European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday december 24,198b Reagan defends . Actions on threat from Page 1 Moscow alerted its people. State department spokeswoman Phyl Lis Oakley Friday said the . Consulate general and the regional Security officer in West Germany were notified of the threat the Security officer then notified i Inam. Bui Oakley  the stale department is Mill trying 1o find put How much cur her thai information was Dis Semi  however defense department officials have been unable to find any Mili tary commands that posted a warning of i Ethreal. Officials at the . European com Din soul Garl West Germany Friday said the threat information was passed on to subordinate commands Usa eur and Safe in West Germany and a Veur in London. However they could not confirm that the information was Ever passed to smaller units throughout Europe. The state department also could not say Friday if other embassies besides Moscow posted warnings of the threat. Obviously if we had a specific threat. And we thought Here was a Strong Chance something could occur we would try to convince the airline not to travel a stale department official said. Three stale department employees a Justice department official and a peace corps Volunteer were aboard the part am flight it was announced Friday. Oakley identified the victims As Matthew k. Gannon of Orange Calif. He was assigned to the state department s Middle East Bureau and was returning Home upon completion of his assignment in Beirut Lebanon As a political officer. Ronald a. Lariviere of Holyoke mass he had been assigned by the state department to Beirut As a Security offi cer since june 1988. Daniel e. O Connor of Boston. He was assigned to Nicosia. Cyprus As Security officer in april 1988. Michael Bernstein who worked in the criminal division office of special invest Igat ions department of j ustice Stephen l. Butler who served As a peace corps Volunteer serving in Tuni Sia. Oakley was unable to provide the Ages of any of the five nor the Hometown of Butler. Meanwhile in Lockerbie Scotland officials said the cockpit recording of pan am right i03 s last minutes ended abruptly after a faint noise and conversations among the Crew gave no clues about what caused the plane to crash. There is nothing in he conversations of the flight Crew to indicate anything was wrong said Paul Mickic depart ment of transport spokesman. The cockpit recording and flight data tapes from inc Boeing 747 were being Analysed by the department s air Acci Dent inv Stigal Ion Branch. Although . Embassies in Europe had received warnings that a pan am plane would be bombed the chief British investigator at Lockerbie said no Evi Dence of a bomb had been found Cyl. Mick Charles of the air Accident investigation Branch to cd a news Confer ence we have no evidence whatsoever Yel of sabotage but he added this did not mean sabotage was ruled out. He said the spread of debris Over Many Miles was not unusual since the plane was six Miles High and winds were 115 Knols. In these circumstances a lot of inc debris is going 10 be sent a very  Frank Taylor an aviation safety consultant and former investigator Lor the . National transportation safely Board said a cockpit recording that appears Normal until the end could indicate an explosion knocked out communications electricity and perhaps even Sev ered the cockpit from the aircraft. Taylor made his comments in Washington on thursday before cockpit data from the pan am flight was released. While aviation experts were reluctantly provide details it is generally known that an explosive device placed in certain areas of the baggage compartment of a Boeing 747 could wipe out computer electrical and communications systems As Well As possibly incapacitate inc flight Crew. In Israel foreign minister mosh arcs Friday linked the crash to pales Tinian factions. An israeli newspaper and error experts blamed syrian backed Rad ical groups opposed to the .-Plo Dia Logue Yasser Arafat Leader of the Palestine liberation organization Friday blame terrorists for the crash of the jetliner condemning it As an inhuman criminal act that undermines the peace process in die Middle East. The israeli newspaper the nation quoted unidentified Western intelligence sources As saying the syrian backed Ahmed Jibril group was responsible. In Carlisle 31 Miles from Lockerbie relatives of the 258 people who died on the Boeing 747 began gathering to identify the remains of loved ones. Another 22 people reportedly died on the ground at Lockerbie. The sudden catastrophe thai made the plane break up Over a wide Patch of Scot Tish Countryside pointed either to major structural