European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday March 7,1986 sex teacher soars to t government Reagan adviser supports Volunteer work re of Tiv hip t 1 i i by Betty Bell staff writer six years ago Constance Homer did t have a paying Job. Today she s the second highest ranking women in the Reagan administration. She discussed her dramatic climb from homemaker and school teacher to director of the . Office of personnel management in an interview during her whistle Stop tour of several . Military communities for women s history and Federal women s week. As Reagan s chief adviser on Federal civil service personnel matters she s responsible for the recruitment training and development of the Federal work Force. She also administers civil service pay and benefits programs that include life and health insurance and the civil service retirement system. She s outranked by transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole. In 1980, having quit teaching in Washington d.c., she walked into George Bush s presidential Campaign office and volunteered to do  Homer said she quit teaching because i Felt no matter How hard i worked or How Well i did the Job i d never get any greater responsibility or pay. And 1 Felt i had some idea of How the world should be  she was invited to join the Reagan Bush primary Campaign and worked out of the National Headquarters in Alexandria a. When Reagan won she went to work on the transition team helping to put together reports on education to the incoming president As to what should be his first course of action. I did t know that if you worked in a Campaign it helps you get a Job if your Man won. I just thought you pack up and go  Horner said she noticed other people typing up their resumes so she typed up her resume. I was finding my Way through the political appoint ment process she said. Horner got her first paying Job at action the government s Volunteer Agency As a result of her Volunteer work. She became the acting associate director of a think women who Are unsure of their interest or abilities should do Volunteer work Constance Horner Tion and in 1983 served As director of Vista the Domestic anti poverty program. Horner who has a master s in English literature from the University of Chicago said she started out in a very traditional Way. When the children were Young i taught part time in Chicago at a local High school it paid about$2,500 a  when i was growing up the implicit Choice was to become a school teacher or a nurse she said. The idea Here was i would have a Job to fall Back on if my husband should  she moved with her husband Charles and two children to Washington d.c., and taught school in Georgetown. Party Congress ends with Gorbachev promoting followers urging Reform a or Iti a n in on to i i a i a  up soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev closed the communist party Congress thursday with the promotion of his associates a Call for economic Reform and a fresh attack on the United states. In the final session Gorbachev dumped two octogenarians from non voting membership in the politburo and promoted a series of followers to strengthen his position. Alexandra Biryukova 57, a new Secretary of the Cen trial committee becomes the first High ranking woman in years. Ambassador to the United states Anatoly Dobrynin returns to Moscow also As a Secretary. He probably will head the International relations department. The most important thing now is to convert the Energy of the plans into the Energy of Concrete action Gorba Chev told the 5,000 delegates in the concluding speech of the 10-Day 27th Congress. The highest promotion went to lev Zaikov who had been overseeing the defense Industry for the party. He went straight to full membership in the 12-Man politburo. The two aged non voting members dropped were Vasili Kuznetsov believed to be the first person to reach 85 years of age in the politburo and Boris Ponomarev 81. They were replaced by two rising members of the Power Structure byelorussian party chief Nikolai sly nov and Leningrad party chief Yuri Solovyev. The biggest influx of new blood came in the secretariat of the Central committee second Only to the politburo in Power. Five new secretaries were added including Dobry Nin who will be leaving his Post in Washington after 24years. At the same time the membership of the Central com Mittee itself was overhauled. The Congress was dominated by Gorbachev s demand for an overhaul of the economic system to end the Stagna Tion he said had set in under his predecessor s policies. As in the Tough opening speech Gorbachev blamed the United states for world tension saying someone simply relations. Counterfeit Dollar ring smashed. Counterfeiting ring monday shortly before they already circulated Dart of $400000 Thuv fiary a Minooi could Hrino Mill inn of for � Hal lord of Trio i a i � i ii i i. Y a  bring millions of fake dollars to the United states7a spokesman for the German Federal police said. The spokesman said four German men and a German woman had conspired to bring More than $2 million Worth of counterfeit $20 and $50 Bills to the United states. In january . Authorities apprehended one of the. � t j a vow a adj j.1uv pauu��1vuinto the United states in a suitcase and a car. The two have been extradited to Germany the spokesman said. Acting on