European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 15,1986 Pentagon seeks approval to build overseas housing by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon s top official for installations says there is not nearly enough housing con trolled by the . Military overseas. Deputy assistant Secretary of defense Robert Stone appeared before the the House appropriations sub committee on military construction seeking congressional approval to build 1,500 More family units abroad. Stone says also the Pentagon wants to acquire 120 family housing units by converting attics and 2,500 by leasing from foreign builders. His testimony came As he defended the defense depart ment s $4.3 billion family housing request for fiscal 1987. He assured committee members the housing the military wants to build would be manufactured in . Factories and shipped overseas about two thirds of military families live in private housing Stone said. In some places it is growing More difficult to find adequate Homes he said. In Hahn Germany the air Force sent a team to comb the local Community for new sources of housing. The team literally walked the streets knocked on doors and uncovered hundreds of previously unknown rentals Stone said. American service members move More often than civil ians so there is a tendency to give preference to civilians i the said. Americans also have to contend with different private housing practices overseas which in Germany can include Security deposits up to three months rent and apartments and houses without lights Kitchen or bathroom cabinets or bedroom closets. Some service members respond by choosing unaccompanied Tours Stone said. Family separation contributes to other Domestic problems which degrade individual performance and readiness. That is Why senior american generals say family hous ing is a top priority Stone said. The total Pentagon family housing request includes the Cost of maintaining and improving the 406,000 houses it owns or leases and that of building or leasing 5,600 new ones in the United states and abroad. Maj. Gen. George Ellis director of air Force Engi Neering and services said his service is seeking $43 million for 523 new units at four locations. They include 332 housing units at Pitburg a and 150 at Hahn a in Germany and one unit to replace a general s quarters at Osan a Korea. The army is asking $293 million to build 3,400 new units next year said maj. Gen. Robert Dacey assistant chief of engineers. That request includes $23 million for 136 units at Kwajalein in the Marshall islands $7.7 Mil lion for 90 units at Livorno Italy and in Germany $4.1 million for 40 units at Crail sheim $3.1 million for 40 units at Darmstadt $9.4 million for 106 units at Erlanger $3.3 million for 34 units at Herzo base $1.8 million for 20 units at Mainz $8.4 million for 90 units at Schweinfurt $21 million for 224 units at Vilseck and $2 million for 24 units at Wil Flecken. Rear adm. . Jones jr., commander of the naval facilities engineering come said that while the Navy also relies primarily on the private sector for family hous ing there Are Many locations where the Supply is insufficient or it is unaffordable even with the variable housing  the Navy is seeking $792.9.million for family housing next year a 16.4 percent increase Over last year s appropriation. The request contains $48 million for 250 units at the naval air station at Kef Lavik Iceland where sailors and their families must live on base under an agreement with the government. Beirut strike protests kidnappings Beirut Lebanon a teachers and students closed colleges and schools in West Beirut monday in a one Day strike to protest a wave of kidnappings of foreign teachers. Education minister Salim Hoss said the kidnappings were pushing Lebanon toward academic  he showed Solidarity with the protesters by ordering All his ministry s departments closed for the Day. Thousands of students and hundreds of tutors stayed away from classes in All private and Public schools and universities in Beirut s moslem sector. Four teachers two britons a Frenchman and an irishman have been kidnapped or have disappeared in militia ruled West Beirut since March 28. All were last seen walking on the Street. The Frenchman Michel Brian 42, was kidnapped last tuesday. He was rescued Friday by lebanese Rabbit Hunt ers who stumbled on the kidnappers car in East Lebanon s Bekaan Valley. The britons Are Leigh Douglas 34, of Stalham nor Folk a political science professor at the american univer sity of Beirut and Philip Patfield 40, of Bideford Devon director of an International language Center. They were last seen together leaving a popular nightspot off the Aub Campus on Good Friday. The irishman is Brian Keenan 35, of Belfast Northern Ireland an Aub English language teacher who disappeared last Friday and was feared kidnapped. Hoss told the associated press this strike is a True expression of the majority of the people s feeling toward these encroachments on educational institutions especially kidnappings. We have to Stop these practices to Avert an  Brian s abduction was claimed by a group calling itself the Tiffine islamic organization a name suggesting it is made up of shiite moslem zealots. An Anonymous caller claiming to speak for the group telephoned a Western news Agency in Beirut after Brian s Rescue to warn that the organization will grab a