European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday october 28,1987paga 8b f a agile Kidd packs Navy Power in Gulf aboard the destroyer Kidd in the Gulf up she s Ai fast As � sports car and handles As Welt said cmdr. Daniel j. Murphy. We give inc Speed boat a pretty Good run Tor his  the guided missile destroyer Kidd is fast. Its four general electric 20,000 horsepower turbines Send it hurtling to 30 knots in 90 seconds and the Kidd will shudder to a Stop in 563 feel the length of the ship. Ii s just a real pleasure to operate said Murphy who enjoys having visitors aboard his vessel telling them Why the tour Kidd class destroyers in the . Navy Are referred Loas the Ayatollah class and How icy almost Tell into iranian hands. The vessel was contracted for iranian Shah Moham mad Reza Pahlavi Tor his Imperial Navy the Kidd was to be the flagship. But after the Shah s overthrow by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran decided in no longer needed the vessels even though 90 percent of the construction costs already had been invested. So the Navy took them Over Murphy said and placed within each of the vessels the combat capability of a Virginia class nuclear Cruiser. We got a rather Good bargain from the Ayatollah when h comes to these ships Murphy went on to say. The fact Iran might have had the Kidd As its flagship added to our sense of satisfaction when inc destroyer helped bombard two iranian Oil platforms on gel 19. The most powerful among 11 Navy ships in the Gulf the Kidd is rearing the end of its Gulf Mission after More than four months duly and will be replaced soon in a rotation brought about by the . Escort of re flagged kuwaiti tankers through the tense Gulf Walers it carries a Crew of 350 enlisted personnel and 23 officers. Rear Agni Isaac c. Kidd for whom the ship is named died at Pearl Harbor us he stood on the Bridge of the battleship Arizona under attack by japanese warplanes. He was the first Navy Flag officer o lose his life in action against a foreign enemy. A portrait of Kidd hangs in the carpeted wardroom where soft drinks were served to visitors last week As the Kidd churned through the Gulf at inc end of a Convoy of . Warships escorting a military chartered Oiler on a resupply Mission. Murphy left the insulated wardroom and stepped a Navy Lookout stands watch aboard the amphibious transport Dock Raleigh also on patrol in the Gulf. Hostage s Kin takes new approach Buffalo. . A the sister of Middle East hostage Terry Anderson said monday thai she is trying to develop a new approach toward winning the release of her brother because silence in t  i be tried to stay out of the spotlight for almost a year Peggy say said. But i m no longer sure that s the Best thing to  say said she in t sure what new approach she might take. She said however that she is encouraged by the formation of a group of journalists in washing committed to winning Anderson s release. Washing Lon the journalists group is scheduled to meet soon with the iranian ambassador 10 the United nations. Iran is believed to have lies to the terrorist group hold ing Anderson. The group also was to take pan in an Observance of Anderson s40th birthday tuesday in Washington she said. Say was in Buffalo on monday to accept a proclamation from local officials designating oct. 26-31 Don t forget Terry Anderson  Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press has been held captive since he was abducted in Beirut by moslem extremists on March 16, 1985. He is one of nine americans among Ai least 20 foreigners believed kidnapped in Lebanon and still missing. Say has aggressively sought to attract attention to he plight of her brother and other american hostages. She met with president Reagan and other Federal officials to urge them to do More to win their release and promoted the cause of the hostages in the Media. But earlier this year amid inc Iran Centra scandal in Washington say withdrew from Public attention. I was very sensitive to criticism that maybe my High profile was somehow not in inc Best interests of the hostages said say who fives in Batavia . I be done it their the critics Way. Now it s time to try something  say said she fell compelled Noi to give up efforts to win her brother s release a photo of Anderson released by his captors last week showed Hal he had t Given up and was apparently in Good health she said. His expression in that photo was one of absolute Defiance. He s not giving up so we can t  dead skin taken from Jessica s foot Midland Texas up Jessica Mcclure the Spunky toddler who survived 58 hours in an abandoned Well underwent surgery monday to remove dead skin from her fool that doctors Are trying to save from amputation. Midland memorial Hospital spokeswoman