European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday june 24,1986 Dod gives Green Light to cottage industries by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington local commanders of All serv ices have been old to encourage collage industries Small businesses operated by military personnel or family members in government quarters. Chapman co assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel earlier this month issued uniform guidelines governing cottage industries in response to a House armed services committee request. We recognize that certain limited commercial activities such As handicrafts child care and Sale of products arc currently being conducted in and from family quarters by their occupants Cox wrote. Management and command leadership in each service should Foster and encourage this cottage industries can be anything from Selling Tup per War baked goods handmade clothes and cosmetics to offering services such As music lessons and tax help. A staff member for rep. Patricia Schroeder d colo., said the committee asked the Pentagon to develop guidelines because it Felt there were too Many differences in the policies of the individual services. The committee wanted an Overall Pentagon policy to ensure that military personnel and family members in All services have the same opportunities to operate cottage industries she said. We re very pleased with the results the staffer said. We think it s a very positive step. Running a collage Industry is a great Opportunity for spouses to make extra Money Al Home without having to get a �-to-5 the guidelines stale that requests for permission to conduct a Home Enterprise in military family housing front Man a Ned Len wit of tip aunts otome Wiki the Oiler Carlo Itje to tog should be made in writing to the installation com Mander who should ensure thai each request is expeditiously answered in led it up to local commanders to address issues such As local government licensing requirements potential government liability overseas status of forces agreements and Host country business spokeswoman for the defense department s fam ily policy office said there is no Way to Issue a Stan Dard set of instructions on How to Deal with those issues because the situation varies greatly from state to stale and from country to guideline stale that no activities will be authorized or continued at the expense of military Community Tranquility or example the spokeswoman said someone operating a cottage Industry that proves to be very popular May have so much traffic in front of the quarters Are that it could be considered potentially dangerous to children living Are allowed to make minor modifications to housing units at their own expense extra electrical outlets for someone who wants to sell baked goods for example. But occupants must remove the modifications when they vacate quarters unless the new occupants agree to accept them As have been instructed to arrange for occupants to reimburse the government for Utility costs associated with cottage industries when such collections Are the spokeswoman said it would be so difficult and expensive to devise a system for metering cottage Industry Utility use that costs would have to be tremendously above Normal for reimbursement to even be considered by officials. Slob installed of chernobyl Moscow a workers have finished building a Concrete slab under the stricken nuclear reactor at the chernobyl Power Plant three Days ahead of sched ule radio Moscow reported monday. The Home service russian language broadcast monitored by the British broadcasting corp. In London said miners who had bored a Tunnel underneath Cher Nobyl s no. 4 reactor have completed a monolithic reinforced Concrete slab which u supposed to create reliable Protection from soviet official have said the Ilab is designed to prevent any radioactive contamination of groundwater. In the past officials have said they planned to in Tomb the ruined reactor in a Concrete coffin to Seal off radiation for Hundred of years until the fuel element inside decays. On june i the defense daily Krasnaya zvezda re ported that army engineers bad blasted a Tunnel through to the ruined reactor and that the Tunnel was fitted with pipes to carry Cement to pour around the reactor. Monday s radio report suggested that the coffin will now Stan to be built no estimate have been Given for How Long Tonii will Lake but earlier this month it was reported trial communist party officials were expected to have approved a design for the coffin by Friday. By official soviet count 26 people died As a re sult of the april 26 explosion and fire at the Cher Nobyl reactor which released a Cloud of radioactivity into the air. No new deaths have been reported since june s. There also has been no news of when the bulk of More than 100,000 people evacuated from Region of the Northern Ukraine and Southern byelorussian close to the chernobyl Plant might return Home. On sunday a soviet newspaper reported that Lix farms near the chernobyl Plant have started work ing again but it added that workers Are allowed to till the land for Only 10 Days at a time before being replaced. The newspaper the English language Moscow news did not say How Many farms bad closed Down after the Accident nor did it give the exact location of the six that have reopened. World today soviets hold ceremony at Berlin War memorial Berlin up about 400 soviet soldiers and civilians look part sunday in a Wreath Lay ing ceremony at the soviet War memorial in West Berlin to Mark the 45th anniversary of the nazi invasion of the soviet Union. The soviets entered West Berlin in a Convoy of 30 buses and 82 cars and Rode to the Monu ment near the Berlin Wall. The War memorial was erected in 1945 by the soviet conquerors in what is now the British sector of the City before the arrival of the Western delegation included an Honor guard of 80 soldiers. Gen. Pyotr Pluschev commanded of the 400,000 soviet troops in East Germany and Vycheslav Koch Emusov soviet ambassador to East Germany. China wins boat race for 4th year in a Row Hong Kong a China won Hong Kong s International dragon boat race on Sun Day Tor the fourth consecutive year capturing both the nun s and women s championships. The defending men s Champion China s shun do team from Huangdong province completed the 2,100-foot course in 2 minutes 34.01 seconds. A Canadian team making its debut in the Hong Kong races finished second in 2 37.25. They have trained very hard but i Don t think thai their Good performance was due Only to their training said Alain palengat manager of the Canadian team. 8 Viet Cabinet members dropped in big shakeup Bangkok up Vietnam announced sunday that right ministers were dismissed in a major Cabinet shakeup apparently triggered by economic radio Hanoi said Deputy prime Minuter to Huu was dropped from the Cabinet and replaced by Veteran communist to Chi Cong. Analysts mid Huu was apparently sacked for his failure to effectively implement new economic Reform Huu is Vietnam s poet laureate and is a Mem Ber of the communist party s powerful politburo. He was widely tipped As a candidate to be the country s next prime sacked were the minister of finance communication and transportation internal Trade external Trade Coal and mining and cultural affairs. The director general of the state Bonk a ministerial level position was also changed. Only 3 marchers allowed to place Flowers at site Warsaw Poland Ojer _ police sunday halted a crowd of several bundled marchers head ing to a Monument erected in memory of tractor Plant striker who revolted 10 Yean ago. They permitted three person to place Flowers at the Trie. After a service in a Church at urns on the out skirts of Warsaw the Marcher let out for us Monument but police with bullhorn ordered them to disperse. Two Rudd Oadson uniformed police Loda water Cannon were stationed delegation of three dissident Ted by jut Jozef Lipski was allowed to approach the Monu ment a urge Brown Stone placed near the tractor Plant and Lay Flower As the crowd left. The strike a protest Over declining living conditions occurred june 25, 1976, and via Fol Lowed by rioting in Ursus wife of sex italian Leader meets with mrs. Gorbachev Moscow a Maria Pia Fanfant wife of former italian Premier Amintore Fard in and vice president of the league of the red Cross and red Crescent societies has toured the soviet Union and met Raisa Gorbachev wife of so Viet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev the official news Agency Tass reported sunday. It said mrs. Fanfani had handed Over medical equipment on behalf of the italian red Cron at a Gilt following the chernobyl nuclear occident but did not elaborate. Tass said the bad asked for the me Tinc Wilb mrs. Gorbachev but gave no further detail
