European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Authorized unofficial publication Fob the aimed faucet 293 in february if 21855 a Cost of ending e draft put at billion a Washington up the end of the and the switch to an Al Volunteer Navy and air Force has added thin billion to National defense i since congressional i Vestiga Taid be report by the general accounting the investigating Arm of released by Sam attributed the Sharp increase in costs enlistment higher Ilu Nali to i Tiitu Ory m id better housing and other to make military life More Altarac do Wolfl began in 1971 and All conscript n ended in december 1971 by july re Ibe nation had returned to an Alloi Der ast family pts to stay n the West Ujj  an East German Jay chose to remain in the West after an unarmed 24yearold Man and a Coccho slovakian Airliner and lit to land in the czechoslovakian National had i shortly after Takeoff from East n9 Schoenefeld to blow up and the 46 persons aboard it with i ibs later discovered to be a Dummy at Frankfurt International air and the associated press that the East German couple and their 2 a 4h Ion opted to stay in West Ger Voller the Hijacker surrendered to 01 Han n Herman police took the unit anti Tanily off the plane before it flew on to its original the Wun police spokesman Hans Neil we news conference that the Hijack Jan fied As Vladislav to German authorities after soviet built Tupoljev 134 h tiler the plane took Neizel r iral pushed a Nolc to the Pilot f we us door leading to the Untener military Force for the first time in three the Gao Saffol its study showed the change added million to costs in fiscal the additional casts Rose to a Peak of billion in 1975 and totalled billion through no one can turn Back the clock and the report does not imply that these amounts of Money could All now be saved by return ing to the Nunn said in releasing the it does indicate a significant increase in Cost much larger than most people have associated with the Al Volun Teer savings understated assistant defense Secretary John White said gaos failure to consider various fac tors caused it to greatly overstate the costs and understate the savings of an All Volunteer according to Pentagon he the Gao estimate was at least billion Loo while said the Gao ignored the fact thai our military career Force has always been voluntary and some of the increased costs would have been necessary for that reason even if the draft had been chairman of the manpower and personnel subcommittee of the Senate armed services released the Gao report in Advance of hearings on costs associated with the switch he noted that the Pentagon had Esti mated much lower added costs and said some defense personnel have even stated that the ave has saved in an earlier letter to toe Nunn said the defense department testified last year that a return to the draft could save about s500 million a such a savings would amount to less than on half of one percent of the defense Nunn warned that he had a bomb in and would detonate it unless the plane landed in a Brief with two connected to a switch an examination showed that it Cor Thyri on Page 3 i report on go credit starts today american military members in Europe borrowed More than f 160 million last year and no setup in this credit Cycle appears in la an link pub report which begins the Stan and stripes lotto beyond this whopping credit total for a fun hand look at personal and turn to the Middle eight pates of your newspaper or the first install ment or our i Page report tilled coping with Flaky Hardy Vikings the Snow is and the cold is Bui what is thai to Viking warriors parading at carnival Lime a minor Al for see Story an Page pictures on Page Gui Schuettler Snow upset life of easterners by United press International a near blizzard battered the big cities of the Eastern Seaboard it reduced ground and air traffic to slowed or stopped the wheels of government and shut Down shops and offices in communities from new England to state police extricated motorists trapped in their cars in win driven Snow on the Connecticut civil defense officials banned nonemergency traffic from the streets of we want people to go Home and stay Ihu civil defense office the new Volt and american Stock exchanges shut Down classes were called off at new York cites Public and parochial in most of new jerseys schools and colleges and Al hundreds of other schools southward along the storms new jerseys legislature and supreme court cancelled Connecticut Ella Crasso ordered All state workers except those in emergency posts to go Home Al even the tax Man slopped the internal Revenue service closed every irs office in new halting the processing of Federal income tax the National weather service Suid the slow moving Early in the was intensifying rapidly at midday and was a potentially dangerous forecast ers in new England said it was expected to develop into a vicious the heaviest snowfall by noon was generally s to 8 inches in Rustem Pennsylva new Jersey and Southern new Forks Shoreline areas the blustery Sion was expected to dump up to 16 inches on same Mare than a foot in Mew Yurk More than cily workers battled to keep new Yorks so roots and the City began hiring private contractors with Hull f continued on Page Ujj