European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday March 29, 1986 Pentagon resisting efforts to lengthen overseas Tours world today by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon is fighting to keep overseas Tours for first term soldiers at 18 months despite congressional urging to Cut costs by making the Tours longer. A defense department report claims re enlistment rates for first term soldiers would drop while numerous disciplinary problems would increase if overseas Tours for first term service members were increased to 24 or 30months. The report part of an exhaustive study of the depart ment s permanent change of station program was ordered by Congress last year. The army changed the first term european tour from 30 to 18 months in 1980, citing increased disciplinary problems and Low retention and morale. The House armed services committee in mandating the report noted the problems have been largely alleviated since 1980. But it credited improvements in military compensation increased Pride in military service and the in creased value of the Dollar for that Success not the 18-month tour. However the Pentagon cited a 1985 Northwestern University study that said whatever Cost savings could be realized by stretching Tours would be of less value than the benefits of the present system. Those benefits include fewer discipline problems and lower attrition rates cos and officers who like their troops and soldiers returning stateside with successful experiences in Usa eur. The Pentagon report cited another study done by the army research Institute in 1978 which found that re enlistment rates among first term soldiers decreased at a rate greater than the army wide average the longer the overseas tour. Surveys conducted in 1983 and 1984 reconfirmed this the report said. Of the first term soldiers surveyed 44 percent said an increase in tour lengths would  the report said the 1978 study found that courts mar tial and article 15 incidents increased disproportionately after the 18-month Point. The study also showed that the longer the overseas tour the More Likely soldiers were Touse drugs. The report said the army would also experience Force Structure problems if first term overseas Tours were lengthened. For example two year enlistees would not be eligible for european assignments since they would not be Able to serve a full 24-month tour. This group represents the most educated and mature army first term soldiers and provides needed soldiers for the combat arms the report said. Three year enlistees probably would have to serve Over seas for 30 months rather than 24. Army policy does not allow the Transfer of personnel with less than 11 months of obligated military service the report said. Therefore most first term enlistees will remain in Europe longer than 24 months since few will have 12 months of service remaining after their  finally three year enlistees would arrive in Europe wit no unit experience. The current system provides about half the three year enlistees with a year of unit experience in the states prior to Usa eur service the report said. A 24-month tour will have a negative Impact on readiness in  the report said the problem complicating this Issue is one of quantifying personnel factors which in Many cases cannot be accurately gauged with statistics. Factors such As morale lifestyle choices and values Are extremely important in a Volunteer army and Are Only measurable in a general sense the study said. In simple terms to make the army s recruiting Effort a Success it must be flexible. Today in a prosperous econ omy financial incentives must be High and hardships an overseas separation  sex officer says Waldheim committed no crimes while under his command Vienna Austria up Kurt Waldheim s Superior in the German army said he took part in no criminal activities while under his command Vienna newspaper reported Friday. The Kronen and Kurrier newspapers said it. Col. Her Bert warns off who is 73, was Waldheim s immediate Superior from Spring 1944 to Spring 1945 in department 1-c, army group e. Warns off who lives in the town of Moench Englad Bach in Germany s Ruhr District said Waldheim was Only a Small wheel in his wehrmacht department and was not involved in interrogating prisoners. His main duty was to Send information about enemy troop move ments he said. Waldheim is running for the austrian presidency. The world jewish Congress charged tuesday that Waldheim was a senior nazi intelligence officer involved in brutal interrogations and massacres of partisans and innocent civilians. Waldheim has denied the allegations. German military records in Berlin show Waldheim was assigned to the German army command based in Salonika Greece on March 14, 1942, and was sent to Belgrade Yugoslavia where he served As an italian German inter Preter in Yugoslavia and Albania in 1942 and 1943. Warns off said he could not comment about Waldheim activities during that period. He served under warns off from Spring 1944 in Salonika and then was moved to the Balkan area in Bonisch Brod Yugoslavia near Sarajevo and then to Agram Yugoslavia. During the time he worked with me he never took part actively in fights against the yugoslav partisans warns off was quoted As saying. He also said he himself did not know about the deportations of tens of thousands of jews from Salonika to polish death Camps. The allegations about Waldheim s nazi past first sur faced in stories by the new York times and the austrian Magazine Profil and in documents released by the new York based world jewish Congress. Warns off and Waldheim s signatures both appear on documents released by the world jewish Congress which alleges the documents show Waldheim is a War criminal judge Grants bail to accused spy London a a London court granted bail thursday to a former . Navy commander charged with spying on condition he surrender his passport an travel documents. Bail was set at $29,000 for James Bothwell 59. He must report to police twice a week in Bath the City in Southwest England where he lives. Defense counsel Richard Lissak said in seeking bail he is a very sick Man who has a heart condition. He is a Man of impeccable background and character and was one of the youngest commanders in the .  