European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday april 29, 1986bill would extend 180-Day storage limit by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington service members would be Able to store household goods at government expense for More than the cur rent limit of 180 Days under a Bill introduced in Congress. The Bill offered by reps. Leon Panetta d-calif., and Pat Schroeder d-colo., would permit an Extension for circumstances beyond a service member s control such As the inability to find suitable housing at a new duty station. The service secretaries would decide what constituted a reason for an Extension. The Cost of the legislation would be about $800,000 a year for the next five fiscal years according to a Pentagon estimate. Present Law provides for storage up to 90 Days with a 90-Day Extension granted for illness Long temporary duty away from Home and similar reasons said a staff Mem Ber in the department of defense compensation office. Service members who need to keep goods in storage More than 180 Days must pay the Cost. Panetta said the problem was brought to his attention by a critical shortage of hous ing in his District which contains fort Ord the naval postgraduate school the de sense language Institute and fort Hunter Liggett. He said the vacancy rate on the Monterey Peninsula is Only 1.5 percent and there Are 2,500 names on military waiting lists for housing. A Junior enlisted member May have to wait a year for on Post hous ing. This Means that the service member must pay the storage costs for the addition Al six months or longer Panetta said. He added there is no reason Why we should shift the Burden of storage costs on the serv ice member when it is not the service Mem or s fault that we have not yet provided enough military housing. Passage of this legislation would mean that if at the end of the allotted 180-Day period the service member has not yet been Able to find on Post or adequate off Post housing the military will continue to pay the costs of  Consul Calls meeting of britons in Libya to recommend they leave the country news update London a a British official called a meeting of britons who still live in Libya and urged them to leave the country a foreign office spokeswoman said Mon Day. On sunday British prime minister mar Garet Thatcher renewing her support for the april 15 . Bombing raid on Libya refused to Rule out her government s sup port for future raids including possible strikes at Syria or Iran. Let me make it Clear i will never run a policy where the Only thing we can do is just cow before a tyrant or cringe before him because in that Way he would have won and terrorism would have won she told the British broadcasting corp. The United states said it staged the raid to punish Libya for its alleged pro terrorism policy. Britain was the sole . Ally in Europe to cooperate in the use of military action although the 12-nation common Market of which Britain is a member since has agreed to a package of diplomatic sanctions and restrictions on libyans abroad. Last week Thatcher s government expelled 22 libyans As potential subversives and took Steps to oust More than 330 libyan trainee pilots and aircraft engineers As Security risks. The British Consul in Tripoli Hugh Dun Nachie called a meeting of britons in Libya on sunday to Tell them that their govern ment recommended they leave or Send their dependents Home the foreign office spokeswoman in London said. We be been giving this advice for some time said the spokeswoman who in accordance with British civil service practice refused to be identified. They Are at risk and have been for  the bbl said More than 100 britons attended the meeting. Foreign office officials expected to known More about the session later monday after they had contacted Dunnachie. Britain Cut relations with col. Moa mar khad Afy s government in april 1984 after a gunman firing from inside Libya s embassy killed a policewoman. Dunnachie head of the British interests Section in the italian embassy stayed in Tripoli to conduct consular activities for British residents most of whom work in the Oil sector construction or education. Their number has dropped by about 1,000 since the . Raid. Asked sunday if she would Sanction the use of British bases if the United states decides again to attack Libya or two other nations suspected by Western leaders of terrorist involvement Iran and Syria Thatcher said any . Request would be considered on merits. No one will Ever hear me say that a tyrant can be certain that this government would not take action against him because if i were to say that it would be the Green Light for terrorism to go ahead she said. To an opposition charge that she has proved to be president Reagan s docile poodle Thatcher retorted i Don t think i would make a very Good poodle. I might be More of a sort of  there is no question of dancing to some one else s tune she said. We looked at the tune and we agreed that it should be  recalling British attempts to appease nazi Germany before world War ii she said it would have been Jolly easy to run away Jolly easy to demonstrate the weak Ness that was demonstrated in the 1930s." she said the United states stood by Brit Ain in its 1982 War with Argentina Over the falklands Island the disputed British Colony in the South Atlantic. I believe he president Reagan was justified in what he was doing and i believe. Friendship is two ways she said. Gas leak explosion in truck injures 2 by Paul Cozby Kaiserslautern Bureau Pir Masens Germany a spark touched off leaking Gas in the Back of a maintenance truck at Huste Hoeh Cavern monday causing an explosion that injured two