European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes March Amelco wont bid for of travel contract by Charlie Bowden staff writer Frankfurt american express travel officials have reversed earlier announcements and have decided not to bid on the air Force concessionaire contract for commercial travel the Surprise move was announced the Day bids were due for the which covers 10 air Force bases in Germany and one in the a spokesman said american express travel officials have been juggling numbers for trying to come up with figures that would both win the contract and allow for a satisfactory profit the numbers just didst the spokesman american knowing it would once again be facing the Barbarossa travel Agency in Competition for the used a 3 percent commission figure in its we assumed Barbarossa would bid at 3 since he offered that amount to the we  operate a full fledged travel operation and make a worthwhile profit with that it would mean a massive loss even at Normal business the spokes Man if the Market should take a downward a 3 percent commission rate could spell he american express notified the air Force officially Friday in a letter to Lew Safe Deputy chief of staff for we have now deter mined because of the loss of our army our network of 10 full service air Force travel offices cannot be sustained As a viable commercial wrote John general manager for american express military travel in the offices will Stop offering travel services at those locations by May 22 and will be moved out by june Piznak the decision does not affect the company pending Appeal with the general accounting the spokes Man he want sure what action the company would take should the Gao Rule in favor of american the Gao has requested an Agency report from the army that will include All documents and information pertaining to the solicitation and award of the army concessionaire travel contract that took effect March the report is due april and a Gao attorney said the Agency would Issue a decision by july shoot from Page 1 tired the territory of a restricted military installation of a group of soviet forces in Germany in the Schwerin area of the Ger Man democratic one of the officers wearing a Camou Flage suit and carrying a photo camera penetrated directly into the territory of this in where he photographed the combat equipment which was he caught re handed by a soviet sentry guard ing that he did not comply with his after a warning shot while at tempting to he was the other who was a was apprehended with his vehicle the soviet Side launched a Resolute protest in this Kulagin at the state a spokesman said Early we Are aware there was a fatality and we Are looking into it and working on he said he had no details and could not explain Why the announce ment was made monday instead of this did not happen in a restricted Mili tary a Pentagon official Usa eur announced the incident but gave few Usa eur also did not comment on Kulaginas according to information received by the army in Europe on March a soviet guard shot and killed a army officer of the military Liaison Mission to East the usar eur statement in administration officials said the Mission in Berlin filed a pro test to the soviet Union Over the and the soviet embassy in East Berlin responded to the Nicholson Elva said her informed the family of the death sunday Vincent said Nicholson was a Liaison offi cer for the United Germany and Britain and had served in the army for 16 he and his wife had an 8yearold the Usa eur spokesman said Nichol sons and their daughter live in his and Arthur live in West the spokesman four More years and he would have they were going to move Back to the United states this Vincent his whenever he whatever his he wanted to be buried at Arlington cemetery in whenever the body is released by the and the preparations Are hell come to a she Nicholson remains were returned to West Berlin across Unity Bridge at about Homan the Bridge is normally used Only by Mili tary Liaison Mission personnel and occasion ally by members of the diplomatic Mission to travel Between West Berlin and the Potsdam a Small army Honor guard participated in a Short ceremony at the he a larger ceremony was planned for Tempelhof Central Airport prior to the remains being transported by c130 cargo aircraft to Rhei main for he it was not known whether or not the family would accompany the the United Britain and under postwar agreements with the soviet have military missions in East Ger the missions have their Headquarters in but Mission members May travel throughout East they Are barred from restricted areas placed out of Bounds for Security in the there have been incidents when Mission members were considered to have entered the soviets have three missions in West South Africa wont dismiss police Leader South Africa up president Pieter Botha on monday Dis missed Calls for the firing of police minister Louis be saying he would not be influenced by opposition political parties accused