European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes " -4. T r no 3i q civilian Agency to review Dod hospitals Page 5 d Pentagon rates stars wars As top priority. Page 6 q off season travelling save Money avoid crowds Dally Magazine author ibid unofficial publication for the vol. 44. No. 288 saturday february 1. 1988. Hamio Pouch of cml d 8693 a chunk of shuttle fuselage found of debris believed to be from he space Cape canaveral Fla. A a coast guard Cutter on thursday fount the challenger and said floating on the Atlantic on Page 4. The fuselage is the Central body portion of the space shuttle they said it took everything they had to get it up so it must be fairly Large a coast guard spokesman  the first major find aboard the Cutter Dallas returned quickly to  from the National aeronautics and space administration were on the scene and prepared to go down140 feet where sonar readings indicated that another substantial piece of the challenger  investigating Board spent the Day checking video tapes of the liftoff taken from different angles and by news reported that the focus was on one of the solid fuel rocket  reporter Jay Barbree said a Frame by Frame study of the film seen by the Public seemed to indicate that a splice Between two of the Booster s four segments sprung a leak and served like a Blowtorch and burned through the tank a 6,000 degree blow  a source speaking on the condition of anonymity said this is one piece of evidence. They Are looking at it but there is nothing , Nasa had expanded its search for shuttle debris dispatching six Navy ships to probe the missile graveyard of the world. Crews recovered thousands of pounds of debris including one of the shuttle s control  a news conference thursday it. Cmdr. Jim Simp see shuttle on Page 28 explosion occurred 10 Miles High end Miles Southeast the launching cd area Between 50 and130 Miles some commissaries must reduce hours lower personnel costs to offset shortfalls in operations funding to tent  Kaiserslautern a month after  in Europe began expanding operating hours stores serving other army and air Force communities will have to Cut their hours to save Money officials . Ronald Leach air Force commissary service Europe commander said he has been instructed to cut88,000 Man hours before sept. 30, the end of the year. The Only Way to make those cuts he Zajd Flo reduce store hours at five Large comr Nissan in Europe. The five which will begin reducing Man sometime in february Are Raf  England Pitburg a Ramstein a  Germany and Aviano a Italy. The stores at Ramstein Vogel Weh and Lakenheath represent the largest amount of sales in Safe he said. 1 a coms has incurred a Cut in appropriated operate if the rest of the fiscal year  Ilia our Dollar  but air Fon  a via shortage of s10   , troop support Nim Europe Bander said army stores in Europe a shortfalls in operations funding. Our service wide shortage is about $12 million Kenyon said. I expect the Cut Here to be about s2 million about s percent of our total budget since 90 percent of our appropriated operations Money goes for salaries that is where the cuts will have to be , whose command began authorizing 34 of its 85 stores to increase operating hours in late december said he Hopes to be  Tine on the expanded hours already ins Titu of Fortne word tuesday to put the expansion. Jam on hold 28 of the 34 had already gone to longer Urs Kenyon said. About 10 of our stores had use their authorizations to go to a seven Day per week sched ule and others had increased 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 Operon Good six Day  Iriye air Force stores affected by the cutbacks Arenow  per week. Three other smaller stores also  week. The remaining 27 air Force  on five Day weeks. Both Leach and kenyonsnnfey0j a to stagger operating Days in locations where the see hours on dependents civilians can ask for aids test by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau ,.,  f members an defense departmfclv1rnpmai1simhliil qualify for military medical care can voluble eur pm tested Tor the a Tiv in aids virus infection Accord ing to a Dod policy statement issued thursday. The policy signed by Secretary of defense Caspar  an dated Jan. 22, said that while the need to screen family members and civilians for the viruses rant to Force readiness As screening jump Ronnel. It is still Essen Altha ave weary increase m  the new policy  screening prior overseas  of overseas travel for anyone Hajj Ansted positive for the virus is not recommended by the u5. 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 " of All Active Ben and is vhf Ait finc by exclude testing off after  put out the _ mandatory test programs for fan nobers and civilians but later scrapped those plans when pressured by Dod. Weinberger strongly opposes mandatory testing for any Dod civilians. There Are 2,881,000 family members worldwide an about 97,000 civilians stationed overseas according to defense department statistics. In addition to family members civilians who would be affected by the policy include civil service employees government contractors indirect hire employees Dodds personnel and non appropriated fund employees the policy said. _ _ Active duty and Reserve personnel is necessary for Force readiness Rea sons. Military personnel Are subject to special and unique requirements and challenges such As immunize if Elive Vinis vaccines exposure to exotic diseases in Nonal Jiu ments and the potential for buddy system  Jujj a military contingencies the policy stated. A separate policy covering family ans who develop aids aids related Complex Trotner clinical diseases As a result of a Tiv in infection i being developed by Dod