Bothwell arrested last month was charged under the offi Cial secrets act with arranging to communicate information calculated to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy. Details of the alleged crime were not made Public in accordance with Britain s Tough restrictions on pretrial publicity. Bothwell a negotiator of commercial contracts Between South Africa and the soviet Union said soviet agents approached him but he Only provided information obtained from Britain s daily Telegraph and from news week Magazine. He is to appear again at Bow Street magistrates court on april 24 for reconsideration of bail. Lissack told judge William Robins these Are by no Means the most serious allegations one gets under the offi Cial secrets act and i would urge you to Grant  4 what really influenced my mind the judge said was the question of the distinct possibility of further More serious charges being preferred. I am now told there is to be no further charge and i Grant bail with  French woman declared cured by Miracle in 1925 Dies at 93 Albi France a Lonnie Gorsse declared by the roman Catholic Church to have been cured miraculously at the Lourdes pilgrimage shrine in 1925, has died at 93. Her death was made known by the clinic in which she had been treated. Cause of death was not revealed. At the age of 15 she contracted a form of meningitis that left her bedridden for 17 years. When doctors predicted she could not live much longer she undertook the pilgrimage to Lourdes in september 1925. After her second immersion in the Waters of the sacred Grotto her condition improved so markedly and durably that the Church several months later officially declared miraculous cure. Gorsse then trained and worked As a nurse until her retirement. Spain purchases 43 photos taken by Capa during civil War Madrid Spain a the Spanish National Library has acquired from a private collector 43 photo graphs taken during the 1936-39 Spanish civil War by american War photographer Robert Capa the Madrid daily Al pais said. It said Library sources not identified reported the Pur Chase Price was $25,000. Negatives were not included. The hungarian born Capa who was killed in 1954 by a land mine explosion in Indochina gained world renown for his photographs taken during the Spanish civil War an world War ii. Stir collection was prepared by Capa As a gift to Mil Wolff head of the Abraham Lincoln in of american volunteers who fought in the Spanish civil War on the Side of the 1931-36 second Republic against Gen. Francis co Franco s rebel forces. Daughter of sex pakistani Leader to end exile return Home London up Binazir Bhutto daughter of Paki Stan s former prime minister will return Home from euro Pean exile april 10, her press spokesman has said. Spokesman Bashir Riaz said Bhutto acting Leader of the main pakistani opposition party is currently in saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage but will return to London for he departure. Her scheduled return comes at around the seventh anniversary of the april 4, 1979, execution of her father Zulfi Karah Bhutto by the regime of president Ziaul Haq. Miss Bhutto is the acting chairperson of the Pakistan people s party founded by her father and she is consid ered the Only pakistani opposition figure of note. General Secretary reappointed As czech party Congress ends Prague Czechoslovakia up the 17th Czecho slovak communist party Congress ended by reconfirming Gustav Husak As general Secretary and announcing the appointment of three candidate members to the Rulin presidium. There were no other changes on the 17-member presidium or the 11-member Central committee. The new candidate members which Means they do not yet have full membership Are Vladimir Herman and Ignac Janak District secretaries for Southern Maehren and West Slovakia and Frantisek Pitra who was already a member of the Central committee. Jaroslav Hajn remained chairman of the important party control and auditing commission. Husak 73, praised the five Day Congress As essential critical and stimulating and one that confirmed the Unity of the party and its determination to realize its ambitious projects and plans. Inventory of Chagall collection still in Progress year after death Paris a a year after the death of Marc Cha Gall Trench Art experts continue the Complex inventory of his personal collection deciding which of his magical paintings will be offered to the French government i payment of inheritance taxes. The russian born Chagall died March 28,1985, at the age Miil r i i a personal ejection Worth countless she Rev ? a 11snyn Al w0rks Phy entwined lovers in of off Tan als Al atm ov6r or ked a uses de Mone of the Century s greatest artists. Contrary to what s been said Chagall kept a great number of works for himself said Sylvie Forestier the curator at the Chagall biblical message muss Nice _ the lithographs were widely distributed but not the pain tags she said canvases were not Distant objects and Selling them was like an amputation for