European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Prince Charles escapes injury on ski slope.,. Page 2 d Cherokee Leader Wilma Mankiller challenges stereotypes., Page 5 d on the Job pinpointing military history Page 13 d Mela Strawberry blasts his teammates sports Page 24 the St and tripes spurs Irie unofficial Milic Tiosh pol Thi . Trio f Good morning 1 vol. 46. No. 326 Friday March 11, 1988 d 6693 a Kemp folds tent Hart next Hopes flickered ouf on super tuesday hip. Juk Kemp in Campaign Inisi Earllar. By Tow associated press Republican presidential hopeful Jack Kemp quit Ilic race thursday saying we May hive suffered a Polilli Ca re fact but our principles have not been Defeated Democrat Gary Hart was ready to drop out a second time As inc shrinking Odd converged on Illinois for the next big Campaign lest. Kemp was crushed in the super tuesday landslide of vice president George Bush who rejoined the Campaign tit thursday after taking a Day off to rest and celebrate. The new York congressman congratulated Bush and said he would be proud to Campaign for whoever wins the nomination but he endorsed none of the three remaining gop contenders. I am folding up my tent but i plan to continue to carry the Flag  said Kemp he former pro fool Ball quarterback who portrayed himself As the natural conservative heir to president Reagan whose economic programs have included Many or Kemp s ideas. He said both Bush and sen. Bob Dole have pm braced conservative positions partly because or his presence in the presidential Campaign. Kemp said he would not seek a new term in con Gress and was not making any plans to run for he Senate or to pursue the vice presidency. However he called the idea of the vice presidential nomination a very flattering and awesome thought. Would 1 think about it the answer is  Dole who also was All but buried in the Bush Victo Ries on tuesday campaigned in Chicago thursday trying to sow seeds of doubt about Bush s chances in november if he should win the gop nomination. "1 would be a much stronger candidate Dole said. Democratic sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee was also in Chicago and was making similar comment about his chief rival for those who want another election Blowout and see the democratic party losing 49 of 50 slates Vole for Mike  lie said. On wednesday Bush suggested to Dole his closest competitor thai the race for the top nomination was continued on Back Page no mechanical problems found in crash probe fort Campbell by. A the investigation of the collision of two army Dlack Hawk helicopters hat killed 17 soldiers Lias found no lint to Machii Nival problems that have grounded the military s us Foai in recent years. "1 would say now there is no indication of any mechanical Factor in tuesday night s crash said chief warrant officer Joe 5. Adams one of three investigators from the army safely Center at fort Rucker Ala. We Are looking Ai human and environmental fac tors. The human factors might i include sonic restriction of vision he said wednesday. Both pilots were using night vision goggles which amplify Light from the stars and inc moan allowing pilots to Fly undetected at night. Officials said they Are trying to determine whether the choppers were flying without lights. The crash was Ifica worst army aviation disaster since 248 soldiers also based at fort Campbell died in a chartered plane crash in Gander Newfoundland while resuming from a Mideast peacekeeping Mission in december 1935. The it died instantly in the collision the worst Ever at the fort in southwestern Kentucky but eight bodies remained buried under the wreckage Lor hours spokesmen said the army a Fleet of 820 us Foai was grounded twice last May one for inspection and once because of a design flaw. The Fleet also was grounded in april i98s and March 1986 after fatal crashes. In 1985, the army identified a defect in the main Rotor Assembly and ordered it corrected. Last summer officials said about 40 people had been killed in crashes of the helicopter since 1978, the collision occurred when a copter on a night training Mission struck a formation of three other Black Hawks on a separate m Mission Adams said. The formation was flying cast at about 250 feel when the Lead Black Hawk was hit broadside by inc Lone aircraft which was travelling North army spokesmen said. A flight data recorder installed in 100 of the army s helicopters was recovered from the northbound Craft and will be checked for signs of mechanical failure in see probe on Back Page Waldheim apologizes for austrian nazi crimes Vienna. Austria a president Kurt Waldheim commemorating Austri a s animation by Germany 50 years ago thursday apologized for inc crimes committed by austrian nazis but ignored his own controversial so anime past we must not forget that Many of the worst nazi hangmen were austrians Waldheim said in a televised speech. There were austrians who were victims and others who were perpetrators. Obviously there is no collective guilt for the War crimes committed by austrian the president declared. Nevertheless As head of slate of the Republic of Austria 1 wish to apologize for nazi crimes committed by  11 was the first Lime that Waldheim has used such language in Public to acknowledge Austria s share in world War ii and the holocaust. Waldheim did not acknowledge until two years ago that he served in world War i in a German army unit implicated in wartime atrocities and he has resisted pressure to resign since in be came known. In his speech the president insisted that As a slate Austria was Hitler s first victim. That is  Austria was wiped off the map when nazi troops invaded on March ii 1938. Austrian president Karl Wildhalm prepares for his to address. Adolf Hitler then returned in Triumph to Austria his native land cheered by hundreds of thousands of countrymen in april 19.58, the nazis said 99 per cent of austrians approved the anschluss in a nationwide vote. More than half a million austrians joined the nazi party and Many of the brutal guards in the concentration Camps were austrian Austria s nazi past largely sup pressed Here Over the past four decades has dogged this Neutral country since the disclosure in March 1986 of Wald him s wartime service. Vienna s socialist mayor Helmut Zilk opening an exhibition looking Back at the nazi Era in Austria sharply criticized the government for reneging on a Promise Lotic a fund the display. Zilic charged the coalition government of socialists and conservatives had be have like a dog that shakes off fleas by shrugging off the exhibit. He speculated Aid was withheld be cause the conservatives objected to descriptions of the prewar rightist regime called Ausef fascism by liberals and socialist. In his speech Waldheim left unman lined his wartime years in Yugoslavia and Greece and Hie juror triggered Las month by a historians report question see crimes on Back Page