European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May official says army requests bogged Down bureaucracy blamed for Pershing peril by Bill Keller Washington not a senior Pentagon official blames a bureaucratic Jungle that he said governs construction projects at overseas military installations for the conditions that left Pershing ii missiles in Germany vulnerable to terrorist attack for More than a the undersecretary of the army James said army re quests for missile Sheds and other improvements had been bogged Down in which shares responsibility for maintaining the but Ambrose Cencic did that army officials did not press for improvements be cause it did not occur to them that the Sites were seriously they never did have a plan that looked at that As Here is the site to be he he said the army realized the problem while investigating an accidental fire that killed three soldiers at a Pershing base near Heilbronn in who is the army second ranking civilian spoke in an inter View after it was disclosed that the army considered the missiles at four bases in Germany extremely in a letter to announcing a four stage plan to fortify the the army said the which Are visible behind Cyclone fencing and concertina had become rallying Points for anti nuclear demonstrations since the first weapons were delivered in late the political sensitivity of the Pershing missiles makes them a potentially Lucra Tive target for the letter army and congressional authorities stressed that while the missiles were sex the nuclear warheads were not at being secured in Concrete vaults at separate Ambrose said on a visit to Ger Many last he asked commanders to plan to fortify the missiles in Concrete barns and take other unspecified protective in the he the army has encircled the missiles with trucks filled with heavy Bridge building material to provide temporary i consider they Are properly secured but the measures being taken Are he one congressional Jim Sas said in an interview that the lapse raised questions about whether the army should be entrusted with the care of nuclear he contrasted the handling of the per Shing bases with the Security of air Force bases in where nuclear cruise mis Siles Are Ambrose said the army was at a disadvantage because the air Force was Able to build new installations while the Pershing missiles were at older he said there was no room to build More secluded Sites in the Only Allied country that has agreed to accept he the army has asked nato for improvements at the old he said these requests often became mired in disputes Over who will the United states or the usual procedure is for the army to ask Congress for an Advance and then re coup the Money from but con Gress has sometimes walked at requests because the Alliance still owes Mil lion for other in the Case of the congressional sources said the army would have met with Quick approval if it had said the missiles were in but that it never asked for Money for a full Security pro Ambrose conceded that this was but said the army was reluctant to risk a fight Over the it is not easy to Cut through the bureaucratic Jungle each and every be cause you Are looked upon As somebody who cries he Ambrose said the army never thought of special Protection for the missile bases because the Pershing were intended As truck borne Mobile weapons that would be dispersed through the Countryside in War the Pershing was conceived of As a system that will operate out in the he these fixed Sites were by and Large just looked at As storage not really needing Security of a very extensive he said the fire in which was attributed to a surge of Static electricity that ignited a rocket aroused the initial the army has now asked for Mil lion to build camouflage fences and con Crete barriers As a first Ambrose said he had also ordered base commanders to prepare plans for Perma nent Concrete housing and other Security what i asked them to do was to As semble the whole business without regard to where the Money came he adding that he would ask Congress for the Money and try to recover some of it from Ambrose did not put an estimate on the ultimate but a congressional source said the fortifications May Cost Mil Maryland suit threatens to end widows benefits a Maryland officials will go to court this week to try once again to fire a Man who died More than four years Long after he had secretly tap recorded portions of a meeting with his a Victory for the state comptrollers office would mean the loss of in state death benefits to Muriel the widow of Thomas she said it also would be a blow to her efforts to restore her husbands Good state tax officials Are concerned that their Long Legal Battle is being portrayed As an attack on a widows benefits and As they see As an at tempt to preserve the integrity of the tax efforts to oust Myers began in when it was discovered that he had secretly tap recorded part of a meeting with a although it is a felony in Maryland to record a conversation without the knowledge of everyone Myers was never at a personnel department Myers said he tried to record the interview because he had encountered Many problems with management in the comptrollers for about 6vi the comptrollers office has pursued its Case against Myers before the state personnel in the trial courts and in Appel late comptroller Louis Goldstein is currently appealing a ruling by John state personnel that the firing of Myers was excessive punishment and that he should Only have been suspended for two a two month suspension would have put Myers Back on the state payroll before he died of a heart attack in january allowing his widow to col Lect the death Marvin Goldsteins press said the comptroller is pursuing the Case because he believes it is essential that he Nave the right to fire an employee who fails to follow the Law and the proce dures within the the comptroller believes that it is 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