European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday october 2,1989 probe focus shifts in Rogers Van blast by the uis Angeles times san Diego Federal investigators probing the bombing of a Van driven bythe Wile of the Navy Cruiser Vince incs Captain have turned their attention away from International terrorism and toward an american believed to have a personal grudge against the Captain the los an Geles times has Learned. The March 10 bombing Drew National attention because of the possibility that it was terrorist retribution for the Down ing of an iranian commercial jetliner by the Vincennes on july 3. 1988, that killed All 290 aboard. Capt. Will Rogers ill s wife. Sharon who was alone in the Van when it was destroyed narrowly escaped injury. Four sources familiar with the investigation have told the times that while terrorism has not been officially ruled out the thrust of the investigation has shifted to the possibility that the attack was the result of personal animosity to Ward the Captain. Tom Hughes special agent in charge of the Fri office in san Diego refused to discuss any aspect of the six month probe. We will have the same position we have in any ongoing investigation he said and that is no comment " Rogers expressed Surprise at the suggestion that animosity toward him might have triggered the attack. The investigation has been and continues to be extremely thorough he said. But i have not the remotest idea of any one who would take a personal vendetta against me or my  two sources said that a possible suspect an american Cili in. Has been identified and that officials arc now checking his Alibi. Both sources said the animosity believed aimed at Rogers was not related to the operation of the Vince incs and did not come from a disgruntled Sailor. In july Rogers was Given a routine change of assignment and took Over As commander of a Navy training group in san Diego that teaches tactics to senior officers. After an initial san Diego police and bomb squad investigation the Fri assumed jurisdiction. Fri officials have never affirmed that the bombing was an act of terrorism but it was Clear from the beginning that terrorism was the major focus of the investigation. The bombing had been immediately labelled As a probable act of terrorism in retaliation for Rogers decision to shoot Down an iranian Airliner Over the persian Gulf. Rogers told Navy investigators he believed he Airliner was an iranian Mili tary aircraft preparing to attack his ship. The Pentagon later concluded that while the ship s Crew made crucial errors that led to the decision to shoot Down the Airliner Rogers was exonerated because the Airliner failed to respond to repeated warnings from the Vince incs. Schools from Page 1 the classroom shortage. Everybody knows we be got More kids than we can provide a Quality Edu cation  he said. Any time you have kids in a basement that s not Quality. Any time you have special education classes in hallways that s not  Setzer in t the Only official expressing dismay Over High enrolment. Larry Phil pot numbers District Deputy superintendent said most of the schools can no longer afford the luxury of. Providing specialists their own work  Frank Hill Frankfurt District superintendent said that in terms of classroom space the red Flag is up for schools in Bacn Hauson Darmstadt. Gln Hauson Fulda and Gic Ssan. They re at the Point of desperation if any More children show up Hill said. When you grow after the school year starts you re in trouble. And if you re asking if we be peaked out and started downhill the answer is  schools in the  District have employed 25 additional teachers since school opened. The District superintendent Candace Ransing. Said school officials there would be hard pressed to find any More teachers in the area. We have plans to hire seven to nine More she said. But the pos civilian personnel offices have told us that they Are already at the Bottom of the barrel. There Aren t any More  the shortage is not confined to the  area. Hill said the Darm Stadt Community has no More qualified teachers seeking work. At Karlsruhe elementary principal Cynthia Gossling said officials have approved her request to hire two additional teachers but that none is available locally. Her search extended to the Heidel Berg area but co officials there said their Pool of qualified teachers had been depleted. Blackstead said on Friday that the school system would not lower the qualifications for teachers despite the Over seas shortage. But he said schools will be forced to employ substitutes who arc not fully qualified. Ransing said those could include substitutes with two years of College or less. The substitute shortfall is especially acute in the Heidelberg District where superintendent Ann Bambur Ger predicted that specialists and even administrators might have to fill in for teachers who were absent. Mannheim elementary will be forced to employ substitutes with Only one year of College Shanoski said. Complaint from nearby Heidelberg school administrators that her school has employed every fully qualified substitute on their lists came As no Surprise. They re right she said. "1 look All their fully qualified subs. They re full time teachers at Mannheim  refugees from Page 1 Cidad to open that Channel to the  Hast Germany insisted that the refugees from Prague and Warsaw had been  As part of the agreement with West Germany announced saturday night the East Ger mans had to travel in state run train through their former Homeland As a face saving measure for the , the action represented an embarrassing Retreat for the aging leadership in East Berlin which had severely criticized Hungary for becoming a pipeline to the West. Once unthinkable the massive out flow of East germans reflects the grow ing disunity in the once lock step Pace of Moscow and its allies. