European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Army com Misseriss i 6 x Tania Ord ize 4 men seized As looters at site of crash Lockerbie Scotland Ful o police said tues Day four men have been arrested and accused of look ing in the wreckage or pan american flight 103 As authorities prepared 10 release the first group of bodies to relatives. Sin Days after the Boeing 747 crashed on a Light from London to new York killing All 259 people aboard and at least one person in Lockerbie the cause of the disaster has not been established. Ten residents remain missing. Investigators said either sabotage or structural failure caused the jumbo Jet to break apart Al 31,000 feel and crash into and around Lockerbie on wednesday night the remains of 240 people have been found and placed in two Tempo rare morgue in the farming town authorities said. The first six bodies were id be re leased tuesday from one of the temporary morgues at the town Hall. Officials brought in do ens of Pine Trees and arranged them around the Large austere Hall to give it a More appropriate almost Here for the reception of Bod. Riesby the estimated 20 to 30 families wailing in town police on tuesday said Thev arrested four men for allegedly looting the wreckage and bodies strewn around the Countryside and theft charges were expected to be filed against them wednesday. It s really quite disgusting in a sense almost unthinkable hat such a thing could happen in the midst of this police spokesman Angus Kennedy said. Thai is quite despicable More than 600 Soldier and 100 investigators searched the Green Hilts outside the town and sifted through the rubble in Lockerbie about 65 Miles South of Edinburgh collecting clues to the cause of Britain s worst air disaster a suitcase and several fragments from the Boeing 747 were being studied tuesday at an explosives anal Ysis Laboratory in England the clearest sign to Date that investigators have reason to suspect the aircraft May have been sabotaged. However no new evidence from the Royal Anna -. See looters on Back Page troop by Chuck v1nch Bureau Washington the Pentagon followed through i in 198s with ill drive to Field a leaner meaner Force in the next decade As the number of troops on Active duty plunged by More than 3 1,000 compared to 1987, but while the Sie of the Force dwindles service Mcm bars who slay in uniform will Sec improvements in their Quality of life because of two personnel Victo Ries by military officials on capita Hill this year. The big win was the 4.3 percent military pay raise inc Pentagon s top manpower priority Marine corps la Gen Anthony Lukeman said in a recent interview. He is chief of the defense department s military manpower policy until Jan. I. A related. Story pug 2. The pay raise veered All Over the political landscape for months As lawmakers and the administration arcs Llyd with the budget deficit. Word came from Capitol Hill thai the raise would be 2 percent 3 percent and 4 pc Iceni. Ai one Point the stars and stripes limolf1ctl publication Fod the us. No q forces Good mar nine vol. 47, no. 253 wednesday. December 28, 1988 to and d 8693 a a piece of Metal juts out from the turn fuselage of the 727 that was forced to land in Charleston . Ripped Eastern Jet has history of 6 unplanned stops since 83 Charleston . Up Federal investigators Are trying to determine what caused a 14. Inch Hole in the fuselage of an Eastern airlines Jet that has had to make six unscheduled landings in the past five years. None of the 110 people aboard the Boeing 727 was seriously Hurt monday in the plane s latest unscheduled Landing. But a few of them complained thai some oxygen masks did not work properly when the Hole developed in the Jet a 31,000 feet. Causing Cabin decompression and forcing the Jet to land in officials said they had no explanation for the Hole. Investigators from the National transportation safety Board and the Federal aviation administration Are investigating the incident. Bobbi Maclis of the Faa s record Center in Oila homa City said the Boeing 727 has made five other unscheduled landings in inc past five years. The Center s data base stretches Hack Only five years. In that time the plane underwent 27 repairs in see. Jet on Back Page a look Back at there was talk of freezing military nay at fiscal 1987levels in the end the Pentagon got just what in asked for
