European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Kos Fisty 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 17 350 monday May 4,1992 0 8693 battered . Seeks to ease racial wounds los Angeles a the City of Angels prayed for peace under armed guard at Church services sunday in riot torn areas and the death toll Rose to 44, making the three Day rampage the nations bloodiest civil unrest in 75 years. Gunshots fired at a police car near one Church punctuated the tension. As services at the greater Ebenezer missionary Baptist Church in South Central los Angeles were ending the pastor asked the congregation to remain inside while police investigated the shooting. A a we a like it to be Over a said Willie tagger 54, an aircraft Mechanic. A i done to think it will end until chief Daryl Gates is gone and the four police officers Are gone. How can we heal if the problem is still there we can never forget  in the midst of the devastation Chimes rang out from the Modem Bell Tower at St. Brigid a Catholic Church a predominantly Black and hispanic Church that the pastor said had been preparing for racial unrest for years. A a everything a been going against the Black Community. The ghettos Nave been getting worse and worse with drugs gangs and alcohol a said the Rev. Paul Banet a White priest from the josephite order which serves Only Black communities. The mood appeared More relaxed sunday. Troops in Korea town were smiling and in some places were without weapons or helmets. One pair of National guardsmen danced to the loud music of a car radio at a traffic Light. Police guardsmen and California Highway patrol officers took snapshots of one another with burned buildings As backdrops. City officials made plans for the return of commuters today As los Angeles recovers from last weeks mayhem sparked by the acquittals wednesday of four White current and former policemen who see wounds on Page 2 a would be surfer is escorted from Venice Beach in los Angeles on saturday morning. The City Council closed beaches As a precaution in the aftermath of rioting. Americans fleeing Sierra Leone by Luke Britt staff writer . Military planes on sunday began evacuating americans from the West african nation of Sierra Leone despite assurances from Junta leaders there that . Citizens Are not in danger. About 800 americans Are in Sierra Leone where military leaders on wednesday toppled the government of president Joseph Momoh in a coup. Americans in the country include state department employees private citizens and members of several military medical units based in Europe according to officials with the . European come in Stuttgart Germany which is coordinating the evacuation Effort. A the National provisional ruling Council announced in a radio address april 30th that americans were not in danger a said Navy cmdr. John Wood House eur come a chief of Public information. A but we Are concerned because some armed individuals have taken to  the state department has ordered All non essential . Government workers and their families to leave Sierra Leone Woodhouse said. Private american Citi Zens May remain in the country if they wish. Citizens from other countries May also be evacuated by . Aircraft he said. A c-141 Star lifter transport plane took off from Rhein main a Germany just after 11 . Saturday and was followed at 3 . Sunday by another c-141, Woodhouse said. Also involved in the evacuation Are c-130 Hercules transport aircraft from Raf Alconbury England. Woodhouse and officials at Alconbury said they did not know How Many c-130s were involved. The first c-141 carrying see Sierra on Page 2 German Union threatens to disrupt to reception Frankfurt Germany apr with government employers and Public service unions at a standoff after a week of strikes a postal Union official threatened sunday to Black out National television to Force wage negotiations. Meanwhile the Public transport Union said its Airport service workers at All major airports in Germany except Frankfurt were joining in the strikes today. The Union said personnel at Frankfurt International Airport would Start striking at Midnight today. Postal Union spokesman Kurt Van Haa Ren was quoted by the Bild am sonntag newspaper As saying the strikes May soon include technicians at Central Antenna stations for National radio and television. A if the employers remain so stubborn then it could happen that television screens will be darkened a the newspaper quoted Van Haaren As saying. The move would affect Ard and Adf Public television and subsidiary television and radio stations throughout Western Germany the newspaper said. Millions of letters and packages Are backed up at Post offices As a result of the we Klong postal walkouts. Airports included in the strikes were Tegel and Tempelhof in Western Berlin Hannover Cologne Bonn and Riem in Munich the Union said. The Munich Berlin and Hannover airports also handle some International flights. Berlin and Hannover Airport officials announced they would shut Down see Union on Page 2 new air Force pilots face up to 3-year waiting game Lubbock Texas a Mark Babione joined the air Force with thoughts of soaring into sorties. Instead he a pushing papers. A i am not Down to making Coffee yet but maybe i will be in a few More weeks a he said. A i Type wills write letters and print out copies. Lets just say i miss  Babione 23, is one of nearly 600 air Force Pilot training graduates whose flying careers have been put in an indefinite holding pattern because of the end of the cold War and subsequent military cutbacks. A a it a kind of hard for the pilots to equate that All this is happening because our team has won a Saidt air Force col. Larry Driskill. A they Are not flying because we won the cold  the military is in a period of transition but the air Force a is determined to get aviators in air planes a he said. The number of a banked graduates a pilots put in predicaments like Babione a is expected to reach 700 by the end of the year according to air Force records. Although top air Force pilots in each graduating class Are assured of flying assignments those finishing behind the class leaders have not been see pilots on Page 2