European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 8, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5navy chief backs wider women s role let them Fly in combat serve on All ships o Keefe says by the los Angeles times Washington a Navy Secretary Sean c. Of Keefe says the Navy should let women Fly combat aircraft missions and serve aboard All Navy ships including submarines and amphibious vessels. 1 of Keefe s comments wednesday during his final Days in office Are riot 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 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 will 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 we As to serve in All naval 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. O Keefe added that the defense department should a 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. A o 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 the Tail Hook association a group of Navy and Marine corps aviators. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 8,1983 a former president Ford and the comic cat Garfield made the International Dull Many a club list of Quot the 10 dullest 20 year Sago. 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 Quot dogmatic divisive views a then in a carefully worded statement appeared to Call for a conference to Settle their dispute. 40 year Sago 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 a a. 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 War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 8 1.9.43 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 drive the japanese out of Taradena. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp., 1931 cuban Pilot Carlos Cancio Porcel second from left is accompanied by from left rep. Robert g. Torricelli a Njo a rep. Lincoln Diaz Balart r-Fla., and sen. Connie Mack r-fia., 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 diverted 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 Porcel 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 Wilt 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 a 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. To a message 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 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 Derek j. Vander Schaaf. Of Keefer a predecessor h. Lawrence Garrett Iii asked Vander Schaaf to conduct an Independent investigation of the Tail Hook incidents after a Navy inquiry that had been criticized As inadequate. In Remote China new York apr 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 it China helped organize writers to support the student led Tiana men Square democracy movement. After hundreds were killed when the government crushed the movement in 1989, Zheng whose name is pronounced Quot Juhng Cen went into hiding. He became the object of a nationwide search. His wife writer and scholar Sci 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. Quot in the past a person like me have hid for three years a said Zheng who landed wednesday night at new Yorkus Kennedy Airport after flying from Hong Kong. Quot 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 Fer 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 anyone in the National communist party leadership was aware of it the newspaper said. 3 Whites charged with torching Black Man Tampa Fla. Apr 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 Quot one less Nigger one fare to it was signed Quot Kkt Quot 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 City Charles and p. A Reimet 17, of Plant Mark a. Kohut 26, and 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 no 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 be psst 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 Quot you re a Nigger boy and you re going to die. One More to
