European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june 1985 army studies need for new personnel command by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington the people who match soldiers skills to the army needs would be pulled together into a single organization if a study shows that a new person Nel command would the command would oversee the groups that recruit and assign warrant officers and giving the service a better look at the manpower and skills available throughout the Active ranks and the the officer leading the exploration of the concept the army living under a limit of and we need to use them As efficiently As said Ron he said the army needs become More specialized As the Force and the command would enable personnel officers to respond to that requirement As chief of personnel plans and analysis under the Deputy chief of staff for said the new command would encompass the people who carry out personnel separating them from those who write those functions currently meet at the office of the Deputy chief of staff for bringing the Active and Reserve personnel data bases under one command should make mobilization go More quickly and he reserves would join Active troops to form one fighting Force in the new command also would include people study units such As the army research Institute in suburban and the Soldier support Center at Indi the army Community and family support Center and civilian and drug and Alco hol abuse prevention groups also would report to the new Johnson said a 10member to 12member team would be created to study the idea and report to the major commanders at their annual meeting in he said All the fourstar commanders had been briefed on the except for Glenn Usa eur commander in Otis is to be briefed next the new command would not interfere with a major commanders ability to Tell personnel officials what skills Are needed in the Johnson but common equip ment and administrative procedures throughout a new personnel command would enable it to look efficiently throughout the army to find the people to meet the commanders he said Robert Deputy chief of staff for has said the new command would have to be created without any More people or in Elton told the study group to look for ways to Cut Back 5 none of the personnel offices would be relocated under the Johnson they would be connected the most Likely scenario is that the which would be headed by a three Star or fourstar would report to the army chief of Johnson hostages from Page 1 Airport officials that All were still the who commandeered the Athens Toroc Twa flight last demand that Israel free hundreds of shiite moslem captured during its withdrawal from Southern Lebanon and that Spain re lease two shiites held the British broadcasting quoted Barri As saying that if Israel did not free the he would give the who have also identified themselves As full control of the hostages to do with them As they Beirut Christia controlled voice of Lebanon radio said the hostages were distributed in groups of three or four in Strong holds of Burris shiite militia the passenger killed by the terrorists was Robert a 24yearold Navy Frog Man from Roy Dyson office said a member of the naval Seal program who was eight months Short of completing his fou year Navy was identified through fingerprints and medical records and by said Katie a spokeswoman for a Democrat who represents about 20 Miles South of As darkness fell most of the militiamen or troops who had guarded the Boeing 727 in past Days were a Hijacker called the control Tower for food at 8 Only for those who Are the others which apparently meant that the hijackers were observing the moslem holy month of Ramadan by going without food until he would not say How Many were hours there had been no request for More in a state department offi Cial said the United states has no reason to doubt that the hostages have been taken away from the a spokesman said the department believes that 43 people Are being held 42 a dual National and a greek National but added that the figures could not be confirmed without having direct Access to the officials say Berri is the key to end ing the fou Day Hijack ordeal and freeing the White House spokesman Larry Speakes said at the White House that president reagans National Security Robert telephoned Berri Early Mon Day and told him he has in his hands the ability to end the Secretary of state George Shultz said hijacking and other forms of terrorism Are unacceptable in a civilized we Call upon those holding hostages to treat them properly and release them immedi two gunmen took control of the Jet soon after it left with 153 people they released hostages during stops in Beirut and israeli officials have indicated a willingness to free the shiite prisoners in response to a Public request from washing but the Reagan administration says Israel must make the Spain has refused to release the two men it the position is that it will not Tate with and Speakes called the hijackers demands impossible pre Condi Israel also refuses to Deal with and apparently feels a Public request would avoid the impression that it had Vio lated the there was widespread out rage last month when the israeli govern ment freed palestinians in Exchange for three captured israeli an Airport official who is a member of Berris shiite militia amal said he person ally served lunch to the hostages on the plane monday Long after the time Berri said they were transferred to a hiding place somewhere in the i took 40 Chicken they the hostages washed their hands and began they were All he said shortly after Berris he spoke on the condition of several other Airport who also discovery from Page 1 22 Arab also aboard Are two French medical three West German technology experiments and a Ca Nadia built robot in 27 nations arc involved in the Large delegations of saudis and mexicans flew Here to attend prelaunch parties and to watch the fiery the commanded by astronaut Dan includes saudi Prince Sultan Salman a Nephew of King and Patrick a French military the others Are Pilot John Creighton and Mission specialists Shannon John Fabian and Steve the Prince is flying As part of a program in which Nasa offers major shuttle customers an Opportunity to Fly As his training Cost about Baudry is aboard As the result of a 1984 agreement Between president Reagan and French president Francois each of the satellite owners is paying Nasa about million for the shuttles outer space delivery the Prince Wilt observe the deployment of the Arab satellite and snap pictures of his Homeland that could disclose hidden sources of minerals and other tuesday is the last Day of the month observed by moslem with a Dawn to dusk fast and whose end is determined by sighting the Crescent of the new from his Vantage Point in the Prince will probably be the first moslem to see the Moons the first of the Mexico More named for an Independence was to be released from discovery cargo Bay later arabs Tab will be dropped off on tuesday and telstar 3d will go on also aboard is a fourth spartan which Lucid and Fabian Are to deploy on thursday and retrieve on spar Tan will examine what May be a Black Hole lurking in the Center of our Milky Way devouring cosmic dust and Gas at a rapid two of the German experiments involve the processing of materials in according to the third will study the behaviour of fluids in discovery is to return to Earth on june Landing on the wide open dry Lake bed at Edwards firefighters demonstrate How to extract pilots by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau chief Span Dahlem Germany Twenty German firefighters from nearby Kallburg watched As Spang Dahlem fire fighters released two pilots from a Burn ing f4 the germans were on hand for a lesson in extracting pilots from downed we get a Pilot out in three minutes under Normal said staff Gary a firefighter with the 52nd combat support its faster in a real we showed them How to release All the harnesses and when you have to move you hit two handles that free All the in the first firefighters performed a Normal release to the Point where the pilots could be pulled then firefighters posed As pilots in the cockpit to help the germans study the harnesses and practice releasing they then moved to the where it is Safe to stage a Large fire for demonstration four Hundred Gallons of up 4 were set ablaze and the department demonstrated its response to a fuel three German fire trucks were brought along so that each group could examine the equipment the other Kallburg is about 12 Miles from Spang local firefighters have never had to Cope with a downed aircraft but have co operated with Span Dahlem to fight Brush fires in the Dennis declined to be said no hostages left the plane after the release sunday night of american Robert Peel who was taken to a West Beirut Hospital and then flown to before peels Twa officials had said there were at least 31 hostages and Crew members still on the Berri said the hostages were being held in West the moslem sector of the War torn capital in which the Airport is but would not be More if the americans have been taken from the there could be two separate groups of Twa and the White House say up to 12 passengers were removed from the plane during an earlier Stop in the senior attendant on the flight Uli was among those she told reporters in new York that seven passengers with jewish sounding names were escorted off the at least a dozen More armed shiites Are believed to have boarded the which has travelled More than Miles since the hijackers struck on Israel holds More than 700 lebanese shiite prisoners and had intended to release them As it has several other batches of shiites captured before it completed the withdrawal from temperatures june 16 l h 59 76 64 97 47 58 69 85 66 74 65 81 54 75 70 87 52 84 59 65 57 74 53 66 71 84 64 84 53 74 64 82 58 74 74 98 64 93 60 83 55 66 47 53 60 81 58 75 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