NATION/WORLD Soldiers Note Holiday, Look Forward to Return
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4 16— MANCHESTER HERALD, 1\iesday. May 28,1991 NATION/WORLD Soldiers note holiday, look forward to return CHECKPOINT CHARLEY, Iraq Manchester's Award-Winning Newspaper point, carrying Kurds from refugee southern Tlirkey, the smells of one Newsstand: 35c - Home: 30C (AP) — As America tipped its hat to Wednesday, May 29^, 1991 camps home to Dohuk. giant cook-out after another wafted soldiers past and present, U.S. war To dale, more than 95,000 have through the heat. riors manning the final Marine returned to the provincial capital, a U.S. Army Maj. Mark Faun, a checkpoint in northern Iraq chowed sign that the allied operation to down on a barbecue and wondered logistics officer in Tlirkey, said more bring the Kurds home is succeeding. than 10 tons of steaks, burgers and Officer faced earlier ‘force’ complaint when they were going home. At the checkpoint, Kershner, a Inside Today,., Lance Cpl. I^ul Kershner spent hot dogs, with all the fixings, were 21-year-old from Boyertown, Rl, being airlifted from the air force Memorial Day teaching Kurdish By BRIAN M. TROTTA an order to stop riding his skateboard in the street An inves again. The two struggled until Hall placed Brown on the waved at the trucks, his thumb and base in Incirlik to the troops. kids. Staff Sgt. John Dykes dreamed pinky extended. Manchester Herald tigation did not produce any evidence of wrongdoing by Hall. ground and handcuffed him. of his wife’s spicy cooking. “That’s a helluva lot of chow,” he According to the intenral affairs investigation, which was ■ Phone line updates Main The young Marine giggled as said. Brown was charged with reckless use of a highway and in ‘The ship is looking pretty good MANCHESTER — A Manchester Police officer who has prompted by a letter of complaint from the boy’s mother. Hall terfering with an officer in the incident. Steet project-----------R a g o 3 . Kurdish chilrhen mimicked him. British, Dutch, Spanish and these days,” said Dykes, 33, from “We’ve got them all doing the been cleared in an incident of alleged police brutality that took saw Brown riding his skateboard on Broad Street and told him Brown’s mother complained that Hall was too rough on Miami, as he stood with other mem lYench soldiers could ^so expect a place ill January was involved in a similar incident last year. stay on the sidewalk. Robert and that the handcuffs were sO tight that they were cut ■ Resident peeved about thumbs-up sign. This’ll move them free meal. bers of the 24th Marine Expedition Ihtrolman Lawrence Hall was accused earlier this year of Brown refused to leave the street and did not respond when ting off the circulation to his hands. The mother also said that to a higher plane,” he said. Some Americans griped that no pond _______........... Rage 3. ary Unit in 103-degree heat on a “Hang loose, dude!” he barked at using excessive force when he arrested a 13-year-old boy who Hall asked him several times to approach his cruiser to get his Hall “let loose with a string of four-letter words, and other fil dusty stretch of Iraqi highway. alcohol was allowed, not even a cold had been shooting a BB-gun near the old Mmchester Lumber name and address fpr an incident report. Hall then w alk^ over thy words, calling Rob every possible name in the book.” a freckled Kurdish youngster who beer. ■ Charter revisions up for “After a while the sun starts to f ^ returned the new hand signal. <m Center Street to Brown put his hand on Brown’s arm to escort him back to But when the internal affairs investigators tried to verify the your brain.” U.S. forces have been “dry” since In the first incident which took place Feb. 18,1990, Hall ar the cniiser. review____________ R a g e 3 . In addititm to his M-I6, Kershner the beginning of the operation to Dykes and the other men had rested 16-year-old Robert Brown after Brown refused to obey Brown pulled away from Hall, who then tried to grab Brown Please see POLICT:, page 8. was walking with a stick, nick help the Kurds. Other allied troops been sailing in the Mediterranean named JoBo by the troops. before being deployed in llu-key and however have not. The 5-foot-long staff belongs to The Italian forces are known to News Iraq. 2nd Lt. John Oolden, 24, of An enterprising Kurdish drink both red and white wine with Board Herndon, Va,, who carved an eerie their meals at their camp in the Iraqi CABE In Brief entrepreneur brought soda pop to the Th# AMootelsd PrsM face into the wood. city of Zakho. An officer with troops, selling cans for SO cents. It’s become something of a mas SANDBAGGING IT — A group of U.S. soldiers prepares a defense post atop the unfinished “It’s my first cold drink in 35 French forces near Surriya has a cot fcM' the platoon. small “wine cellar” in his tent. Hilton Hotel in downtown Dohuk, Monday. The U.S.