sue Ris ton said doctors spent an hour in surgery to remove dead skin on the outside of Jessica s right foot and from her Heel. The in month old s right fool was trapped in an awkward position while she was trapped in the Well and Tost circulation causing the skin to die. She tolerated surgery extremely Well today Ris ton said. The doctors continued to remove dead skin on the outside of her right fool. Some skin and tissue was taken from her Heel there is a Chance she will lose the lips of her Little and big docs. The doctors decided they will do several More do Brid cents the surgical procedure to remove dead skin before doing skin grafts. The next will be thurs Day or Friday probably Friday vision said. She s Giitl in stable condition and was just about the same the whole weekend. She had a restful week  monday marked the fourth time he child was taken to surgery since her Rescue oct. 16 from the Well she fell into while playing in her sum s backyard. Down the Captain s corridor into the darkness of the combat information Center lighted by digital display radar copy strobes data Board spotlights and the hot glow of cigarettes smoked by officers racking the movements of the unpredictable iranians. Rarely any longer Are we in the situation where the potential adversary is within visual sight Murphy said. With controllers on duly round the clock in the in formation Center and weapons systems throughout the vessel fully manned and All guns loaded the Kidd it the Overall coordinator of air warfare in the Gulf. Three dimensional radar is accurate for a distance of up 10 200 Miles and tracks the .-Buill f-4s in the iranian air Force taking off from the coastal City of Bandar Abbas and the f-14s in the . Air Force operating off the aircraft Carrier Ranger in the Gulf of Oman Murphy said. The f-14s provide air support during . Escorts through the perilous Strait of Hormuz the Mouth of he Gulf through which Oil flows out twelve such con Voys of re flagged kuwaiti vessels have entered or left he Entrance within striking distance of iranian silk worm missile emplacements. One of the biggest problems out Here said anti air warfare coordinator u. Lawrence Marshall is thai you have a constant stretch of commercial aircraft while at the same Lime you arc trying to distinguish them from iranian aircraft. The sonar radar Section has been pared Down be cause the shallow hot Waters of the Gulf arc Treacher Ous for submarines. Ii serves instead As a passive listening watch for suspected High Speed iranian speedboats and i Csc driven dhows Murphy said. In Case inc Captain is not at his Seal in the combat Center two other officers aboard the Kidd have authority to fire on hostile forces under Navy rules of engagement. Under the searing Sun Over the Gulf two sonar men serve As gunners on 40mm machine guns mounted on inc Kidd s deck while two others on the lip of the Bow Hunt for mines. The Kidd bristles with weapons from Stem to Bow where a gun mount hurtled some 200 5-Inch shells into an iranian Oil platforms in retaliation for an iranian silkworm missile attack on the u.5.-Faggcd Tanker sea Isle City in kuwaiti Waters. Surface to air stinger missile launchers arc located on each Side of inc vessel and a special stinger detachment has been brought on Board to Man them. Nearby arc the close in weapons systems inc six barrel 20mm guns with a radar dome on top that blast out 3,000 bullets in a deafening Roar each minute. Guadalcanal to be relieved by sister ship Manama Bahrain a the amphibious assault ship Okinawa will replace its sister ship the Guadalcanal on mine sweeping and escort duty in the persian Gulf . Military sources said monday. The Guadalcanal will return to its Home port or Norfolk a the Okinawa is due in the Region in about three weeks to take Over from the Guadalcanal which arrived aug. 15 with eight Navy Rh-53d sea stallion mine sweeping helicopters. The helicopters will continue to operate from he Okinawa after in joins the Navy s Middle East Force in the Gulf the sources who asked not to be identified said. The sea is Althans used to Clear Waters ahead of the Navy escorted convoys of . Flagged kuwaiti tankers were at work monday As the t5lh Convoy consisting of the 290,285-ton Oil products Carrier midd Clown and its . Navy escort vessels headed up the waterway toward Kuwait Pentagon officials said the Okinawa whose Home port is san Diego is now at the . Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines. J 11 was diverted to the Gulf from another Mit Sion after the a flagged supertanker Bridgeton j struck a mine july 24during the first Convoy. The 16,000-ton vessels built in the Early 1960s, arc designed for Marine corps Assaul operations and named for major Pacific Bailies of world War 11