European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes t tuesday August 21,1990 news briefs 2 missing soldiers found dead in Lake in Italy Vicenza Italy a the bodies of two . Soldiers were found in Lake Garda two Days after they were reported missing while scuba diving. Spec. Timothy a. Bradfield 22, and pvt. 2 Andrew a. Miller 19, were found by a diving team about 7 30 . Sunday near Porto i s. Nicolo Riva Del Garda according to the Southern european task Force Public affairs office. Both soldiers were assigned to he co 3rd in 325th inf regt airborne combat teaming Vicenza. The two Parachute riggers were diving in the northernmost tip of Lake Garda with another 325th Soldier fonday. When the third Soldier surfaced and could not locate Miller and Bradfield he notified police. All three soldiers were certified to dive in Depths Down to 90 feet. Bradfield is survived by his wife Tina and 4-year-old son Tyler who were both at the Lake when the soldiers were diving. He also is survived by his parents Gordon and Nancy Brad Field of Danville Iii. Miller is survived by his parents Robert d. And Patricia Miller of Decatur Iii. Memorial services will be held at 1 30 thursday in the Caserma Ederle Chapel. Carnage in South Africa spreads As 21 die in Hostel Johannesburg South Africa apr new tribal fighting dared monday when raiding zulus armed with assault rifles shot xhosa sleeping in a Hostel police said. The death toll from a week of fighting Rose to 331. Police and witnesses said zulus armed with ak-47 rifles raided a xhosa Hostel Early monday in Swath Cha township. At least 21 people were killed Many of them xhosa shot in their Beds they said. Police in armoured vehicles moved in after Dawn to restore order and protect residents. Enraged xhosa set fire to a Hostel used by zulus off. Fighting also flared in Kogiso township where three people were killed late sunday when a mob went on a rampage police said. The tribal affiliations of the dead were not known they said. Pilots from Page 1 head n.d., when a customer reported them to the Federal aviation administration according to undisputed trial testimony. According to Bills from the bar introduced As evidence Prouse ordered 15 rum and Colas while Kirchner and Balzer shared seven pitchers of Beer Over about six hours. An Faa official came to the Airport but the plane left while he was telephoning a supervisor to see what to do. Another Faa official made a citizens arrest when the plane landed in the twin cities. Defense lawyers argued that the apparently smooth operation of the 40-minute flight showed that the pilots were not impaired by alcohol. But assistant . Attorney Elizabeth de la Vega questioned whether the pilots could have handled an emergency if one had developed. Quot the Law does not require that we have to wait fora tragedy to happen before we find someone guilty a she told the jury. Northwest fired the pilots for violating the company a 12-hour prohibition against drinking before flying and the Faa revoked their licenses. The Faa prohibits Hying within eight hours of drinking and prohibits pilots from Hying with blood alcohol concentrations of 0.04 percent or More. The trial opened july 25, and jurors got the Case on thursday. The Law in the Case presumes that an individual with a blood alcohol Content of 0.10 percent or More Shalbe presumed to be under the influence of alcohol but it does not state flatly that that percentage makes one automatically guilty. Liberian troops r slay american missionary Abidjan Ivory coast apr diplomats said monday that government troops in Liberia had killed an american missionary and there were reports that one of liberians rebel factions had reached an informal truce with the government. The missionary a Baptist was killed by government troops who arrested him thursday according to diplomats. They said the body of the slain Man identified As Clark Alan Jacobsen was handed Over to the . Embassy on saturday. No Hometown was Given for Jacobsen. The embassy was filing a formal protest with the government the diplomats said. They did not say Why Jacobsen was detained a second american arrested and accused of fight in for the rebels Andrew Voros of new Jersey was free saturday and evacuated from Monrovia by . Marines the diplomats said. Jacobsen was the second american known to have died in liberians 8-month-old civil War which has left at least 5,000 people dead most of them civilians. A protestant missionary Tom Jackson and his British wife june were killed March 24 near Bahn a town in northeastern Nimba county where they had lived for years. They were forced by soldiers to travel in a Convoy that was ambushed by guerrillas Loyal to rebel Leader Charles Taylor. Most of the 6,000 americans who had lived in Libe Ria were missionaries. After the deaths of the Jacksons the . Embassy in Monrovia put out the first of several warnings or americans to leave. Meanwhile followers of rebel Leader Prince Johnson and troops Loyal to president Samuel Doe told a Western Diplomat they were prepared to join forces to resist a possible attack by rebels from a rival faction opposed to the truce. Those rebels led by Taylor Are camped out on the outskirts of the capital of Monrovia. There was no official announcement of a cease fire from either Johnson or Doc news of the truce was received in a radio Telephone Call from diplomats in Monrovia to their embassies in Abidjan capital of neighbouring Ivory coast. A the Diplomat said he found Al