European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday june 5,1990 americans liberians Jam Airport As rebels approach news updates lava a condition Oslo up a Norway a King Olav at 86 the worlds oldest reigning Monarch remained in an unstable condition monday following a stroke Over the weekend that paralysed the left part of his body. A the situation is still Uncertain a said a statement from the Royal physicians issued by the National teaching Hospital Rik Hospi tact. Members of the norwegian Royal family rushed Home from Britain where they had been celebrating the 50th birthday of deposed King Constantine of Greece to join Crown Prince Harald in a bedside Vigil. Japanese yacht Washington up a the japanese firm that owns a luxury yacht commandeered by a cuban gunboat in International Waters said monday it has appealed to Japan for help. The 145-fool yacht bal Sbat Queen was 14 Miles North of Cuba saturday when the cuban ship approached fired three shots without explanation and indicated the $8 million vessel should follow it to Cuba the ships Captain Ian my comic said before he was detained by cuban authorities. A we have no idea Why they took the yacht a said Hirokazu Mori manager of Island future corp., which owns the yacht. A we Are hoping to Contact the cuban government through our representative in new York but it was sunday and they were not Able to Contact them Shear radars Denver apr Stapleton International Airport has hooked up a newly improved radar system to detect wind Shear which has been blamed for plane crashes that killed More than 650 people since 1972. John Mccarthy director of research application programs at the National Center for atmospheric research in Boulder said a similar device will be tested this year at Orlando International Airport before Raythelon corp. Delivers it for nationwide use. The device called a terminal doppler weather radar is scheduled for installation at 47 airports nationwide beginning in 1992. Similar devices have been tested at Stapleton in Denver and already arc credited with preventing jetliner stabbed Soldier was woman from . Wurzburg West Germany a the on monday released the name of a Soldier found stabbed to death Friday at the Gic Belstadt Airfield. Pfc. Tammy s. Ivon of Orchard Park . Had been stabbed numerous times in the Chest and Abdomen. She was pronounced dead at the scene by a German physician. Ivon 20, was assigned to the 123rd medical det 7th medical come in Gie Belstadt. The Case is under investigation by the criminal investigation come. Authorities refused to disclose additional information. A memorial service will be held at 11 . Thursday at the Gic Belstadt Airfield theater. Monrovia Liberia apr More than 50 . Embassy workers missionaries and their families and hundreds of liberians crowded an Airport monday amid fears there would be a Bloodbath if rebels fighting the government took the City. The rebels had been advancing on the capital during the weekend but it was unclear exactly How close they were to the City. In Monrovia people of the mandingo and Krahn tribes Loyal to president Samuel Doe piled their belongings into taxis trucks and buses and fled. The rebels led by Charles Taylor Are mostly members of the Gio and Mano tribes and invaded the West african country of 2.5 million people from the Ivory coast about five months ago. The state department last week ordered All non essential . Government personnel and their families to leave immediately and . Warships were expected off the coast monday or tuesday to help evacuate americans. There has been no sign of a rebel attack on the City and government forces have made no visible Effort to defend it. New York apr Jack Gilford a sad eyed comic dramatic actor and vaudevillian who shone in featured roles on stage television and movies died at his Manhattan Home monday morning a spokeswoman said. He was 81. Gilford died after a Long struggle with stomach cancer and had last been at a Hospital two weeks ago according to Merle Debuskey a family Friend and publicist. He was at his Greenwich Village Home with his actress wife Madeline Lee when he died about 8 ., Debuskey said. Gilford was twice nominated for Tony awards in Broadway musicals a As Hys tedium the slave who ends up in drag in a a funny thing happened on the Way to the forum Quot and As Herr Shultz in he was by sternum again in the film version of he received an Academy award support ing actor nomination for the movie a save the Tiger Quot in which he played the partner to Jack Lemmons garment manufacturer. Lemmon won an Oscar for the film. On Broadway he was seen also in a the diary of Anne Frank a a the tenth Man Quot a the world of Sholom Alei chem and a Romanoff amp he performed As the mute King with Carol Burnett in stage and television versions of a once upon a mattress and we Brocken West Germany a amps a German Media reports that the . Army would station helicopters at Wei Brincken a when the air Force departs Are wrong say spokesmen for the mayor and Usa eur. Several news organizations had said the planned to move some or All of the helicopter units stationed at Wiesbaden a in Erbena cite to the air Force base when it is closed. A fall those reports Are false a said Thilo Huble spokesman for lord mayor Werner von blon. A the lord mayor ran Down the source of those reports when they came out last week Quot Huble said. A Avon blon said there a