European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 3, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3oliver North might run for Senate by b. Drummond Ayres or. The new York times Richmond a. A looking As fit and rested As a combat Marine just Back from a week of r amp r on China Beach Oliver l. North is recon hollering the front lines of Virginia politics probing to see if there san opening for him in inc states 1994 Senate race. He is traversing his adopted state from the mountains to the sea earnestly chatting up the Republican rank and file and hawking his Chest full of ribbons Brand of red White and Blue conservatism. He revels in the Freedom and in his View the vindication he has found in the 18 months since the collapse of the governments Effort to convict him in the Iran Contra scandal. V the conventional political Wisdom is that if the retired lieutenant colonel gets into the Senate contest in Virginia he could easily have his party a nomination and make a respectable general election run however heavy his baggage from the Iran Contra investigation. Norm says he Hasni to made up his mind and that family considerations will weigh heavily in his decision. If North ends up As his party a Senate nominee the Best bet at this Early Point is that his democratic opponent would be either sen. Charles s. Robb who has begun his re election Effort or gov. L. Douglas Wilder who under state Law cannot serve a second consecutive term and has begun talking about a Senate run. During the Iran Contra investigation North spent most of five years defending work he did Oft Middle Eastern and latin american affairs while he was assigned to the National Security Council in the Reagan White House. He was convicted of obstructing Congress destroying official documents and accepting an illegal gift. But in the end he had the charges overturned and dismissed largely because the courts could not North determine How much of the prosecutions Case rested on testimony that might have been tainted because it was Given tinder a Grant of congressional immunity. A Semper Fidelis a he tells audiences in that whispery Quot rasp using the a always faithful a motto of the Marine corps to remind people that in his View his role in the Iran Contra affair was nothing More or less than an american military Man doing his patriotic duty. The North faithful love it jumping to their feet with shouts and whistles and North follows with a Broad front attack on  accuses president Clinton of a a pandering to homosexuals and of breaking a Promise not to raise taxes. He Calls for term limits on an a a entrenched Congress and ridicules government bureaucrats and Quot knee irk a democrats for wasteful spending on Quot impractical programs. He blames a weak knee try judges and gun control advocates for the Rise in crime and urges advertisers to Boycott a press that a sadly  a what we need As a nation a he concludes pointedly a is to find men and women who understand that we re not Here on this Earth to endure the future. We re Here to change it. We done to have a new world  its a new world  its not the ten suggestions we live by. Its the ten  now 49 years old and out of uniform for five years he cams a living making Bullet resistant vests for police officers when he a not testing the political Waters making speeches writing and broadcasting political commentary and raising Money for state and National conservative causes. A Collie North has a powerful pull on conservatives in a state with a hard conservative Oase a says Larry Saba to a political scientist at the University of Virginia., a people know who he is they know exactly what he stands for and he can get their Money. He a got plenty of minuses from Iran Contra but the other Side of that is there arc plenty of people out there who see those minuses As pluses. A. By Kevin Dougherty Kaiserslautern Bureau. When it comes to his retirement Ensio Lindroth can to seem to understand what All the fuss is about. He is matter of fact when he Speaks about his half Century of service and employment with the army. A i always did my Best a said Lindroth 74. At a retirement party last weekend near Kaiserslautern Germany Lindrothe a family friends and colleagues did their Best to show their appreciation for the Man they affectionately Call  when he retired feb. 3, Lindroth was working As a maintenance specialist for the 200th theater army Materiel management centers Missic armament chemical systems division in Wei Brincken Germany. A . Army Europe spokeswoman said an estimated two dozen civil at employees will reach their 50th anniversary of government work during fiscal 1993. A although it is not unique it is a Milestone a said years service to be w army staff sgt Elayne Venema. A there is an increasing number of employees reaching this  Lindroth served three years in the army before going to work for the government As a civilian. He service held for teen a a. Killed in Mountain fall spent most of his civilian career in Berlin where he worked for nearly 30 cars following world a ii. During the Berlin Airlift he supervised the maintenance of the machines used to construct and care for the runways at berlins Tegel and Tempelhof airports that were used during the 15-month Airlift in 1948-49. More than 2.3 million tons of supplies