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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday october 1969 news updates stay of execution Miami api a Man who killed a drug informant won a slay of execution monday night the second time since the killer was sentenced to death in 1976. Bobby Marion Francis 44, had been scheduled to die at 7 . Tuesday in the electric chair Al Florida state prison near slake. But . District judge la nor no Silt granted a stay ruling inadequate time to consider the Appeal. A Monroe county jury found Francis guilty of murder in the death of Titus r. Wallers. Deover files Appeal Washington a former presidential aide Michael k. Dealer filed a formal Appeal monday of his conviction that he lied under oath when questioned by a grand jury Anda House subcommittee about his lobbying activities. The former Deputy White House chief of staff was Given a suspended three year sentence and a $100.000 Fine last month by . District judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Panda going Home Tampa of a. A it s Back to Beijing Tor Ling Ling the giant Panda who delighted american audiences for nearly a year. Thousands of fans turned out Tor his last Day on display at Busch gardens. The Panda on loan since november is to return to the peo ple s Republic of China. Ling Ling was originally Dis played with Yong Yong an older female Panda who was returned to the Beijing zoo in april. Relief supplies Albany . Up three weeks after Hurricane Gilbert destroyed jamaican Homes and Busi Nesses Relief supplies for the Island arc piled up in churches and armo Ries across new York stale because of a bureaucratic snafu frustrated Relief workers said monday. More than 300,000 pounds of Medicine food building materials and clothing arc silting in facilities from new York City to Buffalo because the Federal government will not allow the state s National guard to take them to Jamaica. Federal authorities want new York Relief workers to use com Mercial airlines to carry the sup plies to the Island but those air lines do not have the space to handle the material in a timely fashion said or. Aldaba Stewart chairman of the Caribbean action lobby one of the principal Relief agencies. Early discharges available to some As Holiday present by Crystal Laureano Sun writer some soldiers airmen and sailors in Europe scheduled to leave military serv ice during the Holiday season have the Opportunity to return Home Early. Soldiers with a discharge Date on or Between dec. 20 and Jan. 2 can receive an adjusted separation Date Between nov. 30 and dec. Is a 1st personnel come spokesman said. Airmen with discharge dates on or be tween dec. 13 and 31 May ask for an Early separation any time during that period said an air Force military person net Center official at Randolph fab Texas. Interested air Force members must make their request in writing. Projections of How Many airmen will take advantage of the program arc tracked by individual bases the official said. Sailors due to be separated from serv ice on or Between dec. 20 and Jan. 1 May qualify for an adjusted discharge Date As Early As dec. 12, said a n ave spokesman. The Navy has made no projections of How Many sailors will leave the service Early of the More than 1,600 Usa eur soldiers whose service tour ends in de Cember fewer than half arc expected to leave the army according to 1st person Nel come projections. Fewer than 600 of the nearly 1,000usareur soldiers serving first enlist ments Are expected to decline an Exten Sion or re  and leave the army an official said. Of the 600 soldiers who Are midterm Era or careerists with an and of scr ice Dale in december More than 400 Are expected to remain on Active duty. All Early separations arc voluntary. Army officials cautioned that permanent resident aliens serving a three year Mill Lary tour to fulfil naturalization require ments should not Volunteer for this pro Gram. Stale department regulations require that a full three year tour be completed. Requests can be denied if an Early separation would have an Advent effect on unit missions or readiness. Qualifications and requirements vary for each of inc services Early release pro Grams and  should con tact local personnel officials for details. Pentagon decides to keep details of stealth fighter secret by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the Pentagon has rejected for now a plan to provide the american people with details of the superstore stealth Jet fighter defense officials said monday. The officials who insisted on anonymity said the idea of acknowledging the air plane s existence for the tint time was debated Al the highest Levels of the defense department and on Capitol Hill before being rejected for the Lime  it s not going to happen right now said one of the sources. There were con Cerns at the top of the military  there was a bipartisan View that this was not the most auspicious Lime Fortis. Maybe later asked if the reference to bipartisanship meant the plane might be unveiled after the presidential election the source replied  according to military and Industry sources the United Stales secretly began building stealth or radar evading Jet fighters in the mid-1970s and now maintains More than 50 of the single seaplanes at a tightly guarded facility in Nevada. The plane has been dubbed the f-19by various Industry officials but it reportedly also carries the military designation of f-117a. The Pentagon and air Force have never acknowledged the air plane s exis tence even when pressed about mysterious crashes Over the years according to the sources the planes Are flown Only at night and arc kept at a High stale of readiness for use As Aeria Shock troops capable of slipping be Hind enemy lines without being selected. The defense officials monday said the proposal to finally unveil the plane to the Public was considered for a number of reasons. First explained one official was a Issue of tone. The air Force already has announced it will unveil its new stealth bomber next month and that plane is based on More recent technological developments than the stealth fighter. It s general knowledge thai the technology of the fighter is older than the bomber and we re about to let everybody Sec the bomber the official said secondly Pentagon officials have concluded that even if they wanted to keep the program secret upcoming court fights Are Likely to shatter Security. Production line workers Al a Lockheed  in Burbank calif., where the stealth fighters Are thought to be made have gone to court with charges they arc being sickened by exposure to dangerous chemicals. 500 flee toxic fumes from wrecked truck Jennings la. A a Tanker truck carrying hazardous chemicals Over turned and caught fire Early tuesday on interstate 10 near Here spewing toxic fumes and forcing an evacuation and the closure of the Highway police said. Five people were injured in the collision including four who were admitted to a Hospital said a trooper Paul Wood. None of the people was  said they had no idea How Long the evacuees would be out of their Homes. Stale police spokesman Ronnie Jones said they numbered More than 500. From our Point the situation asunder control. It s a just a matter of let Ting the fire bum out he  police it Herman Rogers said the 6 20 . Accident involved two trucks one of which was carrying 4,600 Gallons of toluene a flammable liquid thai gives off toxic fumes when burning. Soviets ready to join prize winning peacekeepers United nations up the soviet Union tuesday expressed readiness to join the Nobel peace prize winning . Peacekeepers ending a hands of policy by both superpowers in the armed Branch of the . Peace operations. We Art ready to take part in the establishment i cooperation with other countries of a system to train personnel for the . Force soviet Deputy foreign minister Vladimir Petrovsky told a news conference. In certain cases we would be prepared to consider making available our military contingent for . Peacekeeping operations should such a need arise and if other . Member states Are interested in this he said. Ii was the strongest indication that Moscow would participate in the operations deeply indebted because the superpowers have refused to pay for their Upkeep. Moscow and Washington have not participated inthe main contingent of . Peacekeeping forces since 1948, although both have been serving in one Small monitoring team the . Truce supervision organization based in Jerusalem both the main group and unto won the Nobel peace prize last thursday. . Undersecretary general Marrack Goulding responsible for All . Peacekeeping operations said the superpowers have in the past favored a hands of policy because of their National interests in Many areas of conflict. The . Budget annually provides $230 million for administrative costs for 10,000 peacekeepers in the Middle East and in South Asia. Expenses for the sol Diers and officers arc paid for by  
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