European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 7, 1906 Pentagon memo demands Good housing7 worldwide world today by Chuck v1ncii Washington Bureau Washington the defense department want base commanders around the world to decide whether housing is adequate at i hair installations by asking two Blunt questions would i want my son or daughter to live in arc would i let my dog live there if the answer to either question is no the housing should be considered inadequate the Dod director of installation assistance said in a nov. 21 memorandum. Gerald Kauvar s memo sent to officials of each serv ice is the first phase of a Dod Campaign to simplify housing regulations and reduce restrictions placed on commanders in deciding How to use their housing assets. The memo followed Kauvar s visits to numerous installations since he took the Job eight months ago lie saw housing in the United slates and overseas housing for accompanied and unaccompanied  on base and off base facilities. Usually when i asked them what their housing deficits were they said they did t have my he said. Kauvar said commanders told him that As Long As a place had running water and met a few other minimum standards it was considered adequate housing under regulations. Hut simple adequacy in t he Standard we should be after he said. We re after More than that we want Good housing. Mousing is extremely important tour  Kauvar s memo supersedes current regulations for six months. During the six months housing regulations will be rewritten and simplified to give commanders More leeway in managing housing assets. We re cutting the number of housing legs from 13 to eight and the new rugs will have half As Many pages Ashe old ones he said. Local commanders arc responsible for their people. That commander should be the one deciding who lives where who gels housing and on what schedule How to manage furniture assets. Under the old legs that Walsall Ulof their hands Kauvar said the old regulations had Long lists of specifications. They literally detailed How Many Walc baskets people were entitled to. If you had three rooms you got four waste baskets and six dining room chairs something like that. But maybe you need More than four waste baskets or you need More chairs because you entertain a  Kauvar said he wants people to have the option of getting More less or something different As Long Asil available. Up to now we be had a Long list of minimums and gradually the minimums have become the Standard he said. We have to do better for our people. They re our most important asset. We want them to have housing that they can enjoy instead of  Bear in mind she s had a Busy Day up Ohoro  Leonard has been at a High pitch of excite ment All Day looking Forward to the Teddy bears concert at a theater in London. Now just before the concert the exhausted 6-year-old Falls asleep promoters offered reduced Price tickets to anyone accompanied by a Teddy Bear which lured plenty of the furry cuddly critters to to. Concert. The client is a annual presentation for Teddy Bear fans official who botched broadcast by Jaruzelski apologizes resign Warsaw. Poland api a in Ipi icim nor \ a.  600 human rights complaints logged in Western Europe in 85 Strasbourg France a the european commis Sion of human rights registered More than 500 complaints of human rights abuses by West european governments in 1985, the largest number in its 32-year history. According to provisional figures released by the commission monday Britain leads the Field with 1 1 0 cases. West Germany is second with 100 complaints against it followed by France 70 Sweden 60 Italy 50 and Switzerland 30. The commission was set up in 1954 As part of the human rights judiciary system established by 21 european govern ments under the european human rights convention. The panel screens complaints under the convention and Ren Ders an initial decision. Its findings go to the Strasbourg court of human rights which pronounces final judgment. The commission receives an average 2,500 complaints  year but rejects most of them. Only about 500 complaints arc registered As valid under the rights Harter. More than 90 percent of those arc later declared inadmissible usually on procedural grounds. 2 workmen killed 9 injured by explosion in Tunnel Shaft Glasgow Scotland a an underground explosion. Possibly caused by a buildup of methane Gas ripped through a Tunnel Shaft at a construction site in Glasgow monday killing two men and injuring nine others police said. The blast occurred at the Bottom of the 100-foot-Dcep Shaft leading to a sewer Tunnel under construction near Golf course. Police said two workers were killed and five others were injured. Four firefighters involved in the Rescue were taken to Glasgow s Victory infirmary but the nature of their injuries was not known. Pulice said the explosion might have been caused by a buildup of methane Gas in the Tunnel site which had been closed for two weeks during the Christmas and newyear s holidays. Season s first Snow hits cities in Northern Italy slowing traffic Milan Italy a the first snowfall of the season blanketed Milan Turin and Bologna in Northern Italy on monday causing some minor traffic snarls. About 4 inches of Snow fell in Milan and Turin Italy s Industrial and commercial capitals. However municipal authorities said they did not expect any emergency similar to last january when activities were practically halted in Northern and Central Italy by exceptional snowfalls Snow was expected to hamper the return of hundreds of thousands of vacationers who travelled to Seaside and Muniain resorts for a three Day vacation. Monday is religious Holiday in Italy. Shinto officials reject plan for separate shrine for Tojo offici3ls " " Shin � 2.4 million War dead arc honoured rejected a promo Minkis Lirl a talc shrink for world War ii prime minister Hideki Tojo and 1 3 other War criminals. Comm "  become a source of International controversy particularly with China since prime minister a of i m5?1"8 made an official Visil to the shame Laski i v la Anniv by of the end of the War. A pm 7"ttoh 1 Deputy chief priest of the shrine said Fri n � so uh1e Cral democratic party lawmakers mind of i  lost a another shrine in the com co Spolan top television official made an unusual Public apology for fouling up a nation wide broadcast of polish Leader Gen. Wojcicch Jaruzelski s new year s eve message and announced his resignation during the main sunday evening news pro Gram. Jack Sander Purczynski one of two directors of the state committee for radio and television apologized for the serious distortions of the sound which made it difficult for the radio and television Public to understand what Jaruzelski was saying. An apparently misplaced microphone and Low sound volume produced an Echo effect making it almost impossible to make out Jaruzelski s words at some Points during the live interview on dec. 31 at Belvedere Palace did not say How Many people were involved or what a surfs were taken against them. Mea in the committee for radio and television in to whole Central stale administration thre re no quest was apparently made to dispel the impress the government was condoning the actions of its shrine he safd"5 s Viii s by of dals 10 the main t of i attic division superintendent pleads guilty to Drunken driving traffic0- ?n8liind a the head of a British police monrlnvt011?. Banned from driving for sus