European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 26 the stars and stripes sunday october 9,1988 panel by panel quilt honors aids victims Washington a amid tears and grief thousands of people who have died of aids were memorialized saturday in ceremonies entered on a 375,000 Square Root quilt made by friends and fam ily members of he victims. One of the most important things we gel Here today is the strength and sense of Community we can feel and the knowledge that this terrible disease affects everyone said Cleve Jones director of the names project. Jones 34, is the founder of he san Francisco based commemorative project which involved making the Quill that was spread out on the Ellipse South of the White House. The quilt five limes larger than when it was displayed in Washington last year contains �.288 handmade panels each in memory of a person or group of people who have died of aids since 1981. Each of the panels is 3 feet by 6 feel. All 50 Stales and a dozen countries arc represented. The panels Are made from a variety of fabrics and Many arc elaborately decorated. The Quiric is bisected by walkways. While hundreds of people walked among the panels on the sunny chill morning volunteers read the names of thousands of aids victims. One of the 495 Volunteer readers was to be Kitty Dukakis wife of democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. She also was scheduled to take part in a March saturday to the Lincoln memorial. Jones began the names project in1986 after a Friend died of aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Since then it has blossomed into a nationwide project and the quilt has been on a 20-cily tour for is months. The quilt includes the names of about one fifth of the approximately 42 000 americans known to have died of aids since 1981. It s a very Beautiful thing but it s built on corpses Jones said. We be Learned from the Quill that the. Country is tilled with Good kind decent people who understand How to respond who understand that this is affecting All peo ple regardless of their race Back ground or  Jones said panels arc still being accepted although he said organizer Haven t decided How Many More panels to add. More than 10,000 have been made and panels not added to the quilt were on display around the City in smaller quilts. One of the visitors was Lillian Mcullo of san Jose Calif. Her 23-year-old son Patrick died last Christmas eve. With tears in her eyes she wrote on a Blank panel of the quilt i Pray that mothers and fathers will love and stand by their sons and daughters even when they Don l understand or accept their  she signed it a Mother who s glad she  two of the readers were Mayer an Pat Levy of St. Louis whose 31-year old son died last year. We re doing this in memory of our son to help others Levy said tearfully noting that he quilt would help parents relieve their grief and acknowledge that their son was Gay and passed  others like Chris Bates of washing ton d.c., simply wept. I knew All of these people in new York san Francis co and Washington Bales said be tween sobs. They were my contemporaries. I m not 40 yet and All i walkabout now is death my grandmother talks about death it s not  news Brief Pope begins 4-Day tour of France in Strasbourg Strasbourg France a Pope John Paul ii began a four Day Lour of France sat urday and called on european nations to forge a United future by drawing on the spiritual similarities of their pasts. John Paul making his fourth visit to France and his 40lh foreign trip As Pope was greeted in a Light rain at Strasbourg enl him Airport by president Francois Mitterrand who spoke in his welcoming remarks of a dream of a unified  Abom Iso dignitaries were joined alive air port by about 2qo other people including Chil Dren who waved yellow papal pennants and red. Blue and while French flags. Bonn . Won f confirm report of special anti terrorist team Bonn West Germany of an Interior ministry spokesman has acknowledged that West Germany has secret agreements with nato allies 10 protect nuclear weapons on its soil from terrorist attacks an theft. But the spokesman Roland Bachmier refused o confirm reports that members of a special . Anti terrorist team were stationed in Wisl Germany. I am not prepared to discuss details Bachoc Bertold reporters at a press conference Friday in Bonn. A spokesman Tor the . European come in Stutt Gart saturday also would not discuss any details of . Capabilities to project nuclear weapons but emphasized the need for safely and Security of u a. Nuclear systems the United states attaches the highest priority o the safely and Security of its nuclear systems and we Are prepared to respond to any contingencies which May arise spokesman col. Donald Kirchoffner told the stars and stripes. It would be inappropriate to comment further on the nature of such  Bachmier said details of measures to protect nuclear weapons against terrorist attempts to seize them were part of secret  reports of the presence of the special team called the nuclear emergency search team surfaced during recent government hearings on a scandal plagued nuclear waste transport company. Ingrid Matthaeus Mair who chairs the parliamentary investigative committee said thai the panel had come across indications of the team s presence in West Germany by pure Chance As it sifted through documents. No other details about the