European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 14,1968 military jets go Down in 3 . Crashes by the associated press coast guard and Navy aircraft and vessels tuesday searched for a crewman missing from an f-14 Jet fighter that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina while practising combat Maneu vers killing his cremate officials said. Six people were injured in another f 14 crash monday after two Navy aviators baited out of their jul Over an air Field in the san Diego suburb of Al Cajon sending it smashing into a Han Gar. And a Pilot in Utah escaped injury tuesday in the third military training flight crash in two Days the crash Oft Hatteras n.c., occurred monday afternoon 22 Miles East of Ore gon Inlet inc Navy said. A fishing boat news briefs picked up a crewman who was pronounced dead. The identity of the dead aviator and his missing cremate were not released pending notification of relatives. Five people including the two Navy fliers remained hospitalized tuesday after the crash monday morning in Al Cajon is Miles East of san Diego. The $35 million Jet crashed upside Down into hangars at Gillespie Field and exploded. The Blaze ignited by the crash destroyed a hangar and an attached Extension but spared a nearby restaurant. Authorities said the two crewmen tried in guide the Jet to the runway at Gillespie Field before bailing out. Capt. Gary Hughes commanding offi cer of Nas Miramar said he was grate Ful Iacre weren t More injuries particularly when you re this close Loel Cajon. It s a very populated  the Jet passed within a mile of an elementary school. "1 thought they were just doing tricks. And then we saw the parachutes said Washington Moncuso a sixth grader at Ballantyne elementary school. In the Atlantic Ocean Accident a cmdr Mike John a spokesman for the Navy s Atlantic Fleet air forces in nor Folk va., said the plane was engaged i mock dogfights with another f-14 Tom cat and an a-4 skyhawk Jet in restricted military airspace off the North Carolina coast. It was flying a routine training mis Sion John said. The cause of the crash was not deter mined officials said. The aircraft Sank soon after Impact John said. The twin engine supersonic fighter was attached to 143rd fighter so at Oceana Nas near Virginia Beach a. In Northern Utah tuesday an f-16a Falcon Jet fighter crashed West of Hill fab after the Pilot bailed out a base spokeswoman Aid. The aircraft As signed to Hill s 3bslh,tac fighter Wing was on a routine training Mission. Spokeswoman Silvia Lemon Liddle said the plane went Down about 25 Miles West of the base about 9 of . She said the crash site was in or near the Promontory mountains which Art on a Peninsula jutting into the great Salt Lake but she declined to be More specific. Hurricane Gilbert misses Cayman islands by the associated press Hurricane Gilbert a killer storm packing 140 Mph winds swept past the Cayman islands tuesday after devastating Jamaica and the dominican Republic with fierce Rains lash floods and mudslides weather and radio reports said. Civil defense officials in the dominican re Public reported five people died including fou children when Gilbert skirted its Caribbean shores sunday. There were unconfirmed reports at least 30 other people died monday when Gilbert pounded Jamaica. The confined death toll from the storm was expected to be far higher. Panama go tour lengths reduced by Pentagon Washington a the defense department has ordered a Cut in the required tour length for All military personnel stationed in Panama As part of an Effort to reduce the num Ber of dependents in the troubled Central Amer ican nation the Pentagon said tuesday. Dan Howard the department s chief spokes Man said the policy change would reduce from 36 months to 30 months the required Lour for service personnel accompanied by their families and drop from 24 months to 15 months the Lour Tor those deploying alone. The latter reduction is considered the most important. Howard explained that the depart ment also is enforcing a change to its concur rent travel policy under which members of the service cannot bring their families to Panama unless they have already secured housing on a military reservation. Since Iacre is currently a waiting period of up to nine months for such housing f the new Lou length should encourage More soldiers just logo unaccompanied added maj. Kathy Wood a Pentagon spokeswoman. Panama is the Home of the . Southern come. Bush Dukakis running even 2 polls find Washington a Democrat Michael Duka Kis and Republican George Bush Are running  and  a pair of newly released National polls indicate. A can Usa today Survey of 1,260 certain voters released monday found 48 percent preferred Bush compared with 46 percent who favored Dukakis. Bui the margin of error of 3 percentage Points negates the gop Lead. A second poll conducted sept. 8-10 by the Roper organization gave Dukakis the Lead 49 percent 10 43 percent. Once again the 5 percent margin of error Mccanl the Lead could fall either Way. The Roper poll done for Maryland Public television and released monday night surveyed 619 Likely voters nationwide. The can Usa today poll conducted last week by the Gordon Slack corporation also suggested that the gender Gap has narrowed considerably with women opting for Dukakis Over Bush by a 47-45 margin. Fifty one percent of men polled preferred Bush however compared with 45 percent for Dukakis. Bush s Choice of pan Quayle for his vice presiden tial nominee Hurt him among