European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes tuesday. April 11,1989 military Roundup 32nd tac fighter so sets record for Safe flying a Netherlands the 32nd tac fighter so has set a i Safe record of 70.000 hours with Uniac lass a flying Accident. Class a accidents include destruction of or More than �300 000 damage to an aircraft an aircrew Maialily or permanent Loia disability of a Crew member. The Squadron which Hies f-i5c and f-15d eagles Atla Ineil the record during december. The 70.000 hours began in 1977, when inc Squadron was filing f-41 phantom us a Soe Lerberg spokeswoman said 6 of members in Europe win maintenance awards Washington sin air Force members in eur earned i98h a. Gen. Leo Marquez maintenance annual awards named in Honor of the air Force s former Deputy chief of staff for logistics and engineering Rani Gnu a individual contributions 0 improving maintenance operations. Winning in aircraft maintenance were u. Col. Rob Ert Henley Ramu Ein a West Germany As a Field Grade manager and senior airman Michael cunning Ham. Raj lakenhcath.1 England As a technician. Master ski. Jimmy is ridger of Hahn am. Vest Ger Many won As in the com Iii Nic Aliis and electronics maintenance category. Winners in the missile maintenance category were stall sgt. Carduc Hassell Iii. Florenne a Belgium As a technician supervisor and sol John. Gill Wilisch him air station. West technician. Hutchison Span Dahlem All West Cleri Nany. Won As a company Grade manager in inc munitions maintenance category. Chief of staff Honor goes to helicopter battalion Anspach. West Germany a 1st army div Al 1.11 k Diu Phr i Jiulian has won inc army chief of staff maintenance award. 1 Leavy division second in. Isl aviation Rygl. Al Katterbach army Airfield Cia Inird the division s lop Slot in june in route 16 winning inc Vii corps and Usa eur Tea into Nance competitions. 11 is aviation unit to win the award said chief warrant nicer 2 Jei f Martin battalion maintenance officer. Schoolchildren Purchase live Wei weapons at stall Juanf Iriate England a a group of Liritis schoolchildren returned Home sunday from a visit la Belgium with two world War i shells and two frag mentation grenades purchased from a stall near a my Euni Iii a pics. The weapons which had travelled on a ferry Wanh $50 passengers were handed Over h a teacher who look Ihorn irom two boys aged 13 and 14 customs offi ices Ink a in an army bomb disposal squid Tali no blew up the souvenirs in i cd will us near rams Gaio. Where the children Iclet the City from Dun Kirk i 1 he shells weighed is pounds each polite said inc shells had been fired but had not exploded and the grenades pins wife to to traded they l Ould have broken at any Lime one girl said of inc usialis at Ypres the grenades were Selling Lor Daboul 50 belgian francs is 28 and some of tin larger shells for about 130 francs $3,35 Iran hints that resuming ties with . May be possible Athens Greece iup1 nine years after the break in iranian-. Relations Iran sunday hinted that a resumption of lies with the United slates May be possible under Cclain conditions. In a commentary broadcast an Tehran radio Iran said the United states has gradually sought to resume diplomatic relations with islamic Iran but ties would not be practical until hostility Between the two countries is so the radio monitored in Athens did nol say when the. United states made moves to resume diplomatic relations with Iran but diplomatic sources inside and outside Iran have reported thai the two governments have made secret contacts through third countries Over the past year. The secret con Lacis appeared so be part of Iran s Genera policy of opening to the West which suffered a setback when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a death edict against Salman Rushdie the Urit ish author of the novel the satanic the death threat touched off an International out cry and 14 Western Stales withdrew their highest ranking envoys from Iran in protest. On sunday,.the official islamic Republic news Agency quoted the iranian foreign ministry As Sai ing four Turo can states spam. Greece Sweden and West Germany have quietly sent Back i hair envoys to Iran chose the ninth anniversary of the break of diplomatic relations Between it and the United slates to hint in inc radio commentary that a resumption of lies was possible under Cclain conditions. The United states announced it was cutting Diplo Matic ties with Iran april 7, 19bo, some five months after fundamentalists in Iran seized the . Embassy touching off the 444-Day hostage crisis. Tehran radio sunday said Iran wants to have sound and Friendly relations with All countries except South Africa and Israel but would not accept a Wolf shlep relationship with any slate. The radio said . Moves to resume tics were made Afler years of threats and. From the Point of View of the islamic Republic the establishment of relations will nol be practical until an atmosphere is created in which hostility is set it said the United Stales would have to res Eccl the values and principles of the islamic revolution and free Iran s Frozen financial assets before a resumption optics became a racial. In Psi week iranian prime Minisi Ermir Llos Sein Musavi hinted ran would continue its hard line foreign policy and worm not Bend its islamic principle Lor the Sake of economic gain. But Musavi has recently emerged As a possible rival in the forthcoming iranian presidential race to the parliament speaker. Akbar a Hashemi a Sfanjani. Reported to be the Force behind the opening to the West policy sunday s radio commentary said Khomeini s Prin Ciple of neither East nor West will be maintained an apparent indication that Iran May resume efforts to improve relations Wilh the West to balance its recently warming lies with the soviet Union. Khomeini began moves in january to improve ties with the soviet Union which played a mediation role Between Iran and the 12 european economic Community slates thai withdrew their envoys from Iran in february in the Wake of inc Rushdie affair. The iranian foreign ministry statement sunday said iranian ambassadors to the european Community will not return to their places of assignment unless dec diplomatic missions return to Tehran the statement said defending islam is an in Altera ble principle of Iran s foreign final Salute louts Tike Lii Vul in v Sun a Najj into no tin in Kast i a Ifim. But this sea in Lyle h All smoke and no fire Post r. I he Rummill Jling Pant ii shun the Deni Lilion of Ihu 200-Fimit-Ull chime is Alp the 115 foot Shirli rim of in abandoned Dover it Liim that is Infin to be replaced h a novt Structure. Visitors mobbing Paris for revolution s Bicentennial Paris a More tourists than cer Are flooding pans storming my stains filling hotels and crowding cafes to in a Oil to celebrations marking the Fai be Nunnal of the Finch Kev Lulion. Even though ii cols Are Siisi beginning the i Aris tourism Ottus said he capital already has 20 percent More vim lors than Mallhi Slimm 9$& and nationwide officials expert 10 break last Jear s record of 38 nut lion vis there Are going to be j of Tif people in France said Avier Begum Bill Rocq. A Tounsi official the thi1 Jison de la France. The i Jear we expect an increase of about i5pmcm," Large scale Bicentennial events will begin in May but plenty of visitors Are already in town one visitor. Judith Goldberg of new York cil. Waded in line Wanh hundreds of others oui Side the muscle d Orsa the pans showcase for 19th Century Art we could t get clothe Lorn re yester Day she Laid the line was As Man As 50,000 tourists and Pari sians be crowded the louvre daily since the museum s new Pyramid in trance opened March 29, hut besides a Isilma the louvre a museum Sinwell Secarl Jem of the co Luton few Small exhibitions in Unis have few events to attend until next month on May 4, the procession that opened the slates general the legislative body before the revolution of 1789, will be re created in Versailles. Two Hundred years ago the first second and third estates reprise Lalu i of the clergy the nobility and commoners met to express the grievances that set la revolution in motion from May 5 to nov. Ii Paris tourists can visit a mint theme Park being set up in the elegant Tui Lencs gardens be tween the louvre and inc place do la concorde organizers expect at feast 3.5 million people to pay the equivalent of s3 to visa the Park
