European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 your sums ends tiits car if wifi t e calling soon pleas have four payment ready the stand stripes authorized unofficial publication Fox the . Armed forces Good morning vol.48. No. 166 saturday september 30, 1989 2u it d 8693 a president visits ., defends storm Aid Charleston  A president Bush on Friday viewed roofless buildings stripped forests and other legacies of Hurricane Hugo and defended his administration s handling of Aid to the storm s victims. I do know that there s been a critic or two that s less than i would have expected. But to the critics simply say i understand. We Are trying very hard Bush said at Charleston fab Al the end of his two hour visit. Before touching Down Al Charleston Bush signed a $1.1 billion Relief package approved by Congress on thursday. He was greeted on his arrival by gov. Car Roll Campbell and Charleston mayor Joseph p. Riley or. Riley had criticized a planned Aerial tour by the president As being too removed from the people. However bad weather forced Bush to travel by motorcade through Charleston and to Summerville 22 Miles Northwest which suffered major Utility and Lim Ber damage. Summerville mayor Berlin Meyer showed Bush the grounds of the Dorchester county courthouse littered with fallen Trees smashed vehicles and twisted Metal. One thing that touched me very much was a Young see storm on Back Page Berlin Airlift vets relive America s finest hour by Ken Clauso staff writer Berlin retired air Force Gen. . Milton Veteran of the City saving Effort known As the Berlin Airlift remembers thinking that the project would be Short term work. Most of us thought it was an interim Stopgap said Milton who As a colonel was the Airlift chief of staff. Most of us did t think the Airlift could do what weeded up  but by the time the Mission s 277,569th flight was Lee Milton completed on sept. 30, 1949. Milton found he had anew definition for  forty years ago today a c-54 loaded with Coal touched Down at Tempe of air base ending the 15-Monih-Long Berlin Airlift Mission that a participant called America s finest  when the Airlift began on june 26, 1948, the shoot ing War had been Over for three years but the first icy winds of the ensuing cold War already had begun blowing through the occupied City. As the residents dug their Way out of the rubble left from world War in the american British and French occupation authorities wrangled with the soviets Over currency reforms reparations structures of government and control of the occupied zones of the country. The bar liners became pawns in the Power struggle when the soviets blocked All land and water routes into the City on june 24, 1948. The excuse was technical difficulties but the in tent was to starve the bar liners living in the three Western sectors and Force the other three allies to give in to soviet demands or leave a City they could not support. By original estimates the City needed 12,000 tons of supplies a Day to survive although that figure was reduced considerably by rationing electricity and Copland flying in As much dried food As possible. The Sovi ets May have figured it would be impossible to bring that much material in by air but they did t count on continued on Page 3 Senate sinks measure calling for allies to fund . Troops by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington although Many . Lawmakers want the nato allies to pick up More of the costs for Alliance defense the Senate thinks that a proposal to Cut 30,000 troops from Europe unless the allies pay to support them goes too far. The proposal offered As an amendment to the $288 billion defense appropriations Bill for fiscal 1990 by sen. Howard my Lizenbaum a Ohio was rejected 75 25 on thursday the final Day of deliberation on the Bill. The Bill has cleared the Senate and a conference committee with the House to negotiate differences probably will begin next week. Metzenbaum had proposed that the troop Cut take place within one year after oct. 1, 1990, if a .-Sovi it conventional Force reduction agreement in Europe had not been reached by then. The 30,000 reduction would have been mandatory unless the allies agreed to pick up the costs associated with supporting that num Ber of . Troops in Europe. An aide to Metzenbaum said the senator picked 30,000 because it is the same number cited by presi Dent Bush in his initial conventional forces in Europe see Senate on Back Page a woman is helped from one of the Amtrak cars that derailed after the train hit a firetruck. 2c.e, 150 Hurt of train plows into firetruck Catlett a. A an Amtrak passenger train slammed into a fir Cluck at a Rural crossing thursday night killing two firefighters and in Juring about 150 passengers. I Felt us go across one track and the next thing i know i woke up and i was in the Hospi Tal said Frankic Herndon one of five firefight ers aboard the truck. Herndon who was treated at a Hospital for minor injuries and released said he did not Secor hear the train before thursday night s Colli Sion which smashed the truck into pieces As i crossed the tracks on a private Road. Two other firefighters and two train Passen Gers were in critical condition Early Friday. Both engines and 11 cars of the Crescent bound from new York to Atlanta and new or leans derailed when the collision occurred about7 40 . In this Northern Virginia town about 40 Miles Southwest of Washington d.c., said Arrak spokesman John Jacobsen in washing ton. All of the cars remained upright although three ended up at right angles to the track Andone was leaning on its Side. The train was earning 379 passengers and a Crew of 20, he said. Five cars of the 16-car train remained on the track said Pat Jeffrey another Amtrak spokesman. National transportation safety Board spokes see train on Back Page