European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 23,1990 military Rounder 38th tac missile Wing wins Safe safety award Wos Cheim. West Germany the 38th tac mis Sile Wing. A ground launched cruise missile unit has been awarded the . Air forces in Europe outstand ing unit safety award category ii. The award is Safe s highest recognition for achievement in Overall mishap prevention. Wisc him last earned the Honor in 1986. All units authorized a full time safety staff arc considered for the awards which arc based on the effectiveness of their flight ground and weapons safety programs. Larson tagged to take Over command of Pacific Fleet Washington a vice adm. Charles r. Lar son has been nominated by president Bush for promo Tion to Admiral and assignment As commander of the Pacific reel according to the Pentagon. Larson 53. Is the senior Navy member of the . Military staff committee and Deputy chief of naval operations for plans policy and operations. He will be replaced in those posts by rear adm. Robert j. Kelly. Kelly. 51. Is being nominated for promotion to vice Admiral. He currently is assigned to the strategic stud ies Institute at the National defense University. Lakenheath worker named Safe s Volunteer of year Raf Lakenheath England the base family services coordinator has been selected As the . Air forces Europe Volunteer of the year for 1989. Debra Roydon has volunteered More than 2,000 hours since october 1988. Royden has helped recruit other volunteers handled monthly statistics and publicity and helped coordinate the base Giveaway Exchange which offers used clothing and furniture to  at no charge. She was assistant coordinator for family services before taking her present position. Forrestal Enterprise honoured for readiness capability Washington the . Aircraft Carrier Forres Tal has been awarded the Marjoric Sterrett battleship fund award in recognition of readiness and Mission capability. The award is presented annually to one ship each in the Pacific and Atlantic fleets. The Forrestal assigned to the Atlantic Fleet is currently operating in the Mediterranean. The aircraft Carrier Enterprise was named the Pacific Fleet Winner. Both ships will receive a Cash award from the fund started with a 10 cent donation to the new York trib Une in i9l6from 13-year-old Marjorie Sterrett. Mama gives me a dime every week for helping  the girl wrote. "1 am sending you this week s dime to help build a battleship for Uncle Sam. I know a lot of other kids would give their errand Money if you would Start a  before world War 11, the fund was used to Reward the gun and torpedo Crews of Navy Craft posting the highest scores in Battle practice. Since then it is Given to ships with the Best readiness and Overall fitness. World today greek turkish cypriots Jin painting for peace begin Nicosia. Cyprus a greek and turkish by Priol artists began painting for peace sunday on a giant Canvas they plan to stretch 500 Yards across the . Buffer zone splitting the capital and the rest of the Island. But a meeting of the artists in the Buffer zone to Start painting was prevented when the authorities of the breakaway turkish cypriot state prevented their artists from crossing. We arc disappointed but not disheartened for both we and our turkish cypriot fellow painters Are deter mined to continue with our project said panics Neocleous. The president of the greek cypriot artists group. He said he and other greek cypriot painters walked As far As the turkish cypriot checkpoint earlier in the Day and talked to their colleagues from the other Side. We agreed to Start painting the Canvas separately and continue our efforts to join up and stretch the Canvas across the Buffer zone at a later Date Neocleous added. Firefighters and construction workers Survey a car hat fell below ground when a Tokyo Street caved in. 2 missing in Street collapse above Tokyo Bullet train site Tokyo Dpi a Section of one of Tokyo s busiest streets collapsed monday above a construction site for a High Speed Bullet train swallowing cars a motorcycle and pedestrians. At least eight people were injured Ana two were missing police said. Police said the Roadway near the Busy Uno Busi Ness District suddenly caved in around 3 p.m., creating an Oval Crater about 32 feet deep and 32 feet by 65 feet around. Three cars including a Mercedes Ben and a motorcycle fell into the Hole. Officials said eight people who sustained minor injuries were pulled from the Crater but two others were missing including the Driver of a car and motorcycle. The Cave in occurred above an underground construction site of a Bullet train designed to connect Tokyo s two busiest stations. Police said they suspected the Cave in was Trig gered by an explosion of compressed air used in the construction work. Ceausescu wildly tried to flee army firing squad editor says Bucharest Romania not in a chilling new account of the last hour of Nicolae Caus Csc the deposed romanian dictator and his wife Elena a prosecutor was quoted As saying that they ran wildly around the courtyard where they were to be shot until troops hunted them Down. Cristian Popisteanu editor in chief of the monthly Maga in Stone quoted one of the prosecuting attorneys As saying that the Ceausescu seemed not to be Lieve that they would actually be executed when a Mili tary court convened at an army Barracks on Christmas Day sentenced them to death for genocide. When the firing squad formed up Popisteanu said the Ceausescu ran wildly around the courtyard of the Barracks Caus Csc was finally trapped in a Corner and shot. While mrs. Caus Csc kept running. She was ultimately shot in the Back with a pistol by an army officer and the other soldiers completed the execution with volleys from sub machine guns he quoted the lawyer As saying. The prosecution lawyer who asked to remain unidentified told Popisteanu that the army Garrison where the Ceausescu were tried came under heavy attack by forces of the Security at the special a county Force Loyal to the old regime 16 times Between the Day the couple was captured dec. 23, and their execution two Days later. The authorities have not identified the Garrison say ing Only that it was 50 Miles from Bucharest. The lawyer himself was wounded in the Back by a Secu Ritaric Bullet when he left the Garrison and was Only released from the Hospital last weekend Popi Scanu said. Striking greek garbage workers mobilized Athens Greece a striking garbage collectors were mobilized by the government monday As tons of uncool cycled garbage littering the nation s major towns and cities created a major health Hazard. But Sopota the Union representing the 47,000 municipal workers announced its members would ignore the civil mobilization and would return Only if they were granted higher wages and better fringe benefits. The strike was started Jan. 11 by 17,000 municipal contract workers seeking permanent status. They were joined a week later by regular employees. After the All party government passed legislation last Friday granting the temporary workers permanent employment their walkout ended but striking regular workers refused to open the garbage dumps until their demands were met. The mobilization was backed by the conservatives socialists and communists who Are ail members of the coalition government. Government spokesman Prokopios Pavlopoulos accused the strikers of holding the nation s health hostage while former socialist Premier Andreas Papandreou charged the workers with lacking All social  As the tons of garbage continued to mount blocking streets and sidewalks the government considered mobilizing the army and police to clean up the growing Public health Hazard. But the striking workers vowed to Block attempts by the government to reopen the garbage dumps. In the capital Sweet smelling smoke lingered Over com Mercial districts from garbage ignited by unknown persons. The main Market area was almost impassable from the waste from butchers and fish mongers stalls