European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o half of americana polled would Likely vote or Bush Page 2 d state department facing massive budget cuts Page 5 d giants twins win in baseball playoffs Page 21 the Sims vol. 46, no. 178 tuesday october 13, 1987 author lulled unofficial full Cotlon for d 8693 a a new Convoy Heads up Gulf Iran Iraq continue to Trade air blows Manama. Bahrain a a con Voy of re flagged kuwaiti linkers under . Navy escort moved in rough the embattled persian Gulf while Iraq resumed Aerial mucks on iranian Oil targets and Tehran reported launching retaliatory strikes. Gulf based shipping sources said two fro missiles from iraqi jets crashed Inlo the engine room of the 219,43 5-ton Rova on sunday setting inc liberian flagged supertanker ablaze. Two Crew men were reported killed and tour others missing in the Al Lack. La was one of three raids saturday morning by Iraq against tankers along the iranian coast. Shipping sources identified one1 of the three targets As the Merlin. A 215,925-ton cypriot rag Tanker under charter to trap. An exec cd missile crashed into he ship but did not explode and damage was minor they said. The unexploded mis Sile was still aboard. The identity of the a Laird ship was not known the sources said. Cloth Baghdad and Tehran reported sunday thai a Long Range iranian missile was fired into the iraqi capital of Bagh dad but disagreed where it hit Iran claimed the missile struck a major Mili tary Garrison while Iraq said it landed in a residential area killing numerous i sea Gulf on Page �8 Burma Jet crash kills 49 14 americans aboard Rangoon. Burma u i a chartered burmese Airliner caught tire in a Monsoon downpour and slammed into a Ridge scattered with ancient Buddhist pagodas killing ail 49 people aboard government radio and Western diplomats said monday. A spokesman said 14 americans were listed As having boarded the plane in Rangoon for the chartered Light. An offi Cial of ditch com travel co. In Bangkok said the company chartered the flight through the government Agency tourist Burma. Seven Swiss five British four austra lians three germans. To French and a thai guide leading a Lour group from Bangkok were on the plane. Also kilted was the burmese Crew of four. A . Embassy spokesman in rang Oon said . Officials saw no connection Between the crash Early sunday and a report of a Middle last terrorist threat against americans in Rangoon that prompted tighter Security at the embassy on saturday. Another embassy official said Bur Mese learns were working monday to re cover bodies from inc crash site. The burmese told us he plane is badly broken up and they expect difficulty in identifying the bodies the official said. Thirty six foreign tourists and 13 Bur Mese were killed in inc crash about 20 Miles South of a Yaung Airport serving the ancient City of Pagan 295 Miles North of Rangoon government Rangoon radio said. The Brief radio report said the Fokker Friendship f-27, a dutch made twin Turboprop plane belonging to the govern ment owned Burma airways corp., see crash on Page 25 the re flaked kuwaiti Tanker sea Isle City Fol limed closely by inc guided frigate Tutles leads the Way for three of her ships that ate part of i i Lith Convoy escorted by he us Navy through the St n Eif the persian Gulf. For some Miessau depot is labor of love Mesa to Ger new pc re Sigiols services at the Miessau army depot arcrlwhj940s-Era quonset hut a droopy whitewashed with rivets and Sci with a Brace of stained pm a makeshift Steeple pitches slightly on the r roof outside. Inside ceilings Sag the electricity isl and the floor has rotted through in places. A pair of Oil stoves have failed to keep Pace with the dampness and mildew Post engineers Luc Given up on the building but the Chapel still attracts two Doyen or so of he polish workers who built it inc members of what was the 74islh labor service co who i out of a Patch of Woods in the late 10-40 in official parlance they were a Fairess foreigners a few Hundred among in non refugees and for Mer pos adrift it imbroglio that was postwar Europe. Poles a oaths Balkans and other East europeans Ulf Linnian russians bulgarians. Displaced and . Perhaps but a read source of labor for the rebuilding of Europe. Foreign brawn to match 545 in riot by Brand Sci Al Verci Ochova it left and Josef Radank c re Call the building of Miessau Arm depot. The american Bucks of the Marshall plan. The labor service swelled to a Force of a million by Law 1945, i German i Fuji is were were organized along Ilary guidelines Given ranks and formed into units based on National origin. Among them was polish bom Josef Radawicz who had spent the last years of he War in forced labor at a nazi armaments Plant in Nhat is now East Germany he remembers hiding As a Jet Jear old in the Plant s basement As British and american bombers made their runs Prang that inc bombs would somehow Sci Giro the factory but spare the workers. An orphan with nothing in Poland to go Hack Radawiec wandered was when the bombing mopped. Firm Landing work As Kitchen help for a . Arm unit if a worked in a Kitchen you �01 to eat. I knew that later i Uno aircraft it ing she Uvlin Airali. Ieroni handed him a Tram Tirkel to Miclau where the Vit few my a an ammo depot built. There was Jusn of Woods Luw what. I a in tinted on Page 3
