European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday june 17, 1980 30 percent cuts Over next two years red Cross to reduce european staff by Jim Arwine. . Bureau chief London is the american cd Cross will reduce its european staff by 30 percent Over the next two years an organization official said Here. In Europe there will be 22 fewer Mili tary installations where we will have professional said Joseph p. Cerniglia. Red Cross National director of services tothe armed forces. He was on a visit to Europe last week to explain reduction procedures to Field workers. Despite the cuts he said we arc going to try to maintain the same level of service he said the staff cuts to begin july i this year and end july 1, 1982, will mean a loss of 45 paid professional staff workers at 22 of the 78 red Cross offices in Europe the installations to be reduced or closed have been named in a plan drafted by the european red Cross Headquarters in Stuttgart Germany. However he said it would be premature to release the list of bases now because it s a projected plan and has t been Given the final stamp of approval by the National Headquarters Orthe military commands in Europe. He said most of the cuts will occur in Germany at stations that Are near larger installations. Some Small stations will stay open but be manned by volunteers Only. How will the reductions affect the Mili tary the reductions will mean some people May have to go greater distances to gel service. It May mean we have to do More work by Telephone Carniglia said. Emergency messages and the issuance of travel Loans the two services used sky diver with army s elite squad leaps to his death As parents watch Fredericksburg a. A while his parents watched from below sgt. . Thomas Johnson a member of the army s crack Golden knights skydiving team pulled the ring on his Parachute an plunged 10,000 feet to his death. If he had had one or two seconds More he would have made it said another Golden Knight after the Accident sunday. Thousands of people attending the air show at Shannon Airport near Here looked on As the Veteran of More than 5.200 jumps fell to his death. In the crowd were a dozen of Johnson s relatives including his parents or. And mrs. Charles Johnson of do Ruyter. N.y., and his brother Charles Johnsonjr. The Accident occurred As the 33-year-Oldjohnson leaped from a plane with sgt. Car ice Edge. Only one Parachute appeared. The Ond jumper continued to fall trailing the red smoke that was part of the demonstration. Some spectators at first thought the jumper deliberately was delaying the open ing of his Parachute. Then came chilling words from an army announcer it lookalike we have a parachutist with a maj. Thomas Woods Public affairs offi cer at fort Bragg n.c., where Johnson was stationed said Johnson and Edge had jumped from the plane at 10.000 feet made a Baton pass and then pulled the rings to deploy their parachutes. Edge s Chute opened but Johnson s failed. Woods said when the Small Pilot three Are killed in Blaze at Belgium nursing Home Ghent Belgium up three per sons died in a fire in a nursing Home during i he night police officials said. An old Man was burned to death in his room while two others died later of asphyxiation in Hospital where nine More Are still under treatment. The Home housed about100 old people. Chute used to pull the main Chute tree broke away. Woods said Johnson waited too Long to try his Reserve Chute. Both his main and Reserve chutes began to open trailing be Hind him moments before he struck the took several minutes for some of those in the crowd to realize what had happened. Some spectators said they thought it had been u Dummy a part of the show. I could Tell the Man was in trouble said Gardner Campbell an announcer for radio station Wyva who was broadcasting live from the show. He did not flail. He came Down feet firs with his arms out just like he had a Parachute but he did t. His Parachute trailed him like a folded Johnson had been with the army Ever since he graduated from High school. He was doing what he loved. This washes life said his brother. Slate police trooper . Dellavecchio said the army was conducting an investigation into the failure of the Parachute. Most by gis will not suffer he said. Several installations in the absence of red Cross workers have designated individuals usually a military chaplain to handle emergency messages and act As a Contact Point for the organization. The red Cross financial assistance pro Gram which provides about is 1 million la travel Loans to gis on emergency leave each year will not be affected became it has separate funding he said. The reductions directed by the National red Cross Board in february Are taking place because of the shrinking Dollar inflation and the fact that we have to main Tain All of the operations of the red Cross at the highest possible level Carniglia Means we re going to have a leaner Structure. Well continue to carry on the same programs but Well have to rely to a greater extent on our Volunteer resource to supplant the staff at those locations where we will be withdrawing be said. With the reduction in personnel will come an administrative shuffle. We will develop what we refer to As District offices. Each District will be responsible for a number of installations he said. The key function of the new District Headquarters will be to see that the volunteers Are recruited and trained and to coordinate activities within the District. Global cuts Many in the Pacific Mili tary theater will mean a loss of 280 paid professional red Cross workers from the Rolls. May be patented by creators justices Rule on life forms l h 61 is 57 964t a 70 9 m 71a n to am n u no 17 a Ita 74 74 n44 94 a in w 54 77 71 wo57 10 54 a h u a71 n a is w 94 71 1941 n temperatures l he n unit Rock u ii lot Anthi 71 n loultlvllt74 95 Mem Prill 71 ii Miami Bud is u Minoh u 94 77 93 new Ortea flt a is new York m 94 Norton 7 m Oklahoma Clov 43 71 Omaha u u 77 Pali Burgh 17 74 Portland. Ma.54 71 Portland. Or a 13 provmana40 ii rom 75 91 is. Lout 44 19 is. Ptter Turg 43 73 san last City u 71 san Dago 54 70 san Francisco 51 u stall 43 77 a Racutt Albany Albua Rhu Anchor not Atlanta Allan la blow 8o�lon Buffalo . 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The Choice we arc urged to make is a matter of High policy for Resolution within the legislative process after the kind of investigation examination and study that legislative bodies can provide and Burger called the challenges to genetic research a gruesome Parade of Horri Bles suggesting that such research May even threaten the human race. These arguments. Burger wrote re mind us that at times human ingenuity seems unable to control fully the forces even while saying that the court lacked competence to Analyse these declared that approving or denying patents on new forms of Micro organisms would not be Likely to put an end to genetic research or to its attendant a ruling barring patents in this held Burger said would not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any More than Canute could command the ruling clears the Way for a general electric co. Scientist and . To get a Patent on a new form of bacteria used to break Down crude Oil and thus help in reducing Oil spills. The inventor Ananda m. Chakrabarty produced a new form of bacteria pseudo Monas. The Patent application was turned Down within the government but was upheld by a lower Federal court. The supreme court agreed with that result. The court also issued a variety of other orders and opinions on cases pending Mon Day. I ruled 6"3 lat " is unconstitutional for the government to use a cellmate As a paid informer to obtain damaging admissions from a jailed suspect. If the government knows that the paid informers Likely to persuade the suspect to talk when the suspect already has been charged with crime and is awaiting trial that Vio lates the accused person s right to a Law yer the court said. In another 6-3 decision it ruled that a person convicted of a plot to sell narcotics May not be put on special parole extending beyond the prison sentence. 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It left intact a lower court ruling which upheld the firing of 26 agriculture department officials at the state officials lost their jobs when the Carter administration took office to make room for political supporters of the presi Dent. It rejected without comment a sweeping Challenge to the presidential or Der that requires All government contractors to take special Steps to hire and pro Mote More women and minority workers. L Breed to try again to define the kind or proof that a company must offer in order to show that it does not discriminate illegally among workers on the basis of race or sex. A us Raj to dec de another test Casein whether Federal judges have a constitutional right to annual Cost of living pay raises Congress has denied Federal judges the full amount of such raises every Yea for the past four. 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