European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 27, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5school offers Tough lessons on terrorism Hurlburt Field Fla. A while an instructor has students attention at a firearms Range a couple of men who had been working with a shovel and Rake off to the Side drop their tools. Suddenly the men pull automatic weapons from a wheelbarrow and shoot up several dummies seated around tables at a mock up of a sidewalk cafe. The ambush is Over before Many in the a dynamics of International terrorism course realize what has happened. The bullets were real and so was the message next time it could be you. A a you be got to accept the fact you Are a potential target a says maj. Gail Gilbert anti terrorism chief at the air Force special operations school. The mock massacre a re enactment of a terrorist attack that killed several . Marines and civilians in Al Salvador is one of the dramatic lessons at the school which marked its 25th year april 15. A faculty reunion to celebrate the anniversary formally is set for May 1. The school started at Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle during the Vietnam War with a single course to prepare air Force personnel for duty in Southeast Asia. I terrorists like soft targets. We teach them to be hard  maj. Gail Gilbert now offers 13 courses including orientation on other cultures. Other subjects include Cross cultural communications revolutionary warfare psychological operations and crisis response management. Before and during the persian Gulf War last year the school made presentations at Hurlburt and at other bases to about 10,000 military personnel heading to the Middle East. About 100,000 men and women from All services also saw videos that the school produced on the Gulf crisis and Middle East culture. Regular courses Range from three to 10 working Days and class size ranges from Only a few to More than 100. Some courses dealing with military planning Are limited to top ranking officers with top secret clearances. Personnel from All military branches and some civilian agencies including the Cia secret service and state department attend the school. Most of them Are headed overseas and Many will be working with foreign nationals said col. Michael Flynt the schools commandant. The terrorism course features demonstrations of guns explosives and methods favored by terrorists. The attention getting demonstrations Are designed to make sure students take to heart the survival instructions. A terrorists like soft targets a Gilbert said. Quot we teach them to be hard  the primary lesson is to be unpredictable she said. Students Are urged to avoid getting into a routine. Capt. Thom Connell also has a Way of getting the attention of people in his Cross cultural communications course. Some students Are secretly assigned to act out fictional cultures with distinctive gestures and phrases that May sound like off color comments in English. A to the North american in the audience. They Are hearing something entirely different Quot Connell said. A we have seen people almost go to tears in frustration because they done to know what a happening. In the stars and stripes 10years ago april 27,1982 a British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of commons that some 180 Argentine prisoners were taken after British troops reclaimed the two main ports of South Georgia Island forcing the commander of the Argentine forces on the Falkland islands to surrender. 20years ago april 27,1972 a sen. George s. Mcgovern of South Dakota and sen. Hubert h. Humphrey of Minnesota logged victories in democratic presidential primaries in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania while sen. Edmund s. Muskie a Maine declared his rivals would have to a fight like hell Quot to keep him from the White House nomination.30 years ago april 27,1962 a a Federal grand jury indicted the . Steel corp., Bethlehem steel and two other american steel companies on charges of conspiring to fix prices and Rig bids.40 years ago april 27,1952 a the Minneapolis lakers Defeated the new York knickerbockers 82-65 to win the National basketball association Crown before a crowd of 8,612 at Minneapolis. The lakers defense held the kicks to Only 10 Field goals in the first three quarters. World War ii50 years ago today 27 april1.9 .42 Luftwaffe bombers strike Norwich in Eastern England in another Quot Baedeker raid Quot staged in revenge for the Royal air Force attack a month earlier on the old port of Lubeck in Northern Germany. The March 28 attack by 234 Raf bombers destroyed Many ancient buildings and monuments and an angered Adolf Hitler ordered German commanders to retaliate against historic targets in England aids Pioneer found innocent of research fraud report says Washington a Federal researcher or. Robert c. Gallo has been cleared by the National institutes of health of any misconduct in his role in the discovery of the aids virus according to a published report. The Washington Post reported sunday that a 200-Page report by the health organization vindicated Gallo for his part in the Long running heavily publicized fraud controversy. The report was com lated last week and awaits final review i y superiors at the