European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday november 14,1985 German group plans Femon Srafion saturday by Dick Hodgson Kaiserslautern Bureau Kaiserslautern a group calling itself the citizens initiative against . Construction plans has announced plans to stage a protest bicycle ride saturday morning from downtown Kaiserslautern to the proposed site of 400 new military family housing units. Several groups in the local area have held meetings in recent weeks to protest the proposed cutting of about 40,000 Trees for the Kapaun As housing project and 60.000 Trees for a similar project planned for rams Cin a. Citizens initiative which has chosen the slogan it s enough now for its protest told local German newspapers the Kaiserslautern area already is Over loaded by the protest organizers said they Felt the state and Federal governments had agreed to the proposed construction project without consulting Kaiserslautern officials. Air Force officials at Ramstein said the negotiations Over the project have included almost weekly meetings with officials from the local government and with representatives from Mainz and Bonn. Maj. Michael d. Griffith chief of . Forces police said an unspecified number of demonstrators Are plan Ning to meet at about 10 30 . At the mess Platz in Kaiserslautern and to bicycle to the proposed construction site for their demonstration. Griffith said he expects the demonstrations to be peaceful. They the demonstrators will be escorted by the German police from their Assembly Point to the Kapaun construction area he said. We have talked with the German authorities and they will be handling traffic control and so Forth for the demonstration. We Don t expect any trouble at German police officials said wednesday the group had been Given a permit for the demonstration but they said no specific number of expected demonstrators was available. Griffith said his military police will be on standby saturday to assist the germans if he is asked. His forces would also be used in the event of what he called serious crimes against american people or property he said. Storm from Page 1 found the bodies of a woman in a pickup truck and a Hunter lost four Days Rescue officials said. Three National guard helicopters bolstered by about 30 Yakima county deputies and volunteers on the ground searched tuesday in record 7-Degrce cold for the missing most of whom were pre pared for foul weather. I heard a Story from one Pilot who saw a new thunderbird at 6,000 feet on a logging Road said Bill Lokey search and Rescue coordinator for the state department of emergency management. It was up to its Windshield in Snow. The people just went out and got the Snow ended in Northern California s Mountain counties where deputies and ski patrols rescued at least 45 people from the Sierra Nevada by tuesday. Erik hoist an Al Dorado National for est spokesman said four people were res cued by helicopter near Loon Lake and Wrights Lake two popular recreational areas about 70 Miles East of Sacramento. Several ski resorts near interstate 80 Over the 7,235-foot High Dormer pass and . Route 50 Over 7,382-foot Echo Summit started their lifts tuesday or announced plans to do so by saturday. In Nevada rescuers found two overdue Hunters West of Reno but continued the search for two backpackers lost Between Reno and Carson City. The body of a Man was found tuesday in the wreckage of a Light plane missing since saturday with three aboard in California s Blue Canyon but searchers presumed All three were killed. Two rescuers lowered to the wreckage from an air National guard helicopter late tuesday sighted Only the body of the Pilot David Perrin 51, of Martinez. They said Perrin s wife Judy and their 27-year-old son Mike were not in the plane. Guard spokesman Dave Swearingen said the wreckage was widely scattered and rescuers believed the others had been Flung from the Cabin and buried in deep Snow although they saw tracks possibly human leading away from the site. Tuesday s record lows also included a Reading of minus 8 degrees at Winnemucca ncv., while Eureka calif., on the Northern coast had a record Low of 31 for the second consecutive Day. San Francisco s 43 degrees tied a 1919 record and san Jose calif., tied a 1975 Mark with a 36-degree Reading. Northern Arizona s mountains were Cov ered with More than two feet of Snow tuesday while Flagstaff Elevation about 7,000 feet got 10 inches of Snow in five hours. Schools also closed in Kingman grand Canyon and Williams and were let out Early elsewhere As Snow swept the state toppling Trees onto Power lines and Knock ing out Power to about 2,000 customers in the Region officials said. Forecasters in Phoenix had predicted the desert Valley s coldest night in 13 years at 29 degrees but the overnight Low in the City dipped Only to 43 degrees. Utah Power & Light co. Crews worked to restore electricity to 1 to Square Miles of the Cottonwood Section of Salt Lake county where nearly a foot of wet heavy Snow had blocked Down lines. Debt from Page 1 tuesday is needed because few permanent spending Bills for fiscal 1986, which began oct. I Nave been approved and signed by the president. Without that authority government offices would have been forced to close at Midnight thursday. President Reagan i expected to sign the Bill which would last through dec. 12. Congress in the past has let the govern ment temporarily close Down for Lack of spending