European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 marines new unit name is familiar one Washington a the marines May be known for their ability to conduct amphibious As saults attacking from Ocean to land by their commandant Shinki the word expeditionary has a belter ring. Gen. Alfred m. Gray or. With the Messing of Navy Secretary James ii. Webb said Friday he was Chang ing the formal military designation for Marine units being deployed in various missions. Effective Friday a Marine amphibious brigade became a Marine expeditionary brigade. Similarly. A Marine amphibious Force became a Marine expeditionary Force. " expeditionary is a More accurate term signify ing thai marines Are not limited to amphibious operations but rather arc capable of a wide spectrum of deployment and employment tic corps said in a statement. This is not the first Lime the Marine corps has had a hard time deciding which word it likes Best. Before world War ii. The term expeditionary was applied to marines dispatched far overseas service. During thai War however the term amphibious was adopted because of inc Type of fighting the marines were conducting in inc Pacific theater. After the War inc term expeditionary was re Intro Ducco Only to be dropped again in 1965 As marines were Commil Ted to Vietnam. Gray who assumed his Post ast summer said Friday he wants the marines looked upon As an expeditionary intervention Force with the ability 10 move rapidly on Short notice to wherever needed to accomplish us 3 dead As shootout ends undercover drug buy san Marino. Calif api a fed eral agent was slain and another left brain dead Friday after an undercover drug buy erupted in gunfire authorities said. Officers killed two of the gunmen later in a shootout on a neighbourhood Street. The agents carrying to pay fort a pounds of heroin they had agreed to buy from thai drug traffickers were shot in i As adorm. Right Miles from los Angeles authorities said. A Bird agent was wounded. It appears that it was an obvious rip off John Ziegler. Gem in charge of inc drug enforcement administration in los Angeles said at a news conference. We found no drugs at All. They were irs ing to Rob the agents other Law enforcement officers chased the gunmen s tar for about a mile through residential streets. The car crashed and authorities killed two gun men and injured the third said Dea spokesman Roland Talton. All of the officers jumped from their ears and Slart cd shooting when the car crashed said Elizabeth Kennedy who was visiting her parents near the scene. Dea agent George m. Montoya. 34. Who joined inc Agency in september after duty with the immigration and naturalization service died at Hunting ton memorial Hospital Paul Selma. 51. Who Hail been with the Agency since july was declared brain dead Friday it Phil his vital functions sustained by Lite support systems said Fred Sanders a Dea spokesman in Washington. Jose Martinet 25. Who had been with the Dea since december i9s6, was listed in fair condition with a Bullet wound in the suspect was in serious condition said Hospital spokeswoman Maggie my i Hillips. The suspects names were no released the shooting of the agents which occurred about noon ended a series of meetings during the Day Between the undercover officers and their targets said capt. Jim Strait head of a Monterey Park police unit that was working with the said the agents were shot when they met inc three men on a Pasadena inc Exchange of Money and drugs a gun tight broke out below can the agents and inc suspects three drug enforcement agents were hit by gunfire at the Pasadena scene said police sgt. Dan Anthony. Dea agents and local police officers who had the meeting under surveillance chased the men to san Marine Strait said. The Driver s Side of 111 t1 fleeing car was punctured with Bullet holes and there was one Bullet Hole in the Windshield of an undercover car that had been pursuing in said Sydney Jones. Is who lives next door to where the Chase ended. She said the agents appeared emotion Al Over the shootings of their colleagues. They were very miss loan said. They were trying to hold it in. Foul they were about to cry Marine involved in spy scandal Given discharge Washington a Cpl. Rohrl j. Williams one of the marines caught up in the Moscow embassy spy scandal a year ago was discharged from inc corps on Friday on he orders of his commanding general. Williams 22, of inc Bronx. N.y., was discharged cafe chive today on the orders of la. Gen. Frank e. said chief warrant officer Cindy Gaddo. A spokesman at the Quantico va., Marine Rase. He received a general discharge under honorable conditions and left inc corps and Quantico Friday afternoon the spokesman sail i re Crown is the general in charge of inc qua lira base the Home of the Security Ball Liim that provides Marine guards for . Embassies around the world. Williams was charged in i Jit ? with perjury and making false statements for providing military investigators with enl Licking stories concerning the activities of sol. Clayton j. Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy. Like to Nelter and Tracy Williams worked As a guard at the . Embassy in Moscow. Lonetree was convicted of espionage for providing classified documents and other information to a Sovil agent after becoming involved with a russian woman. Bracy at one Point faced similar charges but the Marine corps dropped them for Lack . Skinheads on show television talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey holds u microphone while a skinhead Shouls to her studio audience in Chicago. When one of the mural skin Heads scattered through the audience As asked in leave because of profanity All of them marched Oul Snow Fin of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feu 7 is Gen. Olio von slump Nash. The blood slain cd Hangman of committed suicide in a French prison where he was awaiting trial by a French War crimes tribunal. 30 years ago today. Feil. 7, 195k a Junta of Young colonels and former political leaders pro claimed an anti communist indonesian Republic on the Island Otsu Matra. 20 years ago today. Feit 7 i president Charles de Gaulle pronounced inc Noih Winter olympic Fri pcs opened in Grenoble France before participants from j6 nations. 10 years ago today. Feb 7 1078 congressional investigators said the id of the draft and the switch 10 an All Volun cer army. Navy and air Force had added More than $18.4 billion 10 the National defense budget since 1971. Lajoie to head new Agency monitoring soviets on inf Washington and army Brig. Cien. Roland Lajoie. Who has wide experience in intelligence operations will head a new Agency that will ally Mph to verify soviet compliance Wilh the inner mediate Range nuclear forces treaty the Pentagon said Friday. It said Lajoie. 51, a native of Nashua. N.h., who is a military attache in Paris. Will begin overseeing formation of the on site inspection Agency later this month. The . Agency should be ready Looper Nieby aprill Lac Pentagon said. The Agency will be responsible Bolh for conducting inspections in the soviet Union and is Basing countries and for oversight of soviet inspections of facilities within the United Stales and the nato baling coun the Pentagon added. A Slaff of 600 to 700 military and civilian members is currently Esti inf treaty sized by president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev in their december Summit Here is pending in the Senate. Lajoie has served As commander of a special . Liaison uni Simon in East Ger Many responsible for keeping tabs on so Viel Miji iary in ill there la Pic was the commander of maj. A thur a. Nicholson a member of the mis Sion who was shot and killed by a soviet sentry in March 19h5
