European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june goal is a charge Dup go Christmas by Dwight trimmer Washington Bureau Washington Pentagon officials arc hoping Congress will approve the use of credit cards in military Exchange stores this summer in time for Christmas our Best guess is if Congress approves the use of credit cards some time in we will have credit cards in the exchanges for the Christmas sea said Clare a military personnel and Force management executive in the mock said if approval comes in August or credit cards could not be used in the military exchanges until after the first of the according to it will take the defense department about four months after congressional approval to work out the details with credit card military Exchange stores do not now accept credit most overseas Exchange stores use the deferred payment a credit account there is no credit in Exchange Al though some Exchange service stations accept credit last the defense department asked Congress to allow credit card use in military the House armed services committees welfare and recreation panel shelved the part of the House armed serv ices military readiness the panel oversees military Exchange and commissary the department asked the mar panel again this year to allow credit card use in military this time the joint chiefs of staff supported the re last the service chiefs were not although some members of the mar panel expressed concern last year Over bringing credit cards to military sex a panel staffer said members now appear More open minded on the he asked not to be Dan chairs both the military readiness subcommittee and the mar Daniel favors the use of credit cards in military he wrote to air Force chief of staff Charles Gabriel our views Are in and i will bring the matter to the attention of the welfare and recreation panel at our next meet Gabriel had asked for Daniels sup Porton the credit card the mar staffer said the panel would probably look at the credit card Issue sometime this summer although perhaps not until the defense authorization Bill for next fiscal year has top he the full House and Senate Are Debat ing the authorization after the Mea sure passes each the House and Senate must Iron out their differences in a conference that process could take another month to according to armed services committee staff military exchanges Are the eighth largest retailer in the United according to government Exchange officials estimate that credit cards would increase Exchange net sales by about 6 Weinberger says spy ring caused serious loss Washington not defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said thursday that the United states suffered a serious loss because of the activities of John Walker and his brother and who Are accused of giving information to the soviet Weinberger said the defense department would strengthen its Security procedures As a american military and intelligence officials say they have not yet Learned and May never know exactly How much classified information the walkers May have sold to the soviet considering the wide Range of highly sensitive material that could have passed through their military and civilian intelligence officials said the United states might find it More difficult to recover from the harm caused by this Case than it has from Many other spy the Navy was still trying to assess the damage thurs officials a knowledgeable official said so the walkers have not made any move to collaborate with the and the Navy does not yet know when John Walker first started working for the soviet retired after 21 years As a Navy communications at least six of them aboard submarines and at command centers in where he had Access to material classified As top the most sensitive Broad category of he did not have Access to sensitive compartment de a subcategory of intelligence information of the very highest his Seaman Michael served aboard the aircraft Carrier where he had Access to information classified As until he was arrested and charged with espionage last in John walkers Arthur a retired Navy lieutenant commander who worked for a military was charged with passing sensitive military information to the soviet of All the material the walkers May have passed to soviet intelligence officials they Are most concerned about the details of american Antisubmarine warfare that John Walker might have submarines Are by far the most secret service we said an expert in the who asked not to be their whole Trade is he said the attitude of Navy personnel must be one of absolute horror something fundamental has been taken away from a former senior intelligence official who has been briefed on the Case said there is an Assumption that there is a very real possibility of widespread damage to Antisubmarine warfare the information that apparently was sold May have been very he the officials cited several principal areas of among them was that Walker May have Given soviet agents precise information about the capabilities of Amer ican underwater microphones placed in strategic locations around the world to track soviet Summa submarines cannot be detected when travelling below a certain said Gene a retired Admiral who now runs the Center for defense at certain Low speeds they do not make enough he and soviet officials would love to know what that Speed 4 Walker or his son might have sold that information or other information that would allow soviet officials to de Termine the optimal Larocque and others Security tight As Mitterrand opens Paris air show Paris a president Francois Mit under extremely tight Security at Lebourget officially opened the 36th Paris air show on Friday with a tour of the French aeronautical exhibits and those of four other his visit to the show was High lighted by an air display of the latest French fighter helicopters and com Mercial the president praised both the air the worlds oldest and largest aeronautical and Frances Aero space the air show has grown Over the years both in number and in the Quality of technological he told a gathering of French aerospace much of what is Best from abroad is on he and our French Aero nautical Industry holds up Mitterrand was unaccompanied by re porters during his tour of the West German and British the Lebourget grounds were closed to All but essential and heavy contingents of police and guard dogs roamed the All movement was Mitterrand said he was satisfied with the reception received by the French Eureka a space and High technology re search and development what we were hoping for this project is much nearer realization than we thought it was two months he he said Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Kohl considers Eureka a vital Eureka is in Good he Many countries want to and some of those who were tempted to look across the Atlantic Are coming Back to this idea whose importance they the French proposals for a civil Ian rather than military undertaking like the american strategic defense remain but it in an attempt to counter the invitation to West euro Pean governments to participate in Star wars handicapped worker thankful for Chance army gave by Chris Estes staff writer Germany getting a Job in Ger Many in 1951 was difficult enough for someone in a wheelchair it was next to the army was the first employer to offer polio victim Heinz Preis a after More than 30 years working for the Preis is leaving to help other handicapped being i would like More of the Handi capped to get he this is what 1 admired about the americans when they first came i was looking for a Job and  get but the United states army didst ask what i could not they asked what i could this was the first such experience for one which ill never Preis is leaving because be has been voted president of self help for the physically a wide group of clubs designed to help integrate the Handi capped into he has worked with the organization for 12 and established one of the clubs in where he he will be moving to Krautheim when he assumes the we practice Independent he said of the organi we have established a service for we Are maintaining a workshop for our physically we have a printing a Bookstore and things like we also have a sales office for technical like wheel chairs and other things which help you overcome the Handi and we Are trying to integrate the handicapped into to make the wheelchair an acceptable he said the organization also provides advice on Legal rights to the Preis issued an invitation for handicapped americans to join the we Are organized in All areas in Ger he in each state we have since i speak it would be no one of the organizations functions is lobbying the funds for the handicapped Are being Cut Preis and the handicapped Are fighting to keep what they some Battles have been be and some All Preiss time with the army has been in from his first Job in a signal depot in Erle see to his present position As a contracting Price analyst for the army contracting Agency in he had a fou year in which he worked for a German firm that eventually went Bank but i did not leave like closing a door behind he i kept in there Are Many things the German government and the army do for the Preis the germans provided him an electrical chair for work that can be mane Vered in tight hallways and the chair also rises High enough to reach books on tall Book the army pays for the maintenance of the said making such a change in his life leaving the army and moving to Krautheim is diff but there Are times when a Man must do what a Man must he the economic problems of Germany in 1951 made finding work difficult for he but it was very hard for so i will always be thankful to the army for but my colleagues who Are Handi capped Call i should follow Preis begins his Job with self help for the physically handicapped on july his phone number will be