European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 services Are overstaffed Gao study says a a of text to /-vx1 / a til i. T Washington a the three largest military services May be wasting Money because they Are Over staffed according to a general accounting office sur vey. We Don t need the proverbial three people to change a Light bulb said rep. Les Aspin d-w.is., the chair Man of the armed services committee. His panel re Quested the study. The Pentagon has 2.1 million uniformed personnel and a million civilian workers. Critics have charged that the defense department could get by with fewer head quarters personnel. They say More manpower should be shifted into combat units. That criticism was borne out by the Gao study but the Survey also found that it is difficult to determine whether staffing Levels Are proper in Many military units because the services Don t try to apply any types of standards to Many of their branches. The Gao found that Navy ships had an average of 6 percent to 12 percent too Many personnel slots. Shore billets it concluded were overstaffed by 8 percent to 12percent. The air Force units surveyed were overstaffed by 2 percent to 5.5 percent and the army units had 6 percent to 8 percent too Many positions it said. The Pentagon declined comment on the report. One example cited was the Navy practice when determining How Many men to assign to a ship of putting personnel aboard on the Assumption that some sailors would be off duty on sundays even under wartime requirements. Aspin called that an Assumption that does t reflect reality but which requires extra Man Power to cover sunday  he said the system should be changed to get More bang for the Buck by putting people in jobs where they can really contribute to the National  the Only exception to Over staffing is the Marine corps according to the Gao study. But Aspin noted that the problem Here was not a Manning determination process that was wrong but rather the virtual absence of any process  it appears that the Marine corps starts by asking How much Money and How Many men Are available and then builds the battalion around them which is going about it All backwards he said. W Montgomery Ala. A George c. Wallace bid a tearful Farewell to politics wednesday announcing in a choking voice that ill health will prevent him from seeking a fifth term As governor of Alabama. I feel that i must say i have climbed my last political Mountain Wallace said his voice halting As he fought Back tears before 400 people jammed into the House chamber at the Capitol. I must pass the rope and the pick to another  the 66-year-old governor a paraplegic who has battled if health the past three years said his physical ailments would not allow him to compete in the june 3 primary to seek another four year term beginning in january 1987. A recent poll had shown him trailing major contenders for the democratic nomination. Wallace who made four runs for the presidency and once vowed to shake the Eye Teeth of the National Politi Cal establishment said the assassination attempt that crippled him during his 1972 Campaign had taken its Tollon his health. These five bullets gave me a Thorn in the flesh he said. I prayed that it be removed but it was  the governor quoting the Bible at times found it difficult to talk toward the end of his speech and Many in the crowd most of them longtime Wallace Campaign workers and friends began wiping away tears too. He told the crowd that his career had seen Alabama move from the old South to that great vibrant Par called the Sun  of forgo bid for 5th term a Phot Alabama gov. George Wallace throws supporters a kiss. Wallace who first won the governor s office in 1962 As a firebrand segregationist was elected to his fourth term in 1982 As a racial moderate courting the Black vote. His first wife the late gov. Lurleen Wallace won the office in 1966 when he could not legally seek re election. Wallace who was viewed by critics As a divisive Force in America when he took his first taste of presidential campaigning in 1964 and carried four states As an Independent in 1968, has Long held that he opened the door for a fellow southerner Jimmy Carter of Georgia to win the White House in 1976. In his speech Wallace said the assassination attempt in Laurel md., during the 1972 democratic presidential Campaign not Only took away his ability to walk but now jeopardizes his health More severely As he grows older. I May not be Able to give you the fullest measure that you deserve from a governor he said. It is  Lay aside that which will never return and think about the future said Wallace and now As i conclude i Tell you my heart will always belong to Alabama. I expect to be around the lord willing a few More years. But As far As the governmental and political Arena my fellow alabamians i bid you a fond and thankful  according to a poll conducted for a coalition of businesses Wallace was third in the democratic Field for this year s primary. The Survey conducted the first week of february showed