European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 13, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 military medical readiness heightened Las vegas. Nov a lessons Learned from inc bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut have heightened the . Military s medical readiness in he persian Gulf he Navy s chief medical officer says. We earned thai things work better if we have a plan said Vij adm. James a. Zimble Hie Navy s surgeon general. We found some medical expertise was missing in the Beirut  a terrorist drove a dynamite Laden truck into the four Story Barracks at he Beirut Airport on oct. 23, 1983, tilling 241 servicemen. The medical response was snagged by logistical problems prompting Zimble to study ways to improve the response to such emergencies. Today the Navy has two surgical learns two Surgi Cal support cams and a medical regulating team stationed in the persian Gulf ready to Cope with any emergency there. I mitc said. And air Force and army hospitals in Europe have teams including airborne medical fast teams ready to move out in any emergency. Die May 17 missile attack on the Starlic in the per Sian Gulf was he first test of the new plan. Thirty seven servicemen were killed when iwo missiles fired by an iraqi Jet hit the ship. The plans were Here and they worked with the Stark incident As opposed 10 Beirut Zimble said during an interview while attending a meeting of the association of military surgeons of he United Stales. I m comfortable with our level of support in the per Sian Gulf Zimble said the amphibious assault ship iwo Jima anchored off Beirut was prepared to receive and treat casualties after the 1983 attack but trouble arose with moving the injured on to other facilities the designation of receiving hospitals was and hoc rather than a Well formed plan said Zimble. We had some Good mass casualty plans but we had t planned the flow Back to hospitals in  the Case of the Stark within noun we Hal a c-9 Nightingale medevac plane on the Tarmac with equip ment and supplies to treat the wounded Zimble said declining to identify the Takeoff Point. We had prior arrangements with civil ism hospitals in the area and evacuated three of the More seriously injured there. We were Able to evacuate some patients out very quickly to Europe because plans were in place to do that Zimble said 3 psychiatric team was dispatched to work with Stark Crew members suffering from survivor syndrome which he defined As that tremendous feeling of guilt and depression when a survivor asks Why not me " funding threat veterans Day by jugs reprieve slows Florida s Turnpike Speed Tallahassee Fla. A gov. Bob Martinez said the state probably will refrain from raising the Speed limit on part of Florida s Turnpike after Federal officials retaliated by halting plans for Road projects. James Skinner administrator Tor the fed enl High Way administration in Tallahassee acted tuesday after state officials deliberately violated Federal Law the Day before by increasing the Speed limit to 65 Mph on about 60 Miles of the Turnpike. Skinner s move smiled about 130 million in projects planned by the state and threatened More than $450 million in additional Federal Highway Aid this year. Martinez said the stale cannot afford to lose Federal Highway funds. But he also agreed with the state transportation Secretary Kaye Henderson in defending states rights. "1 Thirsk the Point we re trying to make is that where we have limited Access highways paid wholly by state dollars the Federal government cannot Tell the state what it can or cannot do Martinez said. After Congress voted to allow Stales to raise if Speed limit to 65 Mph on Rural interstate the state legislature passed legislation that allowed the posting of6s Mph signs on Rural stretches of he Turnpike. Martinez said the slain was placed in a position of violating the stale Law or violating the Federal Law so the state transportation department posted the 65 Mph signs to Send a message to Washington. State officials were concerned that the higher Speed limit on Rural Federal interstate highways would draw traffic from the Turnpike and reduce loll revenues. Ortega says is ready for Washington a nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega declared wednesday his government is fully committed to complying with the Central Ameri Ca peace agreement and he renewed his offer to hold peace talks with the United states. Nicaragua is ready to comply 100 percent with the agreement Ortega declared in a dramatic hour Long appearance before the general Assembly of the organization of american states during his first visit to Washington in eight years. He thus disputed presi Dent Reagan s charge be fore lie same audience on monday that Nicaragua is nowhere near meeting its obligations. Present in the Oas Hall were All six members of the Contra leadership. Ortega s Call for a direct dialogue with the United states was rejected immediately by the . Amassa irv1ng, Iii. A a 55-year-old korean War