armed forces of Liberia and inf Independent National patriotic front troops dancing in the streets saying it was All Over a said one Diplomat in Abidjan. He spoke on condition of anonymity. A was part of the Celebration they were throwing Money into the air and both lots of soldiers together with some civilians in the streets were looting what was left in the stores a the Diplomat said. He said there was speculation that the lower ranks of the military and the Prince Johnson rebel faction a patched it up themselves because everybody is thoroughly fed up with the whole Bush from Page 1 veterans a today the outcome is not yet decided. Hard choices remain. But of this we Are certain America will not be Bush had previously refused to use the word Quot hos tag Csc to characterize the detained americans. Aides pointed out that Saddam had not asked for anything in return for their release and also said that calling them hostages might make them seem More significant and make it harder for Saddam to release them. On sunday in fact presidential press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater took Issue with . Ambassador Thomas Pickering a use of the word. But Bush on monday said it was time to state the obvious Quot we be been reluctant to use the term a hostage. But when Saddam Hussein specifically offers to Trade the Freedom of those citizens of Many nations he holds against their will in return for concessions there can be Little doubt that whatever these innocent people Are called they Are in fact he said later a i done to think there a any turning up the heat in switching his terminology. A this morning i decided a look As Tong As these demands Are being made Why its semantical. Why not just say that a Quot Saddam a government said sunday that the foreign ers would be allowed Freedom if the United states withdrew its military forces from the persian Gulf Region and scuttled the International Trade blockade against Iran and Kuwait. Bush has worked on the persian Gulf crisis by Telephone and with visiting aides while vacationing in Maine and the White House says there Are no plans for him to move up his labor Day return to Washington. His speech monday included some of the most fiery remarks he has made on the crisis following a weekend when he testily rebuffed reporters attempts to question him while he played Golf Dan went to Church services. In his speech. Bush made a religious Appeal to the leaders of Iraq. A in moving foreign citizens against their will you Are violating the norms of your own religion a he said. A you Are going against the age old Arab tradition of showing kindness and hospitality to visitors. And so my message is a release All foreigners a iraqis invasion a was More than a military attack on tiny Kuwait a he said of the aug. 2 military incursion by Iraq on its Oil Rich neighbor. A a it was a ruthless assault on the very essence of International order and civilized ideals. And now in a further offence against All norms of International behaviour Iraq has imposed restrictions against civilians from Many countries. This is Bush said the eruption of the crisis in the persian Gulf demonstrated a need for a Strong military and he called on Congress to avoid deep cuts in his military budget beyond the paring his administration recommends. Nazi War crimes suspect indicted in deaths of thousands in Poland Berlin apr Josef Schwammberge a nazi War crimes suspect notorious for his cruelty was indicted monday in the deaths of More than 3,400 people in Poland. The announcement by the Stuttgart prosecutors office sets the stage for one of the last major nazi War crimes trials in Germany. Schwammberge 78, was extradited from Argentina in May after nearly four decades As a fugitive. As a concentration Camp commander Schwammberge was noted for his cruelty including ripping the Gold fillings out of his victims Mouths before their deaths. Prosecutors spokesman Helmut Grombacher said Schwammberge was indicted in the deaths of Quot at least 50 Schwammberge was also charged As an accessory to murder m the killings of at least 3,377 other people Many of them jews As Well. Grombacher said he expects the trial to take place at the beginning of next year. Schwammberge faces a sentence of Ide in prison if convicted. According to the indictment Schwamn Iberger a crimes stretched from 1941 to 1944 during world War ii. During that time he served As a nazi is Boss in the polish cities of Krakow and Przemysla and As commandant of concentration Camps in Rozwat Dowland Mielec. Schwammberge since his capture has admitted to ordering the execution of one person under Quot special circumstances Quot but otherwise has denied the crimes Grombacher said. The War crimes suspect was captured by French soldiers in 1945, in Innsbruck Austria. He had with him eight sacks of Gold and jewelry which allegedly came from his victims according to authorities. At that time Schwammberge admitted to having shot to death 27 jews Grombacher said. Schwammberge escaped while being taken to Salzburg in 1948 and fled to Argentina the spokesman added. He lived in the South american country for almost 40 years before being jailed and sent to Germany. Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal once listed Schwammberge among the 10 most wanted criminals from Adolf hitlers third Reich. Schwammberge born in 1912 in what is now the South Tyrol Region of Northern Italy is in Stuttgart a maximum Security Stamm Heim prison awaiting trial
