European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 22, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Elisabeth Birkl of the Nurnberg school for the Blind shows Caren Shaffer 6, How to Type her name on a braille Type writer. Burki was one of five German seeing with their fingertips Blind students who went to the Herzo the fingers at right Are those of Robbie base youth activities at Herzo Genau Saffrahn 9, who said his first touch of rach West Germany to Tell american braille writing was  Center direct youngsters what it is like to be Blind Tor Belinda Parker said she invited the is  Crawley Blind students to the Herzo base be cause january is the birth month of Louis braille who invented the touch alphabet for the Blind. Canadian . Troops Start frosty exercise Anchorage Alaska a about 26,000 troops 120 aircraft and 1,000 vehicles from Canada and the United states began Maneu vers across Alaska in the military s regular test of personnel and machine sin freezing weather. This May be the Premier cold weather exercise in the free world air Force it. Gen. Thomas g. Mcl Nerney commander of the alaskan air come at Elmendorf fab Alaska and head of joint task Force Alaska said Friday As the biennial exercise began. Brim Frost 89 a $ 15 million exercise involving the . Army air Force Marine corps coast guard National guard Reserve units and Canadian forces is to continue through feb. 1. We hold some exercises like this in Norway but they re a Little different Mclnerney said. Here you have an entire army division operating in an  Maneu vers have been planned at More than 17 site around Alaska including Kodiak Island off the South West coast but the focus will be a mock land Battle Between two army brigades on the Tanana Flats at fort Greely about 105 Miles Southeast of Fairbanks. The mock engagement will include a battalion size Canadian Force to be dropped by Parachute official said. It will be a rehearsal of the procedures we d have to go through if we actually had to defend Alaska said army maj. Gen. Harold to Fields jr., commander of the 6th inf div Light and chief of land forces during the exercise. Brim Frost 87 with 24,000 troops focused primarily on unconventional warfare where Alaska forces faced guerrilla units and defended airfields Remote radar stations ports a trans Alaska Oil pipeline pump Sta Tion and other Sites from attack. Planners said they will emphasize safety throughout rim Frost 89. No live ammunition will be used but troops will face temperatures that Are expected to plummet to 50 degrees below Zero. Safety is a very challenging thing Mclnerney  you Don t have any accidents then it s a tribute to your  our track record in the past has been very Good Fields said. Last month 3,500 soldiers at fort Greely trained in weather that was 44 below Zero and they came through the exercise with no serious  Fields said at a news conference wednesday that there is a lot of difference Between simply being out in the cold and operating in the cold. Well not Back off our exercises simply because the weather drops Fields said. It teaches you How to Cope. Our potential adversaries Are very Good at  schoolchildren mourned of killer is buried nearby Stockton Calif. A grief stricken families and friends Mourne the five schoolchildren who were gunned Down during recess tuesday. And in nearby town the killer who took his own life was buried almost unnoticed. Parents and teachers continued coun seling the children who witnessed the schoolyard slayings. Patrick Purdy 24, opened fire outside the Cleveland elementary school with an ak-47 semiautomatic assault Rifle firing More than 100 rounds killing five children and wounding 29 others Andone teacher. Three Days and nights of prayer began thursday for two of the youngsters killed and services for the other children were arranged for saturday and  gov. George Deukmejian planned to attend monday s services. Purdy was buried Friday in Lodi said his grandmother Julia Chumbley. He was interred after a service at Cheroke memorial cemetery which several of his relatives attended she said. Fourteen of the wounded students were still hospitalized but most were re ported in improved condition. At Cleveland school approximately three quarters of the school s 970 pupils had returned to classes by Friday about three times the number who attended wednesday but it was anything but Aroutine school Day. Counselor and school psychologist were assisting teachers in classrooms and some parents sat in with their Chil Dren to Comfort and reassure them. One Mother who asked not to be identified told reporters that her Young est son a 7-year-old second grader who was on the playground when the shoot Ings occurred would Only come Back to school if she stayed with him. They re making it Back slowly but surely she said adding that she planned to spend a Day or two More Ather son s Side in the classroom. Cleveland school is in the heart of Cali fornia s third largest Community of Refu gees from Southeast Asia and nearly two thirds of the school s population is from Asia. All of the dead children were from refugee families As were 19 of the 29 wounded. Fireball in sky creates stir across Central . By the associated press authorities believe a derelict soviet rocket was the fireball that blazed across the Central . Sky Friday night captivating people in at least 10 states. Jack Lippincott of Fulton mo.,said he saw the object on the South West horizon and watched for a min Ute As it went North Friday night. It was fabulous just  m 57 years old and i be never seen anything like it Lippincott said. Lippincott said he and his wife had this terrific panoramic View of the thing. You could see the reflection of the Moon in the rocket body. And there were these White and Orange spots trailing along behind it at the same Speed. Then it faded  sightings of the object were reported ab9ut 8 10 . Cost 3 10 . Get in Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas Kentucky Missouri Illi Nois Kansas Mississippi and Iowa officials said. Navy cmdr. Dugald Gillies spokesman for the . Space come in Colorado Springs colo., said the space surveillance Center there had monitored the object. We be gotten Many Calls As Well Gillies said. To the Best of our Esti mation it would be a re entering of a soviet rocket body from a launch that took place last  officials have not determine where the tentatively identified rocket re entered or whether it made it to the ground without burning up said maj. Dick Adams a spokesman for the North american air defense come in Colorado Springs. Objects re enter ing the atmosphere generally Don survive he said. He said the object was expected Tobe positively identified saturday. For All the excitement the blazing fireball created authorities apparently weren t All that excited. Adams said the space command tracks about 7,100 Man made objects. Once officials Start to notice an object falling out of orbit they try to predict its re entry he said. This was no Surprise Adam added