were Lindroth flown into the City by planes that logged 277,264 Airlift missions. A that was the highlight of my civilian career my military career too a Lindroth said. A it was the most challenging. I worked about 16 hours a Day seven Days a week from the very beginning of the Airlift to the  it was also during this time that Lindroth met his German born wife Dorrit who worked As on army clerk. Born in Finland Lindroth was raised in a swedish speaking Region. He Learned to speak German in High school. Lindroth came to the United states in 1941 at the age of 22 As a merchant Marine. Though he spoke no English he remained behind because of the War and later became a naturalized american citizen. Lindroth joined the . Army in may1943, he split his service time in Europe among England France Germany and Czechoslovakia. He worked first with diesel engines that helped remove sludge from be Havre in Normandy France and later trained and served As an infantryman. Though he never saw combat Lindroth remembers guarding German prisoners of War and patrolling a temporary Border Between Pulzen and Prague in Czechoslovakia which at the time divided . And soviet troops. A we gave the territory to the rus skies a Lindroth said. A the people there were if pct. They wanted us to  Lindroth separated from the service in april 1946 and accepted a government Job in Berlin later that fall. He left the City in 1975 to take a Job in Frankfurt. He moved on two years later to Wei Brincken. By j. King Cruger Northern Italy Bureau a memorial service was held tuesday for a 19-year-old american employee of the armed forces recreation Center who died after a fall in the mountains above Garmisch Germany. The service for Morgan a. Stewart was held in the Sheridan Cavern Chapel in Garmisch at 2 30 . Stewart had fallen More than 300 feet from a Ridge thursday afternoon. At the time of the Accident Stewart was with Elisa Chebaro another american employee of arc Garmisch. They were looking for snowboards they had left on a Mountain slope two Days earlier according to Kevin Dixon an arc spokesman. They found the snowboards but their a return trip Down the Mountain took them into unmarked terrain Dixon reported in a tuesday news release. Chebaro said Stewart fell about 3 . Thursday after calling to her a a it a dangerous up ahead and it s getting hairy. Chebaro said she saw Only Snow falling about 10 feet ahead of her immediately after Stewart made the statement. She said she got As close As she could to where he had disappeared and called to him but there was no answer. Chebaro remained on the Ridge above where Stewart fell for More than 10 hours before she was rescued. She said that she had tried to locate him by sliding Down to a tree Quot next to a Cliff but that she could not safely move from there Dixon reported. A search for the pair was launched at 8 . Thursday by a joint american and German Rescue team after Stewart failed to report to work in the Kitchen of of Rcd Svon Steuben hotel. Two Rescue team members located Chebaro at 1 45 . Friday and found stewarts body shortly after. He was pronounced dead by a German doctor who estimated Stewart had died around 10 15 . Thursday. The doctor said Stewart apparently died of a head injury and exposure. Chebaro was wet and suffering from hypothermia and disorientation when she was rescued according to the Rescue Crew. Stew Art was a resident of grass Valley Calif. He is survived by his parents Laurence and Clinton Stewart and a brother Shannon also of grass Valley. Fulda memorial service set for airman killed in car crash Fulda Germany a amps a the 11th army Cav regt in Fulda will hold a memorial service today for an air Force airman killed in an Auto Accident saturday night. The service for airman 1st class Sean f. Wright assigned to the 11th army Cav regt will be held at 11 . In building 7526 at Sickels army Airfield. Wright 22, was killed when the car in which he and two other airmen were travelling skidded on Black ice and was hit by an oncoming car in downtown Fulda a v corps press release monday said. Wright assigned to det 6, 7th weather so with the stack horse regiment in Fulda was pronounced dead at the scene by a German physician who arrived with an emergency ambulance Crew. The cards Driver also an airman was taken to the Fulda Stadt Klinick where he is listed in stable condition. Another airman in the car was not injured. Department of the army policy states that the names and injuries of the Driver and the passenger May not be released without their permission a v corps spokesman said tuesday Wright was a native of Louisiana. He is survived by his father James t. Wright of Kenner la., and Mother Janis a. Wright of port Sulphur la 146 die in Congo ferry boat Accident Brazzaville Congo a at p. Board a ferry boat and sending scores least 146 Peop Way collapsed be Drowne As passengers when a gang rushed to into the Congo River police said tuesday. Fishermen firemen police and sailors stood thigh deep in water at Brazzaville sport tuesday morning retrieving the bodies which the tide carried in. They were taken to the main Hospital morgue of the Central african nation. The ferry had been preparing monday to carry expelled zairian from Brazzaville the Congo capital across the River to Kinshasa the capital of Zaire