European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday. June 1. 1960 letters to the de Tor privacy act guidelines sought since i be been in he army i have heard so much about Protection under the privacy act of 1974 . Social Security number Home of record Etc., being privileged information. There is one big question i have can anyone who has troops under them com Mander platoon sergeant Etc require individuals under their responsibility to fill out forms produced by the unit asking for Ssan. Dob Hor or any information thatis covered under the privacy act not telling the individuals what the information is going to be used for. Also the form does not have the privacy act statement on it. Can anyone legally without authorization take this valuable information and put it in his or her personal computer if not. What can happen to someone doing this under the Ucma. Name withheld Karlsruhe Germany editor s note cant. Patrice , to Tang chief administrate Law division he. Usa eur replies Congress enacted the. Privacy act of 1974 5 United states code Section 552a for the purpose of protecting the privacy of individuals identified in information sys tems maintained by Federal agencies. The act regulates the collection maintenance use and dissemination of such information by the Federal government. However not All requests for information Are covered by the privacy act and not All requests for information require a privacy act statement. The following data comprise what is generally referred to As the privacy act statement a. The authority to make the request Itai Ute executive order Etc. Which Autho Rizes the collection of information. A. Principal purposes for which information is intended to be used. A. The routine uses which May be made of the information. A. Whether furnishing the information i he won t vote i am sick and tired of people telling me to vote in this upcoming presidential election. I see advertising All Over the bulletin boards at work letters to the editor and notices on an and yet 1 still won t vote. I refuse to Vole for a candidate whom i Don t want in office. Why should i vote for a Man i Don t want in office or support a Man whom 1 Don t want for president if no candidate earns my vote no candidate will receive it. I m also sick and tired of people who believe that you should t complain unless you voted in the last election what a non sequitur just because i did t approve of any of the candidates enough to Vole for them does t mean i have no criticism for he government and its actions. By not complaining i d take an even lesser role in governmental affairs. Bravo to those who complain and boo to those who vote for the Sake of voting. Spec. 4 Philip b. Pol Karlsruhe Germany reminder All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. We do not read unsigned tellers. But we will withhold your name on request and protect your privacy. Writers Are encouraged to include phone number and Economy address especially if they desire a fast reply. Because of the Large volume of mail this Page receives daily letters that Are Brief and to the Point Bate a much belter Chance of being published. Is mandatory or discretionary win the Serviceman be punished for not giving the information. A. The effects of not providing the in formation win the service member lose or not be provided benefits. When an information request is Cov ered by the privacy act information May not be sought from the service member by his or her Superior without the service member first being Given a privacy act statement. Faure to provide a privacy act statement or failure to comply with the privacy act May result in criminal or civil penalties. If a person has knowingly and wilfully disclosed information or wilfully Maia aimed information in violation of the act he or she May be prosecuted under article 134, Ucma and May be guilty of a Federal Misdemeanour. A person who is injured by a govern ment employee s intentional or wilful Vio lation of the privacy act May sue in fed eral District court to recover any actual damages which be or she has suffered. The first question in determining whether the privacy act has been violated is whether or not the information requested or collected from an individual is Cov ered by the act. The Protection of the privacy act applies to various pieces of information depending upon several fac tors which Are not provided in the writer s letter. The writer May wish to Contact his or her local judge advocate to determine whether a privacy act violation has of Russel in Baker cat owners accused in recent weeks it has come to my Atten Tion that cats have been using our children s sandboxes As a litter Box. I know these cats belong to families because they have collars and tags. Sometimes the owner is standing nearby watching and does nothing to remove the cat to an appropriate place. Why can t peo ple take their cats elsewhere if hey Are too Lazy to walk their cat to the designated place then a litter Box should be installed in the Home. With the number of people living so close together in the housing area we really Don t need our children infected with disease from animal pc pcs. Parents How would you like to play in a barnyard name withheld Karlsruhe Germany liner Queen Mary loses $2 million a year Long Beach Calif. Up Long each Harbor commissioners attempting to sell