European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 5, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 f a a orders stronger locks on Boeing 747 cargo doors Vivien Uneit Tepa during a memorial sen ire in Long Beach calif., for a Tims if United full fill 811. By the new York times Washington the Federal aviation administration in its first regulatory response to the Accident on a United airlines jetliner that was flying from Honolulu to new zealand ordered on Friday thai All air lines strengthen the locks for cargo Bay doors on Boe ing 747s within 30 Days. The action forces the airlines o accelerate repairs that he Agency had previously ordered on a slower schedule investigators believe the United Accident occurred when the Jet s door came open in flight. Nine people were killed in the Accident As a huge Hole ripped through the Side of the Jet above the cargo door opening. The door itself ind most of its Locking mechanisms were lost at sea. All Boeing 747s in he . Airline Fleet russians from Page 1 himself a prod net of the Institute and its current commander. Detachment Ras the school first was known was founded in May 1947 in the Alpine Village of known Tor ils woodcarvers and passion i Lay Voyer the years tie school has been shuttled to i Gens Hiir and moved Hack to Owram Mcgrau Belore settling in ils present dips at Sheridan Cavern in Gar int Sci. While the school has moved about its. Million has remained relatively ins changed. a Post War Era that found the United at Odds with i s former ally it was the answer when . Military and civilian leaders anticipated increased Contact nigh the soviets and needed a network of. A Perls on so vie military and political thought. Since 1947, roughly to military offi cers Andi civilians have passed through the Institute. Cirii Yalcs have manned the Moscow hot line worked As analysts for assorted agencies taught at military schools such As West Point and the army War College and screed As at Riseri Al Tho highest Levels of. The political and defense glamorous roles have included translating official contacts with the so Viet Mililani. Playing the role of red Force commanders in War games and escorting military own cars. From the beginning the faculty Hab consisted of former soviet citizens who were Horn raised and educated in rus Sia the first were recruited after world. War ii from Dispi ated Personis Camps and Indus cd lawyers professors and doctors. The cd Eplion in the licit a makeup came in a budget cutting move in 1977, when the course and for shout eight cars brought in professors from the United Stales who taught m i English Llic results were disastrous. Kosevich said noting that the Hussian Ness of the a tissues Institute almost in Man graduate1, a Ling that time left know into Liss russian than when they arrived he said today s faculty conic Nimg of i fee tors Natl Otchis who have moved West hate similar profession credentials to those of the first group which Kojcsich considers a Naicai in training people to be soviet specialists. Their most valuable oomph Union is their ability to impart the soviet View of the world he said " this mimes us to gel into the la bought processes of the so Mcl Milnar officer to understand How he thinks acts and Jan is m his second car a the in Tulc a senior of sorts headed for a Job with the us military Liaison Mission at the St Hatmil building s Olsn includes Mumn in cyrillic letters for a he tits future.1 Potsdam East Germany he need to understand the ,from the. Soviet View. "1 need to be Able to come out of Here and a soviet division what s in is How ii operates How the officers might go about planning an operation. And i need to be Able 0 express those things in russian Ryan said. So 1 need the Vocab that s Peculiar loan army operation and i need to understand their though i processes As Best i to understand completely the Institute believes one must know speak and read the language. To that end when a new group of about 25 students arrives each summer students immediately plunge into an intensive six week pro Gram of language review. Additionally the school s Halls arc decorated with a variety of russian pos lers and banned. Including a prominent i displayed portrait of Mikhail Gorba Chev. All signs arc in Kussian. The Library consists of 100.000 mostly rus Sian volumes and students can be found Reading the tues russian newspapers and mag i pcs or catching last night s news live from Moscow \ j satellite dish although often described As a school for spies a British a pc Ono trumpeted the school As Reagan s red Bri Gade the Institute s charter prohibits intelligence gathering. Sull influencing the school s Imago is the fact that it is a part of the army s intelligence and Secu Rity Conn and some of us graduates Siml up As analysts in various Intelli a Encl agencies. Kove Vich