European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday August 17, 1991 a competitor refreshes himself at the Hall Vay Point of the 13th annual Fulda Marathon on sunday As 3,600 sneakers Pound the pavement. Pages 14-15.new a Brkl a love affair Paul Simon and new yorkers seem to have an ongoing love affair As police estimate a crowd of 750,000 turned out thursday night to hear the Singer at Central Park. I i l a Page 4evans charged Donald Leroy Evans the drifter who claims to have killed More than 60 people Over the course of a decade is charged with killing a 10-year-old girl. A Page 5cleaner fuel environmentalists and Oil Industry representatives sign an agreement to fight chronic air pollution in american cities with cleaner burning automobile fuels. A Page 6 help to ease the pain Uncle Sam is setting aside $150 million to be used Over the next two years to assist As Many As 80,000 civilians affected by defense department cutbacks and base closings. A Page 7sunken Barge found an Oil exploration Barge that Sank off Hong Kong has been located but Hope is dim that More Crew members will be found alive. A Page 8 More fare cuts for International travellers the news is Good both pan am and Virgin Atlantic Are cutting fares. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 burning Indian airlines jetliner crashes killing All 69 aboard new Delhi India a an Indian airlines flight caught fire and plunged into the Hilly Jungle of Remote Eastern India on Friday news reports said. All 69 people aboard were killed officials said. The crash came a Day after the airline received a Hijack threat officials said. The 13-year-old Boeing 737-200 flying from Calcutta crashed 27 Miles Short of its destination of Imphal capital of the state of Manipur on the burmese Border. Press Trust of India reported that Vil lagers and a guard at Imphal Airport said they saw the Jet coming Down in a Ball of fire Over a hydroelectric project on nearby Lotak Lake. The news Agency did not elaborate. An airline official said a separatist group in the neighbouring state of Assam threatened on thursday to Hijack a flight from Calcutta to Morhat in Assam. The guerrillas Are fighting a secessionist Campaign against the Indian government. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity said authorities were alerted thursday but nothing happened. He said the threat came in Anonymous Calls to the airports in Calcutta and Morhat. A government spokesman Ramdhan Rao said he had not heard anything to indicate that fridays flight ic-257 was a target of sabotage or hijacking. Rao said the cause of the crash was not immediately known. An investigation is  re ppr blamed the disaster on bad weather which often is Stormy at this time of year. It a meteorologist in new Delhi said he had no reports of inclement weather and reported an average wind Speed of 12 to 18 Mph. The 65-minute, 370-mile flight was bound for the remotest Corner of India 1,050 Miles East of new Delhi. Two air Force helicopters sighted the wreckage near Lotak Lake in the changing Hills a Lush area that climbs northward toward the Himalayas Indian news agencies reported. Salvage teams travelling on tortuous roads reached the site three to four hours later. Efforts to recover the bodies and wreckage were hampered by heavy rain press Trust said. It was the eighth crash for indians Domestic Carrier since 1963, and each involved More than 30 deaths. Investigations showed that human error caused at least two of the crashes a the most recent ones in february 1990 and october 1988. In Seattle Boeing spokesman David Jensen said the company Only had sketchy information about the crash. He said he was unaware of past problems with the aircraft but a a that a not the kind of thing we would divulge  from Page 1 switch from one division to another Means. A it really does no to. Matter that much to me. We re still the same people a said sgt. Alphonso Torrance. The 27-year-old medic stood in the color guard Friday morning when the 2nd Brig was officially transferred from the 1st army div to the 3rdlnfdiv. The Small ceremony mirrored at half a dozen bases across Northern Bavaria was a move to a get All the colors straight after a summer of draw Downs transfers and re flagging said Shellum. A a there san unbelievable amount of confusion when you have too Many brigades with the same name. Everything in distribution gets  when somebody asks him what division he s in sgt. Patrick Jones says he a still not sure what to answer. A a it a getting confusing a said Jones 29, who is from Rocky mount . A