European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday july 19,1988 news updates 6 dead seals found Copenhagen Denmark a six dead seals were found in Lim Fjorden Bay danish radio reported monday signalling the possible spread of a herpes virus that has claimed hundreds of the aquatic mammals in North euro Pean Waters. The carcasses had drifted ashore in the Lim Fjorden which stretches across the Northern part of the jut land Peninsula. The Bay previously untouched by the virus is Home to about 800 seals. Tests by the state veterinary serum Laboratory showed that they died of acute pneumonia caused by the same virus which has killed seals in danish and Ger Man Waters the report said. Pal Extension Given fort Mill . A it trustee . Red Benton has granted an australian business Man a five Day Extension to make a $50 million Deposit on his $200million offer to buy the to ministry s heritage Usa theme Park. Benton originally gave Gavin Moreau until Friday to come up with the Earnest Money but it lawyer Bradford Leggett said sat urday that after a meeting with Moreau Benton extended the deadline until wednesday. Moreau 52, is president and executive chairman of Moreau inter National in Melbourne Australia. He said he is involved in banking real estate travel construction and the import Export business. Rescued aviators Manila Philippines a vietnamese authorities will turn Over to . Diplomats tuesday three . Navy aviators rescued by a vietnamese ship after their plane crashed into the South China sea last week the Navy said monday. Chief Petty officer James o Leary said in a Telephone inter View from Subic Bay naval base that the . Embassy in Bangkok Thailand is to Send a plane tues Day to pick up the three at Tanson Nhut Airport in Vietnam and Fly them to the thai capital. A Navy plane was standing byte Fly the aviators it. Richard k. Maurer of Harvey s Lake a. It. A a Elizabeth a. Steinnecker of Corpus Christi Texas and Petty officer 1st class Michael  of Albuquerque . Back to Subic 50 Miles Northwest of Manila. The three were flying to Subi from Singapore aboard a ct-39e twin engine Jet when they crash Din the South China sea near the spratly islands last tuesday Navy spokesmen said. American and malaysian air Craft had been searching for the three when the vietnamese reported rescuing the fliers. Correction a photo sunday of Gannett co. Chair Man Allen h. Neuharth incorrectly was credited to the associated press. Stars and stripes photographer Steve Morrison took the photo. St. Louis a the associated press reported erroneously saturday that supreme court Justice Harry Blackmun had said at a judicial conference that his fellow Justice John Paul Stevens is a Maverick  Blackmun actually said Stevens is a Maverick image  Taft says anti nuclear Drift by Danes will Hurt nato by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a top Pentagon official monday attacked Denmark for allegedly failing to pull its nato weight and warned of cracks in the Alliance if the danish government goes any further with its current anti nuclear Drift. Speaking in Copenhagen to members of three . Think tanks that Deal with nato issues Deputy Secretary of de sense William h. Taft in said a growing anti nuclear sentiment among Many Danes can Only Hurt the Alliance by fan Ning isolationist flames in the unite states and both Are wrong and danger  prepared copies of Taft s remarks were distributed monday in the Penta gon. Noting that Denmark does not accept nuclear weapons on its soil in peacetime Taft said nato respects danish sensitivities on that matter even while continuing to deter a nuclear threat to Denmark with nuclear weapons based in other Al lied nations. Pressure by some Danes to bar any role for nuclear weapons even in their own defense or to make it impossible for Allied ships to visit danish ports because they May be carrying nuclear weapons is tantamount to saying Danes want the Benefit of nuclear deterrence without making any contribution to it even in the form of passive cooperation Taf said. A left Wing majority in the danish parliament voted in april to activate a dormant 31-year-old ban on ships Bear ing nuclear weapons visiting danish ports. The government later softened that position. The United states refuses to disclose whether a particular ship is carrying nuclear weapons but a Pentagon spokes Man said the problem with the danish government has been put to rest. As Faras the instructions we give to ships visit ing Denmark it s business As it s always been he said. These kinds of problems make Ameri cans reluctant to accept the continued burdens and risks of defending Europe since it feeds the feeling that their efforts Are being obstructed by the very people they Are defending Taft said. For the foreseeable future Taft Sainato nations must accept the need for nuclear deterrence to keep the  cannot and must not accept constraints that weaken our nuclear deter rent or our Alliance commitment to it he said. On the Issue of general defense spend ing Taft said Denmark has a very unenviable record despite being one of the most affluent members of the Alli Ance with the third highest rate of per capita Gross Domestic product of any nato member. Yet Denmark is near the Bottom an has been for some time of Natona tons in terms of per capita expenditure