European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 news update the stars and stripes sunday december 18,198b 2 pilots rescued Juneau Alaska a . Coast guard helicopter on saturday rescued to pilots who were stranded four Days on a re Mote Canadian Glacier after Mak ing an emergency Landing in their Vintage world War to Cra air plane. There was no immediate word on their condition. But the men had re ported by radio Lii at they were unhurt and comfortable in the Vintage Grumman Widgeon amphibious Lane. Saij Giris Haley a coast guard Petty officer in Juneau. Themen had survival gear and food Dur ing he limn they were conditions had pre vented rescuers from getting to Theli Lols during daily attempts that Gan Michael Mills 38, and passenger Charles buddy Ferguson .31, were unhurt when they were forced to land the plane which recently was reassembled and restored while Hying fro Cordova to Gustavus. Haley said the plane May have been forced Down on grand Pacific Glacier by engine rouble. It was not damaged. I be temperatures december 1e Hilo 04 aflttoucjt.5 bltt10te.t Brif pub . By Tai. By uni Catt Sim c j court Htow v a Contd no 1 0di it lab r dwrrtl.1 demo Imit Tupou Fult jux fun Aitolu owl rl.�. A Kummli jul wac 4t m 49 71 42 13 43 21 is t 31 12 11 -13 is w 3c. 19 is Al n 31 its 15 m 1a i 12 a 39 � � 31 � s3 4 ?9 x 21 u w i 21. Is ij24 20 19 01it i 2 1943. 20 36 16n a is of u 3i. 30 7 32 n i ii 21ir 13 ,14 31 ii � 11 m v 10 ii h. " ". 44 ss5 is 10 i 41 is ulltrkt.1 sit Lite conf. So Muttu sin flhkdu.1 ,j & us Star fun sh1ku.i Tortu j Tuchock 1ulu. A will euro Peari weather of running late above Cost on computer link study finds Washington a a congressional study says the air Force is running two years late and Well above Cost estimates with a problem plagued project to replace a vital computer Linkin the air defense system for North America. The latest projected Price for the new computer system forthe North american aerospace defense come is $281 million according to the general accounting office the investigative Agency for Congress. That figure is $39 million above what the air Force Esti mated in april 19b7 that it would cos to replace the aging computers that arc supposed to provide . And Canadia with vital information in Case of an air attack. Hilo 61 40 12 2em 51 n 20w 24 34 29 ?9 59it 4 is 1c 15 16 51 11 29 � 40 it 19 19 it 31 t6 47 30 20 73 45 24 19 20 04 is 31 m is41 31 40 ii 42 11 14 20 s3 35 in � w 3461 by 59 19 is ffl15 � 3049 21 a n. 31 19 23 11. To 42k a h a 32 14 21 m 14 e ii Fen Wal Eulf won thu Uitz a i h do Fernung 6owfr Whf i cite or in Infa in Umill red Iwen torn Wev Soudan cnn4jw cd adv wet . Wry i Owem n Tow thu fion a i Ndang Omta we to Gutty in ,39-43 in am bin Tui Ted in a up. Iota Itao in it by walk and no Ftp a Ger nor v4 19-Hhwfil. Sun Sunder 4 �4. I4wlf a Velfli f 24 Kupcok in. 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According to the Gao a number of problems have Bee encountered with the first phase of the project a Sam Auto mated control unit that monitors communication lines an switches Sci backup lines and equipment when communication Quality deteriorates. The problems include unreliable Compi incr software that would cause a loss of communications if the software failed to perform properly in an emergency. A failure of this nature during actual operations could seriously affect the air Force s ability to satisfy Mission require ments during a crisis the Gao said. The defense department told the Gao that the software problem has been isolated and will be fixed by get. The department said the contractor is also fixing another problem cited by the Gao during a ten it took 31 minutes to restart the unit Aflex a Power failure 29 minutes longer than sped led by the contract. The Gao said the air Force will have to spend $5 million rewiring Koran s Cheyenne Mountain communications Cen Ter because the wiring on the new gear is not compatible with wiring on some and perhaps All existing electronics equipment in the defense department said that get followed the Cir Cuit interface standards specified by the air palme s widow would Fry to identify Man held in slaying paper reports Stockholm. Sweden a the widow of prime m Inister Olof palme has agreed to try to identify a 41-year-Oldswede being held in the investigation of her