocky Roraback whipped his Bradley into slush slinging action grinding into the shoulder on the Side of the Road As Lopez targeted the misty tree line. Three other Bradley ripped past from the rear along the left flank of Lopez and Roraback while tanks mauled through the farm Fields on the right flank. Action is hot but Lopez and Roraback Are restricted to a support fire position. That s Why i want to be with a line platoon Rora Back whines As the armoured vehicles blow by him to the tree line. The targets Are engaged then action stops As umpires from 3rd inf div and the British army decide who got who first. Meanwhile Lopez has t let Down his guard or his guns. Look Over there in the tree lines. See pm see pm i got pm right there those Roraback asks incredulously "1 saw those when they first were in the tree line. They be already been  yeah Well they re flashing their lights at us Lopez says. He mulls it Over then very slowly As if weighing every word says rash. Your. Lights ,. Back. Tell. Them ,. Your. . Army. Boots hey razorback they must have understood you. Ass photo try ten Bonn spec 4, Rocky Roraback at the controls of his Bradley. They re pulling out Lopez says. They Are but it s not because Lopez is having Rora Back Send Nasty maternal messages with the lights. The umpires have decided who won what who was destroyed and who was killed they had five tanks destroyed and 21 wounded. We had two tanks destroyed and four wounded Lopez says As he hears the news Over the cackling radio. Unfortunately Lopez Roraback and their Bradley arc chosen by the company commander to be taken out of the Bailie. They Are told they Are dead until 11 . Zulu time two hours away he chose us because this is the commander s vehicle and he s Riding in a Humm a today. So there s no gunner and it s better to keep the full Crews going than to leave us in Lopez says. To pass the time Lopez starts harassing one of the lieutenants while Roraback reads a Sidney Shelton novel. Hey lieutenant Lopez yells. Stay off the radio. You got us  Roraback who is spread out among the gear behind the Drivers compartment looks up from his novel he gels away with a lot More than anybody else around Here. But at the same Lime he keeps us Loose. He let s us get away with stuff Loo sometimes he does go overboard but he s a Good  military school buses converted into ambulances for certain strike by Connie Dickey staff writer Giessen Germany training exercises can test More than a Soldier s ability. During one Man Euver of certain strike ambulances convened from military school buses Are going to be used for the first time. Col. Peter Mekkelson chief of the 7th medical come plans div said the converted buses Are de signed for peacetime emergencies and War but some will be used sept. 26 through oct. 2 during one of the major tactical Maneu vers of a forger. Following the certain strike exercise soldiers at the redeployment Assembly areas designated As casualties will be transferred on the buses to . Military and British hospitals Mekkelson said. Walter schuster chief of the maintenance div in gits sen said Usa eur is taking care of a theater wide ambulance shortage and saving $2.5 million by convening military school buses instead of buying new ambulances. The military buses Are the same size As the ambulances so convening them is easy schuster said of the is passenger buses. The vehicles will remain in use As school buses until an emergency occurs. Motor Pool maintenance people then will use kits stored in the local motor pools to remove the seats and convert the buses into ambulances. Conversion should Lake about 90 minutes schuster said. Eighteen patients can be transported after the seats Are removed and we be installed Hooks safety belts and litters schuster said. Schuster s office was asked to figure out How to convert the buses and make the items for a conversion kit because he helped modify military ambulances in 1980. In 1980, was asked to modify existing ambulance buses because hey were delivered defective. Several patients fell off the litters As they were being taken 10 the Airport from the army Hospital in Frankfurt. I found out there were no Seal Bells on the litters so i added them schuster Laid. The division is providing instruction on making the conversion kits and converting buses to Vii corps 21st support come and 7th army training come. Twenty buses from v corps arc All ready completed. When the other buses Are convened during fiscal year 1988, there will be 49 extra ambulances Tor use during emergencies. World philharmonic to perform in Tokyo Geneva a the world philharmonic orchestra comprising one member each from 110 symphony orchestras in 58 countries will give two concerts in Tokyo in december to Benefit Unicof it was announced thursday. Proceeds from the concert expected to be at least 1130,000, will go toward Unic efs immunization program in is countries. Unice spokesman Jean Marie Benjamin told a press conference. The orchestra is scheduled to perform in Tokyo on dec. 18 and 20 under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli. The concerts arc to be Broad cast on radio and television networks through out the world Benjamin said. The world philharmonic orchestra was formed in 1983 and gave its first concert lha year in Stockholm Sweden to Benefit Unicof. Last year the orchestra directed by Lorin maid performed in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for the Benefit of the International red Cross. Elephant Back up to Tusk after operation on palate Stockholm Sweden a after a four hour operation 90 painkillers and 260 Antibiotic pills Shita was Back on her feel thursday Bill probably suffering an elephant size ache. The 1,200-Pound elephant Cut a fist size Hole in her palate when she was accidentally pushed into a Moat by her companion Nika at the Skansen zoo. Oral surgeons from pudding a Hospital South of Stockholm were called in wednesday when the wound became infected. They operated with the help of a veterinarian and an expert summoned from a hone Hospital Ai a nearby race track Nika 27, was Given a bucket full of Tranquilin cars id keep her quiet while Shita 14, underwent surgery. Singapore investment plan to boost tourism revealed Singapore a business organization and the government plan to spend $1.44 billion in the next five years to promote tourist attractions the head of the tourist promotion Board said. Private investment is expected to amount to2 billion Singapore dollars $956.9 million Over the next five years to match 1 billion dollars 1478.4 million from the  Lim Chin Beng the Board s chairman said in the 1986-1987 annual report. A total of 3.19 million tourists arrived her last year compared with 3.03 million in 198s. They contributed 4.01 billion Singapore dollars j1.91 billion to the Economy last year up from 3.6s Singapore billion dollars ,74 billion in 1985, the report mid. Most visitors the report said came from Southeast Asia Japan Australia India the United slates Britain Hong Kong Taiwan West Germany and new zealand. Residents of Slovakia suffering from hot autumn Bratislava Czechoslovakia a slovaks who complained their Way through one of the wettest and coldest Summers Ever recorded in Czechoslovakia now face a sweltering autumn As weathermen record the highest septem Ber temperatures in More than 40 Yean. According to the official news Agency ctr. The Indian summer has brought daytime temperatures of 90 degrees f to the slovak capital. Temperatures have Only been falling to 61 degrees f after Sundown the Agency said adding that Bratislava had Only one such Day in August. Earlier this summer officials opened the City Winter stadium to vacationing school children when rain and average temperatures of 55 de Grees f slopped play on local Danube River beaches