European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday december 12,1988 Jet crash expected to erode German backing of defences Bonn West Germany a a to West German military official says the fiery crash of a . Air Force Jet that killed six people will further deteriorate popular support for National defense programs. The Pilot two elderly women an three construction workers were lulled when an a-10 Jet crashed into an Multi family dwelling in rms acid  Thunderbolt ii Tore a Swath of destruction through a working class neigh boyhood in the City of 130,000 located 15miles cast of Dills Oldorf. Services for the Pilot copt Michael Foster of the 81st tac fighter Wing will be at 10 . Wednesday in the Raf Woodbridge Chapel in England in an interview with the Welt am sonntag newspaper the inspector Gener Al of West Germany s military said the crash is certain to have � serious impaction already shrinking Public support for defense issues. We arc in a very difficult psychological situation Dieter Walt Risholt was quoted As saying. Welt Rosholt was referring to recent polls indicating dwindling Public support for defense spending and increasing Dis satisfaction Over disruptive and often deadly military training  am alarmed that Many West Ger mans have lost sight of the hard facts of defense realities in their Hopes for continued peace which hinge on West Ger Many s and nato s Security prepared Ness he said. West Germany a staunch nato ally Borders East Germany and Czechoslovakia thus putting it on the front lines of the East West  Germany s skies Are crowded with hundreds of jets and helicopters each  series of deadly accidents has fuelled growing Calls for a Nail to or drastic reductions in Low level training lights. Following the Remscheid crash temporary suspensions of Low level training missions were ordered. But a new Public opinion poll release saturday indicated that the majority of West germans favor drastic Long term reductions in the lights according o the poll conducted by the Wickert Institute in Ali Bingen 61 percent of the respondents said they be Lieve that Low level flights can be drastically Cut without seriously threatening National Security. Twenty seven percent said they support Complete elimination of the flights. The Institute said that 88 percent of the 2,130 people polled believe that their nation should have More say on the number of training flights conducted brother nato partners. The Wickert Institute poll follows an other Survey conducted for the West German defense ministry which showed Public support for defense spending at its lowest ebb in 26 years. The defense ministry poll which was released last week also indicated that Many West germans no longer consider the Warsaw pact o be a serious military threat political fallout Over the Remscheid crash continues with renewed Calls Forcone Mienl action in reducing the  Vogel head of the opposition social democrats called on  restrictions Morrof Pitary aircraft. The German Public is increasingly feeling More threatened by these Maneu vers than from outside Vogel  is just no longer any reason to train As if we stood on the Brink of  West German parliament de sense committee has scheduled a special meeting dec. 22 to hear a report on the Accident. We expect a full report of the event surrounding the Accident and the cooperation Between americans and West Ger mans the committee s chairman Al Fred Biehle was quoted in the mass circulation newspaper Bild am sonntag assaying. News updates rally for Freedom Prague Czechoslovakia up about 4,000 people braving a cold drizzle and police lines saturday called for More Freedom in communist Czechoslovakia during the first Independent rally authorized by official in 20 years. The one hour Rady commemorated the 40th Ann venary of he signing of the . Universal declaration of human rights. It was organized by five Independent groups including the human right organization charter 77. Spain releases 11 Madrid Spain a after three weeks in jail. International Church of scientology president Heber Jentzsch and i0 other Mem Ben have been released after Post ing a Bond of j1 million their Law yer Jose Luis Chamorro said sunday.  