European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 15, 1989 the stars and Stripe in 3 going after Diana Princess Diana has routinely shaking hands with Well wishers thursday when something nut of the Ordinary happened a Man jumped Over a railing ind came lunging at her. Plainclothes officers above moved in to restrain the Man in the Northern City of Crumlin Quirt while the Princess of Wales sized up the Mould be admirer. The Man was arrested and the Princess went Lack to greeting the Croud outside a workshop r inc. Mcnully Handi capped. 2 aviator skilled 2 eject safely in Navy Jet crash Macon. Miss a two Navy raining jets collided thursday and crashed in Rural cast Central Mississippi killing a student Pilot and his instructor. Two of her pilots ejected and parachuted to the ground. Navy officials did not say How the crash occurred but said ail investigation has begun. There was one student and one instructor aboard each of the 2c Buckeye jets used to train Navy and a . ,.- the dead were identified As it. . Jerome Reese Schuchart 28, of Seattle and Ensign Duane James Hofhine 23, of Cedarburg wis. Schuchart was Hofhine s flight instructor according to Petty officer pave Mcbride of Nas Meridian. The survivors were identified As la. Terry Lynn Tugglt of Aurora. Colo., an instructor and Ensign Bruce Hart Szymanski of Fredonia n.y., his Slu Donl. Tugglt and Szymanski ejected from their plane As i he two aircraft collided Over Rural nox Buce county. Mcbride said both were in satisfactory condition at Noj Iunce  in Macon a few Miles North of the crash site. It. A a Mary chamber in a spokeswoman said the airmen were members of Meridian s training Squadron 19, who were on a training Mission when they crashed at about 9 Alm. Witnesses said one plane App arc Najy in which inc two fatalities occurred went Down in a wooded area just off . -45, while the second plane crashed near Macon s Small Airstrip about three Miles to inc  find flaws in parts involved Iii charges by the Washington Post Washington the air Force and Navy revealed wednesday thai they have experienced problems with missile and aircraft parts that  indict ment has charged were built and tested improperly by the Northrop corp. Military officials said the Yare consid ering action that could Lead to suspension or barring of some divisions of the contractor from doing business with inc Pentagon. A Federal grand jury in los Angeles indicted Northrop and five of its current and former employees Laic tuesday on charges fraud in the improper testing of parts Tor one of Fth air Force s most critical nuclear missiles and the Navy and Marine corps newest ice aircraft the av-8b harrier. The indictment alleged thai for most of the past nine years. Northrop and some of its officials supplied guidance system parts for All . Air launched cruise missiles that contained a fluid thai could freeze at temperatures signify Camly higher than air Force requirements. Court documents alleged that required tests often Wen not completed Ana that in other cases records were altered 10 show that parts had passed tests when they had failed. During ground tests ordered As a result of Early reports that inc Northrop parts could be defective the air Force discovered failures in some cruise missile guid Ance Corno Nants called flight data trans Millers which help keep the missile concourse a spokesman said wednesday Northop produced 1,715 of the guidance systems for the cruise missiles which Are deployed on the 52 bomber and Are scheduled to be put on inc by bomber. The indictment also charges that Northrop did not perform required vibration tests on equipment that helps pilots calculate the Angle of the harrier aircraft during Takeoff and Landing. The harrier can lilt its engines to Fly either like a helicopter or a Jet aircraft. The Navy has had persistent problems Wilh the device a Navy spokeswoman said. We Don t know if there s a relationship. All we know is thai it does t work Asil should she said. The device called the Rale sensor assemblies stabilization system is not considered critical to the safety of the har Rier or its Pilot Navy officials said but it could be a valuable Aid to pilots when operating  a Sini ement wednesday Northrop said the criminal charges brought against Northrop s precision products Divi Sion and two of its current employees arc unwarranted and the company strongly disputes any allegations of criminal behaviour by the division or by these  the company noted however Thutt it shut Down the Pomona calif., Plant where the missile parts were built moved the division and took internal disciplinary action against some employees. Northrop officials said the two indicted employees have been placed on administrative leave. The defense. Department said in a statement currently the air Force and Navy arc evaluating the evidence concern ing the falsification of test data and other allegations in order to determine if corrective action must be undertaken to ensure the reliability of them two  on the missiles for example Northrop allegedly falsely asserted thai the guidance systems could withstand temperatures As Low As 65 degrees below Zero fahrenheit when inc parts froze at 40 degrees to 50degrees below Zero the indictment said. Temperature is important because the missiles could be required to Fly Over arc tic areas at High altitudes if the guidance systems freeze the missiles could be thrown off course officials said. Al though the guidance systems Fai Jed in 4 percen Rof the ground tests air Force officials said the system was not blamed for any of the nine times the missile failed in 95 flight tests Northrop one of the nation s largest de sense contractors has been the target of several Federal investigations and lawsuits by disgruntled employees in recent years. The indict merits followed a two year investigation by five Federal agencies. The guidance system problems and other testing reliability problems with North Rop produce d parts for the my intercontinental ballistic missile which were not mentioned in the indictment have been reported by the Washington Post. Soviet defense chief opposes a to Unfer Force Moscow api defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo in an article published thursday scornfully rejected suggestions for convening the soviet armed forces into an All Volunteer unit half its current sizeof4,z58.000men i am shaken by inc incompetence and eight mindedness of the authors of such innovations when they approach the most important stale question the guarantee of the Security of the country Yazoo said in a front Page signed article in the military newspaper Krasnaya zvezda or red  seemed to support the unilateral reductions already announced by so Viet president Mikhail a Gorbachev which would Cut the soviet armed forces by 500,000 men to 3,760,000, he also said weapons production is being Cut by one fifth. But he was sharply critical of suggestions the army could be Cui in half Indi Cating he top soviet brass was in favor of maintaining compulsory military serv ice for males. Deferrals for University students were announced last month but they still must serve in the soviet armed forces after graduation although their term of service has now been reduced to one car a highly paid Volunteer army would become an elite class in society contradicting the nature of a socialist army where everyone is drafted Yazoo said. Ideals of duty to the country would be replaced by materialism he said. Yazoo s also said a Volunteer army under capitalism serves the interest of the ruling class a criticism thai brings com mums ideology Back into a debate that has entered in Many other articles on efficiency and budget cutting. A col. Alexander Sav Inkin opened the debate last fall with an article in the Moscow news weekly calling for a smaller More professional All Volunteer army belter trained in High technology weaponry. A of said the current 2 to year hitch is sufficient for the average Soldier to learn discipline and the use of certain arms separate article in pravda written by the armed forces Deputy political director adm. A. Sirokm said one fifth of inc 500.000 troops Cut from the military would be officers typically those with Only a few cars of service. Cadets in military academies also will be trimmed he , the troop cuts will come among older soldiers ready to retire be cause they have already qualified for pensions or received apartments Soro Icin  addition he wrote we arc not keeping a secret of the fact that we Are trying to get rid of those who arc not in Harmony with morality Honor and  admitted that finding Homes for 500,000 released soldiers will be no easy task in a country already struggling with a severe housing shortage. Plans have been made id build 7.500apartments for former officers but for the rest the communist party leadership and local authorities must take urgent measures to find housing he said