European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december f2, 1994 airman Dies in fall from pakistani hotel room from the associated press Islamabad Pakistan the . Embassy is investigating the death of an american airman who fell from his fourth floor hotel room window embassy officials said sunday. Staff sgt. Mark Shearer 28, died Early Friday the officials said speaking on condition of anonymity. The embassy refused to say whether foul play was suspected or whether it was an Accident. Shearer was based at Robins fab ga., an air Force spokesman in Washington said. Hotel manager Jamil Khan said Shearer was alone in his room at the time of the fall. All i can say is yes he slipped from the window Khan said. But Why he fell or How he fell i could t say because the . Embassy Security i doing their own  Shearer was in Pakistan with army Gen.  Peay Iii commander of the . Central come who was on a tour of the Region. Pea returned to Florida on Friday. Shearer is survived by his wife and two children embassy officials said guerrillas ambush israelis Marx a duty Lebanon iranian backed guerrillas ambushed an israeli military patrol in South Lebanon on sunday killing an israeli Soldier and wounding six other people Security sources said. Four guerrillas were kled. The shiite Muslim group Hezbollah or party of god said its guerrillas detonated a Roadside bomb and then launched the firefight. It claimed that 25israeli soldiers were killed or wounded. The bomb exploded shortly after midday As the five vehicle patrol accompanied by foot soldiers reached the crowded Entrance of mar Uyun capital of the israeli held enclave in the South the sources said. The guerrillas then raked the patrol with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades the sources said. ,\.-\. Israeli troops killed four guerrillas in the gun Battle. The rest of the ambush squad fled with israelis in Pursuit. Plane bomb kills 1, hurts 6 Tokyo a bomb exploded sunday on Philippines airlines flight carrying 292 people blowing a 2-foot Hole beneath the passengers feet and setting the ceiling on fire. One passenger was killed an six were  put put the fire with their blankets japanese radio  Boeing 747, with 272 passengers and 20 Crew members aboard made a sate emergency Landing about an hour later at Naha Airport on Okinawa in Southern Japan. It had been on its Way to Tokyo from Manila and Cebu in the Philippines. Several hours after the explosion a caller claiming to belong to Abu Sayyar a Muslim fundamentalist group responsible for numerous bombings and kidnappings in the Southern Philippines telephoned the associated press i Manila and claimed responsibility. Texas executes killer 4 Huntsville Texas a Man with 18 felony convictions was executed after giving a rambling 30 minute final statement in which he thanked the officers who arrested him and trying to slip out of his  Carl Kinnamon 53, was pronounced dead at 5 56 . Sunday eleven minutes after receiving an injection of lethal drugs. It was exactly 10 years since Kinnamon had shot a Man in the Bac during the robbery of a Houston bar. I can see no reason for my death Kinnamon said at the end of his statement and then lifted his head and shoulder off the Gurney and attempted to slide his  from a leather restraint. Prison officials immediately began pumping the lethal drugs into his arms As three relatives sobbed and complained that he was not allowed to finish his statement. Kinnamon had thanked dozens of people including the officers who arrested him the judge who sentenced him friends on death Row reporters Een pals and prison officers. About 10 minutes into is statement he had Warden Morris Jones give him a cup of water and then resumed talking. Kinnamon was put to death for the 1984 murder of Ronald Longmire killed As he and other bar patrons were ordered at gunpoint to walk into a restroom. The stars and stripes Page 5 . May. F \ Bill for cancelling attack Jet Washington apr a Federal court decision involving the cancelled a-12 Avenger attack Jet could Cost the Pentagon As much As $1.6 billion to Cove losses to the aircraft s two manufacturers and subcontractors. A -. The . Court of claims concluded that the Penta gon contract with Mcdonnell Douglas corp. And Gen eral dynamics corp. Should not have been cancelled for default meaning the manufacturer was to blame As the Pentagon has argued. The Pentagon in 1991 nullified a $4.8 billion contract with the two companies to build eight prototype jets arguing that the project had serious Cost overruns and was behind schedule. The manufacturers filed a lawsuit seeking payment of $1.6 billion to cover their losses but the defense department argued that no such payment was War ranted because the contract had been terminated As a result of the manufacturers failures. The defense department also filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $1.4 billion the government already had advanced the two companies at the time of the Cancella Tion.  y. Judge Robert Hodges or. Of the . Court of claims issued an order late Friday supporting the manufacturers. He concluded that the contract was not terminated because of contractor default but because then defense Secretary Dick Cheney withdrew support and  a. A prior to that the Navy did not believe that the con tractors performance justified termination for de fault Hodges said in a three paragraph order. The judge said that he would hold hearings next year to determine How much the government owed the con tractors.  k  " i v v to a Navy spokesman it. Cmdr. Tim o Leary said saturday that the Navy would vigorously pursue whatever remedies were available under the court order. / "  " i -. V Cheney cancelled the a-12 Jet contract in january 1991 after concluding that the program had suffered from billions of dollars in Cost overruns and numerous schedule delays. The contract to build eight prototype aircraft was Only the first stage of a $52 billion program to build 620 of the radar eluding Jet fighters that were supposed to replace the aging a-6e Carrier based attack jets. Adrift in the storm the Container ship Hyundai Seattle floats helplessly some 550 Miles South of Adak a naval installation in Alaska s Aleutian islands after being disabled by an engine fire. A Winter storm with winds of up to 57 Mph and 30-foot seas hampered weekend efforts to Rescue the 27 Crew members aboard the 798-foot vessel. The freighter had been sailing from Pusan South Korea to Seattle when the fire erupted Friday. The Blaze was extinguished within hours by the Crew and no injuries were reported a coast guard official said. California seeks to head off new round of base closures by William Claiborne Washington Post los Angeles officials in California hard hit by earlier shutdowns have begun lobbying the base clo sure commission in Hopes of avoiding further military cutbacks when the defense department proposes the next round of closures March 1. Meeting with staff members from the defense base closure and realignment commission in san Diego gov. Pete Wilson said California had been treated unfairly by the three rounds of base closures ordered since 1988, suffering nearly 70 percent of the Job loss seven though Only 15 percent of the nation s military personnel Are based in the state. The next round of base closings is expected to Bethe worst the Republican governor said. But we won t sit Back and let the Federal government continue to strip away California jobs and undermine America s military preparedness. We re going to fight for our needed military  he spoke with commission staffers last week at conference of local officials on areas Likely to be affected by the 1995 round of base closings. A transcript of his remarks was released Friday. The state s chief economist Philip Romero has As d a team that is already preparing to defend Nia s military bases with detailed projections  economic losses in every Community dependent on Mili tary jobs Wilson spokesman Sean Walsh said. The executive director of the commission Charl Ssmith said in a Telephone interview that the service branches Are preparing their lists for base closures which Are expected to be sent to defense Secretary William Perry by Early january. In addition to weighing military preparedness Crite Ria the Pentagon will use a computer Model to predict economic impacts on each affected area Smith  commission begins its hearings immediately after Perry releases the base closure list March 1. It develop sits own list which it sends to the president. If the presi Dent approves the list he then submits it to Congress which can approve or reject the list but cannot make changes in it. Smith  commission will consider economic effects but it is required by Law to consider first the military value of the bases and the effects on Force Structure. Apparently sensitive to that order of priorities Wil son stressed in his remarks that California is strategically important As America s Gateway to and Guardi an of the