European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 4, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 of be i 8sbehis ij3wf3pol t so Avav j. K a of of of Quot it 2 $ a a Quot a it with an Eye toward Liberty Crew members of the combat store ship Concord stand on the decks As they sail past the statue of Liberty into new York Harbor on thursday. The sailors wifi be enjoying some Liberty time on Shore while civilian visitors have the Opportunity to come aboard and tour the ship As part of Fleet week a . Atlantic Fleet Celebration coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. . To lease Armor to . Rwanda Force by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington a the United states has agreed to lease about 50 my 13 armoured personnel carriers to the United nations peacekeeping Force in Rwanda and the vehicles will probably come out of Reserve equipment stocks in Germany Pentagon officials said Friday. Defense department officials Are negotiating the final details of the lease for the vehicles which will be used to evacuate trapped refugees in the Centra african nation that has been wracked by a vicious civil War since april estimates of the number of people killed during the fighting which has pitted the Hutu and Tutsi tribes against each other have ranged from 200,000 to More than 500,000. The peacekeeping Force in Rwanda is commanded by Canadian maj. Gen. Romeo Dallaire. The . Has authorized a Force of up to 5,500 troops although it is currently Well below that authorized strength . Officials said. The United nations had As Many As a a 2,700 peacekeepers in the country in late april but reduced that number to fewer than 300 after the fighting intensified. Currently the Force has about 300 troops from Ghana and 40 from Tunisia wife had planned killing court told by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Frankenthal Germany a two americans questioned by army investigators said Deborah l. Buckmaster told them that she wanted to kill her husband criminal investigation come agents testified Friday. One of the americans an army specialist stationed in the Mannheim area reported that Buckmaster had offered him $25,000 to help her kill sgt. Douglas a Buckmaster and that she had discussed pushing her husband out a window special agent Jon a. Sallot or. Said. The specialist said the conversation occurred about two weeks before the sergeant plunged to his death from his 17th-Story bedroom window dec. 12,1992, according to Sallot. The other american a woman who lived in the same Frankenthal High Rise Complex As the Buck masters said Ocbo Rah Jyuck master told her twice that she would like to push her husband out a window said special agent Cesar Abreu. The agents testified in a Frankenthal Tate court where Buckmaster and Ger Man citizens Stefan Tanski and Dietmar Seebold Are on trial for murder. Two other germans Are co defendants charged As accessories to the crime. The americans who made the statements Are in the United states and not available to testify the agents said. Two German police officers testified that when they responded to Buckmaster a original Telephone Call in which she claimed that her husband had committed suicide they found the body on the ground outside. When they entered the Buckmaster apartment the master bedroom window was open Deborah Buckman Terv three children were sleeping in their own rooms and the television was on very loud the officers said. Asked to describe Buckmaster a state of mind at the time one officer said a you  Call it hysterical but it was on the verge of  an autopsy determined that the death was caused by the fall from the window the officer said. In earlier testimony however witnesses citing Scab bldg a police statement described a sequence of events that included beating the Drunken sleeping sergeant with a baseball Bat before throwing him out the window. During police questioning Buckmaster claimed her husband apparently had jumped out the window while she was two floors higher getting the children from a baby Sitters apartment according to police inspector Dieter Battschinger. She cited As possible motives for her husbands suicide his alcoholism his knowledge that she was romantically involved with Tanski his mothers recent death and his pending court martial for having returned to duty too late after attending his mothers funeral in the United states. Ernst Joachim Korner a command interpreter and investigator said an american life insurance company had paid Buckmaster $100,000 on Jan. 14, 1993, because of her husbands death. That was coincidentally the Date of her release from the army Hospital i Heidelberg following her own suicide attempt Ana the Date on which German police arrested her. Another army special agent testified that a building resident found a letter in the Buckmaster apartment a intended to be read several years in the future a that Deborah Buckmaster had written to her children explaining Why the sergeant was slain. Tanskie smother also took the witness stand Friday. She provided the court a letter that Deborah Buckmaster had written to her in june 1992. In the letter Buckmaster professed her love for Stefan Tanski told about her husband s alcoholism and said their marriage had been on the rocks for a few years. A the always will have a place in my heart a the courts German translation of the letter quoted her As saying about Tanski. The trial is to resume tuesday. As Well As 23 staff officers from Canada Ghana and Bangladesh and about 100 military observers from 16 countries. The Ghana contingent is due to increase to battalion size in the near future but the . Official said it is unclear when or even if the contingent will Ever reach its full authorized strength of 5,500. The defense department had been airlifting Relief supplies into Rwanda but suspended those flights recently As fighting broke out around the Airport in the rwandan capital of Kigali. Military Relief flights Are continuing into neighbouring Tanzania Burundi and Uganda for delivery into Rwanda Over land a Pentagon official said. To Date the defense department has airlifted 690 tons of humanitarian supplies for use in Rwanda including blankets food and medical supplies and plastic sheeting for use As temporary shelters the Pentagon official said. The War began in april after the Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a mysterious plane crash that May have been caused by a ground to air missile. The majority huts who dominate the rwandan government have been steadily losing ground to the rebel Tutsi forces news reports from Rwanda say the rebels now control More than half the Countryside and Are advancing on Kigali report on Downing near Washington a amps the air Force is close to completing its investigation into the Friendly fire deaths of 26 people aboard two army helicopters april 14 in Northern Iraq the report on the investigation is in a final coordination Quot an air Force official said Friday. The probe has been handled by the 3rd air Force which has its Headquarters at Raf Milden Hall England. Two f-15c fighters fired on and destroyed the army Black Hawk helicopters in the Northern no Fly zone apparently after mistaking them for russian made Hind helicopters belonging to the iraqis. The Black Hawks were carrying officials assigned to the operation provide Comfort task Force that has been assisting kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq. The f-15cs were assigned to the 53rd fighter so based at Span Dah Leni a Germany the helicopters were assigned to the 5th in 158th aviation brigade in Giebl Pfadt Germany. One focus of the investigation has been the apparent failure of the electronic equipment routinely carried by . Aircraft that allows pilots to transmit signals identifying themselves As Friendly officials have said both the f-15cs and the Black Hawks were equipped with such gear. In Ciurlik runway to close for repairs by the stars and stripes air mobility come passengers in Turkey will soon experience More travel changes with the scheduled closing of the in Ciurlik a runway for repairs officials said. In Ciurlik officials anticipate that their runway will not reopen for at least six to nine months. The renovation is scheduled to Start Between june 12 and 15. During the closure All am flights normally bound for in Ciurlik will be routed into the Adana civilian Airport near the base. A shuttle service will run to and from in Ciurlik s passenger terminal. C-9 Nightingale medical evacuation flights that previously flew Between Ramstein a Germany and in Ciurlik will be rerouted to originate or terminate at Gigli a turkish air Force base near Izmir air station in Western Turkey. The Gigli air passenger terminal has been undergoing renovation since the beginning of May. Its passenger waiting areas have shrunk about 50 percent. Work is expected to be completed in about 2v5 months