department of health and human services the Post said. The dispute began when French researchers accused Gallo or one of his lab assistants of stealing samples from them that eventually Lea to identifying the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids and developing a blood test for the infection. That dispute was settled by what amounted to an International treat signed at the White House in 198 under the Accord the . And French governments agreed that their scientists would share credit for the discovery and that the two governments would split proceeds from sales of the blood test. However the French assertions against Gallo formed the basis for intense scrutiny by congressional investigators and a 50,000-word invest Gallo native article published by the Chicago Tribune in 1989. Although the report finds Gallo inno cent of any wrongdoing it says he did behave in a a less than collegial Quot manner and was a self serving in the Way he portrayed some of his aids research the Post reported. The paper quoted Dani Bolognesi an aids researcher at Duke University in Durham n.c., and a Friend of Gallons As saying a it is time to restore Bob Gallons Good name. Bob has to get on with his work and he has to get on being a Leader in the fight against aids. It s a tragedy that he has been incapacitated by this for so Long. No one deserves the kind of treatment Gallo has gotten since this  Jeff Levi director of government affairs at the aids action Council told the newspaper a this has gone on Long enough. To the overwhelming majority of people concerned about aids this has been a sideshow that has diverted the attention of too Many people at  malt liquor Label called insensitive to indians new York a the . Surgeon general has accused the makers of crazy horse malt liquor of being insensitive to indians and ignoring the High rate of alcoholism among them. Surgeon general Antonia Novello travelled to South Dakota last week to support an Oglala Sioux Campaign against crazy horse which is produced by the g. Heileman brewing co. A this product is insensitive to the plight of the american Indian and the Progress that has been made against alcohol abuse on reservations a Novello told a news conference. She accused the makers of crazy horse of marketing it to a a yuppies who had seen the movie dances with wolves. A spokesman for Hornell brewing co., which distributes crazy horse defended its efforts. A we certainly meant no harm at All. We looked at it As celebrating a great native american not denigrating him a Hornell spokesman Hank Shafran said. The malt liquor Industry has come under fire from Public health advocates for using sales strategies that allegedly target Low income Black hispanic and asian Consumers. Last july the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms ordered g. Heilemann a Power master malt liquor off the Market saying it violated a Law against using Brand names to promote alcohol Content. Malt liquors Are higher in alcohol Content than Beer. Jack Killorin a spokesman for the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms said the Agency warned that the name would be offensive. Killorin said however that the Agency cannot Stop the Sale of a product on the basis of an insensitive name. But he said the Agency was considering rescinding approval of the crazy horse Label on the grounds that its design makes the product look like a bottle of whiskey rather than malt liquor. Candace Moberly who Heads the Agency a product compliance Branch said Hornell was Given 10 Days to respond to concerns about the Label. A what we were trying to do with that bottle is have it be an antique style a he said Friday. Navy threatens to dismiss abused Petty officer source 2194 Days of our. W h Smith  Etc i s Lic a Virginia Beach a. A Navy officials told a Petty officer who was beaten by a former Boyfriend that she might be discharged if such incidents kept happening prompting outrage from advocates for battered women. Petty officer Francine Adams said she expected help from the Navy after she was abused last october. Adams suffered a concussion and missed two Days of work after the sex Boyfriend showed up drunk at her House and fought with her when she tried to get him to leave. Instead of help Adams got a disciplinary note and a Stern warning the Navy says was an attempt to shake her out of a pattern of letting herself be abused. A avoid abusive relationships a read the notice from senior officers at Nas Oceana. A any further deficiencies in your performance and or conduct. May result in disciplinary action and in processing for administrative  administrative separation is a form of discharge. A i did this voluntarily asked for help and it backfired a said Adams 27, a master at arms with nearly 10 years in the Navy. Candace feathers a Counselor who works with Oceana on abuse cases accused the Navy of a blaming the  a would they have taken this position if she had been raped a asked Marilyn Diaz coordinator of the my can a women in crisis program in Norfolk. Navy officials said they took the Strong Arm approach to Force Adams out of a pattern that has lasted at least five years. A a it a not a blaming of the victim a said . Julie tinker a Navy lawyer who is Adams supervisor