European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 . Advisers caught in gunfight open fire on rebels in Al Salvador Washington a . Mili tary advisers opened fire on rebel Force sin Al Salvador Al scr being caught in a gunfight two weeks ago Between Salvado ran forces and the leftist rebels Pentagon officials disclosed monday night. None of he three . Advisers was injured said maj. Kathy Wood a Penta gon spokeswoman. They were caught in the Middle of a firc fight and their own lives were i jeopardy so they fired in self defense Wood said. On tuesday the Washington Post 3uolcd a defense department me Moran urn As saying 16 salvadoran Soldier Sand five guerrillas were killed in the As Sault at me salvadoran army s 4th Bri Gade Headquarters in North Central Al Salvador. H was not known whether the three . Soldiers killed anyone. They report edly returned fire with m-16 rifles. There Are no indications of guerrilla casualties As a result of the . Defensive fire the Post quoted it. Gen. Charlesw Brown director of the de sense Security assistance Agency As writing in the memo. The encounter occurred sept. 13, but word of it surfaced monday because the defense department referred to it in a report that it is required to Send to con Gress whenever a hostile action in Al Sal Vador involves an american Wood said. She said she had not seen the memo referred to by the Post. The same salvadoran army Headquarters was the site of a gun and mortar Battle in late March 1987 that resulted in the death Ofa . Army sergeant. Army sgt. Gregory Fronius 27, an intelligence specialist who was advising the salvadoran army is the Only Soldier re ported killed in combat while on duly during the eight years of civil War in the country . Military advisers arrived in the country in 1981. Fronius was one of two advisers As signed to the Camp at the time of the 1987 attack but the other . Soldier was away. Fifth f-14 in a month crashes pilots rescued san Diego a an f-14 fighter Jel assigned to the Carrier Carl Vinson crashed into the North arabian sea on monday but the two Navy fliers who ejected after smoke engulfed the cockpit were rescued Navy officials said. It was the fifth crash involving the s44 million supersonic Jet in the past month including one at the civilian Gillespie Field in Al Cajon calif., that killed Anavy flier and injured four people on the ground. There have Hcan 99 accidental losses of the aircraft since the Jet s introduction to the Navy Fleet in 1972, according to Navy records. The Laital crash occurred while the f-14, part of a Squadron based at san die go s Miramar naval air station con ducted routine Light operations Nav spokesman it. It nor. Bob Pitchard said. The Pilot and radar intercept officer whose names were not immediately available reported smoke and fumes in the cockpit shortly before bailing out about 10 Miles from the earner pal Chard said. A chopper was dispatched from the Carl Vinson and the two were plucked from the water and returned to the ship. Both appear to be in Good health with no injuries Pritchard said. The plane Sank into the Ocean and is not recoverable he said. The Carrier was in the North arabian sea just outside the persian Gulf As part of the joint Middle East task Force Pritchard said the Navy is disturbed by the rash of f-14 accidents but Hai no plans to ground the aircraft because there is no common thread linking the crashes. They arc All unrelated and dissimilar " he said. Without a trend devel Oping and with no known mechanical select As a suspect there s no reason to ground them while the incident investigations  he said that prior to sept. 8, the Dale of the first of the five f-14 accidents Over the past month the aircraft had gone through 387 Accident free Days. Pritchard said that the investigation son those five f-14 accidents remain open. Lebanese shake up tightens Aoun s grip on military Beirut Lebanon a army commander Gen. Michel Aoun whose appointment last week As prime minister has increased tension in the fractured coun try fired four colonels from key posts tuesday in a shake up that consolidates his grip on the military. Police meanwhile said three bombs exploded in syrian policed moslem West Beirut monday night wounding one civilian and destroying several shops and cars. The dynamite charges detonated within four hours of one another in West Beirut s corniche Mazara com Mercial thoroughfare and near the Carlton