son defense he said. Denmark has signed up to goals in nato that it has failed to meet year after  Pentagon statistics show that Danis defense spending amounts to 2 percent of the country s Gross Domestic  nato Only Luxembourg s spending level is lower. Every year the Burden of maintaining defense capabilities needed to deter aggression against Denmark is carried less and less by Danes and More and More by their allies Taft said. There is no reason for this. The allies do not expect Denmark to perform miracles or embark on Overly ambitious plans and programs. But Denmark can do More for itself an the  Corrigan returns to Irish Airfield 50 years after wrong Way flight Baldonnel Airport Ireland a Douglas wrong Way Corrigan flew Back monday to the Airfield where he landed his monoplane 50 years ago after taking off for California and wind ing up in Ireland instead. Look no hands the 81-year-old american declared hands aloft in a triumphant gesture As the Are lingus com Muter plane carrying him from Dublin landed at Baldonnel Airport after a 10 minute flight. An army band was on hand to Greet him along with . Sullivan the air plane Engineer who met him the first time he came. Corrigan arrived in Ireland by com Mercial Jet for festivities celebrating his famed wrong Way flight then boarded the shorts-360 propellor plane renamed ww2 for wrong Way in his Honor and flew to Baldonnel in the cockpit. He sported the same leather flying jacket he wore when he first flew Here. Corrigan has always insisted he flew East instead of West by mistake having misread his Compass and did t know until his $900 Curtiss Robin monoplane pierced the Clouds that he was Over ire land. He had been refused permission to at tempt a trans Atlantic flight because his plane loaded with 330 Gallons of Gaso line and five Gallons of Oil was too heavy for a Safe flight. Before departing for his latest visit Corrigan hinted his Story might change but at the ceremony Here he stuck to his original version. I followed the wrong end of the com pass Needle he said in a speech to admirers gathered at Baldonnel Airport. It s a simple thing to happen. It should t have happened. I was the Firstone to admit that i had made a mistake and i was willing to Correct  he recalled that the last time he landed at Baldonnel now Irish air Force Headquarters the runway was a grass strip. I taxied up to a Little Shack where there were two men in uniform Corri Gan said. I was in trouble until the found out what my name was and the policeman said he s just another irishman coming Home " Corrigan said that since he had no passport or other papers the first time he flew Here he had never really been in Ireland. This time i m in Ireland and i have the papers to prove it he said. Also present were transport minister John Wilson Dublin s Deputy lord mayor Alice Glenn and Are lingus chief executive David Kennedy. Wilson congratulated the sprightly american on still being Able to fit into his 1938 flying jacket and said he Hope that Corrigan s plane now partly Dis mantled at his Home in Santa Ana calif.,might one Day return to Ireland to be exhibited. When Corrigan touched Down in ire land on july 18, 1938, after a 28-hour flight that was supposed to take him to Long Beach calif., he had Only $3 in his pocket and knew no one he said in a interview sunday prior to his late night departure from new York s Kennedy International Airport. This time accompanied by his son Harry and daughter in Law Charlotte com Gan crossed the Atlantic in six hours As an honoured passenger of Are lingus on a Boeing 747. The airline plans three Days of ceremonies for him. I believe he s in splendid form said Margaret Coyne an Are lingus spokeswoman in Dublin. We had plans he d rest for a while but he really was interested in  Corrigan was whisked in a new Yor police department helicopter to the Brooklyn Airfield for a nostalgic visit sunday before going on to Ireland. It looks a Little different than it did50 years ago he said. It s got More buildings scattered around. But the run Way is still there and the control  army names go killed by careening car Darmstadt West Germany is the army has released the name of a 32nd army air defense come Soldier killed Friday when a car ran into a group of people standing near a military club parking lot. The Soldier pvt 2 Robert w. Long jr., 18, was with he co 11th signal in said command spokesman maj. David Hartman. According to German police a Ger Man woman left the Rainbow club the Darmstadt no and enlisted club and allegedly drove into a parked car careened off the vehicle and hit one sol Dier. After leaving the parking lot the woman allegedly ran into a group of pedestrians killing one and injuring another German police said. The woman allegedly was intoxicated at the time of the incident according to police. She was taken into custody by Darmstadt police and released Early Friday. German police Are considering charges of Drunken driving and involuntary manslaughter against the 41-year-old Griesheim woman a police official said monday. The two injured soldiers were treated and released from the Frankfurt army regional medical Center. Long is survived by his parents Rob Ert w. Long or. And Lila l. Long of Jonesboro Ark. The Accident is being investigated by military officials and German authorities