Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 31, 1990

You are currently viewing page 8 of: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 31, 1990

   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes military round Mcnair Barracks to hold open House june 9-10 Berlin Rappel is Parachute jumpers West German police motorcyclists and the Berlin brigade Drill team headline the entertainment for the june open House at Mcnair Barracks. Guided Tours through parts of the installation assorted musical entertainment a kiddie train ride sports events and equipment displays also will be featured. The Public is invited and visitors should enter through the Gates on Cdr Tallec and Ost Weg. The Cavern will be open from 10 . To 6 . On Bot june 9 and 10. Admission is free and food and drinks will be on Sale. Senior airman at Hahn a wins maintenance award Hahn a West Germany senior airman Mark Corn has been awarded the 1989 air Force it. Gen. Leo Marquez outstanding maintenance personnel award As communications electronics technician. Corn an electronic communications and cryptographic systems specialist assigned to the 6911th Klc chronic Security so was cited for achieving exceptional operating time rates and the innovative enhancement of More than $2 million Worth of mis Sion equipment. Corn was described As the driving Force behind an extensive computer installation project at the Squadron. Combat Engineer company at Aschaffenbur honoured Aschaffenbur West Germany is the battalion was ready to get Down and dirty. The Small motor Pool lot was bursting with activity As they loaded up and lined up about 70 wheeled vehicles of All shapes and sizes. The group was pumped up and the Convoy was to leave Smith Cavern about 9 . It would take the slow moving Convoy about 3 h hours to make the trip to the  training area. But the members of Charlie Rock co did t mind the ride. They were feeling great and ready once again to test themselves. And they had no reservations about How they would do. Everything we do we do the Best and we be got proof said sgt. Carlos Nieves the company s nuclear biological and chemical no. And they do have the proof. Co a 9th engr combat in Mech of the 7th engr brigade was recently presented the it. Gen. Emerson c. Itch incr award. The award is presented annually to the Engineer company that demonstrates excellence in All areas of engineering. The 135-Membcr company earned the prestigious award based on Mission related accomplishments said the commander capt. James o. Dulling. Their Mission is not one of Ordinary engineers. Verbs in their Job descriptions read blow instead  we re combat engineers said dulling. Rather than build buildings we would put in mine Fields Road craters and blow  for the itch incr award which was presented to dulling and his first sergeant at fort Leonard Wood mo., the company submitted a yearlong documentation including photographs of its activities. Intelligence unit sergeant picked As outstanding no Hahn ,5vest Germany master sgt. Debo Rah j. Pease of the 7451st tac intelligence so has been recognized As the . Air forces in Europe intelligence outstanding senior no for 1989. Pease is chief of unit administration at metro tango and duty first sergeant for the Squadron. She was honoured for revitalizing More than 20 administrative Security and personnel programs serving the 600-Pcrson site and for her leadership in a wide Range of unit and Community programs. Metro tango is a data automation processing sit located about five Miles from Hahn. . Stance hindering efforts to free hostages Arab says Beirut Lebanon a a moslem Leader with tics to Kidnap groups said wednesday that efforts to free the six american hostages in Lebanon will remain Frozen because of negative american  he spoke the Day after the Bush administration announced it had provided Iran with information on iranians missing in Lebanon As a gesture of Good will. At a May 3 news conference president Bush said he hoped that providing Iran with information on the Fate of the four missing iranians would satisfy Iran s re quest for a gesture of thanks for its role in freeing two . Hostages. At the same time Bush said he remained firmly opposed to negotiating for the release of the six remaining american hostages in Lebanon. At a news conference tuesday in Washington presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the United states had passed on the latest information on the four iranians to Tehran through the Swiss government. We have made a major Effort of collecting information Fitzwater said. Essentially the conclusions Are the same the four individuals they Are concerned with arc  the four iranians two diplomats a journalist and a Driver disappeared from Beirut during the 1982 israeli invasion of Lebanon. . Officials have Long said they believed the iranians were dead. Fitzwater said he had no information on who killed the  his comments wednesday Hussein Muslawi head of the islamic amal faction based in East Leb anon said those concerned in Iran and Syria Are dismayed by the negative american  he did not refer explicitly to the latest . Report on the Fate of the missing iranians. The moslem shiite Leader who spoke in an interview on the voice of the people radio station called on the United states to respond with a gesture of Good will to the release by shiite factions last month of the two Ameri cans educators Robert Polhill and Frank Reed. Muslawi said it was not unlikely that washingt9n was exerting backstage efforts toward the release of its hostages in  he did not elaborate. Muslawi s islamic amal is a pro syrian faction with in the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god. Hezbollah is believed to be the umbrella organization for extremist factions holding most of the 16 Western ers still missing in Lebanon. The longest held captive is Terry Anderson 43, of Lorain Ohio. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press was kidnapped in Beirut on March 16, 1985. Muslawi is also the reputed Mentor of the islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine the faction that freed Polhill. The group still holds american educators Jesse Turner and Alann Steen. A shopper does a bemused double take tuesday at flock of sheep herded together at the Eiffel Tower in Wool gathering at the Tower Paris. More than a thousand French Farmers were on hand to protest a dramatic fall in French meat prices. Freed French hostage receives jail term Paris a Jacqueline Valente freed in Beirut in april after More than two years As a hostage was sentenced to two months in prison wednesday for taking two daughters from her sex husband in Defiance of a custody ruling. Prosecutors had requested Only a one month sus Pended sentence during the hearing in Toulon but the presiding judge Andre Fortin decided to impose harsher penalty. He said Pajente 32, had committed a premeditated kidnapping in 1983 and expressed irritation that she refused to answer questions about the mysterious circumstances of her own abduction. Valente was allowed to remain free pending an a peal and possible medical tests. She was sentenced to six months in prison four of which were suspended. The Case dates Back to August 1983, when Valente re fused to take her daughters Marie Laure and Virginie Back to their father after one of their regular visits with her. No word was heard about Valente and the girls until november 1987, when a Fatah revolutionary Council a libyan backed palestinian group led by terrorist Abu Nidal declared it had taken them hostage along wit five belgians aboard a yacht in the Mediterranean. The two girls were freed in 1988, and Valente was freed april 10, along with her belgian companion Fernand Hout Ekins and their daughter Sophie liberte. Prior to the release Sophie liberte had been widely described As a 2-year-old born in Captivity. But relative Sand others after meeting her in person agreed she was at least 4, leading to press speculation that the yacht was seized much earlier than previously reported. During the court proceedings Valente s Lack of substantive answers prompted the judge to accuse her of bad Faith. She frequently testified she did not re member details about her abduction. Fortin said Valente took the two girls out of France clandestinely using false passports. Kao Uthe 1children� in All of this did you think of them he asked  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade