European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The St Sandst pipes vol. 53, no. 194 500 Friday october 28,1994 d 8693 a judgment at Nurnberg bavarian Community to disband during 95 by Ron Jense Nurnberg Bureau Furth Germany the Nurnberg military Community with roots in the final Days of world War ii will cease to exist by the end of 1995, with most facilities and personnel gone by sept. 30. The Only remnant of a Community that As recently As four years ago boasted a population of 37,500 will be the american forces network broadcasting station on William o. Darby Cavern in Furth where it will remain. But even that possibility is Mainz also hit hard draw Down Chart see Page 4 questioned by an officials. Gone in August and september will be an Exchange and commissary that still attract shoppers from a wide geographic Region. Gone also will be the bavarian american hotel constructed by the third Reich in the 1930s to House nazi leaders when Nurnberg was site see disband on Page 4 sea aps a draw Down a so has facilities in Mainz by Effie Bathen Heidelberg Bureau. The demise of the Niernberg military Community dominates the european draw Down list issued thurs Day by the . Military. The announcement the 17th in a series that began four years ago lists 29 army installations including10 in Nurnberg and one air Force site to be returned to the German government. The deadline is oct. 1, 1996, although some closures will occur sooner the closure of the Martin Luther King Village hous ing area in Mainz Means the loss of 672 government apartments arid significantly reduces the . Presence in that City. / re. In addition nine army units will withdraw from Europe affecting 998 military eight civilian and 21 local National positions. Also the former army Hospital in Frankfurt pre see draw Down on Page 2 Cli Fofi says signs easing her dream crashed in Pacific it Kara Hultgreen of san Antonio the first female to qualify As a Navy f-14 combat Pilot smiles confidently in a photo taken last january in san Diego. Flying was her greatest Joy until her life ended tuesday at sea off Cali fornia. Hultgreen 29j was killed when her Jet crashed while trying to land on a Carrier. Sec Story on Page 6. Damascus Syria a syrian president Hafez Assad on thursday offered full peace in the Mideast but insisted anew after meeting with president Clinton that Israel give up syrian land seized in the 1967 War. Clinton cited some Progress but conceded a new peace agreement was not at speaking after the two met at Assad s marbled presidential Palace Clinton suggested that Assad had gone beyond Syria s pre Vious hard line position. He did not elaborate but said he would con vey the information in talks later thursday in Jerusalem with Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabi american officials appeared to be encouraged by evidence that Assad was showing new flexibility on conditions he had set for peace with Israel. The discussion with Clinton included the Issue of phasing in new Security arrangements atthe time of and Raeh withdrawal. The first . President to visit Syria since Richard Nixon in 1974, Clinton was in Damascus As part of a six nation four Day tour of the Middle East to promote see Clinton on Page 2 kuwaitis like Clinton but Bush is their first love see Page 2 Green beef a-7eams were ready to Lead Bevin Ccrawley staff writer Camp Doha Kuwait when top . Commanders meet president Clinton in the desert today they will be joined Bya Green Beret Captain whose troops rushed to the front with kuwaiti units in the first hours of this month s persian Gulf crisis. He was leading the fight for the whole goddamned country 100 Kilometres 62 Miles North of everybody else a special operations officer said of army capt. Timothy s. Slemp. Slemp s outfit co a 2nd in 5th special forces group arrived in Kuwait for a Rou Tine training Mission oct. 3, three Days be fore the discovery that iraqi troops were massing near the kuwaiti Border. When the first kuwaiti units started rolling out of their garrisons we were with them said Slemp 32, who comes from Chattanooga Tenn. His 65 Green berets divided into five a teams were the first . Forces involved in the crisis which quickly faded after the iraqi units retreated in the face of a . And coalition troop buildup in the Gulf. In peacetime the a tet ims Are the Only permanent combat ground forces in Kuwait and they act As military advisers who train alongside kuwaiti units said it. Col. Charles Paxton commander of 3rd in 5th special forces group. In wartime the a teams stay with their kuwaiti units and coordinate fighter aircraft support from coalition air forces. Our Job is to live with them to eat with them and if needed to die with them said capt. Don Bolduc an a team commander. Within hours of deploying to Kuwait s Northern Border Slemp said his a teams had made radio Contact with air borne warning and control system air Craft that act As air traffic controllers in combat zones. / we had scheduled a rehearsal of this Mission within the first seven Days of our arrival Slemp said. Our rehearsal fun tried out to be a lot bigger than we while his a teams were on the front see fight on Page 3