whose father emigrated from Russia to the United states in 1913, shrugs on the spy labels some of our people do end up working in Intelli gence related jobs but arc by no a tons he said. Such activity would be counterproductive to what we want to achieve Here most of the military students come front combat arms specialities he said Wilh cml about a fifth from the Intelli gence Arena. A key., Clement of Ilsc. Curriculum includes travel through Warsaw pact coun tries including two trips to the soviet Union however such trips have not Al Wajs been possible Between 1983 and 1987, students at Llic Institute routinely had requests rejected. The apparent thaw in the cold avar changed that Lasi year and a group of-10 6ftlcers ventured into the soviet Union Tagg Malong with a German tour group on the flip Side to scotch Hopes to get soviet visitors into the school although past invitations have been turned Down. We arc open to them at any time and Hope very much to it Lineve that in the near future Kotovich said in the in Antim Gorbachev s policy of glib Insl and the ws7 signing of the inner mediate Rangi Roices treaty have created inca ased demand for russian linguists when the missile Accord verification proc ass began last cum mar the military found itself Short of qualified russian linguists and called on the Institute for help. We provided fat students As escorts for five groups of so Viet inspectors Kosevich said a less serious meeting of the super Powers occurred last november when students at the Institute nere invited for a volleyball mulch at the soviet military Liaison Mission in Frankfurt it was a Fibril Kosevich said coordinated at very High Levels. Who won / we won the first game Kosc Mth said and they won the nest four by the order which will require steel reinforcement of the Latch mechanism to make it less vulnerable to dam age from improper closing the pm said. There arc about 150 such jetliners in commercial service in the United Stales. Foreign governments Are believed Likely to impose similar requirement the new Ord re issued As a mandatory airworthy. Ness directive also Cal for special inspections Hinl the airlines must conduct repeatedly until the final modification is made. The Agency also said ii had formed a team to review the priced tiffs drafted by Sheflo Cinco. One possible explanation for the opening cargo Bay door on United iflight.811, As it look off from Honolulu on feb. 24, is that the ground Crew left he door s latches Only partly secured. Backing Likely for .-Japan plane venture by Llic no h Lirk times Washington the Bush administration Eup cols to notify Congress thu week that it will ahead with a si.2 billion venture with Japan to make an advanced version of the i-6 fighter for the japanese military us ministration officials say. But in Mcra Gincy Laski Force will recommend refinements in an Agri Emend the two governments reached last year in order to Stem the flow of . Aircraft technology to Japan. The o . Tic idea is to keep tie project front living a stepping Hion e fur Japan s stated goal to compete in the civil Airliner Industry by the Start of the nest Century. We want to Roj sure people hat the Crown jewels Are nut going an Oft Eul said. Unlit now the administration has been divided i n proct going with one of the most ambitious military co production ventures involving the nations. Twenty one senators have expressed opposition arguing that the Deal rep resents a technological expressions of concern prompted the National Security Council last month to order an Illera Geicy review which is now being completed Congress could still overturn Ihl Tkal if both Chambers voted resolutions of disapproval within 30 Days. Commerce secrelary1 Koberl a mov Bachur had led the opposition to the fighter support experimental project. But he has been mollified by die co priv 111 so. Lasbacher w As said to have been principally upset by the failure of he do Genvo Depan mint and state department which concluded a Mcmorri Nelum of understanding with Japan last november to study the broader economic implications including technology Transfer 1 he co Imerti depart Merit had been especially concerned that. To a Lime of huge american Trade deficits the project souk help Japan s budding aircraft Industry eventually compete with Koeing and other american makers of civil aviation products Hull Arenn Jorj s exporters the agreement tails for the cd Crul dynamics corp., which makes the f-16 chiefly m Texas and Mitsubishi heavy industries of Japan to cooperate in developing the fighter huh would essentially be a new air plane based on the f 16 design Japan would take delivery of the planes in it97. Development funds would be split 60-40 Between Mitsubishi and general dynamics Jap Annie or finials have nude Ameri can ratification of the agreement a Mal Ler of National Honor
