European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes Friday september 16.1988 news updates Ramstein victim Dies Kaiserslautern West Germany is a 64-year-old Man died Lale wednesday of injuries suffered in the Ramstein a air show disaster bringing the death loll id 63, a spokesman forthe Rhein had Pfalz Interior ministry said thursday. Spokesman jump in Dick zen said the most recent victim of the aug. 28 tragedy was from the German state or Badin . The disaster occurred when three italian air Force Juls collided during an Aerial demonstration atthe annual air show. One plane plummeted into a crowd of spectators killing Many instantly and in Juring hundreds. An american woman injured inthe disaster left Europe this week for . Warren fab wyo., to receive skin grafts said maj. Kath Leen while rams Cin a spokeswoman. Sonya Fuller 25, the wife of a Security policeman assigned to Simbach a had been hospitalized at lands Uhl army regional medical Center until he Transfer. Melanesian Freedom Noumea new Caledonia up in a 24-hour Fence mend ing visit the australian foreign minister wednesday urged Consen sus rather than ultimate har Choice on Independence for the French territory. Foreign minister Garch Evans said i visit reflected improved tics Between Canberra and Paris after a diplomatic feud that culminated in january 1987 with the de parture of Australia s Consul Gener Al from Noumea Drunken driving plea Torrance Calif. A the Man charged in the traffic Accident thai killed Hill Street blues actor Trinidad Silva or. Has pleaded guilty to Drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter. Douglas Robert Owens 35, washed on $25,000 bail for sentencing oct. 4. He pleaded guilty tues Day said Al Alec Gale spokesman for the District attorney s office Owens apparently ran a stoplight and collided with a pickup truck driven by Silva on july 30, police said. Silva s wife Sofia 28, and 2-year-old son were not seriously injured. Copter damaged after hitting Power line bad windshe1m, West Germany a 1st inf div helicopter was slightly damaged tuesday when its skids git Power line on a training night during nato exercise certain Challenge. The two Crew members of the ah-1 cobra helicopter assigned to he Divi Sion s 1st so 4lh Cav were not injured and landed the aircraft safely exercise officials said thursday. The extent of the damage to the Power line was not immediately known. The Accident occurred at 8 15 . Near the town of Weingartz Gruth about 30 Miles cast of Nurnberg. Army officials Are investigating. Champs office closing Heidelberg West Germany the office of the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services will be closed Friday for its organization Day. People with question about champs should Call or visit la nearest health benefits adviser serving i hair area. Aide says 1987 feeler put out on removing Reagan from office Washington a a White House Nide said thursday he raised the possibility of temporarily removing president Reagan from office under the 2sth amendment during the Iran Contra scandal because the president was inattentive inept and Lazy. The aide James Cannon said he brought up the subject in a 1987 memo to Howard Baker jr., who was just taking Over from Donald Regan As Whitehouse chief of staff. Cannon said he rejected the thought after seeing Reagan and finding that hit condition was just  Cannon said he had interviewed 15 or 10 staffers left from the Regan regime and that not All but most said in one Way or another that the president was inattentive that he had lost interest in Hij Job "1 was sceptical about thai but nevertheless the number or people that told me this was such thai i fell i had a obligation to raise it with senator Baker Cannon said. The 2sth amendment added to the Constitution in 1967, provides the presi Dent May be removed if the vice presi Dent and a majority of the Cabinet de Clare him unable to discharge the Powers and duties of his office while House spokesman Marlin Fitz in tar. Miking to reporters at his daily briefing said i saw the president every Day talked to him a lot. There s nothing to this. This u fiction by staff people who for their own reasons chose to Jay this and it was dismissed immediately by those who heard it. It was never  Filz Waler Laid the president Wai aware of the Cannon report and he takes it Allin  it Speaks More of Fth state of mind of some of the staff Here at the time than it does of the president Fitzwater said. Cannon talked to a Bunch of people who for All practical purposes had just been relieved of their duties,1 the spokesman said saying aides brought to the White House by Regan knew they would be leaving shortly after he did. Fitzwater also Aid however that he did not know to whom Cannon spoke except that be did not speak to him or to i. In. Colin Powell then the Deputy National Security adviser or to Frank c. Carlucci then the National Security adviser. The president was just Fine the staff seemed to have had some problems he said. Cannon s account appears in a netbook landslide by two newspaper re porters Jane Mayer and Doyle mama a