European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d military whistle blowers get new Avenue Page 2 d saudi Little leagues turn on the heat Page 3 d North wanted diversion of funds agent says Page 9 d tigers regain Lead in Al East sports Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol.47, no. 103 saturday july 30,1988 25 doily and sunday 0 8693 a Germany cuts military flights allies urged to trim Low level training Bonn West Germany a the West German defense ministry on Fri Day said it was cutting its military Low level training flights Over West Germany by 2,000 flight hours per year. Defense minister Rupert Scholz speaking to reporters in Bonn said he had rescinded an order for planned dual training of Jet fighter pilots As bomber pilots eliminating without replace ment 1,000 hours of Low level another 1,000 hours of Low level training flights Are to be transferred to a training area at Decimo Mannu on the Mediterranean Island of Sardinia schol said. The decision follows a Public outcry against Low level Pilot training Over West Germany and a series of air crashes involving nato military jets on training missions. According to the defense ministry about 45,000 hours of flight training is carried out by nato military units annually Over West Germany including flights by ., British French and Ca Nadian aircraft. Military officials have said the flights Are necessary to keep pilots in top Readi Ness. Scholz said he Hopes to further reduce the number of West German air Force fighter Jet flights by another 1,200 to 1,300 hours per year by having them train outside the country. Training of West German pilots at Goose Bay Labrador in Canada will be increased by about 1,000 to 5,000 hours per year Between 1990 and 1991, Scholz said further reducing the need for Low level flights Over West Germany. Scholz also told reporters that he has been in Contact with other nato officials to urge them to take All possible measures to reduce the number of Low level flights. Safe officials said the command stowaway placed in state care upon arriving at Irish Airport Dublin Ireland a an Irish teen Ager who was a stowaway on a . Navy destroyer returned Home Friday and immediately was placed under the care of government health officials. Hours before 16-year-old Suzanne Twomey arrived at Shannon Airport in Western Ireland a District court in Cork ordered her placed under the care of the Southern health Board official said. A spokesman for the health Board who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Board made an application for custody in the interests of the girl her self and after consultation with her parents and the Twomey has run away from her Home in Cork Southern Ireland sever Al times and was once brought Home from Spain after disappearing for six months. I just want to go Home she told judge Fred Morelock of North Carolina s Wake county District court on thursday. When Twomey landed after an Over night flight from new York she was taken through a rear Airport exit and placed in a waiting police car. Two agents of the . Naval investigative service escorted her. An Irish police spokesman who re fused to be named said her parents John and Christine Twomey and her three siblings would see her later. Twomey apparently slipped aboard the guided missile destroyer Conyngham when it paid a Courtesy Call in Cork har Bor. She was discovered aboard the de Stroyer saturday when it returned to its base in Norfolk va., after a 10-Day trip across the Atlantic Ocean. The teen Ager apparently spent the entire crossing in a 2 a foot wide 15 foot Long and 3-foot-High Compart ment above a refrigeration unit. Five sailors accused of helping the girl were being held authorities said. If charged and convicted they face a Suzanne Twomey in route Home arrives in new York with her Navy escort. Maximum five years in prison and Afine of $2,000 for aiding an illegal entry into the United states. Twomey s parents said they Are considering suing the . Government on grounds that their daughter could not have boarded the ship without help from Crew members. There is a lot More to this than meets the Eye her Mother said thurs Day. She said . Officials had Tele phoned her in Ireland to apologize. Had not received any official communication from the germans but said they will work with German authorities and the allies As appropriate. Since March 31, five . Air Force f 16 Jet fighters have crashed during train ing flights Over West German territory three of them on june 29. In addition fighter jets of the British French and West German air forces have crashed during the past four months. Scholz announced on july 5, following the crash of a West German air Force f-4 phantom fighter that he was making reduction of Low level training flights a to priority. South Africa orders film confiscated Johannesburg South Africa a seven hours after the movie cry Freedom opened to weeping his sing cheering audiences police seized copies of the film from Heaters nation wide. They cited two bombs Anonymous phone threats and the film s violent scenes As proof that it was dangerous. " cry Freedom endangers the safety of the Public the maintenance of Public order Gen. Hendrik de Witt commissioner of police said in a statement Fri Day evening. The government s censors the publication appeals Board had ruled Friday morning that the film could be shown. It said the movie about the 1977 death of Black Leader Steve Biko was biased against police but posed no risk to race relations or state Security. But minister of information Stoff Elvan Der Merwe said the Security forces Are portrayed in such a negative Light that their Public image would be seriously South Africa s apartheid system maintains a racially segregated society in which the 5-million White minority controls the Economy and maintains Sepa rate residential districts schools health services and recreation areas for 26 Mil lion Blacks. The film directed by sir Richard Attenborough in neighbouring Zimbabwe is based on two books by Donald Woods a White newspaper editor who befriended Biko and fled the country after his death in detention. De Witt ordered the film confiscated under 25-month-old emergency regulations that give police sweeping Powers. There were no injuries in explosions at two cinemas. A blast at the metro theater in downtown Durban occurred shortly after police evacuated a multiracial crowd of 300. The other was at Kings Cinema where the film had yet to open see film on Back Page
