European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday May 24, 1986 Al i i j. I i of  Ibi chernobyl terrorism hurting tourism in Europe from Page 1 americans bitterness about the radiation of which the soviets gave no warning rallying cries from the anti nuclear campaigners economic alarm and resignation. Here is a rundown of the Impact of the chernobyl Accident and fears of terrorism Britain conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher Al ready trailing socialist opponents in ratings lost More ground by backing the . Bombing polls showed. Unofficial estimates arc that the number of . Tourists will be Down by at least 25 percent which could mean the lass of some is .3 billion. British caledonian airline Laid off 1,000 staff workers May 18 after bookings on trans Atlantic routes fell 40 percent. Slate owned British airways offered americans 5,600 free scats in a prize draw As part of a huge promotion As trans Atlantic bookings slumped 20 percent. Radiation from chernobyl was relatively slight. The Netherlands the dutch like Many West europeans Are edgy about radiation but there was no apparent political fallout. Confounding predictions of a boost for anti nuclear left Wing parties voters returned Premier Ruud Lubbers Cen Ter right coalition government with an increased majority in May 21 elections. Radiation Rose to about three times Normal Levels nearly May and the state banned the sate of spinach and ordered Farmers to keep cattle indoors for several Days. American tourist bookings arc Down 30 percent costing nearly $100 million the dutch Bureau for tourism Esti mates. Italy amid widespread anxiety and some confusion in Italy after the chernobyl disaster the government imposed a two week Bun May 2 on the Sale of Leafy vegetables and restricted fresh milk sales. Losses to the italian fruit and vegetable Industry ran at about s3.3 million daily through much of May. The National tourist organization says the Outlook i Slack for the summer. Austria restrictions on sales of vegetables and milk were lifted May 20. Shops had Long since sold out of Frozen foods an there were temporary shortages of canned goods. Doctors urged pregnant women not to seek abortions. France authorities anticipate a 30 percent drop in american tourists. There Are fears hat France which refused to allow . Warplanes to Fly Over in route to Libya will get a double dose of the stay away sparked by fear and revenge. Chernobyl radiation prompted bans on vegetable sales in the Eastern Haut Rhin Region. Germany the government has demanded soviet compensation Foran estimated 191 million loss to Farmers through contamination of milk lettuce and spinach. Tourism is Down 10-20percent. Anti nuclear activists demonstrated All Over the coun try and polls showed a surge of support for the Green party from 6 to 10 percent of the vote. Scandinavia Sweden near the soviet Union expects to lose $15 million about one fourth of its american tourist Revenue this  the Libya bombing Sweden had a big upsurge in vacation inquiries from americans deterred from Southern Europe. Now we probably receive the same amount of callers asking How bad it is with the radioactivity said tourist Board spokeswoman Christina  also reports a rash of cancellations and Den Mark expects a 20 percent drop in . Tourists. Grazing bans Are still enforced in the parts of Sweden that were hit worst by radiation the Gnu Leborg and Uppsala provinces and North of Stockholm. Finland in retrospect radiation effects in Finland were Actu ally very Small. The Shock was psychological said professor Antti Vuorinen of the nuclear radiation office in Helsinki. But 10,000 american tourists who also were to go tothe soviet Union have cancelled causing an estimated $30 million loss. The damage is done for this summer said tourism director Bengt Pihlstrom. Belgium it also expects . Tourism to fall by about one third this summer. Farming groups report heavy but unspecified losses mainly in vegetable exports to Germany. Furloughs from Page 1 find work Over Here but we re Happy to be Able to fund it at 60 percent rather than do away with the program  the so dismissals in Frankfurt affecting workers in a variety of temporary Over hire positions arc part of a $2.2 million reduction in payroll in that Community Accord ing to Community spokeswoman Marianne cup. Darmstadt which must make payroll cuts totalling nearly $2.1 million will trim about 150 jobs from Community Rolls according to spokeswoman Pam Ward. In addition to the dismissals the Frank Furt Community has scrapped its summer hire program for teen agers instituted a hiring freeze and delayed Cash awards for suggestions and outstanding employees. Safety bonuses and overtime pay have been temporarily done away with or delayed As part of the cuts. Col. . Heller Deputy Community commander in Frankfurt said the Community originally thought it could avoid out right dismissal of workers by not filling Job vacated during the summer by family Mem Bers returning to the United states. But a freeze on army and air Force reassignments from Europe kept those jobs filled prompting the 50 dismissals. In March it appeared that the Community was on target to reduce the payroll. However the pcs freezes along with other factors caused us to be off course Heller said in a statement released through the Frankfurt Community Public affairs office. One of the most visible effects of the budget cuts in Frankfurt could be at the Community tax Relief office where service members get assistance in avoiding the pay ment of Germany s 14 percent value added tax or  Heller said in the statement that Frank Furt is considering giving the operation non appropriated fund status and charging a fee for the tax Relief service. The Community recognizes the need for this service but has no authorization to accomplish it. The alternative to a charge is to abolish the service he said. In addition to the 27 dismissed in Darm Stadt 35 workers who left their jobs for other reasons have not been replaced. The Community plans to reassign other workers to jobs in