European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes tuesday May 2.1989 rescuers seek 2 sailors swept from american sub Tokyo a two crewmen from a . Navy submarine were missing after being knocked overboard monday by a wave that swept the vessel As it conducted surface operations in Waters off Japan . Military officials said. A third Man who fell from the 2,145-ton bar Bel was rescued the . Forces Media Liaison office said in a statement. The statement said the rescued Man was picked up by the submarine after he was spotted by search aircraft. His identity and condition were withheld. The submarine was conducting surface operations in International Waters near Japan s South Western Island of Kyushu when a wave swept away he crewmen who were standing watch on deck the statement said. Kiyoshi Harada spokesman for Japan s Mari time safety Agency said the Accident occurred about 31 Miles Southwest of Noma Cape in Kagoshima prefecture. British police charge Man in fatal shooting spree Whitley Bay England a police monday charged a 22-year-old civil servant with murdering a Man during a 15-minute shooting spree in an English coastal town. Fourteen peo ple were injured in the rampage. Police said Robert Sartin was charged with killing 41-year-old Kenneth Mackintosh. They said Sartin was to appear in magistrate s court later monday. Witnesses said the gunman strolled through the streets of Monkseaton a fashionable suburb of the Whitley Bay Seaside resort in Northeast England firing a double barrelled Shotgun at anyone within Range. Bush from Page 1 president s trip to Honduras. However there is no Campaign to publicize information Fitzwater said. In his chamber of Commerce speech Bush said that he made Clear to Gorbachev in a meeting with the soviet Leader last fall that we wanted to see perestroika succeed and likewise we want to see Success for the economic reforms in  the president interjected the remarks about the so Viet Union in a speech that otherwise focused on the Domestic Economy. Even the socialist world is beginning to see that socialism in t just another economic system. It s the death of economics Bush said. Nations the world Over arc coming to realize and to recognize that free Enterprise is the wave of the  Sailor missing for 9 months is found unharmed in Italy  Bureau a 22-year-old Navy Petty officer missing for nine months and thought a victim of foul play was found unharmed in a Southern italian port City by police Early monday morning. Italian police picked up Petty officer 3rd class Jen Nifer Muir about 4 20 . After tracing her to a Resi Dence in Villa san Giovanni where she apparently had been staying with a group of Young moroccans. The police members of the Quick response team from the nearby regional capital of Reggio i Calabria began Hunting Muir after watching a nationwide television program sunday that focused on her disappearance. A representative of the squad had seen her for some time around the Villa san Giovanni area the main ferry port to Sicily. She used to roam the streets in the company of a group of moroccan men a police spokeswoman in Reggio i Calabria said in a Tele phone interview. Members of the squad became aware of Jennifer s disappearance while watching the program Chi 1 hav Stox who saw him about her Case on state television sunday night. They immediately went out to search for her because they knew More or iks where she used to hang around. Around 4 20 ., they Man aged to Trace her to a building where they discovered her staying with a moroccan  the spokeswoman said Muir was taken for questioning to police Headquarters in Reggio i Calabria. She appears to be in excellent health and seemed to be on Friendly terms with the moroccan she said. A conflicting report on italian television said that police in Reggio i Calabria began their search Only after receiving tips from viewers and that Muir was discovered in the company of three Young moroccans. The report said Muir initially denied her identity to police and showed false identification papers. Another news report said that when police asked about her disappearance she replied that following an argument with her Boyfriend she decided to go out and try life on her own. Muir a communications worker with the military Scal Ift come at naval support activity Naples vanished on july 29. She apparently left All her belongings clothes credit cards passport and Check Book behind in her Barracks room at Naples. The Navy declared her absence unauthorized after she failed to report for duty on the morning of july 29. She was declared a deserter on aug. 28. Her father Tom Muir an ism systems Engineer from Trumbull conn., made repeated trips to Naples to look for his daughter. The Case attracted wide Media interest As concern for the missing woman s safety grew. Italian police who feared Muir was a victim of foul play used helicopters and dogs in september in a wide ranging unsuccessful search of the greater Naples area. In october an italian magistrate charged Seaman Kenneth b. Demon 21,with participation in Muir s homicide and concealment of her body. He was never arrested however. Officials could not be reached Mon Day to comment on his status. Before her discovery Muir had not been located since she disappeared Early july 29 after leaving the enlisted Barracks at the Navy s aviation detachment at Cap Dichino near Naples. On the night of july 28, she drank with her italian Boyfriend in the Asa Naples enlisted club. The couple had a violent quarrel possibly about 9 or 10 . Muir reportedly left the club in the company of a male Sailor and took a taxi with him to Cap Dichino. She met friends in a Barracks room supposedly was in another quarrel and left the facility about 4 or 5 ., according to both italian police and naval investigative service