European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday june 28,1968 military Roundup 2 Usa eur dining facilities win food service awards iieideu1erg two Usa eur dining facilities look first place honors in the Philip a. Connelly award Competition for excellence in army food serv ice. Winner in the Small dining facility category was the 23rd Field any Del 552nd arty group. 59lh Ord brigade at t hard. Netherlands. Top honors in the Active army Field Kitchen category went to ill service co. Task Force Phoeni. 4ih i Rigac. 1st army div in Kal Lorbach West Germany awards will he presented in August during the inter National food service executives association Confer ence in California officials said Absentee applications must be filled out correctly Heidelberg soldiers and family members who make mistakes on their Absentee ballot applications take the Chance of losing their Vole. Federal Psi card applications that have missing or incomplete information cannot be processed military voting officials said. Applicants should give particular attention to the military addresses where ballots arc 1o be sent the local address in the jurisdiction where inc ballot is requested legible handwriting and party affiliation if required by the slate when requesting a primary ballot. Soldiers who have any questions about the form should Contact their voting assistance officer or uni commander. Maj. Gen. Anderson takes command of 3rd air Force Raf mi1.denhall. England maj. Gen. Mar Cus a Anderson look command of inc 3rd air Force monday replacing maj. Gen William a James. Anderson s previous european assignments include duty at Raf Laken Halh England flying of Ioos Al lied air forces Southern Europe in Naples Italy Aseh Iff of programs and requirements Pitburg a West Germany As vice commander and later commander of the 36lh tac fighter Wing and rams Cin a West Germany As assistant Deputy chief of staff for operations and later Deputy chief of staff for plans. James will be taking Over the Job that Anderson left at Langley fab va., As the tac air come Deputy chief of staff for operations. World today soviets May publish Solzhenitsyn novel Moscow a the editor of the soviet Union s most prominent literary Magazine said monday he is negotiating to publish cancer Ward by Alexander Sot he Natsyn the dissident soviet writer who was exiled 14 years ago. Things should become Clear in about a week or 10 Days Sergei p. Malygin editor of novy Mir said. If the novel is published it would represent a stun Ning turnaround in the official soviet evaluation of Solzhenitsyn who earned official opprobrium in the 1970s for his three volume chronology of soviet Politi Cal repression titled the gulag  Solzhenitsyn who was awarded the 1970 Nobel j Rie for literature was exiled from his native country in 1974, and his works were ordered removed from Public libraries. He now lives in Vermont. ., mexican firefighters Battle Blaze in Tijuana Tijuana. Mexico a firefighters from both sides of the  Border battled a raging Blaze that heavily damaged a shopping Center in this popular tourist City authorities said. The Blaze broke out in the one Story Centre com Mercial Blanco Libertad shortly before 6 30 . Sun Day and destroyed up to 16 businesses said Tijuana fire department dispatcher Ruben Garcia. Firefighters from san Diego and the mexican cities of Tecalco and Rosario Beach helped bring the Blaze under control within 2 h hours Garcia said. Assistant Tijuana fire chief Jose can Reno said fire hydrants in the area did not work and water had to be hauled in. Weatherman goofed standing knee deep in a rim like Street a Man in Madrid is obviously baffled since such a downpour had not been predicted. There was no Way to pass it off As heavy Dew this time because several areas of the Spanish capital were flood zones monday alter the heavy rainstorm doused the City sunday night. Soviets begin building memorial to Honor their afghan War dead Moscow a the first Stone was Laid sunday for a Monument in Moscow to the More than 13,000 soviet soldiers who have been killed fighting in Afghanistan the official Tass news Agency said. The Monument which includes an eternal flame in tribute to the dead will be built in Friendship Park a popular spot in the soviet capital s Northwest near the Moscow River Tass Laid. It said veterans of the afghan War Sang songs Al a ceremony for the laying of the Cornerstone sunday a Day celebrated Here As soviet youth Day. The creation of the memorial was a sign that the soviet Union May be increasingly coming to grips with inc costs of the War it d id not win. During much of the 8 a year soviet involvement in Afghanistan the state run Media and officials made scant mention of soviet soldiers who had been killed. Many of the War dead were buried with no hint on their tombstones of where or Why they had died. The soviets have been More Frank Tohom the casual lies under Mikhail Gorbachev s policy of glasnost or openness. The government disclosed on May 25 that 13,310 soviet troops had been killed and 33,478 wounded since the soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in december 1979. The Kremlin began withdrawing its troops on May 15 under a  agreement concluded inc previous month. Tass said the War Monument will be reeled to so Viet soldiers who died while fulfilling their internationalist duty in  according to official soviet thinking the red army did not intervene in Afghani Stan but came to the Aid of a marxist government beleaguered by a nationwide insurgency. Tass raid that for sunday ceremony a lamp was lit Al the Tomb of the unknown Soldier near the Kremlin that honors world War ii dead and was brought to the spot in Friendship Park where inc Cornerstone was Laid. The lamp will be Kepi by inc stale sanctioned soviet peace committee until the Monument is completed Tass said. Members of the peace  and the Moscow City organization of the military Reserve collected do nations for the Monument and for the construction of a rehabilitation Hospital for soldiers wounded in Afghanistan Tass said.  War Veteran arrested in 87 for entering Cambodia is set free i i mom penh Cambodia up an american Vietnam War Veteran who was arrested by troops after illegally crossing Cambodia s heavily defended Border last year has been released from prison officials said monday. The officials who asked not to be identified said Sterling Brian Bono 36, of Las Animas colo., was slaying at inc state Gucal House after his release ear Lier this month. They said he has been slaying in the mansion with spacious gardens a former residence of the French colonial governor while inc International committee of inc red Cross was arranging fora family member to come to phenom penh to pick him up. Reporters asking to Sec Bono were told they could meet him later this week. The cambodian government installed by Vietnam s invasion of the country in 1978, apparently dropped a demand that the United states intervene on Dono s behalf before he could be released. The United states docs not recognize inc cambodian regime Bono was captured May 1, i9b7. When he crossed Cambodia s heavily fortified Border with Thailand and was charged with illegal entry. Thai friends of Bono s reported he said he was searching for americans missing in action in cambo Dia during the Vietnam War Al the time of his arrest. Relatives in Colorado however said Bono went to Thailand to look for vietnamese friends he knew while serving As an american Serviceman in the Southeast asian War. He apparently thought he saw his friends in a Pic lure taken in a that refugee Camp a member of his family said when his arrest became known cambodian officials declined to comment on the reasons for Bono s release but apparently gave up nope they would win some form of Concession or Contact with the United states by continuing to hold him