European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strip d More Bank failures in Texas Midwest Page 5 d counting Down Tor nil London game sports d White House Shields Rehnquist memos Page 28 the St ars and tripes authorized Uno vol.45,no. 106 saturday august2, 1986 d 8693 a director of Dodds resigns by cum Swift Washington Burea Washington both Stephens. Director of the Depa Mem of defens dependents schools resigned Friday. Her in a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and at an afternoon meeting with Dodds Headquarters staff came one Day after she broke ranks at a congressional hearing and blasted a reorganization of Pentagon responsibilities Tor de Pendents education. Stephens said he two were not related noting that she decided More than a year ago to return to a teaching position at the University of Texas at Dallas. Nothing that happened Here influenced that decision Stephens said in an interview with the stare and stripes shortly after her announcement to the staff. It s a lifetime tenured position a full professor. I could not knowingly leave that for an indefinite political a Stephens said her resignation is effective sept. 23. At a hearing wednesday before a sub committee of the House education and labor committee Stephens digressed from prepared remarks cleared by the i anti inn not testified that new lines of authority in thedric Cioaric offered management and personnel violated he Law that created Dodds. Under the reorganisation the Dodds director reports to a Deputy assistant Secretary of defense. Stephens said the defense dependents education act of 1978 requires that the director report straight to the assistant Secretary of defense for personnel. Stephens said her criticism was not directed at the new Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for family support education and safely Barbara Pope. She said the Model for what she called a Hasly and ill conceived reorganization dated 10 last fall when Lawrence Korb was in his last two weeks As assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel i m just saying the change is nut i compliance with the Law Stephens said thursday. Korb resigned and was replaced last Sao Dodds on Page 23 Heinz Braun left recounts Story of his escape at a news conference while right his accomplices three dummies Are photographed in West Berlin. Dummy soviets Aid Escapee from e. Berlin Berlin a East German guards thought they waved a routine soviet patrol through the Ber Lin Wall but what arrived in inc West was a disguised station Wagon carrying Escapee Heinz Braun and three mannequins wearing fake russian uni forms. The 48-year-old Braun appeared at a news Confer ence Friday organized by the August 13 working group a human rights organization named for the Date communists divided the City with the Berlin Wall in 1961. Spokesman Rainer Hildebrandt said Braun s station Wagon repainted to resemble a Standard beige soviet patrol vehicle came through the Cross ing car the tie Garten at 7p.m. Wednesday. Braun said he first escaped to the West two months ago but resumed after learning that his girl Friend would not follow As planned. He said he looked for her when he returned but she had gone Back to the husband she had divorced an East Ger Man Interior ministry official. The second escape plan was devised by Wolf Quasner one of the so called escape helpers in West Berlin. Quasner who also appeared at the news Confer ence said he got the idea from observing the remarkable stiffness and mask like expressions of so Viet officers in heir patrol vehicles. Braun said he repainted his personal car a soviet Lada to make it look like a patrol vehicle. A courier from Quasner brought him the three uniformed mannequins and he disguised himself As a red army sergeant. Budget restrictions on Dodds regions rescinded by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the Headquarters of the department of defense dependents schools has rescinded the policies behind the cuts it ordered last Spring in the Wake of Gramm Rudman budget cuts. We did t get any of our Money Back said Richard Szot head of Dodds fiscal division. It just Means Washington is no longer putting these restrictions on the regions As school opens. It Means they can Send the football team to away games if the Money s there. They can pay teachers for extra duty or buy supplies that Are maybe not critical but still Dodds director Beth Stephens who announced her resignation Friday said the message that Wem out july 7 rescind ing orders issued March 26 is not simply window dressing. Budgets Are estimates she said. There very often is a Little More Money Over Here than needed and a Little Iha could be used Over Szol said that assuming the schools can find the funds they now May convert temporary hires to Perma nent ones. A teacher who worked for us last year As a temp could be converted to a permanent hire he said. He said that while there is some Cost in benefits such As retirement or health the amount would not be great. Use substitute teachers 10 fill in for elementary Art or music teachers or for a physical education teacher who is out forthe Day. Use of substitutes had been restricted to replacing Only classroom teachers. Schedule teacher in service train ing probably in september. The restrictions were imposed to save Money in fiscal 1986, which ends sept. 30. Spend More than the Legal mini see budget on Page 28
