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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 1, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the St is and stripes wednesday May 1, 1991 at a glance my it est Quot amp a amp a for Quot a 4, i by f a a amp Yll quota a Quot of i a go i a a frs in a a a Ltd a president Bush signs a formal disaster declaration monday to make Federal Grants and Low Cost Loans available to help Kansas recover from fridays killer tornadoes. Nazi video game a video game circulating in Austria and Germany puts the player in the role of a nazi concentration Camp manager earning Points for gassing prisoners and Selling Gold fillings a holocaust study Center says. Quot a a a.  a. A a a page4 murder charge dropped a judge in Detroit dismisses a murder charge against a woman who claimed to be married to a persian Gulf War Veteran fatally shot in an alleged insurance scheme a week after he returned from the  die East.  a tto. A Quot a pages. Schools ordered open a California judge orders califor Nia on monday to keep open Richmonds schools which went broke. A Page 6 no razing at West Point West Point s upperclassmen should not be permitted to Force first year cadets to perform useless or demeaning tasks As part of their indoctrination says the Man who will be the next superintendent at the  military Academy. A a page7 Gorilla warfare a Nasty Little War in the african nation of Rwanda has guerrillas menacing gorillas. Pages 14-15index Abby Ann Landers. 19 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 22 weather. 11 discovery Crew rushes ahead with Telescope experiments Cape canaveral Fla. Up the shuttle discovery screw delayed a satellite launch and pressed on with studies of Earth a auroras tuesday to wrap up pioneering research before a a Star wars Telescope runs out of vital coolant. A a it a pretty much White or Light Green a commander. Michael Coats marvelled Early tuesday As be gazed on a shimmering Aurora from 160 Miles up. A the real Bright parts of it you can see a Little bit of color Down at the base of it As it approaches the South  a a we re Light Green with envy Down Here a replied astronaut Brian Duffy from Mission control. Despite the change in plans scientists said the liquid helium cooled Cirrus Telescope was expected to collect More data about Earth a missile hiding Polar Light shows than originally planned thanks to a major Geomagnetic storm triggering especially Brilliant auroras. A a they re estimating close to 150 per cent of expected auroral data out of the Cirrus Experiment a flight director Rob Kelso said. \ a.  from Cirrus and a Host of other experiments aboard discovery is expected to help engineers with the strategic defense initiative a popularly known As a Star wars a determine How to detect enemy missiles against a variety of backdrops. These Range tips the Black of space to the brighter hues of the Aurora and Earth itself. But engineers noticed monday that Cirrus was using twice As much liquid helium coolant As expected and they predicted supplies would be exhausted by discovery a 44th orbit much earlier than planned. A a a. A a National aeronautics and space administration managers then ordered the shuttle fliers to continue around the clock observations with Cirrus and to delay the launch of an ski satellite from tuesday to wednesday to Complete As Many observations As possible before the helium ran out. Y on Board discovery Are Coats 45, the commander and a Navy Captain air Force it. Col. Blaine Hammond 39, the co Pilot Gregory Harbaugh 35 Charles Lacy Veach 46 air Force col. Guion Bluford 48 Richard Hieb 35 and air Force it. Col. Donald Mcmonagle 38/ Cirrus is one of five instruments making up a payload called air Force project 675. Three of the secondary experiments on the satellite have been lost because of problems with two data recorders. A a a. A a it Vav the astronauts taking those and other minor problems in stride used Cirrus All Day monday to photograph the Aurora Australia or Southern lights to help ski scientists find out How the Gossamer curtains of Light might mask enemy missiles. The astronauts plan to close out their eight Day voyage with a Mojave desert Landing May 6 at Edwards fab Calif. Crime rises in Eastern Germany by de Reavis _ a staff writer former East Germany has experienced a surge in crime since the fall of the oppressive communist government according to recent figures from the German ministry of Justice. A robbery and extortion have More than tripled in the new Eastern states while theft and embezzlement have climbed by More than 50 percent according to the figures released by German Justice minister Klaus Kincl. Murder anti manslaughter Are also up by More than 17 percent and aggravated assault jumped almost 14 percent the ministry reported. A a there a also been a Sharp Rise of right Wing or Neo