European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d $613 million in weapon sales can t be reconciled by Ood Page 5 q new Canadian uniforms draw mixed reactions Page 9 q notre Dame Alabama upset in College , Page 23 the stars and stripes vol 46. No. 177 unofficial publication for the a key sen ate Democrat warned sunday that the White House should not assume Robert Bork s apparent defeat will mean that the next supreme court nominee faces easy Victory. I Don t think an body should share the illusion. That the next nominee will sail through like a greased Pip no matter what that nominee May be like said sen. Alan Cranston the democratic whip. Well take a hard look at the boric surprised lawmakers and apparently the White House when he said Friday that he would continue his fight for the nomination even though s3 senators arc publicly opposing the nomination according to an associated press Survey. White House strategists have indicated that they Hope for Quick Confirma Tion of a new conservative nominee after the Senate votes on Bork. That votes now expected to be later this month. Cranston d-calif., said on Abc tvs this week with David Brinkley that a successful nomination would have to be somebody who does t come with an see demo on Page 28 once again Nessie eludes Loch searchers . Scotland a the biggest scientific Hunt for the Loch Ness monster ended sunday with one purported monster picture de bunked three sonar contacts with some thing big and possibly using in the murky Waters and the Ever elusive Nessie still a three Day si.6 million expedition proved to be a mix of serious scientific invest Ever to bit the tranquil shores of Loch Ness. The Hunt wound up focusing on three sonar blips printed out on graph paper from contacts with objects in the Middle of the 754-fool-deep Loch. The most important at 620feet, inverted v. There were no fins trunks tails or bumps and video film taken by the team showed that the Gargoyle head photo of Nessie taken in 1975 by the Academy of applied science in Concord n.h.,was really a slowly rotting tree stump 22 feet below the surface of the Loch. Expedition Leader Adrian Shine said he could t deliver the Media monster that the mor than 300 journalists who flocked Here from around the world wanted a prehistoric reptile that is a favorite concept of Nessie. But the 38-year-old London Salesman who has conducted research on the Loch for 14 years said he was pleased by the results and encouraged that there was something Large possibly alive and mov ing lurking in its Waters. We still think there arc some Strong see Nessie on Page 28 heading into perilous Gulf a photo the related kuwaiti Tanker sea Isle City shadowed by the guided missile frigate i lanes leads the Way for three other ships that Are part of the Ullh Convoy escorted by the . Navy. See related Story on Page 28. For some Miessau depot is labor of love . Kominicki staff writer Miessau Germany religious services at the Miessau army depot Are held in a i940s-Cra quonset hut a droopy whitewashed building peppered with rivets and set with a Brace of stained Glass windows. A makeshift Steeple pitches slightly on the Roll of the roof outside. Inside ceilings Sag the electricity is bad and the floor has rotted through in places. A pair of Oil stoves have failed to keep Pace with the Damp and mildew. Post engineers have Given up on the building but the Chapel still attracts two dozen or so of the polish workers who built it. The members of what was the the 7418th labor service co. Who carved the depot out Ofa Patch of Woods in the late 1940s. In official parlance they were homeless foreigners a few Hundred among the 2 million refugees and for Mer pos adrift in the imbroglio that was postwar Europe. Poles and Mcclis. Balkans and other East europeans ukrainians. Russians bulgarians. Displaced and disenchanted perhaps but a ready source of labor for the rebuilding of Europe. Foreign brawn to match s4s photos by Brenda Hosier Slanislawa Verci Chomicz my and Josef radar tick re Call the building of Miessau army depot. The american Bucks of the Marshall plan. The labor service swelled to a Force of a ii Artur million by late 1945, then shrank to less than 15,000 As German prisoners won their release and refugees were returned Home. Those remaining were organized along Loose military guidelines Given ranks and formed into units based on National origin. Among them was polish born Josef Radawicz. Who had spent the last years of the War in forced labor at nazi armaments Plant in what is now East Germany. He remembers hiding As a 16-year-old in the Plant s basement As British and american bombers made their runs praying that the bombs would so Odum destroy the factory but spare the workers. An orphan with nothing in Poland in go Bucklo Radawicz wandered Cwm when the bombing stopped first Landing work As Kitchen help for a . Army unit if you worked in a Kitchen you got Lota. I knew that later humping freight onto aircraft Fly ing the Berlin Airlift. In 1944. Someone handed him a train ticket to Miessau where the americans wanted an ammo depot Huilt. There was just a Bunch of Woods Here when i a continued on Page 3