Veteran facing eviction from the Dairy farm he d leased and worked for 33 years received a temporary reprieve on veterans Day. The Day he had expected to be or dered off the place. Bryce Hayes was to have been evicted from the 107 Are Central Illinois farm after a four year dispute with the Farmers Home administration local Bankers and the farm s owners. But when Montgomery county sheriff Jim Vazzi arrived wednesday Hayes announced he had filed for Protection tuesday under chapter 12 of the Federal bankruptcy Law which offers Farmers Protection from creditors while they regroup. The move raised enough Legal questions to postpone the eviction until lawyers gauge its effect Vazzi said. About 50 Farmers and family friends had gathered Al the farm to show their support when the sheriff arrived. Hayes said he rented the farm soon after being Dis charged Tram the army in november 1954. The mod est two Story House has been Home Ever since to Hayes Ard his wife Sandra about four years ago. The farm s owner Lena racy died and left the property to her family. Hoping to buy the property for j7qo per acre or about 175,000, Hayes said i went to the Omha. A Federal agriculture lending Agency. He said a county Omha official indicated he would have no trouble qualifying. But when he returned 10 the Agency to Complete the paperwork on his loan application he was told thai he had not qualified in the meantime he said a dispute arose Wilh the Ramey family and they filed a lawsuit contending he owes $20,000 in Back rent for the farm. The family attorney then filed the bankruptcy pc ii lion. Jews to Monitor White supremacy show Salt Lake City a the jewish Community will Monitor a radio talk show devoted to while supremacy when the program starts next month a religious Leader said. Radio personality Dwight Mccarthy said the name and format of his live Call in show on station Kozzi known As the counter Mam is hour since it first aired in july will be changed dec. 5 to the aryan nations  Mccarthy who says he is a 37-year-old Vietnam Veteran plans to relay messages from the Rev. Richard Butler Leader of the Northern Idaho based aryan nations and discuss other beliefs of the group on his one hour show. His announcement was Mcl with consternation by rabbi Frederick Wenger of congregation Kol Ami Nicaragua peace talks Dor to the Oas. Richard Mccormack who said that Reagan had Laid out strict conditions for re opening diplomatic contacts with sandinista officials. Onega said thai while Nicaragua has taken a num Ber of Steps to meet its commitments under the Region Al peace agreement he signed last August the United states has undercut the Accord by sending weapons and other equipment on 140 resupply flights to the country s Contra rebels since then. He said the weapons include ground to air missiles that Are threatening Domestic and International air traffic in Nicaragua. . Spy flights also have continued he said. Responding to Reagan s charge Ortega said that on two key elements of the peace plan a total amnesty for political prisoners and a lifting of the stale of Emer gency Nicaragua would comply Only when an inter National observer team verifies that outside support for Nicaragua has ceased. The peace agreement was signed by Nicaragua and four Central american neighbors Guatemala Al Salvador Honduras and Costa Rica. Among Oiher measures the agreement rails for Steps toward democratization in Nicaragua and an end to . Aid to the contras. Salt Lake City s own synagogue obviously aryan nations is a very extremist anti semitic group Wenger said. But we live in a country that enjoys free speech any group can do so within the Bounds of the Law. Certainly Well Monitor Mccarthy s broadcasts he said. Whether or nol we decide to respond at this Point Well just have to Wail and  Mccarthy is not an official member of the aryan nations but he has the support of the Neo nazi organization Butler said in a Telephone interview from his Headquarters at Hayden Lake Idaho. Kozzi owner and manager John Hinton said he opposes while supremacist views but supports Mccar thy s rights to free speech. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years 090 today. Nov. 13, 1947 Secretary of state George c. Marshall told the House foreign affairs committee that assistance to Europe should be supplied immediately to keep Supply pipelines filled. 30 years ago today. Nov. 13. 19s7 the supreme court rejected the eighth Appeal of Morion Sobell convicted co conspirator of spies Julius and Ethel Rosen Berg. The rejection meant Sobell would continue to serve his 30-year term. 20 years ago today. Nov. 13, 1967 fifty three men were res cued from a Vietnam bound Supply ship that was on fire and floundering in the path of typhoon Gilda 90 Miles West of Guam. 10 years ago today. Nov. 13, 1977 Ingrid Schubert a convicted member of the Baader Meinhoff Urban guerrilla gang hanged herself in a Munich prison cell. Schubert who was serving a 13-year prison term was the fourth terrorist in a month to die in custody