European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 2, 1986 the stars and stripes airman de Saab left shares a problem with counselling instructor slam two other students foreground also listen. Is photo by Jean Albright. Another instructor Jackie Lutcs Amrich listens intently while Silling next to Shore. Helpline Adanore option Raspor troubled callers by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau Hahn a Germany people who struggle with problems won t find solutions on Hahn a s new Telephone helpline. The will instead find someone who is trained to help them find their own solutions. We Don t solve problems we adva options said staff sgt Craig Short teaches Volunteer Counselor. Ashore said the stress of adjust a to an unfamiliar environment is Contr minded at Hahn a by life in Small is widely scattered around the Bavm the huns Ruck area of German Jet is difficult Tor families to find Sun Nile housing and when they do sonic Ommul More than 45 minutes to of and school and for services on Bay  potential problems  suicides at Hahn in Jan uary  about suicide worries people than that what they hear  Likely to ask for help. Shore said. The a Ponc idea had been around for two it Nice weeks when the first one Happ Ejbad and training was in  second one occurred Shore r had the service already been Intee maybe just maybe it might have Lade the  counselling and service organizations on base have quickly thrived As the people who need them discover their exis  receive 25 hours of instruction from the social actions staff to Hel them handle sensitive intimate phone conversations with troubled  la talk to people whose problem is transportation to local stores and we a talk to people who feel that there is no Way out of their isolation and loneliness Shore said. Whatever they perceive As a problem Well Deal  s not important that we Don t Sec it As a problem or that we think we see a answer that should be As Clear As the nose on my face. Well enter to world to listen an help them funnel a Fol to what s important for them to find to known  the service  a military base confidentiality is an is bbl the Law says that when hum is Given in a Case where crime Drugac or alcohol abuse arc involved the c must advise authorities Shore  such a dilemma is rare he said sine callers Don t usually offer their names when the problem involves crime or abuse. We re going to treat conversations a confidential he said. If we just become an informing Agency we re doing  make moral choices in counselling As they do in other aspects of their lives he said. No one hears what is said but Counselor and  develop the Knack of hearing All that s conveyed by a voice volunteers in training share their own personal problems. They sit Back to Back one posing As the caller while the other listens and responds. Face to face some things arc conveyed by raised eyebrows or by leaning Forward Shore said. Phone Counselor must learn to get part of the message from the tone and part of it from the Way the Story is  experience your senses gradually become sharpened Shore  Lutcs Amrich another helpline instructor believes those who finally staff phones will be Well suited. Those who pm Etc the Long training Are not Likely out because of boredom or be cause is too challenging. Those who Are not sunni War counselling will find out in the role Paraju fining. Those a Mannol be Capa lactic ten to sort them Sylvn us she said. The phone Linc a us hooked up i March but publicly a l started so Calls have yet to  takes Lime for people Snow and Trust what we re doing in a  will gel around about Pline is and what it in t. We won t Maytag repairman for  panel sceptical of Price to beef up diplomatic Security by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington members of the Senate foreign relations committee wednesday sharply questioned the $4.4 Bil lion Price tag for a slate department plan to beef up Security at american diplomatic facilities abroad. While we fully support the concept of increased Security for our diplomats some of the figures in the plan appear to be unrealistic said sen. Claiborne Pell d . At some Point we re going to have to reconsider these  the plan to be carried out Over five years Calls for construction of 79 new embassies and consulates reconstruction of another 175 existing facilities and renova Tion of about 10,000 residences overseas said Ronald Spiers stale department undersecretary for management. Spiers admitted the Cost of the programs High but said that was because we re not talking about Ordinary buildings but special facilities meeting special Security Stan Dards. These projects Cost about twice Smuch to carry out As Ordinary facilities of the same  the plan is the result of one of the recommendations submitted by the advisory panel on overseas Security formed Las year by Secretary of state George Shultz. Spiers said Shultz asked the panel headed by retired adm. Bobby Ray Inman former chief of the National Security Agency to take a hard look at our Security and county terrorism programs and to give him ideas and  of the $4.4 billion total $2.7 billion would be for actual construction. The rest would be for related operating expense such As Security officers residential Security improvements and More secure communications equipment said Spiers. But committee members were sceptical about some aspects of the program. The item most often criticized at the hearing was a request for $107 million for new furniture. There s always scepticism whenever we fund a new program that costs a lot of Money said sen. Joe Biden decl. The question is whether the fight against terror ism in t being used for such things As Inte rior decorating. We Don t want to erode Public Confidence in what we re  if you build a building and inhabit it you need furniture Spiers said. We Recy Cle As much As we can. But we re talking about 70-plus buildings. While $5 million per building seems High it s not out  Spiers pointed out that Only half that total will go for furniture with the rest being spent on such items As lighting fix Tures and wallpaper. He said requirements to buy american add substantially to the figures. More than half the Money would be for transportation costs he said. Committee members also questioned costs for More real estate at diplomatic Sites to meet another Inman panel recommendation that embassies and consulates be set Back at least 100 feet from surrounding streets and buildings. But sen. John Kerry d-mass., High lighted two requests he said appeared questionable. One was a request fur $6 million for three acres of land in Kuala Bumpur Malaysia. The other was a $10 million re quest for 40 acres in Kampala Uganda. I m not sure i have Confidence in this plan Kerry said. Six million dollars for three acres of land committee members also worried that the increased Security would turn Diplo Matic facilities into  sen. Rich Ard Lugar r-ind., said the preoccupation with Security May defeat other purposes such As the openness of our facilities to the local  but Spiers said the new buildings Don thave to look like fortresses. We Don to con Sider this plan to be a withdrawal. The facts that people feel More secure if reasonable Security measures Are taken. These will be buildings people will be More Content to work in and  the committee is planning further hear Ings on the embassy Security Bill. The House passed its own legislation last monthly a vote of 389-7,