European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday december 6,1987page 28 a Gulf deployed warships welcomed Home Charleston . A Bun Decd up children wore yellow ribbons Tirl Rwjr Virrl Roll Nam As families and of i a Dock Friday in Welcome Home after six month deployments in the per Sian Gulf. And in Norfolk va., the destroyer Kidd and its 365 crewmen returned from six months duty in the Gulf to a scream ing and waving crowd at the Norfolk naval guided missile frigate Klakring Ai Rived at the Charleston Navy base aboi8 30 . The guided rnissilcji0ic Hawes docked about 30 Minuett Frater. The Klakring display of sign Reading Charleston s spec irix is on the Way As it pulled up nne pier. Once the were emotional reunions on ship and pics Side As the 360 sailors on the two vessels greeted their loved ones. The ships left Charleston last june an the Klakring participated in three con Mem Flag go a Oil tankers. The Hawks partial neither ship was the. Action in the Gulf although com. Coon commander of try taking said you were Atou Ren your toes. Twas the Grill Iier hours a Day. Not just dumb attic Convoy operations Utju Jiing be whole in the Gulf you treat every Contact Asa potentially hostile Contact he said. As Long As you approach it that Way you won t have any problems. That s the Way we approached every be crowd i raining the approximately 600 people Cro Norfolk pier shivered in a cold i and brisk wind As they awaited the Kidd which docked at 9 25 . Everything stopped around House said Mallie i ton va., met hmm put Steve Micro Jfe Mcna Long wait most of it watching the to and Reading Luhe newspapers for word of the a gangwa7p1milh the sign acres looking atral hoisted in place once the it., and the crowd of family and Fri surged aboard the warship to the Wel coming whoops of the crewmen. The hardest part is the loneliness said Alicia Pinkerton As she shepherded her two sons Corey 4, and Devon 2,aboard the ship in search of their father Brian Pinkerton. It was hard to listen to the boys cry when they wanted their daddy gym Foj Christmas they did t sleep last night. This is the Best Christmas Norfolk based Kidd the flagship of the destroyer Squadron stationed inthe Gulf was one of the most Active of the american warships. The Kidd was involved in 11 escort operations of the foreign ships flying american flags in the500-Milc-Long persian Gulf Navy an chief Mike maus were involved in the in radar surveillance of the is in the Center of the Iran Iraq war7wnw.said. Also scheduled to return Friday waste frigate Flatley based in Mayport Fla., maus said. Saigon s fall blamed on Lack of . Bombing Paris a Henry Kissinger said Friday that renewed . Bombing of North Vietnam in 1975 would have saved Saigon from the communist drive that overran the South vietnamese capital but that watergate helped make that , Secretary of state under presidents Richard m. Nixon and Gerald Ford spoke to gathering of vietnamese exiles in Paris. He said he and Nixon wanted to renew b-52bombing raids on the North to prevent communist forces from crossing into South Vietnam through Laos but the watergate scandal and congressional opposition made it we had been Able to bomb North Vietnam at that time i am convinced there would t have been a North vietnamese offensive against Sai gon he said. The communists have rename Saigon to to Chi Minh City. Kissinger negotiated the 1973 agreement be tween the United states and North Vietnam for the withdrawal of . Troops in spoke Friday at the International conference Center where he and North Vietnam s be due Tho signed the 1973 pact. The two were awarded the 1973 Nobel peace prize for that Accord. Union leaders act to Avert postal strike in Britain London a Union leaders urged Brit Ain s postal workers Friday to accept a i a hour Cut in their 43-hour work week As part of a Dealto Avert a postal strike during Christmas. Alan Tuffin general Secretary of the Union of communication workers said the 160,000 deliverers Sorters and other postal workers should accept what he called a momentous and historic Post office chairman sir Bryan Nichol son called the offer a sensible agreement Good for our customers and Good for our a Post office spokesman said the Deal wasted to improved productivity and would not result in higher postage Union had sought a Cut of three hours in the work week. Canada retail sales Law draws mixed reaction Toronto a Chain store retailers Are applauding but Small town merchants and Church leaders have bemoaned a decision to change the Laws in Ontario province to permit sales on archbishop Lewis Garnsworthy condemned the move announced last week As a backward step for working people that would tear apart the fabric of the Ontario government said it will introduce legislation next year to supplant existing Blu Laws by allowing each City and town to decide whether retailers can remain open on Canadian supreme court upheld Onta Rio s current restrictions in december 1986, but the Many exemptions from the Law and Public demand for sunday shopping pressured the province into the planned Reform. 