European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes thursday May 7,1992hospital Falls casualty to draw Down by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a seventy five years to the Day after it was mobilized to take part in world War i the 5th general Hospital cased its colors wednesday the first army Hospital unit in Europe to succumb to the draw Down of . Forces. The Hospital plans to discontinue inpatient services by june 30. After that troops and family members who need inpatient treatment will be referred to a German Hospital or to another army Hospital. Maj. Gen. Michael j. Scotti jr., commander of 7th medical come praised the Hospital staff but used the occasion to characterize the future of . Military Medicine. Even though the . Military is shrinking he said the number of people eligible to use its medical system will remain about 9 million.. Completes evacuation of 400 from Sierra Leone by the stars and stripes the evacuation of americans from Sierra Leone ended monday after 400 americans were airlifted from the West african nation in the Wake of an april 29 coup. Another 400 americans chose to remain in Sierra Leone according to figures released by the state department. On april 29, two Days after Sierra Leone celebrated its Independence Day witnesses said two truckloads of disgruntled Sierra Leone soldiers led by mid level officers rolled into the capital City of Freetown and overthrew the government of president Joseph Momoh. Six people were reported killed during the coup. The state department on saturday ordered All nonessential . Government workers and their families to leave Sierra Leone said Navy cmdr. John Woodhouse spokesman for the . European coins. Private american citizens were offered transportation to Rhein main a Germany or Dakar Senegal but did. Not have to leave Woodhouse said. The evacuation began sunday when two c-141 Star lifters from Rhein main and four c-130 Hercules from Raf Alconbury England flew to Lungi Airport near Freetown Neucom said. The command coordinated the evacuation. Lungi Airport which had been closed since the takeover was quiet throughout the evacuation military pilots said. . Special forces units were patrolling the flight line they said. In addition to the americans 42 nationals from Germany Canada Liberia Sweden Denmark Thailand Japan Korea and Lebanon were evacuated via c-130 flights to Dakar according to Neucom. Some Sierra Leone ans were also taken to Dakar the command said. The first c-141 flight evacuated a 79-member Neucom medical team to Rhein main. The american unit had been participating in a medical exercise and humanitarian Mission in Sierra Leone when the coup occurred the second Star lifter brought 46 americans and 11 third county nationals to Rhein main. Nine c-130 flights carried the remainder of the evacuees to Dakar according to the release. The Choice of whether to go to Rhein main or Dakar was left to the evacuees Woodhouse said. Some people wanted to remain near Sierra Leone so they could return As soon As the situation stabilizes he said. The number of troops will dwindle but the military expects the percentage of married troops with children to Rise among those who remain Scotti said. Also he said the number of retirees eligible for military medical services will increase. Or. Col Philip j. Keating the Hospital commander focused on the past. Outlining 5th general a history he noted that the United states suffered its first casualties in world War i when an air raid killed four 5th general troops on sept. 4, 1917. The Hospital was supporting the British expeditionary Force then . Infantry units had not yet arrived at the Battlefront. The Hospital was one of six organized by prestigious . Universities with private funding and sent off to War. Harvard University was 5th general a sponsor. A there was no precedent for this no equipment no table of organization very Little guidance and very Little funding a Keating said who then added wryly a with regard to funding we appear to have come full Circle a the units first Days were its glory Days and not Only because of its Early involvement in the War. It also boasted some of the nations finest medical minds including Harvey Cushing a Pioneer in neurosurgery. The Hospital unit also participated in world War ii. Supporting troops in Normandy Northern France and the Rhineland Keating said. It was reactivated aug. 20, 1951, after a six year hiatus and has been assigned to Stuttgart since then. Aside from withdrawing 5th general Hospital the army also plans to close the bad Cannstatt Middac the Post on which the Hospital functioned and turn it Over to German  with . World airlines now under the Protection of chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy code were the main competitors air France was not As concerned since it Felt it could compete. Air France is subsidized by the French government and so far has not followed British airways in taking Broad Steps to Cut its staff and become More efficient so it can compete without government help. Riff leads France to void airline pad by the new York times France renounced its 46-year-old commercial aviation agreement with the United states on tuesday escalating the dispute with american carriers Over their drive to have More flights to France this summer. But Dan Kasper an expert on International airlines said the step was largely symbolic since the agreement will stay legally in effect for 12 More months. The move is not expected to Lead to any flight cancellations in the near future but could end up disrupting schedules if the dispute is not resolved. The dispute centers on the right of . Carriers to add As Many flights As they want under the agreement that governs aviation Between the two countries. France can ask that the increases be re viewed at the end of the travel season in the fall but not before they Are put into effect. Air France however has turned to its government for help to limit the increases since powerful airlines such As american Delta and United have entered the French Market in a big Way. Kasper said that As Long As weak carriers such As pan american world airways inc., which has been liquidated and trans David Irving who Calls Auschwitz deaths a hoax looks at a protester with a sign in memory of the  sentences writer to jail for defending Hitler s regime Vienna Austria apr Gerd Honsik a right Wing writer and publisher was convicted tuesday of Neo nazi activities for writings that defended Adolf hitlers third Reich and was sentenced to 1 i years in prison. In Germany meanwhile a judge fined British historian David Irving $6,000 for publicly insisting that the nazi Gas Chambers at Auschwitz Poland were a hoax to draw tourists to the Camp. Honsik was the second austrian to be convicted after parliament revised anti nazi Laws this year to reduce penalties that had been seen As too harsh. For years Austria had been accused of condoning nazi propaganda because courts often shied from sentencing defendants to the minimum of five years previously required for spreading views supporting hitlers regime. The revision allows sentences of one year to five years. Honsik who said he would Appeal has published writings disputing among other things that the nazis systematically killed hundreds of thousands of jews at Auschwitz and other extermination Camps. Judge Walter Stockhammer ruled that Honsik a writings were a misleading propaganda like presents1011 nazi activities a far from any kind of scientific  in Munich Germany District judge Thomas Melzner ruled that Irving was guilty of slandering and disparaging the memory of the dead by claiming that the Auschwitz Gas Chambers were a postwar hoax. Irving once insisted that Hitler knew nothing about the holocaust which killed 6 million jews