European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 3, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9force bids Sac grand Farewell new streamlined strategic come initiated Offutt fab neb. A the strategic air come was put to rest monday As the United states sheathed a but did no to Shelve a the nuclear sword it has wielded through four decades. At the same time air Force and Navy nuclear weapons came under the control of a single strategic come a streamlined military creature born of lean budgets and an easing nuclear threat. A the horror of world War Iii never came. You kept the peace a Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said during a ceremony at Offutt fab. The base has been Sac Headquarters since 1948. Navy dress White uniforms mixed with air Force blues As 2,500 people gathered in a hangar to bid Farewell to Sac. With its Force of bombers and missiles Sac was the nations nuclear sentry during the cold War. For years it was responsible for the nations nuclear bombs and missiles and planned for Long Range or strategic wars. A since 1946, Sac has had to get it right every hour 11 a. A the air Force chief of staff. Of every Day a said Gen. Merrill a. A a Tony Mcpeak the air Force chief of staff. Also attending the ceremony were air Force Secre sex tour organizer charged in thai prostitution Case tary Donald b. Rice and Gen. George Lee Butler sacks last commander and the strategic Comdr a first. A Blue shroud was placed Over the familiar Sac Emblem of an armoured fist clutching thunderbolts and an Olive Branch. The new commands Flag was unfurled and Powell presented it to Butler to Mark the Start of the new command. Howitzers outside the hangar thundered out a 19-Volley Salute. Sac was glorified in movies such As strategic air command in 1955, starring Jimmy Stewart and june Allyson and bombers b-52 in 1957, starring Karl Malden. Sacks Mission was to deter nuclear War by posing such an enormous threat of reprisal that no one would dare risk an attack on the United states. President Bush announced the formation of the strategic come on sept. 27,1991, when All of sacks bombers and minuteman ii missiles were taken off nuclear Alert. A Sac really lost its Mission with the end of the cold War a said David Sorenson professor of National Security at the air War College at Maxwell fab Ala. Sac was one of three commands being phased out in an air Force restructuring. The planes pilots and other assets of Sac the tac air come and the military Airlift come were redistributed among two new commands the air combat come at Langley fab va., and the air mobility come at Scott fab Iii. The strategic come will focus solely on planning. Land air and submarine based nuclear weapons will be under the command of a single unit for the first time. The new command is a fraction of the size of Sac which had 103,000 airmen at 21 bases worldwide. The strategic come will have 2,900 people All based at Offutt. Air Force generals and Navy admirals will alternate As commanders of the new command. The air combat come will provide fighters and bombers in time of War and will train combat pilots and Crews and maintain warplanes in peacetime. It controls More than 2,000 aircraft and 950 intercontinental ballistic missiles on 37 bases. The air mobility come comprises Airlift and air refuelling units. Bangkok Thailand up an american travel agent who advertised sex Tours to Thailand in . Magazines and on radio stations has been arrested for procuring prostitutes in the first such Case of its kind police said tuesday. They said Gunther Frentz 50, a German born . Citizen from Miami was arrested monday night in a hotel in the resort City of Battaya 60 Miles Southeast of Bangkok and a Center for the sex Trade in Thailand. Nine american men who were with Frentz and had paid him $2,000. Each to of on the Tours were allowed to go free olice col. Sanit Mephan said. He said a judge tuesday charged Frentz with procuring prostitutes and set bail at the equivalent or $400. Prostitution is illegal in Thailand but widely tolerated. Officials estimate hundreds of thousands of women and men Are working in the sex Trade Many of them minors. Authorities under pressure from welfare organizations have recently raided scores of brothels to free children forced to work As prostitutes. Sanit said it was the third time Frentz had organized a sex tour to Thailand for americans. A this time we had enough evidence to arrest him a Sanit said. He said Frentz who runs a Miami based company called g and f Tours had placed advertisements in . Sex magazines showing a picture of himself with a naked Young thai girl. A the ads said a if you come to Thailand you can have sex with a girl like this and a have different one every Day a a Sanit said. He said thai tourism officials based in the United states had noticed the ads and others by Frentz on . Radio stations and had informed thai police authorities. Police then followed Frentz after he arrived in Bangkok on May 22. A this is the first time we be arrested a foreigner for organizing sex Tours a Sanit said. Paris court imposes life term on fugitive terrorist Carlos Paris