European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes july 1985 cafes reevaluating policy of visitors in stateside pcs by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington the air Force blocked an army and air Force Exchange service policy permitting Visi tors to accompany authorized customers in stateside exchanges for fear the policy could be abused too and air Force spokesman commanders foresaw complications and asked that the service acc Valuate the air Force Jim Moore he said the air Force wanted to see the policy re drawn More closely along the lines of the one that has been in effect for years under that base commanders can permit Visi tors to accompany patrons As Long As the visitors dont buy Moore said the visitors usually need a letter from the commander or some similar authorization to get through the the overseas policy has not been affected by the pro posed stateside an cafes spokesman the policy change cafes announced May 10 stated that unless base commanders visitors should be permitted to enter exchanges with authorized patrons As Long As they didst try to buy visitors Are allowed to buy meals in food the policy would have required that patrons and Visi tors sign in with the identification card checker at the and visitors would have been required to sign a pledge that they  buy if no one was examining cards at the patrons and visitors would have had to Check in with the store no such authority existed for base commanders in the United and the change was partly an Effort to make the policy consistent the cafes spokesman he said the air Force issued a statement the Day after the cafes announcement that the policy change would not take effect on air Force the army followed suit 24 hours an official of the army adjutant generals office said his service acted at the request of which he said needed one policy position for both the cafes spokesman said that the policy had been coordinated with both services and that the army and air Force had issued internal electronic messages announcing the change to holders of the joint regulation on cafes it was to take effect with out a wait until the change could be the change had been requested by cafes to eliminate the embarrassment that it said in a statement All Exchange patrons had Felt at one time or another when a relative or Friend was turned away from the somebody Mother visits during Basic and the Soldier wants to show off the the cafes spokesman Shes refused admittance and has to wait out in the the cafes spokesman said the Exchange service is reworking the policy and will resubmit it to the army and air but he could not say a photo photographer Fernando Pereira was killed when explosions rocked the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow explosions sink Greenpeace ship London up a Greenpeace trawler in new zealand to Campaign against nuclear testing Sank after being rocked by at least two one Man was killed and police Are treating it As an act of the environmentalist group said the trawler the flagship of Greenpeace four vessel Fleet was at its pier in where it was in the midst of a six month tour attempting to Stop French nuclear testing in the South Navy divers found the body of a Greenpeace photog a Fernando a portuguese native who lived in shortly after the Rainbow Warrior Sank at about others on the vessel were not Greenpeace officials weve spoken to the police and they Are treating the death As which Means obviously they think this was an act of said Greenpeace spokesman Bryn Jones in he said Greenpeace had made Many enemies in its attempts to Stop nuclear testing and halt the killing of endangered sea but we simply dont know who would do Jones said it was the first death of an Active Greenpeace member in the history of the which was formed in 1971 in Canada and uses confrontation tac tics to try to halt Hunts and other activities the group considers harmful to the inspector Lindsay Todd of the Auckland police said authorities were investigating to determine whether or not there was any criminal intent involved in the expo the Rainbow used by Greenpeace since 1978 for was preparing to sail to the French nuclear weapons test site in the Miles East of new in the the Rainbow Warrior has been detained or faced Legal action for trying to disrupt Spain whaling Seal Hunts off Canada and nuclear dumping at sea by France and in her most celebrated the ship ventured into soviet Waters to try to disrupt the russian whaling Fleet in the Bering seven Crew members six americans and a Canadian were arrested for illegally Landing on soviet territory and were held for a Short period before being last the Rainbow Warrior assisted in the evacuation of 260 islanders from Rong Lap atoll in the South the islanders feared residual effects from Ameri can nuclear tests in the 5 German employee awards for suggestions Pitburg Germany five air Force cos and a German employee at Pitburg have received More than apiece for ideas on How to improve Roger Gillespie of the 36th component a pair so and staff Arnold Maddox of the 36th tac fighter Wing will split for their suggestion to develop guidelines for removing Antenna pods from the f15 their suggestion will save More than according to base Donald 36th civil engr earned for his idea that the cast Iron gear Box casings on the doors of the tactical aircraft shelters be made of this suggestion eliminates cracks in the casings and represents a three year estimated savings of More than Glen 36th Supply earned for his idea to use a Reclaimable fuel or to reclaim contaminated saving More than a staff Ronald 36th component repair earned for his idea to design a communications system for the aircraft hush eliminating chances of a communications Cable being acc Dently sucked into an aircraft Hans Gunther 36th civil engr earned for his idea to change the Oil used on aircraft shelters from shelter lubrication Oil to Chain saw Wing spokesmen estimate the difference in Cost of the two oils will save about in the first Safe Side of Reserve units of deploy to Germany for test Ramstein Germany four air Force Reserve units will deploy to Sembach next month to participate in a test to Analyse future expansion of air Reserve forces a10 deployments to Accord ing to a he Safe news the 442nd tac fighter Wing at will be the first unit to participate in the named Coronet six a10 Thunderbolt ii aircraft and 61 personnel from Missouri and its 925th tac fighter new will be integrated 518 into existing Safe units at Sembach providing the second part of the exercise 1730 will be the 435th tac fighter Grissom and its 197th tac fighter Barksdale units will Fly 166 sorties during the including delivery of 500pound other Airt ground support and Landing at other nato the exercise will give air Force Reserve units an Opportunity to train in their programmed european Environ units will be under the command and control of Safe with the 66th electronic combat Wing at sem Bach As sponsoring units will be the 81st tac fighter Raf and its Del at sem fighter Wing members can earn Days off by boosting efficiency Span Dahlem Germany members of the 52nd tac fighter Wing can earn a Day off each month by showing that they can do More in less according to a base no procedures have just said Lawrence when management acknowledges that you have a difficult task to perform and that they know that people can really it makes a big the Wing earned the first Day off for its performance in exceeding both the sortie goal and the flying hour to earn the Day the Wing must meet or exceed goals for the its important that we started with a now people know the Day off program is Day its a than you for getting the work said staff Bradley a Crew chief with the 81st aircraft maintenance we worked very hard for but it also depends on the pilots and on the Capps this involves not just said All the support missions Are if you dont have trucks available when you need them and barriers reconfigured when you need it wont