European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday May 6,1989 news briefs Dod releases names of copter crash victims Washington a the Pentagon has released the names of the five marines killed wednesday when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Southern France. The Marine corps identified four of the victims As pilots maj. Bruce a. Boulton 37, from Broward county fla., and 1st u. Michael p. Wilkes 26, from Akron Ohio and helicopter mechanics Cpl. Terry a. Miles 22, from Ashland ky., and Lance Cpl. Matthew p. Rossoll. 21, from pcs Monics Iowa. The fifth victim was identified by his father As Cpl. Lansdon r. Good Iii 24, of Paducah by. Their us i helicopter crashed and exploded after it hit a High tension Power line on a night training Light wednesday about 9 45 . Near Rougon a Village 60 Miles North West of Nice. The helicopter fell about 200 feet and then crashed into a Mountain Stream and exploded officials said. The pilots were using night vision goggles but military officials Laid there was no reason to suspect the goggles played a role in the crash. A Marine official in Washington however said the goggles do not permit pilots to Sec Power lines. The helicopter was from the amphibious As Sault ship Guadalcanal which was docked in Toulon and was assigned to Marine medium helicopter so 162 based at new River Marine corps air station . The helicopter was one of 13 taking part in . Training exercises in Southern France from april 29 to May 19. Live bomb dropped by Accident from f-16 Brantley a. A an air Force fighter Pilot accidentally dropped a live 500-Pound bomb Over a sparsely populated Rural area narrowly missing Homes in this West Georgia town. No one was Hurt. The incident occurred thursday afternoon As the f-16 was returning to Moody fab at Valdosta after a training exercise at fort Binning said fort bin neg spokesman Bill Walton. The Pilot who was not identified had tried to release the bomb Over fort Binning s kilo Impact area during the exercise but the bomb did not release. About 3 15 ., when the plane was re turning to its Home base at Moody the bomb fell Walton said. Marion county sheriff Horace Snider said the bomb destroyed some Pine Trees. Fast moving no saves airman after clothes ignite at Mildenhall by Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf Mildenhall England staff sgt. Jerry Christopherson had barely shaken off the adrenalin jitters on Friday afternoon when a colonel was pinning a medal on his Chest and calling his actions heroic. Only hours before Quick thinking Christopherson saved airman 1st class Craig Mckissick from serious Burns in a workshop Blaze. Mckissick a structural maintenance specialist on Kc-13s refuelling planes was using paint thinner to clean a Metal tank in a building near the flight line when a fire started probably from an electric spark. Fumes from the paint thinner caught fire igniting his uniform. I heard a poof and i saw him in a Ball of Dames said Christopherson who was working in an adjacent room. He did t realize he was on fire until i told  Mckissick who was running out of the building to escape the fire said Christopherson first yelled to him then grabbed him threw him to the ground and jumped on top of him to put out the flames. I was just trying to get the hell out of there but he knocked me Down and jumped on top of me. If he would t have put it out i would have kept burning said Mckissick who suffered first and second degree i heard a poof and i saw him in a Ball of flames. He did t realize he was on fire until i told  Jerry Christopherson Burns to his arms and singed hair even though he was wearing a fireproof mask and apron. Christopherson 39, a former Volunteer firefighter from Sioux Falls s.d., received the air Force achieve ment medal at 5 . Friday from col. John Judd commander of the 513th airborne come and control Wing. Chief master sgt. Bill Hammett the superintendent of the 513th Field Maint so said the incident could have been worse if not for the no s Quick action. I d say he d Mckissick have some very serious Burns or he might be dead Hammett said. After extinguishing the flames on Mckissick Christopherson ran Back into the building and put out the rest of the fire Hammett said. He thought perfectly Hammett added. He could t have done any  Bush of visit Poland in Early july Warsaw Poland a president Bush will visit Poland in the first half of july at the invitation of polish Leader Gen. Wojcicch Jaruzelski the official news service announced Friday. The exact Date for the visit was not announced in the one sentence dispatch by the slate s Pap news service. It would be the first visit by a . Percsi Donl to Poland since the Visil of president Carter in 1977. Officials in Washington had previously revealed that a visit by Bush to Poland and Hungary was contemplated before or after a seven nation economic Summit in Paris in mid july. From the announcement it appears Hal the Visil to Poland will take place before the july 14-16 Summit. Bush who visited Poland in september 1987 while vice president addressed the polish people on nation wide television. It was the highest level visit to the communist country by a . Official since the imposition of martial Law in 1981.  