Jentzsch of Lea Angela Tod the others arc under investigation for alleged fraud criminal  tax evasion v the Church was founded in the1950s by american science fiction author l. Ron Hubbard and i based on big 1949 Book Dunel id the Modem science of menial  moroccan rebels to return american crewmen s bodies Rabat Morocco a the Polisa Rio rebel movement said sunday it was retrieving the bodies of five american skilled when its desert lighters shot Down a Locust spraying dc-7 in the belief twas a moroccan military plane. A statement issued by the marxist led group said thursday s attack Over the no Man s land Between Morocco s defensive Wall and the mauritanian Border was neither premeditated nor intentional and expressed its deep  statement Tel exed from  in Algiers to the associated press in new York said the plane and a second dc-7, which was hit by a mis Sile but managed to land safety were mistaken for moroccan military c-130s. It said Polinario members would re turn the five bodies to their families without delay but made no mention of compensation. It ascribed the Downing near the out Post of can Elhem Mer 15 Miles outside the defensive Wall to the spirit of Polisa Rio s desert patrols who it said Are at tacked daily by moroccan aircraft Felisario sources in Algiers said two stages were planned for the return of the bodies. In the first stage they said the bodies will be taken to the Polinario lighten base Camp in Lindouf Algeria. The they Wilt probably be flown to Algiers to be handed Over to . Representatives. The sources said the International Redcross would probably be involved in the process but they did not know How Long it would take for the desert journey an the formalities to be completed. The two planes chartered by the .agency for International development were snot at in one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert rebel lit id area where plane was downed with 5 americans aboard is map will real soviet Armor a ease stand up """.,". " -."". " by Chuck v1nchwashington Bureau Washington Are they a army hummers or soviet armoured vehicles. Only the training and doctrine com knows for  real soviet weaponry is hard to come by the command u fitting 16 hmm we vehicles with fibreglass Shell Sand modifying them to look and act like soviet Armor and artillery. . Troops will practice against the prototypes to prepare themselves belter for what they May face someday on the Battle  \. The finl prototype was received by the command on dec a said Hank men fee chief of the programs office for the army test and experimentation come at fort Hood Texas a subordinate element of the training and doctrine come. The army plans to acquire four copies each of four different soviet vehicles me Nef Cesarid. The roster will include t-62 main Battle tanks Zu-23 automatic Ami aircraft guns. 152mm self propelled gun howitzers an dump infantry fighting vehicles. The fibreglass bodies Are being manufactured under contract to the army by Kaman sciences corp., Menefee said some of the mock vehicles will Likely Besen to the National training Center at fort Irwin Calif., and the joint readiness training Center at fort Charce Ark. Others May go to Large oases that Host a Mored training Menefee said. But the test and experimentation come Fust must Check the vehicles to see i they pass Muster. It s not enough for them simply to look like the real thing to the naked Eye Menefee said. We have to see How they react when they re Mobile he said. Do they move of contract awarded Long Beach Calif. Fuji Mcdonnell Douglas aircraft company has been awarded a $367 million contract to operate three spare parts warehouses for the air Force s pc to advanced cargo Tanker aircraft the company has announced. Like the real thing or is it obvious that they re fake we also have to see How the vehicles show up in the different kinds of sights that we  for target acquisition such As Thermal and laser  vehicles have signatures that identify them in the sights of , . The signatures Are used by on Board computerized firing systems to lock onto identify and destroy the enemy targets,.tot example a t2 has hot spots characteristics the test and experimentation come plans to spend three to four weeks evaluating the vehicles before deciding whether to ship item to the Field for training Menefe Esaid. It May be that we have to go Back to the manufacturer and have some More modifications done before we Send them out he said. The project is really in it Early development stages v he said there Are no plans at the moment to Send any of the mock  to Over seas training centers such As Hohenfels  West Germany. Army identifies 2 Accident victims Vicenza Italy tha army on sunday idea Ted the name of two of the three soldiers killed Fri Day night when their car went off abridge and landed upside Down in a shallow River killed were pfc. Michael j. Safe,19, a water treatment specialist from Canton 111. And pfc. Donald e. Wilson 21, an air defense Artil Peryman from Michigan the name of the third Soldier is being withheld until his family by been  reports indicated Situu the three Tolkien drowned Southern european task Force spokesman said autopsies were to be per formed  fourth Soldier in the Accident spec. Jose Martinez of Houston escaped uninjured. 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