European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday april 25, 1978 Mason is qom supports school Plai concerned Over plan continued from Page 1 a med about what form the new Organiza Tion might . George s. Blanchard. Usa eur commander in chief also addressed the delegates. He discussed the military involvement in education and said i m More than just an interested observer in the european school before the schools were assigned to Dod. The Usa eur commander was responsible for Many of the operating Deci Sions in the said his command has $31.8 million set aside for the education of sol Diers and their dependents. As far As i m concerned education is training and train ing is education. When i was a sergeant the army was basically unmarried. Today that s All changed. The career Force is overwhelmingly married and nearly 50 per cent of our Young soldiers arc married. Whether the schools Are Good or bad has a direct Effort on morale and that affects readiness. It is not surprising that the commander s work goes beyond simple contractual arrangements to stretch Dod Doeur dollars and improve the delivery s of educational services to our Blanchard said of the proposed school organization Transfer not Long ago we had a direct say in school matters then the schools became a Dod responsibility and Ospow people Are looking at the possibility of a making Dodd eur a permanent school c system through congressional action. A with All these changes it is easy to lose Job fight of the fact that they Are caused for i the most part by the desire on the part of concerned people to do a better Job of pro Viding a decent education for our Chil Dren he added the new changes could turn tout to be a very difficult thing but i have Jno position on the proposed change. I have of heard or seen nothing in detail on it. I m not really in the Chain of command any on the subject of the Ribicoff Bill the european pts s newly elected president Jar. Edward j. Schulze. Assistant principal to Wurzburg High school said. We Don t f know enough about the legislation yet. Or. Anthony Cardinale. The Dodds director was to have addressed the conference but could not attend because of events in Washington. Because we Don t know enough about the whole thing to make an intelligent stand we will hold off until we do know Schulze said. Soviets air defense flops continued from Page i Tain and navigator for further investigation. A pan american world airways plane took the 95 surviving passengers and 11 of the 13 Crew members from Murmansk to Helsinki. Finland on sunday. Three of the passengers chose to remain in Europe and a Kal plane brought the rest most of them japanese or korean via Ancho rage to jubilant and tearful welcomes in Tokyo and Seoul aboard were the bodies of the two dead passengers one a korean and the other a japanese. The . Acted on behalf of the South korean government because South Korea does not Nave diplomatic relations with the soviet russians also held on to the Airliner s flight recorder and the $15 million Boeing 707 was still on the Remote Frozen Lake in Northwest Russia where it crash landed. Continued from Page ii be transferred to the new asked about funding for overseas schools if they Are placed under a depart ment of education Cardinale said obviously it would be the responsibility of the new Cardinale said it is pre mature to talk about specific details of the operations of the overseas schools when and if they Are transferred. That All hinges on passage of the legislation by Congress he added. Legislation that would create the new department of education is not expected to face any great difficulty in making it Sway through Congress this year Capitol Hill sources Bill now before the Senate govern ment operations committee is expected to become Law before Congress adjourns in september a Senate staffer said. Behave a great Many supporter of the legis . Abraham Ribicoff Futon a. Chair Man of the committee is the. Reporter of the Bill with two of one Hundred and Twenty House have indicated their i Bill and that number i cording to the staffer. In calling for the Carter said it will enable eminent to be a True Para local and private and improving the Quality Moro letter we Are at moment of Slaughter new terrorist demands rejected Rome i i the italian government announced flatly monday night that a red brigades demand for the release of a Mur Derer and 12 terrorists for the life of kid napped sex Premier Aldo Moro was unacceptable. A government statement also questioned whether the men who have held Moro for 40 Days had any real intention of releasing him. In a statement after Premier Giulio Andreotti summoned his Security Council to a meeting at his Chigi Palace office the government said a government Examina Tion of latest events leads to the conclusion that so far the kidnappers have Given no indications that show prospects of any real intention to restore Aldo Moro to it added it was in fact Well known that requests to Exchange prisoners were and Are unacceptable because they Are directed against the Freedom of everyone against the respect due to victims of sub version and against the juridical order of the the government statement concluded the government evaluation conform with that Given by the statement came after Moro sent a letter from the secret prison where he faces the terrorists death threats saying we Are at the moment of addressed to Benigno Zaccagnino Secre tary of the ruling Christian democratic party that Moro presides Over the five time Premier said we Are almost at Zero hour. We Are at seconds rather than min utes from the letter was found by the Rome eve Ning newspaper Vita Sera after a Tele phone Call. It came hours after the red brigades demanded that the government release a murderer and 12 terrorists giving for the first time their exact demands for the life and Freedom of the Man they have held 40 Days since seizing him off a Rome Street and slaying his five police guards. The letter and new demands came after the government saturday allowed a death ultimatum by Moro s captors to past. In the ultimatum the red brigades had said the government must indicate it was prepared to barter an unspecified number of leftist prisoners for Moro. No deadline was set in the new leftist de mands monday. Vita Sera officials who found the letter under a nearby shutter after a Telephone Call said the seven Page Handwritten signed letter was an original not a photo Hanna is sentenced in Korea influence Case Washington up former rep. Richard Hanna was sentenced to Between six and 30 months in Federal prison monday for conspiring to help South Korea buy influence in Congress. After Hanna 63, apologized in a broken voice . District judge William Bryant sentenced him in a plot that brought the former lawmaker More than $200,000 from South korean Rice dealer ton Sun Park. Hanna who chose not to run for re elec Tion in 1974, pleaded guilty March 17 to one count of conspiracy in a plea bargaining agreement under which prosecutor dropped 39 felony counts against him. He could have received five years in prison and a $10,000 Fine on the conspiracy count but Bryant assessed no Fine. Now a resident of Fayetteville ark.,Hanna is the Only present or former con Gressmen convicted so far in connection with korean lobbying efforts in washing ton. Hanna was accused of accepting More than $200,000 from Park in Exchange for using his congressional influence to help Europe a Rel clout
