European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 06, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday october 6, 1985 Era of Belt tightening looms for military by j. King  . Bureau Raf Milde Nirali. England an Era of real growth in military spending appears to have ended and a period of substantial Belt tightening looms for the military services according to one of the air Force s top civilian employees. Tidal w. Mccoy an assistant Secretary of the air Force said Here Friday that recent moves by Congress to Cut the Mili tary budget May result in the closing of some air Force bases both in the United staid and overseas. Mccoy specifically singled out two Small bases used by the air Force in the United kingdom Raf Sculthorpe and Raf acct Nolc As being among those that Congress has shown an interest in shutting Down. He said the House appropriations committee recently Cut the military construction budget for the air Force for 1986 by 25 percent and just about every Cut made applied to bases overseas particularly those in Liu rope. They said  growth in spending unilaterally on bases overseas. We Don t want bases built. A want some bases closed " Mccoy said. I think there is going to be some sub Stantial Belt tightening coming up. Nor Mally the first thing it hits Are those things that relate to people both Quality of life items and facilities and pay and retirement. And then it will nit on munitions spares. Pol the ability in sustain the tight. Then it will Start hitting i the hardware programs modern a lion he said. Mccoy a West Point graduate and a former army artillery officer who served in  and Vietnam made inc observations at a press conference Here at the Start of a nine Day five nation fact find ing swing through Europe. He is responsible for policies affecting All military and civilian personnel of the air Force All matters pertaining to air National guard and air Force Reserve and All air Force bases and facilities worldwide. Mccoy said he is in Europe to look into manpower Reserve and Quality of life is sues and to see which installations May be Over utile de or . In the real world where the dollars just Aren t there we re figuring that there is going to be some real pressure to take a look at How we can slim Down if not Actu ally close some . We might decide in might be belter to slim Down at two or three bases than to just close one outright. So. That s what we Are going to be looking at also he said. He said hell also be prospecting for information from commanders he meets in Europe to try to answer questions peo ple have about the goings on in washing  from Raf Mildenhall Mccoy is scheduled to go to Germany to Confer with lop Safe . European come and German officials to Switzerland to talk to the Swiss military about their use of re serves for Mobili action and to bases in Greece and Italy. Effort to recover world War ii planes in Greenland Given up for the present Seattle up a group that hoped to Tunnel through tons of ice and Snow in Greenland to recover eight world War ii air planes has Given up its Effort for now but May try again next year. Expedition spokesman Ben Singer said the recovery expedition that had arrived in Green land sept. 13 decided that poor weather conditions made Salvage operations impossible. The planes at buried under an incredible amount of ice and Snow Singer added. He said he heard from expedition Leader Jay Fiondella of Santa Monica calif., in Greenland last week on the Progress of the Salvage operation. It was like looking for a Needle in a  Singer quoted Fiondella As say ing. Weather conditions have been extreme changing by As much As 60 degrees in the course of a  six p-38 fighters and two b-17 bombers went Down when the fliers encountered a Vio Lent ice storm while in route to Britain from the United states during world War ii. The Fleet had to break radio silence for navigational help Singer said. A German radio operator answered the Pilot s plea in perfect English and gave incorrect coordinates to throw the pilots off. The German ploy worked and the planes made emergency landings on Greenland where the Crews survived for 10 Days before being picked up by the coast guard. Singer said Salvage rights to the planes valued at j5 million will revert to the government of Denmark but he said he is optimistic the danish government will Grant the explorers another year to find the planes. It s not like we re trying to gel the jew Elry out of the titanic or anything like that Singer said. It s just that these planes Are in mint condition and perfect relics of world War ii. They re very valuable to aviation history. Top criminal lawyer to defend Burford Arlington a. Up a prominent criminal lawyer will defend former environmental Protection Agency chief Anne Burford in a fight against a Sjo pub Lic drunkenness charge it was announced Friday As a hearing in the Case to be heard in Arlington general District court was delayed until dec. 13. The lawyer Plato Cacheris said Burford will plead innocent to the charge filed against her during a Midnight Jailhouse ruckus on sept. 21, rather than pay the Fine. She feels she did t do All those things they said she did Cacheris said. A Virginia state trooper stopped Burford and her husband Robert a High ranking Reagan appointee in the Interior depart ment shortly before Midnight sept. 20 when they stopped their car on a freeway near Washington. Robert Burford was charged with Drunken driving and refusing to take a breathalyzer test. Arlington county sheriff James Gondocs said Anne