relations which had been broken off after martial Law were again normalized in late 1987. Bush on april 17 announced a package of economic Aid to Poland in recognition of the restoration of Legal status to the Independent Solidarity Trade Union an the scheduling of partially democratic elections in june. Nukes from Paga 1 of Overall efforts to reduce arms in Europe. . Ambassador Steven j. Ledogar said lie was disappointed when every East bloc speaker at Friday s closed door talks mentioned inc nuclear weapons even As Icya drilled icy have no place in this  Grinovsky used the session to outline a plan divid ing inc zone covered by the talks from the Atlantic to the ural mountains deep inside the soviet Union into smaller regions. He said the two sides should work to agree on Over All totals for the number of men and weapons each military bloc can possess and on totals for each Region. Grinevsky failed to provide any Overall weapons ceilings for the zones. At the previous round of talks that ended March 22, the Warsaw pact outlined plans for reducing troops and weapons 10 percent to 15 percent below present Levels by 1994, a further 25 percent by 1997, and mov ing to Only defensive forces by the year 2000. Nato presented a More specific proposal for Ceil Ings on tanks artillery and armoured personnel carriers. Nato estimates the Warsaw pact will have More than a 2-to-l Edge in tanks and artillery in Europe even after recently announced unilateral troop culs Are carried Oul by the soviet bloc. North from Page 1 had overstepped the Bounds of fairness. After More than two and a half years and Over $40 million of our taxpayers Money up Cal on investigations congressional inquisitions and now a special prosecutor who has likened me to Adolf Hitler we now face Many months and perhaps years of fighting the remaining charges North said. In closing arguments last month prosecutor John kicker said North and his former Boss National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane arc following Adolf Hitler s old strategy the Victor will never be asked if he told the  some conservatives meanwhile Clam ored for a presidential Pardon of North. Richard a. Vigurie chairman of Theu Nilca constr alive Union declared Oliver North deserves a medal not a prison  in seeking to overturn the convictions North s lawyers will first file Posl trial motions with go sell on the question of whether North s Case was painted by his and other witnesses nationally televised congressional testimony in 1987. That could mean delving further into the knowledge of jurors inc grand jurors who indicted North and prosecutors in the office of Independent counsel Law rence Walsh. Go sell set a deadline of 10 Days for the defense to announce its intentions. North was found innocent of charges that focused on lying and obstructing Congress in 1985 and 1986 by denying he was assisting the contras. Al inc Lime his superiors had passed along an order from Reagan to see to the needs of the rebels and to do so secretly during a con Gressional ban on military Aid according to trial testimony. But North was found guilty of aiding and abetting an obstruction of Congress As Well As shredding and altering documents in november 1986, crimes that occurred after the Iran arms sales had been publicly disclosed. North also was found guilty of accepting a $13,800 Home Security system in mid-1986 from Iran Contra co defendant Richard Secord whom North had enlisted to run arms to the contras. German from Page 1 the released West germans or take Pic Tures of Ihm were rebuffed. Abu a said Michael arrived in Leb anon eight Days ago bringing the num Ber of West germans working for the humanitarian organization in South Leb anon to six two women and four men. Michael s abduction raised the total number of westerners missing in Leb anon to 16. The others Are nine Ameri cans three britons an italian an irishman and a belgian. Hamadi s elder brother Abdul had Heads the Security apparatus for the Irani an backed extremist group Hezbollah or party of god which is the umbrella group for underground pro iranian factions hold ing most of inc Western captives. Another Hamadi brother Abbas was convicted in West Germany and san Len cd to 13 years in prison for his role in the abduction of West germans Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in mos Lem West Beirut in an Effort to gain his brother s release. Cordes and Schmidt kidnapped i january 1987, were released separately