nazi radicalism in the Eastern states a a spokesman for Kinkele a ministry said. A in addition there a been a rapid increase in Bank robberies robberies on the autobahn rioting in soccer stadiums and an unsettling jump in drug related crimes and prostitution not to mention the numerous Fli Milams and scams West germans Are running on their new  fighting the increased crime is difficult because police in the East Are underpaid understaffed and insecure in their new role in a democratic state the ministry report said. The installation of a new Justice system in the East is also lagging behind schedule it said. Quot to remedy the situation Kinkel has ordered a massive assistance program of More than $200 million a year to be invested in hiring Legal personnel for the new states. _ still reports that residents Are fearful of walking the streets at night in such cities. As Dresden Leipzig Chemnitz and parts of Berlin Are not exaggerated Kin kelp a spokesman said. Shoplifting theft and burglary in the Western half of Berlin have increased significantly since unification according to City spokesman Peter Fiss Nevert. However attacks against foreigners sexual assaults and attempted murders have declined he said. A the increase of Petty crimes can be attributed to the fact that we have a great influx of persons from the newly liberated East bloc countries. Their numbers alone would Quot increase the crime rate a he. Said. A Fiss Nevert said the City has increased the police Force which patrols As much As it can under a tight budget. A we be invested 20 million Marks about $ 11.5 million in an emergency program for safety on the subway system a Fiss Nevert said. A there have been a number of attacks and even two women murdered this year on the subways. We re intent on making the system Safe for the passenger and Are adding More than 200 Security personnel some with  Pulzen plans another tribute to americans Pulzen Czechoslovakia a amps a once again the people of Pulzen want to thank americans. Last year for the first time since the end of world War ii this City famous for its Beer paid tribute to . Soldiers who helped liberate it and other parts of Bohemia from nazi occupation. Until then the former communist government had outlawed pro american celebrations. Exercising their new Freedom after the collapse of East bloc governments thousands of czechs poured into the streets for the May 5 and 6 anniversary. American flags decorated store fronts and . Ambassador Shirley Temple Blackar Rived from Prague to Toast the townspeople with a Glass of Beer. This year a three Day festival is. Planned beginning Friday. . World War 11-Vintage jeeps another military vehicles will drive into the City at 1 . Friday. The caravan will Stop outside City Hall where it will be joined by a . And czechoslovak delegation. The group will drive to the Pulzen cemetery to Lay wreaths in Honor of those killed. On saturday the . Air forces Europe band will play at a Wreath laying ceremony and hold a concert in pm zen a main Square. Later that Day the City will rename the a. Zopotocky Bridge after Gen. George s. Patton who commanded the first . Units that entered Czechoslovakia. The Safe band will perform two concerts in Pulzen on sunday. The band will depart monday for Brno where it will meet up with other band members returning from performances in Krakow Poland. A Jam session is planned for tuesday. Also tuesday the 1st inf div which has its Headquarters in Goppinger Germany will meet with czechoslovak soldiers in Cheb. A ceremony to Honor the War dead is planned at a Monument outside the City May 8. Fulda Germany a amps a the wife of a . Soldier is to stand trial on murder charges in the March drowning death of her 14-year-old daughter in a Bathtub according to a German court official. Chong Sun Moon 44, is being held in a German jail in Frankfurt said Harald Weiss Bollands chief prosecutor for the German court in Fulda. Her daughter Mira Chang was found dead in the Bathtub of the family a bad Hersfeldt apart to be tried in daughter s death mentmarch27. Moon the wife of sgt. Marcus d Moon of he troop 3rd so 11th army Cav regt told authorities she found her daughter drowned in the Bathtub when she returned from a basement laundry room. But autopsy results and statements made by the family a 5-year-old daughter implicated the Mother in the death Weiss Bollands said  the woman allegedly bound her daughters hands with medical tape before drowning her he said. Autopsy results also indicated that a the child must have been beaten heavily during other occasions in the past a he said. Sgt. Moon a is not under suspicion at the mordent because he was on a Mili. Tary exercise at the time of the death he say the sergeant who is changes Stepfather met and married his wife while stationed in South Korea  
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