swing voters and inde Pendents according to the poll but left republicans a swayed As a whole. Another group receiving considerable attention this year Reagan democrats gave Bush a slight Edge Over Dukakis 50-43 percent. But negative voting seemed Lefavor Dukakis with 34 percent of Dukakis supporters voting against Bush and 20 percent of Bush backers saying they were in effect voting against Dukakis. Deficit from Page 1 government reported tuesday that the country suffered a s492 million deficit in the services category which tracks the flow of investment earnings. It was the first deficit in this category since 1958. The deficit in services was Small and could be re Vised away in future reports to fact the government reported three months ago that services posted a Defi Cit of $655 million in the first Quarter. That was changed in tuesday s report however to show a $1.4 billion surplus. Still economists said the Day is not far away when services will Tumble into a deficit and stay there for some time As More american wealth will have to be transferred overseas 10 service foreign investment in this country. Many economists have warned that the debt service Burden eventually will lower americans Standard of living by reducing the amount of funds available in this country for government operations business in vestment and individual consumption. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis has made the country s growing debt Burden an Issue in the Campaign branding it a major failure of presi Dent Reagan. The administration however has played Down the record increase in foreign investment contending that the debt servicing is still a tiny fraction of the country s Gross National product. The administration maintains thai it is wrong to classify the United Stales in the same category with such Large third world debtors As Brazil Mexico and Argentina. The administration argues that the foreign debt in third world countries represents a far greater percent age of Hose countries Overall economic output and that the debt has been borrowed in currencies other than their own. The . Foreign debt can be repaid in dollars. In the second Quarter he drop in the current account deficit reflected a huge decline in the Merchan Dise Trade category. The difference Between what americans import and what . Companies sell abroad dropped to $29.9 billion the biggest quarterly improvement in five years. The current account deficit of $33.3 billion for the second Quarter reflects the additional imbalance of $492 million in services and $2.9 billion in . For eign Aid payments and pension payments made to americans living overseas. The current account balance for 1987 was a record $153,96 billion. For the first six months of this year the deficit has been running at an annual Rale of $140.5 billion. Hamadi from Paga 1 not in English indicating thai he was proud of his gun and himself for causing this. He seemed to demonstrate that he was a worthy Soldier for some cause or revolution. It seemed to be a big moment for him what thai blood represented to him. I wondered How he expected me to respond. I Felt he wanted some con  during the hijacking the plane was diverted from Athens to Beirut Leb anon then Back and Forth Between Bei rut and Algiers twice. Throughout the ordeal passengers were savagely beaten by the two hijackers. However Zimmermann said he did not see Stethem killed while the hijackers negotiated for fuel during their second Landing in Beirut. They were having a great argument with some people in Beirut lower. It was All in arabic so i Don t know what was said. I thought they wanted Only fuel. Then i saw Bolh hijackers drag the Man who turned out to be Robert Ste them to his feet after they had been beating him. I heard the struggling noises the front door of the plane opened but apparently they had some problem because Stethem was blocking the door. Then i heard the door open More and then i heard pop and then someone exhaled loud enough to be heard above the engine noises. That s when the Copilot began shout ing in the radio to the Tower we must have fuel they Are killing passengers " Hamadi was arrested on Jan. 13, 1987, for smuggling explosives into West Germany and was soon identified As one of the Twa hijackers. He told an earlier session of the court he was Only an accomplice in the hijacking and was against killing a Lethem. Zimmermann testified he was old Lethem was kilted because of demands thai arose Between rival groups who wanted part of the hijacking action. He said he could not remember who told him. Earlier reports and testimony indicated Lethem was killed to Force Beirut authorities to refuel the plane. Zimmermann told the court Hamadi was the Calmer of the two hijackers which also conflicts with statements by other witnesses. Before leaving Algiers for the second time Zimmermann said All but 40 of the 149 original passengers bad been re leased Al various stage of the ordeal. At this time the amal militia had been on Board since Landing in Beirut the second Lime he said. They gathered us All in the Center of the plane. The Hijack ers and militia were All praying and sing ing Mournful songs. I think they were trying to get into the mood to blow up the Blane with All of us in it. They did t. The new Leader from the amal decided to Fly to Tehran Iran or Yemen with a Slop for fuel i Beirut. In Beirut it All  the trial was to continue wednesday with testimony from an Fri agent who interrogated Hamadi in West Germany