European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                French firm seeks i Irenn term seeks n s u to n be business from military by Bill Walker projects editor a French owned company announced thursday it will actively seek the Auto insurance business of forces Drivers in Germany at German Tariff a French insurance group with a division in has authorized an initial network of six agents to write full coverage Auto insurance policies to Dod the located in Hanau and will offer Gan for German Tariff insurance and also american Tariff insurance from another Gan director for Helmut said his company had been looking for some time for a Way to increase its share of the Auto insurance Market Here and after considerable deliberation decided to seek the american Feller Wedo not enter this business lightly we have studied it for two years we had a very Small pan of the american business in the Kaiserslautern we found the business was not we have insured the French troops Here in Germany for Many general agent for the Gan offices will be Wiesbaden car dealer and Auto representative Joe he said policies will be sold in the noncommissioned officers association Coa service centers in each of the cities named but there is no requirement that a Gan policyholder be an Coa he the agents Are ready to sell Gan policies As of right he Over americans Are now insured with German Tariff firms and the announcement by Gan will probably result in a sizeable increase in the changeover to the German Tariff estimates of the number of people who can save with Ger Man Tariff rates Range from to Are approximately american forces privately owned vehicles with Active those who insure with Gan will be eligible for the German Safe driving no claims experience in the f continued an Page ii authorized unofficial publication for the u i  j if 21855 a firemen to end strike residents of woke up thursday morning to find their Green Root Yards had been transformed into liquid yardage rippling expanses of the town was one of Many by the path of Hurricane Force winds which smashed blocked roads and triggered High seas along the English see Story on Page government wage hike accepted England a Britain firemen will end their Crip pling nine week walkout monday after Union delegates voted overwhelmingly thursday to accept a government wage package far below the strikers the decision by delegates of the fire brigades Union climaxes an increasingly bit Ter first Ever National strike which caused financial hardship for most of the pickets and forced the government to press thousands of military men into service to protect the press Britain Domestic press association said the delegates who gathered in the East coast town 200 Miles North of London thursday morning cast ballots nearly three to one in favor of going Back to about 200 militant firemen who had travelled by bus before Dawn to picket the meeting and try to persuade delegates to continue the walkout yelled abuse As the voters left the conference four hours after the meeting press association reported one firemen whom it identified As Willie Millar of the scottish executive was forced up against a Wall and kicked and Pun Ched by the angry pickets As he left the he was believed not seriously More than 100 policemen formed a human continued on Page 4 army beefing up arty in Europe Washington a the army plans to strengthen its outgunned forces in West Germany this year by sending them several additional Bata Lions of heavy and medium artillery capable of tiring atomic still further artillery reinforcements Are expected to be sent from the United states next Pentagon sources said the 8inch heavy howitzers and 155mm medium guns will be taken from regular army units based in the United some of these weapons could be armed with the controversial Neutron if president Carter approves their present ammunition includes both High explosives and certain types of nuclear forces in Europe now have about nuclear including shells and missile the artillery reinforcement is part of a major Effort spurred by president car Ter and defense Secretary Harold Brown to Shore up Western Europe a significant part of the estimated billion in real growth in army resources to be proposed in Carters 1979 defense budget is reportedly earmarked for this Pur but this appropriation will not be Tran slated into additional military hardware for least 18 and defense officials believe some near term measures Are needed to beef up american forces facing the soviets in Central last Bernard army chief of said that we must sacrifice a bit of unit readiness Here in the Continental United Stales in order to increase the ability of army divisions in Europe to meet and Blunt any soviet attack in the critical first 30 Days of any european Western intelligence has estimated that the russians enjoy a 21 advantage in artillery Over nato armies in the vital Cen trial army totalling nearly form the Backbone of nato defences army commanders in Germany have indicated that a shortage of artillery is one of their biggest worries because of a growing soviet ability to launch a heavy tangled attack with Only a few Days of War massive fire by Allied artillery and antitank weapons would be required to halt such an attack before it penetrated deeply continued Page col 31