once they1 get it All lined out maybe they can let us people in the lower ranks know what a going  although wearing an infantry unit Patch is preferable a from an infantry  Point of View a command sgt. Maj. James Blassingame said that a a division is a  a brigade staff officer maj. Mark Curry warned that the move was a More Subtle than it is  the new division does things in a slightly different manner than the old one did. But Only slightly he said. Some acronyms will change and the new division might attack a Mission a bit differently. Most of the changes Are in the wording of regulations. A you have to read the Fine print a he said. A the feeling is a lets get on with it a a Curry said of the move. A i Haven to run into a single staff officer whose distraught because we re going into the Marne  Marne is the nickname of the 3rd inf div. For spec. Christophe Reichel the Friday ceremony was something of an instant replay. He spent 10 months at the 2nd brigade of the 3rd inf div in Kitzinger. Then in december the mortar Man was transferred to the 2nd brigade of the 1st army div in Erlanger so that he could go to War. Now with the re flagging Reichel is Back in the same unit he started out in. A i got predesignated to what i was a said Reichel 21, from Shepherdstown . A a it la be Nice to have an infantry Patch Back again but i could live without being in an armoured  in bad Kreuz Nach soldiers took the switch  a in la still be doing the same  a said spec Jon Yeargain a truck Driver As he Europe s single corps with die inactivation of Vii corps Only one corps will remain in Europe. Currently that is corps which has Headquarters in Frankfurt Germany. The remaining corps win induce two divisions -the3rd inf div which Wilt remain in Wurzburg and the 1st army div which will move from Ansbach to bad Kreuz Nach bad Kreuz Nach a amps Peter Jaeger shrugged his shoulders. Staff sgt . Robinson was on his first Day of duty in bad Kreuz Nach following reassignment from in Ornburg. A i guess i just can to get away from the 1st armoured division a said the Soldier who already wears an Ironsides Patch. A also contributing to the article staff writer Mary Neth in bad Kreuz Nach stall from Page 1 westerners were allowed to listen to the  lost age Terry Anderson s daughter 6-year-old Salome sounded confident in her message to the father she has never seen. She was Horn a few months after he was taken hostage. �?�1 know lie is going to come Home very very soon because i talked to John Mccarthy on the Telephone and he said that my daddy a very Well and that he will come Home very very very very soon a Salome said in an interview for the British broadcasting corp. Program Outlook. Anderson 43, chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press is the longest held  was kidnapped on March 16, 1985. Another american Thomas Sutherland 50, who taught at Beirut University was taken three months later. His brother Willy who lives in Scotland told him Over the radio  health is Good and i know it is hard but keep your spirits up As things seem to be looking a lot better for you a Anderson Sutherland and Church of England envoy Terry Waite Are among the 11 westerners believed held by pro iranian kidnappers a but some unconfirmed reports indicate two of the hostages a briton Alec Collett and italian Alberto Molineri a Are dead. American Edward Austin Tracy and Frenchman Jerome Peyraud were freed sunday. A group of 30 relatives of shiite prisoners held in Southern Lebanon converged on the offices of the . Interim forces in Beirut on Friday delivering a letter saying the Arab detainees deserve Freedom As much As the westerners. Israel has demanded a videotape or other solid evidence on the status of its seven israelis missing in Lebanon before it releases any Arab detainees whose Freedom has been demanded by a pro iranian faction holding westerners. Fadlallah however claimed that the United states will try to Block the Secre tary general a efforts to release Western hostages. A we believe that the americans will not pressure Israel to release the detainees it holds a Fadlallah said in a Sermon. A in our opinion the United states will possibly try to Block the . Secretary general a  Fadlallah has stressed that he wants the Case of the missing westerners resolved As we i has the Issue of shiites detained by Israel. Syrian foreign minister Farouk Al Sharaa meanwhile reiterated his country Scall for the release of an unspecified number of syrians. Syria which has 40,000 troops in Lebanon has been a Channel for previous Western hostage releases