European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday january 4, 19b6 _ of ordered buyers to spend surplus funds by Norman Black a military will or Washington the air Force awash in Money because of delays in awarding  contracts or dered its buyers to i twice si1 Many contracts As possible during the final 10 Days of i9h5, a direct live issued dec. 20 by it air Force logistics come cautioned the service s 3.01 0 procurement agents Mil in ignore constraints Ofha. Directives prudence Una band fide need  but in said there is currently much focus and pres sure on prior Cir a obligated funds. ,. You should therefore Iii empt in obligate available prior year 8j and prior year  funds to the minimum extent possible far inclusion in lire 31 dec. 85 accounting reports congressional critics maintain such spending directives encourage waste and the issuance Nirso Collid unpriced orders by which the pc Tucson agrees to buy i part first and roof car of 280 Days to 2fio Days the amount of ten c iras to of Cess spare parts orders of i100,000 on Ore that number should continue to decline As con tracking efficiency improves he said. Swans said the dec. 20 order a a a plug. Pretty intense pressure from top defense department � Uncial on la chair Force to spend us a re nil budget a it. He said the air Force has been told it mus dem nil Viii How it intends to spend the remaining fiscal 1984 s5dnam98ss before the 13 billion contained in the fiscal 1�b6 budget is released. There s been some tendency for them not to want to Relew a Tot of our Money so there has been s lot of pressure on us to show thai we can get our program under control swans said. Nelson others had no time to fight tire officials say Texarkana Artap fire spread so quickly through a dc-3 carrying Singer kick Nelson and six others that they apparently were unable to put in out and died of smoke inhalation and Burns officials say. Our of the five fire extinguishers in the Cabin of the chartered plane that crushed tuesday near de Kalb Texas were unused National transportation safety Board chair Man Jim Burnett said thursday. Burnett said there was no indication of structural failure aboard the 42-year-old plane. Investigators planned to use infrared photography Friday to try to learn if spillage reported by a truck Driver was aircraft fuel. Autopsies conducted thursday by the Dallas county medical Eji Miner j office indicated that Nelson 45 hit Fiancee Helen Blair 27 and band members Andy Chapin. 30 Bobby Neal. 38 Patrick Wood Ward. 35 Rick in veld 22, and Clark rus sell 35, died of smoke inhalation and Burns he said. Medical examiners Are studying soot on the bodies to determine what was burning in the plane Burnett said stressing that the crash survivors Pilot Brad rank and co Pilot Ken Beth Ferguson will be crucial in helping to understand the cause. Rank 34, As in fair condition in St. Michael Hospital and Ferguson 40, was in serious condition in the University of a Kansas medical Center at Little Rock. Both suffered second and third degree Burns and smoke inhalation. Doctors have denied authorities Permis Sion to talk to Ferguson and although rank cannot talk he nodded yes or no to questions indicating he first noticed smoke in the Cabin. Burcu said. According to preliminary monitoring of the plane s transmissions the Pilot first indicated he had a problem at 5 03 . About three minutes later he indicated that there was smoke in the cockpit and that he and Ferguson were using oxygen inquiry prompts Pentagon to scrap controversial lie Detector manual Washington up a polygraph training manual instructing examiners to Ait sexually explicit questions has been discarded by the Pentagon following pres sure from congressional investigators the Washington Post reported Friday. The 60-Page manual titled lesion plan for conduct of personnel screening poly graph examinations instructed examiners to question people seeking Security Clear ances about their sexual preferences and religious racial and Union associations. Polygraph Institute trainees at fort Mcclellan ala., where the manual was drafted in 1984, were instructed by the manual to question subjects membership in such ethnic organizations As polish american clubs and japanese Community clubs and to probe the calem of Blacks participation in the a act. Sample questions in the manual included have you Ever received sexual stimulation in a crowded area arc Yon divorced have you Ever been a parly loan abortion has any member of your family been an alcoholic a general accounting office investigation was Cri Licat of the fort Mcclellan training Center for going beyond the coun Ter espionage intent of the polygraph pro Gram and in response the army which runs the program last month ordered the manual destroyed. Following the cracking of several spy operations that rocked the military