European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The space shuttle Columbia lifts off on a secret Mission aug. 8. Aug. 8 Columbia. Nasa s oldest space shuttle returns to space Lor the first Lime in 3vj years on a secret Mission to Send a spy satellite atoll aug. 11 president Bush names army Gen Colin l Powell 52, As chairman of the joint chiefs of stall making him the youngest Man and the first Black selected As the nation s lop military Allicer aug. 12 us and German police seize More than $760,000 in illegal narcotics and arrest 151 people including 60 service members and three u s civilians in Frankfurt aug. 13 alter an extensive search the. Wreckage of a plane carrying us rep Mickey Leland. 0 Texas and 15 others is found in Ethiopia sir Laurence Olivier died july 11 at age 82. Aug. 22 former Black Panther Huey Newton 15 found fatally shot in an Zahand Calif. Street he was 47 aug. 24 Cincinnati re manager Pete Rore baseball s All time hit Leader is banned from baseball Lor life Lor betting on his own team a charge he denies aug. 25 voyager 2 reaches Neptune aug. 27 the italian air Force stunt flying team. F recce Tricolour resumes air show performances a year earlier on aug 28, three of the team s planes crashed Al the ram Stem a. West Germany air show killing 70 people aug. 29 to guide admits its cover photo of talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey actually was Winfrey s head on a 10 year old photo of actress Ann Margaret aug. 30 a Federal appeals court in Washington upholds the army s use of mandatory no warning drug tests for thousands of civilian employees in critical lobs sept. 19 seven groups of West German officials demand an end to All military Low level flights in the country As they form a National coalition in Bonn sept. 21 nato and the Warsaw pact would limit most military Maneu vers in Europe to 40.000 soldiers and 800 tanks under a nato proposal offered during conventional forces talks Al Vienna Austria sept. 22 Hurricane Hugo ravages Charleston songwriter Irving Berlin Dies in his sleep at his new York City townhouse he was 101 sept. 25 the Navy launches two new investigations into the Iowa incident one centers on whether officers on the ship should be punished one zeroes in on who is to blame for dangerous practices and experiments on the ship sept. 26 two american civilian employees in the Philippines Are ambushed and killed by gunmen believed Lobo communist rebels. Aug. 14 us rep. Larkin Smith. R miss., and his Pilot Are killed in a plane crash in a Mississippi Forest near new Augusta aug 16 Amanda Blake miss Kilty in television s gun smoke Dies of cancer in Sacramento. Calif she was 60. Aug. 19 the army looking to crack Down on a wider variety of addictive drugs expands testing of urine samples randomly collected from Active duty soldiers. Hurricane Hugo shown in this satellite picture ravaged Charleston s.c., on sept. 22. Sept. 1 two teams of soldiers in Bamberg. West Germany enter the guinness Book of world records Oiler 124 hours. 2 minutes and 609 innings of slow pitch softball the 7th in 6th inf regt team beat Iho 82nd Engron. 674615 sept. 7 the Navy concludes thai gunner s mate 2nd class Clayton probably caused the battleship Iowa explosion by placing a Del Naling device in the bags of Gunpowder in the battleship s 16-Inch guns sept. 10 thousands of East germans pour into Hungary hopeful of being included soon in a mass migration lowest Germany. Sept. 11 thousands of East German refugees pour into the West alter Hungary defies its Warsaw pact ally. Sept. 18 fury of Hurricane Hugo causes severe damage in the Caribbean including parts of puerto Rico. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney says he has no reason to question the Navy s finding thai an explosion aboard the battleship Iowa was caused by gunner s mate 2nd class Clayton Halwig. Is Fol Lucille Ball died april 26 at age 77. Sept 28 former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Dies in Honolulu alter being hospitalized for nearly 10 months he was 72 oct. 1 the air Force begins phasing in is four year plan for tougher fitness standards including the eliminator of the three mile walk option for anyone under 35 oct. 2 hundreds of East germans pour into the West German embassy in Prague Czechoslovakia seeking to join 7,000 others who fled by train to the West during the previous weekend oct. 4 the Navy disciplines the battleship Iowa s Captain and three subordinates for dereliction of duty for violating administrative procedures the Navy says none of the discrepancies resulted in or contributed to the explosion that killed 47 men oct. 6 television evangelist Jim Bakker is convicted on 24 counts of using his television show to defraud followers of $3 7 million oct. 7 East German Leader Erich Honecker. Despite mounting discontent and turmoil cells soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev that he intends to continue a hard line course on socialism Hungary scraps its 70-year-old communist parly oct. 8 Easl German police arrest hundreds of people during pro democracy protests in East Berlin and break up huge demonstrations in five other major cities oct. 14 in a precedent Selling Case. The court of military appeals rules that service members with the aids virus who knowingly infect others can be charged with aggravated assault continued on Page 16 �mber27,1989 the stars and stripes Page 15
