European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. May 15. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 what s in a code name Nof much sometimes by Ruth Sinai Washington a Nimrod tilt name of inc operation that dispatched 2.000 . Com Bat troops to Panama last week is the latest in a Long Liston fanciful Hokey and sometimes incongruous codes used by the Pentagon to describe its missions. Nimrod dancer did t he come in seventh in the Kentucky Derby a Pentagon official was heard 10 wonder when the operation s code name was announced thursday. Nimrod. The Bible tells us. Was a mighty Hunter. Was he a dancer too said . Kathy Woods a Pentagon spokeswoman. These names Aren t supposed to mean anything. They have absolutely no significance on the face of to make sure the names Are totally random a computer picks them. Woods said. But once Cho in the combination of words the number of their syllables or some other pattern due shave significance for those who need to said . Jim Kudla. Or. As explained in the encyclopedia of code names of world War ii. Codes serve As a Type of mental shorthand for those in inc know and to obfuscate the Issue for those not in the Winston Churchill Britain s world War ii prime minister May not have approved of the Way codes Are selected nowadays. In instructions to one of his generals in August 1043. Churchill wrote operations ought not to be described by code words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment. They ought not to be names of frivolous characters. They should not be Ordinary words. Names of living people should be the Pentagon also avoids the names of living people for operation names. But what would Churchill have made of operation urgent the code name for tic . Invasion of the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada in 1983 to counter a cuban backed coup and evac uate american medical student while names like urgent fury " May sound inspirational their aim is purely operational. You have to have a code name to use in communications Dur ing an said Barry Blechman an expert on defense issues at the school of Advance International studies of Johns Hopkins University. Major operations have different code names for each component he said. One must be precise. If you use the wrong name you could land a unit at the wrong place or bomb the wrong before computers got in on the act. Some opera Tion names actually had meaning the Public at Large could understand. For instance an operation mounted in i a by the 196th Light inf brigade in Vietnam was code named after the town in Massachusetts where the unit had a More figurative although still understandable name. Operation Niagara in january 1168 con ducted an average of 31 0 bombings daily in support of a besieged Marine base at Khe Sanh. Vietnam. The bombs rained Down like a Waterfall get it former president Nixon liked to keep his hand inon code name selections during the Vietnam War. There was linebacker one for a bombing opera Tion and then linebacker two for another one. In the old Days some names appeared to reflect the portentous character of the operation like a drum Roll. One of the most famous world War i code names was operation overlord the . Landing on the coast of Normandy As part of the Allied that rolled Back a i forces from Western seem to be a favorite for code names of recent Golden pheasant was the 1988 deploy ment of 3.200 . Troops in Honduras As a show of Force against an alleged nicaraguan incursion. Praying mantis after the insect that eats other insects was the name used for the 1988 operation in which . Gunboats and aircraft destroyed or Sank six iranian naval vessels and two Oil platforms in Retalia Tion for a mine attack on a . in the same Waters Earnest will was the operation in which . Navy ships escorted kuwaiti Oil tankers in 1987 to protect them against attacks by Iran. Mother s Day party held for test tube babies Norfolk a More than 150 women who probably thought at one Point that they d never celebrate Mother s Day gathered for a party saturday with their children All of them so called test tube babies. The women and their husband brought about 175 children who were conceived through in Vitro fertilization at the Jones Institute for reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia medical school. More than 500 children have been born through the Institute the most successful in Vitro fertilization program in the country. The families Are among the 20 percent of the couples who went through the pro Gram and actually emerged with a the in Vitro process eggs and sperm Are mixed in a Petri dish and the fertilized eggs Are placed in the uterus. I Felt i could t miss this said to chill a Foster 41, of Matawan n.j., As she held her year old son Jonathan at a picnic on the medical school grounds. It s Nice to see All the successful people together because you Don t know who s going to be the ones who Are going to be Foster made five attempts to get preg Nant in three in Vitro programs before she succeeded on her second try at the Jones Institute. I had been trying since 1976 to have a baby she said. I did t think 1 was Susy Duskins of fort Worth Texas holds her 19-month-old twins Philip and Thomas it the party. The earring she wears is the Peri dish the twins were conceived in. Going to have a biological Janet Adams of Chesapeake Wen through in Vitro fertilization three times before she got pregnant with triplets. 3 ear old Bradley Travis and Ryan. I got my Money s she said. Howard Jones the Institute s founder introduced two special guests to the crowd 7-year-old Elizabeth Carr of Westminster mass., the country s first test tube baby and Sarah Smith a Vir Ginia Beach woman who was the pro Gram s first patient. She delivered twins. Ashley and Heather Smith in 1985 after eight in Vitro Bilisoly a Norfolk Lawvor. Cradled one of the youngest party goers. 3-month-old Anica Bilisoly. After four years of trying to have a baby Bilisoly and his wife Vickie Bowdoin succeeded on their first attempt at in Vitro fertilize Don t know if we would have done it again. It s Bowdoin said. The couple just paid Thi Institute s $6,000 Bill none of it covered by insure just have to Cross your fingers and Hope for the Best Bowdoin said. I really think it s a Roll of the other in Viltro parents Bilisoly and Bowdoin said they plan to Tell their daughter that she was conceived in a lab think i la have her first formal por trait taken holding her Petri dish Bow Doin said. Jet flies 300 Miles lands safely after door opens Columbus Ohio a the rear stairway door of a Twa Jet carrying 59people opened in flight saturday but the plane flew the remaining 300 Miles to its destination and landed safely an official said. The incident caused no pressure prob lems in the Cabin of the Boeing 727 in route from new York to Columbus be cause an inside door separated the Cabin from the outside air said Paul Long a control Tower supervisor at port Colum bus International Airport. The door that opened was attached to stairs and used As an emergency exit or occasional alternate Entrance to the plane he said. They just dropped open Lon said. For whatever reason the Latch did not hold the plane was being repaired sat urday evening and was expected to leave the Columbus Airport for St. Louis an hour late said a Twa ticket agent. Long said flight 402 had left new York s Kennedy Airport and was flying Over Pennsylvania about 4 30 . With 51 passengers and eight Crew members aboard when the Pilot radioed the lower to say the stairway door had opened. The Pilot indicated he would Fly the remaining distance. Long said. Firefighters were called to the runway and crash equipment was brought our As a precaution he said. The plane landed safely about 5 15 . The Pilot was t excited so 1 did t get excited Long said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. May 15. 1949 sen. Harry p. Cain a Wash demanded that Charlie Chaplin a British born screen actor be deported because of treasonable 30 years ago foday. May 15, 1959 British officials announced that Britain Sweden. Norway Den Mark Switzerland Austria and Portugal were planning to establish a free Trade area by the end of 1959. 20 years ago foday. May 15. 1969 in the latest development in the controversy Over supreme court Justice Abe Fortas acceptance of gifts a Republican congressman proposed that the judiciary committee initiate impeachment proceedings. 0 years ago foday. May 15 1979 sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Unveiled a proposal for a a Csc National health care system that would extend comprehensive benefits to every american but would also require tight Cost controls for physicians and hospitals
