European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 crowd the Berlin Wall following word that East Germany had lifted travel restrictions. Unification would to Ken Clauso final peace cold War continued from Page 52 Clauson Hadnot heard any news. Head spent the Day driving Back from a staff meeting at the papers Griesheim Headquarters but he Hadnot listened to the radio during the six hour trip. A what news a he asked. A the Walls coming Down a the editor said. A a you a better get your ass to  Clauson grabbed four hours of sleep repacked and headed for the former German capital in his staff car. By the time he arrived at the Helmstadt Border checkpoint hundreds of East German Wartburg and trabant were already pouring into the West. The Celebration was even More frantic at checkpoint Charlie where Champagne slugging berliners were knocking gaping holes in the Grafitti covered Barrier that had divided their City for 28 years. By evening More than 100,000 jubilant East germans had jammed the City a Western sector to Sample their newfound Freedom. Another million headed West the following Day and officials processed travel documents for an additional 1.5 million. Clauson was joined by staff writer Joseph Owen and photographers Dave Didio and l. Emmett Lewis and the team spent More than a week documenting the biggest party in Germany a postwar history. Getting interviews became As simple As standing near the remains of the Wall and stopping any of the thousands of East germans Rushing through. Occasionally it was even easier. Clauson remembers one East German woman who drove up unrolled her car window and squeezed his hand. A thank you a she said sobbing softly. Soviet officials warned that further freedoms were unlikely but it was Clear that the fall of the Wall had inextricably linked the two Germany. Final unification occurred less than a year later on oct. 3, 1990. The Gao a recommendations on stars and stripes began taking form in late 1989, when the Pentagon hired Veteran newsman Phil Foisie As the papers ombudsman. Foisie younger brother of world War ii staffer Jack Foisie was in the Twilight of a distinguished career that included stints As Foisie foreign editor of the Washington Post and executive editor of the International Herald Tribune. Over the next year Foisie began drafting new regulations to help protect stripes from command influence interviewed most of the two staffs and helped the papers hire new civilian editors. The european stripes selected Bern Zovistoski managing editor of the times Union in Albany n.y., to replace Mert Proctor who had held the managing editors Job 22 years. Proctor who had been named in two of the 12 instances of news management identified by the Gao finally agreed that it was time to turn Over the papers reins and resigned. A they were As Happy to see me leave As i was to go a said Proctor now retired in san Antonio. A my single biggest mistake was staying too  As part of the restructuring proctors Slot was upgraded and Given the new title of  the editor in chief Job a position held by air Force col. Gene Townsend since late 1989, was renamed a commander publisher a while the european come was predesignated the papers  Zovistoski arrived for duty on Jan. 7, 1991, and had time for a few hurried meetings with senior staff members before coalition air forces began bombing Iraq. The storm in the desert had begun. Red sox Clinch a in Al East to. Reunited germans celebrate to Lac tvs am o4 l Emmett la win Wall concert by cell lat Mstislav Rostropovich. Saturday april 18, 1992 50th anniversary special edition a Page 55