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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Glacier gives up 1966 crash debris Page 2 d Exxon admits Boycott is hurting its sales Page 5 d Florida drug sweep nets 1,400 Page 7 d civil rights marchers protest court decisions Page 28 authorized unofficial publication loathe . Armed forces Good morning vol,1.48. No. 132 sunday August 27, 1989 a own m  d 8693 a troops raid Colombia estate son of repute of drug lord arrested Bogota Colombia a the army says it has arrested the son or a reputed my Dullin drug lord after a shoot out and recovered secret financial documents disclosing operations of colom Bia s most powerful drug Cartel. Related Story Page 4. Freddy Rodriguez Gacha son of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha who police suspect is second in command of the my Dullin Cartel was arrested along with Luis Fernando Galeano Barrios the reputed chief accountant for the elder Rodriguez the army said Friday night. Army officials said the arrests and the seizure of the documents came in a raid thursday on the fortified Rural Bunker of the elder Rodriguez who is reputed to be the financial brain behind the my Dullin drug trafficking ring. Police believe Pablo Escobar Gaviria is the head of the my Dullin Cartel. Soldiers traded gunfire with Freddy Rodriguez two of the elder Rodriguez s nephews and seven bodyguards during the raid on the estate in pacho 60 Miles Northwest of Bogota officers told the Bogota daily newspaper Al Timpo. President Virgilio Banco went on National television and radio Friday night after the arrests were disclosed and said he was will ing to go As far As is necessary to put the drug Barons out of business. A Day after the traffickers declared total and absolute War on the government Barco said that the colombian people have taken up the Challenge. They must know we will not Retreat before any  the declaration came exactly a week after the assassination of popular presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. An outspoken enemy of drug traffickers Galan s slaying triggered the government Santi narcotics offensive. Drug traffickers responded thursday by launching a series of arson and bomb ing attacks police said. They said arsonists hired by the traffickers set a country club on fire. Fri Day s attack took place outside  injuries were reported and Only two rooms at the club were damaged. The traffickers also threatened to kill10 judges for every drug suspect extra see raid on Back Page flu tag 1988 the memory lingers by Deedee Arrington Doke  Burea Uthe morning of aug. 28 dawned Gray and Chilly at rams Cin a West  11 Miles away the Cool air and Low Clouds there Are times when i think my husband will walk through the door.," says Birkenfeld West Ger Many resident Chris Hauck who lost her husband Jorgen in the Ramsten a air show tragedy. Persuaded Karl Heilig to Wear Blue jeans instead of thin shorts to the annual flu tag air show to be held that Day at the base. But he took his shorts along just in Case the Sun broke out. The Brawny air Force technical sergeant bid his pregnant wife goodbye and set out for the air extravaganza with his wife s Cousin an air plane enthusiast from Britain. Twelve hours later la cilia Lay in a Kaiserslautern Hospital experiencing greater physical pain than he had Ever known. Even fiercer pain mental and physical was wailing around the Corner. Burned on his head cars and arms the san Antonio native had survived the worst Ever air show disaster. Heilig was among More than 300,000 spectators who watched that afternoon first in Awe and then in horror As three italian air Force jets collided at the Climax of a spectacular Aerial stunt called the pierced heart. Two jets tumbled to Earth in flames away from the crowd. The third piloted by the Fri acc Tricolour precision flying team s soloist car wheeled into the stunned crowd. By Day s end at least 30 people were know dead. Hundreds were injured. The official death toll ultimately climbed to 70 and included the three italian pilots four americans one dutch Man one Frenchman and 61 germans. Eight children under 14 and four youths Between 14 and 18 were among the 70 victims. Forty six men and 12 women older than 18 also died of injuries from the disaster. I just Don t know what to say about it Heilig said As he reflected on the catastrophe a year later. So Many things go through your head. I was mad at first. Then you think about what you saw and afterwards you think about All the people who go killed and injured and everyone who was there and everyone who had to Deal with it. And then you think Why did it have to Hap pen " Heilig was Only one of the thousands affected that Day. A zoo keeper s daughter the world opened its arms wide to Karin Schnei Der from Early in her childhood. The daughter of a zoo manager who doted on her Little Karin ferried live monkeys Lions and pigs around her Back Yard in her doll Wagon. She travelled to exotic lands during her teen years with her divorced father but later chose to pursue a nursing career Only a few Miles from Home in . At 22, her life was filled Wajih her Fob and a 10 year old Romance with an adoring Boyfriend. On that fatal sunday last year her life ended. A picture now a year old revealed a Sweet faced Young woman cuddling a lion cub. She always used to say papa you have shown me the world " Roland Schneider said As he Pette Karin s 9-Ycar-old dog pole. Schneider alternately lights up and trembles when he talks about Karin who went Down in the disaster s record books As victim no. 22. She was stand ing barely three feet from her father when the soloist s plane swept into the crowd. Separated from her in the chaos Schneider Learned three Days later that his daughter had died at the scene of the  had had so much Luck Schneider said his voice cracking As he attempted to smile through a Mist of tears. Everything she did Hud gone so Well for her. She had no  Schneider will take his grief and red roses to Karin s grave on monday dismissing a memorial service for Ramstein Vic Tims As a strictly political showcase for big  he and his sri lankan wife Dom ado a will then travel to i Sweden to create newer i brighter memories of the last week of August. And Schneider won t i attend another air  despite his interest in air 1  i have nothing against them he said. I it was an Accident. But ii cannot go there  1 airman 1st class Oil Bri Navarro could smell burned flesh As she helped other Security police cordon off a Large Grassy area near the Ramstein flight line. Am i going to flip out Navarro wondered to herself in the chaos of screams disoriented spectators and body parts that surrounded her amid the  could t Tell what you were looking at some times. You could t Tell if it was a body part or a Burnt can the Tampa fla., airman said moving quickly across the runway the 22-year-old encountered pan of a human head and recognizing it for what it was ran around it. But soon after Navarro decided to use the remains As a personal test of her ability to master her nerves and stomach. "1 took a minute to go Back there and just stand continued on Page 14  
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