European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday april 1, 1986 2 Stuttgart area Community clubs closing by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart the Stuttgart area club system is permanently closing two of its 16 facilities this week and officials say financial losses threaten the future of others including two that have been granted a reprieve from closing. Scheduled to shut Down Are the Community clubs at 5th general Hospital in bad Cannstatt and at Ludendorff Cavern in  said col. John r. Michelli Stuttgart director of personnel and Community activities. Community officials last week announced plans to close the enlisted Mem Bers club at Echt Cringen air Field and the Community club at Krab Belloch Cavern in ludwigs Burg but retracted the decision monday. Michelli said the Echter Dingen club has been Given a month s reprieve to Demon Strate it can show a profit. The reprieve will be extended if the club s efforts Are Success Ful. The ludwigs Burg club has three months to accomplish the same goal. It May very Well be that More clubs will be shut Down Michelli said. He said the Community began trimming its financial losses last fall by ordering the merger of an no club and an enlisted members club at Nellinger Barracks. Michelli said the Community has so Many clubs because there Are 45 separate . Military installations in the Stuttgart area. We still have the largest club system in Germany he said. We cover an area the size of the state of new  Usa eur morale welfare and recreation chief u. Thomas Grant said the army soon May close 15 to 20 of the 227 clubs in Usa eur for several reasons including their failure to make a profit. What is going on at Stuttgart is just an orderly consolidating into the right number of facilities he said. Grant said a recent message from army chief of staff Gen. John a. Wickham Calls on army installation commanders to bring club systems into the Black by oct. 1. Wickham s message suggests the army might turn club administration Over to a Central authority its family services sup port Center if club finances fail to improve. The Stuttgart system lost about $700,000 Between october 1984 and september 1985 despite sales of about $3 million including $160,000 income from Slot machines said Alvin g. Byrd Stuttgart club system Man Ager. The losses have continued at about the same Pace since the fiscal year began six months ago he said. We be lost too much this year to turn things around. We might reach the break even Point said Byrd who was hired Only four weeks ago. Byrd said Only three Stuttgart area Mili tary clubs Are making a profit. He blamed the others financial losses partly on higher labor costs declining sup port from the communities and the de go amortization of alcohol factors which he said also have affected military clubs in the United states. But he said the Stuttgart clubs also need to make employee schedules More efficient increase productivity and improve food. To get the clubs on the right Road we have to Correct those fast Byrd said. Those Are Basic management principles. If that does t work then some of the clubs have to close. It Means the troops Don t want  Byrd said the system s Short term strategy includes an Effort to attract More diners. He said the system May seek bids from private contractors to operate food conces Sions in some clubs. A Long term plan Calls for renovating some of the clubs that survive. Libya retaliation threat spurs airports of up Security by the associated press Libya s Call for attacks on americans following the conflict in the Gulf of Sidra has prompted an increase in Security at air ports in Paris and Zurich Switzerland. In other major cities precautions remain at already High Levels. The italian news Agency Ansa said Security was increased on the perimeter of the base at Comiso Sicily where .-made cruise missiles Are deployed under a nato agreement. Libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy has frequently assailed Italy for accepting the missiles and has threatened to attack nato bases in Italy if provoked. Libya fired missiles at american aircraft participating in Maneu vers in the Gulf of Sidra March 24, and the defense depart ment says the United states retaliated with missile attacks on libyan targets for two Days. On March 26, Libya which claims the Gulf As its territory called on arabs to form suicide squads and become human bombs to strike Back at american embassies and interests everywhere. The same Day armed police at London s Heathrow Airport closely watched the Arri Val of a libyan Airliner and the British government said unspecified measures were being taken to protect . Installations in Britain As Well As British embassies abroad. In Zurich a police official said saturday that Airport authorities were forced to strengthen Security measures for the easter Holiday because of the current political  at Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport site of a machine gun attack dec. 27, police presence was already heavy. Spot searches Are made and roadblocks go up without warning on the Highway leading to the air port. Terrorists struck Schwec hat Airport in 44 killed in mozambican plane crash Vienna Austria almost at the same time As the Rome attack. The two attacks left 20 people dead. German Security officials at Frankfurt and those at other airports refuse to discuss details of their precautions lest terrorists find ways to evade them. One official said the libyan threats prompted no new Mea sures at Frankfurt. Security was increased after a bomb killed three people at Frankfurt last june. French Airport and Border police say Security has been reinforced for Delta and american airlines at orly Airport in Paris but they refuse to reveal any details. Possible american targets in the nether lands Are being More closely watched diplomatic installations As Well As the air port according to a government source. Maputo Mozambique a a mozambican air Force plane crashed and burst into flames on Takeoff killing 44 peo ple Mozambique s official news Agency re ported monday. The dead included a founder of the rebel movement that Success fully fought portuguese colonial Rule. The crash the worst such disaster in Mozambique s history occurred sunday