European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. Septembers 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 fire charred Yellowstone evacuated Yellowstone National Park Wya. Iai windblown embers from a i  Forest fire ignited buildings wednesday inside inc old faithful Geyser Complex of Yellowstone National Park Afler hundreds of tourists were evacuated from the area. At least four buildings caught fire As embers from the big North Fork rained Down on firefight cars Welling Down roofs inside the Complex. At least one a she containing a vehicle was destroyed officials said. Wednesday s evacuation was the first in the 116-year history of the Olds . National Park ordered As inc fire burned to within a half mile of the Park s most popular attraction. About 800 visitors left inc old Faith Ful inn. Which Park officials decided to close for the season More than a month Early. Later however parti officials decided to allow Day visitors in the area. Earlier in the Day. West winds gusting to 40 Miles per hour  the North Fork fire by 20.000 acres but a wind shift pushed the Blac near the outbuildings on the Complex s Southern Hank forcing 40 firefighters 10 Retreat. When Tiit firestorm went through there we had to move our people out of  said spokesman Denny Bungarz. When you can feel the heal inside your car. It s time to  he said  would concentrate on spot fires inside the perimeter. Fires in inc greater Yellowstone area which includes nearby National Parks in Montana have charred close to i million acres Park spokeswoman Marsha Karle said. Meanwhile Wyoming s congressional delegation asked Interior Secretary Don Ald Model to declare Wyoming a disaster area because of wildfires in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding forests. Sen. Malcolm Wallop. R-wyo., also called for the resignation of National Park service director William Penn Molt for inc simple reason that he continues to find some reason to celebrate this event while All the rest of us arc  Wyoming s congressional delegation disagrees with the i Ark service s policy of allowing fires of natural origin to Burn untended As Long As icy Don t threaten structures or people. On Yellowstone s Northern Border a River of fire flowed within Yards of to Small tourist towns and firefighters hoped winds would continue to Shepherd the storm Creek fire past Cooke City and Silver Gale Mont. Nearly 550 firefighters and a Fleet of Bull Duers were moved to ii Island Park Are pc a fete m a my ism a my a sol. Troy i alms right and tether Soldier of inc 9th inf div from fort i wis Wash Clear a fire break in Yellowstone National hark. Across the state line in Idaho to keep he North Fork fire from spreading there. Forest fires also burned in California. Washington Idaho and Utah Bungart said the 13 fires in the greater Yellowstone area had advanced about 80,000 acres on tuesday. The fires burning in the 2.2-million acc Park Are the worst by far in the Park s history. In no year has the acreage consumed by fire Csc coded 30,000 acres Park naturalists say. Elsewhere in the greater Yellowstone Complex the 260,000-Acrc Clover Mist fire made a id mile run toward the cast in trance of Yellowstone. Fire information officer Dave Damron said the fire grew 20,000 acres tuesday night and endangered the Parashka to pc Buffalo Bill Cody s original Hunting Lodge. The cast and Northeast gales to the Park were closed wednesday. Two fires in Montana have Cut off Access to the roads leading to the Northeast Entrance. The 224,600-Bcre Mink fire 15 Miles Northeast of Moran Junction in the Teton wilderness continued to bum to inc Northeast near inc Bridger Teton and Shoshone National forests the 53,275-acre Huck fire spread to the Southeast Inlo the Talon wilderness in the Bridger Teton. The 22,195-Acrc Fayelle fire five Miles East of Pinch at wyo., continued to bum. In Southern California firefighters extinguished inc last in a series of wildfires thai blackened More than 25,000 acres. A shift in winds and weather and the use of irrigation systems spared Cen trial Washington s Orchard Bell from a 30,000-Acrc fire. The fire 50 percent contained on wednesday was not sex pc Clad to be completely contained before Friday officials said. In Utah residents of More than 60 Canyon Homes were allowed to return Home As firefighters neared containment of a 5,600-Acrc fire cast of Salt Lake City officials said. A fire in Idaho s Nycz Perec National Forest spread from 25,900 acres monday to 36.7so by tuesday night. Thu Boise inter Agency fire Center. The coordinating office for firefighting in the West said fires this year have charred 3.65 million acres an area larger than con no Licul. Slightly More than 2 million of the acres Are in Alaska. During 1985 the last big fire season 2.8 million acres bum cd. The fire Center has called this the worst fire season in 30 years. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Soft. A i m the newly released Jane s All the world s aircraft said the russians were making rapid advances in Jet aircraft designs Wilh the help of Ger Man technicians and factories. 30 years ago today. Sept. 9. I9ss America s new Jet Airliner a pan american hoeing 71j7, crossed the Atlantic in 3 hours 41 minutes culling More than an hour off the com Mercial airline record. 20 years ago today. Sept. 1, 1968 president Johnson announced thai he would pm $3.5 billion in non Vietnam defense spending space funds and Federal Aid to Highway construction As a result of a congressional order to reduce government spending. 10 years ago today ,.sept. 9, 1978 just hours after the iranian government imposed martial Law in Tehran and 11 other cities government troops clashed with anti govern ment demonstrators in the capital killing 58 people and wounding 205 others. Bugged . Embassy reported a salvageable Washington Al a private engineering study of the Bug riddled new is. Embassy in mos cow finds thut the Structure cannot be salvaged and recommends in be dismantled and rebuilt says a House member involved in the Issue. This Lime the engineers told the state depart ment Only american labor and materials should a used Here should be Beuer Security on the construction bile and the building should be pre constructed in the United slates As much its possible. Rep. Olympia Snower Mulaw said the report by hdm corp. Supported the conclusion she had reached after n tour of the site More than a year ago. Soon after in was discovered thai the bul Dinu was suffused Wilh a sophisticated soviet eavesdropping system. One earlier study by former defense Secretary James r. Schlesinger. Had concluded the eight Story building could be partially salvaged by removing and rebuilding the top three poors for use in unclassified embassy work and called for building a new Annex for top secret activities. The administration should move quickly to begin tearing Down the new building this fall so that they Lake advantage of the warm season Snowe said in a statement. She said $38 million remains available in the construction account thai could be used for the dismantling. The Structure should be taken apart carefully she said rather than demolished so that building components can be sniped Back to the United states for further study by intelligence experts who still Haven t fully figured out the technology used in the soviet bugging system. Bpm which studied the embassy problems Al the state department s request concluded that Complete dismantling and reconstruction would Cost �160 Mil lion and take 45 months to Complete Snowe said. There is no Way the new Structure can be modified to make in secure she said. The Reagan administration has not decided what to do about the embassy building which has already Cost nearly $60 million in construction costs and studies