European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday january 20,1989 for big game in Miami a Vir byte Boivin staff writer if you re picking the bengals to win the super bowl you have one expert on your Side Rolfe Bott the Winner of the stars and stripes football contest. The army Captain who picked All 12 College bowl games correctly in the contest left foggy Frankfurt International Airport thursday to Fly to sunny warm Miami and watch super bowl Xxiii sunday with his father retired air Force it. Col. Ernie Bott of Savannah a. The 27-year-old commander of the 518th signal co in Linderhof West Germany can be forgiven if he lets a Little Bias creep into his super bowl prediction. He went to High school in Warner Robins ga., with Cincinnati running Back James Brook. He broke the Georgia High school Rushing record until Herschel Walker came along and broke it Bott said of Brooks who rushed for 45 touchdowns and More than 3,000 Yards in three years at the school before going on to Auburn. He was just phenomenal. We were state champs we were co nation Al champs of the whole country with some team from Ohio Gerry Faust s Cincinnati Moeller High school so Bolt s going with Brooks and the bengals. With the 49ers s a Point favourites he May be doing an Ickey shuffle out on a limb but that does t bother him. If i pick san Francisco and they win it s no big Deal Bott said. But if i pick Cincinnati and they win everybody s going to say hey what a smart Guy so no guts no  Bott is sharing the glory of his win in the stars and stripes football contest with his family wife Brenda stepchildren Mitchell 11, and misty 10, and daughter Nicole 2. They will All be flying Back to Florida with him to visit Brenda s parents in or Lando and his parents in Savannah. He kept telling me he was going to win when he was clipping out the ballots Brenda Bott said. " we re going to the super bowl yeah right i still can t believe he won out of All those  Bott says he was Lucky to win the trip. Nobody really knows who s going to win the Armstrong state alumnus said after receiving the super bowl tickets. It s All Luck. A lot of these games could have gone either Way. A Field goal extra Point somebody goes for two Points. A lot were decided by last minute  but the old saying that some people make their own Luck May also apply to Bott. He kept his own personnel rankings of 104 College teams judging them on How much they won or lost by and the record of the opponent they were playing. Then when it came time to prepare his ballots he filled out 41 entries based on his personal rankings. Some of the games he was t too sure of so he flipped his choices on some of the ballots. His winning one was the 31st or 32nd i filled  he pulled his last few ballots out of newspapers that had been dumped in a trash can in Belgium. While Bott is watching the super bowl in Miami his company will be undergoing inspections that were scheduled before he won the trip Quality Assurance inspections at two of his radio Sites and a 5th signal come inspector general inspection. But Bott said his troops Are ready for the inspections with 1st it. Terry Chance 2nd it. Keith per Kins and command sgt. Maj. Andrew Riggs splitting his duties while he s gone. So col. William Lynch the 39th signal in commander in chevres Bel Gium gave him the of to Fly to Miami. While he s there Bott plans to enjoy himself. I just plan on relaxing and enjoying the vacation. Since the hotel is on the Beach if it s Nice i la just hang out on the Beach All  if he does that Bott should be a bronzed Beach bum by the time he flies Back into foggy Frankfurt feb. 3. It was 78 in Miami thursday with a Low of 73. I be spent christmases Down there before and you walked around with shorts and nothing else on Bott said. News briefs Summit Miami called really quiet fro Page 1 after 2 nights of racial riots Miami a police patrolled in caravans and monitored Only occasional gunshots fires and window breaking thursday in the Wake of racial rioting this week. City leaders who set up a panel to investigate the shooting blamed for two nights of rioting expressed Hope that the worst was Over. It s really quiet police spokesman David Rivero said thursday. We still have a perimeter around Overtown about a two Square mile area. We re just letting in residents or people who belong there. Liberty City is completely open nothing happened there last  he said police made about 30 arrests wednesday night and Early thursday making it a night of marked contrast to tuesday when 325 youths were taken into custody most for looting. Portugal . Work out Deal on use of azores base Lisbon Portugal a Portugal and the United states agreed thursday on new terms for the . Lease of a strategic air base in Portugal s azores archipelago in the Atlantic a government official said. Speaking after a regular meeting of ministers jus Tice minister Fernando Nogueira said Portugal would receive a substantial package of military equipment and increased . Cooperation in business health education and housing in return for continued use of Lajes Field. The countries have been negotiating new terms for the base on the azores Island of Terceira for almost a year. Ble on what forces will be removed and when. Shevardnadze said soviet troop strength would be Cut by half a million a unilateral move announced by president Mikhail s. Gorbachev in december including 50,000 now based in Eastern Europe. The departing soldiers will take out with them All their organic armaments including tactical nuclear systems the soviet Diplomat said. He also stated that the soviet Union has ceased modernization of remaining Short Range nuclear weapons and called on the United states to do likewise. The weapons referred to by the soviets As tactical nuclear systems Are missiles with a Range of less than 312 Miles. The soviet Union and the United states signed an Accord More than a year ago to eliminate All intermediate