European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday april 21,1994 at a glance Khalid Muhammad a controversial member of the nation of islam Drew repeated cheers from nearly 2,000 people at Howard University in Washington d.c., for such remarks As calling jews see Story on Page 5. Death sentence Danny Harold rolling was sentenced to die in the electric chair for killing five students in Florida in 1990. A Page 4 c-17 future the future of the c-17 transport plane rests on whether its manufacturers prove it can live up to expectations a Pentagon Leader says. A Page 6 father volunteers George Fay the father of an american teen Ager who is to be flogged in Singapore says he is willing to take his son s six Page 8 spy probes launched the Ciao a director has said in an unusual disclosure that major espionage investigations Are under Way in the government. A Page 10 Bright future ahead a household Light bulb designed to last about seven years in Normal use is headed for store shelves. A Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 classifieds.22-25 comics .19-21 commentary.17 crossword.19 faces no places 18 horoscope.25 Jumble 25 letters. 16 Money matters.14 sports. 27-32 to listings .31 weather .15 shuttle ends Earth watch detours to sunny California Edwards fab Calif. A endeavour took a Detour and landed in californians Mojave desert on wednesday after Nasa called off a second Landing attempt at Cloudy Cape canaveral Fla. The space shuttle and its Crew of six swooped through a Clear sky and touched Down at Edwards fab at 9 54 . Put 11 Days after blasting off from Florida on a fantastic Mission to gather 3-d images of Earth with sophisticated radar instruments. Quot your radar Laboratory has provided an unprecedented View of our planet a Mission control told commander Sidney Gutierrez after endeavour came to a Stop on the Concrete runway. A a it a been great a Gutierrez said. A fall the years of hard work have paid Nasa said the weather was perfect in California for a Landing. An attempt to land at Kennedy space Center earlier wednesday was scratched because of Low Clouds and a Bleak forecast precluded another try. Nasa prefers to land the shuttles at their Florida Home to avoid the nearly $1 million Cost of ferrying the spaceship from the West coast atop a Jet. A shuttle last landed at Edwards in november. Endeavour logged 4.7 million Miles during the flight and circled Earth 183 times. The shuttle streaked Over Oregon the Cal Fomia Nevada Border and Yosemite National Park on its Way Down to Edwards. While waiting for clearance to land the Crew reported a Quarter Inch Dent on the outer portion of a Cabin window Likely from a Micro meteorite. The dings Are common during spaceflight. Endeavour already had spent an extra Day in space because of dense Clouds and crosswinds at Kennedy on tuesday when Edwards was not considered. The astronauts took advantage of their extra Day by turning Back to some of the $366 million Worth of radar equipment aboard the shuttle. Ground controllers wednesday pointed the radar toward Bangladesh to look for flooding and collected final images of the Southern Pacific Ocean before shutting the instruments Down again. During its 10 planned Days in orbit the radar stored 3-d Earth images on some 150 digital recording tapes. Nasa said the radar a joint project of the United states Germany and Italy mapped More than 43 million Square Miles of the Earth including 25 percent of the worlds land. To verify the radars accuracy and augment the data the astronauts snapped approximately 14,000 photographs and about 2,000 scientists teachers and students were called on to Survey some of the Sites on the ground. A All the information is expected to give researchers their Best look Ever at the condition of forests the geology of mountains Rivers and deserts and the movement of Ocean currents. Endeavour which was launched on april 9, will carry the radar equipment again on its next Mission scheduled for August. Nato from Page 1 Gen. Michael Rose said wednesday. Aid workers in Gorade reported tuesday that the heavy artillery and sniper fire being inflicted on the town was More intense than any suffered in Sarajevo during its siege by serbian troops. . Officials had held out Hope for a new cease fire signed by a serbian Leader late tuesday. But it appeared to be Only the latest in a string or broken promises by serbs to Stop the fighting. Even As serbian guns again pounded the City the serbs political Leader Radovan Karadzic issued a statement saying a the serbian Side unilaterally proclaims peace in Gorade. With this the Gorade crisis comes to an Karadzic said his declaration was in response to appeals for a cease fire by president Clinton and russian president loss from Page 1 the 165th�?Ts commander