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...Ramstein, West Germany, Aug. 31. Two bombs were detonated in front of U.S. Air Force headquarters, causing extensive damage and injuring 20 people, 18 of them American soldiers. The Red Army Faction, once known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, claimed responsibility for the strike against "imperialism." Next day at Wiesbaden, several cars at an estate for U.S. servicemen were torched...
...wounded Americans were treated at West Germany's Ramstein Air Base, then flown back to the U.S. Following in due course, said President Abolhassan Banisadr, would be the bodies of the eight American servicemen, five from the Air Force and three from the Marine Corps...
Captain Joseph P. Smith of the U.S. 38th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron gunned his RF-101 Voodoo jet down the base runway at Ramstein, West Germany. His destination, according to a flight plan filed half an hour earlier with French air control, was France's Rhône Valley. His announced purpose: training for NATO defense. At 4:54 p.m., as he was making his second pass at 2,000 ft. over the Rhône town of Pierrelatte, Captain Smith was greeted wingtip to wingtip by an old French Vautour interceptor. He made two more passes over Pierrelatte...
Airman First Class Marvin L. Jones, 21, stationed at the Ramstein, U.S.A.F. base in West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...
...just a joke, Jones explained, you know, yuk, yuk? Around 3 a.m. the following morning, the Reds finally got the point, though they didn't think it was very funny. Neither did Jones by the time he got back to Ramstein, having been cross-examined at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, and again in Frankfurt by a mysterious team identified only as "Western intelligence." After two days in the post hospital for "extreme nervousness," Jones had the Air Force Office of Special Investigation at work on him last week. And, girls being girls, no one could say whether...