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   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 nearly2,000 people at Howard University in Washington d.c., for such re Marks As calling jews hankies 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, 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. Page 6 father volunteers George Fay the father of an Amer ican teen Ager who is to be flogged in Singapore says he is willing to take his son s six lashes. Page 8 spy probes launched the Cia s director has said in an unusual disclosure that major espionage investigations Are under Way in the government. Page 10 Bright future ahead a household Light bulb designed to last about seven years in Normal use is headed for store shelves. Pago 14 i Index i Abby Ann Landers. 19 classifieds. 22-25 comics 19-21 commentary. .17 crossword. 19 faces n places. 18 Horoscope. 25 Jumble 25 letters. 16 Money matters. 14 sports. 27-32 to listings. 31 weather. 15 detours Edwards fab Calif. Apen devour took a Detour and landed in California s 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 touche Down at Edwards fab at 9 54 . Put 11 Days after blasting off from Florida Ona fantastic Mission to gather 3-d images of Earth with sophisticated radar instruments. Your radar Laboratory has provided an unprecedented View of our planet Mission control told commander Sidney Gutierrez after endeavour came to a Stop on the Concrete runway. It s been great Gutierrez said. All the years of hard work have paid  Nasa said the weather was perfect i California for a Landing. An attempt to land at Kennedy space Center  scratched because of Low Clouds anti a Bleak forecast preclude another try. Nas prefers to land the shuttles at watch 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 183times. The shuttle streaked Over Oregon the California 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 hooding and collected final images of the Southern Pacific Ocean before shut Ting 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 27 million Square Miles of the Earth including 25 percent of the world s land. To verify the radar s accuracy and aug ment the data the astronauts snapped approximately 14,000 photographs and about 2,000 scientists teachers and Stu dents were called on to Survey some of the Sites on the ground. 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 move ment of Ocean currents. Endeavour which was launched on april 9, will carry the radar equipment again on its next Mission scheduled for August.  from Page 1 Jevto. They complied under the threat of nato air strikes. If there is any violation by anybody there can be air action Clinton said. There Are six Safe havens designated by the United nations including Sarajevo and Gorade under the previous policy nato airstrikes could Only be called to protect . Peacekeepers. The Only exception had been in Sarajevo. Asked if it was too late to Safe go razed Clinton said  it s too late for a lot of people who have been killed there he said. But he said that the Muslin enclave could yet be restored As a Safe Haven if the serb would end their assault. But As he spoke the serbs continue their attack on the City including direct shelling of the Hospital. Clinton also said he expected the insecurity Council to authorize additional peacekeepers which we will  Are no americans among the . Forces now on the ground in Bosnia. Under Clinton s plan . Warplanes would be Able to bomb serb artillery beyond the six Safe zones designated by . Security Council on the outskirts of the cities and towns. That would represent a shift in policy after months of indecision and take the United states and its allies deeper int Bosnia s two year civil War which has left 200,000 people dead or  signalled it was willing to go along with Clinton s proposal but delayed final approval to give military advisers time to consider the Best Way to proceed. Reports from Gorade were filled with despair. Doctors and foreign Aid workers said serb gunners were firing Pointblank at the main Hospital and bombarding the Muslim enclave with artillery shells Rock ets and heavy machine guns. Since Midnight tuesday 44 people including 15 children had been killed in Gorade according to . Spokesman Kris Janowski in Sarajevo. That raised the casualty toll to 389 dead and 1,324 wounded since the serbian offensive began three weeks ago. The administration has been harshly criticized on its Bosnia policy accused of lacking Strong leadership and the resolve to halt serb aggression. Two largely sym Bolic air strikes against serbian forces last week failed to slow the serbs. The administration cannot escape blame fair its pretence of helplessness forever Reliance on the diplomatic initiatives of the europeans and the russians and for asserting neutrality in the face of Bla Tant serbian aggression Senate minority Leader Bob Dole a Kan. Said. Dole said there is still Hope of Stop Ping the carnage in Gorade if Clinton quickly lifts the arms embargo and mobilizes a More assertive nato response. Loss from Page 1 the 165th s commander it col. Gerald Vevon. His biography reads like a re cent 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 pro vide Promise the Relief Effort to Aid Dis placed kurd in Iraq and reported for duty Only nine Days before the shoot Down. /. If he had to do it All Over again he still would have been on that helicopter Vevon said. After the service Brenda and Lee Ann Hodge were escorted through the Back of the Chapel to a wait ing Van. However the widow did Issue statement. We Are at a great loss to lose such a wonderful Man from our lives Brend Hodge said. He has touched so Many. Nothing could Ever replace the love and Joy he has  As the mourners quietly left the Chapel several members of Hodge s company made their Way to the altar where the traditional combat boots Rifle and Hel met 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 eyes. Still others read the poem to them selves from a memorial program. We be come together to form a Hal where you Lay the co a poem read. To highlight All the yesterdays., " Ramstein memorial set " j Ramstein a Germany is memorial service will be held at 2 30 . Friday at Ramstein Afi s Chapel no. 1 for air Force 2nd it. Laura Ashley Piper. Piper an intelligence analyst assigned to Ramstein s 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. Film from Page 1 Northern Iraq and maintains contacts with iraqi kurdish leaders. The Pentagon is offering no timetable incompletion of an investigation which was ordered by defense Secretary William Perry after the incident last thursday. The Secretary has made it very Clear this is a very High priority for him Boxx said. The team is moving quickly. But they also want to be careful. And he has made it Clear not Only that he wants it Tobe 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 Hina helicopters. The Jet were enforcing a no Fly zone Over North Ern Iraq designed to protect the kurdish population from iraqi attacks. The no Fly zone was established after the persian Gulf War in 1991. All 26 aboard the two helicopters including 15 americans three turkish offi cers two British officers one French offi cer and five kurd were killed. Perry said while in route to meeting with officials in South Korea that . Pilots patrolling the skies of Northern Ira have been ordered to take greater care and More time before firing on helicopters they think Are hostile. Boxx said military officials have detected no iraqi reaction following the accidental Downing  
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