if they come massacre us. So we re going a said a father of four children As he stacked a mattress onto the Back of a truck. He and two other mandingo families were heading for Sierra Leone. Taxi Drivers said the exodus had caused a traffic Jam at the Border. At Spriggs Payne Airfield about five Miles from the City Center 50 americans 20 South koreans and a few British and canadians awaited a chartered flight to Freetown capital of Sierra Leone. A we had planned to stay to the end. We had hoped there would be a peaceful Resolution but we decided it would be unfair to put our children through the stress a said Nancy Allison 37, a missionary of the Southern Baptist Mission in Dallas. She held her two daughters in both . About 20 Baptist and protestant missionaries and their children were leaving aboard a Boeing 737 hired from air Guinea. A woman among the . Embassy families said she did no to want to leave but was told she had no Choice because of thursdays evacuation order of non essential personnel. Previous evacuations did guest turns on numerous to comedy and dramatic series including a the defenders a a fall in the family a a Rhoda a a the love boat a a taxi a a soap a a head of the class and a Golden Gilford could convulse an audience with slapstick or bring tears with portrayals of a Little Quot men overwhelmed by circumstance. One off beat Triumph in his 55-year career was in the non singing role of the Drunken Jailer in the metropolitan operas production of a die Gilford he did the part in the 1950 production and Many later ones. A i also played a single act at the Palace in that same year. There Are not too Many people who played the met and the Palace in the same year a he once told an interviewer. But work in front of cameras dried up for the versatile Gilford during the Mccarthy Era As it did for numerous show business people with leftward political sentiments. Was a paper prepared in mid March by the office of maj. Gen. James w. Ray Deputy chief of staff engineers in Usa eur which suggested investigating the feasibility of the leasing the air base once it was returned to German ownership. But the idea was Usa eur spokesman sgt. . Hardesty said current plans still Call for stationing the ah-64 Apache attack helicopters in Wiesbaden. A the . Army in Europe did consider the possibility of stationing Usa eur units at Wei Brincken a a Hardesty said. A however Usa eur has determined not to do so because additional base support costs that would be associated with operation of the base of the embassy which had a staff of 200 with about 450 family members have been voluntary. 1 about 75 americans remained at the embassy said spokesman David Krikke Many liberians said they were comforted by the fact that . Warships carrying 2,000 . Marines were being sent in Case the 2,000 remaining . Citizens and other nationals had to be evacuated. Last month about 6,000 americans were in the country but most chose to leave As the fighting worsened . Embassy officials said. Many of the hundreds of fleeing liberians were families of soldiers trying to get on two planes that have been used for the past week to ferry people of does Krahn tribe to their Eastern grand Nedeh county stronghold. Grand Nedeh has not been affected by the civil War. As late As sunday night get of spoke to reporters from the presidential mansion in the capital. He is protected by about 1,000 israeli trained troops. Rebels have killed Krahn and mandingo civilians in retaliation for government troop atrocities against Gio and Mano civilians. A one Day the phone just stopped ringing and i did no to do to or films for 10 years a Gilford said after the Telephone resumed ringing in the late 1960s. Small parts on Broadway and nightclub work saw him through. Among his other movie credits were a cocoon a a enter laughing a a the incident a �?ocatch-22,&Quot a they might be giants and a a who a minding the mint a a commercial he appeared in for the Crackerjack company in the 1970s was an award Winner at the Cannes festival. In 1982 he starred in a one hour Cable television production a the very special Jack Gilford born Jacob Gellman and raised in Brooklyn Gilford began his career in 1934 at an Amateur night on a stage in the Bronx. He got work in vaudeville and nightclubs toured four years with Milton Berle and Ina Ray Hutton and began appearing in Broadway revues in 1939. Gilford married Lee a producer actress and writer in 1949, and they had three children Lisa of Denver Joseph of new York and Samuel of Montague mass. Services were to be private. In lieu of Flowers the family asked that donations be sent to the actors fund of America in Manhattan. Would be too defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced in january that we Brucken a would close in 1993. Wei Brincken. Home of the 26th tac recon Wing 10tn military Airlift so and 601st tac control so is one of 12 overseas installations marked to close. The a plans to station additional helicopters at Wiesbaden a have Rue continuing opposition from Wie Baoe area residents who say the aircraft win increase noise and create unnecessary safety risks in the congested i Spac near Frankfurt International Arpon. The citizens have delayed the stationing for years through the courts state legislature and Federal parliament actor Jack Gilford Dies of cancer reports that Usa eur would station copters at closed of base called false
