European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Usa eur car documents your states 3 q allies cooperate in ardent ground d lakers Roll in Aba West 21 the Stasand writes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 26 May 1985 of 8693 a stadium fire death toll hits 52 tragedy spurs Calls for better safety measures a which Only moments earlier was watching a soccer watches flames the stadium a photo England a the death toll Rose to 52 in England worst soccer disaster plunging this Northern Industrial City into grief and sparking Calls for improved safety measures at antiquated sports grounds throughout the on a Day that civic celebrations had been planned to Honor the championship Brad Ford City soccer flags flew at half staff to mourn what sports minister Neil Mac Farlane called the worst tragedy we have Ever seen in English nearly 20 hours after winded flames turned the wooden grandstand at the Valley Parade stadium into a blazing West Yorkshire police chief Colin Samp son announced the death toll stood at he told a news conference 211 people had been and 72 were still Hospital including three of the 23 policemen injured trying to help people out of the rap idly engulfing two were reported in critical and five others were de scribed As the fire that erupted saturday afternoon As people watched a match at the 79yearold wooden stadium was so Quick spreading and intense that the bodies were burned beyond Sampson said the Only one of the 52 fatalities who had been positively identified was the Only victim who died in a that victims name was not pathologists and forensic scientists were working to identify the others in what Sampson called the Metic Ulous process of achieving he called on relatives of missing people to show a great Deal of Sampson the Early indication is that it was not a deliberate a deliberate see fire on Page 28 end to Dodds advisory group urged by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington a 10weekold memorandum shows that the director of the department of defense dependents schools recommended in its present the group that advises Dodds on system wide assuming that Congress determines that the department of defense dependents schools will remain within Dod rather than Transfer to the department of it is strongly recommended that legislation be proposed to eliminate the Acde advisory on dependents education As it is presently constr director Beth Stephens wrote Law rence assistant Secretary of defense for installations and Stephens said Friday that the critical words were As it is presently constituted and that she did not favor removing the committee Korb said he could not remember seeing the his chief Jerry Cal who usually works on Dodds is said he did not think it reached his the memo surfaced exactly two weeks after Stephens told the advisory group at its most recent meeting there is no intent in Dodds to abolish this we do not have elected school and we need your Stephens had made the statement while the Council unaware of the memo discussed some members concerns about the Fate of the group if it were removed from the department of education and placed under the department of As legislation pending before Congress at the schools Are under the defense the Council is under the education they have been in those departments since when the education department was Cre the portion of the authorization Bill that involves the Council is in a Section that would rescind the requirement to Transfer Dodds to the education de that postponed by Congress several has been in Law since after Stephens remarks were placed in the councils a motion that the Council seek to remain in the education department failed on a vote of 6 to nowhere in the memo does it say that the committee would not be recons i Stephens neither does it discuss reconstituting the Council in any form under the defense department or any other the addressed to says it was written in response to see Dodds on Page 28 Pentagon sets a curb on big Mark purchases because of Large fluctuations recently in the Dollar Mark Exchange the department of defense has established a policy limiting the Purchase of Marks when a drop of 5 pfennig or More occurs in the Exchange a euro Pean come spokesman the which will go into effect june will affect All Neucom personnel stationed in the policy establishes a limit on the Purchase of Marks through the close of business on Days when the Exchange rate has dropped 5 pfennig or More for the follow ing it is designed to prevent losses to the defense department under its worldwide banking twice in the past when the Exchange rate dropped sales outlets were jammed with people want ing to buy Marks before the new rate went into losses resulting from such a drop must be borne by the military from appropriated funds and not by the who operates the Community Banks for the defense depart ment for a fixed management the new procedures will work like this As soon As a drop of 5 pfennig or More in the Exchange rate is for the next business All District and Branch Bank offices will receive a message announcing the see Marks on Page 28