European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Police search for motive in nation s worst massacre from wire reports Killeen Texas a authorities searching for a motive in the nations worst single Day shooting massacre said thursday investigators Are a collecting the pieces a including reports of the gunman s disputes with his Hometown. Witnesses said George Hennard 35, denounced Bell county and Belton the nearby town where he lived As he fired inside a Lubye a cafeteria on wednesday killing 22 people and wounding 18. The massacre which had started when Hennard crashed his pickup through a window the cafeteria when he Hennard of the ended killed himself. Hennard who was unemployed was described As surly and had been involved in run ins with officials and agencies in Belton. But police chief . Giacomozzi said police had not determined a motive for his killing spree. A the main thing you need to understand is this is like a Jigsaw Puzzle and see related stories on Page 3 we re still collecting the pieces a Giacomozzi told reporters Giacomozzi said a search of Hennard a see motive on Page 2 an official looks Over the truck of a gunman who crashed it through Lubye a cafeteria in Killeen Texas and killed 22 people. Navy apologizes for blaming blast on Hartwig Washington apr in an extraordinary act the Navy apologized thursday for suggesting Sailor Clayton Hartwig set off an explosion aboard the Iowa that claimed 47 lives in 1989. Adm. Frank Kelso the chief of naval operations said a the exact cause cannot be determined Quot even after a second investigation of the explosion. The first investigation concluded that the explosion a most probably was due to an intentional act by Hartwig n gunners mate. That a qualified opinion. Was interpreted by Many As a conclusive finding of wrongdoing a Kelso said in a one Page statement. A for this on behalf of the . Navy i extend my sincere regrets to the family of Hartwig. In Cleveland Hartwigs family was pleased with the apology. A they gave us the words i wanted to hear a said Hartwigs Mother Evelyn. A i think they were sorry the Way things  the Navy had earlier described Hartwig As depressed Over a failed relationship with another Sailor. It accused Hartwig who was killed in the blast of placing a some Type of detonation device Between Gunpowder bags As he supervised the loading of one of the ships 16-Inch guns. Thursday Kelso said there was a no Clear and convincing proof of the cause of the Iowa explosion. Hartwig a the Navy will not imply that a deceased individual is to blame for his own death or the deaths of others without such Clear and convincing proof a the Navy chief said at the Pentagon. Kelso also apologized to the families of those who died on the Iowa because a such a Long period has passed and despite All efforts no certain answer regarding the cause of this terrible tragedy can be  the Navy statement said the initial investigation was a an honest attempt to weigh impartially All the  and two years of subsequent testing a continue to support the initial investigations finding that no plausible accidental cause can be  at the time the Navy admitted that it Only had see Navy on Page 2 nato officials of nuke cuts from wire reports Taormina Sicily nato defense ministers backing president George Bush a nuclear initiative and going a step further thursday endorsed the elimination of 80 percent of the alliances tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Defense minister Virginio Rognoni announced the decision on the opening Day of a two Day meeting of the alliances nuclear planning group mpg at this sicilian resort. The decision comes in the Wake of the end of the cold War the collapse of the Warsaw pact As a military threat to Western Europe and the failed coup in the soviet Union in August. Besides Bush a announcement that among other things the United states will unilaterally remove All of its nuclear artillery shells and Short Range missile warheads from Europe the cuts also will include about half the a free fall airborne nuclear bombs kept in Europe a the total estimated variously at Between 900 and 1,400. That would leave the .-controlled nuclear deterrent in Europe at somewhere Between 450 and 700 see nato on Page 2 going for the Gold olympic preview in this weekend s sunday Magazine