European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1985 Otis defends need for Liaison missions says he soviets will not use deadly Force again by Norman Black Washington a Glenn Usa Klur said he believes the soviet Union has taken Steps to assure that soldiers will not face the use of deadly Force if detained while per forming observation work inside East in Washington for consultations at the also said he believes there is a continuing need to main Tain a military Liaison Mission inside East Ger Many despite the shooting last Spring of an american army Arthur Nicholson was shot and killed by a soviet sentry while on a routine observation Mission out Side the soviets have claimed he was trespass ing on a restricted base and ignored warnings to claims which have been heatedly denied by the United the United states maintains an observation team in Hast Germany and the soviets have a similar team in West Germany under the terms of a 1947 without detailing his Otis said in an inter View that soviet military leaders had issued new instructions to their soldiers stressing that deadly Force was not to be used in detaining american he also said the soviets had without using that for the recent ramming of a observation car by a soviet and have suggested privately they will emulate the practice of providing special cards to their soldiers detailing How american observers Are to be i dont know for sure that they have issued this card to All their Otis but i do and have been assured in several different at All Levels in the group of soviet forces in East the commanders have re instructed their soldiers that they Are not to use Force and violence or weapons if they find it necessary to detain a military Liaison mis Sion Otis said the operation of such teams by both the United states and soviet Union should by having soviet teams Down in the Federal Republic with Freedom of Access in the areas where troops Man Euver and Are that provides direct feed Back to the soviets about what we Are doing in a general Otis the corollary to that it pro Vides feedback on whether we Are indeed in the business of warlike preparations or now the same thing can be said about our i think that a value to Mutual understanding on both most survivors of plane crashes Saf in Tail study says Dallas a most people who have survived major airline crashes since 1970 were seated in the rear of the according to National transportation safety Board Forward sections of downed jets generally have suffered More extensive destruction in says a study published in mondays editions of the Dallas morning in the Delta air lines Jet crash no one seated in front of Row 29 the Nosb report the l1011 jumbo Jet crashed on final approach to the Dallas fort Worth International Airport killing 133 people on Board and one person on the thirty people survived the the news study was based on Nosb reports on the 16 worst airline crashes Over the past 15 years in which some passengers and Crew members the reports indicated in nine of the most survivors were sitting toward the in Only three crashes were most of those who died sitting in the Back of the the study the newspaper said the reports also revealed another pattern most victims were not killed by the initial Impact but when collapsing Cabin furniture or debris prevented or delayed escape from a burning or sinking researchers who conducted a test crash last year disagree with the theory that rear seating is in a Congress approved test crash program last Decem a 24yearold Boeing 720 clocked at 170 Mph plunged into the Mojave the jets 73 passenger seats were occupied by Impact measuring devices hidden in the floor and fuse Lage of the four engine Jet and in 13 of the 73 mannequins provided researchers with information that will be included in a report to be published next although conclusions drawn from the crash have not been researchers apparently Haven decided that the safest seats on a doomed aircraft Are in the the news i dont think youll see that in our said John program another unidentified program official was quoted As that theory is Nosb officials said the Agency has never conducted a study of the role that seat placement plays in crash Surv we dont have a statistical data until we we cant make any analyses or any said Nosb spokesman Bob but the Federal aviation administration requires air lines to store flight voice and data recorders As far aft As most of them Are placed in the Faa spokesman John Leyden i guess they figure that where they would be the safest from auditors find lapses in embassy Security Washington up despite concerns Over terrorist attacks against americans some Diplo Mats have been reluctant to enforce routine Security Mea sures at embassies for fear of breaching state department auditors have the Security lapses resulted in embassy officials at some unidentified posts failing to open visitors briefcases or requiring them to pass through Metal despite recent car bombings and other attacks on at one embassy locally hired guards were found asleep on duty or absent from their according to a summary of a report by the departments inspector Gener als citing safety state department officials declined to identify embassies where the Security lapses of or even to say in what regions of the world they Are in a separate submitted in june to Secretary of state George an advisory panel on overseas Security cited major weaknesses within the office of Security and called for action to Correct Security deficiencies to counter terrorist the panels report detailed More than million in appropriations made Between fiscal years 1980 and 1985 for a variety of programs intended to augment Security at foreign diplomatic it also must be emphasized that no amount of Money can guarantee Complete Protection against the report the state departments annual completed in said some posts proved reluctant to comply with recommendations to use their Meta detection citing local explaining the embassies Robert a state department said use of Meta detection de vices Means searching people and opening were there to elicit show the in certain searching the personal belongings of state visitors May be considered offensive to local Cus Toms or notions of proper Granick they think it might be he Robert senior adviser to the Georgetown University Center for strategic and International said such Security searches would undoubtedly be considered offensive in Japan and there is some sensitivity in these often involving vanity and claims of diplomatic especially in the Kupperman the cases of noncompliance cited in the report Are falling into Granick in reviewing the Overall status of forces in eur Otis said the army would meet its schedule for deploy ing 108 Pershing ii intermediate Range nuclear missiles inside West Germany by he said the scope of resistance by the German Public to the deployment had dropped dramatically since the German government made the final decision to proceed in november asserted american soldiers Are better have higher morale and Are More combat ready than at any Point in the deployment to Europe of new my armoured fighting helicopters and missiles has helped he said despite such he foresees Little possibility of reducing the size of the roughly army contingent in at least through the end of the because the soviets have not slowed their own efforts to Force nato members to contribute More to defense by threatening troop withdrawals Are he because that would merely increase the need for strategic deploy ment to get them Back in the event of said the army has made significant Progress in improving the Security of its bases against terrorist at photo by Patrick Jackson 4 Grace Glitzner at work on the heavy  be so she shifted her talents to Armor by Chris Estes staff writer Germany the army  let 4 Grace Glitzner be a so she became a tank Mechanic now Shes one of the few women fixing and driving the my Abrams tank and the Bradley fighting a Mechanic in the 88th Maint Glitzner was the Only woman in her class in advanced individual training at Aberdeen proving where she Learned work on the army newest in her unit she is one of two women repairing and test driving the she began As a wheeled vehicle but after two years decided to change to the 88th Maint co provides general maintenance support for v its not the Type of Field Many women get she i get Claustrophobia i dont like working behind a she if she gets Claustrophobic inside a i can just get anytime i from Falls went into mechanics because Ive always had a fascination with working on its its differ i love having no idea what in doing during the Day until i get