European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d 6 cities finalists for demo convention Page 2 d germans Mark anniversary of Hitler bomb plot Page 3 q Norman wins open by five strokes Page 21 ands filpes Autho filieo unofficial i vol. 45, Wjk. 94 monday. July 21, 1986 soldiers plex skills ext Ert writes Washington a widening Gap Between High technology Chapons and the abilities of the men and Yemen who will run and repair them Wolff come a major problem for the Mil Tarvin 1990s unless a greater emphasis Sut of training. That is the thesis of manpower Martin Binkin of the Brookings in lion in his Book military tech and defense manpower put monday. Training will have to becomes important As performance co auction training will a re to become As important weapons development Martin Binkin timetables Ozment if the r Cost in weapons devel military is to avoid a mis match by tween Modem weaponry and military manpower. Binkin to believes the shrinking Pool often 18 la/20 years old traditionally the prime Tanieta of military recruiters make the possibility of such a Man machine crunch even More of a threat. By 1994, that population will be about 13 percent below that of 1986, Binkin writes and Only one out of three men qualify in any Case for some High Roll jobs for example air Force radar pair technician. He dismisses traditional solutions such As substituting women or civilians or reintroducing a draft. Women Don t yet show an aptitude for technical training in Large enough num Bers about 25 percent of women Proba Bly could qualify for training As a Navy t electronics technician while 43 percent of men could. Civilians in a War zone use their own problems for the military 1 the draft addresses Quantity but not adj Futy of recruits. Ould be More promising to use Neww enology to fashion training aids that Uklid make technicians More pro ductile Binkin says. That also might open Hig Wech careers to people now unable to it the military s standards for entry into itch career Fields. The Miry could use computer based instruct to turn put better technicians instead of using it to train less skilled technician More quickly he suggests. Even better wont be an Effort to re Duce the need for Romany technicians by choosing less complain Battlefield systems and designing them to a More reliable or easier to maintain. The radio in an f-4 a Tom is be Neath the rear cockpit seam he writes. When it fails it takes an  expert to take out the ejection device a second technician to remove the scat and a third to Deal with the radio. However he writes improvement measures face a common obstacle. A preoccupation with achieving Max see soldiers on Page 28 Akmion foil ii 0.1 ten d 8693 a a photo skipping into town a twister whirls into Fridley minn., in one of five touchdowns it nude in the area. Weather officials Call such twisters skipping tornadoes no injuries were reported but several Homes were dam aged. Meanwhile the South is still reel ing from a record heat wave. See re lated Story photo on Page 5. Envoy s nomination snagged official says by the associated press Washington president Reagan has decided to hold off on the nomination of Robert j. Brown As the first Black  ambassador to South Africa because of questions raised during a background investigation an administration official said. There s no Green Light the official said saturday. Brown until a Lew Days ago appeared to be a sure fire Choice to head the . Embassy in Pretoria. In fact in a major speech tuesday on . Policy Reagan bad been expected to name Brown to succeed Herman j. Nickel who has returned to the United states for what is described As a Long overdue Vaca Tion. But the official said the nomination has been snagged by questions concerning Brown s involvement with a Small business administration contract and by opposition from organized labor leaders who say his Public relations firm has engaged in Union busting in North Carolina. The Washington Post reported sunday that Brown s nomination was dropped after a White House meeting late Friday. White House spokeswoman Denny Brisley declined to comment on the report. Congressional hearings in 1977 examined Brown s role in a partnership that received an $860,000 con tract in 1972 for supplying food services to a califor Nia military base. The sea contract was intended for disadvantaged minority firms. Brown at the time was a Well paid White House staff member. Brown is is president of by associates of High Point n.c., a Public relations firm. He is a former aide in the Nixon White House. Brown could not be reached for comment saturday night. Reagan s speech to be delivered from the East room of the White House tuesday is expected to reiterate . Objections to South Africa s policy of racial segregation. As of Friday Brown was the leading contender de spite questions raised by the background investigation. His Lead was so commanding that another contender Richard Viets a former ambassador to Jordan was said to have been offered another assignment. The new York times reported saturday that Brown appeared to be reconsidering whether he would accept the position if offered it. In an interview in his office in High Point Brown told the times he would not make a final decision until he consulted his family. On wednesday when he came to the state depart ment to begin processing for the Job Brown told re porters that i will serve if the president nominate me  and in an interview by Telephone on Friday Brown said he had been thinking of what he could do As ambassador to change things in South Africa. A state department official said there were Poten tial problems associated with Brown s former business connections with the nigerian government the times reported. Brown said on Friday that he was a close fiend of Umaru Nikko a High ranking official in Nigeria until Nikko fled after a coup on new year s eve in 1983. Nikko who lives in exile in London has been accused by the nigerians of taking with him millions of dollars. Brown has denied any wrongdoing on his part in his relations with Nikko or in his dealings in Nige Ria which involved Public relations and advice to the government in drawing up a Constitution