Ltd. Cannon Jaid thursday in an inter View on the Cable news network that the version of the incident in the Prolo gue of the Book is in the main quite  the essence of what the prologue says is that it was not Ronald Reagan who bad a problem it was Bis half be said. Cannon said that on the Day after rewrote the memo. Baker Cannon and two other aids observed Reagan and concluded the president was competent to perform his duties. To our obvious Delight. President Reagan was Dandy Cannon said on Baker told the los Angeles times that even though he accepted Cannon s con certs As legitimate he never seriously considered invoking the amendment. I did t take Cannon s memo lightly Baker told the newspaper Bill from the Al rat time i saw him Reagan he was fully in control and 1 never had any question about his menial compe tence Mayer is a reporter for the Wall Street journal who covered the Reagan while House Mcmanus is a los Angeles tines reporter who has covered the ban con tra scandal. Cannon who had served As Domestic policy adviser to president Ford Taid be began his memo to the incoming chief of staff with this startling recommendation consider the possibility thai Section four of the 23th amendment might be applied Weizsaecker considering pardons for 2 terrorists convicted of murder Bonn West Germany a presi Dent Richard von Weizsaecker consistently rated As West Germany s most respected politician on thursday came under heavy criticism for considering pardons for two imprisoned terrorists convicted of murder this is incomprehensible o me said Wall rude Schlyer the widow of prominent businessman Hanns Manin Schleych who was killed by terrorists in1977,  on wednesday said he would personally visit two convicted red army faction members in prison to follow up on Pardon requests they submitted to him. The announcement unleashed a storm of Public debate and criticism from rela Tives of victims and conservative politicians. Unlike Italy which was also plagued by a wave of terrorist acts in the 1960s and 1970s, West Germany had not enacted Laws to Grant commutations to repentant terrorists. The red army faction is Wisl Ger Many s most notorious terrorist gang. Welz Sacker s spokesman Friedbert of Lutger said the president in his duty to examine Pardon  planned to interview convicted Terrons Angelica pc incl and Peter Jurgen Boock in Pris on As part of his review Boock in prison since 1981, was convicted in connection with the Schleych killing and he murder of a banker. Spei Tel incarcerated since 197j, was found guilty of murdering a policeman. Both received life sentences but say they have since rejected their terrorist views. 2 germans missing offer of crashes byed Keats suit writer two West German crewmen were missing after their lighter bomber crashed into the Baltic sea off the coast of Southern Denmark during a nato exercise a German air Force spokesman said thursday. The reconnaissance Rf-4 Jet was participating in the exercise bold grouse wednesday when it plunged into great Ell Strait Between the danish Baltic is lands of zealand and fyn. We now As sume the Pilot and the weapons system Engineer similar in his function to your flight navigator have been lost said it. Col Hans Dieter Daufenbach. Daufenbach said the phantom was based at the German air Force base in Leek West Germany. They were simulating Maneu vers of an enemy attacker and had just been spotted by defending danish tighten when their plane appeared to stall an crashed into the water from an Altitude of about half a  there was no collision Daufenbach said. Danish Rescue helicopters and ship were sent to the crash area but the two men could not be found. West German forces look Over the search thursday morning Daufenbach said More than 18,000 soldiers from Britain Denmark an West Germany Are participating in the one week exercise which includes prac Tice amphibious landings on the South coast of Denmark. Lieutenant dismissed for bad checks Raf upper Heyford England is a first lieutenant who wrote worthless checks and forged documents to Emend the time to repay his housing Advance was dismissed from the air Force wednesday a base spokeswoman said thursday. Dismissal from the air Force is the Only form of punitive discharge allowed for officers in a court marital and is equivalent to a dishonourable discharge. First i. Frederick r. Kelly 28, As signed to the 20th morale services so at Raf upper Heyford faced four charges in the general court martial. The Squadron operations officer was found guilty of two counts of conduct in becoming loan officer one for forging documents to extend the time to repay his housing Advance and to obtain an air Force Aid society loan and one forgetting a loan in the Nam of his dead brother. Charged with writing checks without sufficient funds Kelly pleaded guilty to a lesser offence failing to i in funds and was found guilty of the lesser charge. The four bad checks Dis covered totalled More than $500. He was found not guilty of attempted wrongful appropriation. Kelly a Southern Pinet n.c., native served two of his five Yean in the a Force 31 an enlisted Man