information obtained from the two on Mon Day police found the Printer in Castrop Auxel and sacks of counterfeit Money in the towns of Atteln Dorsten an Wattenscheid. Component identified by air Force by  Hodgso Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany a piece of electronic equipment found by a Farmer in Luxembourg in december has been identified As part of the ground launched cruise missile system air Force officials said thursday. The component a operation display and entry panel or Dep was found dec. 25 while the Farmer was Hunt run Law ded area about 9 Miles from Luxembourg Uty Safe spokesman maj. Johnny Whitaker said. He s. The item As bein8 similar to an Ordinary computer screen. It is an unclassified component of the ground Hudnor equipment of the Glam system Whitaker Saith it contains no protected  the display panel is used primarily to display status information for the cruise missile system but cannot be used to order preparation or actual launch of missiles he said. . Embassy officials in Luxembourg identified the unit valued at $98,000 As . Government property and took Possession of it dec. 30. They turned it Over to agents of the air Force office of special investigations at bit Burg a Whitaker said. Whitaker confirmed the unit was being transported Buthe declined to discuss the Mode of transportation place of origin or destination pending completion of an air Force investigation into the incident. None of the units is missing from air Force inventories he said. The 9.ief a Standard ground support component used by All Glam units he said. Horner said that in 1979 she did t foresee much Progress and decided to try her hand at writing. After my husband got a raise in the amount equal to what i was earning i decided to stay Home she said. I had some idea on Domestic policy based on my own experiences and the role i Felt government should play in the family. I was interested in the Way the world  by 1980, Horner said she had run out of ideas to write about and became a political Campaign Volunteer. I think women who Are unsure of their interest or abilities should do Volunteer work Horner said. It in creases Confidence and helps in overcoming the Uncertain ties of the world of  she s also realistic that Volunteer work is not a Pat possible for All women. Frankly i think any woman who has children and a Job has All she can handle unless she is very Well off or has High Energy or her children Are relatively problem free. I Don t want to overburden women by saying Loo what i can do " she said. I worked a full year of my life for not a cent. That was a risk. I m very Lucky that i have an encouraging husband. He had More Confidence in me than i had in myself she said. She said when David Stockman Reagan s former Bud get director approached her about taking the personnel management Job she told him she had no formal training in economics. He said that was All right that i could learn she said. It s been a wonderful new experience and it s Given me new tools. I still Don t have a profession of course i still want to teach or get involved with to and i Don t know what else. I d love running something she said maybe a  military Roundup Frankfurt Bremerhaven duty train to be replaced by bus april 1 Heidelberg the Frankfurt to Bremerhaven duty train will be replaced with commercial contract bus serv ice beginning april 1, a Usa eur official said. The bus service will double the space for passengers from 42 to 84. There will be two buses a Day in each direction said Navy it. Cdr. Mark Cramer of the Dep Uty chief of staff for logistics office. The buses will leave at noon and 10 . Daily from the Frankfurt railway transportation office. The trip will take 7 /2 hours. The bus will Stop three times in the Bremerhaven area Clay Cavern in Karlstedt Harbor House guest House and the recreation Center in Bremerhaven. The bus arriving in Frankfurt will Stop at the Rhein main terminal the Frankfurt train station and the army Hospital. The Bremerhaven osterholz and Frankfurt railway transportation offices will continue to serve As the Depar Ture Points for the buses. Priority categories for passengers will remain the same for the bus service As they have been for the duty train. Cramer said the bus service will save the government about $500,000 a year. No from unit in Belgium wins of s Goddard medal Florenne a Belgium senior master set. James r. Keefe Deputy chief of operations for the 485th civil engineering so is the recipient of the . Air Force Goddard medal. The Goddard medal presented by the society of Amer ican military engineers recognizes the most outstanding enlisted contributor to base maintenance through demonstrated technical and leadership ability. Keefe was recognized for a number of work orders he processed and filled in a minimum of time including Grad ing  storage area Clear zones by eliminating 200 tree stumps removing Security hampering vegetation from the weapons storage area turning an abandoned building into an alternate armory in one week arid install ing a Complex joint services Interior intrusion detection system in the armory in four Days. Screenwriter director Dies Rome a Pasquale Festa Campanile who wrote the screenplays for Rocco and his Brothers and the Leopard and directed 50 films has died at 58. Fest Campanile had been hospitalized in Rome