European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 1993 Frk at a ounce a new study suggests that exercises no Fountain of youth for men who wait until Middle age to get int shape adding Only about 10 months to their lives. See Story on Page 6. Aspin stand in ready should defense Secretary Les Aspin be impaired and unable to conduct his duties the Job would fall to a Bush administration appointee who has remained at the Pentagon. Page 4 House oks benefits the House moved quickly on the first piece of president Clinton s eco nomic package a $5.7 billion Extension of jobless 7 so delinquents savings and loan defendants who escaped Long prison terms in sex. Change for making penalty pay ments have repaid Only a fraction of what they owe records 12 Index Abby Ann Landers. 16 classifieds. 25-28 comics. 16, 22-23 commentary. 15 crossword. .16 faces n places. 24 focus. 17-21 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. 27 letters. 14 Money matters. 12 sports. 30-36 to listings. 35 weather. 13 to correction because of a reporter s error an Arti Cle feb. 11 incorrectly stated information concerning the education level of new military recruits. For the army and the Navy recruits without High school Diplo Mas declined by 6 percentage Points in the first Quarter of fiscal 1993. Services from Page 1 Idle hour theater to allow an anticipated overflow crowd to participate in the service Bridges areas adjacent to the Idle hour theater the High school base sup port battalion Headquarters education Center and Terrace club will be available for parking for the service Bridges said. The lots cannot be used Friday to Park enduring work hours v corps spokeswoman maj. Susan Ives v corps officers were returning from a coordination meeting at . European come Headquarters in Stuttgart Germany Bridges and German flags at caverns in Frankfurt and at other v corps installations will be at half staff today and Frankfurt schools will close before noon according to a news release from v will be available to pick up students. There will be no school at All Friday for those students requiring Spe Cial transportation. Bridges said. All Frankfurt area support group employees also will get a half Day of administrative leave so they can go to the me Morial service according to Bridges. The three other soldiers injured in the crash remained hospitalized thursday. Capt. Eric j. Johnson 30, assigned to corps Headquarters As Robertson s aide de Camp was burned in the crash and remained in critical condition at St. Joseph s Hospital in Wiesbaden Bridges chief warrant officer 2 Christopher s. Mancini 25, and maj. William k. Ras Mussun 28, also suffered Burns and were evacuated to the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center in Germany where they remained in critical Condi Tion Bridges said. The Are expected to be transferred to Brooke army medical Center in san Antonio Texas according to Bill Swisher 7th med come spokes Man. Swisher could t provide an exact Date of the is an army Hospital that specializes in the care of Burn is assigned to co a 7th in 158th aviation regt. Rasmussen is As signed to co a 302nd military Intelli gence brigade and was working in theoffice of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence at v would not provide details on the extent of their did not know thursday where the bodies were or where autopsies would be performed. Dozens of soldiers thursday were sprucing up the grounds of the Abrans Complex in preparation for the memorial service. The Idle hour theater was to be close thursday night because of the ceremony. The deaths affected both soldiers an civilians in the Frankfurt military Community. It was pretty bad especially since they had families said set. Michael Diggs of the 284th my co. You never know these things Are going to happen said Carol Mimms who works for v corps personnel at the Abrams Complex. One Day you re Here the next Day you re gone. I Hope go blesses the families. It s the hardest thing leaving your kid behind Mimms Tola the stars and stripes on thursday at the Frankfurt shopping Center. How do you Tell your kids their father s gone you just have Tobe i sympathize with their families,0 said sgt. Donald Hiemstra of he co 22nd brigade. Anything you do in the military there s a risk involved. What happened there s nothing you can do about As of thursday no successors had been chosen for Robertson dons Berger and Kelly Bridges said. A team from the . Army safety enter at fort Rucker ala., was expected to arrive thursday to sift through wreckage to determine the cause of the crash Bridges said. Other events and activities in Frank Furt also have been postponed in Honor of the crash victims. The v corps sgt. Morales club Induc Tion ceremony scheduled for monday has been postponed until March 25. Al those who received invitations to the monday ceremony Are asked to recon firm their attendance at the March 25 ceremony with staff sgt. Daniel Kendall at Dan 320-7147/6083. The department of defense depend ants school All Star girls basketball tryouts originally slated