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World and Nation
rmy sets out to update
rocessing of remains
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■ WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Army soberly has set out to modern
ize the process of handling the re
mains of fallen soldiers, convinced
that the military logistics of death
have become outdated.
Among the concerns that now are
iing discussed are how the remains
if soldiers killed as a result of nu
clear, chemical or biological war
should be recovered and handled;
what new technologies are available
for use in a war zone to assist in iden
tification of remains, and what can
be done to automate the process of
tracking remains through what is
now a maze of paperwork.
KThose concerns, particularly that
of a war fought in a “dirty environ
ment” of nuclear or chemical con-
ttatnination, already have led a study
group to confront the need for new
equipment such as radiation detec
tors and a new type of pouch to han
dle remains.
■The overhaul of procedures for
the task of retrieving and transport
ing combat casualties has been en
trusted to a unit, the Graves Reser
vation Work Group. It was formed
after the Army’s Quartermaster
School completed a critical study last
August, concluding that the military
was still relying on methods dating
to World War II.
“This has not been a subject that’s
been popular and so it’s been some
what ignored,” says Gary L. Wieting,
a logistics specialist on the Army’s
Pentagon staff who heads the work
ing group.
The group also is exploring the
touchy subject of performing tem
porary burials in a war zone until re
mains can be transported home, and
has asked the chief of chaplains to
develop a non-denominational me
morial service “for non-clergy per
sonnel to perform at temporary in
terments.”
“We don’t plan to do that unless
we absolutely nave to,” says Wieting.
“But if we are forced to inter, we will
absolutely go back. That is our na
tional policy. We will always go back
and bring those boys home.”
Wieting’s group held its first
meeting last October and is sched
uled to meet again this week. The
work probably won’t be completed
before the fall of 1988.
Under military procedures, the
Army bears primary responsibility
for handling the combat casualties of
all services.
According to Wieting, his group
has a relatively simple charter— use
fresh approaches “to carry graves
registration into the 21st century; to
quickly and reverently recover and
evacuate remains ... on the future
battlefield.”
Although the study performed by
the Quartermaster School is classi
fied, an unclassified executive sum
mary has been released. It discloses
recommendations to the working
group to consider automating the
Army’s system for identifying and
handling remains, including the
purchase of mini-computers for
graves reservation specialists.
It also calls for research in such
areas as the use of bar-code tags that
can be scanned electronically to keep
track of casualties as they are trans
ported home.
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oman raped
after warning
she has AIDS
I ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. (AP)
— A woman claims she was sex
ually assaulted by a man, even af
ter she told him she was infected
with AIDS, police said.
I The woman said she was sitting
on the steps of a building early
Saturday when a man grabbed
her, dragged her into an alley
and assaulted her, said Detective
Capt. Benn Polk.
1 The 26-year-old woman,
whom Polk did not identify, was
taken to the Atlantic City Medical
Center after the assault.
i || The Sunday Press of Atlantic
Bity said it learned from sources
• that the woman has a record of
arrests on prostitution charges
and carries a medical identifica-
^ y rl tion card stating she has AIDS.
Detective Daniel Loen was in
vestigating the case.
I Acquired immune deficiency
syndrome is a fatal illness that
robs the body of its disease-fight
ing ability. It is most often trans
mitted by contaminated hypoder
mic needles and by intimate
xual contact.
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Navy delays plan
after drone losses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Navy, after losing four of five “eye-
in-the-sky” drone aircraft worth
from $250,000 to $400,000 apiece,
has suspended a program to equip
warships with the pilotless planes,
military sources say.
The embarrassing losses, involv
ing drones dispatched recently with
the battleship Iowa, occurred over
the past month and most recently on
Feb. 6, said the sources, who asked
not to be named.
Four of the five drones dis
patched were lost, they said. One
source said the four drones “are in
little bitty pieces.” The cost of the
drones depends upon what surveil
lance and camera equipment they
carry.
The Navy already had opened an
investigation into the string of acci
dents, the sources said. The service
suspects a number of causes, but be
lieves one problem might involve the
remote control system for the pilot
less planes.
“One of them was lost at sea when
the engine cut off,” one source said.
“But one of them hit the fantail of
the ship and the other two hit the
(retrieval) stanchions and were oblit
erated.”
Last Jan. 8, Pentagon spokesman
Robert Sims announced with some
fanfare that the Iowa had become
the first U.S. Navy ship to be
equipped with RPVs, or Remotely
Piloted Vehicles.