Range nuclear forces and Are negotiating deep cuts in strategic arms. Ledogar ambassador to the new arms talks starting in March said modernization is an option the United states would like to keep open until nato s and the Warsaw pact s number of troops tanks and other non nuclear forces is brought to equal Levels. We Don t want to abandon the nuclear leg of the deter rent until we have a much better situation on conventional forces Ledogar told the associated press. Shevardnadze said the soviet Union has Long offered to negotiate removal of its tactical nuclear weapons and prom ised to withdraw them All from Europe As part of the Krem Lin s fundamental objective of removing any foreign Mili tary presence and bases from the territory of other  at a Brief Exchange with reporters after his speech he made Clear that Only those Short Range weapons that Are part of the military units to be withdrawn will be removed and dismantled without conditions. Shevardnadze said he could not say what percentage of the Kremlin s Short Range stockpile would remain deployed but that these figures and others would be released in detail before the March 9 Start of the conventional armed forces i Europe negotiations. Those talks Are mandated in the Vienna agreement approved sunday by the United states the soviet Union Canada and 32 nations in Europe. The Accord also promises Freer travel emigration speech and religious practice and Calls for joint efforts to protect the environment and improve economic ties. Shevardnadze who held a Brief Impromptu press Confer ence later in the Day was asked to describe the difference Between the Berlin Wall and the Iron curtain he disparaged in his speech. Visibly disturbed by repeated questions on the Wall dividing West Berlin from communist East Germany for 27 years a Symbol of restricted Freedom East of the Barrier Shevardnadze deemed that Issue a matter for the East germans alone to decide. We have no intention of interfering in the Sovereign affairs of this country and advise others to do likewise the foreign minister responded. East German foreign minister Oskar Fischer made an allusion to the Wall during his speech thursday suggesting that Calls for its dismantling Are infringements on East Ger Many s Sovereign rights. Shevardnadze said the Kremlin foresees a Summit meet ing of the leaders of All 35 countries participating in the Security and human rights forum As becoming objectively  he did not specify where or when such a Confer ence might take place. He also made an impassioned plea for International co operation to protect the cultural heritage of every nationality. Using As an example the millions who have left Russia and the soviet Union Over the last Century Shevardnadze said language and ethnic practices should be preserved among those who emigrate to other countries. Shevardnadze praised his departing american counterpart for hard work and proud accomplishment in improving International relations. Since the . Secretary of state George Shultz is leaving his Post tomorrow i shall permit myself to pay tribute to him for everything that he endeavoured managed to do and achieved in our common efforts the Kremlin envoy said. Flights from Page 1 tirely abandoned without drastically altering current nato strategy since Warsaw pact radar can spot planes flying higher than 100 feet. Scholz repeatedly has said the German air Force already has Cut flying hours so drastically that it flies fewer hours than any of the nato allies far below the prescribed minimum. Published reports have said the Ger Man air Force flew 45,000 Low level Fly ing hours in 1980, 23,000 hours in 1987 and 22,000 hours in 1988. Total Allied Low flying hours Are about 80,000 per year. Scholz announced after the meeting wednesday that the existing seven Low level flying areas in West Germany would be abandoned with Low flying to be allowed throughout the country except Over highly populated areas. The change is an Effort to spread the noise and nuisance equally. West Germany s opposition parties the social democrats and greens have called for a ban on Low level flying. Their representatives left wednesday s meet ing in anger because Scholz had distributed his report to members of the ruling coalition Christian democrats free democrats and Christian socialists and to the press before making it available to the opposition. Veteran parliamentarian Erwin Horn of the spa told the stars and stripes thursday it was the first time in 20 years that i walked out of a session of the defense committee. The Scholz concept is useless one Day after he announced it Horn said. He said that the Bayern Kurrier news paper the voice of Scholz s coalition partner in Bavaria the Csc made an Appeal thursday to raise the Low level flight limit from 75 feet to 150 feet. The main problem with the Scholz plan is that it spreads out the area where Low flying can be practice but does t reduce it. Horn said he has pleaded for a moratorium on Low flying for several years. We have to sit Down with the allies and see what is possible. The answer to Many of our problems is not a legalistic interpretation of our rights and our sovereignty but making political decisions after talking with our allies and deter mining what is desirable and necessary for All parties Horn said. Gertrud Schilling of the greens called the Scholz plan  he s spreading the danger and misery instead of abolishing it Schilling said. Scholz s so called concept of Decon cent ration of Low level flying has yet to be approved by the governors of the Var ious states involved. That state Federal commission begins its work on Jan. 26." Scholz said the populace will experience greater Relief if he is successful in persuading the allies to reduce their Low level flying. Sixty six percent of the Low level flying is performed by the allies he said. A shape spokesman said thursday that there is no official response yet to the Scholz initiative