European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse A a a v a. A amps Gus Schuettler a c-i41 transport practices a few tight turns late Friday in preparation for air fete 91 this weekend at Raf Mildenhall England. Pilots shot Down by iraqis Star at air show in Britain by Meridith Winder . Bureau Raf Mildenhall England perhaps the biggest hit for the tens of thousand of visitors to the huge air fete �?T91 air show saturday proved to be on the ground and not in the air. Flight it. John Nicholls and flight it. John Peters became National he roes in Britain when their girl Tornado was shot Down Over Iraq during the persian Gulf War and their bruised faces subsequently were shown on iraqi television. On saturday Nicholls and Peters signed autographs and posed for photographs in front of Tornado and jag see pilots on Page 10 contaminants add costly twist to closing bases Washington a for years most military bases disposed of solvents dead batteries dirty Oil and most any other kind of waste by dumping into an out of the Way Corner. Now Many of the 43 bases that defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants to close Are so poisoned by the wastes that converting them into civilian use is Likely to be Long and costly. How Long and How costly is still anybody a guess. Estimates Range into the billions of dollars to be spent possibly Over decades. A nobody really knows How much Eon lamination exists at these bases a said Tim Terry a military affairs aide for rep. Vic Fazio a California Democrat who has made a specially of the subject. A a you done to know for sure until you Start some of the bases Cheney wants to close could be attractive Sites Lor Parks Homes factories or civilian airports but Only after the mess is removed. In most cases Selling the land is illegal or Imp Rae tical until it is cleaned. At Castle Fuin California s Central. Valley chemical trichloroethylene a sons pc Ted cause of cancer that was used to Hose Down planes has leaked Down to the water table beneath the base. In 1987, the air Force Hail to provide bottled water to nearby residents whose see related Story on Page 6 Wells were contaminated then Drill new deep Wells for the town of Atwater and for the base itself. Besides a permanent cleanup of the ground water officials have to worry about buried Petroleum tanks landfills chemical disposal pits fuel spill areas and other discharge Sites for solvents pesticides cyanide cadmium and other pollutants a All before the base site can _ see bases on Page 10 ethiopian rebels Send foreigners scrambling Addis Ababa Ethiopia a foreigners bed ethiopians besieged capital by the hundreds on saturday As rebels closed in on the City. There were reports the rebels also had captured a vital red sea port. Israel meanwhile completed its lightning Airlift of thousands of ethiopian jews bringing some to joyous reunions with families who were plucked out in a 1984 Rescue operation by the jewish state. A a. A. The rebels have tightened their grip tin the Horn of Africa nation since former president Mengistu Laile Mariam resigned and fled the country tuesday. Tigre an insurgents moved to within 12 Miles West of the capital Addis Ababa. From the North the rebels were reported to have advanced to within 19 Miles of the City and patrols were spotted probing its outer defences. As the rebels pushed closer govern ment negotiators on saturday Lell Addis Ababa Lor London where peace talks with the rebels were to begin monday. The 11-member-. Government delegation by foreign minister i is Faye Dinka who said lie was going to the talks without preconditions. He told an Airport news conference the two main issues would be agreement on a cease lire and formation of a Broad based transitional government leading to Iree multiparty elections. Leaders of the second major rebel group eritrean insurgents issued what they said was an unconfirmed report that their forces had captured the port Olasek which they have had surrounded for More than a week. The port handles most of the nation s exports and imports including emergency food for millions of drought victims the see rebels on Page 10widow, 3rd inf div Honor Only member to die in War by John Millar. Wurzburg Bureau Wurzburg Germany a Sandra Cash could to find the words to describe How she would remember her husband. On Friday afternoon she was standing in a Sun speckled Park filled with memorials honouring 3rd inf div soldiers who gave their lives in War. Minutes before Cash had helped unveil a new Monument honouring the divisions dead from desert storm. It bore just one soldiers name her husbands. Spec. Clarence Allen Cash died when an iraqi rocket propelled grenade hit the Bradley fighting vehicle he was driving. The cavalry scout assigned to he co 4th in 66th Armor in Aschaffenbur was killed the Day before the ground War ended As his 3rd brigade unit fought a pitched Battle against iraqis Republican guard Medina div. The native of Ashland Ohio would have been 21 on april 4. On feb. 26, Clarence Cash became one of 144 americans to die in persian Gulf War combat. And on Friday Sandra Cash joined a new generation for whom memorial Day will take on a More personal meaning. A i think each generation takes these things for granted a it. Col. Thomas Goedkoop said about soldiers who died fighting for their country during past wars. A until you re part of it its not quite As Goedkoop commanded Cash a battalion in the Battle to free Kuwait. �?o1 think for desert storm veterans and families memorial Day will be More personal than it has been in the past.�?�. Goedkoop delivered a Eulogy for Cash in the divisions Marne Garden on Leighton Barracks telling those who gathered that the Soldier had died a so others could live free.�?�. Maj. Gen. Wilson a. Shoffner the division commander said his 3rd brigade had More than 6,000 sol see widow on Page 10
