European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Stu cry of War popular in . Colleges new York not military history is becoming intellectually fashionable again on american campuses. Such a development would have been unthinkable during the Vietnam War and it has evidently surprised Many historians even in the relatively conservative atmosphere of the past few years. Professorships and endowed chairs in military history arc being established or considered at some of the top universities including Yale Princeton and Harvard. The number of specialists in the Field is growing at perhaps three times the rate of a decade ago and there is evidence of Sharp undergraduate interest in the subject. Military history languished at american universities after world War ii and probably reached its lowest Point in the Vietnam War for a combination of intellectual an political reasons. Accounts of Battles and strategies often written by retired officers struck Many scholars As Only marginally related to the main themes of history. Some military historians were politically conservative As Well and their views and work ran against the prevailing anti War mood on campuses. The reasons for the turnaround scholars say include the growing political acceptability of military Force in International affairs and the emergence of Subtle new blends of military diplomatic economic and social history. Whatever the reasons signs of change abound. No shortage and new journals devoted to military history have appeared there is no shortage of new contributors. Professor Robin Higham of Kansas state University editor of the journal of military affairs says the number of completed doctoral dissertations in military history has jumped to Gaa reported willing to end vehicle sales to South Africa forces about 300 a year from about 100 a year in the mid-70s.a new prize in european military and strategic history will be awarded for the first Lime next december by the american historical association the nation s Foremost group of professional historians. Moreover some distinguished historians in other Fields including professor Wil Liam h. Mcneill of the University of Chicago who i president of the american historical association and is Best known for such theses As the Rise of the West have turned their attention in recent years to the Long curious history of  Paulic Nncy one of several military historians hired away from British universities by american schools said he noticed in a visit to the United states in 1979 that the atmosphere of the students not having anything to do with the Vietnam War was already Evaro  since then the whole Field has just taken off he said. And it s not just a revival of military history. It s an explosion of interest in the historical and military historical dimensions of  More academics Kennedy now at Yale said that while it was hard to determine just what accounted for the trend the nation s campuses had become relatively conservative and evidently there were More academics who viewed military action As a potentially reasonable Means of pursuing National interests. He and other scholars also speculated that As experiences of War grew More Distant historical and intellectual interest was bound to increase. Kennedy said he also suspected that there was an element of romantic patriotism or nostalgia for great Mili tary victories a phenomenon that has made patriotic War movies very popular. He said he worried if military history is in because Power is  in the 1960s, several historians said diplomatic an military history came to be regarded widely As old fashioned and elitist. Social history came to be viewed As the history of powerless civilians and has since become extremely popular among scholars. Most recently some historians have focused on the so Cial and economic aspects of War. More and More Mili tary historical scholarship has been devoted to such mat ters As wartime food supplies administration women in War and wartime economics rather than to armies on the Battlefield. One often cited 1977 study along these lines was sup plying War logistics from Wallenstein to Palton by Martin Van arc veld. Another in 1980, was the air war1939-1945," by r. Avery. The a very volume which includes chapters on aircraft production and the economic and administrative background to the air combat of world War ii represents the first attempt to cover this very important Field in a comprehensive rather than a fragmentary or an anecdotal manner Vancreveld a historian atthe hebrew University in Jerusalem wrote in the Washington quarterly last year. Student interest in military history is also picking  Princeton the history department recently announced an undergraduate seminar for next fall on the Vietnam War. Enrolment was to be limited to 25. But professor Robert l. Tignor the chairman said 50 students had tried to enrol and others would have done the same if the sign up Sheet had not been taken Down. Tignor said the department was trying to raise the funds to finance a new chair in military history. Detroit a anti apartheid groups said thursday that general motors corp s reported willingness to Stop sales of police and military vehicles to South Africa would be a significant blow against the White minority government. This is a major change for which we thank and applaud pm although the Situa Tion there is deteriorating every month said Paul Newhouser. He is chairman of the social responsibility committee for the episcopal diocese of Iowa which has been urging pm to leave South Africa