the commissary troop support agencies and other tenant activities to bring the Community Job Roll to under 200, Down from 342 at the end of March. V corps Headquarters in Frankfurt will allow attrition to empty 150 temporary positions including those of Security guards mail handlers furniture repairers and sew ing machine operators. Officials at one Safe base Ramstein Italy orders 8 libyans to get out of country Rome up Italy has ordered the expulsion of eight libyan embassy Diplo Mats and employees in the latest of a series of reciprocal retaliations following the . Raid on Libya. The italian foreign ministry said the eight libyans have been asked to leave the country As soon As possible. Ministry sources said they include three diplomats at the libyan embassy in Rome who Are being expelled for behaviour consid ered incompatible with diplomatic status. The eight also include three employees at the embassy in Rome and two employees of Libya s consulate in Milan the sources said. The new expulsions raise to 19 the num Ber of libyan embassy officials who have been ordered out of Italy Over the past month. Near Kaiser stauter Are faced with finding ways to trim $1.45 million a move the Community commander said will definitely hurl people Hurt  we re kind of in a wait and see Mode at the moment said col. Leslie a. Hobgood who also commands the 377th combat support Wing. Everyone s holding their breath to see what s going to happen. Hobgood has ordered $125,000 in cuts to the civilian payroll a move that will mean replacing departing employees on a one for four basis about $600,000 will be made up by cancelling or delaying landscaping another civil engineering projects around the Community of 72,000 americans. The custodial services Are where you re really going to see the difference Hob Good said. The window washers will stay so people won t be washing their own win Dows. But they la be emptying their own wastepaper buckets and helping clean up the offices a Little. Still no one is going to have to Man the potato peelers. Well be Able to keep that  some army communities have handled the cuts without resorting to furlough plans or dismissals. In the v corps Community of Baum older Only a handful of positions Are vacant according to Community personnel officer Joe Pritchard. We be watched our Money closely and we be been Able to avoid dismissing any one he said. But we Are filling some vacant positions As Money becomes available so there in t a freeze on any vacant positions in  Pritchard said the Community also will be Able to fund 160 jobs for teen agers this summer using Money awarded the Community through the Usa eur Energy conservation Competition. We see it As a Way to pay Back the Community for their hard work on Energy conservation he said. I would think we ii be Able to give a Job to everybody who wants  rations from Page 1 pinholes allow the potential for bacteria to enter thus contaminating the  but he labelled the worldwide inspection a purely precautionary  he said there have been no reports of illnesses from anyone eating the res and he added that it does not represent a significant health  the spokesman said 14 army veterinary food inspectors have been assigned temporarily to various Are Assembly plants to increase Quality Assurance. Although this appears to be a localized problem we wanted to expedite a worldwide inspection of All stocks As a matter of concern for our troops the spokesman said. He said Star foods has taken corrective action at its Plant and said it is premature to speculate about possible suspension of the company from the Are contract. The defense logistics Agency has no information that it bought and received any contaminated rations he said. That s what the inspection will Tell us he said res currently under production that Are found to be poorly manufactured will not be accepted from the contractor. Unit Basic loads of res will be cleared for immediate consumption Assoon As the inspection is completed the spokesman said. Army a and b rations will be used in place of res until the inspection is completed the spokesman said. He said a rations Are fresh foods that require refrigeration White b rations include canned foods dehydrated meats and Box lunches that do not require Refuge ration. Nuernberg Community handled its Bud get cuts skilfully enough to produce a sur plus in payroll funds according to William Granfield the director of resource manage mint. 7"we be managed to save enough funds to finance a summer hire program that will be three times the size of any in the previous three years he  other Large cuts Are made later this year we should have no problems at  i temperatures l h58 h Albany 52 by albuquerque38 57 Anchorage 45 77 Atlanta 59 72 Al Lentic clly58 76 Ballimore 45 53 billings44 71 Birmingham 33 so Boise 57 65 button50 60 Bullaro 54 59 burlington63 75 Charleston . 47 64 Charleston vl.va.48 59 Chicago 42 69 Cincinnati 48 54 cleveland64 is Dallas fort Worth a 72 Denver 44 71 Dei molnes48 55 Detroit 33 64 fairbanks46 7 Fargo 61 75 Hartford 68 86 honolulu67 Ai Houston 42 70 indianapolis56 83 Jacksonville 56 76 kanuiciiv58 82 Las vegas 62 79 mile Rock l h57 77 los Angeles 45 72 louisville59 68 Memphis 74 15 Miami beach44 71 Mali is. Paul 43 75 nashville60 b3 new Orleans 61 71 new york63 71 Norton 64 b4 Oklahoma city54 74 Omaha 63 86 orlando62 7b Philadelphia 70 97 phoenix47 58 Pittsburgh 55 65 Portland me.42 63 Pomona Ore. 60 67 providence53 74 Arlelon 29 67 reno52 77 is. Louis 62 84 is. Petersburg47 54 sail Lake City 41 68 san diego51 72 san Francisco 75 89 san juan42 62 Seattle 54 so syracuse67 95 Tucson 57 75 washington6179 Wichita european weather forecast Lor saturday parity Cloudy to occasionally mostly Cloudy skies. Northern Germany we Mvi isolated Light rain throughout the Day. The rest Germany will have isolated Alvernoon min towers. High temperatures will Range from 68 to 75. Lorn will be from 50 to 57. We ube Al h7r54 55 Frankfurt p 64 77 London r 72 82 Madrid p " Munich p m4om 48 52 48 79 50 55. 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