European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 19.1989 news updates sikh violence Amritsar India a suspected sikh extremists killed eight members of a sikh family in renewed violence that claimed 12 lives in Northern Punjab slate police said Friday. Six militants armed with Auto malic assault rifles raided the farmhouse of Dilar Singh in a Sool Pur Village about 90 Miles South of Amritsar. Late thursday and killed Singh and seven other family members said Surjit Singh a senior District police official. The victims included the Farmer s wife and his parents he said. Police offered no theories As to the reason for the killings but sikh Mili Tants often kill moderate sikhs who do not sympathize with their cause. Sol Idarnos creator Columbus Ohio a the creator of the sol Idarnos ban Ner of the polish Trade Union Soli Darity is adopting another Flag. Kazimirz Bascik. 47, is to take the oath of . Citizenship tues Day in a ceremony at the slate House in Columbus. Bascik created the Solidarity logo the word sol Idarnos inbred with the while and Rcd polish Flag flying from it in 1980,when the organization became the first legalized Trade Union in the East bloc. The next year Bascik visited col Umbus and Ohio state University but. While he was on his Way Home Poland s communist government imposed martial Law. Bascik move to West Germany then returned to Columbus. When his Mother Cecy Lia Bascik was allowed to Immi grate they settled in Clintonville a suburb North of the City. Frank hired other prostitutes but says i knew it was wrong new York a rep. Barney Frank says Stephen Gobie was t the Only prostitute he had relations with even though the congressman believed it was wrong to Padroni a them. In an interview with Newsweek mag Azine the Massachusetts Democrat also denied claims that he acknowledged his homosexuality because he was afraid Gobic would blackmail him. He was t the first prostitute i had used Frank said. I just could t live that Way anymore. I was tired of looking Over my shoulder. I met Herb Moses. Frank s companion about that  Frank added i knew it was wrong for me to be hiring prostitutes from time to time. Gobic was t the Only one. I knew it was wrong but i could t sit  the interview is published in the sept. 25 Issue of Newsweek which was on Newsstands monday. The congressman said that he never risked contracting aids i was t sexually Active in the old Days. By the time i was sexually Active i knew bet Ter. I knew about aids and i was very careful. One of the first men i went out with is a doctor who specializes in aids  asked if Gobie could provide names of other prominent politicians with whom he had relations. Frank said "1 Don t know if you can Trust him. And i Don t know who he s going to say was in my Kitchen. I m vulnerable and other people arc  Frank s dealings with Gobic arc being investigated by the House ethics panel. The congressman has said that after ending his sexual relationship with Gobic he hired him in 1985 As a person Al aide to help him Start a new life. Frank said he used his own Money not congressional staff funds. But he said he fired Gobie in 1987 after he Learned that the aide was run Ning a prostitution ring out of Frank s apartment. Frank 49, revealed his homosexual Ity in june 1987. The following year he was re elected with 70 percent of the vote from his predominantly democratic Southeastern Massachusetts  the revelation about his relationship with Gobic has prompted Calls for the congressman to quit including one this week from the Boston sunday Globe. It said Frank should resign for his own Good and for the Good of his Consitt tents his causes and  the Issue of Frank s conduct is not homosexuality but prostitution which is illegal and which has always been destructive Clement in heterosexual and homosexual life the newspaper said. Had the Issue been heterosexual prostitution feminist groups would not have been silent. So tar Frank has enjoyed More than the Benefit of the doubt he has enjoyed a double Stan  in the Newsweek interview Frank said he would not resign because that would among other things Short circuit the ethics procedure. It s very important to have that go  has said however that he would consider not running for re election if the incident begins to seriously Hurt the lib eral causes he believes in. Search for Amelia Earhart crash site fakes Feam of deserted Pacific Island Torrejon technician killed in car Accident Torrejon a Spain a staff ser Geant assigned to the 625lh consolidated aircraft main so at Torrejon was killed when his Auto left inc Road and Over turned a base spokeswoman said. Staff sgt. Elmer Smith jr., 26, was killed Friday in the single car Accident which occurred about four Miles East of the base. No other details were available. Smith an aircraft systems technician had been stationed at Torrejon since a gust. A native of Spring Lake n.c., he is survived