men one seriously. Karl Matula 28, a German employee of facility engineering was blown from the preventive maintenance truck As he entered the rear Section. He was in intensive care in the Pir Masens German Hospital with Burns on his hands and face. Michael Becker 28, who was Riding in the truck was treated for minor injuries and released. The vehicle had a work area in the Back equipped with a liquid fuel space Heater. As Matula drove from the Huste Hoeh Cavern motor Pool about 8 . Monday the Driver of a trailing Van signalled that something was wrong. Matula stopped the truck and opened the Back door apparently hitting an electrical switch said Warren Field Public affairs officer for Pir Masens. A spark touched off the accumulation of leaked Gas and blew Matula out of the Back of the truck. The explosion destroyed the maintenance vehicle and damaged the Van behind it and a second Van pulling out of the motor Pool. Nine private vehicles parked at a nearby warehouse also were damaged. Officials estimated damage to the Mili tary vehicles at $10,000. No damage Esti mate for the other vehicles was available. Japan suicide wave Tokyo a a 17-year-old girl jumped to her death from an eighth Story school building window the second suicide in one Day and the 35th reported nationwide since a popular teen age Singer leaped to her death three weeks ago. The girl a student at the private Honjo s girl s High school North of Tokyo left a suicide note complaining she could not make friends and become Happy a Honjo police spokesman said. Her note did not mention the Well publicized death of Singer Yukiko Okada who leaped to her death april 8 from the roof of a seven Story building in Tokyo the spokesman said. Earlier a 13-year-old girl killed herself by jumping from an eight Story apartment in Sapporo in North Ern Japan police said. Involvement denied Tel Aviv Israel a a rabbi wanted in the United states on charges of plotting to sell . Arms to Iran says he knew about the pro posed Deal but was t involved in it. I m just the Money Man. I have no connection with Trade in weapons rabbi Yitzhak Hebron told the daily had Ashot. Hebron is trea surer of an israeli company suspected of trying to sell $800 million Worth of . Arms in israeli inventories to Iran. Five israelis have been charged. Correction the Sands of time for april 28, 1946, published in monday s newspaper was in Correct. The drawing of lots by anti communists in a plot to assassinate two soviet leaders was the news on april 28, 1956. The stars and stripes regrets the error. Former radio Liberty editor surfaces in soviet Union Moscow a Oleg Tumanov the soviet defector who Rose to become a top editor at .-funded radio Liberty said monday in a statement that he returned to his Homeland because of disillusionment at working in an american spy  in the prepared statement Given to a Moscow news conference and distributed by the official Tass news Agency Tumanov 41, said he defected in 1965 As a naive Young Sailor but came to dislike his Job in the Munich based station which broadcasts to the soviet Union. The radio Liberty radio free Europe Are a Branch of . Secret services a convenient front for Covert operations against the .s.r. And other socialist countries Tumanov s statement said. Tumanov called in sick to radio Liberty s offices in Munich on feb. 25 and had not been seen since. Except for several Anonymous Telephone Calls to the station there was no word on his whereabouts be fore monday. He was the latest soviet whose return was announced in a Blaze of publicity by the state run Media. Other defectors who have come Home in recent years claimed they were drugged coerced and duped by Western agents into anti soviet activity and that they eventually managed to escape. According to radio Liberty spokesman Bill Mahoney in Munich Tumanov jumped ship in the Mediterranean in 1965, swam to the libyan coast and went to Britain where he married a russian born emigre. He began work with radio Liberty in 1966. As acting chief editor of the russian language service the largest of 13 services Tumanov read and edited scripts in rus Sian Mahoney told the associated press in Frankfurt monday in a Telephone Call from Munich. He did not make  Tumanov and his wife who had one child divorced last fall Mahoney said. At the time of his disappearance Tumanov was living with a 43-year-old woman. He would have no secrets to take Back to the soviet Union with him Mahoney said. This place is an open shop. It s a radio  in his statement Tumanov said he defected of his own free will. I did not have disagreements with the soviet system of government. Nor did i have grudges against the soviet Way of life he said. More simply it was a youth s illusions a kind of egoism and the abstract Hope of taking my Fate in hand. My Fate ended up in somebody else s  Tumanov said . Intelligence took care of him after his defection and he Felt he had no Choice but to go to work for radio lib erty. He said he was offered the Job because the service needed new blood to keep its credibility with russian listeners. He said he worked his Way from the very Bottom of his Job to acting editor in chief. His statement did not go into detail on his return Home or decision to abandon the West. Children s villages founder Hermann Gmeiner Dies Innsbruck Austria a her Mann Gmeiner whose sos children s Vil Lages have been Home to thousands of orphans worldwide has died of cancer doctors said. He was 66. His first children s Village was created inthe tyrolean Village of inst in 1949. According to his organization about 30,000orphaned and abandoned children now live in More than 225 such villages in 85 coun tries