European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page z the stars and stripes monday june 27,1998 damaged . Frigate readied for trip Home on cargo ship news updates Manama Bahrain a the mine damaged guided missile frigate Samuel b. Roberts was Lowed Oul of Ubai saturday toward a persian Gulf Island to be loaded aboard a specially built cargo vessel that will Lake it Back to the United slates. The 3,600-ton frigate severely dam aged when it hit a submerged iranian mine april 14, has undergone preliminary repair at a Dubai shipyard and willbe rebuilt in the United states . Officials say the mighty servant 2, a 25.743-ton dutch cargo ship chartered by the Nav to carry the Roberts was anchored off Abu no Ayr Island 60 Miles West of Dubai. It was to be partially submerged Lallow inc frigate to be floated onto its deck. But he Tricky loading operation Wasin danger of being delayed by rough seas Gulf based shipping sources reported. Three foot swells were reported off Abu no Ayr they said. Associated press photographer Greg English said inc Samuel i Roberts which nearly Sank after the mine ripped a 25-foot Gash in its Hull looked nor Mal As it was towed from Dubai s Busy port by the tugboat Tornado. He said inc frigate was about 12 Miles from ils rendezvous with inc mighty servant 2 when inc towline was lost Ana the frigate continued under its own auxiliary Power. Radio traffic indicated that the Load ing operation apparently scheduled for later saturday might be postponed he said. Most of the frigate s 22s crewmen have returned to the United states but 30 stayed behind to go Home Wilh the ship. Ten crewmen were wounded in the blast that occurred As the ship tried Loback out of what . Officials said was a newly Laid mine Field in it main shipping Channel 50 Miles Northeast of Qatar. The United Stales retaliated four Days Lacr with attacks on two iranian Oil plat forms triggering Daylong Navat clashes in which six iranian vessels Wen sunk or damaged. The Navy says the Samuel b. Roberts will go first to ils Home port at Newport r.i., and then to the Bath Maine ship Yard where it was launched two years ago. . Officials denied reports that the ship has been judged a write off an will be scrapped. The  Samuel b. Roberts is going to Bath Iron works to be repaired period said cmdr. Mark Baker a Nav spokesman at the Pentagon. His comment followed a report i London s guardian daily quoting for eign naval sources in the United Arab emirates As saying inc ship Lias a Bro Ken Back with Only ils electronic gear salvageable. The guardian said the ship was leptin dry Dock to prevent the full extent of damage from being revealed possibly leading to Congress conducting a new inquiry into the . Role in the Gulf. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia quoted the newspaper As saying inc ship s Clum Home was a cover up to conceal the loss of the $300 million vessel. Iran has not acknowledged laying inc mine that damaged the  x 1 angolan rebel Leader Jonas Sav Imbi left and fact la mayor Charles Evers i press conference saturday in Jackson  deplore award presented to angolan rebel Leader Sav Imbi Fayette miss. A angolan rebel Leader Jonas Sav Imbi received an award named for a slain Black civil rights Leader saturday but the presentation was criticized by anti apartheid protes ters and the civil rights Leader s widow. Sav Imbi s3, the president of the National Union for the total Independence of Angola unit accepted the med Gar evors humanitarian award from fac Ltd mayor Charles Evers brother of the civil rights Leader. The award ceremony had to be moved inside City Hall from the Steps outside to avoid heckling by people protesting Sav Imbi s ties with White ruled South Africa which supports Unita s struggle against Angola s marxist government and has policy of racial segregation known As apartheid. The angolan people Are not asking for pity. They Are asking for understand ing because they have proven themselves Good fighters. We want Freedom in South Africa Sav Imbi said. We arc going to do it. We need your support. Give us thai  on behalf of All of us Freedom moving people in Mississippi and Faye tic whether they like it or not we fed that you arc our hero evors said in present ing the award. Myrlice evors Medgar s widow who is remarried and living in los Angeles said thursday that the Choice of Sav Imbi was politically motivated and that her late husband would not have approved. Medgar evors was Field director of the National association for the Advance ment of coloured people when he was gunned Down in front of his Jackson Home in 1963. Earlier saturday about 40 protesters shouting anti apartheid and anti Sevim by epithets gathered outside a Jackson Motel where Sav Imbi had scheduled a news conference. They were met by a Bible towing pro Sav Imbi group shout ing we Are against  evors failed to Calm the protest and eight uniformed Jackson police officers forced both groups out of the hotel with out incident. I hate apartheid because apartheid is the Black people being  Sav Imbi said during the news  added however that he believes Progress in Namibia and South Africa depends on peace in  War memorial Washington a actress Lorelta soil clashed politely with the female designer of the Vic Nam veterans memorial Over a proposal to place a new statue near the memo rial honouring the 10,000 women who Are invisible veterans of the Southeast asian conflict As cameras rolled Swit told a House hearing that erecting an 8 fool Bronze statue of an army nurse at the 2.2-Acrc memorial site would help heal the emotional wounds of female Vietnam veterans. The greatest tragedy of their service is thai it has gone untold unrecognized and for the most part unknown said Swit who played an army nurse in the Long running to series a a s  she was followed to the witness table by new York architect Maya Lin who strongly opposed any additions or major alterations to her design Tor the memorial a Black Granite Wall bearing the names of 58,156 Vietnam War dead including eight nurses. Troops in Panama Washington a the defense department has ordered 250 additional . Military personnel sent to Panama most of them to provide logistical and administrative support to the troops already there. Maj. Kathy Wood a defense department spokeswoman said inc contingent consisted of a 50 Man air Force Security team and 200 army troops. The personnel Are being deployed from . Bases. The deployment brings thoroughly 2,250 the number of additional military personnel sent to Panama since Early this Spring when the administration of i Orcsi Tledni Reagan began pressuring Mil itary Leader Gen. Manuel a. Noriega to step Down and return in government to civilian Rule. The . Southern come which oversees All . Military activity in Central and South America is based in Panama about 10,000 military personnel work for the Southern come atlases in the Panama canal zone. Postal drug testing Washington a the postal service has announced that it will begin a drug screening pro Gram for Job applicants. The program is expected to Cpin in about 90 Days the Agency said and it will be phased in Dur ing a nine month period we have no plans to initiate ran Dom drug tests of current employees said assistant postmaster Gen eral Joe s. Trosch. Testing for drug use by a current employee is done Only if a physician decides it should be administered As part of a  the postal service said it has signed a contract with phar chem laboratories of Menlo Park calif., conduct inc tests. Bhopal disaster new Delhi India a a High Tourt has adjourned preliminary hearings on petitions filed by Union Carbide corp. In the Bho pal Gas disaster Case the press Trust of India reported. Justice . Sch of the Adhya Pravesh High court in Jabalpur set july 22 for the neat hearing the Agency said. The Indian government has tiled a s3 billion Sun against Union car bide for the 1984 Gas leak that killed nearly 3,000 people