by his wife Anna and a Daugh Ter Lakysha 5. A memorial service for Smith was to be held tuesday at the base Chapel. Automobile Accident kills no at Torrejon Torrejon a Spain a sergeant assigned to the 401st civil engr so a Torrejon died sunday in an automobile Accident a base spokeswoman said. Master sgt. Isaac a. Taylor or. Was killed when his car left the Road and landed in a ditch. The Accident occurred about 12 Miles Northwest of the base the spokeswoman said monday. Taylor is survived by his wife son and daughter. No other details were immediately available. Suva Fiji a an american team landed monday on a deserted Pacific Island where it believes Amelia ear Hart crashed in her 1937 attempt to Fly around the world the expedition Leader said. There was no immediate sign of any wreckage Richard Gillespie head of the International group for historic air Craft research told his base Camp in Fiji from a ship off the Island of Nik Umaro to 1,000 Miles to the East Gillespic s Wilmington  group will spend the next three weeks searching Nikuma Roro in the Kiribati archipelago. Near the Beach the vegetation is very dense and easily could have hidden an aircraft from Aerial searches he said of attempts 52 years ago to locate the american Pilot alter she crashed. The 16 expedition members including naval historians divers and archaeologists left Fiji a week ago aboard a converted japanese trawler the Pacific Nomad. After spending the past two years try ing to resolve a mystery that has con founded experts for decades they concluded that Earhart must have crash landed on Nikuma Roro instead of her in tended Stopover destination of Howland Amelia Earhart Island 500 Miles to the North. Gillespic said that if she crashed on the Island at Low tide she would have stood a Good Chance of surviving for Brief time Nikuma Roro also known As Gardner is uninhabited and without fresh water. The group believes Earhart managed to Send distress signals for about three Days before dying of  arc All very exhilarated and in Awe of the Beauty of the place he  of us have Ever seen a place so wild As  said the a shaped Island is Home to a huge amount of  of every description Circle the Island and Black lipped Sharks Are inconstant attendance. There Are fish turtles and dolphins in  disappeared in 1937 after Tak ing off from Papua new Guinea jus North of Australia in an attempt to make the first circumnavigation of the worldly plane. Her exploits achieved legendary status in the United states. The flier was 6,820 Miles Short of her goal when she and navigator Fred Noonan vanished. The expedition to find her remains which has Cost $250,000 so far was spurred by research conducted by by women from fort Walton Beach Fla. Tom Willi a former Navy Pilot an Tom Gannon a retired air Force Taviga  studied aircraft navigation of the 1930s to plot a probable course followed by Earhart. Their research pointed to Ward Nikuma Roro. Accident kills go during nato exercise. 0 Vicenza. Italy one Soldier was killed and another injured when their truck overturned during nato exercise display determination a spokeswoman with the Southern european task Force said monday set. Albert m. Grcic Nidga 25, assigned to the 167th signal co in Vincnza was killed sunday morning when the 2 i ton truck flipped Over while trying to negotiate a turn at a Field site near Balik Esir Turkey. Pfc. Kairy Ibrahim assigned to the same unit was injured in the Accident and remains in a turkish Hospital in a like sir. The spokeswoman said his injuries were not life threatening. Greenidge a Light vehicle Mechanic and five year army Veteran had been stationed in Vincnza since june of last year. He is survived by his wife and two children whom the command declined to name. A memorial service for Greenidge was to be held today at the base Chapel on Caserma de Croc. American and turkish officials Are investigating the Accident. Correction a photo Cut inc last week incorrectly identified the director of the army Community service office in Heidelberg West Germany. Ingrid Osewalt is chief of the office family services division. Kathy flan Ders is acs director. W. German Dies when car hits army truck Wurzburg West Germany is an 18-year-old West German Man was killed when his car collided with a 5-ton army truck hauling gasoline and Dic Sel fuel a Wurzburg Community spokes Man said monday. The Accident occurred about 2 . Friday when the Man s Volkswagen Golf veered into the path of the oncoming truck on Highway b-27 near Wiir Burg Sgromo Bilhl Section Jim Mcfarlane said. Two soldiers Riding in the truck were not injured in the Accident. The truck belonging to he Btry 6th in. 52nd air defense arty was carrying1,100 Gallons of diesel and 570 Gallons of gasoline at the time of the incident no fuel spilled from the truck s mounted and towed fuel tanks Mcfarlane  German and american authorities arc investigating the Accident he said