failure or a bomb and aviation experts agreed this latter was mos Likely -. Con Burn 10 Ihli report bit ban nun in Wunn Glon my moot in , wet Gomany and come inn ton Doha in  a Grainy Victory from Page 1. Stripes colouring contest the past two years. Also winning a bicycle was Cuneyt Oksuz of Naples Italy who submitted the winning entry in the 8-to 12-year-old category. A turkish army officer s son the 9-year-old received his 13mx bicycle an hour before his family de parted from Naples for Izmir Turkey oks i s father it. Col. Atilla Oksuz is assigned to the turkish. Element at inc   Headquarters in Naples Cuneyt also won a colouring contest  the turkish element last Spring. He prefers drawing and painting to ills Homework said his father who Hopes the boy will become a Law. Scr or a doctor. The poking and prodding a doctor must do held no Appeal for Cunt i bul he was t ready to commit to Alife of artistic Pursis either ill decide As 1 grow he said. The second place winners in inc colouring contest were Lisa Dunne. 0, in the 8 to 12-year-old category and Crystal tags Dale 7, in the younger category. Lisa is the daughter of or. It col Thomas and Luule Dunne of the 130th station Hospital in Heidel Berg. West Germany and the first place finisher in the 1987 colouring contest. Crystal is inc daughter of sol. James Ragsdale of the 13lh chemical co in Baum older West Germany. Both children will receive portable am pm cassette tape players with headphones. Winning cameras for third place were Joseph Dunsmore 1 1, and Josh Cannon 3, both from Garls Tedt. West Germany. Joseph is inc son of sgt. Clyde 0. Dunsmore of b Btry 4lh in 3rd Field arty 2nd army div fwd. Josh is the son of spec Raymond Cannon jr., he co,2nd army div fwd. 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Even As warheads and missile launchers arc being Dis mantled though a growing number of europeans seem to be calling for cuts in everything from the number of . Troops stationed in their countries to reductions in troop Maneu vers during peacetime. Nowhere is tie Call for Cut backs being heard loud than in West Germany. There is just no reason to train As if we stood on the Brink of War Hans Jochyn Vogel Leader of West Germany s opposition social democrats said recently so far american officials with the support of West German. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and defense minister Rupert Scholz have successfully argued that some level of military training nights including Low level flying is necessary to adequately prepare for the defense of West Chi Europe in Lime of War. Whether that belief wins out is Likely to be a Story that won l unfold until 1989 or beyond. More evidence of increased pressure on the Ameri can military has surfaced in other european lands Dur ing inc past year. In Greece negotiations on the continued operation of several . Military bases stalled at year end As the Creek government refused to Budge on its Contention that Hill Nikon a adjacent to inc Athens Airport should be closed. In Spain the United states reluctantly agreed to move 72 f-i6 fighters from Torrejon a cast of Madrid in response to a Spanish Call for a substantial reduction in the presence of american military person Nel in their country. The f-l6s Are scheduled to head for a new Home Al Croton Italy provided the italian parliament gives its of Early next year. . Officials say it is becoming More and More difficult to convince european nations that a Strong . Military presence is needed in their backyards now that soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and president Reagan arc talking peace More  generations that remember . Aifons to Safe guard Europe s Security through two world wars and the Early Days of the cold War Are disappearing and the younger people who arc taking Over Are just not As Amena ble to our presence said one department of defense official who recently spoke with the stars and stripes putting these events and others into perspective is. The kind of Job any Good newspaper relishes tackling. In the Days ahead. Stripes intends to do its Best to make the news behind the headlines understandable far our Reader. Included in he package Are comprehensive looks at topics As diverse As the defense of Europe How americans overseas arc coping with the weak . Dollar and an update on the celebrated spy Case of retired . Sergeant Clyde Lee Conrad who allegedly leaked nato military secrets o the soviet Union Over a 10-year period. Look for the a look Back at 88" logo Over in next two weeks. When you find it you la also find the stripes stats Best efforts in words and pictures tomake sense of inc year now coming to a close