European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes april Harvest Eagle delivers the goods by Lon Cabot Naples Bureau chief i Italy if there Given a runway and a source of 43 Mem Bers of an air Force Squadron at Camp Darby can create an operational air base at any Remote site in Europe within a matter of they Are the men of Harvest they maintain tons of supplies and Are pre pared to move them within eight hours after the supplies Are if go where the supplies go and help set up an operational Harvest Eagle is a Bare base support unit that is actually half our said Michael commander of the 40th ammunition and Supply the other half of our Mission is to store and maintain conventional air munitions for safes Southern Baker said that although his Squadron is one of three air Force ammunition and Supply squadrons in it is the Only Harvest Eagle unit in Europe and one of Only three in the air Force world Harvest Eagle supplies Are used in support of wartime joint chiefs of staff and Usa directed exer Baker there also used for civil defense and disaster Relief As directed by Harvest Eagle supplies include just about any equipment or material needed to sustain life and air operations in a Remote the unit has four kits of ready ouse including supplies ranging from cots and generators to duplicating photo by Lon Cabot Wesley Jones cuts plywood to build a crate for Harvest Eagle typewriters and food service we maintain four kits that can each support As Many As said Larry Harvest eagles support each kit costs about and can be broken Down into submits to support smaller contingents of people when in addition to the logistics and Cost we have two primary kits we use in support of exercises and keep two other kits As a ready from january 1983 to the end of Harvest Eagle supported More than 30 exercises in the european Thea although most of them were con ducted by the air some were joint service Field Maneu vers that required the special Supply capabilities of Harvest we Send our people on exercises with the equipment whenever we said master Russell the units support noncommissioned sending them out with the equip ment gives them a better understanding of the importance of their he if there out in the Field and have to take a cold Shower when its Only 30 degrees outside to begin they quickly get a better appreciation for Why All the gear like water Heaters and generators in the kits has to be perfectly Cullingham said keeping All the equipment the kits maintained to Fiel Dready standards is a full time Job for the Small the groups 17man maintenance detachment alone close to 300 pieces of Power equipment to Check out every 45 All other Harvest Eagle supplies must be routinely inspected to make sure no material goes out of Date or becomes there Are 180 pallets of gear in each of the four kits we Bradley and even though we keep two kits in Reserve and Only use two the people who use the equipment on Maneu vers Are a constant reminder to us for the necessity of making sure every piece of gear is in top condition and ready to be Thatcher cracking Down on spies socialist opponents Call it paranoia7 London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced wednesday night what commentators de scribed As a sweeping crackdown on Britain spy plagued and Lea plagued system of government the details Given by Thatcher to the House of com Mons include an Extension of Powers to Weed out potential Security risks in the civil service and the Public service including the British Telephone the Post office and private companies working on secret government con the which tighten rules first drawn up in 1957 to exclude staff members considered a Security risk from employment in sensitive were criticized As paranoid by Gerald Home affairs spokesman for the socialist opposition labor unnamed government sources quoted by the London times said the new measures were not substantially differ ent from those of but the times commented a comparison with the old rules showed that the definition of Security risk had been considerably widened to include and the scope for action had been considerably widened to include All people in the Public including civilian Flag conference june 25 the federation of latin american a usage unsanctioned private will hold its eighth annual conference june 25 at Ramstein Ger conference workshops and presentations will focus on the theme enhancing careers for Early registration deadline is May to ensure Early Advance payment is registration fees Are and gs7 and an additional will be charged for late spouses will pay the same registration fee As checks or Money orders should be made payable to Flag and sent to Isela Box Kelly Apo for More Call Alejandro Alvarez at Mili tary 22266305 or Auto on 4806305 Isela Hough at Mili tary or Auto on 4212318 Annie Wither at military 21216377 or Auto on 3706377 or Tomasa Guz Man Michaels military 27216059 or employees of private Thatcher ordered a review of the rules because of fears that penetration of the Public service May have taken new forms since the rules were first drawn up in the 1957 rules restricted government ministers to sus pending civil servants from Security sensitive work if they were thought to have communist or fascist associations or sympathies or were susceptible to pressure As a result of the new rules extend ministers Powers of suspension to anyone who or has recently a member of a communist or fascist or a subversive acknowledged As such by the whose Aims Are to undermine or overthrow parliamentary democracy by Industrial or violent they also extend them to anyone who has been associated with members or sympathizers of such groups or is susceptible to pressure from in addition to civil the new rules also apply to employees of the atomic Energy the civil aviation the British telecoms Telephone the Post the police including civilian employees and employees engaged on classified government con ministers May also use the new Security definition to bar labor Union officials from any government establish ment or to refuse to negotiate with them because they May need Access to classified information during the course of in extreme staff members could be fired if they were excluded from work under the new but in most they would be transferred to new posts in less sensitive the new rules retain the right listed in the 1957 rules for those suspended to Appeal to a panel of three Independent advisers against ministers the announcement of the new rules followed the governments decision in january last year to ban labor unions at the government communications Britain to secret electronic intelligence gathering operation at Cheltenham in Western a former a Chi Russia language soviet spy Geoffrey was sentenced in 1982 to 35 years in prime was said to have caused incalculable damage to Britain and her Western it was one of a Long list of spy scandals that have plagued Britain since world War biggest Blaze since 1948 rages 6 hours in German port City Hamburg up a fire raged for six hours in a storage shed in the Hamburg Harbor causing damage of millions of police nearly 400 firemen fought the which was de scribed As the biggest in Hamburg since when the Karstadt department store burned the which soared 200 feet destroyed one fourth of the 984footlong shed that contained rubber and no one was the cause of the fire was but a police spokes Man said there was no reason to suspect after the fire was discovered at 1 several explosions took apparently caused by expanding Chemi cals bursting their British Man Dies after drinking excessive amount of wafer London up a 31yearold British who believed drinking a lot of water was Good for his died after water logging his lungs and a coroners inquest concluded pathologist John Paul said Richard Coxs brain tis lungs and stomach contained a severe amount of Paul said Cox drank himself to friends said Cox was once seen drinking 13 half pint glasses of water in a the pathologist said an excessive amount of water intake eventually passes through the producing an effect similar to the person becomes and is unable to speak said Cox spent several years in a mental institution in Eastern the pathologist said Only some 100 other cases of water death have been reported throughout the discovery of Wii bomb forces evacuation of 2 towns Italy a authorities evacuated residents of two towns in northeastern Italy for several hours As experts defused a police said the bomb apparently had been dropped by a b17 plane during a world War ii raid on the Tagliamento it bad been discovered in a Muddy area along the near this town in the province of
