European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. February. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bush proposal bad news for Ohio closing tank Plant could Cost 13,000 jobs Lima. Ohio a Al the Beer bar Rel Saloon he talk was uncharacteristically sober. No super bowl reminiscing. No dreaming of Spring fishing. Patrons talked of tanks and president Bush. Bush s proposal last week to end or Ders Tor the Lima built my tanks was a direct hit on their jobs. They work at the Lima army tank Plant and his plan could put them and thousands of others out of work. I got this bad feeling that the Plant is going to close for Good said Pat Sam ple a 31-year-old welder who has worked at the Northwestern Ohio Plant since 1982. A lot of people feel the same Sample s Friend Wayne Thomas Shook his head saying it does t make sense. We make the Best Damn tanks in the world and now the government says it does t want in the president s 1991 budget proposal the Plant would close along with a sister general dynamics corp. Tank Plant in Warren Mich. Some believe the Lima factory Allen county s largest employer will never re open after its scheduled March 1993 closing others Are More optimistic say ing the factory will keep operating even if on a smaller scale. I think what our workers have to re member is that this is just a proposal. It s not the Bottom line and Congress has t acted on it said Darrell Cole presi Dent of United Auto workers Union local 2075, which represents 1,800 production and maintenance workers at the Plant. I think there arc some people around in Congress that think we need some More than 13,000 Ohio workers de Pend on the Plant for their jobs including 2,600 employed by general dynamics and 11.000 by suppliers. Rep. Michael Oxley a Republican whose District includes Lima has prom ised to urge fellow House members to modify the proposal. General dynamics also promises to lobby against the proposal. Oxley said tank production should not be reduced when the soviet Union s tanks outnumber the United states by 3 i. He also said one option to keep the Lima Plant operating was to Export tanks. Army spokesman it. Col. Dick Bridges said plans Call for the factory to be Idle until the military begins production of its next generation of the army s main Battle tank and other heavy vehicles. The starting Date probably won t be before 1994. Bridges said the proposed Pentagon budget of $303 billion provides for production of 163 a Iai tanks and 62 m ia2 tanks. Bridges said the Lima plan. Now in a Iai production would be closed after completing production of the tanks in the 1991 budget. General dynamics four year $3.5 Bil lion contract with the army to produce 3.299 my tanks is in its final year. The 67-Lon Lank has a top Speed of 45 Mph and is considered the world s most advanced Battle Lank. Holocaust memorial unveiled in Miami Beach Miami Beach. Fla. A thousands of jews to it elderly and some bearing concentration Camp numbers inscribed on their wrists thronged sunday to a holocaust memorial dedicated to what Nohl Lau reate flip Wiesel called suffering Hal transcended the disturbing moving memorial dominated by a 42-Fooi-Iall bronc hand with sculptured suffering Fig ures climbing it. Is for a tragedy beyond words and a Vond imagination hut not beyond said Wiesel a holocaust sum or. Author and professor honoured with the Nobel peace pric in i9k6. Not to remember Means to betray them he said. Nol to remember Means to kill the victim a second Lime not to remember Means to become an accomplice of the the opening of the memorial to the Public was postponed until monday because of overcrowding and the to dog acc heal. Al least 12 people were treated for heat exhaustion some 2.700 seals in an outdoor Amphitheater Al the memorial were filled More than an hour before the dedication ceremonies and thousands More stood. Wiesel said the memorial should be accompanied by a Library in which future students can try to explain we and How the world allowed the holocaust to Hap the killers killed and the victims perished this Beautiful City of Miami enjoyed a rather Good he said the hotels were filled. And the Slu Deal will wonder How come the ceremonies had Many in tears in this City where thousands of Eastern european jews moved after world War ii. I can t Stop said Miriam Feigenblat of Hallandale she showed the number 56035 on her Wensl from Auschwitz. And said she loss her parents three Sisters and other family members. We Are the la s the greatest thing to happen in said Jacob Krcil a. Who survived death Camps. Pointing solemnly to his number he said it s very important to Helen farm. A retired University of Miami proles Sor of Judaic studies who survived a labor Camp but lost her parents at to Helmka. Initiated the project five years ago. She said students knew liitle about the Holo cause. And she was alarmed by historical revisionists who contended the genocidal final solution of Adolf Hitler never happened More and More survivors Are leaving she said Debra Grunspan who spent three years at aus Holt shows numbers atoned on her Arm. In an interview. We As witnesses arc going to soon a Small group in Miami Beach led by wealthy Auto Mobile dealer and Philadelphia eagles football team owner Norman Braman began a drive that got the City to donate land and Ais cd nearly $3 million. Kenneth Treister a Miami Beach resident and architect sculptor designed the memorial. There is a reflecting Pool in the front of the Ampi theater and a semicircular Black Granite Wall frames its Hack. A Tunnel Walkway leading to the sculpture has 47 photographs showing scenes from the holocaust Vic Tims digging their own mass Graves people being packed into Railroad cars bound for the Camps a Small boy raising his hands in surrender to nazi soldiers. The Tunnel passes an eternal flame and turns with Walls carrying the names of the death Camps and listing names of victims. At the end of the Tunnel a sculptured Small girl weeps and beckons leading to the hand. About 5.000 names of the estimated 6 million Holo Caust victims Are inscribed in the memorial and More will be added As they arc received organisers said. The nazis tried to dehumanize them. They took away their names and gave them Braman said. We re giving them Back their legislator targets anti War record of disabled vet. _. ._.l. It to. I i pm if Liefl or silo Ami mentions the i Santa Ana. Calif. A rep. Robert k. Dornan has launched a preemptive strike against a potential rival anti War activist Ron Kovic. With mail ers depicting the disabled Veteran As a draft card burning Ultra Liberal. The Republican congressman sent Oul 20.000 fund raising letters that repro Duce an old newspaper photograph purportedly showing Kovic burning a draft card. The letters received saturday by contributors Call Kovic the favorite of the Hollywood the conversion of Kovic from patriotic Marine to Vietnam War opponent is recounted in the hit film born on the fourth of Kovic 43, told the associated press sunday he would announce later this month whether he will run As a demo crat in the 38th congressional District. He called Dornan s letter a hatred Campaign and a desperation move that will backfire. I d like to extend my sincere thanks to the congressman for helping to pro Mote my movie throughout the he has always seemed willing to help me Over the years and this time i m be ginning to believe he May help me go All the Way to Washington. It s the false patriots who always Al tack the real heroes said Kovic who received the purple heart and is Par Al Zed from a combat wound. Though avoiding a specific statement that he would run against Dornan Kovic said his time of dedicated service to my country has come again that he has received Strong support and was confident of Victory if he docs run. The conservative Dornan s letter asks for immediate Campaign contributions of $100 or $150 and s the less Savory aspects of Kovic s life As re counted in the motion picture. The movie shows Kovic in a panic and mistakenly shooting his Corporal to death in Vietnam visiting prostitutes abusing drugs and alcohol and cruelly insulting his parents a postscript says. And this is a person the liberals want in the . Congress. No the letter says Kovic is fast becoming one of the liberals Best Hopes for 1990. And he will have Access to hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Hollywood left and liberals across the