Sims said the amphibious assault
ship Tarawa had conducted some
initial tests of the drones in the Pa
cific last year and that the Iowa had
conducted a final series of successful
tests in December off the coast of
Virginia. Those December tests led
to the system being declared opera
tional, Sims said.
The drone, which the Navy has
dubbed the Pioneer, resembles a
model airplane with a wing span of
roughly 16 feet.
The planes originally were de
signed to take off and land from the
ground. But the Navy developed the
netting-retrieval system with an eye
toward providing its ships with an
extra surveillance capability.
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) —
jlemon owners of the world unite!
iBe as obnoxious as necessary if
you’ve been stuck with a bad car —
just don’t shoot it or beat it to death,
advises the president of the Ameri
can! Lemon Club, Pat Trimble.
“Keep after these people,” she
said. “Put everything in writing.
Don’t let up. Put lemons in your car.
Hang signs on your car saying where
you bought your lemon. . . . Don’t let
them tell you — like the dealer did to
me— that it’s all in your head.”
! People in 15 states have told her
they want to join her American
Lemon Club to send a message to
the|automobile industry, and more
than 100 people were expected at an
organizational meeting Monday,
some from as far away as New En
gland and Canada.
Ipfrhe phone’s really been ringing
today,” co-founder Paul O’Connell
said Monday. “I no sooner put the
phone down than it rings again.”
O’Connell has a file with thou
sands of newspaper reports of
lemon owners taking action into
their own hands and shooting their
cars, driving them through show
room windows or beating them to
death.
“Don’t do any of that,” Trimble
said. “You could land in jail.
“We can organize parades
through the dealer’s lot. That’s real
effective if they have been ignoring
you.”
Trimble said she knew she had a
problem with her 1984 car the day
she bought it.
Shiites raise blockade, allow refugees
to leave Palestinian camp to buy food
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Shiite
Moslems lifted a four-month block
ade Monday and let food trucks en-
.^ptwo small Palestinian refugee
’ Av ain P s sout h Lebanon, but there
indication of an end to the
* camp siege in Beirut.
Hme United Nations said the four
|Hcs unloaded 47 tons of flour,
»0,OOO cans of sardines and 564 can-
■sters of skim milk in al-Bass and
■fpj el-Shamali, near the port of
Tyre.
Militiamen of the Shiite militia
Hil also allowed thousands of Pal-
Stinian women and children from
the much larger Rashidiyeh camp to
Bgtl two miles to Tyre to buy food.
|6 men emerged from the camp,
faring capture by the Shiites.
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Amal allowed a U.N. convoy car
rying food to enter Beirut’s Bourj el-
Barajneh camp Saturday only after
an equal amount of food was deliv
ered to the surrounding Shiite
slums.
Shiite gunmen from Amal have
blockaded the three camps 50 miles
south of Beirut since Oct. 1 as part
of a campaign to keep Palestine Lib
eration Organization chief Yasser
Arafat from regaining the Lebanese
base he lost with the 1982 Israeli in-
A police source in Tyre said Amal
gunmen allowed the convoy to enter
the two smaller camps only after
they confiscated “one-third of the
flour.”
In Beirut, officials of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency,
which donated the food, would not
comment on the police report.
Police said two people were killed
and five wounded Monday in skir
mishes around Bourj el-Barajneh
and Chatilla, the south Beirut camps
that are surrounded by Shiite slums
and have been besieged since Nov.
24. Tens of thousands of Palestin
ians live in the two camps.
The latest casualties raised the toll
in three months of Shiite-Palestinian
fighting to at least 568 killed and
1,459 wounded, by police count.
The war has continued intermit
tently since May 1985, with thou
sands of dead or wounded.
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tells how to handle bad car deal
“I got it home and the engine
sounded like it was missing,” she
said. “I lifted up the hood, looked
around and then closed it. When I
closed it, some paint flew off.
“My rear-view mirror fell off
when I was driving. I had to drive
with my left hand and hold the mir
ror with my right,” she said. “When I
wanted to shift, I had to put the mir
ror in my lap.”
Then there were bad brakes, a
faulty transmission, non-functioning
windshield wipers, doors that leaked
when it rained, headlights that
burned out in a flash and a speed
ometer that worked only part-time.
“I got a speeding ticket in New
port, so I brought all of my work or
ders and repair bills to court. The
judge threw out my ticket. He said,
‘This lady has enough problems.’ ”
Trimble placed newspaper ads
last August and threw a lemon party
in the parking lot of her beauty sup
ply business in Erlanger. She served
lemonade, lemon drops and lemon
cookies and attracted enough inter
ested people to form the club.
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