-led coalition is providing a secure zone In rehires GNP shrinks days,” Dykes said, guzzling an One especially hot day. Golden Northern Iraq to enable the Kurds to return to their homes. proposal Iraqi-made cola. At the Marine Corps headquarters again grabbed the sticl^ strapped a 2-by-4 in Zakho, volleyball was the main Still, he said, he dreamed of to each foot and attempted to ski WASHINGTON (AP) — The attraction. Leathernecks carted out ness. private who succumbed to injuries having his wife’s extra spicy chili. down a hill. “That Was one the toughest teachers U.S. economy shrank at an an deck chairs, caught the sun and At positions of the 3rd Battallion suffered in a mine explositm. Not to mention the wife. “The sun’s getting to everybody,” I’ve ever been to,” said Col. Jim backed nual rate of 2.6 percent from cheered, bringing a slice of America of the U.S. 325th Airborne, many The simple ceremony held in a Jones, a Vietnam veteran and the Hundreds of trucks roared past said E)ykes, “even the lieutenant.” to northern Iraq. January through March as the the Marines’ barbed-wire check senior officers gathered for a picturesque valley moved many of highest-ranking Marine in Iriui. By SCOTT B. BREDE Throughout occupied Irao and in The day was also laced with sad- memorial service for an Army the men. country suffered its first ctm- “Especially on this day.” Manchester Herald By S C O T T B. BREDE secutive quarterly declines in Manchester Herald economic activity since the MANCHESTER — Half of the 1981-82 recession, the govern 28 non-tenured teachers who were MANCHESTER — The Board of ment said today. Looters disrupt Austrian plane crash investigation told in March they would be out of Education voted Tiesday night to The Commerce Department work come summer will be back to support a bill that would make a said the falloff in the gross na DAN CHANG, Thailand (AP) — Aviation experts bassy said today. school in the fall. town’s fiscal health a consideratitm today inspected the crash site and wreckage of an Claiming 223 lives, the crash was the 12th worst com bowled or dectqritated. tional product, the toud ouq>ut The official, who spokb pn^ condition of anonymity, The Board of Education Tuesday in binding arbitration. of goods and services, was only Austrian jetliner that blew ^ a r t in flight, killing all mercial aviation disaster and the first loss of a Boeing “My legs are shaking from fatigue,” said one volunteer night voted to rescind its previous said the worker was fired and later hired by Thai Air 767-series aircraft. If voted into law, the bill, which slightly less severe than oripnal- aboard. Widespread looting was reported at the scene. ways International. worker after making several trips carrying bodies down a decision to cancel the contracts of is supported by the Coiuiecticut As There was no official word on what caused Sunday’s Searchers recovered 45 more bodies early today, hill. ly repwted a month ago. The official did not give the worker’s name or say if 14 teachers at the end of the school sociation of Boards of Education, At that time, the GNP d n ^ disaster, but some experts said they believed the Boeing taking them to a temporary morgue at a nearby Buddhist year. authorities were seeking any links between the extortion temple, police said. Late Monday, 140 victims were taken to Bangkok’s could help towns currently strug was put at 2.8 percent. However, 767 was felled by a bomb. They noted that the crew did incident and the explosion. Lauda officials could not im The board also named a principal gling through budget'cuts during TTiat raised to 185 the number of bodies found in the Institute of Fnensic Medicine, a police officer said, a better U.S. trade perfrnmance not report any problems before the plane exploded in a mediately be reach^ for comment. speaking on cmulititHi of anonymity. for Buckley School to replace the ture contract negotiations. Assistant fireball as it nemed cruising altitude. wreckage, which was strewn over three square miles of and newfound strength in Searchers recovered the two flight data recorders on retiring principal there. School Superintendent Wilson E, government spending helped to Lauda Air was threatened with a bombing last year by remote, hilly jungle about 100 miles northwest of Ntoy bodies retrieved today were four^ near the front Monday, an official for Air Lauda, the Austria-based car Still, the teachers — mostly from Deakin said.