European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1985 women forum 85 ends amid cheers of Success Kenya up to the beat of tribal Drums and the blare of an allow omens Rock forum a gathering of about members of nongovernmental women Drew to a close Friday amid cheers of Success and promises to continue the fight for its stated goals of peace and forum 85 served As a prelude to the conference on the women decade which continues in Nairobi until july the closing ceremony at the Nairobi University Campus brought tears to some delegates eyes As the German Rock group Honey in the Rock played on and delegates in National dress from countries All Over the world danced and Sang in hundreds of More than 100 workshops were held daily on issues ranging from the rights of sexual slavery and unmarried mothers to the health care of the aged and women in but just As the official women conference be came bogged Down by political mud Many forum 85 delegates took advantage of the Opportunity the forum presented to voice their countries israeli speakers at several workshops were shouted Down by Arab iranian and iraqi women could find Little in common and the filipinos staged vociferous Antiwar cos and anti Reagan the associated press reported a group of militant homemakers called for a worldwide housework strike on 24 to press their demand that women be paid salaries for the cooking and cleaning they do at they said they expect governments to not Hus soviet space May have hit paper says London up the daily mail said Friday Indian investigators Are probing the astonishing theory that the air India jetliner which crashed last month killing 329 people might have been hit by the re Mains of a soviet space in a frontage Story headlined space junk hit jumbo the newspaper said that at almost exactly the same time the jumbo disappeared from radar screens three huge soviet Booster rockets were reenter ing the earths atmosphere on the same a London defense source said the junk theory was a possibility that  be ruled out but neither could one Rule out the possibility that the plane was hit by lightning or a passenger went berserk and strangled the the daily mail said International experts still believe a bomb is the most Likely cause of the but preliminary autopsy reports on the victims show that they were Flung forwards against their seat belts As if the aircraft had hit the that on june the Day the Boeing 747 an unmanned soviet rocket called Progress 24 jettisoned three Booster rockets and other equipment including air tanks after Docking with a manned soviet space space intelligence investigations in Brit Ain and America show that the rocket motors crossed the path of the jumbo about 15 minutes after it the newspaper but the team in India is worried that other pieces of equipment could have come into the atmosphere earlier and hit the a government spokesman the British de sense ministry was not involved in the crash investigation and could not comment on the mail flaws in military procurement system South Africa still Dod auditors Conduce nest persist before funeral by Norman Black Washington a six years after government auditors reported find ing an internal defense depart ment audit says army and air Force commands in the Pacific still Are engaged in questionable procurement a the audit found improper purchases of official China and decorative rental of hundreds of cars when it would have been cheaper to excessive pay ments for cleaning operation of a special closed mess contrary to con Gressional mandate for senior officers in and use of tax Money to provide Lawn care at Homes of senior Navy officers in we found 372 instances where questionable procurement actions had been the audit As a appropriated funds were while corrective actions had been taken to reduce the potential for further improvements were the 23page audit by the defense departments office of the inspector general is dated May 3 and was obtained thurs with some it the services concurred with the auditors rec most of the contracts reviewed in the audit Date to four years after the general accounting office reported serious gaps in purchasing controls at government offices to see whether problems had been the inspector generals office reviewed contracting actions in Korea and the among the problems auditors found improper control Over custodial con tracts awarded in the army Korea contracting Agency could have saved million by acquiring cleaning materials through the general administration for the contractors rather than pay them to obtain their the air Force spent an excess by purchasing office supplies and Industrial products for the Osan air on the local Market instead of through the military Supply the Navy signed a million lease in 1983 for 483 passenger vehicles after conducting a flawed economic As a the Navy spent about More to lease the 483 vehicles Over three years than it would have to buy the auditors the Navy also rented vehicles without regard to whether government vehicles were the naval Supply depot in Okusu purchased a 48piece service of China wine glasses for for use by the commander of the Navy aviation Supply office in the Pacific come Headquarters operated a Shore based closed mess at Camp contrary to congressional mandate to eliminate such eight enlisted personnel were being used to operate the executive dining the closed mess has been ordered the auditors the commander of the Pacific come is William Crowe who was recently selected by president Reagan to become the chairman of the joint chiefs of army restrict flying from Athens Washington a the air Force and army have followed the Lead of the Navy in prohibiting Active duty person Nel and their dependents from flying in or out of Greece on commercial a spokesman said on Navy officials confirmed a directive had been sent out on june 20 by rear David chief of the German court rules in favor of protesters Germany a an appeals in a Case stemming from a protest at a military has said demonstrators cannot be forced to pay the costs of breaking up a blockade during a december 1982 protest blockade outside the military base in police issued a Fine of 89 Marks As the costs of dragging one of the demonstrators away from the an appeals court in this City affirmed a lower court ruling that the Fine lacked any Legal naval military personnel ordering sailors to rely on military or chartered air Craft a spokesman said the same directive had been applied to All the services on july 10 by the european that directive now affects All the services and defense department employees travelling on orders into or out of said Pentagon spokesman John the move by military authorities goes beyond the travel advisory issued by the administration of president Reagan follow ing the june 14 hijacking of Twa flight that advisory suggests civilian to ousts consider changing their travel plans to avoid use of the Airport in Athens where the Twa hijacking began because of concerns about lax the military directives apply to All personnel travelling on official orders or with their dependents in route to new duty Sta in such All travel must be done on military in All military employees moving from the Continental United states to Greece must Fly through Germany first to ensure Woodhouse said thursday he thought the Navy had moved Forward with the directive before the other services be cause there were six sailors aboard Twa flight the Only hostage who was killed in that hijacking was a Navy diver who boarded the flight in Athens follow ing completion of a temporary duty As state department officials have said they will reexamine the status of the travel advisory issued to civilian tourists later this month after reviewing the re sults of a Federal aviation administration Survey of Security improvements at the Athens Waltz King Dies at 84 a Wayne a self taught saxophonist and bandleader who became known As the Waltz has died at the age of a Savan died at his Paradise Valley his band played such hits As Melody of goofs and his the Waltz you saved for King is survived by his and their two South Africa a scattered anti apartheid violence persisted in Black townships Friday on the eve of a political funeral for a slain Black Leader expected to draw tens of thousands of police reported clashes with rioters sever Al times in Johannesburg vast Black and said they used tear Gas to scatter Rock throwing students at a Soweto no fatalities were reported in the which has claimed More than 450 Black lives in 10 months of police listed 27 incidents in 16 Black townships late thursday and Early Friday involving Rock gasoline bombings and other in some cases met with tear rub Ber bullets and police said they would stay in the Back ground saturday at the funeral in the Small sheep farming Village of Cradock for four Black activists from the town found slain near their burned out car june newspapers predicted As Many As mourners might attend from throughout South one of the Matthew had emerged As one of the most influential Black leaders in the troubled Cape province in an 18month Long confrontation with the White govern ment in by the time of his he was among the bes known Black activists in the coun anti apartheid campaigners blamed a pro government hit squad for the an accusation strongly denied by the gov another funeral for tour Blacks killed in recent unrest was scheduled in a township East of Johannesburg where some of the worst unrest has occurred in recent such funerals often turn into mass out door anti apartheid otherwise illegal in South and sometimes result in fresh violence resulting in More deaths and More in addition to the More than people have been wounded in noting since More than 100 Black Council members have been attacked and the Homes of More than 360 Black police men have been burned the South african broadcasting More than people have been arrested for Rio related it and damage to buildings has totalled