European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9  s6 Washington primary elections will beheld sept. 9 in Connecticut and the District of Columbia. Servicemen acts and their families can obtain information on voting procedures by requesting a 1986-87 voting assistance guide from uni voting assistance officers. Federal Post card applications also arc Avail Able from local units. Civilians May obtain voting information Romany . Embassy or consulate. The following information is provided by the Federal voting assistance office in the Penta gon. If local assistance in not available overseas voters May Contact the Federal voting assist Ance program director. Room 18457, Pentagon Washington d.c., 20301. Or Auto on 225-0663or commercial 202 695-0663. The primary election in Connecticut offers full slate of candidates for the offices of one u a. Senator six . Representatives governor lieu tenant governor 36 stale senators 131 stale representatives Secretary of state treasurer comp troller attorney general eight sheriffs 132probate judges 110 registrars of voters and Sev eral Board of election members. Service members and their families May use the Federal Post card application As a simultaneous request for registration and ballot. All other voters except overseas citizens Vot ing under the overseas citizens voting rights act must use the state application Tor Absentee admission As an elector form Ed-2q to Register and request an Absentee ballot. It May be obtained by sending a Post car application or other written request to the town clerk in the town of voting residence. Overseas citizens voting under the voting rights act Are not required to Register. They May use a Post card application to obtain a ballot for Federal elections Only. Posl card applications or the Ed-20 form must be received by 5 . The Day before the election but voters Are encouraged to submit initial requests at least 60 Days prior to the elec Tion in order to ensure timely receipt of a ballot voters must submit a separate Post card application for each election in which they wish to Vole. Party affiliation must be provided when requesting a primary ballot if you Are not registered a notary Public or commissioned officer must sign the oath Section of the application. Any overseas american citizen Over the age of18 also is authorized to sign this Section including his or her address in the Section. Their agencies Are unable to receive and return a regu Lar Absentee ballot within the 30-Day  period. These voters should Contact their unit voting officers about this special ballot. District of Columbia voters will go to the Polk to select candidates for Delegate to the .house of representatives and office of mayor and City Council chairman. Voters also will choose candidates for Council members from wards one three five and us and two at Large seats on the City Council. Service members and their families other District of Columbia resident temporarily outside be United Stales and overseas cilia in you Gunder the overseas omens voting right Art Federal Post card application. The Dost card application should be mailed Toth District of Colombia Board of elections and ethics and postmarked not later than 30 Days prior to the election. When used for the dual purpose of Reguli Ennid re Unsung a ballot Post card Kanpf canons Nuich to United at least two Moilis prior 10and  affiliation must be provided when re questing a primary ballot voted ballots roust be postmarked not later critical deficiencies noted in . Civil defense abilities Washington a America s civil defense capabilities to Deal with nuclear attack Are Low and declining the Federal emergency management Agency told Congress on tuesday. There Are critical deficiencies at both the slate an local Levels the Agency said in a report that concluded a yearlong review of . Civil defense capabilities. Many states and hundreds of local governments Lacka wide variety of the equipment and planning the Agency says is needed to survive an attack the report said. The study made no recommendations for improving he situation and Fema officials said it could Cost billions of Dollar to bring the . Civil defense system up to a Par with european nations. The study was ordered by Congress last summer after both the House and Senate armed services committees said spending and resources had been diverted from civil defense for nuclear attack to planning for wide variety of natural disasters such As floods Hurri canes earthquakes and the like. Fema is the Federal Agency created to Deal wit disaster planning. While it oversees preparedness for natural emergencies it also is charged with civil de sense. Reagan administration Oflia Cias have repeatedly told Congress in recent years the nation s civil defense Wasin a sorry stale and needed to be improved. They have contended the soviet Union devotes far More resources to civil defense than does the United states. But Congress has been reluctant to increase spend ing on civil defense and the administration has slopped asking for More Money. The current Federal civil defense budget is 1130 million and the request next year is for $ 126.5 million. The Federal