team were released. Flights from Page 1 Arch conservative Christian social Union. On the ground exercises such As the recently completed certain Challenge involving 125,000 troops Holycr said we think we arc presently doing More than would be possible or even allowed in any other country in the  Hoyer referred to the parly s resolutions As Compro Mise measures. The Low level flying Resolution was much softer than a version proposed by Ftp members from the states of Saarland and re Inland Pfalz. The original measure had called for an immediate halt to training flights under 1,000 feel except those deemed absolutely necessary and demanded the end of All nights by . F-16 Jet fighters. Five . F-l6s have crashed in West Germany this year. The amended Resolution asks the West German government to have intensive discussions with Allied forces on a High military level with the goal of cooperation Between the German and . Air forces to Dis Perse Low level flying Over a wider area and to have the Burden shared by neighbouring Western european  Ftp delegates also called for Low level lying 10 Bedspread across West Germany except for densely pop. Ulried areas in a rotating system increased training flights aver water More use of flight simulators greater restriction of training flights near nuclear Power plants and the possibility of flights in Italy Portugal and Turkey. The Ftp also would like to see the . Air Force Emend its pilots Lime in West Germany to improve their familiarity with the country s terrain. The Resolution was passed five Days before the Start of a parliament investigation into the aug. 28 Ramstein a air show disaster which has claimed 69 lives. But Hoyer said West Germany s concern Over Tow level flights has Little to do with the air show catastrophe which occurred when three italian air Force jets collided. Ramstein is simply a psychological Factor but it should be kept separate from the real Issue he said. Hoyer also said the Ftp wants to direct anger Overman Euver damage in a constructive Way. The parly s Resolution Calls on parliament to initiate a study on he intensity of Maneu vers by German and Allied  the goal must be to drastically reduce full troop Maneu vers in times of peace and to limit training in free areas to the absolute minimum the Resolution said. The Ftp dodged the potentially explosive Wiesbaden helicopter Issue by watering Down a Resolution that initially called for a ban on stationing helicopters Atixhe base. Instead the final version suggests limiting new air Craft in the congested Wiesbaden Frankfurt area to a justifiable  the . Army has delayed its deployment of a 64 apaches at the air base in or Bonheim five Miles South of Wiesbaden at the request of German defense minister Rupert Schotz. The defense minister is Pon Dering the interests of the state of Hessen which opposes the stationing with National defense  is expected to make a decision this month. In other matters the free democrats elected As heir new Leader a prussian count convicted of tax evasion last year the associated press reported. Otto Graf Lamsdorff Defeated challenger Irmgard Adam Schwaetzer for the Job of party chairman. Lamsdorff resigned As Federal economics minister four years ago in the midst of a scandal entering on alleged illegal political payments by the West German flick Industrial group. In february 1987, a court convicted him of lax Eva Sion and he was ordered to pay $96,000. But he was acquitted on the More serious charge of corruption. Lamsdorff denied any wrongdoing during Bis in month trial alleging the charges against him were politically motivated. Lamsdorff 61, lakes Over from Martin Bange Mann who is West Germany economics minister. Bangemann is resigning to Lake a seat on the european economic Community commission in Brussels. Piggybacked shuttle Heads Home Edwards fab Calif. Up a jumbo Jel carry ing the space shuttle discovery on its Back took off Early saturday on a Cross country trip Back to the Ken Nedy space Center for another round of launch Prepa rations. Nasa s Boeing 747, purchased from american air lines in 1974, took off from Edwards at 7 54 . And slowly lumbered skyward its four engines roaring As it set off on the first leg of the trip to Florida. In started an hour and 14 minutes late because of minor snags. The 747, known by the Call sign Nasa 905, was to make a refuelling Slop at Kelly fab Texas before continuing on to the Kennedy space Center. But because of its late departure Nasa officials said the shuttle might not be Able to reach Florida before Nightfall in which Case the discovery would stay in Texas overnight. It s going to be a close Call because Sunset it right at seven o clock and that s just about the Lime we re looking for Landing if they make the Best possible time said George Diller a Nasa spokesman at the Kennedy space Center the flight from Edwards to Kelly fab was expected to take about three hours and 20 minutes while the flight from there to Florida typically takes about four hours they re going to discuss it on the ground at Kelly Dill said the discovery which landed at Edwards last Mon Day to close out the first Post challenger shuttle flight is scheduled to blast off on in next flight in february. But the shuttle Atlantis is next up. Scheduled to take off on the second Post challenger night around nov.19 to ferry a secret military satellite into orbit