be Grange of losing control of the police in Eastern Cape where 19 Blacks were shot dead by police on the 25th anniversary of the Sharleville since March 46 Blacks have died in violence around police Botha said he was amazed at a time when rioters Are trying to make South Africa attacks Are made on a minister doing his i reject he a police spokesman said monday that the Black townships were although tear Gas was fired on one occasion to Dis Perse a crowd massing around a township office building in a military spokesman said a few Pla Toons of soldiers had supported police Sun this is a police and the South african defense Force is not involved in any direct he it is merely assisting with Protection police said the death toll in weekend noting Rose to with the finding monday of the hacked bodies of two Indian men who were killed he said the a Man and a were dragged from their car and killed by a crowd of Blacks on a Road Between Langa and he said he did not know Why they were Edgar the president of the Eastern Cape division of the United democratic front a no racial umbrella move ment comprising about 600 anti apartheid said one of those wounded in thurs Days shooting died rejecting the official statement that police fired in Sel defense on a riotous said it was not a it was a Fune and the people had no reason to carry Sticks and the presence of armed police surround ing the townships was markedly reduced trom and managers of offices and factories reported attendance of nearly 100 percent by their in site phage magistrates 17 Blacks appeared on charges of Public Vio Lence relating to the thursday lawyer Halten appearing for said 12 were freed on bail of five were remanded in custody and an unknown number who Are under police guard in hospitals were refused accredited to the French and British the missions were established in april 1947 As liaisons Between the soviets and Western Allied they often were used to discuss and Settle East West Dis Putes in As time they were used by both East and West increasingly for keeping tabs on military activities of the other staff writers Emmett Lewis Dwight trim de Reavis and Mary Hladky contributed to this temperatures March 24 Angeles Beach Paul Orleans York City Maine Louis Petersburg Lake City Diego Francisco Juan european weather forecast for tuesday Cloudy in All with rain showers and isolated winds South Westerly at 10 to 15 Miles per highs lows Sunset tuesday Sunrise wednesday Outlook for wednesday partly Cloudy with Patchy morning fog and northwesterly winds at 5 to 1o temperatures slightly temperatures recorded monday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm p 54 70 m 36 54 cd 39 50 r 36 45 cd 52 57 m 41 59 f 50 55 f 34 54 f 39 52 cd 38 48 m 41 52 p 45 63 Fig 35 41 f 30 54 of far a Cloudy mostly Cloudy partly Cloudy provided by Del 7th weather Graben student in Germany wins top award for project by King Cruger Bureau chief London Robin a Junior from the american High school at Wei has won the top award at the Lith annual Junior science and humanities symposium of the department of defense dependents the 16yearold daughter of and Wayne Stockton took the top prize at an awards presentation sunday that wound up the fou Day which was attended by 110 students and 30 teachers from schools in All three Dodds european plus some British the which carries with it a scholarship Grant from americas facade my of applied science and a one years Hal tuition Grant from the University of was Given for her presentation of a project to evaluate the Quality of Cut gemstones by using refraction principles and a Stockton said she had been interested in lasers and finding a practical application for them for some a Friend of my family who works with gemstones explained the difficulty of evaluating their so i made up the she i think my project eliminates the need for an expert to do the since it tells exactly How Well a gemstone is and it does it Stockton will present her project when she travels to the National Junior science and humanities symposium to be held at the military Academy at West in those named As finalists at the symposium together with the title of their Are Jeff Icke and David Baltierra classical conditioning versus operant conditioning in Oesterberg nether lands High school Raimi Quiton a method of reducing Lead ions in canned Frankfurt High school Robin Mckenzie effects of Lead on Plant Queens and Laetitia Booth and Diane Appleton the strength of hair of Queens which is at tended by children of British army of the Rhine the finalists also will have the Opportunity to present their projects at the West Point the symposiums faculty award went to Jane a science teacher at the american High school in during the symposium the participants presented their projects to the eard talks from experts in astronomy and music and had a Chance to Sample some of London cultural the symposium was chiefly funded by the army development and standardization headquartered in Lon