European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 0.the stars and stripes wednesday february 28,1990 stunning Nicaragua pm vote ousts Ortega from Page 1 servers including former president Carter gave Cha Morro a Lead of 14.5 percentage Points. Her vote total with 82 percent of the ballots counted was put at 633.357. Or 55.2 percent of the presidential vote. Ortega of the sandinista National liberation front received 468.040 votes or 40.8 percent of the total. Small parties received the Orcsi of the votes As nicaraguans elected a president vice president and National Assembly which the opposition will now control. Across the country beginning in the Early morning there was the almost surreal sensation of imminent change. Nicaraguans shared a widespread sense of Awe at the Power of their own Voles and disbelief that something so pervasive and apparently entrenched As the Sandi nista front had suddenly been swept aside. A huge rally planned near sandinista Headquarters slowly dissolved into a Mournful gathering while opposition loyalists whooped it up at the restaurant that has become their staging ground. The Chamorro Victory has stunned Many political analysts and american officials also appeared to be caught off guard by the depth of the sandinista defeat. Polls by outside groups consistently suggested that the sandinista would sweep to Victory and just Las week the government mounted a rally of at least 300.000 people that dwarfed similar opposition demonstrations. But reporters and other outsiders who spent hour interviewing average citizens in working class neighbourhoods became convinced that the polls were mis leading. Their View was that the electorate of about 1.7 Mil lion in this country of 3.5 million was mouthing sup port for Ortega while secretly looking to oust the Sand nistas after a decade of civil War and economic ruin. In recent Days the while House had softened its line toward the sandinista suggesting that after an expected Ortega Victory. Washington would try to mend relations with the government against which it has waged a civil War by proxy for about eight years. Results delayed by agreement Managua. Nicaragua not although results of the Nicaragua election were to be released to report ers and International observers within two hours after the end of voting initial returns were abruptly discontinued at mid evening sunday. Official radio stations slopped broadcasting news reports which had Daniel Ortega and the Sandinia tas losing and began playing a continuous Stream of music. Questioned by reporters election officials attribute the problem to slow receipt of information from outly ing districts and inexperienced computer technicians at the Large convention Center where hundreds of Spe Cial phone and telex lines had been installed to process the Elacion results. Several diplomats suggested that the counting had been slopped to permit International officials time to persuade Ortega and other sandinista leaders to accept the Lotc. But that version of events was denied by former president Carter who was among the corps of International observers. Carter said the Public announcement was held up by a previous agreement among the Politi Cal parties not to release premature or incomplete re sults. Crowds that began arriving at a Large Managua Fairground in anticipation of a sandinista Victory Cele bration became steadily concerned As results were announced. As news of Ortega s defeat filtered through preparations for dancing and drinking gave Way to silence and Ashen faces. Gradually confused sandinista supporters drifted toward the sleek new sandinista Campaign Headquarters a few Hundred Yards away looking for some Indi cation of How to react to what was clearly an unimagined. Perhaps unimaginable turn of events. Correction an s editions Ingarr fully said that sol. Paul rap Mindenhall. England died in a car acid in meday. The 3rd air Force administration spam Tuisl diedwutnesday., of x. The results appeared certain to produce a dramatic improvement in deeply strained relations Between Nicaragua and the Bush administration which gave Politi Cal and financial support to Chamorro. The results were also seen As a virtual guarantee of an end to the american sponsored Contra insurgency. And they promised to Deal a powerful blow to Ameri can adversaries like cuban dictator Fidel Castro and to the leftist guerrillas in Al Salvador both longtime allies of the sandinista government. An orderly transition is far from certain. In recent weeks Interior minister Tomas Borg who controls the secret police and is considered one of the most rigid members of the nine member sandinista National directorate has repeatedly suggested that the election of Chamorro would make Nicaragua in the ranks of the sandinista people s army which is headed by Ortega s brother Humberto and in the Interior ministry which maintains its own uniformed troops virtually All officers and most enlisted men arc subject to sandinista political training. And Borge has pointedly said that any attempt to change the current leadership would be met by insubordination and violence from sandinista forces. Ortega who said Friday that Chamorro did not have even a hypothetical Chance of Victory torn pared his party s defeat to the bilt Crest moments of the sandinista Long guerrilla War to overthrow the . Anastasio Somoza. He said the pain Wynum accept