European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 10,1994 at a glance yes Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson Are still to go Thor As those watching the i Ltd annual mtg video music awards found out thursday a and just think nobody thought this would last Quot 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 convention. A Page 6 Bush son advances a son of former president Bush and the brother of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton have won Runoff spots in separate Florida races. A Page 7 activist elected the nations largest Black Church group has elected an activist pastor the Rev. Henry j. Lyons to Lead it. A page9 l Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 21-26 comics 18-20 commentary .13 crossword. 20 faces no places. 10 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 23 Jumble 23 letters. 12 Money matters ____________14 a i Lon. 0 sports .27-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 r correction West joint Maneu vers Iri 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 a 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 sue 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 and Herzegovina. The scale of the exercise is Small com Kared with the huge War games that the Lorth 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 a a a a a a. A Small in scope colossal in meaning Quot 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 nato. The exercisers 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 holding 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 commander 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 landings. Federal 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. Witnesses said the plane rolled Over once or twice and headed Jose Down into the Ravine. A i looked up and there it. Was Quot 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 counsel a 0rs \ Quot 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 and to make Clear to both the american Public and other countries that the United states sought every possible nonmilitary solution to the haitian problem a a 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 few 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 in t Cre singly concerned that the mounting 4 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. A at the White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers repeated earlier warnings 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. And 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. Satellite lost. 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 oversea., schools. Follow up surveys Are conducted every three years and include visual examination sampling of suspect material and Laboratory tests if required. Paris apr an american telecommunications satellite was lost Friday after failing to go into its proper orbit following its launch aboard an ariane rocket officials said. 1 the at amp to corp. Satellite the telstar-402, was designed to provide Telephone and television links in the United states and Caribbean Over a 12-year period. The satellite detached As planned from the ariane rocket 20 minutes after Takeoff late thursday from the european space Center in Kourou French Guiana. But almost immediately problems were reported As the satellite failed to attain its proper trajectory. Arian space and at amp to officials said Friday afternoon the satellite was lost. They were seeking further information on the cause of the problems. At amp to officials initially indicated there May have been a construction defect in the motor on the satellite that was to have placed it in proper orbit. But Jacques Bisson the company spokesman in France later said the cause had not been determined. Bisson said the company would try to a a a a emergency solutions Quot to ensure find a a Mauiu build a in vow a that its clients would receive the satellite services they were counting on. He. Said planning for a replacement satellite had begun. A Arian space a commercial offshoot of the european space Agency has become the worlds no. 1 commercial satellite launcher. This was its first launch for at amp tone of the worlds biggest satellite users