apr the notorious terrorist Ilyitch Ramirez Sanchez Best known As Carlos the jackal has been sentenced in absent a to life in prison for the 1975 murder of two French intelligence agents. A Paris court handed Down the sentence monday for the murder of two agents and the attempted murder of a third member of the direction for territorial surveillance Frances counter espionage Agency. Carlos killed Raymond Dous and Jean Donatini on june 27,1975, while they were investigating january attacks at Paris orly Airport on jetliners owned by Al a1 Israel airlines. Carlos 42, of venezuelan origin is linked to some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks of the 1970s. He has thus far managed to evade capture. He is also said to have Haa a role in the 1972 massacre of israeli athletes at the Munich olympics the 1974 takeover of the French embassy in 4 the Hague and the 1976 hijacking to Entebbe Uganda of an air France jetliner. He is most notorious however for the december 1975 attack on open Headquarters in Vienna Austria in which three people were killed and 11 taken hostage. Ministers in the organization of Petroleum exporting countries were taken in a hijacked plane to North Africa in a bid Carlos for $1 billion in Ransom. Since 1970, Carlos has been linked to various palestinian groups including the popular front for the liberation of Palestine which has claimed a number of  club go plays springtime Santa to kids by sue Harper staff writer bad Kreuz Nach Germany a a bad Kreuz Nach Soldier saved playtime for 120 kindergarteners in Eastern Germany. When staff sgt. Rufus f. Henson jr., coordinator for the bad Kreuz Nach Kontak club and other club members recently visited bad Kreuz Nacho a s Ster City Neu Ruppin they discovered that someone 1 and stolen the school funds from a kindergarten in the former East German City. Kontak clubs work toward fostering relationships Between germans and americans. Henson a nuclear chemical and biological instructor immediately offered his clubs help and jotted Down some items the school needed said Bernardine Mair Klein Public affairs officer for bad Kreuz Nacho a 410th base support in. From local German merchants soldiers and their family members the club collected toys handicraft items and office supplies. The club collected enough supplies to fill a garage. The problem of How to move the goods from bad Kreuz Nach to the school was solved when a local Ger a Man car rental company Lent the club a  to move the goods to the school he said. A after we finalized some leftover business with City officials we went Over to the kindergarten a Henson said. A was boxes were handed to me i could hardly put them Down there was such a crush of children. When the boxes were All unloaded the children seemed to be rest afraid to touch them at first. When they realized that they could a it was like  the children expressed their thanks by performing songs and skits Ana by putting together a Book of their drawings. The bad Keu Zach Kontak club was not always so Spon Sive. When Henson arrived at bad Kreuz Nach in november of 1990, he soon Learned that the 5-month-old club was not in the same league As a similar club he had known during his earlier tour in Germany. Because of budget cuts the bad Kreuz Nach club had lost its full time coordinator and the club died. The club was revived with the appointment of capt. Jac Higgins As the Kontak clubs project officer. However Higgins had other duties and the Job of coordinator Henson for the club was unfilled. Then Henson entered the picture. He burst into Higgins office rattling off dozens of ideas on How to improve the club including projects he believed the group could perform Higgins said. A it was Rufus leadership that really got the club rolling a Higgins said. Some of Henson a ideas stemmed from experience such As those in 1985 when he was a member of Geln Hauseng a Kontak club where he said he was a a volunteered by his command. A a initially i did not like the idea of being in Kontak a he said referring to his experience in Geln Hau sen. A. I done to like being told you will do this and you will have  a but he later grew fonder of the club which elected him As president while he was training in Vilseck. Henson left the army in 1978 and returned to his Hometown of Monticello ark., where he attended Arkansas state University full time and worked full time at a local factory. A then one Day i woke up and wanted to go Back to Germany a Henson said a and i knew the army could get me  five months after rejoining the army Henson returned to Germany. In less than three months after becoming the Kontak club coordinator at bad Kreuz Nach Henson steered the clubs activities from discussions about culture to experiences with culture. Those included fund raisers for the poor and taking underprivileged German and american children camping. Dub members plan to spending june 25 with several children from the former soviet unions chernobyl area where the worlds worst nuclear reactor Accident occurred in april 1986. The club invited the children who Are sponsored by the bad Kreuz Nach City officials for a cookout and games