European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes a army colonel Dies in Parachute  2 a Doolittle navigator returning to search for planes Page 3 a Barr admits mistake but wont apologize. Page 7 a american National league baseball roundups Page 21 authorized unofficial publication Fob armed forces vol. 49, no. 107 monday july 30, 1990 25 daily and Good morning d 8693 wired with explosives port of Spain Trinidad apr a Black moslem Leader of an attempted coup threatened saturday to blow up the prime minister and other government leaders held hostage by his group a Churchman said. Roman Catholic archbishop Anthony Pantin said the coup Leader Abu Bakr told him that prime minister Arthur n. Robinson and the other officials captured Friday a Are wired up with  the moslem rebels fired automatic weapons in storming the parliament building and seizing Robinson and several Cabinet ministers. A Pantin said on government radio the threat was relayed in a 25-minute Telephone conversation with Bakr who threatened to blow up the captives and himself if government troops mounted an attack on the rebel held television station. The radio station announced late in the Day that a settlement had been reached with the rebels. It said the Leader of the rebels who have been linked to Libya had asked for a plane to take him and his supporters to that North african country. The radio report which quoted an unidentified police superintendent could not be immediately confirmed. The report did not say if the government had accepted the request to provide the plane. In addition the station reported a gunfight late saturday after announcing the settlement it said four people were wounded in the clash Between two policemen and two civilians outside a television station where the rebels were holding hostages. It gave no details. The Barbados based Caribbean news Agency Quot see leaders on Back Page flying Low and slow air Force Recruiter staff sgt. A1 Moon sits in a Model of a anniversary air show at Westover fab mass., on saturday Jet fighter As he watches a sky diving exhibition at the 50t i in the background is a by bomber. 7 year for rape on Rota Spain apr a military judge sentenced a . Navy lieutenant to seven years in prison saturday after Poi evicting him of raping a female officer aboard ship at a Spanish port. The judge capt. Thomas a. Law rence also dismissed it . Robin e. A s. A a Navy. Brown 27, of Rahns wyo., from the Lawrence said he hoped the sentence would express the naval Community s Quot moral outrage and indignation that such a sexual attack could take place against one of its female officers. Navy officials in Spain said they could recall no previous Case in which a male officer had been accused of raping a female officer. They said cases of shipboard rape Are extremely rare. Quot i think the judge did a Good Job of letting it be known that this wont be allowed in the Navy a on ships or anywhere else a said the rape victim who stressed that she did not hold the Navy responsible for what happened. The Navy has withheld the woman a name and rank to protect her privacy. Browne a defense attorneys said they planned to Appeal his conviction Ana sentence. He was accused of raping the female officer on april 4 aboard the Suribachi see rape on Back Page Navy cites stats to refute cafes by Chuck Vinch is Washington Bureau Washington a Navy and Marine corps exchanges would a suffer significantly if they were allowed to be absorbed by the army and air Force Exchange service a top Navy official has warned. In an undated internal memo obtained by the stars and stripes undersecretary of the Navy j. Daniel Howard forcefully rejects the air forces View that cafes is ready and Able to take Over the Navy and Marine corps exchanges. In a june 4 memo to defense Secretary Dick Cheney air Force Secretary Donald Rice argued that cafes the ninth largest . Retailer already has an extensive distribution network and support Structure in place. Therefore studying consolidation of the Exchange systems is a waste of time and Money Rice said. He Reed Cheney to refocus an ongoing Pentagon study of Exchange consolidation from Quot whether to merge to a blueprint of How to merge Quot the Navy and Marine corps systems with cafes. But Howard strongly disagreed with that assertion in his memo to Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood. Quot cafes is by no Means the most favourable operator of exchanges Quot Howard wrote. A both the Navy and Marine corps present a More favourable set of performance indicators. Both the Navy and Marine corps systems serve their constituencies admirably and with greater efficiency than  Howard attached a list of statistics to Back up his assertions. The numbers show that the Navy and Marine corps systems have outpaced cafes Over the past four years in such areas As net profits inventory dividends and dividends paid into the two services morale and recreation coffers. In fiscal 1988, for example the Navy a system paid dividend totalling $ percent of Overall sales to morale and recreation funds. The figure for the Marine corps lie Quot 1 wrote for to. S mtg in fact from what can be gleaned at this Early stage system was 3.6 percent while cafes posted a 2 per to. Tiger the Marine corps cent dividend Howard wrote. In dividends per capita the figures were $147 for the Navy system $103 for a a Stem and $89 for cafes. Dividends Howard said Howard also rejected Rice a assertion that Only minor modifications would be necessary for an cafes takeover to occur. Rather there Are fundamental see merger on Back Page