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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 11,1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 of Mickey turns 60 \ Mill i y mouse is 60 years eld mid what Al Mickey s Home p he Icagic kingdom better permit in Ackon Ottlene this Lippi in Buena Vista Fin la help Cut b birthday Ness he has brought to millions than cake. She was in town to re Corni a a Foster Nancy Reagan the first lady dropped in grandparents program. Military can t halt Drua smuggling Gao report says Washington a throwing american military might into the fight against drug smugglers won a work & cause suppliers will find a a inc growing demand in Thi slates the head of the Congre general accounting office said wed Day. As Long As inc demand stays scaling the Borders probably in t is tic comptroller general g Bowsher Lold the Senate armed so committee. / asked if adding . Military forces to inc overworked civilian Law enforcement agencies will help Cut drug smuggling. Bowsher replied i Don l thinly we have any statistics that show that s going to  / military assets Are Only a marginal assist to the anti drug efforts he said. Bowsher s assess men was offered As the committee opened i series of hear ing into proposals to have the Pentagon become More deeply involved in the anti drug Effort. The House last month voted to order president Reagan .10 have the armed forces essentially Seal . Borders against smugglers the Senate approved a less expanded military role by did de cide to give Natty officers arrest Powers for drug boats seized in International Waters / the to proposals were added to each chamber s defense budget Bill for the Fis Cal year Sta Ting oct. 1. Differences be tween the measures including the anti drug provisions will be worked out by a House sedate conference committee. Mikitaw officials have opposed a wider Pentagon role in the drug War say ing inc armed forces Lack inc necessary training and equipment. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the armed service committee chairman said in was i fac to set aside rhetoric and Pas Sio and make significant improvement the War on  Virginia s John Warner the lop re publican on the panel said con Gress is on a Stam Pede and we need some direction. We need to try and Corral this Stam Pede and Point in in the right  Bowsher said Federal officials is Limalu they Are seizing Only 20 per cent 10 25 Pyrc Cal of inc cocaine and 10 percent of the mar Ijuana being illegally imported into the United Slana. In addition,.jio noted increasing the Mil itary role would be a significant Depar Ture from this country s longstanding tradition of separating National defense and civilian Law enforcement  that separation chief Legal express Ion is the posse pm Mihalus act. An 1878 Law that bars using the military to enforce civilian Laws. It was amended a Jpn years ago to permit the military to help in the anti drug Effort but that Aid has chiefly been limited to a supporting Rojc. The Mili tary s major Effort has Bacn up Oltaria and tracking suspected drug Bali or planes. The Federal government is now spend ing three limes More Money do reducing the Supply of drugs than on reducing de Mand according to a Gao Sluda out inc watchdog Agency concluded thai despite the increased funding. There is a continuing heavy demand for drugs by .  air Force investigators search through inc wreckage of a c-130 crush that left six dead near Greenville m iss probe under Way in crash of c-130 Greenville. Miss. A air Fotch  picked through wreckage thursday for clues to the cause of a plane crash that killed is air National guardsmen As they completed a series of touch and go landings. The c-130 transport plane plunged into a soybean Field and burst into a fireball about a mile Short of the Greenville Airport on wednesday afternoon. The plane s approach would have completed Ilic exercise said la Michele Mcdowell a base spokeswoman. They were about to gel finished. They were at the end of i hair training Mission there she said. In touch and go drills a Pilot allows inc plane s wheels to briefly touch the runway before taking off again. The drills often simulate a ground drop in com Bat conditions in which cargo would be dumped out of inc moving plane. The aircraft was assigned to the u9lh tac Airlift group of the Arkansas air National guard. A spokeswoman for inc link Rock base. . Deborah Doyle identified the dead As Mai. Andner Zwaan 39, a Pilot Wilh the is9ih staff set. David Bingham 24, of the 181st tac Airlift so at Henley Field in Dallas 2nd la. Mark k. Brandt. 24, of the 180th tac Aioli Fossq at Rosecrans municipal Airport at St. Joseph to 2nd la Thomas d. La acc 28, of inc Vul tac Airlift group of Minneapolis master sets. Edwin j. Smith jr., 35, and Danny w. Holland. 39, both of the Wilh. The bodies of the six were flown to Scesler fab in Biloxi on thursday morning for autopsies and positive identifications. Air Force official said Zwaan was the Pilot instructor an inc c-130 and Brandt the student Pilot  
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