European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday april 26, 1978 i no o i mro Minu o i ext  Vic i or Jaf Congress gets first hints on bases the Pentagon is planning to close Washington a the Pentagon began giving congressmen the bad news tuesday about the Carter administration s first round of proposed base closings and cutbacks in at least 19  from the armed services gave senators and representatives a run Down in Advance of a planned Pentagon announcement wednesday afternoon. Defense sources said the cutbacks Clos Ings and consolidations will concentrate heavily on training bases and will include some of the oldest installations prize by the military services. Pentagon officials have said in the past they were aiming for savings of about $300million a year. Even As the Day of the announcement approached there were indications of some revisions in the hit list because of apparent political problems which always potluck dinner ban has suburb in a big Stew Brooklyn Park Minn. A City als in this Minneapolis suburb Are Over an ordinance Banning potluck is. Health officials say potluck can bring Tad Luck such As food poisoning. J. When a senior citizens group recently advertised a potluck affair the health de apartment called to warn them not to hold a i bring your own meals dinner. The seniors recently stormed a City Council meeting j and demanded the Law be changed said Gay manager Richard Henneberger. Yas a result a revised ordinance is being prepared for Council approval and potluck f dinners probably will be Legal again Ini Brooklyn Park. F what happened was what happens f re Quenoy when councils adopt Laws and have Ftp depend on professional people for  said Henneberger. Sometimes they go a Little too  Tom Heenan director of the health de apartment for the suburbs of Brooklyn Park Brooklyn Center and Crystal said the anti potluck ordinance has been in effect for years in Brooklyn Park but Usu ally was not enforced unless the dinners Ere widely advertised. Charles Schneider of the state health department said outlawing the dinners is de coming out against motherhood and the  sources deny separation complicate base reduction plans. Sources said the moves could result in a net reduction of about 18.500 army and air Force military and civilian jobs. Navy Fig ures were not available. Some bases would gain personnel in various shifts of activities. Affected bases Are in California Colora do. Florida Hawaii Illinois Indiana. Kansas Louisiana Missouri Montana new Jersey Ohio. Oregon. Pennsylvania South Carolina. Texas Utah. Virginia and Wisconsin sources said. The army list for possible closure includes the training centers at fort Dix. N.j., and fort Jackson . The historic Presidio in san Francisco fort Monroe a. And fort Sheridan. Iii. Tabbed for possible significant reductions were fort Bliss. Tex., and the Aber Deen proving ground in Maryland. Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana would receive the army recruiting com Mand from fort Sheridan and the military personnel Center from the Washington  area. The Navy proposes closing one of three recruit training centers possibly Sandiego. Calif. The proposal also contemplates shutting one of two Marine corps recruit training depots consolidating Marine Boot training at either Parris Island  or Cam Pendleton Calif. Six naval hospitals would be studied for possible closure including the under used Hospital at new Orleans and an old Hospi Tal in Philadelphia. The key West naval air station in Florida also would be Sli it Jown sources said. The air Force lit for possible closing includes Chanute air Force base iii., site of technical training Goodfellow air Force base tex., which also is a training site Rickenbacker air Force base Ohio an the los Angeles air station. Atlanta a everything needed to harness the Sun s Energy is available right now. And solar Power satellites May provide electricity at prices competitive with other new Energy sources by the 1990s, an official of the Boeing aerospace co. Says. Ralph Nansen manager of space solar Power systems for the Seattle aerospace firm told space and aviation writers that extraordinary Progress has been made in the last year in designing a satellite Capa ble of drawing Energy from the Sun. Well Able to deliver commercially Bridge addict explained out the Tomt what work called butt Genfi year by u Art grasp to new he is one of tevet Neo oily i lobed Icca York in Hay 1177. Some people climb the Goldea Gate Bridge in san Francisco with suicidal intentions but for John Halpern waving from the Cable of the sooth lower it was an ego trip. After police escorted him Down Malpera vaguely solar Power satellites called practical available electricity at a Price that will compete with any other new source in the 1990s," he said. There is no real limit tothe Power that can be  Nansen said that by being stationed in a special orbit 22,000 Miles above the Earth the satellite could remain in sunlight 99 percent of the time and thus could provide continuous Power. Bills before Congress now would pro vide 25 million in next year s budget for developing a solar Power satellite Nansen said. Boeing and other manufacturers Are using Federal and company funds to deter mine the full Cost of using such d also at the annual meeting of Tot Tion space writers association f Lloyd a Calif. Criticized an Ai policy issued by Secretary of 1 lion Brock Adams that allow i ties to set their own Airport Restek this policy has led to a a i and proposed restrictions by to cities throughout the country i played Airport development said Lloyd a former nary i member of the House armed i ence and technology coming is Joan Kennedy to go if a one papers re Poi a Vanir Wadi dk.-. ,1 i new York a reports that Joan Kennedy wife of sen. Edward m. Kennedy has decided to got alone in an apartment in Boston were published tues Day in two new York newspapers but Ken Nedy family sources in Washington denied the couple had separated. The new York Post quoted unnamed friends As saying mrs. Kennedy has been living in a two bedroom apartment on Beacon Street for the past two months and. Although she sees her children every week end has been at her family s Home in Mclean. A. Only once in that time. In the daily news columnist Liz Smith wrote that by failing to appear together in Public or private recently the Kennedy a e done nothing to slow unceasing Sto nes of their great apart Ness which have been Rife Ever since the Suzy Chaffee on the slopes with Teddy tales began  Kennedy has been reported As being a Aspen. Colo., in the company of Chaffee a former olympic skier several weeks ago. It s not True Tom Southwick spokesman for Kennedy. A mass in Washington said when asked whether the couple had separated. The apartment is his residence i Boston. They have not separated. She has been taking courses at Harvard and Lesley College of Fine arts since last fall Southwick said. Southwick also said not True when Eunice Shriver. The senator s sister also denied that there was a separation each Shriver said Joan was in therapy " re Leming to her drinking problem was doing very Well and there was no Point in upset in past years. Mrs Kennedy has had some emotional and a raking problems at � the press of u ing the Post quoted mrs. Kennedy s friends As saying she has settled into a quiet bul enjoyable life with a friends far from the  just seems that the is Here the Post quoted the has a brutal  she has lost a Tot o. Looks trimmer and younger we two years ago. Nobody Bast her  they said. A spokesman at the Lesley Plake said mrs. Kennedy Independent study course tilled and sound in the  course is for teachers seek degree. There was no immediate mrs Kennedy