European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes a it a. A a monday May 9,1994just bar fools and banter pilots say Pahrump Nev. At a the grand potentate is a pharmacist named mumbles. The bylaws fill barely a Page. And the logo is a command pilots ring atop a bar Stool. Is a secretive organization called the command bar Stool association a social fraternity of Active and retired air Force fighter pilots out to have a Good time. They did so Over the weekend in Pahrump a High desert town 55 Miles West of Las vegas. But the barstoolers�?T32nd annual convention at the Saddle West Casino was More talk than tomfoolery More humor than Hanky Panky. A a anybody Tell you yet we done to stand for a Damn thing a said Paul ,58, a Vietnam War Pilot and editor of the association newsletter the drink booze news. A a a a a a a leaked copy of the newsletter distributed last summer contained boasts of drinking binges and. A a. A 1. A a Quot a. A a a womanizing. Stool ers were shown a Moori Inge in one photo. But Stool ers a and their wives a insisted at this years convention that it was All Tongue in Cheek and objected to any comparison to Navy aviators Tail Hook scandal Over Drunken and lewd behaviour at a 1991 convention in Las vegas. A not even close. Not even close to Tail Hook a said retired col. Thomas Pulham a spooler since 1959 who flew in Vietnam. A a it a like a fraternity a said retired col. George Peterson 63, the convention organizer and Secretary of the Nevada air Force association. A it s our Only Chanceton catch up with old friends. Its a great time especially for the wives a said Peterson a wife Nancy a civilian nurse. The organization was the brainchild of Robert Quot mumbles Wall a Pilot who came up with the idea in a bar in Japan after the korean War. Wall a Massachusetts pharmacist dubbed the spooler so a grand potentate a did no to make this years. Convention but promises to be there next year George Peterson said. Membership in the All male group is by invitation Only. Any member can blackball a nominee according to one bylaw. Some members have been air Force Wing and operations group commanders / with a rank of colonel or brigadier general. The group is entirely funded by dues and has no formal connection to the air Force. It was a Low key affair at the Saddle West on thursday nigh fas members arrived for drinks to hug Sand backs laps and caught up on news about children grandchildren and colleagues. I. The weekend Agenda for about Iso bars coolers included Golf and a formal tie and jacket dinner. Rajah crossing Gaza strip apis palestinian police officers sent a truckload of guns into the Gaza strip on sunday the first officially sanctioned weapons shipment into the self Rule area. But a delay in the arrival of about 300 Jolico officers in the West Bank town of Crich quickly turned the jubilant mood there sour. Their commander said last minute snags meant the Force would not move into the West Bank from Jordan until today at the earliest. Palestinian youths threw bottles and stones at the Jericho police station. Eight israeli soldiers responded with stun grenades and tear Gas. Intermittent clashes followed on streets that had been decked out with palestinian flags and banners proclaiming a Sweet  about 272 Jordan based palestinian officers did not seem to mind the delay As they sat on the Road near the Allenby Bridge Between Jordan and Israel five Miles from Jericho singing laughing and exchanging jokes. Quot we have been waiting for this moment for decades a one officer said. He said the officers would Camp along the Side of the Road for the night. The palestinian police Are to replace israelis As Law enforcers in the two regions under an agreement signed last week by israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabb and Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat. The pact cleared the Way for limited palestinian autonomy in Gaza and the Jericho Region As called for in last years israeli Plo peace Accord. Wednesdays agreement provides for a Force of 9,000 officers 7,000 of them drawn from units stationed outside the regions. The officers to be armed with Kalashnikov will have 45 armoured cars and 120 machine guns. Meanwhile a 117-member observer group from Norway Denmark and Italy deployed in the West Bank town of Hebron palestinians lined the streets to Lavdar Yemen apr North Yemen claimed that its troops had battled toward the outskirts of Aden the Southern capital where the rival leadership ordered a general mobilization sunday to defend the City. Northern officials predicted Aden would fall by today. As Yemen Sank deeper into civil War foreigners fled on boats planes and Heli a. A a a a a a a a. A a map palestinian police officers Chicras they Camp out sunday near the Allenby Bridge on the jordanian Israel Border waiting to be allowed finally into the West Bank cheer the group but soon after its arrival Ter National presence in Hebron stayed in Arab youths hurled stones at two israeli their vehicles and watched. Some were buses carrying journalists. Affected by the tear Gas. Israeli soldiers fired tear Gas while pal the group was sent to Hebron As a estonians burned tires and the newly a Concession to palestinians after the feb. Rived observers called the temporary in 25 mosque massacre Mandelt asks Soweto South Africa a Nelson Mandela pledged to forget the past As he joined thousands of countrymen in a reconciliation service sunday the eve of his election As South africans first Black president. Quot nothing we can say can fully describe the misery of our people during 46 years of racial repression Mandela told a predominantly Black crowd at a soccer Staci urn. In 1948, apartheid which already existed unofficially in South Africa became official with the election of the National party. A a but the Day we had been fighting for the Day we were working for has a riffed a he said. A we Are saying let us forget the past. Let us hold hands As we have done  Mandela a african National Congress swept the april 26-29 election that was the first in South Africa to include the Black majority. With that Victory the Anc took control of parliament which is to elect him president today. Mandela is to be inaugurated tuesday in a ceremony attended by More than 40 Heads of state including vice president Algore. A by. \ some 15,000 people attended sundays interdenominational service organized by the South african Council of churches. A band struck up Onward Christian soldiers when Mandela arrived just before noon. Surrounded by photographers he Shook hands with people in wheelchairs then with religious leaders As he made his Way across the Field to take a seat on the stage next to anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu. The service was broadcast live on National television and radio. A huge South african Flag its design chosen by Black and White negotiators who opened the Way to the election was read on the soccer Field. Balloons in e flags Gold Green White Blue red and Black colors were set free As the crowd Sang the country a two National anthems at the end of the 2v-hour  As Northern forces Bear Down copters from the capital san a in the North and from Aden and the port of Mukalla in the South. About 1,500 people mainly americans and europeans had left by saturday. The . Embassy advised All 5,000 americans to leave. The French foreign ministry said 200 to 300 people were to be evacuated from san a to Djibouti aboard three French flights sunday. Yemen on the tip of the arabian Peninsula had been edging toward civil War since August when vice president Ali Salem Al Beith a southerner walked out of the government. He was dissatisfied with the slow Pace of integration following the May 1990 merger of conservative tribal North Yemen and socialist South Yemen Beith also accused northerners of killing More than 150 of his supporters Over the last two years. Unification was popular with impoverished Yemen a 14 million people who regard themselves As one nation. But Beith and president a Abdullah Saleh a northerner continued to feud and the Milit Aries were never integrated. The South has said hundreds of soldiers have been killed on both sides since thursday. The North gave no figures