at the Northern Indian Ocean town of Pemba the mozambican news Agency said. Five peo ple survived but All were seriously injured. The news Agency quoting a government statement said the dead included Maria Chi Pande wife of defense minister Gen. Alberto Chi Pande and a founder and Mem Ber of the Mozambique liberation front. The guerrilla movement fought Portu Guese Rule for a decade and became Freli to the ruling party of this marxist nation in Southern Africa after Mozambique be came Independent in 1975. The news Agency said others killed included three District administrators in Cabo Delgado the northernmost of Mozambique s 10 prov inces a woman member of the mozambican parliament and three regional party officials. The Agency said the cause of the crash appeared to be engine trouble and there was no indication of sabotage. Rebels of the Mozambique National resistance often conduct hit and run raids against the government of president Samora Machel. Aid from Page 1 approved the decision. John Poindexter who succeeded Mac Farlane went to Cairo later offering to Supply Egypt with military help for the pro posed action. Nafeh who gave no source for his front Page report wrote that the americans said at the time that the egyptian libyan Bor Der provides Egypt with a proper Chance for an anti libyan action with the help of the United states. The americans tried again last Decem Ber during a visit to Cairo by a High rank ing . Delegation following the deploy ment of soviet ground to air missiles Nafeh said. He said Reagan sent another unnamed emissary to Egypt following last january s terrorist attacks on Rome and Vienna aus Tria airports with the same proposal but Egypt refused for the third time. Nafeh said Egypt based its refusal on the principle of not using arms against a fellow Arab country even if it were Libya which spares no efforts in trying to interfere in Egypt s internal  he also said Egypt was not scared by khad Afy s empty  temperatures March 30 l h l h 56 86 Albany 57 75 46 75 Albuquerque 50 82 5 20 Anchorage 54 85 50 81 Atlanta 62 75 43 78 Atlantic City 39 62 41 84 Baltimore 46 82 38 77 Billings 48 78 46 82 Birmingham 55 78 43 71 Boise 48 81 50 77 Boston 55 82 54 73 Buffalo 2 80 49 76 Burlington 59 78 51 68 Charleston . 43 82 46 82 Charleston . 67 86 58 79 Chicago 52 84 54 82 Cincinnati 36 65 62 82 Cleveland 48 58 57 80 Dallas fort Worth 46 69 45 79 Denver 46 82 53 77 Des Moines 46 73 60 81 Detroit 60 86 -16 14 Fairbanks 59 80 34 58 Fargo 47 72 44 78 Hartford 57 68 73 84 Honolulu 8 60 59 77 Houston 69 87 56 82 Indianapolis 42 49 46 76 Jacksonville 65 87 57 82 Kansas City 54 90 54 87 Las vegas 50 84 57 82 Little Rock 48 81 los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach  Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis St. Petersburg Salt Lake Cit san Diego san Francisco san Juan Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita police again repel nuke Plant protesters european weather a Eckersdorf Germany a police unleashed water cannons spiked with tear Gas monday at Rock throwing protes ters storming the construction site of Ger Many s first nuclear waste processing Plant. One demonstrator died of an asthma at tack police said.1 the 38-old demonstrator suffered acute breathing problems and was rushed by ambulance to a Hospital in nearby Schoandorf police spokesman Roland Renner said. He said the Man was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Hospital. Police declined to identify the Man. Renner said the Man came to a police patrol car about 1.5 Miles away from the scene of the main clashes asking for help to find an electricity outlet to connect his breathing device. When they could find no Power outlet in the Vicinity police called for an ambulance and a police doctor gave the Man first Aid Renner said. Renner said that the Man collapsed far away from the clashes and that his death was in no Way linked to tear Gas used by police. He ruled out that tear Gas could have affected the victim at such a distance. Red Cross officials said 72 protesters had to be treated for irritations caused by tear Gas. Renner said five policemen were slightly injured in the clashes. Police reported making 57 arrests on their third straight Day of tangling with protesters. An estimated 20,000 anti nuclear protes ters gathered at the site outside hackers Dorf Village in Rural Bavaria near the Bor Der with Czechoslovakia police said. Facing them were about 3,000 police backed by 40 water cannons. Monday was the third Day of nationwide easter weekend demonstrations against nuclear weapons and nuclear Power. Other than at a Eckersdorf no incidents have been reported. Organizers of the protest included officials of the opposition social democratic party and the Green party. An estimated 40,000 nuclear foes pro tested sunday in 70 cities and towns around the country. They demonstrated against the . Space based missile defense research project and against american rejection of a soviet offer of talks on a nuclear test ban. About 500 people gathered monday out Side Hahn a to protest the deployment of nato cruise missiles at Hasselbach about 10 Miles away police spokesman Lienhard Muender said. He said the protest was peaceful. Forecast for tuesday mostly Cloudy skies with isolated rain showers and scattered afternoon Thunder storms. Winds will be Gusty. High temperatures 45 50,. Sunset tuesday 7 57 Sunrise wednesday 7 00. Outlook for wednesday declining cloudiness with morning Haze in Southern areas and isolated afternoon thunderstorms in Central and Northern areas. Temperatures nearly the same. Temperatures recorded monday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm Adana m Amsterdam r Athens f Aviano i Berlin r Bremerhaven m Brussels p 55 68 38 41 57 68 41 59 39 45 41 39 41 50 Copenhagen m 36 38 Frankfurt r London r Madrid 1 Munich m Paris m Rome f 46 5043 46 41 5944 57 52 5545 61 provided by def. 13, 7th weather so Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures Cairo cd Dublin f Helsinki cd Jerusalem cd Lisbon f High Low 75 54 Montreal cd 46 36 Moscow f 43 37 Oslo r 61 46 Toronto cd 63 48 Vancouver cd High Low 73 43 54 41 36 34 77 54 52 43 supplied by the associated pres of fair cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain