European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August 1985 christians vow revenge for Beirut blast Beirut a Christian and moslem militias battled sunday with tanks and rockets in the Hills cast of killing six As residents braced for revenge attacks after a car bomb killed 55 people in a Christian police said charred remains of four bodies were dug out sunday from the rubble of the devastated Mulki super Market in the Christian East Beirut suburb of As people inspected the damaged shops and their nearby another woman among the 120 wounded in saturdays car bomb carnage died in the Hospital police As Christian families buried their dead in private Fune rals Christian militia commanders accused druse fighters members of a mystical moslem sect and their foes in Lebanon civil War of carrying out the bomb and the christians vowed the voice of Lebanon mouthpiece of the Chris Tian claimed druse militiamen of Walid jump Latts progressive socialist party of rigging the car with 550 pounds of explosives in the Mountain stronghold of East of and driving it to lebanese forces chieftains pledged saturday that our revenge will be As powerful As their former Christian president and finance minister Carn Ille Chamoun sunday accused Jumblatt and Justice min ister Nabih Leader of the powerful shiite moslem amal of masterminding the no one has claimed responsibility for the the worst in Beirut Eastern which has remained relatively Calm amid the violence that has ravaged the moslem Western part of the fifteen people were killed last wednesday when a car bomb exploded outside an apartment Block in East Bei ruts suburb of Sadd following saturdays president Amin Gem Ayel held emergency talks with top military and Intelli gence aides and instructed them to take measures to bring about the end of these horrific events that have spared no area or the state radio it did not Gemayel blamed the bombing on foreign which he did not the radio but Berri blamed israeli intelligence of planting the car bomb to keep Lebanon in turmoil and divert moslem guerrillas fighting the israelis in the changes from Page 1 had placed a Premium on generalist offi cers who could Cope better than specialists with unforeseen in the late officers found a wide variety of assignments the Best route to the the huge demand for officers even without previous combat experience proved the value of a Good military Educa the education system was now May spend a resident year at the general staff or War College about every six Mauser after the the world War ii Model became Hauser the army soon was Basing up to half its forces faster promotions during Shorter careers and Tours at school left officers serving Only about 18 months in an he Twenty year retirement proved very popu As Many officers with families retired earlier than required to be certain they would be Young enough to land another even colonels and generals retired Young enough to need another retirement at 40 per cent to 60 percent of total pay was next years budget will contain about and its annual Cost by the year 2000 could reach three times technological Progress in weapons development created a need for without changing the promotion value of being a Gener nuclear deterrence made it unlikely that there would be time for another huge mobilize and it would be deadly dangerous if the enemy spotted the buildup in any who headed the officer co Force management team on the Grace com missions army noted that William Westmoreland attempted to open promotion avenues for specialist officers and Meyer ordered 30month assignments now Cut Back to but Hauser says up or overseas Early retirement and resident schooling still cripple the officers he says a new approach is his Cornerstone is a ban on mandatory retirement before 35 except for documented cases of poor under the Hauser plan officers Short of 20 years service still would be subject to up or but those who fail to make Captain lieutenant in the Navy or major lieutenant commander in the Navy on time would be released while they Are still Young enough to Start new careers relatively those with 20 years or More of service would have to serve a minimum three years in their next assignment before they could with violations punished by reduced requiring a minimum ten ure would promote stability in these colonel general posts and reduce the rate of Early retirement for those Hauser that would slow promotion in the officer corps and Cut salary and retirement the deferred annuities would further re Duce the plan would damage Hauser but he says that there would be minimized Severance pay and placement officers who retire at 20 to 25 years would get a generous Severance payment plus a deferred annuity instead of an imme Diate this was a Grace commis Sion those who retire at 25 to 30 years would get placement counselling to help them Start a second career in Middle those who retire with 30 or More years service could choose an immediate pension or the Severance deferred annuity placement probes Call Bulkhead theory Tokyo up1 american investigators probing the crash of a Japan air lines Boeing 747 believe reports blaming the disaster on the failure of a Cabin pressure Bulkhead arc sources close to the team said related Page the who spoke on condition they not be further said the nine member team has not yet closely examined the wreckage to determine whether cracks found in the Bulkhead a possible sign of Metal fatigue occurred before or after japanese officials have speculated that the cracks in the which Sepa rates the rear of the passenger Cabin from the in pressurized Tail allowed pressurized air to Rush into the Tail and burst it like a the jetliner pitched out of control last