European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d mormon official excommunicated Page 3 d uncashed checks irk Uncle Sam Page 5 d gis Down on farm in deutschland pages 14-15 o Giamatti had Short reign but he won t be forgotten Page 21 the  authorized unofficial pull location loathe . Ahmed Forcet Good Mornini vol. 48. No. 139 sunday. September 3, 1989 get of by d 8693 a . Begins Airlift to help Colombia Washington up the first . Planes left saturday Tor Colombia on a Mission to help the South american nation fight its Battle against powerful drug Barons the Pentagon said. Two c-130 cargo planes the first to leave in the Airlift flew from their National guard bases i Louisville ky., and Martinsburg vv.va., and were scheduled to arrive in Colombia sunday. They re just delivering the equipment for use by the colombian government said Glenn flood a spokesman for the department of defense. The department said that Between 50 to 100 . Military personnel would be sent to help train the colombians to use the equipment. Flood emphasized that the . Military would not get directly involved in the colombian drug War. The Pentagon announced Friday that As part of an initial agreement Between the United states and Colombia eight reconnaissance planes five troop carry ing Hucy helicopters and various weapons including grenade launchers would be sent to Colombia for its Battle against cocaine gangs  in the City of my Dullin. All but the uh-1 Rucys arc part of president Bush s $65 million emergency Aid package for the colombian anti drug Effort. The helicopters were part of an earlier foreign military sales program with Colombia. The first 10 members of the . Military Contin gent already have arrived in Columbia from Panama and were making logistical preparations to receive the first of the military equipment. On monday the eight reconnaissance planes will be delivered to Colombia. They Are attached to air National guard bases in Illinois and Michigan. The Hucy helicopters and bulletproof vests for Colombia s use in protecting its judges and politicians from the drug cartels will arrive tuesday aboard a c-5 Galaxy cargo plane. In addition the United slates also will be sending trucks jeeps Small boats radios support equipment and weapons that include pistols rifles machine guns see Airlift on Back Page Sis gut Schu Lollar dad s biggest fan eyes glued to the Field Ricky Turnerjr. Puckers in concentration and clutches a baseball As he watches his father play for the Frankfurt team during a game with Mannheim at the Edwards Cavern Field in Frankfurt on saturday. Three year old Ricky accompanied his dad to the Ger Man american baseball final. See Story and re sults of the game on Page 25. Gunmen wound 2 British soldiers Bonn West Germany a assailants in a car shot and seriously wounded two British soldiers at a military housing area police said saturday and the Irish Republican army claimed responsibility. The shooting occurred late Friday in a Northwestern Village near my instr 85 Miles North of Bonn. It was the fourth attack on a British military facility in West Germany since june. Munster police spokesman Hans Japchen pct old said saturday that one Soldier was in critical condition and the other was seriously wounded. One was being treated in a British military Hospital and the other at a nearby West German Hospital police said. One of the wounded men was Able to Tell us what happened Petzold said. He said the soldiers were walking in civilian clothes in a housing area for British troops in the Village of  a car pulled up. And its occupants asked in English How to reach Munster. When the soldiers responded in English one of the car s occupants opened fire with an automatic Rifle the spokesman said. The Ira claimed re possibility in a statement made by Telephone to a news Agency in Dublin Ireland along with an agreed code word to verify its authentic  the undemocratic partition of Ireland is maintained by British military might the Ira reserves the right to strike at the British government and Brit ish army wherever they seek respite from their War against the Irish people the caller said. Pete Brown a spokesman for he British army of the Rhine said the soldiers were members of the 14th 20th King s Hussars. Brown said both soldiers Are from the greater Man Chester area. He said he could not release their identities. Britain s Domestic news Agency press association quoted inspector Waller a Ficulak of the West German police As saying there were Many shots to the arms and legs. The soldiers fell to the ground and were bleeding heavily Tress association quoted a Ficulak As saying Thesee gunmen on Back Page wife blames Bakker s collapse on medication Charlotte . A Jim Bakker s wife blamed his emotional collapse on a reaction to Medica Tion and a former pal official said there s no Way Bakker faked the breakdown. But a Federal prosecutor called it awfully  the truth the future of the to evangelist s fraud and conspiracy trial is in doubt while he under goes evaluation at a psychiatric Hospital at the Federal correctional institution at  judge sent Bakker sobbing dishevelled and shackled in Arm and leg chains to Butner on thursday after his psychiatrist testified he had been hallucinating and that he had been found curled in a fetal position hiding his head under a Couch in his lawyer s office. The collapse came during the fourth Day of Bakker s trial. Prosecutors allege Bakker used nearly $4 million in ministry funds to finance a lavish lifestyle. If convicted of All 24 charges against him Bakker would face 120 years in prison and More than $5 million in  s lawyers said he was not competent to continue with the trial a court observer said that even if Bakker is deemed competent after the evaluation . District judge Robert Potter will have Little Choice but to declare a mistrial if the psychiatric evaluation takes too long."1 think the trial will resume at some Point said Mike Scofield a former Federal prosecutor. I Don t know if it will be this jury because there could be a Long continuance. The problem then will be the difficulty of picking another  defense lawyers tried unsuccessfully for months to move the trial out of Charlotte because of pre trial . Sally Johnson Butner s chief of psychiatric serv ices said that evaluations of patients like Bakker typically take 30 Days but can take 45 Days or longer. Scofield says the Law bars holding Bakker More than four  fac Bakker said Friday night that her Hus band had suffered an allergic reaction to an anti de see Bakker on Back Page