it. Gov. Bill Baxley with support from-24 percent of those contacted former gov. Fob James with 19 percent. Wallace with 17 percent and three others following. Crew compartment wreck site reported clear7 Cape canaveral Fla. Not after a night in port unloading More pieces of the challenger s Cabin the Navy s prime Sal Vage ship returned to sea wednesday morning amid indications that it had virtually completed the task of recovering the wreckage of the space shuttle s Crew compartment. Radio communications from the Salvage Fleet monitored at Cape canaveral said the wreck site looks Clear presumably meaning that All identified fragments from the Crew compartment had been removed from the Ocean floor. The preserver s pretty confident the Bottom s cleared a Salvage officer reported in one of the radio transmissions refer ring to the ship that is leading the search Sands of time for the Cabin. Another ship conducted a sonar Survey tuesday night and found no further debris at the site. The preserver was thus directed to move to an area about a mile away to investigate sonar indications of some debris. Navy officials would not say what parts of the shuttle were thought to be at the new site which is about 17 Miles Northeast of the Ken Nedy space Center at Cape canaveral. Indications were that there appeared to be Little wreckage there. Other ships and submarines in the 14 a Essel Fleet continued to explore the Waters 42 Miles offshore for More pieces of the space shuttle s right solid fuel Booster rocket. A leak in one of the lower joints of that Booster is considered the most Likely cause of the explosion Jan. 28 that killed the challenger s seven Crew members. Although engineers of the National aeronautics and space administration have identified one fragment As part of the lower Booster Section col. Edward a. O Connor the air Force officer in charge of Salvage operations for Nasa said the part of the joint where the leak occurred would probably never be found. It presumably was destroyed in the explosion he added. Following their usual policy officials of both the Navy and the space Agency declined to discuss what the preserver brought into port tuesday night. Divers from the ship had been exploring the Cabin wreck site for six Days. While the ship was heading for port radio transmissions reported that All debris that we brought aboard can be Man carried off the ship at port. A military ambulance met the preserver but observers on the Shore across the Chan Nel from the pier could not see if any containers were transferred to the ambulance. The space Agency is not discussing any aspect of the remains of the seven Crew Mem Bers. Fragments of the shuttle wreckage Are stored in a larger hangar at the Kennedy space Center. The remains of the Crew members have been examined by forensic scientists working at the life sciences sup port facility near Cape canaveral. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 4, 1946 systematic extermination of ill prisoners in Austria s Mau Hausen concentration Camp was described at the Mau Hausen War crimes trial in Dachau by a professor at the University of Prague. 30 years ago foday. April 4, 1956 Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said that although soviet rulers have shown no Basic changes in world objectives their downgrading of Josef Stalin gives cause for  Dole target of letter bomb intercepted by Post officials 20 years ago foday. E7 4 6 South vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao by announced that the Cit of Danang is in communist hands and that the government soon will launch military operations to wrest it Back. To years ago foday. April 4, 1976 state Public health officials and private physicians Are split Over president Ford s plan for nationwide immunization against a Swine flu virus. Washington a Senate majority Leader Bob Dole was the target of a letter bomb that was intercepted by postal officials about 10 Days ago and found to be inoperative the senator s office confirmed wednesday. It was intercepted through routine procedures with the help of intelligence sources said Walt Riker Dole s press Secretary. We were tipped to it and Able to Cut it off before it got to Capitol  the package was found by District of Columbia postal officials working with the Fri and the office of the Senate sergeant at arms Riker said. Dole disclosed the incident tuesday in remarks to a chamber of Commerce meet ing in Davenport Iowa during which he joked i guess that s one thing about slow mail the Battery had  Dole r-kan., said the package had been sent by a former Kansas prison inmate adding that he had no indication of a motive. "1 can t figure out any connection he said. Packages addressed to congressional offices have been routinely a Rayed by the Capitol Post office since an explosion occurred outside the Senate chamber in 1983. With the volume of mail the Hill gets you be got to have a Means of checking packages and that s routinely done said Riker who said the bomb was regarded As an isolated incident