European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday april 30,1986 Pentagon lottery Over military cargoes trucks hauling arms explosives could be terrorist s Delight Washington a More than 46,000 times a year a truck pulls onto a . Highway with a military cargo that would be a terrorist s Delight. While secret and Public Pentagon documents made available to the associated unarmed escort vehicle will follow the most sensitive deliveries. Last May a secret Navy report criticized the arming of civilian truck Drivers saying the use of untrained Security guards who Are primarily professional truck Drivers is realistically Stop a terrorist the requirement would drive up insurance police assistance or if possible col. Roger Hoff Deputy chief of staff for d. Us "1w of a Hium ii he urn Unver i drive to the nearest military Safe Haven safety Security and intelligence for the Mil press acknowledge that the shipments Are not optimal. Security should be increased where a cargo would be secured itary traffic management come said the highly vulnerable to attack military offi by use of contract professionally trained the secret Navy report last year warned military has been upgrading Security for the to find effective and dedicated Security terrorists Are apparently acquiring Ord shipments albeit slowly. Rep. Vardiss Collins d-i11., chairman of Nance from commercial outlets with Cash the House government operations sub com obtained from Large scale robberies. A Ter Mittee on transportation accused the pen Aorist hijacking of a naval ordnance ship ment can never be discounted. Foreign intelligence units have never ,. J been More Active than they Are today shipments required Only a paper Trail which naval ordnance shipments Are vulnerable in buy us any to threats of espionage terrorism and care in a Public Navy report dated oct. 3,1984, ways to protect the cargo. We be got to be paranoid As hell but we would be thrown out of Here if we recommend paranoid solutions like an infantry platoon with each truck Eugene v. Up of f Iii ing Iii univ via Perly a defense department Security sex not help raft for is not or a i i a u i. Uijun Svok Usu ave Lii m. Wow Wagon of trying to save face quickly by arming the Drivers. Arming the Drivers Willa i ithe military has for years required two Drivers and a Shotgun on category i ship ments that include non nuclear missiles and rockets in a ready to fire configuration. But in Early 1984, Hoff said Many other pert working on the problem said in a re cent interview. Only interim measures Are protecting such sensitive items As shoulder fired ground to air stinger missiles machine the real problem is that the defense department has let this important area of Security slip she said in a statement is sued by her office. Now that we Are Wor up a unit i a rerun Raicu Wuu Pivot ried about libyan terrorism the defense capt. Lowell j. Holloway commander of the to Orvy it re Ion of Trent a. 1 ._,.l �. e you Yan errors teens Apt. Owe. Otway commander o Teguns grenades grenade launchers mines department s inaction is More deplorable naval sea systems come wrote after a dynamite. Fuses Baste cans mortar to pc than or " , a i i j dynamite blasting Caps Morta tubes and rocket launchers. Truckload of torpedoes had overturned on a interstate Highway near Denver this Accident is but one of several re cent incidents involving the movement of naval ordnance that reinforce my opinion that we have become too Cavalier in our than ever.". ,. Expansion of the armed Driver service in a year s time the armed services order has been called unrealistic by the Muni about 46,000 shipments of arms ammunition carriers conference inc., representing Tion and explosives from commercial truck 24 of the 43 companies handling the Wear my firms. So far the military has riot exp on explosives and ammunition shipments. Stances theft Hom is of 1985 Imu kept in the casing and the ammunition number of Road accidents., managing director . Burns said. If mourn grouped with a wide Range of Hazar beg mining june 1, an increasing number the second Driver is sleeping it would be Dous materials it is treated no differently of weapons shipments will be required to difficult for the Driver to take it out of the than other commercial have two civilian divers with a Shotgun. An casing and Load it. I Don t think it would Holloway complained we continue to re stateside that year the minimum Protection was upgraded to constant surveillance by the Driver or a secure lockup. Last october the minimum was upgraded again to an unarmed dual Driver system one of whom must always be awake and within 10 feet of subsequently Security was upgraded fur ther 24-hour emergency hotline numbers were attached to shipments Drivers were Given a list of Safe havens All category i shipping companies and Drivers were required to have Security for and treatment of f a t. L. I i Vii in Siut v, Fri us Vamg Miu me amm Muon naval ordnance has become just Aneth one june changes will include use of Iphis not kept with the Shotgun conference or commodity to be transported and armed Drivers of category ii Shingwu managing though h f Bazar that include Light automatic weapons Dou sit is n different v u i i ,.,Nades High explosives mines anti tank and anti personnel weapons and demolition explosives. How about a Dole Dole ticket Washington a Senate majority Leader Robert Dole told the . Chamber of Commerce to stay flexible on its endorsement for a Republican presidential candidate in1988. Dole who is married to transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole asked the 1,200 conferees at the chamber s annual meet ing if they Ever thought about a Dole Dole ticket. There would be one limousine one air plane one House said the Kansas Republican. And besides Elizabeth is Quali fied to be Mother daughter team a first among Atlanta s firefighters Atlanta a a woman who