European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o Glacier gives up 1966 crash debris Page 2 d new attempt planned to solve Earhart mystery Page 5 d Blue jays Dave Stieb 1-hits Brewers sports Page 21 d civil rights marchers protest court decisions Page 28 authorized unofficial publication Fob thu. Armed forces vol.48. No. 133 monday August 28, 1989 d 8693 a drug lord s Bunker raided Colombia army seizes Cartel s records Bogota Colombia a the colombian army said Friday it arrested the son of a reputed Medellin drug lord aftera shootout and recovered secret financial documents disclosing operations of Colombia s most powerful drug Cartel. Re lated Story Page 4. Freddy Rodriguez Gacha son of gon Zalo Rodriguez Gacha who police suspect is second in command of the Model Lin Cartel was arrested along with Luis Fernando Valcano Berrios. The reputed chief accountant for the elder Rodriguez the army 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 Medellin drug Traffick ing ring. Police believe Pablo Escobar Gaviri Ais the head of the Medellin Cartel. In Washington the state department issued a travel warning saturday night and asked americans to postpone trips to that South american nation. Due to recent events Colombia s Security situation is unsettled and Likely to remain so in the near future state department spokesman Adam Shub said. The government of Colombia s aggressive actions against narcotics traffickers could raise the level of violence in som areas and american citizens even though not specifically targeted could find themselves caught up in random i soldiers traded gunfire with Freddy Rodriguez two of the elder Rodriguez nephews and seven bodyguards during the raid on the estate in pacho 60 Miles Northwest of Bogota army officers told the Bogota daily newspaper Al Timpo. President Virgilio Barco went on National television and radio after the arrests were disclosed and said he was willing to go As far As is necessary to put the drug Barons out of Day after the traffickers declared total and absolute War on the govern ment Barco said the colombian people see raid on Back Page flu tag 1988 the memory lingers by Dee fast Arrington Bureau the morning of aug maw cd Gray and Chilly at rams Cin a West 11 Miles away the co air and Low Clouds there Are 1 think my husband will Wal through the doff says blk enfold. West Ger Many Hauck who lost her husband Sidserf inf Sjorgen in jew Ramstein 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 Heilig 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 Antonio native had survived the worst Ever Bow disaster. Was among More than 300,000 spectators who wat Ltd that afternoon first in Awe and then i horror italian air Force jets collided at the Climax of a saw ocular Aerial stunt called the Pic heart. To a two jets in flames away Gram the crowd. The third p Towi by the precision flying team s so rail car wheeled into the stunned crowd. By Day s end. At least 30 awl were know dead. Hundreds were death loll ultimately climbed Ajha and Ink Jdc the three italian pills foil americans on Butch Man one French Jur and 61 germans. To children under lid and four youths betwee nand 18 were a Naif the 70 victims. Forty six men and 12 Wonieta Jilder than 18 also died of injuries from the Dij after. I jus Jon t know what to say about it Hail isaid Aszre reflected on the catastrophe a year Laler. Ajl Friny things go through your head. 1 was mad you think about whal you saw and of Coward you think about All the people who go lulled Ana injured and everyone who was there and everyone who had to Deal with it. And then you think Why did in 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 Len years with her divorced father bul later chose to pursue a nursing career Only a few Miles from Home in Kaiserslautern. Al 22, her life was filled with her Job and a 10-year-old Romance Wilh an adoring Boyfriend. On that fatal sunday last year her life ended. A picture now a year old revealed a Sweet faced have shown id As he Pette Young woman cuddling a lion always used to say papa me the world " Roland Schneid Karin s 9-year-old dog pole. Schneider alternately lights a and trembles whence talks about Karin Down in the disaster s record books As a atm no. 22. She was stand ing barely three feet own her father when the soloist s plane swept Inu nhe crowd. Separated from Herin the chaos. Schneider Learned three Days later that his daughter has did at the scene of the had Rod so much Luck Schneider said his voice Cra Dong As he attempted to smile through Amist or cars. Everything she did had 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 he and his sri lankan wife Dom ado a will then travel to Sweden to create newer brighter memories of thelast week of August and Schneider won attend another air show despite his interest in air planes. I have nothing against them he said. It was an Accident. But cannot go there airman 1st class Oil Bri Navarro could smell burned flesh As she helped other Security police cordon off a Large Grassy area near the Kamlein flight line.1 am 1 going to flip of Navarro wondered to herself in the chaos of Screal. Disoriented specie tors and body parts that Serroi Nidd her amid the ashes. You could t Tell what you at some times. You could t Tell if it was a Bwy part or Burnt can the Tampa fla., airman Saick moving quickly across the runway the of Clear old encountered part of a human head and recognizing it for what it was ran around it. But soon of Navarro decided to use the remains As a personal d of her ability to master her nerves and stomach."1 took a minute to go Back there and just stand continued on Page 14 to Stein one a later
