European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday january 11,1995 Gingrich fires historian new official ousted Over holocaust remarks Washington a Spca Ket Newt Gingrich fired the new House historian hours after he Learned that she had complained nazi views weren to represented in a holocaust historian Christina Jeffrey said tuesday that allegations against her a Are slanderous and Outra Grous a in a statement the morning after her firing Jeffrey who was hired less than a week ago also said she was a fired in the reporters who received materials from democratic sources began making inquiries to Gingrich a office after learning of Jeffreys review of the holocaust course in 1986. 1 Gingrich a Georgia Republican and his staff said the congressman did not know about Jeffrey s comments until monday although the were widely reported in 1988. A was soon As he corroborated those facts he asked for her resignation effective monday evening a said Tony blankly a spokesman for Gingrich. Jeffrey hired at $85,000 a year headed a panel that reviewed the holocaust course for the Republican run . Department of education. The panel recommended against a Federal Grant for the course and the department a insisting that the decision was its own a declined funding in 1986 and again the next two her remarks on facing history and our still a Point of View and is not presented nor is that of the kukluxklan.�?�. At the White House presidential press Secretary Mike Mccurry said it was a a hard to it Saginc How someone with those extreme views would have been considered in the first place but the speaker quickly recognized that and made d decision that strikes us As he added that it was largely a House mat Ter. Mountain Jion linked to Romp concourse Philadelphia a a Mountain lion that has been roaming the suburbs for about a week was spotted padding across a City Golf course tuesday morning. A it was just in a cleared area there and he just trotted off into a wooded area a police Cpl. Robert Hill said. A veterinarian told police that because the cat is probably domesticated it Likely would be a danger Only if it were injured or unable to Hunt. Still police formed a Barrier Between the Cobbs greek Golf course area and the nearest schools sgt William Royer said. ? a a there a plenty of Ducr in those Woods up there and Small game. I done to think it s hungry no it did no to look like it was hungry a Royer said relying on reports from officers. It was police said they think the lion is a pet. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 11,1985 a president Reagan said that he would be Quot perfectly willing to meet with soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko but that he was not interested in Only a a get acquainted session. 20 years ago Jan. 11,1975 a the Central intelligence Agency told the Justice department that it made no use of a list of 9,000 to 10,000 . Dissidents that the department furnished the spy Agency in 1970 a source said. 30 year Sago Jan. 11,1965 a the vietnamese freed the last five members of the nation s High National Council completing the settlement of South Vietnam a 3-week-old constitutional crisis. A 40 years ago _ Jan. 11,1955 a president Eisenhower asked Congress for the Power to make a a moderate gradual and reciprocal Quot Cut in tariffs by As much As 15 percent. 50 years ago Jan. 11,1945 a the 303rd bomb group chalked up its 300th Mission from British bases the first b-17unit to reach that goal As it flew As part of a Force of 1,100 . 8th air Force bombers striking targets Between Koblenz and Karlsruhe along Germany a Rhine River. L world War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 11 1 a 945 British and american soldiers enter St. Hubert. Belgium from opposite sides after the germans Retreat from the town further reducing the nazi salient in the ardennes. In the Philippines a fifth . Army division and an armoured Force join the Quot american offensive on Luzon which runs into the first organized. Japanese resistance. British troops take Gangraw in Burma. Source 2194 Days of War a h Smith publishers inc. The work almanac of works warts Bison books corp., 1901 a Airport reopens after big blackout a the Airport is fully operational port official Dick Williams said Tuci Newark . Apr Newark International Airport reopened tuesday after a massive Power outage paralysed the usually bustling Gateway stranding thousands of passengers. Idna a air tuesday. A Continental airlines plane took off at 6 15 a.m., headed for Dallas said Mark Erwin a Continental vice Percsi Dent. Continental is the largest Carrier at Newark the nations ninth busiest Airport. V a a the port authority of new York and new Jersey closed the dark and Una catch Airport at 5 . Monday after a construction worker accidentally severed three 26,000 Volt feeder cables said Benjamin Accosta the airports general manager. A a it a. A. Electricians and engineers worked through the night to restore Power said Charlie Mcnamara the Airport s operations services supervisor. Williams predicted the Airport which serves Many routes in Europe and the Caribbean would return to Normal late tuesday or Early today. All International and Many Domestic flights were cancelled or diverted to other airports mostly to John f. Kennedy International Airport and Laguardia air Ort a the other two airports in the new Rork metropolitan area Continental airlines diverted its International flights to Bangor Maine. The blackout also meant that Many passengers were stranded at the three. Newark terminals and on runways. Four International flights that arrived from Europe and Japan remained Ort runways for two hours unti a backup Generator was restored in the International terminal and customs computers were brought Back on line the electric powered Jetway that nor Airport construction workers monday damaged main electrical cables cutting Power to baggage carousels loading ramps elevators escalators and computers in the terminals. Flights were diverted to several East coast airports a a 0 american Northwest and us air All Domestic flights diverted to la Guardia Airport new York \ i / Newark Airport us air us air All Domestic flights diverted to Philadelphia. Continental All International flights diverted to Bangor Maine source Federal Ayi Alion administration Mally extend from terminals to airliners were not working so Mobile ladders had to be driven out to meet arriving planes and allow passengers to disembark. That caused Long delays. The Fremont family from Asbury Park ., just returned from a trip to Disney world sat for about 90 minutes waiting to get off their plane. A we told our daughter this was just another adventure on our trip a said Jenny Fremont travelling with her husband Dirk and 6-year-old daughter Grace. A but she did t buy it. She said this scandinavian Lufthansa american and us air All International flights diverted 1o Juk @ International Airport new York a we. J. Castelio ride is Boring 1 want to get Quot the work Crew that hit the Power line was driving piles to Lay the foundations for a rental car. Parking garage. The workers reportedly claimed that the blueprint Given them by the Airport did not show the Cable line. Accosta stressed that passenger safety was never at risk. He said there had never been a Power outage of such magnitude. At the Airport which handles about 1,200 flights a Day. Accosta said about 70 percent of mondays flights were York Apas he slides deeper into the mists of alzheimer s disease former president Reagan no longer recognizes old friends and once referred to a set of books As Trees his biographer says. A about six months ago he stopped recognizing me. Now 1 no longer recognize him a Edmund Morris wrote in the Jan. 16 Issue of the new yorker Magazine. Describing a recent visit with Reagan Morris wrote a for All the. Willingness with which he showed me his framed photographs his Jelly bean Jar and his View of the Hollywood Hills 1 did not feel his presence beside me Only his absence a at one Point Morris commented on a display Ofstead soldiers on a shelf and Reagan said a the a we a we had to make space of a move those Trees a mystified Morris finally realized _ that Reagan was referring to a red bound set of his own presidential Reagan papers which had been relegated to the shelf beneath the soldiers. The former president who is 84, and his wife Nancy announced in november that he bad diagnosed in the Early stages of alzheimer a a degenerative neurological disease characterized by memory toss and disorientation. Morris is a historian and won a pulitzer prize in 1980 for the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and became Reagan a biographer in 1985. His Book on Reagan is due to be published next year