husband s fatal shooting reported saturday. Chrisler pct Cresson who was arrested wednesday pleaded innocent Friday in a preliminary hearing but a judge Rule that there were reasonable grounds to suspect he killed palme and ordered him held Tor further investigation. Palme the dominant figure in swed ish politics Tor More than a decade was killed feb. 28, 1986, while walking Home unguarded from a downtown Montc the Ater with his wife Lisbet. Mrs. Palm Ewas grazed by a Bullet in the shooting which look place at close Range. However it was not certain she would be summoned to make an identification according to inc report. We would like to spare her As Long a possible express quoted a source close to lie investigation As saying. I we can do without her testimony we will try to do prosecutor Jorgen Almblad com a bolster pct Cresson planned meanwhile about publication of Pettersson s picture in foreign newspapers saying that would complicate therase. / \ if a witness says he has seen the photograph of it suspect in the paper the value of the evidence will be rather Lowart a confrontation Almblad said on swedish radio. Several witnesses have picked out Fol Persson As the Man seen standing outside the movie theater before the palme emerged press reports said saturday. Nothing has emerged however to indicate that he was the gunman. The killer followed inc couple Dow the Street for several blocks before the shooting Ihnn escaped Down a Dar Kalley. -. -.--. Public records show Pell Ersson has history of psychiatric treatment drug and alcohol abuse and a Long criminal record that includes a conviction for manslaughter. Norwegian danish and English papers published the name and photograph of pc Persson and foreign papers Avail Able in Stockholm were Sola out at some Newsstands repatriated a remains arrive Hickam fab. Hawaii up remains believed to be those of 38 . missing in a lion since the Vietnam War arrived Friday on . Soil in the biggest Sud repatriation yet of remains from Southeast Asia. " in a Brief but solemn ceremony,.iheflag-draped caskets were carried one by one off an air Force c-i4i cargo Jet backed up to a hangar because of Stormy weather at Hickam fab in Hawaii. A joint color and Honor guard along with a contingent of military officials saluted As each casket was car. Rich by representatives from All four branches of the service from the plane to a waiting bus. The remains were then taken to Central identification Laboratory which will try to confirm the identifications provided by the vietnamese a vietnamese spokesman said most with believed to be american fighter pilots shot Down Over North Vietnam. They were found during a unilateral vietnamese search program aimed As Many cases As possible among the 1,747 american Servic members still missing in Vietnam 13 years after the end of the War there. In All there Are 2,333 Las Unac counted for in Indochina Young suspect held in assault at Furth Firth West Germany is a15-year-old . Family member suspected of assaulting a wife in her military quarters Friday morning is in pretrial confinement wit German police a Community spokesman said saturday. Military police apprehended the Youthnear the . Housing area in filth at 10 30 . Friday the spokesman said. Housing area residents said they had seen him going from door to door before the incident. Military police have asked witnesses local ets 460-6600 or 7joo. The remains turned Over to . Officials in Hanoi on thursday constitute the largest repatriation Ever by Vietnam exceeding the 27 sets of remains returned in april. Vietnam Hai resumed 138 sets of re Mains to inc United slates and agreed to renew cooperation on the sensitive Mia Issue Iri August 1987.vietnamese officials said they hoped a solution to the Mia Issue would bring improved relations with the United slates and an end to a . Embargo on Aid and bad with the communist regime. The United slates however has made the withdrawal of vietnamese troop from Cambodia a precondition Loim proving , remain recovered from the site of a crash of a reconnaissance Lane in 1968 in Laos were to be flown to Hawaii on monday for evaluation an possible identification. The remains were found by a .-laotian team Between dec. 10 and dec. 16 from the site in Savannah it province near the vietnamese Border and were flown to Bangkok on Friday
