European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 52, no. 196 500 sunday october 31, 1993 r d 8693 a i do think it was racial. They did t know they were tigers. They do now and we have to go Back there for a world cup meet in january Bob Hughes . Luge association excellence is a waste delegates Tell army by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the army communities of excellence program has be come a wasteful Effort that should be scrapped because it returns too Little Benefit to too few people delegates attend ing the Ltd annual army family action planning conference said Friday. But army officials who administer the program strongly disputed that View claiming acre is successful and viable and not nearly As costly As some people seem to think. Along with making various see army on Page 2 Navy institutes tougher policy for smokers by Cindy Killion Washington Bureau Washington sailors who smoke can t be forced by commanders to permanently snuff their cigarettes but a new Navy policy restricts where they can Light up. The policy released last week generally limits smoking to places that nonsmokers can avoid such As designated space son the decks of ships or to inside rooms that have air ventilated directly to the see Navy on Page 2 i ii " i ssh. I a i of 5 / Black athletes accosted in German disco Berlin a German rightist extremists insulted and beat up a Black member of the american men s luge team after the . Athletes walked into a discotheque at an Eastern German Winter resort police said saturday. The americans were accosted shortly before Midnight Friday in the Kur Park Klause disco in oberhoff once East Ger Many s Winter sport capital and where \ the . Team had been training. About 15 known German rightists All in their 20s, told the americans when they came in to get lost said regional police chief Karl Heinz Malina in nearby Suhl about 155 Miles Southwest of Ber Lin. A fistfight broke out after the Ger mans heavily insulted the two Black americans on the team police said in a statement without specifying what words were hurled at the americans. Police said a 26-year-old Black Ameri can sustained facial bruises but was not seriously injured. He was identified by . Luge association official in new York As Duncan Kennedy of Lake Placid . Kennedy is third in the world cup standings. Also roughed up was Robert Pipkins see attack on Page 2 a via to a beast master its a Bomor artist Dennis Felber puts finishing touches on a foot High smoking Wolf called the creature is one of Many characters in a massive haunted House at Burg Nan Stein in Lan Stuhl Jermany. The haunted House continue today from 4 to 10 . Tickets and information Are available from the Uso on Ramstein a. The damage from the 13 major wildfires in California last week apes burned about 162,000 structures destroyed about 720 people displaced about 25,000 number injured 62 damage estimate $500 million firefighters gain ground in California by the associated press firefighters made big gains against Southern California s devastating wild fires saturday As a feared return of the powerful Santa Ana wind failed to materialize and a smothering Blanket of humidity fell on the Region. Brush fires that swept Over 162,01 0 acres and burned some 750 Homes and other buildings remained entrenched in heavily overgrown areas. Thousands of firefighters gained ground in surrounding the fires. It s up to Mother nature. If it stays like this we should be in Good shape battalion chief Terry Manning said. The 16,080-acre Una Blae Shic damaged or destroyed 366 Orange county Homes was 100 percent contained. increased to 55 percent at the 5,700-acre Altadena fire where is Homes burned and 17 were damaged. Firefighters contained 90 percent of the 37,600-acre Green Meadow Blae that destroyed 35 houses and eight to bile Homes in Ventura county. I have jut been terribly in pissed with the work of i a people out there fighting the fires president Clinton Washington. Losses from More than a do in see ground on Pago 2 4? 3 a l. \ f 1c 4 j. H 4i j. �._. ,. R a / 1 � / � v t the trouble and Comfort of Bein i if -?.--a m 9aiwnl Vav v a 44uhk i a i i \ r \ a 1 see sunday my Galna Standard t8me Hgt urns to a Tirica i �.6� r of
