European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b. The stars and stripes monday May 27, 1991widowfrom Page 1 the dead of different wars to be buried together. One of the few times involved Brig. Gen. jr., who survived the a Day landings of world War ii but died a month later from a heart attack. By special arrangement Roosevelt a brother Quentin who died in world War i is buried to Theodore a right at the military cemetery in Normandy. But that was a general a Roosevelt. Not Tom Caldwell Captain from Columbus Ohio. Nonetheless Sarajane Caldwell was determined that her husband who had loved flying and was a patriotic Man would tic buried with military honors and in a military he died for his country so i thought he deserved to be buried there a she said of the Cambridge cemetery. �?o1 was ready to fight to the bitter for a week following her husbands fatal crash Caldwell persisted but with Little Success. The casualty officer assigned to her said the air Force help. She ran into another dead end at the . Embassy in London and got no further with Robert Rhodes James the British parliamentary representative from Cambridge. Eventually she contacted . Rep. Mary Rose Oakar a Ohio her husbands congresswoman and the wheels began to turn. Oakar got the support of rep. . A a Sonny Montgomery d-miss., the chairman of the House veterans affairs committee which oversees the Battle monuments commission. He put the request to the commis Sion which finally oked the burial. Army col. William e. Ryan who directs operations and finance at the commissions Washington Headquarters said the organization decided to allow the unique burial Quot because capt. Caldwell would be considered War dead. Its also a rare Case when you would find the next of Kin living Caldwell a was one of the most visited Graves during a memorial ceremony at the cemetery. Young men in uniform stood Over the plot reminded perhaps of the sacrifice some fellow service members made in this most recent War. Some women shed a few tears. A an elderly British couple remarked that a this is the Chap who died in the Sarajane Caldwell her husbands Silver wings pinned to her dress was among the distinguished guests at the service. Her husband had never visited the cemetery we re he is interred but he had always planned to. She had seen it Only twice before his burial but now she visits the cemetery at least once a alone sometimes with a member of her family but each time with Flowers. On Days when it Rains like it did on the Day of his funeral she sits in the tiny Chapel in the far end of the Stone Ana Glass memorial building from which she is still Able to see her husbands grave he deployed to saudi Arabia on aug. 30. A i thought head be Home in a couple of months a said his widow. On oct. 10, Caldwell and his Pilot capt. Frederick Reid were killed instantly when their plane crashed into the desert floor at More than 600 Page 1 often arc As vulnerable As men serving in a a combat situations. As a result any further expansion of women a roles in the military services is virtually certain to bring the barriers which were set up in 1948 to exclude women from combat service tumbling Down and it will be the Pentagon that will have to take credit or blame. That is just the Way lawmakers want it according to women who have been Active in pressing for the repeal of. The . V by approving the vaguely worded measure lawmakers will take a symbolic step without having to Hammer out the details. A Quot they done to want a Roll Call vote on whether women should go to War a said Carolyn Becraft a consultant to the women a research and education Institute. A a that a not a clip they want sent to the Home District next time a War flares up. But Pete Williams the Pentagon a chief spokesman said the department of defense welcomes the new legislation because it wants the armed services rather than Congress to have the authority to decide specifically when women should be Given combat roles. The Issue has been so sensitive that the last time the Senate armed services committee seriously debated the Issue the late sen. John Tower a Texas then chairman closed the hearing to the Public and cleared the room of All the panels women staffers. Today however the legislation has been debated openly and Bycraft said there is a widespread feeling among lawmakers that after women a performance in the Gulf female Servic members must be rewarded with expanded opportune tics a a a a a a a a a a a a. But the real decisions a Over specifically which combat jobs will continue to be denied to women a probably will be debated Between Secretary of defense Dick Cheney and the military services. And those arc Likely to be conducted with As much secrecy and emotion As congressional debates in the the military services May seem to be ducking the Issue in Public the top brass from each service Are conducting intensive sessions to determine How Many More positions should be opened to women once the new legislation is passed. Quot a a a a. In april a Pentagon panel on women in the military voted 29-4 to seek repeal of the Laws barring women from combat. Panel leaders chaired by Becky Constantino a Wyoming Republican met before the final vote to discuss the Issue with Cheney. Indeed not everyone in the military is enthusiastic about reducing . A. A a a a Marine corps and army officials fear that women will not have the physical strength for most infantry positions and Are pondering new ways to enforce Stan Daras for strength. The Navy is mulling How to permit women to Fly Carrier aircraft without opening All positions aboard such warships. And All the services Are concerned about the disruption Ana discipline problems the introduction of women could a bring. V a a a a