European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n off season travelling save Money avoid crowds daily Magazine the hassles of Gelting Back your rental Deposit Page 16 n today s Dollar buys 2.37 Marks other rates Page 27 vol. 44. No 267 Uther prep unofficial publication 6ft Tim ii t. Armed Pommel Friday january 31, 19b6 in Tor 0 8693 a ship returns with shuttle debris a Soldier in Cocoa Beach Fla., wednesday carries a piece of debris believed la be from the space shuttle. Cape canal final Fla. A a Navy ship steamed into port with 1,000 More pound.1 of wreckage Tram the space shuttle challenger thursday As Nasa expanded the search Tor clues into the explosion of the ill fated spaceship and its Crew at five men and two women. The debris included the first electronic pieces recovered Tram the sea. See related stories arid photos on pages a s and 28at thu Kennedy space Center an the Road to Chal Lenger s launch pad. Someone planted seven american flags to Honor i he dead astronauts. The search continued As the space Agency impounded apes that recorded the performance of Floc shuttle s sys tems every one thousandth of a second. Officials said icy might be the most crucial piece of evidence in the investigation. The tapes could reveal whether the fireball that killed the astronauts tuesday 74 seconds after liftoff was caused by something that Wen wrong with the space ship s huge external fuel tank or whether the fault Lay with one of the twos lid full rocket boosters. Experts have considered both theories but shuttle director Jesse Moore said wednesday i refuse to speculate on the cause we intend to make a thorough examination of All the evidence and base our conclusions and recommendations on the  after the boosters separated from the exploding spaceship and flew erratically through the sky. Both were detonated by a radio signal when one of them headed toward a populated area the deliberate but necessary detonation May have wiped out vital clues. We need every piece said Richard Smith director see ship on Page 28 explosion occurred 10 Meta High and 8 mites Southeast erf the launching pad search area Between 50 and130 Miles five big commissaries face cuts in hours stores in Europe will Likely have shortfalls in operations funding by Dick Hodgson  Bureau ka1serslautern a month after some army commissaries in Europe began expanding operating hours mores serving other army and air Force communities will have to Cut their hours to save Money offi Ciu is said thursday. Col. Ronald Leach air Force commis sary service Europe commander said he has been instructed to Cut 88,000 Man hours before sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year the Only Way to make those cuts he said is to reduce store hours full five Large commissaries in Europe. The five which will begin reducing hours sometime in february arc Raf Lakeah Cash England Pitburg a Ramstein a and vog Doh Germany and Aviano a Italy. The stores at rom Stcin vog Chweh and Lakin health represent the largest amount of sales in Safe he said. A coms has incurred a Cut in appropriated operating funds for the rest of the fiscal year he said. We Don t know yet what our Dollar share of that will be but air Force wide commissaries have a shortage of s10  col Jarry to Kenyon troop support Agency Europe commander said army stores in Europe also Are facing shortfalls in operations funding. Our service wide shortage Isabul si2 million kenyan said. "1 expect the Cut Here to be about 12 million about s percent of our total budget. Since 90 per cent of our appropriated operations Money goes for salaries that is where the cuts will have to be  Kenyon whose command began Autho rising 34 of its is stores to increase operating hours in late december said tie Hopes to be Able to hold the line on the expanded hours already instituted. Before we got the word tuesday to put the expansion program on hold 28 of the 34 had already gone to longer hours he said. About 10 of our stores had used their aut Liori milians o go to a seven Day Ner Wick schedule and others had in creased hours during the remainder of the week. Now we May have to readjust some of those seven Day operations in order to keep other stores open on Good six Day  the five air Force stores affected by the Cut currently ire open six Days per week. Three other smaller stores also oper ate six Days each week. The remaining 27 air Force commissaries in Europe Are run on five Day weeks. Both Leach and Kenyon said they Hope w stagger operating Days in locations where there Are iwo stores reasonably close to each other to give patrons seven Day shopping. The main thing is we Don t want local service to our customers Leah said for example since rams Cin and vog Chweh or see hours on Page 28 dependents civilians can ask for aids test by Chuck Vinch wishing Tan Bureau Washington military family members and defense department civilians stationed overseas who qualify far military medical care can Volunteer to be tested for the a Tiv ill aids virus infection Accord ing to a do policy statement issued thursday. The policy signed by Sec Clary of defense Caspar w Weinberger and dated Jan. 22, said thai while the need to screen family members and civilians for the virus is not a important to Force readiness As screening of Active duty personnel it is still essential that we do All we can to avoid any increase in this  the new policy stated that mandatory screening prior to overseas travel or restriction of overseas travel for anyone who has tested positive for the virus is not recommended by the . Public health service and is not a condition of entry for any country. Therefore mandatory testing for civilians is not required at this time the policy stated. Weinberger issued a memo oct. 24 calling for Manda tory a Tiv ill screening of All Active duty scr Icem embers and reservists. After that memo was put out the army and Navy began developing mandatory test programs for family members and civilians but later scrapped those plans when pressured by Dod. Weinberger strongly opposes mandatory testing for any Dod civilians. There arc 2,881,000 family members worldwide and about 97,000 civilians stationed overseas according to defense department statistics. In addition to family members civilians who would be Affue led by the policy include civil service employees government contractors indirect hire employees Dodds personnel and non appropriated fund employees the policy said. It stated that mandatory testing for Active duty and re serve personnel is necessary for Force readiness reasons military personnel arc subject to special and unique physical requirements and challenges such As immunization with multiple live virus vaccines exposure to exotic diseases in hostile environments and the potential for buddy system1 blood donation during military contingencies the policy stated. A separate policy covering family members and civil ians who develop aids aids related Complex or other clinical diseases As n result of a Tiv ill infection is currently being developed by Dod