became a firefighter because her husband thought women could t do the Job has welcomed her daughter to the Force creating the first Mother daughter team in the history of the Atlanta fire Bureau. Tina Hix 19, was sworn in As a firefighter along with 25 other candidates. She received her diploma from her Mother Rebecca Hix. Mrs. Hix s younger daughter Toni 18, was also on hand. She works As a dispatcher in the fire Bureau s communication Section. This is the first time in the fire Bureau s history that we be had a family of firefighters said fire chief William Hamer. Mrs. Hix started the family firefighting tradition in 1980 after a male Friend joined the department. She her mind she said when her husband Morris told her women can t do that was just like waving a red Flag in my face said mrs. Hix who is stationed at Hartsfield International Airport. I said Well if mom can do it i can do it " Tina said. The Atlanta fire Bureau accepted its first woman firefighter in 1977. As of last month 17 of its 943 firefighters were women. Carpet chewing dog banished by . County police officials Martinsburg . A Berkeley county s $4,000 police dog has been banished to a Kennel after putting the bite on More carpets than criminals. The county commission has agreed to House Merlin at a Kennel after sheriffs Deputy Curtis Keller the county s canine officer complained that the dog ruined his carpeting and Aslo door. In addition Keller said the dog was chasing his children Ages 7 and 13. The family wants him out of the Merlin has had Little to do since the special Cruiser equipped to carry him broke Down in november Keller said. Misconceptions racism blamed Urie tickets � _ a Psid a Tor attacks on asians in . Washington a attacks on asians in the United states Are occurring nationwide ranging from physical assaults to slogans on bumper stickers according to a staff report of the . Commission on civil rights. The report said some of the violence results from racial attitudes but other incidents Stem from misconceptions about asians popularized in and reinforced by the staff study which has not yet been discussed at a commission meeting said one of the most prevalent mis conceptions is that All asians Are the same despite their different National origins language cultures and Reli-gions.1 although Many asians have been residents of this coun try for years or Are . Citizens they often Are viewed As foreigners the study said. And some americans blame asians living in the United states for the loss of jobs an Trade deficits. Asians Are one of the fastest growing population groups in the nation. The 1970 census counted 1.5 million people of asian or Pacific Island origin or descent 0.8 percent of the population. By i960, the figures were 3.7 million and1.6 percent. The commission staff found in communities it visited that identified assailants usually Are members of the racial or ethnic majority that lives or works in the neighbourhoods where refugees have been resettled or where immigrants have established violent incidents have included the slaying of a chinese american in Detroit the stabbing of a Vietnam Ese High school student in Davis Calif. The physical As Sault of a laotian immigrant in fort Dodge Iowa the assault harassment and intimidation of the hmong in Philadelphia intimidation of vietnamese fishermen in Florida Texas and California and the intimidation of korean merchants in Washington d.c., los Angeles an new York City. The report s tentative conclusions stated racially motivated incidents Range from anti asian signs and bumper stickers to serious physical assaults. The degree of anti asian sentiment May increase with the percentage of the group s members who Are re cent immigrants or refugees. Establishment of shops by persons of asian descent in Low income areas has sometimes been accompanied biracial tensions. Soviet vets Call or rebuilding of Trust Flatt a Row to a. _ Dallas up american and soviet veterans who fought Side by Side in world War ii called monday on their countrymen to rebuild the Trust that existed betwee the two nations 41 years ago. We were friends in arms said Ivan Ryzhkova 65, a retired colonel who fought alongside americans in 1945. We gave a pledge of Friendship Between our the soviet veterans Are in the United states to revive the spirit of april 25, 1945, the Day american and soviet servicemen embraced at Germany s Elbe River in Cele bration of the War s imminent end. There were Days when we were fighting shoulder to shoulder with american soldiers recalled Georgio Proko Prev an economics professor and Elbe Veteran. Everyone who met there will never forget he said through an interpreter. Eight soviet veterans Are touring the country. The soviet veterans along with an american Organiza Tion called the Elbe Alliance Hope to promote peace be tween the superpowers by promoting cultural exchanges and reminding their countrymen of the horrors of War. The purpose is to break Down the barriers and show How we Are alike said Ken Gjemre a Dallas business Man and Elbe Veteran. It s an Ideal time to implement at the grass roots level our Call last year and president Reagan s Call at last no vember s Summit in Geneva for More people to people contacts Between americans and soviets Gjemre said. Journalist and Veteran Igor Bulayev said he is eager to meet everyday and Alexei Gorlinsky pondering a half eaten Jalapeno Pepper at Dickey s barbeque pit restaurant took a sip of Deer and said texans must be very smart very Sharp tongued because they Are eating this hot food All the staying Here he said i will also become very smart and the soviets Are on the last leg of a . Tour that Mouded visits to Detroit grand rapids Lansing and Cleveland chicag Washington and in Dallas the veterans dined on Texas mexican food placed a Wreath on a Monument to . Soldiers who died m world War ii and stayed overnight in the Homes of
