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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 14, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 9 military Roundup three dining facilities win Usa eur honors Heidelberg 545 three doing facilities hive won the Usa eur level of the Phiiip a. Connelly Competition for excellence in food service he. 4th in. Sound 1nf Rygl in Berlin topped the Large dining facility calf gory and the 23rd Field Art oct. 552nd arty group 59lh Ord brigade.�35 Best Small timing facility. The Host Field Kitchen was he task Force Phoc Tik. 4th brigade 1st army div. Vii corps. Staff ski. Rex p. Gonzalez of the i09ih trans co. 28th trans in 37th trans group. 4lh trans come was named one of six individuals who wiil be recognized for their contributions to the food service held. Gonzalez competed in the Large facility category. Sgt. Cal Stine e. Bullock of he isl personnel come set Patricia a. Simmons and sgt. Linda a of Abl Bolh Ofha no Academy 3rd army div v corps and spec. 4 Randy i. St. Cyr of team 4. 34th arty Del ss9th arty group Southern european task Force sch support come. All were named for accomplishments in the Small facility category. Spec. 4 Kat Halcon g. Smith of he task Force Pho Niji 4lh brigade. Isl army div Vii corps won honors in he Field Kitchen category. The winners will be Recagni cd Friday at the Heidelberg officers club. They will compete at army lira cd for inc Connelly award maj. Gen. Pascoe named to head Tyndall Center ramste1n a. West Germany maj. Fin. Richard m. In soc commander of inc 17 h air Force at Simbach a West Germany has been named to command the air Force de sense weapons Center at Tyndall fab a. Maj. Gen. Robert l Rutherford Deputy chief of staff for operations at Safe will replace Pascoe april 25. Maj. Gen. John a. Corder commander of the 6slh air div at Lindsay As West Germany will replace Rutherford. Mai. Gen. Paul a. Harvey commander of the 322nd Airlift div at Ramstein a will become commander of the acc scr technical training Center at acc scr fab miss. Brig. Gen. William m. Sistrunk vice commander of the 22nd air Force at Travis fab calif., has been selected for i second Star and will replace Harvey. Brig. Gen. Gerald a. Daniel Safe inspector general will become the 65th air div com Mander col. Lawrence e. Bose commander of the 388th tac fighter wins at Hill fab Utah has been selected for promotion to brigadier general and will replace Daniel. Stateside exchanges to offer full line of stereo equipment by Chuck Vinci stiff Irr Lucr Washington stateside military in changes will offer a full line of stereo products for the first time a a result of recent changes made by Congress. The army and air Force Exchange service and the Navy resale and services support office Are working on plans to have new facilities built and More space set aside in existing exchanges for the stereo gear. The House armed services committee s morale welfare and recreation panel gave the Exchange serv ices the authority to carry stereo components in state Side stores in a Fetter to Pentagon officials daled dec. 18. Cafes already has placed stereo equipment in a few of its larger stateside stores said maj. Jim Llaca Berg an Exchange service spokesman in Dallas. Plans have been sent to All stores As to How floor space and displays should be worked oui cab org said. We re looking to handle the big stores first and then phasing in several stores a month Over the next thick 10 six  a total of 90 to 10d stores eventually will Slock the merchandise and the program will mean an annual increase in sales of roughly s20 Mij on or More Cha Borg said. The larger Navy exchanges in inc slates will kick off their audio sales with a two week promotion in May said Maureen Murray a Public affairs specialist with the Navy organization in new York. Air piracy suspect Hamad to be tried in juvenile court Dusseldorf. West Germany a defense attorneys for Abbas Hamadi asked a Federal court to acquit the lebanese Man charged in inc kidnappings of two West germans in Beirut Lebanon. And in a sur prise announcement tuesday a Frankfurt state court said la Himadi s brother Mohammed Hamadi will be tried in a juvenile court. That decision Means Mohammed Hamadi charged with murder and air piracy in the 1985 hijacking of a Twa Jet faces a maximum 10-Yciir prison sentence if convicted. An adult Coutt could sentence him to a possible life term upon conviction. He has Given varying Dales for his birth. Under West German Law persons 14 to 18 years old Are juveniles and those Over 21 arc adults. Persons 19 to 21 can be tried As juveniles or adults. The court ruled tuesday that Mohammed Hamadi was under 21 at the time of the hijacking. Abbas Hamadi is accused of kidnapping two West germans in january 1987, allegedly to Force West Ger Many to free his brother. A verdict is expected nest week. Hamadi is chained with kidnapping businessmen Rudolf Cordes and ask Rcd Schmidt in 1987. Cords was seized at Beirut International Airport on Jan. 17, i987.and Schmidt was abducted from his Beirut hotel room three Days later. Schmidt was released last sep tember in what Liis captors called a Goodwill gesture while cords remains in Captivity. The Navy also it finalizing plans for permanent sales. In some