European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday april 22, 1939 teachers earn a few lessons on tanks by Ron Jensen Kirch guns. Wesr Germany the schoolteachers behaved like schoolchildren. For most in was inc first up Closi Ami i a social look at the tanks and other fish line machines i hair Slud cols fall cars work with every Day so their Gidd mess could be excused. All tight thai was fun Deborah Mii Rel shouted after climbing from inc Driver s Seal of an m i Abrans Bank on a Cloudy afternoon this week. On most Days Mark is standing be fore a fifth Grade class at bul Bacn elementary school hut officials at avers Cavern to Miles North of Frankfurt had invited those who teach the Chil Dren of inc 4,000 soldiers there for a look a whal i Host soldiers do that s Why Markl along with other teachers Frum Sulzbach elementary. School Ami Gic Ssan High. School were scrambling atop tanks and Bradley fighting1 vehicles As if they were the children they Leach. Scaling Monkey bars. I think Ellis is wonderful whal the Ini Lituri it doing Markl said the school is so disconnected from the Mili Cut. Warren p. Gid rings commander of inc 3rd army div s 1st brigade said inc inv ipalion was an attempt to forge a connection. The purpose is to let you see a Lille bit about what soldiers do inc equipment they work with and Why they re Here Giddings Lold the roughly 100 Jcj thurs in attendance. Sevc been Irwin i to do his for some time. To get closer 10 the teachers of our. Chil Giddings Lold them that Ayers. Ca sern is Home of the largest concentration of combat forces in Europe nit ii 120 or Adleys and 116 Abrams tanks a Cindy to plug any invasion from the East. Because of thai important role Hildien Are often in the hold. As part of the education he added Ihal the tanks the teachers would drive arc capable of moving 45 Mph i d like for none of you to do this afternoon he said to loud Iju Gli Ter. After a bus tour of the base known us the Rock the teachers were Doptis lied at a Muddy Field where the meet monsters awaited the tanks and 11n. Grad lays plus an m109 howl it and Oiler Large pieces of Battle. Equip Manl. A our school there Art not thai Many military dependents said Tammy Salada a first Grade leather at i Katzbach. It s Good to see Viii the military people arc the experience she said May help the teachers relate better to a student whose fall or is. Away from Hon if. To makes a difference she said. I cat Tell in my room when inc fathers Are Kim Dupont who teaches second Grade Al Butzbach said. A lot of the Siulc boy. Want to be like daddy and this helps us know what that thai understanding is appreciated b the. Fathers said staff sol. Ray Haj Foy of the 4th in. 32nd Armor his Sun s teacher is aware of what the sol Diers do and that heightens his son s int Cic to in his Job she tells my Little boy about Whit s going on and he comes Home and asks me about it Bailey said. Giddings would like to it information Day a regular event. After All he said the teachers Are Here because we re teacher Beverly Roussis Hions behind the wheel of � Bradley Irh Linb vehicle while Stilt set Christopher Stephen left and teacher Leigh kifh1 take in he View from the lop. News updates Cove Del confirmed Washington a Paul , the Leader of the Georgia slate Senate for the past m years his been confirmed by . Senate As the new. Director of inc peace corps. The Senate approved president Bush s nomination of Coverdell voice vote. He replaces lore Miller Rupec who has been director since i 981 in he longest r to Urc since the Agency was begun in 1961. The plate corps represents America s sense of concern for humanity throughout the world Coverd cil said in a. Statement Tutu ride our Etc Day Hal citizen service can and docs the peace corps has about 6,000 vol. Ulel rain 65 Rita latin Amui Ica the Caribbean and the Pacific. They Are involved in such Fields As ,.health care education forestry Ogni Uli Urc and own inn by do top mint. Neo nazi clashes rom in a clashes be town k it iils and no a is on the Loolah Annivera sur of Adolf Hitler s birth Refl 13 police men injured. West Berlin Friday Authon tics said 100 people were Eric set d. Scattered fighting broke out Lale thursday on Hitler s birthday and vent on throughout the City until Early Friday . A police statement Aid about 500 people mostly Young leftists and foreigners armed with clubs Gas Pis Tols and chains roamed the Street looking for Neo nazi skinheads the Ikin Hesus recognizable by their shaven Heads and Black combat boots had threatened to harass foreign ers and leftists on Hitler s birthday. Oily waste water spills into River after tank ruptures in Louisiana Jiayou sorrel u. A a tank ruptured and spilled at least 180,000 Gal Lons of oily waste water into the grand River i riday As a Barge was being unloaded at a a Aste disposal site in South Ern Louisiana authorities said. The Lank on the Barge was carrying 900,000 Gallons of non hazardous oily waste from the Exxon Houston facility for disposal by Gox land treatment of a hic Castle state . " Environ mental officials from Exxon thu us material is a boil 90 per Cint Waier 7 Percell Kohot and 3 per Tinl dil said it. Ronnie Jon of the state police. No Oiw injured Jones said. The spill happened a a Remote orca about 35 Miks Southwest of Baion Rouge on the Edge of the a base. A vast Hardwood swamp an Marshland that is a. Breeding ground for a variety of fish and wildlife. The Barge is of Ned by Palmer co. Of port Arthur Texas and leased by cd so Enon had no responsibility .for.the1barge after it left the Texas kit said Freddie Pitre sheriff of i Orville pariah. We were unloading inc waste when the Barge buckled. An unknown Quantity spilled into grand River. We Haven t determined the said Bobby May wac chef manager of environmental safer to for Gox we had unloaded 260,000 Gallons and we believe about Gallons state police estimated the spill at be tween 300,000 and 400,000 eid Lons. Jon said Crews quickly surrounded the spill with booms adding we be Lieve we be got most Othir mall rial contained in one area a each or said that the remainder of the waste was to be emptied into Tanker trucks later Friday. Paul dub ii a spokesman for the Palmer co., said a Walcer and alcohol mixture,.commonly known in the Oil Industry As Slop water is used to Wash out tanks and ships. When it s dirty with Oil residue i becomes waste water he said. John Reidy. I spokesman for Exxon said officials Al Lliel new Orleans head quarters had Listic information about the spill but would have a statement Ai soon As possible. Jones said there is Little Chance of fire or explosion hut from an environmental standpoint this could be a dangerous pitl. Anytime Dpi gel 400,000 Gallons of anything into a River you be got a serious the incident1 comes four weeks after an Exxon Oil Tanker nil a reef and nip lured in the Waters off Alaska spewing 10 million Gallons of crude Oil the worst 011 spill in . Liis Iory. After Friday s spill. Exxon dispatched a cleanup Crew from new Orleans. The department of environment Stuj Ilyamin other state agencies were also sent to the site Jones Aid Stanley Jackson of the office of Emer gency preparedness for inc Rule Parish said it does t a ctn thai bad arid in i not a significant spill but you can l con Vince the people around Here of Hanau 6th-Grade teacher Dies of cancer Wiesbaden West Germany Vicki Livingood an elementary Leachjr Wuh the military s overseas schools Lem died Friday of cancer at the lands Lull army regional medical Center shews 4s. Livingood spent the bit 12 Yearb Lii u i Cachur at Argonne elementary in Hanau where she taught sixth Grade. A school system spokesman said us ingot Al had been battling cancer for about a year. She is survived by her husband James a psychologist at Frankfurt army regional medical Center and two daughters Lisa and Janice Lisa attends Frankfurt High Silione and Janice is enrolled at the College of William Maryin Williamsburg a a memorial sen ice has riot yet bet scheduled
