European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The sufi and ripes so a vol. 53, no. 147 50c sunday september 11,1994 Shaw considered army career but another Recruiter won out /. " a. ,.  " \ is Mac Hajj Abra Ninba superstar Shaquille o Neal recalls his years living in Germany during a visit to Frankfurt on Friday. O Neal played basketball for Fulda High in 1986-87. By Kevin Robinson staff writer Frankfurt Germany before becoming one of the biggest names in professional basketball Shaquille Neal had thought about joining the army he said Friday at a Frankfurt news conference. The 7-foot-1 Orlando magic super Star known to the world As Shaw said he considered following in his father s footsteps and making the army career if he did t win a basketball scholarship to College. My father was supposed to stay Here in Germany eight years recalled the 22-year-old Center who played Basket Ball at Fulda High school in 1956-87 during his Sophomore year. I was worried that a College Recruiter was t going to come Here and i was t going to get a Chance to get a scholarship to go to College so i d have to join the army o Neal who is on a three country promotional tour for. Reebok told the Media gathered at the Arabella grand hotel. O Neal attended Fulda High but lived in Wil Flecken where his father was stationed with the 1st in 68th see Shaw on Page 2 routine flight then of god Pilot s scream Aliquippa a. A Twenty three seconds and 6,000 feet from disaster the Crew of Sair flight 427 prepared for a routine land ing. Then the plane started dropping. Of god the Pilot radioed. Traffic Emer gency. Of shit.  moments after that desperate scream the Boeing 737 turned a quiet Pennsylvania Hillside into a fiery morgue littered with twisted Meta land broken bodies. All 132 people aboard were killed. Investigators struggled Friday and Early sat urday without Success to find answers to the deadliest plane crash in the nation since 1987 and us air s fifth fatal crash in As Many years. The transcript of the Crew s final radio trans missions released by the Federal aviation administration yielded a snapshot of heart wrenching terror but few clues. Body parts plane pieces Luggage and cloth ing were scattered Over the Trees and  said it will take Days to remove the bodies and the wreckage and some victims May never be identified. We re All very much at a loss to explain Thi Accident . Transportation Secretary Fede Rico Pena said Friday. More than 70 Federal investigators assemble maintenance records interviewed witnesses and combed the crash site. Working in shifts and wearing Bulky plastic suits they picked their Way across the Steep Muddy Ravine stopping to Mark positions of see flight on Page 4 Jet s tragedy hits hard on one family s Block Pittsburgh a the three Weaver children missed the first Day of school to attend the funeral of a 9-year old Cousin in Chicago now relatives and friends Are plan Ning a funeral for them. The children and their parents were among 132 people killed when a us air Jet crashed thursday night near Pittsburgh International Airport the nation s dead Liest plane crash since 1987. It s hard to believe that no one is com ing Home next door said Brace Brindle the weavers neighbor for eight years in the wealthy Pittsburgh suburb of upper Stclair  a \ Brindle said he had dreaded telling his own three children Ages 6,8 and 11 that their Best friends were dead. They certainty will be missed greatly he said Friday. About 15 children live on this Block and they re All close. The weavers were a big part of that  Bryan Weaver 16, was supposed to Start his Junior year at upper St. Clair High school where he played 4�n the hockey team. Friends said he enjoyed see tragedy on Page 4 crash debris litters the Countryside near Pittsburgh site of thursday Sustair disaster that killed All 132 aboard. Curb rights to halt crime polled americans say by Cox news service Washington americans Are so afraid of crime that Many Are willing to give up some constitutional rights in order to have safer streets according to a surprising National  found that a majority of americans favor giving police broader Powers to Stop and search suspects even without probable cause and would be willing to loosen restrictions on the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials. The Bottom line we just Don t want to see Crimi nals get off on technicalities no matter what the Cost said the authors of the second american revolution a Book based on the polling. The findings dramatically illustrated the nation concern about crime and Why candidates of both Par ties Are campaigning As hard liners on the Issue As elections approach in november. The Survey indicated that Senate republicans May have erred politically in seek ing to sidetrack the recently enacted crime Bill. The respondents favored Many elements of the fed eral crime legislation building More jails expanding the death penalty and tightening gun controls. Indeed the Survey found 84 percent of the respondents willing to modify or even repeal the second amendment right to Bear arms in order to disarm criminals. Though gun control has been portrayed consistent Lyas a divisive Issue americans Are of a Clear and unified mind the pollsters concluded. The majority of see crime on Page 2