European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday March 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 you re standing All alone up front and you wonder if that audience is As dead As it looks. Then your words Start tumbling out. Learning to come alive in front of people9 or i .1 is photos by Tony Nauroth that s the experience of a team of student speakers from Fulda and they were All scared but when the ordeal was Over the speech makers agreed that the Dodd Festi Elle Laffoley Cynthia Clarke Ron Kelly Val was a great a ring from Tysha Pollard Karen Funanich and Mark left All reciting a or. Seuss poem Are Mich Johnson. They re All winners in a manner of speaking we be got to make noises in greater amounts so open your Mouth lad for every voice counts " thus he spoke As he climbed. When they got to the top the lad cleared his Throat and he shouted out Yopp " from Morton hears a who by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau v1lseck, Germany or. Seuss tale of Horton the elephant who saved a tiny speck of a planet from destruction came to life during Fulda High school s readers theater entry at the Dodds speech festival. And what a Yopp it was about 117 students from 12 schools displayed their speaking and some acting talents in seven categories of Public speaking. Organizers and speech coaches from the participating schools said the festival was not meant to be a Competition although individuals were critiqued on their performances. There Are no winners and no losers festival director Susan Nornhold said. Students did t agree. It s a natural instinct to want to be better than anyone else Pitburg student Michelle Fairchild said. Classmate Randy Sekulich added each one of us does t want to just do our part. We want to make Good we Bruecken drama teacher Dan Nukala also de emphasized Competition. This is a learning experience he said. Sophomore Mike Harmon agreed with his teacher used to be shy he said. Now now he s a stud interrupted classmate Julie How Ell. Fulda coach Claire Floto said Public speaking experience builds self Confidence in teens. The shy person sees the audience High school students just like him reacting positively. He then says of maybe i do have something worthwhile to say i have a couple of students who were really quite frightened say afterwards this is fun " Douglas from Ramstein High addressed an audience for the first time and reported i was scare to classmate Michele Golojuch said you worry about Little things trembling hands and knocking if your voice Dies you die said Martha Evans also of Ramstein. But Andrea Hooks said i come alive in front of the Fulda team which performed or. Seuss Hor ton hears a who said that no matter How Good a speaker is the audience sometimes won t react. Sometimes you have a dead audience Mark John son said. Until they hear you Yopp Karen Funanich said. But teachers May have gone too far in taking the shy out of some shy people. Just before the festival s closing banquet at the Vilseck officers club wednesday Aimee Hooverson of we Bruecken asked a bystander Are you coming to the awards dinner if you do you can t miss us. Well be the ones wearing the spoons honour each student received a certificate of participation. About 10 percent also received certificates of Merit for exceptional achievement. Categories included readers theater informative speaking original oratory Impromptu speaking Oral interpretation of prose Oral interpretation of poetry and extemporaneous speaking. The schools represented in the three Day festival were Ansbach Berlin Pitburg Frankfurt Fulda Hanau Kaiserslautern osterholz Ramstein Wiesbaden and we Bruecken. Vilseck High school hosted the event. Dod responds to Congress on health care system by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon s military medical goals have changed Dur ing the two years since an Independent study found an enrolment health care sys tem feasible for family members and Reti Rees a report to Congress says. The 1986 defense authorization Bill or dered the defense department to respond to the 1984 study by the Rand corp. Of a closed enrolment health care system. Under the system Active duty service members still would receive care at Mili tary facilities. Everyone else would have to enrol in a military or private health care system and could use Only the system the selected. The closed system proposal does not take into account the Pentagon s new emphasis on medical readiness Dod officials said in their report to the House and Senate armed services committees. Since the publication of the Rand study the major concern of the depart ment has shifted to improving and sustain ing our medical readiness position the Dod health affairs report said. The department wants military physicians to concentrate on the kinds of care that would be needed on the Battlefield. Pentagon officials have repeatedly denied that the concept implies any Retreat from commitments to provide care for families and retirees or to push them out of Mili tary facilities. The report said the Pentagon plan not Only would increase readiness but would attack overcrowding seek to reduce High beneficiary Cost sharing control govern ment health care costs and simplify claims procedures. Current plans Are focused on awarding three regional contracts covering the United states under which contractors for a fixed fee would become responsible for paying for health care received by beneficiaries from civilian sector providers the report said. Some 7.5 million retirees and family members Are accommodated in military treatment facilities when the workload permits. About 75 percent of their care is Given in military facilities. When retirees or family members seek care through civilian providers they can be reimbursed for 75 percent to 80 percent of the costs through champs the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. Champs costs Are expected to exceed $1.5 billion this year. Or. William Mayer assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs has said the Pentagon can use that kind of buying Power to obtain health care for less through private insurers. The fixed Price contracts that Mayer has said he will seek would shift the risk of Cost overruns to the contractors. Soviets May have anti satellite laser by 1990, Rogers says Brussels Belgium a nato s top commander in Europe asserted thurs Day that the soviet Union May be Able to deploy an anti satellite laser weapon Assoon As 1990. Gen. Bernard w. Rogers who also is the commander of . Forces in Europe said the United states should continue its strategic defense initiative research into a mis Sile defense because the soviets Are doing the same. We know there exists a soviet ground based laser weapon system capable of inter Fering with satellites in Low orbit a system that we project could be deployed within the next four to five years Rogers said in a speech in the belgian capital. He said nato could not afford to let the Warsaw pact get too far ahead in strategic defense. Should the soviets find practical applications for its strategic defense research before the United states does All of us will be in a very difficult situation the four Star general told a conference sponsored by Belgium s free society for study and Dis Cussion. Research into strategic defense is going to continue in the soviet Union despite the strident propaganda to the contrary by that country he said. Rogers added that while he supports the United states ski program he fears it could pose serious problems for nato. He said ski posed the risk of the West Ern Alliance s attention and Money being drawn away from other improvement efforts that Are critical to our he said nato s conventional forces need to rebuilt up further. And he cited a danger that the debate within the Alliance about ski could become so divisive that cohesion and Unity would some european nato nations have expressed concern that Reagan s plan May disrupt the global military balance and impede Progress toward a superpower arms control agreement. Rogers reiterated his Call on West euro Pean nations to begin work on their own version of ski a conventional defense against Shorter Range soviet missiles that Are aimed at Europe. I frankly am disappointed that other West european nations apparently have not been taking seriously the Federal Republic of Germany s suggestion that we should Pool our research resources and in conjunction with the United states ski Organiza Tion commence to examine the prospects and the requirements of a conventional anti tactical ballistic missile a european defense he said a european program would give the Independent voice in determining whether a defense against ballistic mis Siles would be Good for its own Security
