European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday March 22, 1986 army plans Early releases to meet budget restraints world today by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the army will release up to 27,000 soldiers Cut separate rations for up to 22,000 others and make it easier for soldiers to get overseas tour extensions in an Effort to trim about $260 million from personnel accounts an official said. Maj. Gen. William o Lesky director of military personnel management said thursday the army must make the moves to meet spending reduction requirements in the Wake of the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law. Other options including a freeze on rotations from Over seas to the states Are being considered he said. We re not precluding the possibility that we d have to go to an overseas involuntary tour Extension for some number of months he said. Several weeks ago the army announced a promotion slowdown for the rest of fiscal 1986 to help Cut costs. O Lesky said if the new Cost cutting measures Are effective the army will consider easing the slowdown. He said personnel officials have to walk a Fine line because while Gramm Rudman makes Cost cutting Nec Essary the army must be careful not to Cut so much that unit readiness is affected. If we Don t have enough sergeants out there that is going to Impact directly on  o Lesky said the voluntary release program announced feb. 7 has been supplemented by an involuntary release program. All enlisted soldiers who Are scheduled to be released from the army this fiscal year and who either Are not going to reenlist or have not identified a voluntary release Date will be separated two months before their scheduled separation Date. The program begins april 15 for stateside soldiers and May 1 for soldiers in overseas commands he said. Exceptions to the policy include soldiers who Are in cohort units have pending involuntary administrative or judicial separations Are in the medical career manage ment Field or Are on probation rehabilitation or under investigation. The army also is launching a voluntary release program for selected lieutenants. He said the program will target lieutenants not recommended for promotion to Captain or those who have been recommended for promotion but have not applied for continued Active duty. O Lesky said lieutenants in under strength branches will not be eligible. He said the army Hopes to release 630 lieutenants. In the area of separate rations o Lesky said a Regula Tion change applies More stringent criteria for approval of separate rations by commanders and stops separate rations where  he said Many soldiers living in Barracks Are receiving separate rations when they should t be. The army must reduce separate rations approval by about 22,000 soldiers he said. The army also is giving overseas commands the author Ity to extend Tours without regard to Extension deadlines. Previously soldiers had to request extensions at least a year in Advance. O Lesky said soldiers in selected space imbalanced Job skills skills that Are 20 percent or More under strength who extend for 12 months or More Are eligible for benefits under the overseas Extension incentive program. Improving conditions for overseas is remains Fop priority Dod official says by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington one of the defense department s highest priorities continues to be the improvement of living and working conditions overseas a top Pentagon official told Congress. James p. Wade jr., assistant Secretary of defense for acquisitions and logistics said Dod is requesting More than $1.4 billion for construction in Europe next fiscal year 20 percent of the total construction request of $7billion. Continuing our emphasis on people overseas we Are requesting authority to lease 2,500 additional family hous ing units and construct Over 1,500 new units Wade told the Senate appropriations committee s military construction subcommittee. Wade said Dod wants $160 million to build Barracks and dining Halls in Europe and another $68 million for Community support facilities such As child care centers religious and education facilities physical training centers and youth centers. Included in that total Are a commissary and Exchange at Florenne Belgium where new operational missions have been established he said. Florenne is the site of a new ground launched cruise missile facility. Also we re proposing commissary and Exchange construction in Vilseck Germany where an infantry brigade and support battalion Are being added to the Force Wade said. Needed medical and dental facilities require some $55 million while construction and improvements for the de Pendents schools system requires $92 million he said. The army needs More than $100 million to upgrade facilities in Europe Wade said. Many of the facilities existed before world War ii and Are unquestionably inadequate to meet the needs of today s weapons systems such As them a tank and the Bradley fighting vehicle he said. Wade said facilities such As physical fitness centers libraries commissaries child development centers and other Community facilities deserve some special focus. Facilities Are important Force multipliers. Investments in our facilities commonly Lead to significant increases in output of our people who live and work in them by Foster ing Pride professionalism and productivity Wade said. Sex financier dead after poisoning Voghera Italy up International finance swin Dler Michele Sindona is clinically dead and investigators strove Friday to establish How he came to Swallow a dose of Poison in his prison cell. Doctors at the Voghera civil Hospital where the 65 year old Sindona was rushed after collapsing in his jail cell while eating his breakfast