for 4 . Today has been delayed until s . Baby from Page 1 to the Frankfurt Airport for an afternoon flight to Atlanta the Soldier placed the baby on a Blanket in the closet dressed in a to shirt and a diaper with no food or water Only a she closed the door. Byrd returned july 7 and found the dead baby. Placing it in a Box in the bedroom she moved into Barracks in Katterbach the someday. Two Days later she called military police and said a baby Sitter had called with bad news about the baby. The maps and Byrd went to the apartment on the Bleidorn housing area in Ansbach and found the body. There was evidence of insect larva which had formed Only since the body was removed from the her arrest Byrd has not been in confinement but limits have been placed other Liberty until she is sentenced. She was determined to have been sane at the time of the crime and mentally competent to stand is one of three children. Her father is a supervisor in a water treatment Plant and her Mother works in the textile Indus graduated from High school in 1989 and attended a nearby College for a year an half before enlisting in the army in late 1990. She was sent to Katterbach in august1991 and she worked As a food service work 1991, she did t Tell anyone even denying it when friends noticed her weight gain. Byrd s pregnancy was confirmed at the dispensary on feb. 18, 1992. During the next three months she frequently cancel medical appointments drawing attention from medical personnel. On May 20, a healthy baby 20 inches longhand weighing 6 pounds 8 ounces was born at the 98th general Hospital in Niernberg now the 3rd combat support Hospital. Mother and daughter were discharged May at the court martial the Only mention of the father came when Trant asked Byrd to confirm that the father had accepted no responsibility for the baby. He was not identified in court. Friends described Byrd s relationship with the baby As Normal and said she told them her parents were Happy to hear the news. On the night before her leave began she told friends the baby would stay in the states with her family after she returned to Germany. But in the morning Byrd made the Deci Sion that took the baby s life. Under questioning from Trant she indicated the Deci Sion came to her Only a few minutes before she friends arrived to take her and the baby to Frankfurt she told them the baby was going with a Friend. To soothe their con Cern Byrd told them my baby will be a few hours later she boarded the plan for Atlanta. What did you intend to happen to the baby at that time Trant asked. That she die Byrd answered. Byrd said she told to one in the state about the baby. Medical investigators concluded the baby probably cried until it Lap sed into a coma and then into Shock. The cause of death they said was starvation an dehydration. There was no mention of How Long Acile stayed alive in the closet. she became pregnant in the fall of Clinton from Page 1 and guard against drawing America into deeper military role in the Region administration officials said that to achieve that goal the planes would Fly High enough to avoid danger of being shot Down and would have no combat escorts. Experts said that would limit the effectiveness of the Airdrop because of the difficulty in pinpointing Airdrop to those in need from High altitudes. Clinton has stressed All week that the operation would be a strictly humanitarian venture saying on wednesday i would be a great mistake to read this. As some initial foray toward a wider Mili tary fewer of personnel aiding somalian Relief Ramstein a Germany is the number of air Force personnel stationed in Europe who Are taking part inthe Relief Mission for Somalia stands at 209 As of this week according to air Force officials. . Air forces in Europe s contribution has dropped from a High of 190 on Jan. 22 to 65 As of monday said Doug Moore an air mobility come spokes Man. The majority of Europe based air Force personnel involved in operation restore Hope Are assigned to air mobility come units. Although stationed at european bases the 144 am personnel Are not counted in Safe. Am personnel assigned to the opera Tion Are from Raf Mildenhall England and Rhein main and Ramstein air bases both in Germany said maj. Ann Simp son an am spokeswoman from Scot Tafb 111. The breakdown is 12, 36 and 96 respectively. The airmen Range from Security police to intelligence officers to mechanics Simpson said. Most of the Ramstein based personnel included in am figures Are either in Egypt or Spain Simpson said. Nearly All those from Rhein main Are either in so Malia or in Kenya. Milden Hau s am personnel Are divided among Somalia Kenya and Italy. Last weekend 94 Safe airmen re turned to their Home stations from mor6n a Spain. The Job specialities ranged from transportation to refuelling to Public affairs. Of the 65 Safe airmen still deployed All but one Are stationed in the somalian capital of Mogadishu Moore said. The Lone airman is a postal worker in Kenya. In Mogadishu there Are 52 Security police five weather people and seven postal workers. Ute n n g c t c � s s 1