cases Well use stand alone sound shops mostly at the very largest bases and in other cases Well use space within existing Exchange facilities Murray said. She estimated that Navy stateside audio sales fur the remainder of 1988 alone will top 17 million. The mar panel also approved stateside sales of  physical file ass equipment and ready to at Scubic furniture but turned Down a Pentagon request to have exchanges Stock television sets desktop copiers and diamonds larger than one half Carat. Lawmakers historically have kept stateside exchanges on a tight rein because of concerns Over com petition with local commercial outlets for the same merchandise overseas where there is Little problem with us. Competition exchanges always have carried a wider variety of items. It s really a judgment Call by the  said a staffer with the mar subcommittee. The cafes Mission is to provide the essentials the basics for service members it s up to the panel to determine what constitutes the basics. Overseas obviously there arc fewer off base alternatives so the overseas exchanges have a lot More latitude in terms of what they offer the panel placed limits on the value of the stateside stereo gear. Tor individual components the limit is s8do that s wholesale cosi to the exchanges not retail Price. For rack systems the limit is 11.000 for foreign made units and \ 1,500 for  units. Workers find piece of ancient Gold Queen Nefer Crri May have worn $ Cairo Egypt a workmen cleaning the Dusty Tomb of Ramses la s Beautiful Queen Nefertari found a frag ment of beaten Gold jewelry that grave robbers and tourists apparently Over looked for 3,2io years. Resins clinging to the etched fragment indicate it May have been  Nally to her missing Mummy egyptian and american officials said tuesday in announcing the find if the fragment is determined to have belonged to the Queen it would be rare indeed. The Only other surviving legacy of Kcf Tolari is the lid of her sarcophagus on exhibit in the Turin egyptian museum in Italy egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni colled the jewelry which is 1 i inches Long and an Inch wide a significant discovery Only the second object Ever found that probably belonged to  the piece resembles segments of armlets or bracelets surviving from Ramses new kingdom Era with Golden pieces linked by chains and beads Andice raied with Flowers. An egyptian Workman Noli a  of bar turn Gold jewelry from the Tomb of Nofe Yttri Jive rate wife of pharaoh Ramsey ii. Was Nefertari a there Are indications including is hic the frail to Eood Sheet was in an anteroom behind a Glyphic inscriptions Monrea said. C Queen s burial chamber found during a project to los Angl is based British Egypt Logist Helen mud a d r j Wick who studied the Pirn for Getty found significance in the ritual inscription True of voice a phrase inc enl egyptians normally used after the name of the the Queen. Stop the decay of Nefertari s Tomb in Southern Egypt s Valley of the Queens. Sponsored by the egyptian antiquities organization and the Getty conservation Institute of Marina Del key.-calif., the project began 18 months ago and is expected to last another 3vt years. With its splendid vividly coloured Wall paintings no Ferrari s is the greatest among 80 tombs in shallow valleys called the place of  Royal wives and children were buried there in Rock Cul bombs opposite the ancient capital of Thebes now called la or Jio Miles South of Cairo. Luis Morcal the Getty Institute s director said nobody believed anything of significance had escaped the attention of grave robbers or the thousands of tourists and conservators who visited inc Tomb since its discovery in 1904. Workmen inching across the floor of the Tomb s final chamber Clearing away the centuries of dust by hand found the fragment on feb. 8, Monreal said. It Lay covered by dust then by broken bits of Wall paintings which in themselves were covered by layers of dust he  real Bonus that we had t expected is that we recovered pieces of a Complete segment of Wall painting which will cover some 10 Square feet when we reattach it to the rear Wall he said. Although proof has t been found that the fragment in noted that inc phrase had u feminine  the fragment s discovery inside Nufer Tan s h. Highly suggests that it was from the Queen s person who died. She that. Tomb y suggest. Burial paraphernalia perhaps even torn from her mummified body the piece dots not rank with the tutankhamen treasure in aesthetic terms but it still has historical and sentimental value because the powerful Nefertari Sim ply vanished Monreal said. Nefertari the Beautiful and bold wife of Warrior hero Ramses ii is thought to have died about age 45 about 3,250 years ago. The Rhomb paintings and inscriptions depict her As a woman of great Charm and noun Ilc taste adorned with magnificent jewelry and Wear ing fashionable gowns. Ramses fax urine of 13 wives Kcf Critari accompanied her husband in Battle and helped negotiate the world s first peace treaty Ramiv agreement with the troublesome hittites of Asia minor. In her famous Temple at Abu so incl Nefertari is pictured begging Ramses to be gentle Wilh his captives. Be Funari was inc world s first first lady Monreal said  
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