12 americans kenyan Pilot killed in african plane crash Nairobi Kenya a a Small plane carrying 12americans on a safari to photograph gorillas slammed into a Mountainside in Northwestern Rwanda killing the tourists and their kenyan Pilot officials said Friday. Some of the passengers frantically threw their belong Ings out of the plane As it careened out of control before crashing about 4 . Thursday according to witnesses quoted by Rwanda s government owned radio. The propeller driven Cessna 404 was on a two hour flight from Goma Zaire in Southern Africa to the East african nation of Kenya when it crashed near the Rwan Dan Village of Kishwari near the Border with Zaire. An official at the . Embassy in Riga the Rwan Dan capital said there were no survivors. In Washington state department spokesman Charles Redman identified the americans As Thomas Askelson of Sycamore Iii. Jill Cowan of the Wood lands Texas Andrew Foster of Flint Mich. Franz Huber of Monument Colo. Daniel Schwartz of Tampa Fla. And Ernest Farino Shirley Farino Becky Furgerson Nancy Gerald Mary Slater Donald Wilber Force and Thelma Yambao All of Amarillo Texas. Gene White a spokesman for Texas tech health sciences Center in Amarillo said the group left am Arillo on nov. 27, and was on a sightseeing excursion. They were going on a safari to photograph Goril Las while said. They were supposed to be Back no later than John Ouma Daniel an executive with Cooper sky Bird air Charters of Nairobi which owned the plane said the americans chartered the aircraft nov. 30. He said the plane was due Back thursday. He said the plane seated 14 a Pilot co Pilot and12 passengers but carried Only 13 people according to the flight plan tiled when the aircraft left Zaire. Senate oks new veterans benefits ton a the Senate voted 88-0friday to App Toh gleans Bill that includes Cost of living increases in benefits an amendments providing for a in drug abuse test ing in a hospitals. P the increase in benefits for veterans wit connected disabilities matches the 4.2 percent incr Cas Given to social Security recipients starting this month. The legislation also includes new benefits for exposed to nuclear radiation during or in later testing in the 1950s and 1960s.dj0nity and survivor benefits would be included veterans exposed to radiation and who later Sun certain types of leukemic and other cancers Vilii Ilijin exposure. Most element Fine package already have passed indifferent my bks in the House. Inaj0roving the veterans Bill the Senate voted to in Clie employees at a hospitals under the Reagan administration s program of random but mandatory drag testing for Federal employees in sensitive jobs. The Bill As approved by would have Emma Ftp in Tom the drug testing pro Ranji a Lebarbara Mikulski d-md.,Dian exemption said one Agency exempted when All the others Cranston a Calif said the drug testing re qui Remenn Fly of a testing frenzy what he called a most the push to test for aids and drug abuse even exists. Sen. Jesse Helms with an Amend ment to provide patients in a hospitals. That prompted a loud Tange betwee Helms and sen. Lowell Weicker a cond Wuh Helms complaining about the influence of the new lobby in Washington and Weicker calling Helms Sal a blot on the Escutcheon of the Senate. Bomber from Page 1 thing wrong with Chain said the Saiof Eaton industries told them to get of Haven t done it yet " the general said to problem. Because it the pipe know where the e areas we have to Avo the probability of to that i Send it to is aircraft that makes me orce has told ail a subsidiary get the system working. Welemir backsides and fix it. They air Force is working around the be goes Low and it goes fast a Demy radar Are we will avoid the. It complicates the Mission butt air plane getting to the target Chain is critical of journalists and politicians who have attacked the plane. The by has gotten a bad rap. When the history of aviation is written. It is a aircraft.1 he Genera Hwi a web to strategic air come units and people i Germany Greece Italy Morocco and Iceland. Urmon sentenced f it Foitl twin till very very High. When i get better eco it will be Chain is insistent that the bomber is War ready. Every by i Havey Oday is ready to go to War today Chain said. The plane will be better to Morrow and it will be bitter the Day after tomorrow. Have no reluctance to Send that aircraft on its wartime Mission. Raf Milden Huncl. England is 5l. Provenzano a cargo under with the i port so Friday was con cd of ring from mail bags and was sentenced to Eida Nuu in jail ordered to forfeit $2,400 in pay Reimon the rank of e-2 an Given a bad conduct dip Dirge by a Hilary judge. Provenzano Mast week to stealing about shoo it of goods from mailbag fee handled at work he did three other 313th airmen co ifs martial in the past two months for stealing m i email
