European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse D fan problem grounds chinooks again Page 2 d history vital to today s Warrior Page 9 d Reid shoots a 67 to take pea Lead Page 21 d shuttle Crew prepares to return to Earth Page 28 the Sims and tripes authorized unofficial publication fool the . Armed forces vol. 48. No. 118 sunday August 13. 1989 ,5, do m 5uw, d 8693 a search for Leland intensifies Washington a the Pentagon on saturday dispatched five More aircraft and 1 00 More people to Ethiopia to help search for rep. Mickey Leland whose office i if backed off earlier criticism of Rescue efforts by saying she is now tremendously gratified by it. Navy capt. Stan Bloyer declared thai searchers were not anywhere close to scaling Down the Hunt for Leland a Texas and 1 5 others whose chartered twi Notter plane vanished monday while on a flight from Addis Ababa to a refugee Camp near the Sudan Border some 270 Miles West Southwest of the capital. We re going to apply All the resources we can Sai Bloyer a former air operations chief of the 6lh Fleet and now with the joint chiefs of Staft. We re going to continue to operate on the premise that there Are Bloyer said the . Team is again concentrating its search including photo reconnaissance flights by 11-2spy planes along Leland s planned flight path after concluding that two earlier leads faint signals detected both North and South of Addis Ababa by weather satellites were merely false readings. As of saturday the . Military had one c-i4imedical evacuation aircraft two c-130 Hercules cargo planes and four .uh-60 Black Hawk helicopter equipped with special night vision gear along with air Crews of 165 men and women temporarily stationed i Ethiopia for the search Effort Bloyer said. He reported that two More c-l30s and two ec-130 command and control aircraft along with 100 More people to relieve air Crews flying now would arrive on sunday. The latest contingent includes maj. Gen. James f. Re Cord director of operations for the . Central a omd atm Dill Ai b. Fla., who will coordinate the american teem. Bloyer citing the combined efforts of . An ethiopian search teams said. I m nol aware of any search and Rescue Effort in the world that s involve this Many hut he noted that tie Effort continues to be doggedly poor weather that limits the usefulness of the 6,000 feet of film from each of the u-2 overnights and Ham pers the visibility of lower flying Rescue aircraft. Two 10-hour u-2 flights have yielded no results sofar. And a third u-2 Mission was flown on saturday. Officials said developing and analysing the hug amount of film will require Many additional hours. Meanwhile in Washington Leland s press Secretary and office chief Alma Newsom retreated from her see search on Back Page . Ships colled peril to hostages Beirut up the Mentor of the pro Iran Hezbollah group said saturday he expects a realistic solution to the hostage crisis but he warned that . Naval activity in the Mediterranean seats endangering the captives. Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein fad Lallah made the remarks in a interview with the voice of the nation a mos Lem radio Static a Day after he called for negotiations with the United Stales Toffee the Western hostages held i Lebanon. The affair will move to Ward a realistic solution which would take along time said Fadlallah spin. Pc Jfe Nen Neuen members of the Junge Union a youth organization of the conservative West German Christian democratic Union took to the streets saturday to protest a rally at Ramstein mock tribunal to be staged today in leftist groups to fix blame for last year s Ramstein image the marchers cur ried a sign that said youth Union is Dave oaf against fascism of the left and right. We Don t ant any be people s court which referred to the courts of the nazi Era. See Story Page 28. Iranian backed moslem fundamentalist movement believed to be behind the hos Tage taking. It will not be possible to move the hostage Issue in Light of american activity he said. Military action will. Increase the danger of action being taken against the captives and boost the possibility of what America Calls h was his second warning in As Many Days against the reported massing of the . Fleet in he Mediterranean since lat last month after moslem extremists announced they had hanged an american hostage. Come let s agree and determine what we want and we Are ready to solve All these problems Fadlallah said Friday during prayers at a mosque in Beirut s Southern suburbs where some of see hostages on Back Page Berlin Wall turns 28 under Eye of watchful american patrols Byke Clauson Bremerhaven Bureau Berlin from a Vantage Point atop a steel platform spec. Richard Byrum focused Hii binoculars across the11-foot weathered Concrete Wall and counted East German soldiers. There s another one by the base of the tower.,. There s another one walk ing. He s got an a by rum said identifying the East German s ak-47 Rifle. Byrum a 22-year-old infantryman from Franklin ky., carefully wrote his observations in a Logbook and then joined the other patrol members waiting in two hum Mer vehicles engines idling in the Middle of a narrow rubble strewn Street. But before they could resume their trip along other parts of West Berlin s Boundary they had to turn around be cause 28 years ago the 3-foot-thick Wall they had been looking across turned thai neighbourhood Street into a dead end. In the pre Dawn hours of aug. 13,1961, Berlin was split by barbed wire that soon gave Way to Concrete Brick Sand steel barricading streets and sealing the French British and . Sectors of the City off from East Germany and the russian sector in East Berlin. Berlin brigade infantrymen like Byrum patrol the Wall in the american sector sever Al times a week mostly during Daylight Brit ish and French troops conduct similar patrols in their respective patrol members arc drawn from the scout platoons of the Berlin Bri Gade s three infantry battalions. On monday the patrol Mission went Obj rum s unit the scout platoon of combat support co 6th in 502nd inf. For five hours the patrol drove through the continued on Page 3