without malice the Prospect nil count Power we were born poor and arc satisfied to die p of said Ortega who remained composed As he spoke to journalists and cheering supporters Ai a Larch we let government convention Hall he Tause be unik a in these elections to emphasis a put pvt huh Lias k1 come a Challenge to the Ink lit .ena1. Tin1 imagination. The creativity of the people in their i is rutile for their f-16s coming to Hahn Wing have new navigation system to Deedee Arrington Doke v Kaiserslautern Bureau ram Stern a West Germany a navigation system that to ftps night into Day for fighter pilots will make its european debut this summer on a new generation of f-16 fighters being assigned at Vlahn a in West Germany. To but air Force officials arc Quick to say that Lan turn the Low Altitude navigation and targeting infrared sys pm for Niolu. Will not Lead to More night flying or Low level to rarity ing in West Germany. We won t add any sorties said Brig. l. Jamirson us afe s Deputy chief of staff for operations. The 50lh tac fighter Wing at Hahn flies about 1,000 night sorties annually. The Wing will get the new f-l6s in a changeover that will begin this july and end in september of next year. Lantern is just one Jamerson of the things it comes with Jamirson said of to new f 16. But if we did t have lantern at All the air plane is an upgrade that s a very significant v the $13 million plane also features a new Ger War electric engine with greater thrust and the global Pitt toning system which uses satellites to accurately Lerinc position. It also is capable of carrying the am Raam missile an advanced air to in weapon. \ nine of the 72 new f-l6s coming to Hahn kill Bey two scat models or f-1 m5s. Pilots will train on the new at Cra to Al Luke fab. An/., in a nine ride program. One High will allow the Pilot to get acquainted with the new air plane which Jamrs unsaid is significantly Dilt Creyf am those in use at Hahn. The remaining eight rights a Fli stress the skills needed to Fly with the night naturally Are oing to do a whole lot of walking before we run on thays xylem Over Here Jamrs unsaid. We re jiving to i Ork our Way into lantern at a very reasonable Wudl thought out manufactured of Martin Marietta electronic sys tems. a navigation pod. Vol my is attached to the Jacw f-l6s. It uses an infrared sensor terrain lol Lowi of radar and computers. A targeting pod. Which Yaj full not arrive in Europe until next year allows Pilot to pinpoint targets from ranges of several Miles. F Jamirson emphasized that the new navigation is not an All weather system and May not Erforth Well in thick Clouds or dense fog. It w ill How pilots work under Low ceilings and in dark a Csc darkness and had weather have been sort of the Spelter for the Jamirson said. You almost ave to see lantern work to believe what it does for in West Germany much of the training will be done during the Day. Pilots will use vision restriction de vices to mask sunlight and simulate heavy Clouds or other weather in which the system would be used. As a safety precaution pilots flying with restricted vision devices will either Fly a two scat f-i6d with a second crewman aboard or be followed by a second aircraft. ? ,700 Civi Liqun support workers May be Cut under Larreur plan by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer v Heidelberg West Ger Many about 1,700 members of the army s fatigue Clad civilian support Force could be eliminated wider a three year plan awaiting Usa eur approval. The proposal from Therp Sarteur organizational review activity Calls for eliminating reducing or consolidating half of the 94 companies that make up the civilian support organization. It also outlines a plan for converting about 800 of the organization s jobs to regular local nationalists said Helmut Arnold chair Man of the head German works Council. The three year reorganization would save the army about $120 million according to documents provided the works Council by the organizational review activity. Arnold Sau monday that he expects Usa eur . Crosbie Saint to decide on the plan this week or next. The Ariy employs about 8.800 local nationals in its civilian support Force formerly called labor service. The workers fill such positions As Gate guard Cook and for the army. As part the wartime Host nation support pro Gram the workers Rico Gnu Abic by their Green uni form like Worbi ohcs. Would be drafted Inlo the West German army wring War. A representative from the organizational review of fice told the wort Council thursday that most cuts could be accomplished through attrition but Arnold expressed doubts. A cited one engineering company alone that would lose Fel of its 1,000 workers. The plan represents we first phase of a two phase plan thai could affect the civilian support organization workers. Details of the is and phase depend on the outcome of conventional arms reduction talks in Vienna Austria Arnold said. Phase one Calls for a Liminato 17 companies consolidating seven reducing 16 an changing seven from civilian support worker to National status. Companies marked for changes in Aluc those in Engi Neering. Maintenance Supply Amr Omilion Security medical and smoke generating act vines. The plan will not affect signal and transportation companies. The organization review activity part of the Usa eur resource management division analyses the efficiency offices and operations in
