European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Canada beefing up european presence 28 increase strains available housing by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Germany Canada increased its european troop strength by 28 percent this summer and has begun upgrading air Craft based at bad Canadian forces Europe officials but the swelling ranks also have absorbed All available quarters on the two Canadian bases in southwestern about 800 soldiers have arrived at Ca Nadian forces base Lahr this and another 420 Are expected by next raising the total to most of the arrivals Are assigned to combat the officials an additional 275 support personnel Are assigned to bad Soellinger to service cf18 air planes that began arriving this the growth fulfils a Promise the progressive conservative party made before its landslide Victory in Canadas Federal elections a year the increase is intended to bring the brigade closer to its wartime strength than it is said David the it is giving us difficulty because it is straining our accommodations to the were having to shoehorn people into offices and he the troop increases also have raised school Maurice Canadian forces dependents schools overseas Edu cation said about pupils Are enrolled in schools this compared to when the summer recess he said the school system has added 15 teach ers three at Lahrs French speaking Ecol general Georges and the rest at the systems eight other school officials also have added three portable classrooms and doubled the size of the Library at Baden elementary school in bad a major school construction project is anticipated there in a few years because of the enrolment in crease and the age of the existing build the director cafe officials said no other construction projects Are the crowding has forced the canadians to make the most efficient use of Twenty four f15 fighter jets and Crews from the air forces 33rd tac fighter Wing at Eglin arrived last week at Lahr for a training facilities for the airmen Are available Only because canadians Are in Bavaria for a military the Canadian National defense departments most significant recent capital expenditure is the Purchase of 138 new cf18 several of which have arrived this month at bad re placing 11yearold cf104 the cf18s Are modified versions of the american f18s and Are built in Louis by Mcdonnell Mcdonnell Douglas delayed delivery of the planes last fall to Correct a Tail prob then shipped 40 planes to cab cold Lake in Alberta province by the end of according to the departments 1984 annual the department expects to Complete its deployment of cf18s in Germany in several Canadian and German dignitaries Are expected to participate in an 31 ceremony intended to note the presence of the cf18s that have Wightman said the planes double his nations contribution to nato air de he declined to compare Canadas support of nato to the efforts of its Al saying the countries most directly threatened have the greatest Respo Sibili Canada ranks fifth among 13 allies in the nato military Structure in terms of funding for nato cafe Public affairs spokesman Leonard Dent he said Canada also contributes by Mak ing missile testing Sites available to the United states and by training thousands of British and German soldiers at bases in Manitoba and new the nato agreement says nothing about How much a nation will contribute to the it Only says that a nation will do what it considers and the nations will consider an attack on one member to be an attack on Wight Man i think our contribution is in its but its South Africa will release daughter predicts Washington a the daughter of Nelson the imprisoned Black South african predicted wednesday that Pretoria will soon Bow to International pressure and release her father in condition Zenani Mandela also challenged president reagans recent description of the South african government of president Botha As a reformist administration and predicted that it wont Long the suspension of trading in the South african Stock and currency and the plunge of South african Are sure indication of the collapse of Bot has she said in remarks at a Washington she spoke on the same Day that South african police broke up a March by thou Sands of protesters who intended to walk to the prison where her father is to de Mand his the older of mandelas two said outside pressure on the pre Toria government will help to gain Freedom for her who was sentenced to life in prison for High sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the he has been in prison for 23 is the president of the outlawed african National the Reagan administration has joined the Call for mandelas Zenani Dlamini delivers speech with her in a photo 1 think he will be released with All the Dlamini she said by refusing to agree to any conditions for his Mandela has put the Ball in their referring to the South african i dont think he will agree to any Condi she the government has said it would release Mandela if he first agrees to renounce the use of he said he wont do that until the White government the luncheon was arranged by the Cen Ter for development a Liberatori enter research and lobbying Dlamini and her thumb Muzi came to the United states a week ago to accept an award on behalf of her from the museum of Afri can american history in while in she was to receive a Check for on thursday to help rebuild her mothers Home and an adjacent which were destroyed by fire on the funds were raised from 13 last Mandela rejected a contribution of from the state saying she objects to Reagan administration but said she would accept the donations from the sen she has accused the South african government of being responsible for the marines will give women members combat training by Norman Black Washington a for the first the Marine corps will require its women members to be trained to the noncombat Rule for americas women in uniform remains in but in a change in training women Marine recruits this fall will be subjected to much the same marksmanship and combat instruction that their male colleagues because women can be assigned to sup port units that might unexpectedly come under and since there is always a danger of terrorist they must be trained in defensive techniques and operations in the event of unforeseen hostile said Paul Marine corps in an order out lining the new he stressed that the changes do not relax the ban on women serving in combat for the first women Marine recruits must qualify with the m16 Rifle and learn fighting concealment and camouflage and How to handle hand mines and Booby biological and chemical defences also will be along with using deadly Force As part of guard although not women marines also will be eligible to receive training on night detection and observation installation and operation of Claymore and defensive Handt hand women marines shall not be assigned to any unit that would Likely become engaged in direct Kelley even under the new training women will not be instructed on the use of offensive combat offensive techniques of Shipto Shore Day or night offensive opera patrols and ambushes and rubber boat Kelleys order was distributed through out the Marine corps in late setting an effective Date of All commands within the corps reported last month that they would be prepared to meet the 1 although focusing on the Orde also covers women already in the they will be expected to receive the instructions As their units undergo updated on the total Active duty strength of the Marine corps was including enlisted women and 643 women during the fiscal year which ended the corps enlisted of whom were the changes outlined by Kelley Are Sim Ilar to those already followed by the under a system set in place in its women soldiers face different physical but undergo the same Basic weapons training As according to Don a Marine corps most of the women now in the corps were never required to pass the marksmanship and weapons tests Given to men because the marines had stricter standards on the units in which women could last the corps published a study that concluded More jobs should be opened to women and that More women should be the study suggested that Active duty female strength should be raised by Over the next five years and that women would be eligible to serve in 33 of 37 occupational the excluded Fields include tanks and amphibious vehicles and combat the change in training is being driven by the change in billets open to Kappel based on those Billet the commandant decided there was an obvious need to provide defensive