European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday april 20, 1994 at a glance Roseanne Arnold in t smiling too much these Days. The Star of Rose Anne has filed for a divorce from Tom Arnold saying she has been a classic battered and see Story on Page 5. Allegation rejected a retired russian spy s allegations that j. Robert Oppenheimer gave the soviets information on . Efforts to build the first atomic bomb Are groundless experts say. Page 6 official favored the Way has been cleared for for eign minister Tsutomu Hata to be come Japan s next prime minister. Page 9 slowdown foreseen higher interest rates will slow . Economic growth but should t threaten a recession economists say. Index Abby Ann Landers 26 classifieds. 27-30 comics 24-26 commentary 17 crossword 26 education 14 faces n places 23 focus 19-22 Horoscope 29 Jumble 29 letters. 16 Money matters 18 sports 32-40 to listings 39 weather 15 correction because of a source error a Pentagon casualty list published tuesday incorrectly identified the Hometown of sgt. 1st class Benjamin Theodore Hodge one of 15 americans killed thursday when two . Air Force jets mistakenly shot Down two army helicopters in Iraq. Hodge is from Muskegon mich., according to a military Community spokeswoman in Darmstadt Germany. Also the source misidentified the military occupation of one of the victims. Chief warrant officer 2 Michael Allen Hall was a Black Hawk helicopter Pilot. General from Page 1 out at the House Deputy minority Leader Newt Gingrich r-ga., for suggesting that the incident was caused by military budget cuts. Levin called Gingrich s suggestion irresponsible and service representatives at a Senate hearing agreed that there was no evidence to support such a conclusion. Henry was asked about the stressful environment under which . Forces were operating in protecting kurdish civilians in the no Fly zone Over Northern Iraq. He said any area where pilots Are watching for enemy planes Over a Long period would be hazardous one. I Don t think anybody gets lax Over there he said. We re not dealing with cowboys or trigger Happy Henry appeared with officers from the army Navy and Marine corps at a Senate armed services committee hearing to As sess the lessons of the 1991 persian Gulf War. In that War 35 . Soldiers were killed by Friendly fire and 72 injured. But Henry said there were no incidents of . Planes firing at Friendly aircraft. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio said that Likely was because no iraqi aircraft were flying after Only a few Days of the War and pilots could assume that any plane they saw was Friendly. There were also no such incidents in the Vietnam War he said. Henry said pilots Are Given extensive training in identifying aircraft and Are frequently tested on whether they can recognize the silhouettes of a variety of fixed Wing planes and helicopters. An air Force investigation is to deter mine whether there were failures aboard an airborne warning and control system aircraft that was watching air traffic m the area or in the identification Friend or foe devices aboard the helicopters and the fighters. Those devices Are designed to allow Allied aircraft to identify each other. It. Gen. John h. Tilelli jr., army Deputy chief of staff for operations and plans said the military has made Progress in protect ing ground forces from Friendly fire including the development of Quick fix combat identification packages. The kits include special lights Thermal identification panels and systems that show the position of All forces. Roar from Page 1 hungry cartoon hound designed by Walt Disney in the 1940s. It s been a Good run Hodgkins said a most excellent he made his remarks at a lectern in front of an f-86 Sabre the first Type of plane to be flown at the base and an f-15 Eagle the final plane stationed there. . Aviators have been at Oesterberg since 1954 at the invitation of the dutch. They worked with the Royal Netherlands air Force As part of nato s efforts to secure Europe s cold War skies. The 21 Oesterberg aircraft were with drawn in a second wave of troop cuts that is reducing the number of . Forces in Europe from 150,000 to 100,000. The last of the Oesterberg f-15 eagles were transferred to Otis air National guard base near Cape cod mass., in january. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was among the 600 dignitaries base employees and families attending tuesday s event. He is the father of the nation s Queen Beatrix and husband to the Queen smother Juliana. The Prince an aviator who is said to have flown More than 200 kinds of planes since world War ii originally presented the unit its Royal Banner in 1974. The 32nd is the Only unit designated a Royal Squadron in the . Air Force according to command officials. He s the Prince always there whenever there is anything to remember or Cele brate. He s the Soldier s Man said Aad Meijer a spokesman for the Royal family. He is sort of the everlasting in the crowd was master sgt. Guil Lerono Espinosa who has been stationed atthe base for 14 years. He once was among 1,300 service members assigned to Soester Berg. By the end of september Espinosa and All the others will married a dutch a Man on his . Air Force col. William f. Hodgkins commander of the 32nd fighter so offers re jj1ifsdlalookin1 Are my Gen Ensyne d Santarelli Cente commander of the 17th air Force and col. . Ansink commander of Oesterberg a first overseas assignment and has been at the base Ever since. Hell miss the nether lands for the Friendship and ability to go anywhere without having to speak a second language he said. And of course the Heineken a few Hundred american service people remain in the Netherlands. They include forces at the military transportation management come near the port at Rotter dam at nato s Allied forces Central Europe in Brun sum and at nearby Schinnen. Dutchman Kees Veenstra said he was disappointed at the Squadron s departure. The 42-year-old electronics specialist works at the dutch military air Force museum in Oesterberg which will House an f 15 Eagle fighter presented at the ceremony by the americans i be seen the f-4 phantoms fighter jets come and go. Five seen the eagles come and go. And now i be seen the Ameri cans come and go he said. Holland will never be the service station strike slows italian motorists Aviano a Italy is an Italy wide strike by filling station attendants Means most motorists including those in the military won t be Able to tank up until Friday morning. The strike began monday night and is scheduled to last until 7 . Friday. Al though the shutdown is generally in Force across Northern Italy it is More sporadic in Southern Italy. Also workers at service stations on ital y s superhighway network called the autos Trada planned to strike for a Shorter period. They shut off their pumps from 7 monday to 6 . Tuesday and also planned to shut Down again at 10 . Tuesday until 6 . Today. Military members in Italy buy tax free fuel coupons to Purchase gasoline at either Agio or in filling stations. There Are few service stations on military installations. Service station operators have called the strike to pressure their suppliers into Grant ing them a guaranteed profit margin on fuel sales according to italian news re ports and the government is trying to me Diate the dispute. Bad weather prevents shuttle Landing Sapp hop or Mioton and space Center Houston a Nasa on tuesday kept space shuttle endeavour and its Crew of six in orbit an extra Day because of bad weather at the Florida Landing site. Low dark Clouds scuttled a first at tempt to land at the Kennedy space Cen Ter and skies did t Clear enough for a second try that was one orbit or Ivi hours later. Because of the Way the orbit was shaped there were Only the two chances to land tuesday. The shuttle returning Home from an Earth monitoring Mission was rescheduled to land about 11 30 . Not today. The forecast called for Uncertain conditions today in Florida. If weather precludes Landing there Nasa said endeavour could be sent to Edwards fab in California an option not considered for tuesday. Endeavour was launched from Cape canaveral on april 9 with $366 million Worth of ., German and italian radar instruments for monitoring the Environ ment. Ii
