European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Holyfield Thomas Page 27 the Sim. To United unofficial publication for the . Armed vol. 47, no. 237 sunday december 11. 1988 _ a do. Good morning d 8693 a Gorbachev rescuers Rush to quake Region Moscow a the soviet Union on saturday mourned inc thousands of victims of the devastating armenian earthquake As president Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in the disaster area to View the mass destruction and unprecedented International Effort to save trapped people. Aid was arriving from around the world. Twenty is american disaster Relief specialists flew to the area Early saturday with eight dogs trained to sniff out survivors buried in the rubble. In addition Relief supplies were put aboard a . Air Force c-5 Galaxy cargo plane at the Pisa Airport in Italy on saturday afternoon the soviet government released the first authoritative estimate of the number of people killed in wednesday s earthquake which reached 6.9 on the Richter scale. Deputy foreign minister Valentin Nikiforov told a news conference that the death toll was 40,000-45,000 and that 12,000 people were Hurt. Council of ministers spokesman Yurt p. Tchaplygin said nearly 7,000 people were hospitalized Many with bums and crushed limbs. The soviet Union sent 500 of its Best doctors to Yere Van the armenian capital and 200 medical learns fanned on across Rural parts of the disaster area health minister Yevgeny 1. Chazov told the toss news Agency. He said conditions were like those on a War front. Gorbachev flew to Leni Nakan Armenia s second largest City near the epicentre of the quake Tass said. It said Leni Nakan s Airport heavily damaged in the temblor is reminiscent of a front line with buses and ambulances bringing he injured for flights to hospitals in Yerevan and other major cities. Surgical instruments Lay on sheets on the Airport Tarmac As medics performed emergency operations. A total of Iso planes landed Al the Airport Friday compared with inc Normal number of four to five Tass said. The quake left half a million people without a place to live and tent cities were set up with people huddling around bonfires to keep warm in the 41-50 f temperatures. To help the homeless 350 terns and 500 cots were loaded onto the giant c-5 by members of the . Army s 8th area support group stationed at Camp Darby Italy. The fonts and cots Are part of he stale depart ment s disaster Relief stocks which arc maintained by the army Al the depot on Italy s Northwest coast. Camp Darby and the 8th area support group Are part of the . Army s Southern european task see quake on Back Page Marinch Guroyan and daughters. I. Freed after 40 hours in rubble on the run president Reir a looks like he s running for office the doctors that is As he arrives Complete with Joe Ink shoes at Bethe Sov naval Hospital in Maryland for hts in nil Post cancer checkup. See � 0ry, Page 18. Body of another victim found raising toll of a-1q crash to 6 by Ron Jensen and de Reavis staff writers remsche1d, Weil Germany the death loll from thursday s crash of a . Air Force a-10 Jet climbed to six with the discover 1 of the body of a Man who had been missing and two people remained in critical condition a City spokesman said saturday. The body of a polish construction worker missing since the thursday afternoon Accident was found in the rubble late Friday and identified by a shoe said Wilhelm Ellen Brake executive administrative of the cily the Man was identified As Jan Leo Lankosz 35, who was erecting scaffold ing with two other men on a multifamily House that was Hil by inc twin engine ground attack aircraft. The other two men were identified As an italian Giuseppe Rima 32, and Frank Stop pc 30. Two women in the House hat received the initial Impact also were killed. They were identified As Elisabeth Hoener 86, and get id ,76. The crash occurred at i 35  Day when an a-10jetcnrou Eto Low flying exercises from a Brenich Al crashed into a rom of houses on the Edge of downtown re Mscheid. Cape Michael Foster 34, of the Blosl tac fighter Wing at Raf Benwa Lere England died in the crash. The re Mscheid newspaper reported saturday that a fourth construction worker the brother in Law of Rima had just left the scaffolding to get his cigarettes when the Jet crashed. Klaus Bemer told the newspaper that Rima was thrown into the Street. Bemer had saved  slipping beneath his company truck when he heard the aircraft inc paper reported. Workers using heavy equipment sat urday lore Down the last of three houses destroyed by the air plane. Eleven other. Houses were severely damaged and arc not habitable said Klaus Poisker spokesman for the rems Hotd criminal police. Poisker said eight people remained. Hospitalized and seven others were re leased saturday. Police were trying to find the owners of valuables found in the debris and were interviewing eyewitnesses for the . Air Force investigating team he said. Maj. Gen. Marcus Anderson com Mander of 3rd air Force said he has appointed col. Charles r. Haar of Raf Alconbury England 10 head the investigation learn. Haar has named a few offi cers to assist including a Pilot experienced in flying the a-10. Anderson said the. Team members Are collecting debris from the aircraft a chore that will take until monday. The debris will be taken to nor Mcnich fors Ludy. Another american team is gathering information about property damage but Anderson said it was too Early to Esti mate the Cost of the damage caused by in crash. About 100 americans were working at the site in various capacities saturday he said.  crash renewed Calls for an end to Low flying but Anderson said it is impossible to replace actual training missions with flight simulators As some germans have requested. Simulators can complement flying i they can enhance training and we use them for those purposes he said. Bui icy Zannol replace flying. You just have 10 get out and Ely to maintain Cadi Ness the Washington Post reported that the United slates and Britain Are still considering a West German government request to suspend military training flights Al altitudes of 10,725 feet or below until Jan 2. France. Belgium and the Netherlands already have accepted the government s request which was made to All air forces thai practice Over West German soil he newspaper said quoting the West Ger Man defense ministry. Safe has suspended All flying see crash on Back Page Vvan or trip for two to the super bowl. See Page 26