European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Bernhard Goetzka will Appeal charges dismissal d shuttle finally makes it Back. Page 2 q air Force has Safe flying year Page 5 q general dynamics seeks reforms Page 9 n wether spoon beats Tubbs Page 21  Tufo vol. 44. No. 275 sunday january 19, 1986 lie of Elf and d 8693 a 3 non cancerous polyps found in Reagan s Colon soviet threat to . About Libya claimed Tripoli Libya a Hani line palestinian Lender Ahmed Abu Mousa claimed Friday thai the soviet Union has warned the United Stales that it will nol allow any american military strike against Libya Abu Mousa said libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy received formal Assur ances tha the soviets had delivered that message to president Reagan through the direct secret communications Channel see threat on Paga 28 a Forney opposes discharging sailors exposed to aids Washington a the Navy should not Dis charge any Active duty person who has been Espo cd to ads the attorney for ii enlisted men who have been exposed to the virus told . District judge Louis of Oberdorfer on Friday. Richard 3. Wertheimer said there is n hysteria in the service about anyone who has tested positive in the blood test that tells whether a person has aids antibodies. The lest indicates exposure to the virus bul docs not confirm existence of he deadly disease nor does it indicate that a person will Ever get aids. If the Federal government starts drumming these peo ple out others in the private sector May do the same thing Wertheimer said. Jeffrey Moon a government attorney told the court thai the Navy would give the men honorable discharges rather than administratively separating them. The Navy confirmed late Friday that Navy Secretary John f. Lehman had authorized honorable discharges for the 11 men who filed suit bul stressed thai the decision was limited Only to those involved in the litigation. There has been no change in policy said la. Stephen Pietropaoli a Navy spokesman. There has never been any intention to adversely characterize the service of anybody discharged under these circumstances he added. The government sought to dismiss the suit brought by sea aids on Page 28 Washington a the White House announced saturday that lab tests showed three intestinal polyps and some facial tissue removed Friday from president Reagan were benign. Reagan relaxing at the presidential re Ireat in Maryland s cat Oclin mountains was informed of the results by his physician saturday morning said a statement re leased by the White House. Final Laboratory evaluation of the three intestinal polyps and facial tissue removed from the president yesterday has been completed and All Are benign the statement said. The while House had predicted the Laboratory results would show the president to be in excellent health following the discovery and removal of three Small growths in his Colon six months after his cancer surgery. In a one paragraph statement issued about 90 minutes after Reagan left re Luhcs a naval Hospital on Friday the while mouse said the three polyps a Well As a shaving taken i rom a tiny bump on the president s face were judged to be benign. Nevertheless they were sent to a Laboratory for further analysis to Sec whether they har bored cancer hic the Large polyp that was removed from his Colon july 13 Ana a Patch on his nose that was taken off aug. 1. The president spent nearly six hours at the Hospital in but Lisda md., just outside Washington. He and his wife Nancy then flew by helicopter to Camp David o spend the Martin Luther King or. Holiday weekend. Reagan underwent a colonoscopy which is a thorough examination of the Bowel As Well As blood tests a rays and a cat scan a procedure that provides a highly detailed and accurate picture of the brain lungs a Chalp president Reagan cites thumbs up. On Way to Camp David. My. Pancreas kidneys Aad Oiler organs. The results of All other Lesis and Man inn Lions were Normal Imd revealed no evidence of any disease the White House statement said. All indications arc thai when the us re Sulls arc in. They will confirm the president to be in excellent  while i Louse spokesmen refused to submit to reporters questions. Bul speaking for himself As he left the Hus Pilai Cagan said everything s  he also made a thumbs up go sure. The colons Cipy was a routine follow up to Reagan s surgery. Lilyus Are Fleshy growl is that Are common among people Over age 50, and occur Wilh increasing frequency As people gel older. The majority Are benign. They rarely cause Dis Comfort or illness bul Sunic polyps develop into Colon cancer. Doctors cannot predict which ones will turn cancerous. Because a Caen had three More polyps he is regarded As having a Graier  Chance of developing More. Chances of a re Currence of cancerous tumor Are considered 10 be less than 50 percent. After doctors found a Large malignant polyp during n Cutuno sepoy last summer and removed it surgically they said they believed they had caught the cancer before it could spread beyond the Bowel Wall. The White House Deha ibid the growth on the right Side of Reagan s face Ai a Papule defined in the new world dictionary Asu Small Usa atly inflammatory Elevation of the skin pimple. Reagan had a basal cell carcinoma the most common and easily curable form of skin cancer removed from the right Side of his nose last August. Gao finds apparent overpricing in purchases of c-5a toilet parts Washington up the air Force Slung last year by revelations that it paid More than s600 each for toilet seats now has been cited for spending More than s300 each on plastic toilet pots that could be bought at a hardware store for is 0. Rep. John Dingell d-mich., said congressional investigators also found that air Force officials bought 67 of the toilet pots from Lockheed corp. After the latrine system for the plane that would use i hem he c-5a transport was redesigned to eliminate them in a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Dingell said the general accounting office had discovered a number of alleged new procurement abuses by inc air Force. The letter dated thursday was released during the weekend by the House Energy and Commerce sub committee on oversight and investigations which re viewed charges for the toilet pats compared by a staff investigator to a simple roasting  Dingell is chairman of the panel. This year the subcommittee looked beneath the $640 toilet seat and what did we find Lingell asked Weinberg or in the  we found a $317-79 toilet pan for inc Cia transport purchased by the air Force from Lockheed. We were Laid that this same one Pound Hin plastic pot could be purchased at your local hardware store for less than Sio Dingell wrote. Pentagon spokesman Jack Powers said Weinberger had received the letter. Hugh Burns a Lockheed spokesman in Washington said the company was aware of a Gao report but had not yet received to and would not comment until it had. Dingell said an air Force Engineer in a written report to the subcommittee said the toilet pots were poorly designed and the Price was out of  bul after the air plane s latrine system was Rede signed the air Force purchased 67 More pots from Lockheed on two separate occasions since the decision was made to move to the new design. Dingell suggested that much of the problem is a result of defense department officials abusing rate agreements negotiated with contractors. Under the rate agreement system the Pentagon agrees to pay the con tractor an hourly rate. Dingell said the recently completed Gao investigation found air Force officials at the san Antonio air logistics Mcnier paid about $240 each for 79 assemblies to hold the Soltel pots after the Iai Rinc system had been redesigned. Paid s16,4do for the left Side Assembly of a c-5a engine mount and less than j5,000 for the right when both pieces arc virtually identical. Ordered two fibreglass panels for the underside of the transport s wings but investigators found two that had been in storage since 1973. Air Force officials were unable to Stop the order because it was too near Del Ivery