authority but a default because of the debt ceiling would be unprecedented. James c. Miller Iii director of the of fice of management and budget issued a memorandum to Heads of departments and agencies directing them to Stop issuing checks if the debt ceiling legislation has not been enacted. Speakes said checks would not be issued to Federal employees individuals receiving government benefits state and local governments or providers of government paid services until that crisis is resolved. Miller s action was authorized by Rea Gan. Speakes said. The Bill increasing the National debt passed by the House wednesday would carry the government to dec. 13, Well past Reagan s Summit with Gorbachev next tuesday and wednesday. The lawmakers will make sure Reagan does t have to have or. Gorbachev pick up the Tab. There la be finances there said House speaker Thomas p. O Neill a mass. The overriding Factor for me personally is that because of our inability to finish this thing said House Republican whip Trent Lott r-miss., we could have a chaotic situation. At a time when the president of the United states is going to a Summit the result he said could be a weak ening of his Speakes reiterated wednesday that the president docs not want a Short term Exten Sion of the debt ceiling but he declined to say whether Reagan would veto the Bill if it were approved by Congress and sent to his desk. The president in t in any position to refuse this o Neill said. We Don t want to be a defaulting nation when he goes to the original sponsors of the balanced budget plan Sens. Phil Gramm a Texas and Warren Rudman r-n.h., wednesday announced they also supported a Short term Extension of the debt. We believe that we can t have a Cloud of fiscal collapse hanging Over the president s head As he goes to Geneva Rudman said. The House and Senate have approved competing versions of the balanced budget plan that been blocking the Long term debt ceiling increase. Temperatures Sharon from Page 1 personal attacks on Peres but added i stand by my positions concerning the Basic political he has sharply criticized the prime min ister s overtures to Jordan which include acceptance of an International forum for peace negotiations. Peres gave the Cabinet a Long list of Rea sons for firing Sharon a former general who was a hero of the 1973 Middle East War and said he would accept Only an apology that expressed Confidence in the prime minister his aide said. Sharon s dismissal could cause foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir the liked Leader and the rest of his ministers to leave the Cabinet. That would end 14 months of joint labor liked government and a prolonged crisis could set Back efforts toward starting peace negotiations with Jordan. In a meeting with Shamir before the Cabinet meeting Peres accused Sharon of violating a Law that requires ministers to accept collective responsibility for govern ment policy the aide said in his remarks to reporters outside the prime minister s of fice. Peres said in a speech tuesday that Sha Ron s personal attacks had exceeded any possible Standard of conduct. Sharon 57, was defense minister in the liked government that preceded the coalition and was the architect of Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He was forced to re sign when a government commission found him negligent for failing to prevent massacres of palestinians by lebanese Mili Tiamen at two refugee Camps. He has charged that Peres bypassed the Cabinet and secretly negotiated an agreement with Jordan s King Hussein to hold an International peace conference. Peres denies making any secret Deal with the jordanians but has acknowledged con ducting quiet diplomacy aimed at starting talks with a joint team of jordanians an palestinians. Brake problems sideline Marine vehicles Washington a the Marine Carpi has taken its new Fleet of tank like Light armoured vehicles out of service temporarily because of a Brake problem a spokes nun said tuesday. It. Col. John Shotwill said the action was Uken nov. 2 on the recommendation of the vehicles manufacturer. General motors of Canada. The contractor already has begun repairing the roughly 300 lavs in the corp inventory Shotwell said. According to Shotwell Marine battalions at Camp Pendleton calif., and Cample Jeune n.c., bad experienced a Cumber of Brake failures with the vehicles named the Piranha. The contractor deter mined the problem had to do with the fail ure of a pressure Protection valve on the Brake Assembly Shotwell said. He said the manufacturer recommended taking the vehicles out of service As a safety precaution and the repairs Are being made at no Cost to the government. Shotwell said the problem is not technically difficult to fix and the lavs now in the inventory should be repaired in Days rather than the Piranha resembles a Small tank but runs on wheels instead of treads. About 21 feet Long and eight feet wide it can be configured to carry a 25mm gun anti tank missiles or an 81mm mortar and is capable of crossing streams or Waterways. The Marine corps received its first Piranha in 1983 and plans to buy a total of 758 of the vehicles to equip three Active duty battalions and one Reserve battalion. Currently one battalion at Camp Lejeune and one at Camp Pendleton have receive their allotment of lavs. The Marine corps is the Only is. Mili tary service buying the vehicles. 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