European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Paga 3 Jeannette Welsh mixes cookie tilter while her dad spec 4 Eugene Welsh watches. At right. Girl scout Melanie Stilt 6, help make Christmas cards. Army to Gladden sailors tummies by Wendy Bourland suit writer Mainz Germany though sailors on ships in the persian Gulf May not know in soldiers at commands through out v corps Are working hard to make their Christmas a Little brighter. Pfc. Aaron saris of 3rd in 8th inf has a personal interest in the cookie baking project. His twin brother Adam is a Cook aboard the Navy com Mand ship la Salle in the Gulf. The 20-year-old Marlboro mass., native worries about his brother. There s nowhere to run on a ship. I m an infantry Soldier 1 can run from terrorists. A White ship tends to stand  the la Salle is Pam cd while to reflect the intense persian Gulf heal. The recreation Center at Lee bar Racks is one of several places where sol Diers family members girl scouts and boy scouts have been baking cookies and making Christmas cards to Send to Navy ships in the Gulf. Center director Colleen Kokic Berry said she Hopes to make 300 dozen cookies by the dec. 3 deadline. Popcorn balls Caramel com and fudge also will be sent she said. Staff members began baking two weeks ago and Are freezing the finished product. After the baking is done he cookies will be packed in Coffee cans and driven by the 7glh trans group at a Bill Barracks in Ruessel Shim 10 Rhein main a. The gifts then will Wing their Way to Rota Spain where the n by will Dis tribute them 10 inc ships. Saturday was he first Day soldiers came in to help. Master sol. Samuel Howard of 3rd in 8th inf expertly spooned cookie mix Onlo a baking Sheet next to his 12-year-old Daugh Ter Mindy. When you be got two daughters in the girl scouts he said smiling you re always making  working next to him were spec. 4 Eugene Welsh also of 3rd in 8th inf Welsh s wife Sabine and their 20 month old daughter Jeanelle. On the other Side of the Welsh family a film Crew from abcs today show re corded the scene for inclusion in a nov. 24 broadcast from Fulda Germany. Welsh said he did t know anyone on a Navy ship in the Gulf bul it did t matter. I m a Soldier. I m helping other sol Diers. I d know How i d feel if i was in the persian Gulf he said. I would feel like. I d want to know people Are caring even if it s Only  though Adam saris won t be Iii the Gulf when inc cookies arrive he s going Home on Christmas leave his brother jumped in and spooned a few for the Many who will be there. It s a Nice  he said. Those Guys Are under a lot of Strain. It s hard to Tell through letters but he s under a Tot of stress since the Stark. The guided missile frigate Stark was hit by an iraqi missile in the persian Gulf May 16. They joke and kid bul they re Wor ried they May be next Florida thieves get artworks valued at $ 1 million Coral Gables Fla. A two armed men stole three Picasso paintings and 26 other Art works valued Al More than s1 million from a gallery Friday police said. The Picasso paintings All on paper and dating from 1946, were Worth from j250.000 to $450.000 each according to Jairo Quintero owner of the Quintero gallery. They depict nude women in a cubist style he said. Just had photographs taken of the works and hey were being priced by experts in Europe in four Days they All would have been insured said qui Nicro who had recon Fly resumed from Colombia with the 29 works that were stolen Friday. They come from a very Good  he estimated the value of Al 29 works Al is million or More. Quintero and two female ass islands Weie tied up and gagged but not Hurt during the robbery Friday morn ing said police sgt. Dennis Koronkiewicz. They just told them Don t move " he said a Well dressed Man armed with an automatic gun andean Osherman in Blue jeans look 29 artworks from a single portfolio in a storage closet Koronkiewicz said. Many other paintings in the gallery were not stolen he said. I have three portfolios in storage at the gallery but they went straight to the most valuable one Quintero said. Whoever did this knew my place As Well As i did. The other portfolios weren t even  he said he does not suspect any complicity by his two employees Al the Coral Gables gallery employees Al his gallery in Barranquilla col or the 14 besides the paintings by Pablo Picasso four paint Ings by cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam and 20 print Sand two originals by colombian artist Luis Caballero were stolen Quintero  can have he prints replaced but the originals Are probably gone forever Quintero said adding that the prints Are numbered and would be hard to jell openly. The thieves fled to a wailing car in the Alley behind the gallery Quintero ran out of the store with his hands lied and alerted the Beauty parlor next door Koronkiewicz said. Lam Al one time ranked with Salvador Dali and Max Ernst but later considered less important was the Only non european contributor to surrealism according to the reference Book world artists by Claude Marks. Works by the artist who died in 1982, Are in the collections of the museums of modern Art in Newyork Paris and Stockholm the tale gallery in Lon Don the Art Institute of Chicago and the smithsonian s hirshhorn museum in Washington. Caballero bom in 1943, is less Well known than Lam but his work has been shown at galleries in Bogota and Madrid. Crashed Jet s warning gear reportedly faulty Type Detroit a a circuit breaker for the Wing Flap warning system on the Northwest airlines Jet thai crashed aug. 16. Killing 156 people was of a Type known to be failure prone a newspaper reported saturday. The Detroit news said that Mcdon Nell Douglas corp., the plane s manufacturer had warned airlines in four letters in 1981-83 that a Dixon i amp to 10-amp circuit Breakers weit of poor Quality and mechanically unreliable. The National transportation safely Board has said warning systems on Northwest flight 255 failed to Alert the pilots that the md-80 Jel s flaps were nol in position for Takeoff. The Nosb which is investigating the crash at Detroit metropolitan Airport said the warning system problem stemmed from an unexplained Power failure. However two weeks ago a circuit breaker on another Northwest md-80 failed during routine ground tests in Minneapolis alerting investigators to the potential problem Ine news said filing unidentified sources. The newspaper said a Mcdonnell Douglas subsidiary. Douglas aircraftco., had sent out letters to operators about the faulty circuit Breakers. Copies were sent to Republic airlines which owned the md-80 in the aug. 16 crash before that airline merged with Northwest the newspaper said. The circuit breaker on flight 255 was a 3-amp Klaxon and is believed to be the one installed when the plane was built in 19st, the newspaper said. The defective circuit Breakers were manufactured in 1979 and 1980 by de sign engineering a subsidiary of Texas instruments inc. The news said. We know for sure that in is a Jinon an unidentified Pilot familiar with the investigation said. We know it was made about the same time As the defective circuit Breakers. We arc 90 percent convinced it is from the bad  the news quoted unidentified sources As saying efforts to determine whether the circuit breaker from flight 25i was fro the bad Baich have been hampered because the crash erased much of the serial number. Northwest spokesman Redmond Tyler declined comment the newspaper said