European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Model installation program wins Praise soon of be applied throughout Dod by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon s 2-year-old Model installation program is working so Well its management principles soon will be applied throughout the defense department the program chief said. Robert a. Stone Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for installations said Friday defense officials have been directed o begin implementing those principles immediately by Deputy Secretary of defense William a tall in. Two years ago we gave a few so called Model installations an extraordinary degree of Freedom from regulations and the added Ine Emile that they could use a share of any Money they saved tall wrote in & message to Pentagon and service officials. The Model installations have clearly Demonti Ald that this management approach yields More defense capability for the Dollar he wrote while 1 plan to continue the Model installation program it is time to apply these management principles to All installation but Stone said tall s message does t mean All Mili tary bases will become Model installations. It mean our corporate Headquarters Dod the department of the army the department of the air Force and so on will begin to use some of tile Model installation program principles on a wider  he said. Stone said tall wants the defense department to implement four principles first we want to give More authority to the people who run our installations he said. We want to change our directives to make sure those commanders get the degree of Nihof try Hal the Modco install Ilion program has shown they should get. The idea is to give authority to the Doc i second.  commanders will be free to buy goods wherever hey  gel the Best value Stone said. Commanders now Are required in buy certain goods Only from certain organi actions. Will give commanders the Best value for their Money Robert a. Stone for example they live to buy furniture from the general services administration. They have to buy build Ings from the corps of engineers they must get All kinds of supplies from the service Supply system. Those suppliers enjoy a monopoly position he said we want to introduce More Competition. That will give base commanders the Best value for their Money while helping these governmental organizations become belter  the third principle will be to strengthen incentives for base commanders to save Money by allowing them to re Chow time in Naples is Dhallu by Ruberl Leonard an  woman known simply i the Bird Ltd " of Nib i flock of pigeons on the Steps of Church in is Iofe Italy. Ewy morning the Suehy woman shows up to distribute Bren Loisl to her willing fathered friends. Chive a share Fany savings they Realise through improved operations. In the past if an organi Alion found a Way to Cut 25 percent from vehicle maintenance coms they d find their maintenance budget Cut by that amount the Neit  Stone said. Now we re going o tet Vliem Frcek some of those savings the final action is a test of n unified budget concept for installations. In the Model insinuation program we be found lots of instances where our operations arc impeded by artificial subdivisions of funds Stone said. As an example an air Force base needed to provide More parking at its base Hospital he said. But because of the Way Money is subdivided they would be hid to spend Money from i hair medical fund in pave Over some dirt near the Hospital. Thai would be left the base Short of medical Money even though it had plenty of funds in other  under the unified budget concept the base commander would get one amount of Money and be Able to use it however he sees til. Three to six bases will Tysl inc unified budget concept he said. One of those probably will be rat Lakenheath. England which is also a Mode installation. Other overseas bases participating in the Model installation program arc tile Lanau and Neu Ulm military com unit los in Germany the european div of inc army corps of engineers in Frankfurt the  army Garrison at Taegu South Korea the naval air station Ai Roia. Spain and the Marine corps air station at Iwakuni. Japan cafes opening another boutique specially for teens Stuttgart is the Success of the army air Force Exchange service s first teen boutique has prompted the opening of a second Szorc much of the decision to open the Augsburg to can Bou Tique was based on the Success of the first store which opened in Stuttgart in february. Sales there Luve exceeded Ciuc Cid figures by about 23 percent said Dun a lira Drick a Luigart arca Exchange general manager. Headrick said monthly sales of fashion Clu Lhing have run about si25,000 in the l,7flq-Suu, Stuttgart boutique. The Augsburg store which will open Friday is about 20 percent smaller than the Stuttgart Szorc Lea Drick said. Headrick also plans to open a boutique in wac Ryburg late in the fall. The Stuttgart area is the Only rates Region to Experiment with the boutique concept although some shopping complexes have concessions of european fashions. An rafts spokeswoman in Munich said Shi did not know of any plans within the other nine cafes regions to build boutiques. Cafes teen boutiques offer the european look in clothing including designs from Germany Italy England and France the idea originated after Headrick Learned from High school students thai some teens spent is much As 1150 a month for clothes in German stores. New army program helps smokers quit by Chuck Vinch Wuh Ingata Bureau Washington eight of 10 chronic smokers recently kicked the tobacco habit while the other two reduced i hair smoking by More than so percent under a program developed by an army research Institute psychologist the workshop could become the basis for a broader program to be incorporated into the army s new anti smoling Campaign. An 80 percent Success Rale is very Good compared to Many programs in use around inc  wid or. Maj be Nola Blanding a clinical research psychologist with the army research Institute. His program which ran for Lix weekly 90-minute sessions and ended april 12, centers on the idea that smoking is As addictive psychologically Ai physiologically perhaps More so. Smoking tends to be tied to a number of things people do in their daily routines such As eating and conversing with others so much so that i believe it becomes an integral part of their personality Blanding said. The program we ran concentrates on psychological refocusing and reconditioning tie said. The idea is to gel people to look at alternative ways to release the tension and anxiety that often causes them to reach for a cigarette,1 his program draws on Many techniques including meditation hypnosis and deep breathing exercises. Substitution is also important carrying a Straw instead of a cigarette and keeping a Small stuffed animal nearby to stroke whenever the smoker feels anxious or tense. A key aspect of standing s program is providing group members with designated buddies within the group hat they could depend or for support. Mem Bers agreed this was and continues to be the most important Factor in their Suc Cess it s been a key element 1 Laid Cathe Rine Brill a Secretary who smoked one to two packs a Day. We truly cared about each other. And we still do. We re very proud of  i remember one Day being mad about something and shouting i need a cigarette then i heard Cathy from the next office shout take a deep breath " said or. Zita Simutis chief of the Institute s instructional technical systems. Most participants said they feel confident they will not go Back to smoking. I just feel like a non smoker now said Lormor Chain smoker Richard turn or the director of information manage ment. Smoking does t fit in with my lifestyle  to be honest before to started the program 1 did t think it would work Simulis said. I said to myself i can t quit smok ing what s More 1 did t want to. But i m so glad i did. It s a. Nasty filthy awful