European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 11, 1978 Black group gives conditional of to plan for Namibia United nations a the main Black nationalist movement for South West Africa Namibia announced conditional acceptance saturday of Secretary general Kurt Waldheim s report outlining a . Operation to help bring that territory to Independence from South Africa. The South West Africa Peoples organization Swap accepted the report on the understanding that Swap and South Africa would sign a cease fire agreement and that the United nations would Send More than the 360 monitoring police now envy Viets May press for . Aid Bangkok up Vietnam intends to press its so called package Deal solution including a demand for american Aid As a prelude to diplomatic relations Hanoi government sources said sunday. The sources travelling with vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong said however that Vietnam has no conditions to actual negotiations with the United states. Dong himself at a news conference be fore leaving Bangkok sunday refused to address any specifics of american Viet Nam relations. You already know our position he said. But aides pressed for More information said vietnamese negotiators intend to renew the demand for Aid As a prelude to actual diplomatic relations. Negotiations expected negotiations Are expected Between the two countries later this month during the general Assembly meeting at the United nations. The package Deal first enunciated by Hanoi about two years ago and reiterated by Dong As recently As last january in sri Lanka envisages simultaneous agreement on three issues. They Are a . Agreement of reparations or Aid a vietnamese commitment to account for americans missing in Vietnam and establishment of full diplomatic relations. There have been indications in re cent weeks that Hanoi has dropped the Aid Issue at a condition to establish relations. Murder suspect shoots cop sent to arrest him Chesterton ind. Up a Man wanted for the shooting death of his wife barricaded his Home and shot state police sgt. George Navarre one of the officers sent to arrest him. Navarre 39, Crown Point ind., was listed in stable condition at Porter county  surrounded the House and tried to persuade the suspect Edward Warner 69, to surrender. Officers finally decided to move into the House. Navarre came in through the garage and was shot once in the Chest. Police said Warner received a leg wound apparently self inflicted in scuffling with Navarre. Warner s left leg was broken police said. Both were hospitalized and Warner was charged with killing his wife Elizabeth Anne Warner 70, who was found shot to death in the House. Saved. It was also understood the United nations would go Over South Africa s voter registration program in the territory and exercise a veto Over South african administrative actions  president Sam Nujoma now in new York awaiting a . Security coun cil meeting to approve the report set Forth the position of his group in a letter to Wald Heim delivered Friday night and circulated As a Council document Here Satur  s report is on How to carry out a Western proposal for South West Afri Ca s transition to Independence. Nujoma accepted Waldheim s View that the transition including a South african conducted .-supervised election would require 7,500 . Troops. He did not take Issue with his stand that it would take a  s letter put Swap sharply at Odds with South Africa Over the whole pro  african foreign minister Roelof f. Botha told reporters in Johannesburg Friday that South Africa would not enter into a cease fire agreement with Swap. He demanded in a letter to Waldheim wednesday that Swap itself say whether it accepts the Western proposal and sign a commitment to Stop All forms of violence. South Africa gave a written acceptance of the proposal last april 25. Swap agreed july 12 to proceed to the Council with it but has never explicitly accepted the proposal itself As distinguished from Waldheim s report on How to implement it. Maj. Kenneth l. Letter at Raf Alconbury. Is photo by Gus Schuettler suggestion by major Worth $2,000 by Leah Larkin staff writer Raf Alconbury England is saving Money cutting fuel consumption and eliminating noise Are goals to aim for. Maj. Kenneth l. Lotter came up with a Way to do All three. The chief of the Quality control Section for the Deputy commander for maintenance Here suggested that the air Force eliminate f-4 pre Takeoff engine  to the suggestion he is $2,000 Richer and the recipient of a letter from president Carter. His idea might sound drastic and dangerous at first. But after 120 hours of study and research he was convinced it had Merit. Convincing the air Force was not  was very controversial Lotter  were generals for it and generals against  Lotter found that engine malfunctions were almost never identified in the checks. After extensive research he Learned that Only six out of 31,034 flights were aborted As a result of the checks during a six month period. Yet All six of the malfunctions could have been identified without the pre Takeoff engine Check. The idea of eliminating the checks came to him in 1973 when he was stationed in Al Obama. Noise was a problem with continued complaints from civilians in the area. The pre Takeoff engine checks at the end of the runway were hardly quiet. Lotter also realized that eliminating the checks would increase engine life As Well As save fuel. His project was then to determine if the airman says hell answer polish youth s bottled note san Vito Dei Normanna Italy it looked like a hoax but turned out to be for  . Bruce Mckowen was beachcombing along the Adriatic sea not far from Here when he spotted a bottle with a message in  first Mckowen said he thought someone was playing a practical  curiosity got the better of him so he dug the bottle out of the Sand opened stand began Reading the message which began dear unknown. It turned out to be a note from 12 year old Krzysztof Folatko of Poland who along with his father was in route to Venice for a summer Holiday. The youngster tossed the bottled message into the sea from the ship Bieszczad on which his father was chief  message said in part i wish you the Best and wait your  i included the boy s Home address in to , who works at the san Vito clinic said he used to Send out similar messages when he was a kid so he plans to answer the youngster. But hell use More conventional Means International mail. Engines could be adequately checked with just a preflight Check eliminating the additional Check at the end of the runway. His proposal listed nine objections to his suggestion then went on to prove Why they were not valid. For example he proved that throttle rigging fuel control and engine lubrication among other things could be adequately tested without running the engines. Lotter submitted his 39-Page report in 1973. He heard nothing. But in 1975 the air Force eliminated the pre Takeoff checks. He figured his idea had been accepted Al though he still had not been notified. He waited another year. Still nothing. Finally he inquired. No one knew anything about it. He Reub knitted the paper work. It was approved and he was awarded his $2,000 some four years after submitting the proposal. I am just As glad he said. I wanted to be sure it was working before i got the  not Only is it working but it has saved the air Force three million pounds of Jet fuel per year. That s Worth $699,832 each year at the 1973 fuel Price. Since then How Ever the Price of fuel has tripled so Sav Ings Are even greater. Lotter of Olean n.y., got an extra Bonus for his suggestion two months ago a letter from the president. Carter thanked him for his interest and  Bonus for the robust London a one thousand fire fighters in South Yorkshire want extra pay for keeping healthy. Michael Harper chairman of the fire brigades Union local said that men should be Given a Bonus for not taking advantage of a regulation that allows three Days of without a doctor s certificate of illness