it. Col. Gerald Vevon. A this biography reads like a recent history of the Hodge served As a military interrogator during operations in Grenada Panama and Southwest Asia. He volunteered As an arabic interpreter for operation provide Promise the Relief Effort to Aid displaced kurd in Iraq and reported for duty Only nine Days before the shoot Down. A if he had to do it All Over again he still would have been on that helicopter a Vevon said. After the service Brenda film from Page 1 Northern Iraq and maintains contacts with iraqi kurdish leaders the Pentagon is offering no timetable on completion of an investigation which was ordered by defense Secretary William Perry after the incident last thursday. A the Secretary has made it very Clear this is a very High priority for him Boxx Boris Yeltsin. He also urged other nations to pressure Bosnia s Muslim led government to return to peace talks. An International red Cross official Vanya Kinley said the Agency was desperately trying urgent a Convoy of food and Medicine to Gorade. A in Gorade Hospital they Are operating without aesthetics they have run out of analgesics and bandages a she said. The United nations has been helpless to Stop the serbian offensive on Gorade and two air attacks by nato planes last week Only infuriated the serbs. A third attack was thwarted when a British Jet was shot Down saturday. . And Aid officials in Gorade gave harrowing accounts of tuesdays heavy shelling which killed 43 people and wounded 112.a Unher doctor in the town described the fear and mayhem in a report to the Agency a Headquarters in Geneva. A fall of us Are chronically frightened a the report said. A we rarely leave the cellar now except and Leeann Hodge were escorted through the Back of the Chapel to a waiting Van. However the widow did Issue a statement. A we Are at a great loss to lose such a wonderful Man from our lives a Brenda Hodge said. A the has touched so Many. Nothing could Ever replace the love and Joy he has As the mourners quietly left the Chapel several members of Hodges company made their Way to the altar where the traditional combat boots Rifle and helmet display for fallen soldiers stood in front of a picture of the Soldier and his decorations. Some sat with their Heads in their hands and sobbed. Others looked quietly at the display and rubbed at reddened said. A the team is moving quickly. But they also want to be careful. And he has made it Clear not Only that he wants it to be done swiftly but he wants it to be done carefully and the Jet fighters shot Down the . Black Hawk helicopters after mistaking them for iraqi Hind helicopters. The jets were enforcing a no Fly zone Over Northern Iraq designed to protect the kurdish population from iraqi attacks. The no Fly zone was established after the persian Gulf War in 1991. To. Go to the toilet on the first floor. Conditions for the refugees and residents Are appalling. They have no food and have to risk their lives to get water a it added. In other developments a serbs released six teams of . Military observers who were detained after last weeks nato airstrikes at Gora zade apparently As a deterrent to further air attacks. Two teams remained in detention. Some serbian roadblocks around Sarajevo also were reopened. A serbian troops returned 18 anti aircraft guns they seized tuesday from a . Arms depot on Sarajevo a outskirts. The guns were among weapons serbs gave up in february after a nato ultimatum to withdraw artillery 12vi Miles from Sarajevo or put them under . Protection. Bosnian serbs began the War in april 1992 after a Muslim croat vote to secede from Yugoslavia. Armed by the yugoslav army the serbs have seized about 70 percent of Bosnia in fighting that has killed or left missing More than 200,000 people. Eyes. Still others read the poem to themselves from a memorial program. A a we be come together to form a Halo where you Lay a the co a poem read. To highlight All the Ramstein memorial set Ramstein a Germany a amps a a memorial service will be held at 2 30 . Friday at Ramstein Abs Chapel no. I for air Force 2nd it. Laura Ashley Piper. Piper an intelligence analyst assigned to Ramstein a 7454th tac intelligence so was among 26 killed last week when two air Force jets shot Down two army Black Hawk helicopters Over Northern Iraq. The 25-year-old lieutenant was from Venice Fla. All 26 aboard the two helicopters eluding 15 americans three turkish o cers two British officers one French o cer and five kurd were killed. Terry said while in route to meet ii with officials in South Korea that . Lots patrolling the skies of Northern ii have been ordered to take a greater Cai and More time before firing on helia ters they think Are hostile. Boxx said military officials have it tested no iraqi reaction following the Cimental Downing