great number of French hostages if France does not free arabs imprisoned there. No group has yet claimed responsibly for the disappearance of Douglas Padfield or Keenan. Stalin s daughter gets exit visa Moscow up Svetlana Allilu Yeva the daughter of dictator Joseph Stalin has received permission to leave the soviet Union just 18 months after rejecting the West to return to her Homeland a soviet source said monday. I understand she has received permission to leave but i Don t know where she is going and when she will be leaving said Victor Louis a soviet journalist with close ties to sources of internal information. Louis would not speculate on Why Allilu Yeva 60, was granted permission to leave or whether it was connected with the departure of her 14-year-old american daughter Olga Peters. Olga Allilu Yeva s daughter by . Architect William Peters was issued a visa two weeks ago by the British embassy in Moscow. An embassy spokesman monday said Allilu Yeva had not made a visa application. I really Don t know myself when i m leaving Olga told United press International by Telephone from the room she has been sharing with her Mother at Moscow is Ovetskaya hotel. Speaking with a Strong american accent she said she had no idea what her Mother s plans were. I Don t know i she s leaving at All Olga said. For most of the past 18 months Olga and her Mother lived in Tbilisi the capital of the georgian Republic where Stalin was born. Allilu Yeva stirred an uproar upon her return in october 1984 when she cursed at reporters and denounced her life in the West saying she was never free. Olga said her main concern was that she still did t have plane tickets to England. She attended a Quaker boarding school in Essex before her Mother returned apparently bringing Olga against her will to the soviet Union 17 years after a dramatic defection to the West. School starts on the 16th, and i Haven t got the tickets yet. I m kind of worried and 1 Don t think i la make the beginning of school she said. New vice Premier appointed by chinese people s Congress peking up China s annual National people s Congress concluded a 17-Day session by approving a new five year plan and appointing 62-year-old communist party Veteran Qiao Shi As a fifth vice Premier. Nearly 2,800 deputies attending the final session of the Congress also approved the nomination of scientist song Jian 54, to the state Council bringing the policy making body s membership to 11. . Embassy helped uncover salvadoran kidnapping ring san Salvador Al Salvador a the . Embassy has helped the National police break up a kid Nap for profit ring that involved salvadoran military offi cers an embassy spokesman has confirmed. The spokesman Donald Hamilton said the govern ment of Al Salvador came to us for technical forensic assistance on matters such As fingerprints. As we have done in the past. We have made that assistance available he said without elaborating. Police have said the Kidnap victims were sometimes held for months in tiny underground cells in a working class neighbourhood of san Salvador. Translated edition of pravda goes on Sale in Germany Frankfurt a a French publisher has launched a Pilot project to sell a German language edition of the official soviet communist party newspaper pravda. The first pravda translated into German has reached Newsstands in Germany. It was a translation of the March 18 Moscow edition. The German language pravda is translated in France printed in Belgium and distributed by a German company in Cologne. Distributors in Cologne said the edition was printed in 300,000 copies to be sold in Germany Austria Switzer land Belgium and the Netherlands. A spokesman for French publisher Philippe Hayat s option Presse in Paris said the German language edition is a one time project to see if there is enough of a Market to sell the paper. Wolf pack in animal preserve attacks German veterinarian Hanau Germany a a pack of wolves trained to perform tricks in a German wild animal preserve mauled a veterinarian who was about to feed them officials said. Dirk Neumann 36, was preparing to feed the beasts when one Wolf bit him the director of the preserve in Hanau near Frankfurt told reporters. Preserve director Reinhard Walkenhorst said the other eight animals in the pack in the Ungere Fasan Erie Park then joined in the attack. The beasts dragged Neumann around the Reserve biting him at least 30 times in the legs hands and arms according to Walkenhorst. He said the veterinarian managed to escape and despite his wounds managed to drive to a nearby tavern where he called an ambulance. Neumann was admitted to a local Hospital for treatment. His condition was not immediately released.  nearly $10 million for emergency food Aid program Rome a the . Food and agriculture organization has said that it has approved nearly $10 million in emergency food Aid for refugees and drought victims in Sudan Tunisia and Honduras. In two separate operations $5,387,075 was earmarked for ethiopian refugees in Eastern Sudan and $1,817,575 was allocated for refugees from Chad in Western Sudan Fao said. In an operation to last two months $1,796,430 is being allocated to provide 9,760 tons of wheat to 422,500 drought affected people in Tunisia. Fao said $914,000 was earmarked to provide food assistance to an estimated 42,000 refugees from Al Salvador Guatemala and Nicaragua now in Honduras