since1971. The Iowa diocese is one of five sponsors of a Resolution to be voted upon Friday by pm stockholders calling for termination of vehicle sales to the South african police and military. Pm directors in proxy statement mailed to stockholders april 18, recommended a vote against the Resolution As they did in 1979 and 1985 when the proposal was disapproved by 97 percent and 92.5 percent of the vote respectively. But pm was expected to announce to stockholders that it will Stop Selling vehicles to South Africa s military and police the Washington Post reported thursday. Carolyn Mathiason director of the social issues Section of the interfaith responsibility research Center in Washington said the proposal before pm was voted on at the annual meetings of five other major .corporations and As shareholder proposals go their showing was certainly very  pm s annual sales in South Africa Are about $300 million and it employs about 3,500 workers at two Auto plants in port Elizabeth. Ford earlier this month reiterated Strong stance against pulling out of South Africa. Union says army drug fess of civilians invade privacy Washington a the army s plan for mandatory testing of civilian employees for drug use deprive them of their constitutional right to Pri Vacy a Union attorney told a Federal judge thursday. Clinton Wolcott attorney for the National federation of Federal employees told . District judge Thomas  that drug testing of civilian employees in 14 Job categories including Security guards and air traffic control lers without probable cause is not constitutionally permissible. There is no question that urinalysis is a search and the Only basis of a search is the Issue of a warrant with probable cause Wolcott said. He said i Don t think there is any doubt that requiring an employee to urinate in front of another employee is  Jeffrey Paulsen representing the de sense department says the government has an interest in seeing that people uncritical jobs arc drug free. The govern ment can use the most effective method available to see to that he said. Here we have civilian guards who arc carrying around m-16 rifles guarding nuclear weapons and air controllers who have to make instant decisions he said. You need to have some deterrent he said. They will know that if they use drugs they will be transferred out of critical positions he said. The Union filed the lawsuit March 13to cancel the planned tests in 14 Job categories and overturn the directive that authorized them. Under regulations issued in Earl March an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 civilian employees of the army would be required to submit to periodic and ran Dom testing for  subject to testing would be those in Security guard positions aviation drug and alcohol abuse Preven Tion Law enforcement and nuclear an chemical programs. The lawsuit was brought by the Union its local chapter at Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland and the president of the local Charles w. Jack son who is a guard at the facility. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 24 1946 army officials in Frankfurt announced that 232 people were arrested in afraid by . Troops. The raids were conducted to break up gangs of suspected smugglers and gun runners and to shut a possible underground escape route for is fugitives. 30 years ago today. May 24 1956 the French government warned French soldiers and settlers in Geria a revoke them into mass reprisals against moslem villagers. 20 years ago today. Navy crash kills Crew car Driver in Virginia frenc government Warne Renc Soer an Eer Algeri against letting rebel terrorists Provok reprisals against mosle Villag May 24 1966 South vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao by crushed the heart Farmed resistance in Danang when 102 rebel soldiers surrendered under the muzzles of tank Cannon and machine guns. 10 years ago today. May 24 1976 rep. Wayne Hays a Ohio has kept a woman on his staff who say she is paid Public Money to serve As his mistress. The Washington Post quoted Euzabeth Ray Tyi Syshe makes $14,000 a year As a clerk although i can t Type i can t file 1 can t even answer the  Virginia Beach a. A Anavy Jet bomber crashed into a Field thurs Day lulling the two crewman aboard and woman whose station Wagon was hit by the framing wreckage As it skidded across a Road. The a-6e intruder went Down about Amile from a runway at the Oceana Nas As it began a flight to puerto Rico to join the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy said cmdr. Jolene Kiefer of the Atlantic flee naval air Force in Norfolk. The Navy identified the crewmen As  p. Hoban 26, of Rivervale n.j., the Pilot and it. Michael f. Wilson 27, of med ibid lakes n.j., the Bombardier navigator. Police said the Motorist was Tammy Fowler 25, of Virginia Beach. She was the wife of David Fowler a Sailor based in Norfolk. The plane a medium Range bomber was part of attack Squadron 65, he said. Patricia Carter who was driving a car behind the one that was hit said she saw the vehicle ahead with the plane on it. Allie saw was the lady. She was reaching out for help but the plane was on the car and twas  Marjorie Craighead who was driving Wither 3-year-old daughter in front of the car that was hit said she heard the Jet overhead. Somebody out there is with me. That car behind me was gone. It just blew up she said. There was nothing there just fir and  Oceana is the Only East coast base for the intruders which were included in the attack Force that bombed Libya on april 14