the Queen Mary have been told the famous Ocean liner now a tourist attraction will lose a record j2 million plus for 1979 80. The annual deficit for the ship which has lost Money Ever since it was purchased by the City in 1967 and turned Over to the port in 1978, was Cut to $1.2 million last year with predictions it would break even this year. But port general manager James Mcjunkin responding to the gloomy financial re port said i Don t think the Sec losses will affect the sales negotiations. It s a Down year for amusement four potential buyers including Consorti us from the Philippines South Korea and Brazil Are reportedly in the final stages of discussions with port officials for the ship. The leading candidate is Taid to be Abra Pritzker of Chicago who controls Hyatt hotels. New York not old you Are named John or Mary got married in june and can still rhyme honeymoon with Joon without fast you Are named Dirk or Linda have just decided that a divorce is More trouble than it s Worth and wish the beatles would get together you Are named Jason or Jennifer Are living together out of Wedlock be cause you can t afford the punitive income tax on working married couples and Don t think of sushi As raw fish. Old you miss the Queen Mary. Aging fast you treasure an old snapshot of yourself being tear gassed the Day the cops routed the . From the physics lab. Young you remember the Good old Days when Charlie s Angels still had Farrah Fawcett. Old would t Trust a computer As far As you could throw one. Aging fast never Trust anyone Over 30 oops Over 45. Young no nukes old you Are shocked by evidence that Franklin d. Roosevelt was unfaithful to Al fast you find it incredible that Theodore Roosevelt never engaged in pre marital sex. Young you doubt that anyone engaged in sexual activity before 1975, except when fully clothed. Old in your dreams you own a Packard. Aging fast you meet Jack Kennedy. Young you own a Princess Telephone. Old when i was a kid you could buy an Cream Cone for a aging fast remember that summer we flew to Europe and hitchhiked All the Way from London to Lake Como on just $50 a Day Young ill need $25,000 a year to Start but first let s talk about the retirement Mechanic heats up 10-gallon classic South Windsor. Conn. A driving a car to Vermont and Back with the windows closed and the Heater on in 80-dc Grcic weather is not a typical sunday drive. But that s what Shade tree Mechanic Steve Pine did and today he s $500 Richer for it. Pine a Barkhamsted electronics technician placed first Overall in a Field of 32 cars in the South Windsor Jay cacs "10 gallon500" Economy classic. He drove his 1973 Saab powered by a modified four Cylinder forklift engine the distance averaging an impressive 67.2 Miles per gallon. The race begun five Summers ago As a spoof of the Indianapolis 500 Auto race is a 500-Kilometer drive up interstate 91 to White River Junction vt., and Back. The aim is to find the car and Driver that can get inc most Miles per gallon. The fuel allotment Wai reduced from 10 Gallons to 5.7 Gallons when the 500-mile route was scaled Down to 500 Kilometres 310 Miles a few tears ago. Pine said he closed the windows to avoid drag on the ear and turned on the Heater which brought warm air into the passenger compartment from the engine area to avoid overheating the mule Power Plant. The temperature reached 96 degrees during the last hour of the five hour plus Road test he says. Old you want your children to have a in better life than you had. A aging fast you want your child to have it just As Good As you had it except for the Young you would t mind having due Dren if you could afford a House to put them in and if the government rewrote the Law tomake children a profitable tax shelter. Old you Are watching another made fur to movie about world War ii and All Trefa soldiers Are wearing hair in the thick Long locks los Angeles style popularized by local to news show Anchorman. You become intensely irritated because whoever made the movie was obviously too Young to know that All ois in world War ii wore Crew fast while watching the same vie you Are sickened by the tendency american mass culture to glorify War in Stead of showing it like it is namely As an evil that can make a mess of the most expensive hairstyling. Oung you find the movie very Boring you Are male but continue watching to i some lips about How to shape your Hairl a sexier look if female ditto. Old when you think of the great evils off the 20th Century what you have in mind i Are the great depression Adolf Hitler and-3 Josef Stalin. ,.= aging fast what comes to your mind on i the other hand Are irrelevance conformity aging fast you think it quaint that any one should Ever have thought about Warner " i Baxter. This is because you have forgotten $ that you Haven t thought about Sam be Sham and the pharaohs in 10 years. A Young you feel very smug in this department because you still think about Johnny Rotten and Sid vicious every now a and then. But just you wait a few month Young timers. New York times european edition col. Rose stauber. Usa Edgar Kavc tilt. Col. Taylor Usan Daw to Edh or to old meet Proctor mafia Fojut Elmer o. Frank production manager Henry s. Epstein circulation Manas if this newspaper is an authored unofficial publication Lor armed forces overseas. 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