sources. Italian police suspected foul play and conducted their probe along those lines. The Navy while actively cooperating with the ital Ian police search did not Rule out the possibility of foul play but thought it More Likely that Muir disappeared on her own. When naval investigative service agents entered the Case in september a source close to their probe said Muir s activities on the evening of july 28 and the morning of july 29 possibly could have led her to believe she could be in trouble with italian or Navy authorities. He declined to provide any information about those activities. Agents were certain that the missing Sailor had been re Liam sighted several times since her disappearance. Tom Muir and a reporter from the stars and stripes appeared sunday night on the television prof ram which attempts to Trace missing persons. The /2-hour program featured a re enactment of the miss ing woman s actions before her disappearance and concluded with an Appeal by Tom Muir for information about his daughter. Following the program Muir said he was t hopeful that viewers would be Able to shed any Light on the Case because he feared his daughter had been killed by americans in the Barracks at Cap Dichino. Shortly after 7 . Monday he telephoned the re Porter and said they be found Jennifer. She s being held by the police in Reggio Calabria. I be just had a Short conversation with her and she said she s  Muir said that when he asked his daughter if she was being Well treated she did not reply and their conversation was Cut off. He immediately left his hotel in Rome to catch a but gave no further details. On monday afternoon it. Paul j. Weishaupt Asa Naples spokesman said italian police had taken into custody an american female identified As Jennifer  Weishaupt said the woman had answered a num Ber of questions put to her by phone by american investigators that indicate very strongly that she is indeed Jennifer Muir. Italian authorities will transport her to Naples later today where she will be questioned by an italian magistrate and then it is expected that she will be turned Over to . Military  contributing to thai report stall Srur Candida Sansone in Naptes May Day bears from Page 1 Wojcichowicz. She said Street fighting lasted several hours. In West Germany about 1,000 leftist protesters hurled rocks at police smashed car windows and looted stores in West Berlin on Mon Day in a violent May Day demonstration. In China where authorities arc Strug gling with a student movement for democratic reforms the communist party marked May Day by appealing to work ers to resist forces of social instability. Soviets marked May Dav monday with a huge Parade through red Square that focused on efforts to encourage eco nomic growth carry out competitive elections and clean up the environment. In Madrid Spain an estimated 300,000 socialist and communist Trad Union members marched together Mon Day presenting a common May Day front against government economic poli cies for the first time since the socialists won a parliamentary majority in 1982. From Page 1 Lions with the soviet Union at the time did the Bear survive who shoved it out of the plane and did he survive in its never ending quest for truth the stars and stripes put Laughton s queries to the staff at the air Force museum at Wright Patterson fab Ohio. The eight pages of response provided some of the details that should satisfy Laughton s curiosity. First of All no the Bear was no killed by its sudden release into the atmosphere. It gently drifted the nearly seven Miles to Earth in 7 minutes and 49 seconds none the worse for Wear according to the information supplied. The Experiment was part of the work being done to understand the Impact High Speed High Altitude ejection would have on a Pilot. Up to that Point Laboratory simulators had Given researchers bits and pieces of information but nothing in a lab could re Cre ate the acceleration rapid deceleration and tumbling of a real ejection from the b-58 ejection capsule. Why a Bear Well this was no Job for the cowardly lion from the Wiz Ard of of obviously. In fact the Bear s weight provided in air Force parlance a viable  that Means a Bear s ratio of Organ mass to body mass is similar to that of Man s. In English it Means that whatever happened to a Bear in this test would closely resemble what would happen to a Pilot. Previous tests with rocket sleds had used chimps and bears and even men. But the sleds could t produce the same effects As the real thing. The tests went airborne in late 1961. The first four ejected a Dummy at sub sup sonic speeds. In january 1962, a Chimpanzee was ejected from a plane flying 630 Miles per hour. On feb. 28, a Man was ejected for the first time. Three weeks later the Bear took Center stage. The question was would mysterious things happen above the Speed of sound that did t happen below the magical Speed of 720 Miles per hour the Bear was ejected at the Speed of Mach 1.3. The test was considered a Success in that the accelerations were mild and the animal was uninjured. There were More tests involving a Bear but our information docs not Tell us if it was the same Bear. On the next test a Bear was dumped into the sky at a Speed of Mach 1.6. This Bear sustained some injury because of excessive pitch of the ejection capsule. The next test used a Chimp but five subsequent tests used bears. The re sults were not included in the information from the museum. It has been 27 years since the first supersonic ejection test. Given a Black Bear s life Span of 15 to 30 years it is Safe to assume that the heroic Bear has passed away. But perhaps America s other great bears Yogi Smoky gentle Ben should make room for this nameless Bear who unflinchingly the Bear was lightly  pushed Forward the development of Man s victories Over flight