hotel in the Seaside Raou Chc District no group has claimed responsibility for the blasts. Which increased the number of bombings in the cites moslem sector to seven since former president Amin Gamay cd appointed Aoun prime minister thursday. Minutes before Gamay cd s term expired he appoint cd Aoun and a Cabinet to run the country As an interim government until parliament can elect a new presi Dent. Before Gemayel s term ended Aoun said the military would assume control of the country if a new president were not chosen. Aoun s firings on tuesday brought his most trusted aides to the lop military posts. The shake up came just before the first meeting of the interim Cabinet. The calling of the Cabinet meeting indicated Aoun planned to run Lebanon As chief executive despite the opposition of the moslem majority moslem recon gun. Michel Aoun Nize Only the Cabinet run by Salim Hoss a Sunn moslem who was prime minister under Gamay cd. Aoun in his capacity As army commander dismissed col. Simon Kassis head of the army s intelligence Branch who was hand picked by Gamay cd upon his election to the presidency in 1582. Aoun appointed col. Amer Shehab to replace him. Commander of the presidential guards. Col. Louis Kassis was replaced by col. Francois Zein. Major Fuad Ashkar was appointed head of the army s Security apparatus replacing col. George Shahwan. Aoun also fired col. Mohammed Zaidan the Only moslem among the four from his Post As head of the army s strategic planning Branch. He did not appoint a , the new . Ambassador to Lebanon John Mccarthy on tuesday met with Hoss in the City s moslem  on monday discussed the lebanese Situa Tion with maronite Catholic patriarch Nasrallah Secir at the latter s scat at ski ski North of Beirut. The Maro Nilca have dominated Power since Leb anon s Independence from France in 1943, holding the presidency the army command the Central Bank governorship and the chairmanship of the supreme  an unwritten covenant prime ministers were to be selected from the sunni moslem Community an parliament speakers from the shiite moslem. The appointment of Aoun a maronite thus is seen by moslem As invalid. Captain of Carrier relieved of command for collision Norfolk a. Ai1 the aircraft Carrier Dwight d. Eisenhower s Captain was relieved of his command and two other Navy officers were reprimanded inthe carriers August collision with an anchored freighter a Navy spokesman says. Cape. Gary l. Beck was found Gushy of Haz arding his vessel in an Admiral s Mast a non judicial proceeding on monday said the spokesman. Chief Petty officer Phillip Wilkinson. Beck received a letter of reprimand in addition to being relieved of command of the ship. The Eisenhower s navigator Crador Peter a Maxwell and the officer of the deck at the Lime of he collision it. Cmdr. John a. Sullivan were reprimanded for dereliction of duty in the proceeding Wilkinson said. Maxwell also was relieved of his duties aboard the Eisenhower. The ship was resuming to Norfolk naval station on aug. 29 from six months in the Mediterranean sea when it brushed against the Spanish freighter urdu Liz which was anchored in the Hampton roads Harbor both vessels were damaged. There were no injuries. The incident was investigated by rear adm. Harold j. Belsen Wilkinson said. The findings of the Admiral s Mast willbe forwarded to the commander of the Atlantic Fleet for review. . Military team departs for Laos in search for mias Bangkok Thailand up . Military officers trying to resolve the Fate of americans missing since the Indochina War left tuesday for Laos to begin a Survey of Sites where . Warplanes crashed near the to Chi Minh Trail a military spokesman said. Maj. Thomas j. Boyd said the search in Laos came As two other american teams led investigations in Vietnam attempting to locale wit Nesses to the Fate of missing Ameri cans. Boyd said an eight Man team left for the laotian capital of Vientiane via the . Embassy s Jet and would travel by laotian helicopter to the Survey site either tuesday or wednes Day. Boyd said the Survey team would investigate an area near Seploc Laos about 25 Miles from the vietnamese Border and very close to the to Chi Minh Trail. They arc going to look at crash Sites to determine As Best they pm the nature of the crash site he said. What kind of aircraft is it thai crashed How did it crash and deter mine basically the potential for Possi ble future excavations he said