European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q midshipman admits drug use quits naval Academy Page 4 q or. Christaan Barnard now he s Selling cosmetics daily Magazine 3 Bucks beat 76ers in Aba playoffs sports Page 21 the stars and stripes vol. 45, no. 16 saturday May 3, 1986 ride . Armed forces v is  and a Lar d 8693 a soviets reject . Offer of for weeks Intel u fees say Moscow. A the soviet Union turned Down an offer of . Government Aid to help Deal with the chernobyl nuclear disaster and thursday said radiation at the devastated ukrainian Power Plant had dropped. However the chairman of the in Lorna Lional Bone marrow transplant Rej los Angeles said the Soyk of Dassy in Washington  help. Washington said a fire still was Rig no re win Kield could Llu Burn fur weeks continuing to lion Over the Ukraine and easier however the . Tusk comm the nuclear Accident Piej thursday it was not  was still burning. Government statement thurs isaid is people injured in the nuclear Plant Accident were in serious condition. It said no foreigners were injured. Secretary of slate George Shult. Said casualties were a Good measure higher pm and 19.7 injured a knowl soviet officials. He said the Accident is certainly a major one in Washington to Cial in a rare appearance bet _ government committee said the situation at the damaged ukrainian nuclear Plant was under control and he insisted the soviet Union had met its responsibilities to other countries in notifying them of potential dangers. Vitaly Churkin was questioned by several congressmen on the government task Force monitoring the Accident. He repeatedly said he did not have the kind of technical information they pressed him for. To " it us not a technical expert Hajj skid question after question about  said he could Ftp . If the damaged reactor Wasi int we Jug i lows Var he acknowledged it is part of an see soviets on Page 28 Toast at head table president Reagan toasts indonesian president Suharto after speaking at a dinner thursday in Bali. Reagan who pledged to continue to work for free Trade practices left Indonesia Friday for Tokyo where he will attend the Summit conference of industrialized democracies. Sec Story on Page 28. Western students pass Geiger test after soviet trip London up for a band of British. American and Canadian students fresh from a soviet nuclear disaster area happiness and Relief were Geiger counter tests that proved negative and Champagne to celebrate the occasion. The students Iii in All most of them British arrived in London late thursday on a flight from Moscow. They feared that they had been contaminated by the chernobyl nuclear Plant Accident during their stay in nearby Kiev and Minsk. But after two hours of Geiger counter checks at Heath Row Airport they were cleared to leave for Homes and hotels although much of their clothing and Luggage remained behind far further tests. We re All perfectly All  said a relieved Susan Lessof of Britain s Manchester University while cheers erupted and Champagne corks exploded in the crowd at Heathrow s Gate 22. There s nothing wrong with  she said summing up what the students and scores of relatives and friends had wailed much of the Day to hear. The students were aboard a British airways flight that carried i5i passengers. All had been instructed to leave the soviet Union As radioactive debris spread across the european portion of the country. The other passengers who had visited less affected areas were cleared first. The students were Clad in White boiler suits or Blue and Gray track suits that British airways had provided for them in Moscow to replace the clothing they had to sur Render for further tests before they left the soviet capital. Not All the students were Happy about the abrupt re turn but As Mark Birnbaum 26, of Sagcal Idaho put it we needed to take the Safe route rather than the  Birnbaum who was on his third trip to the soviet see students on Page 28 Navy May More ships but fewer sailors by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington a budget obsessed Congress combined with a shrinking Pool of eligible recruits and slipping retention rates in some career Fields is putting a personnel squeeze on the Navy just As it approaches its goal of 600 ships according to the service s manpower chief. Vice adm. Dudley Carlson Deputy chief of naval operations for manpower personnel and training said recruiting and retaining High Quality sailors will become More difficult in the next Tew years. But i think we will do it he said. It s not a grim Bleak impossible  while worsening demographics Are a concern for the Navy As Well As the other services Carlson is equally concerned with a Congress seeking an easy Way to reduce the Pentagon budget by cutting personnel accounts. You can save immediate dollars in personnel accounts because those Are now  Carlson said rather than Multi year appropriations for weapons systems and ships. Everybody always says you have Loo Many people get rid of some of them but it s not that easy. It s particularly acute for us because we Are required for obvious reasons to effect something called sea Shore rotation he said. If you have sailors at sea you can t ask them to slay there forever. At some Point they have to come ashore so that when the Guy at sea comes ashore the Guy ashore goes to sea. When someone says let s do away with a Bunch of Shore billets what they re doing is condemning some peo ple to stay longer at sea. The longer they slay at sea the less Happy they Are about it. If they see themselves As being taken advantage of they Start going Home and then we re  Carlson said the budget cutting mood comes at a Lime when Congress is providing funds to bring the Navy up to 600 ships. They re telling us they want to give us less people but we Mill have to do the same things he said. We can t do that. If you say the Navy is too big i have to ask what is it you want us not to do we Don t make the policy. Con Cress does. Tom a when i go Over to testify in Congress they always says i i Hope you re not going to Usk for More end strength of course i am. They say Well these arc Tough times i Tell them that s their responsibility. My responsibility is to Tell them what we need to Man the ships that they have Autho see Navy on Page 28