monday during a Domestic flight and slammed into a Mountainside in Central killing 520 it was the worst single air plane disaster in four people japanese government investigators listened to the planes cockpit voice which tapes on a 30minute and continued analysing the flight data which shows engine and control japanese newspapers reported that the recording showed the Crew fought to control the and the tape ended with the sound of officials declined com ment but said an interim report would be issued by the transport ministry saturday instructed Jal and japans three other Domestic carriers to include the Bulkhead in inspections of All 747 Tail the inspections were or dered last week after the but five Boeing employees on the team reported finding no evidence of Metal fatigue or corrosion in the Bulkhead after visiting the nearly police and fire fighters Clearing the wreckage sunday re covered More bodies to be airlifted to a temporary morgue in 25 Miles Northeast of the by sunday 481 sets of remains had been recovered and 333 bodies had been officials urges Africa Blacks to Confer Washington a the adminis expressing fear that South Africa is looking into the abyss of massive urged the country Black leaders sunday to negotiate with the South african government in Hopes of being offered specific it seems to the president that it is a reason ably Low risk for people to Challenge the South african government now in Neotia said Robert president Ronald reagans National Security Mcfarlane and other advisers monitoring the South Africa situation As they vacation with Reagan in California have expressed disappointment with a speech thursday in which South african president Botha failed to offer specific reforms to his country apartheid policies in the face of a rising level of they say that Bot has Call for negotiations on a new constitutional Structure was a positive Mcfarlane appeared on the Abc television this week with David i do the problem is to find people to a place to meet and an Agenda to he Mcfarlane repeated the administration Call for the release of Nelson Leader of the antigovernment african National who has been in prison since moderate Black leaders in South Africa have reacted with frustration and dismay to Bot has saying it did nothing to satisfy the desire for human rights that has sparked the latest Ive never Felt More sense of for Bod anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu said sunday on lbs televisions face the a we Are on the Brink of i am he denounced the Reagan administration policy of constructive engagement diplomatic efforts to persuade Pretoria to change its policies calling it As immoral and unchristian As the policy they Are trying to when we become we will remember who helped Tutu Mcfarlane said the administration would maintain the and he Reite rated opposition to a congressional proposal to ban the Sale of South Afri can Gold in the United and other limited economic South african foreign minister Roelof Pik interviewed separately by said the United states would regret the officers who give More then 30 years should receive a larger something present Law does not those who stay in for 35 to 40 years could devote themselves unreservedly to the military pro for they would have Little psychologically or for a second pro Hauser officers who Are productive but Are thought to Lack potential for promotion could be assigned to important non mainstream such As recruit teaching Roth advising re serve and National guard units and administering troop training certain carefully picked colonels Navy captains and generals or admirals should be assigned permanently to the joint chiefs of staff until they reach 40 years of there they could make and carry out de sense policy at the highest the permanent duty would give the joint staff a depth it has Hauser joint staff officers currently serve for too Short a Are not shielded from service pressures Are regarded As their own services spokesman and Are rarely re assigned to the joint he it is widely that the services try to avoid sending their High Quality offi cers to joint Hauser assumes Congress would continue to fund Pentagon manpower accounts at the same saying that the services would gain hundreds of millions of dollars annually for improved training and the retirement savings could amount to he saying that the change also might reduce congressional pressure to alter the parts of system that support temperatures August 17 l h 64 80 72 88 70 80 66 78 56 77 67 85 77 98 56 82 60 84 75 90 76 94 60 80 76 Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Kansas City Las vegas l 61 78 51 75 73 75 78 70 70 62 62 55 82 90 70 93 78 93 103 80 83 86 92 67 Angeles Miami Minneapolis new Orleans new York Orlando Phoenix Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Salt Lake City san Francisco Washington european weather forecast for monday mostly Cloudy Skles in the Benelux and Northern with isolated ral show ers and a Chance of partly Cloudy skies with locally dense morning High temperatures from the mld60s to lows from the upper 40s to Sunset monday Sunrise tuesday Outlook for tuesday mostly Cloudy with isolated rain showers and a Chance of thundershowers in the Benelux and Central and Northern Little change in Southern temperatures nearly the temperatures recorded sunday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm m 81 90 cd 57 63 p 50 64 cd 48 66 f 77 89 cd 55 66 f 75 81 f 66 97 p 55 64 p 54 64 r 59 62 p 55 73 m 50 66 i 72 82 by Del 7th weather Graben other worldwide temperatures High Low 1 cd f f f 99 64 72 84 82 73 56 64 68 61 f f f f f High Low 79 52 82 63 72 81 82 54 63 57 by the associated fair cd Clouds a mostly Cloudy partly Cloudy