a a a a a so far air Force personnel chief of a Gen. Thomas j. Hickey has taken the most visible Public stance on behalf of removing the final barriers. A a the last impediment to allowing women to be assigned to fighter Jet units is the Law which precludes us from doing it a Hickey said. A there is not. A Mission in the . Air Force that women Are not physically and mentally capable of Page 1. And has talked with twice that Many potential clients. A we had a lot of people come in before their husbands and wives came Back from saudi inquiring like a we know he a Safe now and what can we do a a Kimball told the newspaper. He said he handled a one Cas where she met him at the Airport and said a Welcome Back. In a divorcing there arc Guys who were gone for seven months and their wives Are three or four months pregnant. Quot most of them stoked the Home fires really Well and stood by their spouses but there Are some really bad stories out there.�?�. A both counties reported a Sharp drop in divorce filings after aug. 2 when Iraq invaded Kuwait and . Troops were sent to the Middle East. The rate bottomed out in december but has gained steadily in each succeeding a we re swamped a said lawyer Martha j. Trudo who also is a lieutenant colonel in the army Reserve. A what normally you would file in three months you re filing in a week or a but some army officials and others hesitate to Analyse the numbers at this Point speculating that fort hoods soldiers May simply be dissolving their vows at prewar Levels or doing something they put off during the hostilities the newspaper reported. A a in a just not seeing a terrible monster in terms of couples falling apart a said maj. Billy Baugham chaplain for the 1st Cav div at fort Hood. A couples Are coming in for counselling but they re coming in to prevent a further crisis a he said. A i see a healthy resilience taking Trudo said Many of her clients seeking divorces Are Young. A i think they tend to get lonely. Its hard enough to adapt to the military when you re Young Quot she said. A for they found they liked being single. They liked their Freedom. Some found that by being separated they realized they a been having problems All along and this made it attorney fancy h. Jezek labelled the situation a an explosion compared to what had been going on. The emotions Are running High right now. A the soldiers lots of them Are coming Back with the feeling that a in be been putting my life on he line protecting my family and this is what you be done a they arc very Airliner explodes Over i Bangkok Thailand a an austrian Airliner carrying 213 people exploded in mid air Over Thailand shortly before Midnight sunday thai police said. Police sergeant major Ciaran paling quoted witnesses As saying the Lauda air Jet exploded in a huge fireball and fell to Earth in Thailand a Suphan Buri province Northwest of Bangkok. Sources said the aircraft was flying from Bangkok to Vienna Austria when it crashed. Charan said the Jet carried 213 passengers plus an unknown number of Crew members. He said eight bodies had been recovered so far. Quot Airport authorities at Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok said the airlines flight ng004 had taken off from Bangkok for Vienna sunday night but they had no immediate information on its Page 1. Iraq added that fears the allies we Erc slipping into a quagmire in the country were receding. A my gut feeling is that its going Well a Garner said during a visit to Dozhuk a key kurdish population Center about 50 Miles South of iraqis Border with Turkey. Still a . State department official said the allies want Western Aid workers to stay in Dozhuk for a a couple of months after Allied military forces withdraw. The operation to restore essential services to the City began Friday and the 87 military personnel assigned to Dozhuk Are expected to leave in 19 Days. Mark Frohardt of the state departments disaster assistance Relief team said the continued presence of westerners in the City would act to Check human rights abuses by iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein. Some Aid officials however said they were concerned about being used As a kind of a human a the iraqis done to want us Here but the military does. We re in a difficult position a said 1 Mark Gorman an official with the .-based International Rescue committee. _ he said iraqi officials at the local Hospital and other facilities rejected offers of assistance from his and other groups although Dozhuk clearly has been badly damaged by the kurdish rebellion and Saddam a subsequent crackdown. State department officials said the Ira Chis would get Western help a whether they liked it or Large numbers of kurd poured into Dozhuk on sunday. . Army col. Don Kirchoffner a spokesman at the in Ciurlik base said 22,000 More had arrived bringing do Huki a population to close to 100,500. About 300,000 people lived in the area before the exodus. Staffan do Mistura the special envoy to Northern Iraq said the return of the Kurt had been remarkable., a a it is flowing like Oil a he said As he counted trucks packed with kurdish families moving Down a Highway. Just two weeks ago Only 5 percent of the original population was left. Most had fled to the mountains Between Iraq and Turkey. The riot saturday appears to have had Little effect on the flow. Several iraqi Security personnel were beaten in the attack and the station and governors office were trashed. A life size portrait of Saddam Hussein in kurdish dress was one of the casualties. Kurdish guerrilla leaders stopped the riot and protected the iraqi police. Gen. Garner said the incident indicated that the guerrillas understand they must work with the iraqi government if they Hope to return their City to a
