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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars and stripes saturday september 10,1994 at a glance yes Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson Are still to gather As those watching the 11th annual mtg video music awards found out thursday. A and just think nobody thought this would last a the ringed one said. See Story on Page 10. Suit settled the Tail Hook association and a former Navy lieutenant have settled a lawsuit stemming from the groups raucous 1991  Page 6 Busti son advances a son  president Bush and the brother of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton have won Runoff spots in separate Florida  Page 7 activist elected the nation s largest Black Church group has elected an activist pastor the Rev. Henry j. Lyons to Lead  Page 9 e Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 21-26 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 crossword .20 faces i places. 10 focus. 15�?17 Horoscope. 23 Jumble. 23 letters a. 12 Money matters. 14 religion a. 0 sports a a a a27"32 to listings. 31 weather .11 correction West joint Maneu vers in Poland Brussels Belgium a nato troops began arriving in Poland on Friday to meet their former Warsaw pact foes for the first military Maneu vers under the Western alliances new partnership program with Eastern Europe. Code named cooperative Bridge �?T94, the exercise also is natos first operation in former soviet bloc territory. It starts monday near the Western polish City of Poznan. Previous East West military exercises such As this weeks Maneu vers by russian and american troops in Russia have been bilateral events outside of Alliance command. Some 650 combat troops from six nato allies and seven Eastern european nations will participate in the five Day exercise in Poland. It is designed to prepare the two sides for joint peace keeping operations in situations such As Bosnia Ana Herzegovina. The scale of the exercise is Small compared with the huge War games that the North Atlantic treaty organization and the Warsaw pact used to hold regularly on either Side of the Iron curtain during the cold War. But officials on both sides Are convinced of the significance of the Maneu vers. A Small in scope colossal in meaning a is How polish defense minister Piotr Kolodziejczyk described the exercise. A this is an historic event a said Alexander Vershbow senior director for european affairs at the . National Security Council. Vershbow told reporters thursday that the exercise will a take cooperation to a new  speaking via a satellite television linkup with Brussels and the czech Republic capital of Prague he said such cooperation could pave the Way for the Eastern europeans achieving their goal of eventually joining n Ato. The exercise is organized under partnership for peace the outreach program nato established in january to promote cooperation with its former cold War adversaries. At the polish army a  ground North of Poznan multinational units will practice conducting peacekeeping patrols escorting convoys and handling Relief supplies. Live fire exercises will allow soldiers from East and West to get More familiar with each others weapons. The nato units will shoot target practice with the russian built ak-47 automatic Rifle while Eastern european troops will shoot the . Army a m16. The exercise will be directed jointly by maj. Gen. William g. Carter Iii com Mander of the . Army a 1st army div and Gen. Zygmunt Sadowski chief of staff of Poland a Silesia Region. Soldiers from Bulgaria the czech Republic Denmark Germany Britain Italy Lithuania the Netherlands Poland Romania Slovakia Ukraine and the United states will be organized in five mixed companies. English will be the working  Page 1 flight data. An emergency worker said the Box was recovered. The plane was powered by engines made by com International a joint venture of general electric co. And French manufacturer Snelma. Com sent an investigator to the scene. The plane was manufactured in 1987 and had logged 23,846 flight hours and 14,489 takeoffs and  aviation administration records show no accidents or incident reports on record for the jetliner. The plane underwent a routine maintenance Check performed every 35 hours of flying on wednesday in Hartford Conn. No problems were found us air spokeswoman Susan Young said. The last heavy maintenance Check done every 11,000 hours was completed feb. 3, 1993. A a witnesses said the plane rolled Over once or twice and headed nose Down into the Ravine. A i looked up and there it was a said Tom Michel who was at a Gas station near the crash site. A it was just coming straight Down. I was screaming for everybody to run. It looked like it was under full Power and he just went straight  Linda Dickhart a nearby resident said the heat and smoke were a so intense you  see  a i thought it was coming in my room a Dickhart said. A ooh my god i thought it was coming through my  at Pittsburgh International Airport people who had been waiting to meet passengers from the flight were taken into a private area to meet with Counselor. A Nusair also was offering counselling at Chicago so Hare Airport. The crash was the worst in the United states since aug. 16,1987, when a Northwest airlines md-80 went Down while taking off from Detroit metropolitan Airport killing 156 people. A 4-year-old girl was the sole  Page 1 that they will give up Power peacefully and avoid a . Invasion Ana to make Clear to both the american Public and other countries that the United states sought every possible nonmilitary solution to the haitian problem. But after debating the Issue Clinton and his aides agreed that issuing the ultimatum now a or setting a deadline Well in Advance a was a bad idea. The Pentagon fears that setting a specific Date for . Military action might eliminate any element of Surprise and limit its flexibility in conducting military operations one official said. . Diplomats fear that giving a deadline would merely encourage the haitians to ignore the threat for a Tew weeks More. And haitian opposition leaders say they have been warned that in the event of an ultimatum the regimes forces will murder them in a final act of retribution or take them hostage in an Effort to forestall an invasion. The administration already has warned the military regime that any Roundup of opposition leaders could touch off a a hair trigger . Invasion. But haitian democrats say they Are increasingly concerned that the mounting rhetoric from Washington coupled with the Lack of action against the regime is putting their lives in peril. The administration continued to raise pressure on the military regime thursday with a series of Public and not so Public statements. At the White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers repeated earlier Wam Ings that Clinton a patience with Haiti a military dictators a is wearing  added that the administration is a moving toward the endgame in this  in a slightly More Subtle bit of Saber rattling a senior official told reporters that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. John m. Shalikashvil met this week with Haiti a exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide to Brief him on . Invasion plans. A id the Pentagon announced it has activated seven Large cargo ships for transporting weapons and supplies to support a Haiti invasion Force. A Pentagon spokesman air Force col. Doug Kennett said the seven a Roll on Roll off ships from a Fleet of ships kept in Mothballs for Short notice deployment would be ready for loading in four Days. Myers said that Clinton intends to consult with members of Congress about his intentions toward Haiti but that he does not plan to seek a vote formally authorizing the use of . Troops there. Storm Clouds stall space launch because of a reporting error an aug. 17 article on Asbestos removal in department of defense dependents schools included an inaccurate description of the periodic Asbestos surveys conducted in overseas schools. Follow up surveys Are conducted every three years and include visual examination sampling of suspect material and Laboratory tests if required. Cape canaveral Fla. A storm Clouds delayed fridays launch of space shuttle discovery on a Mission to study the atmosphere and test a Jet pack in the first untethered spacewalk in 10 years. Nasa held the countdown at the nine minute Mark in Hopes the weather would improve. Shuttle officials had until Early evening to launch discover before giving up for the Day. Six astronauts waited inside the fuelled spaceship. They were supposed to be on their Way at 4 30 . 10 30 . Central european time. Shuttles usually lift off in the morning but a late afternoon departure was dictated by one of discovery a scientific experiments. As for discovery Nasa had declared the shuttle �?o100 percent go after analysing last months last second engine shutdown on another shuttle and other mechanical problems Over the past three weeks. A a Many of discovery a experiments have never flown before in orbit. There a a $25 million laser machine that will beam pulses Down to Earth and measure the Light that a bounced Back from Clouds atmospheric particles and the surface itself. Scientists Hope to learn More about the  there a a $3 million robot a the first . Robot to Fly in space a that will try to Load semiconductor crystals into furnaces. It will work while the Crew sleeps that a the Only time the shuttle will be still enough for the delicate task  
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