government provides about 60 percent of the Money for civil defense and the rest comes from state and local governments Fema officials said. The 18-Page Fema study noted that although nuclear War is an inherently repugnant subject the . Government cannot afford the luxury of ignoring the subject of civil defense because of its duly to protect its citizens. The study concluded civil defense capabilities Are Low and  actually the report noted the stale of u 5. Civil defense May be worse than the study says because information provided by the states reflects the perceived capabilities and probably  rather lha understates some  it cited a wide variety of shortcomings including 26 stale emergency operating centers which i the Fema said Don t have All the features required by the Federal government. Those features include Independent Waler supplies Healing and Cooling emergency electricity fallout protect Jon and a 14-Day food Supply. More than a dozen of the centers Are in areas Likely to be the Large of an attack which makes their survival highly questionable the report noted. Only nine states report having Good radiation Detec Tion capability and personnel who can operate the equipment the report said. Fema did nol exempt itself from the criticism. I noted that the Agency has Only one publication that is specifically designed to provide information to people on How to rated themselves in Case of attack. And there arc Only 55,000 copies of that document it said. The United Stales currently spends about 5 cents per person on civil defense said or. Samuel speck. Associate director of Fema. By contrast Switzerland spends 138 per person and a comparable program in the United states would Cost j9 billion he said. 3 Goez victims serving terms 4th barely Olive lawyer says by United press International two of the youths shot by subway gunman Bern hard Goetz have since been sent to prison and a third is in a drug rehabilitation Center. The fourth remains paralysed from the subway attack and is barely alive his lawyer says. James Ramseur 19, Barry Allen 19, Troy Canty,21, and Dantell Cabey 20, All of the Bronx were either reviled As would be assailants roof Tammi pitied As victims after they were gunned Down by Goetz on dec. 22.1984. Goetz shot the youths when a least one of them asked for $ j on a subway train crowded wit Christmas shoppers. The so called vigilante claimed he was afraid they would Mug him. Black Community Leaden Saidie shooting was racially motivated. Goetz a White his four victims an Black. Goetz the newspaper tabloids and television stations depicted Yoeu As a hero and dubbed him the " death wish vigilante after the citizen turned Avenger played by Charles Branson in the movie of that name. All four of the youths bad arrest records at the Tim of the shooting and two have been in trouble with the Law since they Wen gunned Down. Ramseur was sentenced on april 28 to eight Andone third to 25 years in prison for raping and robbing a pregnant teen Ager on the roof of a Bronx housing project six months after the subway shooting. Within a month after the subway shooting Ramseu was arrested on charges of faking his own kidnapping but those charges were dropped. Allen was sentenced on april 29 to six months imprison for snatching a Chain and an attempted robbery. Canty is in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation cent Erin upstate new York As part of his sentence for stealing $14 from a video game a few weeks before the subway shooting. He s getting his life together considering a careers a Barber said Howard Meyer one of his lawyers. He has less than six months to go in the in month pro Gram where he has been undergoing counselling and group therapy. Right now he s concentrating on being a decent honest person,1 who can support himself Meyer said. Cabey the most seriously wounded of the youths is at Home with his Mother in a Bronx housing project where he is confined to a wheelchair he was released from is. Vincent s Hospital on feb. 6, More than year after the shooting that severed his spine left him brain damaged and paralysed from the upper Chest Down. He barely is alive said one of his lawyers c. Vernon Mason. Yacht arrives 4 Days late in new York new York a the polish entry for the operation sail Salute to Liberty sailed into new York har Bor four Days late because of a broken engine authorities said wednesday. The 43-foot Tomil pulled into new York Early tuesday and capt Jan Piaseki Seal sailors to seek help from police officers said la. John Mcdonald. Officer James Coleman Aid Liberty weekend officials leaned from Piaseki who Speaks some English that the Soomil developed engine trouble soon after leaving France in route to Portugal Piaseki told police thai the yacht left Portugal june 5 with Hopes of attending the july fourth extravaganza in which 250 sailing vessels from 30 nations participated. The Captain and his Crew members seven men and one woman would stay aboard the vessel for the eight to 10 Days it takes to repair the engine Mcdonald Laid. They showed a lot of courage coming All the Way Over Here with a broken a june. It was no Small task getting Here with the storms he added