Burford was charged two hours later when she began ringing the Jailhouse Buzzer and loudly demanding to see her bus band. During the night she spent in jail guards said she banged her shoes on the bars of her cell screamed obscenities at sheriffs deputies and clawed a guard with her fingernails. Cacheris the brother of us. District judge James Cacheris is a prominent Law yer who practices in the District of Colum Bia and Virginia. He recently represented suburban Fairfax county gynaecologist David Davoudlarian whose children filed a civil Law suit accusing him of killing his wife. The jury failed to reach a verdict and the Case was willed out of court Robert Burford scheduled to appear in court oct. 16, faces six months in jail and a shoo Fine if found guilty. Cracks appearing Early in some f-15s by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau b1tburg a Germany routine aircraft inspections have turned up Prema Ture hairline cracks in the ribs and skin of some f-15 eagles belonging to the 36th tac fighter Wing according to maintenance operations people. Such cracks usually develop in the mod Els the Wing flies but these developed about a year earlier than predicted maintenance officials said. Ten maintenance technicians from Robbins fab ga., the depot responsible for f-15 upgrades Are replacing the parts at Pitburg. Wing officials said the jets will not be grounded but will be repaired in conjunction with routine inspections. It takes about two weeks to fix each plane. This work was programmed Down the Road said chief master sgt. Bob Elrod maintenance supervisor of the Wing. Ours cracks got Here quicker than expected la could be something in our flying Environ ment but you can t predict the factors that will move it  Elrod said the Wing used non destructive inspection lights chemicals and x rays to find out what the cracks might mean. It could always be an indication of something More serious he said. Elrod said the same rib on most of the planes is showing the most cracks. Cracked ribs Are being replaced by thicker ribs and thicker braces said James Brown the team chief from Robbins the skin covering the outer tip of the Wing is being replaced with a slightly modified panel that distributes stress differently. The team will slay until a maintenance depot is opened in Spain next year. Police demonstrators clash in Frankfurt Frankfurt West Germany a police wielding Billy clubs clashed with bottle throwing protesters who clogged Frank fun s main shopping streets saturday in Defiance of a citywide ban on demonstrations witnesses said. The police in full riot gear moved in lat saturday afternoon to disperse Over 1,000 demonstrator who had marched downtown several hours  Battles ensued with some demonstrators lobbing Beer bottles and scuffling with the officers witnesses said. They said at least three demonstrator were arrested and several were wounded so seriously that they were taken away in ambulances. Tear  was fired in one Street but whether it was  by police or protester was not known. Police spokesmen said they had no imme Diate figures on until or wounded. They said they cleared about 200 protes ters from one Street but there were still hundreds in the area. Police equipped with bullhorn repeatedly instructed the protesters to leave. Pat news u donations coming in Dallas a barmaid Bene fit concert promoters say they have raised $9 million in their efforts to help struggling Farmers. It s still coming in said Jim Nice Olls executive vice president of pc the Media corp., a publicity company for barmaid. Well make s10 million there s no doubt about  of the sept. 22 Benefit concert organized by Willie Nelson Athirst hoped to raise $50 million but later scaled that Back to what Nicholl called a More realistic $10 million. The 14-hour concert at the University of Illinois football stadium in Champaign featured More than Stop Rock country and blues Stan and attracted 78.000 fans and was car ried on nationwide television. Fire victims mourned Manchester England a about 1,000 mourners filled Man Chester Cathedral for a service in Mem Ory of the 55 people who died in Jet liner fire at the City s Airport in Aagot among those attending were survivors relatives of the dead and is British airways staff including the Cabin Crew of the ill fated boeing737. Two stewardesses Sharon rat 23, and Jacqueline Urbanski 27,were killed in the aug. 22 Accident. The Jet operated by British air Tours a subsidiary of British airways burst into flames when an engine exploded As it was attempting to Takeoff from Manchester Airport for the Creek Island of Corfu. Eighty two peo ple escaped from the burning aircraft anglican Bishop Stanley Booth cub born told the congregation the Accident had been a great and h tragedy but he said it could Leao to better air safety. Mystery unsolved Bristol England a a inquest has failed to solve the mys Tery of the death of Samanth Anovak. 21-year-old daughter of linger Shirley Bassy. Novak a student was last teen on aug. 29 walking near the Avon River in the Southwest City of Bristol. Wit Nesses said she appeared to be intoxicated. Her fully clothed body was re covered from the River nine Days later. Or. Patrick Burton who per formed an autopsy said Novak died of Shock most Likely through sudden immersion in cold water. Police detective inspector Peter Berdon said there was no evidence that anyone else was responsible or that Novak had contemplated suicide. Coroner Donald Hawkins record Dan open verdict meaning the Circum stances surrounding her death Are to known