European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q Worner insists nato update nuclear Arsenal Page 2 shh Eshetu for victim of ambush in Philippines. Page 3 o supreme court turns Down Appeal by Marc oses Page 4 d Blackhawk take 31 Lead Over blues in playoffs,.Page 26 the St ars andr stripes d 8693 a j vol 48, no. 9 wednesday april 26, 19 anese Premier to resign Takeshita takes blame for scandal Tokyo a prime Tunis scr no hour Tak Shila announced tuesday thai he full resign to take a massive influence peddling scan Dave said has led to growing Public Dis Lrus politicians. The scandal and a widely criticized Bales my that look effect april i sent Hist rating skidding to 3.9 percent making him Japan s most unpopular prime minister since world War ii. Tak Shila 65, spoke at a nationally. Televised news conference after telling Cabinet meeting he would end his month tenure in office Hal of it a Down Tell slide due to the scandal involving the Uit co. Conglomerate re cruel question has caused a grave crisis for inc nation s parliamentary democracy 1 i said. As he chief executive of government and president of the ruling party i deeply apologize lie said he. Will step Down after the fiscal 1989 budget is passed expected by Early May. It was unclear who will succeed Hoof since other senior figures in the Goyett ing Liberal new Wratic party also Are tainted by donations from recruit. News in Virts cited former foreign Ito As a possible sue Cess orbit to is 75 and a diabetic. o the Premier on Back Page popularity rating skidding to 3.9 percent trek Ecru question Nas Caust a u sati mini a Bush salutes Lowers 47 dead from ire reports Norfolk. A. In a somber emotional Farewell to the 47 dead Crew members of the battleship Iowa resident Bush paid tribute Here monday to the men behind the they came from Hidalgo Texas and Cleveland Ohio from Tampa Florida and Costa Mesa California the grim faced president Laid an audience of 3,000 in the largest hangar at the Norfolk naval station. They came to the Navy As strangers served the Navy As shipmates and friends and left the Navy a Brothers in it Emily said bus i in hit finest Nav tradition they publicly served a great battleship he Iowa. Seated on folding chairs were about 1,000 of the 1.500 sailors who survived tie fir explosion wednes Day in the no. 2 gun Turret aboard the world War ii Vinyl age battleship during exercises off puerto Rico. The summing Ere members wearing Black Arm bands were joined monday by relatives of inc dead men Navy personnel and officials including defense Secretary Dick Cheney Bush spoke rapidly but toward the end of his remarks the president seemed overcome and unable to continue. His voice catching. Bush old the audience your men arc under a different command now one that knows no rank Only love knows no danger at this Point. Bush s e it filled with tears. May god bless them said the president f the ceremony monday took place less Ihan to Miles from inc pier where the �s7-foot, s0,000-Lon docked Sunda its no i Turret blackened by fire and skewed to starboard. Flags fluid Creel at half Masi beneath the a Urc skies. F the bodies of most of the dead crr flown to a mortuary at Dover a to Delaware. Pomily funeral services will be held a or the Nam few Dpi s. The 45-Minutc memorial service Here was by us and at moments brutally sad. Child run cried Saigon dabbed at let in eyes. Relatives hrs feed each other and Clung to Gelhar tears i trucking it Cir checks. The hangar was smed Wjt i the sound of choked sobs As the Iowa s Captain recalled his fallen crewmen. To remember their Facer As Ulicy lot Ltd on their guns sweating an honest sweat that comes from Oung men dedicated to a great cause said opt. Fred r Mosully. A or latins Sai or Artim the Low a is sons used by a Friendl. "1 Strong hands As they wielded their great charges with an Energy i always marvelled at. I remember Turrel two he said they were the life the spirit and the soul of . We in me to Gether in limes of trouble. We shared the Good and the bid the comedy and now the tragedy they made the ultimate sacrifice for us. The men of Turret two will be part of the spirit of the Iowa forever. But we must go on the Crew of the the president and his wife Barbara Sal in the front Row of tic family Bush s left sat Elbia Marti Nez the widow of Seaman apprentice Jose Luis Marline. Or. To mrs. Bush s right Sal mrs. Lisa Ever Harl widow of seat Ian apprentice Vistic Allen liver Lum or. Afler his speech the president and his wife the front aisles for 10 minutes stinking hands and embracing family members of the dead. Bush a world our ii Navy combat Pilot spoke in a clenched voice during the six minute speech. Let me say to the Iowa Crew i understand your a cat grief he said. Promise you today we will find out Why the circumstances of the tragedy. a larger sense. There will never be answers to the questions that haunt we will not we cannot As Long As we live by god has called them Musi be heroically Strong now Bush lot the but you will find that love endures. It endures in us Spring memory of time together in the embrace of a Friend Iri Bright questioning eyes Ofa child. And As for inc children of the lost Ihram Ghoul your lives you Mua never forget your father was America s Pride said his voice echoing across Lite hangar.%. Your mothers Sod grandmothers aunts and uncles Are entrusted with ibb memory of this Day. In the years to come they must mss on to you the legacy of the men behind inc runs As the pc Sidcot recited the history of the Iowa in world War ii his words seem cd 0 rest Nate personally ".-. H , built wig before these sailors were born braved the wartime Walers of the Atlantic to take president Roosevelt to meet Winston churchillian Casablanca and anchored in Tokyo Harbor on inc Day world War ii he said. The Iowa earned 1.1 Battle stars in two wars Navy Library support Cut to trickle in Europe _ e.1.,., r my. Thi. Henrian for the Nat s 1s4 Shore Iram in pc Sagola Ron Jensen staff Rier . Nay support for i libraries has slowed to a trickle and is Well below the let Al needed to adequately Supply Reading materials to sailors in Europe said the librarian in charge of its european facilities. Right now All the Nav is doing is buying paperbacks Edwin e Wil Liams said. Williams said the funding Cuis also a Fucci Navy libraries in the United Stales but they Are obviously a More serious problem in Europe particular inc Mediterranean area where the libraries Are often the Only source of English Reading materials for sailors. The budget for the Navy libraries and 530 ship s libraries has been trimmed from about s4 million to is million in the past two cars., we would like to see ourselves on a funded level of about s3.5 million said Marge Homeyard Library development coordinator of inc naval service general Library pro Gra ii think people Don t understand thai when funding for the military increased it goes into weapons equip ment in terms of ships and air planes and salaries she said. It often docs not mean that Here arc going to be across the Board increases in personnel see Library on Back Page
