European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 8, 1 �93 . The stars and stripes Page 5navy chief backs wider women s role let them Fly in combat serve on All ships o Keefe say by the los Angeles times Washington Navy Secretary Sean c. Of Keefe says the Navy should let women Fly combat aircraft a missions and serve aboard Alt Navy ships including submarines and amphibious vessels. Of Keefer a comments wednesday during his final Days in office Are not binding but they signal a changing attitude among Navy officials indicating that efforts to broaden the role of women in the service probably will not meet with the same opposition that they have in the past. His remarks made in an address to midshipmen at the . Naval Academy in Annapolis md., Are in contrast with the recommendations of the presidential in the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 8,1983 a former president Ford and the comic cat Garfield made the International Dull Marius club list of Quot the 10 dullest americans.�?�. 20 years ago Jan. 8,1973 a a sniper with a High powered Rifle holed up in a burning new Orleans High Rise hotel and shot at police firefighters and bystanders. At least four people were killed. 30 year Sago Jan. 8,1963 a the soviet Union criticized China for backing a dog. Matic divisive views Quot then in a carefully worded statement appeared to Call for a conference to Settle their dispute. 40 years ago Jan. 8,1953 a a plane carrying 37 soldiers was reported missing Over Southern Idaho a Day after the soldiers arrived in Seattle from service in Korea and Japan. 50 years ago Jan. 8,1943 maj. Gen. William Porter chief of the . Army chemical warfare service predicted Axis forces would use Gas warfare. He vowed that Quot once they Start we will finish world War ii d 50 years ago today Jan. 8 1 9 4 3 the soviets Send a surrender ultimatum to the surrounded German 6th army at Stalingrad but the commander ignores the demand soviet troops capture Zimov Niki to the South increasing the threat to German forces trying to avoid being Cut off in the caucasus Region. On new Guinea. American soldiers japanese out of Taradena. Source 21$4 War w. H. Smith publishers inc world almanac Book of world War ii b son books corp., 1981 a commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces. That group urged president Bush in november to keep the combat aircraft closed to women. Bush has said he will defer a decision to the incoming administration of president elect Clinton who Many Pentagon officials expect will support a wider Range of options for women in the military. Of Keefe a political appointee who Wilt leave office with the Bush administration said he favors expanding Quot the role of women in combat in All the armed forces including permitting women to Fly combat missions As Well As to serve in All naval vessels Quot such Steps were taken last month by Australia. The decision announced less than a month after Australia dropped its ban on Gays in the military allows women to Fly combat aircraft and serve aboard submarines. Of Keefe added that the do Fen so department should a require the registration and potential conscription of women on an identical sociological basis As men a a proposal that has raised an outcry among conservatives. Of Keefe also said wednesday that he has Laid the groundwork for possible Legal action against those accused of assaulting women at the 1991 convention of tire Tail Hook association a group of Navy and Marine corps aviators. Cuban Pilot Carlos Cancio Porcel second from left is accompanied by from left rep. Robert a Torricelli d-nj., rep. Lncoln Diaz Balart r-Fla., and sen. Connie Mack rfla.,.at a meeting with reporters in Washington. Lawmakers rally behind airline Pilot who fled Cuba Washington up a bipartisan coalition of congressmen has called on the Justice department not to prosecute the cuban Pilot who Dir Vertex a passenger plane with 53 people aboard to Miami in a bid for political Asylum. The attorney general is still considering whether to charge Pilot Carlos Cancio Poncei with hijacking under a treaty that would require . Officials either to Deport Cancio to Cuba or prosecute him. Cancio appearing wednesday with members of Congress at a news conference on Capitol Hill said he is confident he will not be prosecuted. He said All 48 of the 53 people on Board who chose to stay in the United states were part of a yearlong plan to escape communist Cuba. Sen. Connie Mack r-Fla., called Cancio Quot living proof of the Ideal that Freedom is the Core of All human Cancio diverted the plane from its Domestic cuban route dec 29 As others subdued a reluctant co Pilot Landing the plane at Miami International Airport. Among the issues the Justice department and state department officials must consider is whether the five passengers and Crew members flown to Miami against their will Are victims of a hijacking. In a pcs Sage to All Navy personnel tuesday of Keefe ordered the chief of naval operations and the commandant of the Marine corps each to designate an officer who would determine the appropriate form of disciplinary proceedings for each offender in the Tail Hook scan order came As the Navy and Marine corps awaited the results of an investigation into the Tail Hook events by the department of defense a inspector general Dyrck a Vander Schaaf. O Keefer a predecessor ii. Lawrence Garrett 111, asked Vander Schaaf to conduct an Independent investigation of the Tail Hook incidents lifter a Navy inquiry that had been criticized As inadequate. Papers report a Remote China new York a a chinese dissident hiding since the Tiana men Square massacre arrived wednesday in the United states with documents telling of cannibalism in Remote China during the 1966-76 cultural revolution. Zheng i a Well known writer in China helped organize writers to support the student led Tiana men Square democracy movement. After hundreds were kilted when the government crushed the movement in 1989, Zheng whose name is pronounced a Juhng cd Quot went into hid ing. He became the object of a nationwide search. His wife writer and scholar Bei Ming was imprisoned for eight months. She eventually found her husband and with the help of a modern Day underground Railroad they were kept hidden and smuggled out of China. A in the past a person like me have hid Tor three years a said Zheng who landed wednesday night at new Yorkus Kennedy Airport after flying from Hong Kong. A but More and More people Are losing their Faith in the communist party. We were in Contact with about 100 people and no one sold us out. All of them helped us including Many we had never Zheng 45, smuggled documents out that Tell of cannibalism in Southern Guangqi province during the political Fervour of the cultural revolution. The documents were prepared by chinese local government offices in the 1980s, the new York times reported wednesday. The documents report such cases As students killing principals and eating their bodies to celebrate a Triumph Over a counter revolutionaries Quot and government run cafeterias serving human flesh the newspaper said. The cannibalism took place in Remote areas and there was no evidence that 1 anyone in the National communist party leadership was aware of it the newspaper said. 3 Whites charged with torching Black Man Tampa Fla. A three White men were arrested on attempted murder charges wednesday in a racist attack on a Black tourist who was doused with gasoline and set on fire. A note found at the scene said a one less Nigger one More to it was signed a a Kkt a sheriff Cal Henderson said. Investigators released sketches of the suspects tuesday and the sheriff said a tipster led to the arrest of the three a Jeff Ray Pellet 17, of Plant City and Mark a. Kohut 26, and Charles p. Work 33, both of Lakeland. The three labourers were jailed without bail on charges of attempted murder armed kidnapping and armed robbery. Authorities said three people abducted Christopher Wilson of new York City at gunpoint on new years Day from a suburban shopping Center. They allegedly forced him to drive his Bossy car 15 Miles to a Remote Field where he was robbed doused with gasoline subjected to racial slurs and set on fire. Wilson 31, remained hospitalized after skin graft surgery for second and third degree Burns Over 40 percent of his body. Wilson a clerk at a fort Lee n.j., brokerage who was on a working vacation was said to have told friends that his attackers taunted him by saying a a you re a Nigger boy and you re going to die. One More to