Congress authorized the Pentagon to administer lie Detector tests to 11,000 government person Nel with Access to classified information for  purposes. Pentagon officials pledged to restrict screening to counterintelligence topics not lifestyle or personal matters in re questing polygraph authority from con Gress. Use of polygraph tests has come under fire in recent weeks with Secretary of state George Shultz threatening to resign if required o submit to such a lest after presi Dent Reagan ordered them for thousands of personnel Young aids victim to be on italian t Indianapolis a Ryan while the 14-year-old Al is victim who has been banned from school received christinas presents and greetings from around the world and will Fly to Rome next month to appear on italian television his Mother said thursday. A Rutanne while said that Ryan and her daughter Andrea 12, Are looking Forward to it. I got him a suitcase for Christmas for the.  she said the three will Fly la Rome feb. I of guests of italian stale television Rai radio television Taliana and will appear feb. 3 an the television news show it Sera Lydia Griffin . Ra1, said by Telephone fran mrw York that the trip is Comlin Girj i Yan s feeling up to it. If he is Nabu ave Ryan May appear via Satelli but Whit a Tyan who spent 44 Days last fall Tri Indianapolis Hospital is doing real Good. He now weighs 74 pounds. He was Down to 54 pounds when he was in the  White said Ryan a Haemophilia a who contracted aids through a transfusion " Cei cd 150 Christmas greeting around the world. Flowers arrive by Waii and san Diego. The Bovere cards from Japan.  i be never heard of she Saud Man from Indianapolis drove Huff gave Ryan a chess set with a Niaj rimmed Wood table she said. He Era stuffed bears. There were donations of Money mostly Small Bills. He spent a lot of in buying comic books. He likes comic books so he nearly bought out the  Griffin said italian to is interested in the problem of aids and the panic around it. They want to talk to Ryan about being in the Middle of this far a year now the social aspects of in. Ryan has had a a said they picked up  doctor discovered in december that he had contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through the blood products lie tikes for treatment of Haemophilia. Aids is an affliction in which the body s immune system becomes unable to resist disease. Aids caused by a virus was first identified in mate homosexuals Haemophiliacs and intravenous drug abusers. As of dec 2, aids had struck 15,172 people in the United states and claimed 7,877 lives. Ryan spent last year in a nationally publicized struggle Between his Mother who wants Ryan resumed to the Normal class environment and officials of Western school corp., who refuse to admit him be cause of fears that he could pass on the deadly disease to other pupils masks. The crash occurred about four min utes after that. Friends and relatives of the victims say the do had been plagued by engine Trou ble in past months and one band member reportedly had thought about quitting be cause of the problems. Officials have nol been Bulc to find maintenance records on the plane registered to Century equipment co. Of los Angelea Century says it sold the plane to Nelson in May but Burcu said no Transfer of title could be found he said it is possible the papers were lost in n bureaucratic shuffle. He said lie could not confirm the plans had mechanical trouble. News update Soldier s parents sue Chicago up the Parent of a Soldier killed in the dec. 12 crash of a pcs jetliner in Canada tiled a $9,75 million lawsuit thurs Day against the operator and manufacturer of the plane. The suit filed by rom and Dorothy Gayton in Cook county circuit court claims Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Was negligent in the making of the Jet and Arrow air inc. Failed to inspect and maintain in aircraft properly. The Gaytons son Anthony 21, was one of 248 american servicemen killed in the crash in Gander Newfoundland stay of execution Jefferson City to. A a convicted murderer who was to die in the Gas chamber monday has been granted a slay of execution until Jan. 15 by the stale s highest court. Gerald Smith who has said be would rather be executed than spend the rest of his life on death Row was granted the postponement by the Missouri supreme court. . Air Force Jet missing off Iceland Kef Lavik Iceland a a us air Force fisc fighter Jet on a training Mission vanished thursday off Iceland and its Pilot is presumed dead a nato spoke Roan said. Fri Thor Eydal a spokesman for nato s Iceland defense Force at Kef la Vilt. Said a search was launched after Thiel disappeared at 9 20 . About 80 Mflwc Southwest of Iceland. But Csc users found do Trace of the plane. The search was to resume at Daylight Friday Eydal said. The name of the miss ing Pilot was not released