European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes pages Reserve a of captures top gun honors Las vegas Nev. A a 40-year.otd Busi Nussman from Ogden Utah won top gun honors in a Competition among air Force pilots from around the world. The biennial gun smoke Competition pits lop air Force units in Competition ranging from bombing and gunnery skills to aircraft maintenance and weapons loading. Maj. Danny Hamilton a Pilot in the 419th air Force Reserve Al Hill fab in ulan won the top gun title in an Al 6, competing wild 100 pilots from 18 units from its far away As Korea Spain and eng land Hamilton a combat Pilot during he Vietnam War. Won the award As most proficient Pilot in terms of bombing and gunnery skills. Hamilton a Pilot since 1968, was on Active duty 11 Yean and flew 360 missions in Vietnam. He is a partner in a Small company in Ogden that deals with computer engineering services. He Flics f 16s two or three limes a week. He is married and a three children i m just proud to be Able to win the trophy and Lake in Back to the unit. They re the Guys who really deserve in he said. But just let them try to Lake in away be a Decd laughing. The jugs Ltd tac fighter Wing an Active duty Squadron Al Hill placed first in Overall team Competition second place Wen to the 419th from Hill with third place going to the 401st Tae fighter Wing from Torrejon a Spain. Winning the maintenance Competition was the 926lh air Force Reserve unit Al new Orleans la., racking up a perfect score in the appearance category the lop weapons loading team was the 51st tac fighter Wing of Suwon a Korea. The learns have spent the past two weeks competing at Nellia fab with pilots flying supersonic jets across the desert floor Al altitudes As Low As 100 feet playing High tech cat and mouse games with tiny tar gets. The Competition is held every twp years with local and regional Competition determining entrants in the International Competition Over the Nevada desert. Winners in some of the bombing events were declared by a Mailer of Millimetres air Force officials said. Teams were also judged on How close racy came to their scheduled arrival Lime at Nell is with some teams arriving within a second or two of inc scheduled time stancs flown in inc Competition include f-l6, f-4. A-10 and a-7 aircraft incoming Secretary of Commerce stirs controversy with racial remark  Verity or. Columbia . A president Reagan s incoming Commerce Secretary c. William Verity jr., referred during a speech Friday to an innovative Ameri can idea which the japs took and now we re going to take in  Verity used the term japs widely used during world War ii and now consid ered a slur while discussing the benefits of a rapid acquisition of manufactured pans program in Charleston involving the . Navy and private Industry. You have a reduction of inventory costs due to just in Lime delivery a new concept that we had the japs took and now we re going to Lake it Back Verity said. In was just a slip and i very much regret it said verily in a statement is sued by his office in Washington. In los Angeles the National director of the japanese american citizens league a civil rights group said he was angered by the remark. I m completely outraged hat a per son at that level could be that insensitive said Ron Wakabayashi director of the group which has 30,000 members in 114 chapters. We saw prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone make an equally bad error. The Dif Ference is thai our country is a pluralistic society where Japan is not. When our peo ple make that kind of mistake it s unforgivable said Wakabayashi. He was referring to the japanese prime minister s remark that the . Suffered competitive disadvantages be cause of its ethnic diversity. Nakasone apologized for that remark. It won t help relations Between Japan and our country. Or. Reagan needs to be sensitive about the people he appoints to important positions if he is sincere about being a world Leader said John Sailo los Angeles regional director of the group. Verity who has lived in Beaufort for the past 18 months will be sworn in As Secretary of Commerce on monday. On Friday he made the keynote address at the University of South Carolina s new $20.1 million John e. Swearingen Engi Neering Center. In his new Post. Verity said he will stress technology innovation and Quality As tonics for a Trade deficit he called the cancer on this  much of thai deficit is in Trade with Japan. Verity said the nation must continuously retrain workers promote Competition in innovation among universities and private corporations and work toward greater computerization of manufacturing. Most importantly he said the nation s manufacturers must initiate a commitment to produce the highest Quality at competitive costs the Center has been open to students since aug. 31, but was dedicated in Cere monies Friday and saturday. Verity said Japan once had a reputation for producing junk but changed thai image through a joint commitment by government and Industry we re beginning to understand that we have to have that same commit Mem verily said. Cereal boxes dropping Dracula s medallion Golden Valley Minn. A a general Mills Cereal Box featuring a picture of Dracula will be changed in response to complaints that a Star of David is displayed on the character s Chest officials said thursday we Are not Ami semitic said William Shaffer manager of Public relations for general Mills. Our in enl was merely to use Dracula s likeness in a fresh and entertaining  officials of the Golden Valley based food company Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today oct. Is 1947 Egypt and Syria in a last ditch fight against a possible United nations decision to partition Palestine sought to throw the question into an International court of Justice. 30 years ago of Coy. Oct. 18, 1957 us. And British ambassadors and the French charge d affaires expressed support for West Germany s diplomatic split with Yugoslavia following Belgrade s recognition of the communist East German government. 20 years ago foe a oct. It 1967 club wielding nonce Man charged anti War demonstrators at Oakland calif., on the second Day Ola planned week of nationwide anti draft demonstrations. 10 years ago today. Oct. 18, 1977 four hijackers aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 737 killed the Pilot and forced the Copilot to land in Somalia before extending by 10 hours their deadline Tor blowing up the plane. Agreed that a medallion on Dacula s Chest could rep resent the Star which is a Symbol of Judaism. The picture is taken from Bela Lugosi s role in House of Dracula,"al9 l film. After receiving complaints from Consumers and jewish newspapers the company changed the design to eliminate the medallion on future Boies of count Cholula and also edited television commercials which had not Yel been broadcast to remove the medallion. General Mills decided however against recalling the boxes an the shelves because there were not a health Hazard. Four million boxes with the design began appearing in supermarkets about two weeks ago. The design involved a new technique in which a computer lifted and enhanced Lugosi s likeness from the film general Mills officials said. Within Days after the boxes appeared in stares. Gen eral Mills received Calls complaining about the medal lion including several from local jewish newspapers. Judge reinstates License of Driver too drunk for testing Helena Mont a a Man arrested on Drunken driving charges had his driving privileges reinstated by a judge who ruled he was too drunk to Lake a breath analysis test. District judge Henry Loble ruled that Calvin Olson 40, of Helena did not re fuse to take a breath lest As required by Montana Law but rather was Loo drunk to physically operate the test apparatus. Olson was arrested aug. 19 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol according to court records. Because he knew his Driver s License could be revoked for a year if be refused to take the test Olson was most anxious to take it according to court re cords. However Olson was unable to operate the machine which requires first blow ing lightly into the mouthpiece from a distance of six to eight inches then Slick ing his Tongue into the mouthpiece and blowing his breath around the opening. Court documents said that at Allt Imei Olson admitted that he Wai drunk and admitted he was guilty of driving under the influence. Olson s driving privileges were revoked aug. 25 by the stale motor vehicle division which claimed he had re fused the lest. He contested the revocation and Lobet agreed wednesday saying. Olson was not capable or Refus ing 10 Lake the lest and was not capable physically of taking inc