thursday said Electroencephalogram monitors registered no brain activity All night. They said this meant the convicted manipulator of col 108-year-old Man in Britain receives heart pacemaker Cardiff Wales a John Evans who at 108 years old is thought to be Britain s oldest Man was reported in excellent condition after receiving a heart pacemaker. Evans a former Miner who worked underground for 60 years was fitted with a pacemaker in a 1 a hour operation at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. His doctors said they knew of no other Case in which a patient As old As Evans had received a pacemaker. Lapsed Banks in Italy and the United states is clinically  he is being kept alive in the intensive care Section of the Hospital at Voghera 35 Miles South of Milan by artificial Means. Only two Days before his collapse a Milan court sentenced Sindona to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of ordering the murder of a Milan lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli. Sindona was extradited to Italy in september 1984 from the United. States where he was serving a 25 year jail sentence for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Hospital doctors at first said Sindona appeared to have suffered a stroke and heart failure. But later tests proved the cause of his irreversible coma was that he had Swal Lowed cyanide professor Francesco Nicrosini medical director of the Voghera Hospital said. Justice minister form Mino Mart Nazzoli answering questions about the Sindona drama in the chamber of deputies said that when Sindona collapsed a prison guard heard him exclaim they have poisoned  there is nothing to indicate whether it is a Case of suicide or murder Francesco de Sociol the Voghera pub Lic prosecutor told reporters after inspecting the jail cell where Sindona died and the remains of his breakfast. Chinese official urges s. Africa to drop its apartheid policy peking a Premier Zhao Ziyang has called on the South african government to abandon its official policy of racial segregation the official Xinhua news Agency reported. Zhao said South african authorities have become increasingly isolated because of apartheid under which s million Whites dominate 24 million vote less Blacks. Zhao also said abolishing apartheid was the Only Way  in a Telegram to Joseph Garba chairman of the . Special committee against apartheid Zhao said the struggle by South african Blacks has won increasingly widespread sympathy and support from the International  Zhao made the comments to Mark the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination. China has close ties with Black african liberation move ments and frequently denounces South Africa s White minority government. Toshiba corp. Will produce video recorders in Germany Tokyo up Toshiba corp., a major japanese electronics firm has said it will produce video cassette recorders in Germany beginning in March 1987. Production will begin at a monthly rate of 10,000 units which will be raised to 30,000 units in three years the company said. The factory to be located in monchengladbach nor Rhein westfalen will have a 150-person work Force which is to expand to about 800 people in three years it said. A wholly owned company Toshiba consumer products Germany a Mph has been set up with an initial capital investment of $2.8 million. The capital will be raised to $22.8 million the company said. Extradited yugoslav charged with mass murders in Wii Belgrade Yugoslavia up an 86-year-old yugoslav extradited from the United states last month to stand trial on charges of committing genocide crimes has been formally charged for the mass murders of serbs jews gypsies croats and other minorities during world War ii. Radio Belgrade said the charges against Andrija Artu Kovic were filed by the Public prosecutor in the Western City of Zagreb. The trial it said would probably begin sometime in mid april. Artukovic was said to be responsible for the deaths of More than 700,000 yugoslavs sent to concentration Camps during world War ii while he was police and Justice minister of the puppet state of Croatia during the nazi occupation. The radio said he was flown to Yugoslavia feb. 12, after 35 years of evading extradition in California. Dutch Prince seeking funds to build 4 Rhino sanctuaries London up Prince Bernhard of the nether lands has launched an Appeal for $2.2 million to build four Black Rhinoceros sanctuaries in Kenya and save the species from extinction by professional poachers. The Prince told a press conference at the House of lords that Kenya s Black Rhino population had dropped from 20,000 to 425 in the past 15 years and would be wiped out by the end of the decade unless the sanctuaries were built. Poachers have killed thousands of african rhinos for their horns which Are sold to yemeni tribesmen to make ornate Dagger handles or Are ground into powder for use As spurious aphrodisiacs and Patent medicines in Asia. Germany s National airline to train its 1 St female pilots Frankfurt a the German National airline Lufthansa will Start training its first two female pilots next month an airline spokesman has said. Evi Lausmann 21, and Nicola Luenemann 20, a for Mer Lufthansa flight attendant passed qualification tests this month and will join 16 male trainees in its flight school on april 21, Lufthansa Board member Martin gae Bel told reporters in Frankfurt. But the two women will have to wait 10 years before permission to Captain a commercial Jet following two years of training and another eight years As co pilots gae Elsaid. For years Lufthansa employed Only male pilots saying that All female candidates for the Job had failed the initial qualification tests. Some 2,000 pilots co pilots and flight engineers work for Lufthansa