European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes saturday february 29,1992 it Only hurts when you watch 54 s. Michael Abrams Brian Mccrea 7, can to Bear to watch during a recent dental exam. Or. It. Col Ken Eye checks out the Teeth of the second grader during children a dental health month at Izmir Turkey elementary school. World time bomb explodes in Hamburg train station from wire reports Hamburg Germany a a time bomb blew up 50 lockers and shattered the Glass panelling of an overpass in the Hamburg Harburg train station thursday but caused no injuries police said. No passengers or employees were present at the time of detonation which police estimated at 2 55 . The train station closes nightly for three hours beginning at 1 . The bomb made out of a Large fire extinguisher and a timer hurled one locker door 80 Yards onto a Railroad track. It also shattered the storefront windows of several nearby shops. Leftists claim bombing Athens Greece a a leftist group on thursday claimed responsibility for a bombing that injured 11 riot squad members. The bomb in a garbage bin exploded Early wednesday As a bus carrying the police stopped at a traffic a thu t. A pedestrian also was Hurt. Day Hon _ the revolutionary popular struggle accused riot police of terrorism in a letter it sent to the ethos newspaper.  paper debuts Moscow a a new monthly newspaper to be published simultaneously in the United states and the former soviet Union is making its debut this week. . Ambassador Robert Strauss was presented on thursday with a souvenir copy of the first edition of we a joint venture by Hearst corp. And Izvestia the former soviet government  officially closes at Cooke Barracks by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Goppinger Germany a the Tower clock on the former 1st inf div fwd he at Cooke Barracks was running an hour ahead Friday apparently nobody had cranked it Back to Standard time in september. But the division left last Spring and the remaining caretaker soldiers did no to need a clock to remind them that the american Era Here was Over. Quot this was my first duty station Quot said a Wistful Harvey Allen 58, whose internal clock suddenly sprang Back to 1953, when he served Here As an army medic. Allen and dozens of other spectators gathered at the Cooke Barracks Gate Friday morning to see it. Col. Jon Goodman commander of the base support battalion recite the posts epitaph. In a ceremony notable for its succinctness Goodman bid the City goodbye and handed a symbolic oversized key to Frank Richter of the German Federal property office. Quot today is an important Point in time. The Goppinger Post is closing its Gates after 47 peaceful years a Goodman said in German Reading from Index cards. Quot we done to know whether we should celebrate or complain a Goppinger lord mayor Hans Haller told the Small group adding that he thinks the army left gop Pingen about five years too soon. The Federal government will Lodge 850 Asylum seeking refugees at Cooke Barracks and has reserved the site for six years Haller said after the ceremony. The City wanted the property for housing and Industrial expansion and draws Consolation Only from Bonne a agreement this week to limit the refugee population. A fall the same what they re planning Here is a Burden a Haller said. If the Cooke Barracks release had followed the issuance of an anticipated new government policy on Asylum the City s chances might have been better he said. The Post dates to 1930, when a Ger s4s jowl to Owen three figures in the distance Are the Only sign of activity on Cooke Barracks main Street Man company leased the property from the City and set up a private Airfield. The German air Force took it Over in 1935. I 648 Jomp Howen it. Col. Jon Goodman commander of the base support battalion at Cooke Barracks officially closes the Post Friday As Rosemarie inf idler looks on. Kiddler a German interpreter has worked at the Post for years. Lots assigned there flew tactical and Battle reconnaissance missions All Over Europe in world War ii. The . Army a 100th inf div captured the Post on april 20,1945, and it became a holding area for displaced persons and former prisoners of War. The 41st inf regt occupied it in mid-1946, followed by the 32nd Field arty brigade then the 28th inf div in 1951. The Headquarters of what later became the 1st army div arrived in 1957. The final tenant a the 1st inf div fwd a arrived in 1972. The Post is named for capt. Charles h. Cooke of Btry a 32nd Field arty in who died in a Battle in Sicily in 1943. The army awarded him the Silver Star and soldiers medal posthumously. Until Friday Cooke Barracks and its adjoining housing area were the Only major facilities left of the Goppinger military Community. The army released Bismarck Cavern Hardt Cavern and the Hardt housing area in nearby scow Sobisch a mind and the Mut Langen missile storage area in Mut Langen in 1991. Now there is nothing left of the Community Many gis knew simply As  the army Hast cleaned up two minor contamination Sites pumped out Oil and water separators sucked the double walled fuel tanks dry and removed its rubbish said it. Col. William Taylor popping end a engineering and housing director. A according to the condition and inventory report everything is in order a said Don Hesler chief of the army a Stuttgart real estate office. Quot thiere Are no  Haller also praised the posts condition but wondered aloud whether the Gentian Federal government would maintain it so Well. The closure also left Allen one of several dozen . Military retirees living in the area without a Job. He had worked in the Post procurement office for 10 years. Allen said his age might be an obstacle to his getting work. A if i can to ill just be Arbeit Slos unemployed for a while Quot he said