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev who has been pushing the reforms sweeping much of Eastern Europe will visit East Berlin this week for celebrations of East Germany s 40th anniversary. His talks with East German Leader Rich Hon Cockcr arc expected to Deal with the exodus of Young people which has threatened the nation s already demoralized work  also criticized Hungary s actions last month although it so far hashed no comment on the East German decision to free the refugees from War saw and Prague. East Germany made it Clear that i expects the latest exodus to be a one time event after which West German will return to Norma International Cus Toms at its Cumbas sics. Bui Rudolf Sellers the chief of staff in West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl office said that for any new refugee seekers at the embassies the problem first of All. Is one for the Cdr East Ger Man in a live television panel Dis Cussion on sunday he did not specify How officials in Bonn would  surrounded the West German embassy in Prague to Block other East germans from scaling a spiked Fence to stake their claim for Freedom on the Muddy diplomatic grounds. The embassy in the hard line communist country remained closed to the Public. Witnesses also said scores of East Ger mans were Rushing to Czechoslovakia in cars after learning of the decision tallow the others to leave. The Resolution of the weeks Long standoff represented a coup for West German foreign minister Hans Dietric Genscher. He called the refugees wild cheering of his saturday night announce ment of Freedom the most moving hour of my political  Genscher also appearing on a sunday panel discussion on West Germany s Ard television said the East germans crush to reach the West shows a desire to shape their lives As they Sec  the first train carrying East German who had sought Refuge in the West Ger Man embassy in Prague arrived in Hoifat 6 14 . Many were cheering and weeping for Joy. We made it we made it scream done Young woman tears streaming Down her face As she was jostled in a teeming crowd of other refugees. In All bavarian Border police spokes Man Klaus Pappenfuss said six trains were bringing More than 6,000 refugee from Prague during the course of the Day. We have heard thai Cdr East Ger Man citizens in Prague weren t even going to the Bonn embassy but rather were going right to the Railroad station and gelling on the train Pappenfus said. He added there were similar reports from Warsaw. Children not included in inc earlier reports of 3,500 refugees also contrib Fulcd to the higher numbers West Ger Man officials said. Well wishers handed out bottles of wine Champagne and fruit As the Easl germans got off trains in Hof. Red Cross volunteers also distribute Tea Noodle soup baby food and diapers to the refugee families. Several former East germans who americans helping clothe East German refugees Wiesbaden West Germany is the 1st military intelligence in and its partner City of Dessloch will conduct a clothing drive to Aid the thousands of East germans who Are relocating in West Germany. The soldiers and Dessloch citizens Hope to collect at least five i i Lon truckloads of clothing and Small household goods to pass to the refugees by Way of the local red Cross. The battalion stationed at Wiesbaden a decided to hold the drive to say we care said 1st it. Susanne Peters. They be got All these refugees coming in a lot of them with just the clothes on their backs or a Small suitcase. And there s a lot of people with closets full of clothes the never  drop off Points nil be set up from 9 . To 5 30 . Oct. 21 and from noon to 5 30 . Oct. 22 in the Community centers in Wiesbaden s Halner Borg Aukamp Crest View and air base housing areas. There will also be a drop off Point in Dessloch the battalion s partner City for a year and a half. More information on the drive can be obtained by calling Peters at ets 337-5120 or civilian 06121-78-5120. Had fled to inc West earlier from Hun Gary carried a Banner thai read we got out through Hungary and you made i through Prague. Soon the zone East Germany will be an empty  Milller a 27-year-old Metal worker said it was strange passing through Easl Germany on our Way Here but we knew we were All right because there were West German officials on  of the refugees quickly made their Way to a Bank of Telephone Booth sin inc station in mostly futile efforts to reach relatives in Easl  had Little or no West German Money and inc few who did faced con Stant Busy signals from communist East Germany s overtaxed Telephone  the crush on the platform Sta Tion loudspeakers called out the names of new arrivals who had relatives waiting for  of East germans who were allowed unhindered travel into neighbor ing Czechoslovakia but did not have the necessary documents for Hungary began crowding into the West German embassy in Prague weeks  they huddled in tents and cots in the embassy compound in Prague mid spreading disease worsening weather and a growing crush of  Waffenschmid a stale Secre tary in the Federal Interior ministry said Bonn had not paid a Ransom to secure passage for inc  was no buyout no Ransom Waffenschmid said. No Money was demanded and no Money was  the East germans were being take immediately to several refugee process ing centers and temporary shelters set up by the West German Border police and the military officials  German Law automatically Grants East germans citizenship on am Val. More than 100,000 Easl germans have emigrated or fled to West Germany so far this year. The East germans have flocked Townsl Germany because of disillusion ment with political repression and eco nomic stagnation in their Homeland