European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes g exercise tests mass patient care Page 1 o Book says Casey knew of funds to contras Page 5 u nil strike talks break Oil sports Page 21 authorized unofficial pubic to in for the . Armed fobcc1 vol. 46. No. 1 62 sunday september 27, 1 9s7 Joe i he s d 8693 a Navy sinks mine laying ship Manama Bahrain Ai the . Navy saturday blew up in iranian Shin caught laying mines in the persian Gulf and handed Over its 26 surviving crewmen and three bodies to iranian officials in Oman. As the handover was under Way in Oman Iran charged Hal the United slates scuttled the run Ajr to destroy evidence that it was a merchant Veicl carrying non military cargo when the Navy attacked and Cap Lucca it monday. Later saturday. Iraq said its warplanes attacked two ships off the coast of Iran and the Agha Jan Oil Field and the Ahvan radio station in southwestern Iran. The Iran Ajr erupted in a fireball Visi ble for Miles when a Navy demolition team blew it up in the Central Gulf. Iran s chief military spokesman Kamal Kharra i told Tehran radio monitored in Nicosia Hal the United states must Clar Ify if they by this action have officially declared War on the islamic he said Iran reserved the right to retaliate in kind and demand compensation and reparation for the loss of the ship and the lost crewmen. The ship had 31 crewmen aboard. The Pentagon has said two of them were still missing. All 26. Plus the bodies have been transferred to iranian custody in Oman a diplomatic source said of the handover m Oman. He like the other diplomatic sources spoke on condition of anonymity. The sources said custody meant the iranians were in the care of iranian diplomats before being repatriated. . Sailors placed explosives aboard the 180-foot, 1,662-Lon Iran Ajr Lowed it to deep Waters off Bahrain and detonated the charges by Remote control to sink the vessel the Pentagon said. The ship was sunk in a local Jon where it will pose no Hazard to shipping said Pentagon spokesman col. Marvin Braman. The Navy began in july to escort 11 re flagged kuwaiti tankers to protect hem from Iran which considers Kuwait an ally of Iraq both Iran and Iraq have attacked foreign ships in their War Washington has vowed to keep the persian Gulf open to navigation. About 20 percent of the non communist world s Oil passes through the Gulf. Before the Iran Ajr was scuttled. De sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger who is on a five Day Gulf tour said the action was not Likely to prevent Iran from sow ing More mines in the Gulf. We re very hopeful that this one Epi Sode will be a sufficient warning so Hal they will Stop it but we Are not going to go on the basis of Hopes Weinberger said Friday. He said Iran had not been notified of the Iran Ajr s scuttling. They la see it when she goes up or Down i should about 200 sailors applauded and cheered when Weinberger announced aboard the command vessel Lasalle that the iranian ship would be blown up according to reporters travelling in the de sense department Pool. Weinberger examined nine mines taken from the Iran Ajr and scoffed at iranian claims the ship was Laden with food As you can see that s the heaviest Load of groceries anybody has Ever seen he said. Senate approves religious apparel for armed forces Washington not members of the armed Force would be allowed to Wear Yarmulke turbans and other religious apparel under a proposal approved by the Senate Friday. The measure which was prompted by a supreme court decision that upheld an air Force regulation Hal barred a Captain from wearing his Yar Mufic says the apparel must be neat and conservative and can not interfere with inc performance of the member s military the 55-42 Vole marked inc first time the Senate has approved the proposal which in rejected last year by see Senate on Page 38 Navy finds wife who wrote letter Norfolk a. Dpi Navy Counselor scram bling to find a Sailor s wife who wrote Ann Landers to say she might kill herself because of her husband s Long deployment to the persian Gulf Learned saturday that the woman is doing Fine. Concern mounted when it was Learned that it usually takes eight weeks for a idler to appear in inc syndicated column. The column appear to Friday in the stars and stripes Daisy in said in the column that after the children arc asleep. I Sil with a gun in my Lap won Docking if i will Ever find the nerve to blow my brains out and end this loneliness and the letter attracted the attention of top brass at the world s largest naval base. Adm. Frank Kelso ii com Mander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet read that Lelir and was ready to put everyone including our wives and family support network on general quarters to find thai lady said spokesman capt. Brent Baker. A Media Blitz was launched to have her Cal one of two crisis hot tines and Daisy called Lale this morn ing to our family services denier chief Petty officer Joseph mow cry said saturday. She said she is doing Fine and obviously if she requests any help she certainly can get is not known if Daisy used her real name. Mower said neither her name nor her husband s would be released for confidentiality reasons. Navy officials had looked at the Liming of inc k later published and focused their search on two ships. How see Navy on Page 28 professor Ralph Lounsbury conducts a history class an oct. 2,1950, the Munich Campus opening Day. Sex Munich Campus students reminisce at their 1 St reunion by Charlie to Vokn Munich Bureau it All started because the 17-year-old daughter of an influential army officer did t want logo Home. My father wanted me logo Back to the slates to attend school Claire Schwan recalled during the first reunion of the University of Maryland s Munich Campus last week. But i had fallen in love with Germany and wanted to Schwan stayed inc Only american attending class in a born bad oui building that housed the rt1 Cecily reopened University of Munich my father became concerned because 1 spent All Day learning Fri Man and 1 was not getting any instruction in English. I suggested starting a school for dependents. Idin i think in was any big that was in 194s. And Schwan had to convince her sceptical father and his Imi mar Boss Lui a car Bier the firs class gathered for the Start of what is now the University of Maryland s Munich Campus. Since that first class in 1950, roughly 17,000 Stu dents have attended Munich Campus. But what was no big Deal to a naive i7.ycar-old was serious business to a University just Selling up operations in Europe Ray Ehrns Burger then director of the univer sity s fledgling european division did not consider it a Good idea and was dead set against in. To was on the spot the 82-year-old retired Edu Cator admitted during an open forum on the first Day of the reunion. One Young lady was raising hell to expand a program that was itself just gelling off the ground. They were asking us 10 Start a school Wuh 17 students and no out senior military officials were backing the program and education officials in Munich already were laying the foundation. Ehrensberger left on a con med on Page 3
