European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes camping in Europe stripes Magazine o stress team helps sex hostages Page 3 d Mcenroe mediocre in return Page 17 today s Dollar buys 2.07 Marks Page 23 these ars authoa1iid unofficial publication Fra Tut u. Ahmed Foncet vol. 45. No. 111 thursday August 7. 1986 0 8693 a s. Africa clamps Down on neighbor countries Johannesburg South Africa a the South african government which promised retaliation for foreign sanctions wednesday began time con suming inspections of truck cargo from its Black neighbors freight agents said. Freight agents in South Africa and Zimbabwe said the Cheeks were causing Long delays at the beit Bridge Border crossing Between the two countries a inspectors unpacked trucks coming from Zimbabwe Zaire and Zambia. Similar cargo checks were reported atthe Border with Botswana. Alt four coun tries make heavy use of South african ports for their imports Anil exports. The screws arc undoubtedly being tightened said Alan Cowell executive director of the South african association of freight forwarders. However Dean col sky South Afri Ca s commissioner of customs and excise said the checks were being made for a statistical Survey. The Check began one Day after six common wealth countries adopted harsh sanctions against South Africa to protect apartheid leaders of the six countries Australia the Bahamas Canada India Zambia and Zimbabwe decided on the measures at a London Summit at which Britain agreed Only to limited sanctions. The pro government South Africa broadcasting corp. Said wednesday see South Africa on Page 24 Mayer hails Success of War on drugs Washington a holding out its own Campaign against drug abuse As a Model for president Rea Gan i proposed crackdown on government workers the Pentagon says it has discharged 64,000 servicemen and women for misusing drugs and disciplined an additional 79,000 from 1983 to 19s5. Or. William Mayer assistant defense Secretary for health affairs Tola reporters tuesday the military s War on drug abuse Cost about 117i million a year. Reagan on monday endorsed mandatory testing of government employees who have the health of r others. The safely of others in their  citing air traffic con trollers As an example. People in the military services arc subject to unannounced urinalysis tests at any time. Mayer credited an emphasis on education and rehabilitation As Well As punishment with forcing Down the incidence of drug abuse from 27 percent of the dive duty Force in 1980 to 8.9 percent in 1985. In Calendar Yean 1983, 1984 and 1985. He said,11,485 people in the services were court Martiale on drug charges and discharged. During the same period,51,000 other men and women were discharged for drug use without courts martial while 79,000 were disciplined but allowed to remain in the service. In 198 alone he added some 27 000 servicemen and women were offered some form of rehabilitation. The Pentagon s anti drug efforts would be infinitely less effective without Unn Lysis testing Mayer said but he also credited High level attention education training and rehabilitation programs. The program is beginning we think to show signs of lasting and really important a flecks he added. The program is not just a question of testing urine the military s program consists of repeated warn Ings about the dangers and consequences of drug use starting with the Basic recruit and continuing with every change in duly assignment coupled with the massive urinalysis program. The defense department conducts 2 million urinalysis tests a year at a Cost of $ 15 per test Mayer  Active duty member of the armed forces is subject to random urinalysis testing. Officers and non commissioned officers face discharge if they Ever lest positive. Enlisted members arc normally offered rehabilitation after the first positive test but face immedi ate discharge if drug use is detected a second  results affecting some 50,000 servicemen and women were ultimately set aside in the Early 1980sbecause of questionable procedures the testing has been refined since 1983 to the Point that we have established a testing program which has never Given a false positive Reading he  standards for the testing have purposely been set so High that a positive Reading cannot be produced unless there is valid evidence of drug use a second More elaborate test is conducted to verify Posi Tive results in the first screening. Mayer said his office is reviewing proposals by the military services to extend the testing program to civil Ian workers in certain critical jobs. Dummy escape Story revealed As hoax Helm Braun Berlin a a Man who claimed to have escaped from communist East Berlin by dressing hims of and three mannequins in soviet military uniforms admitted to police wednesday that history was a hoax a West Berlin Justice ministry spokesman said Heinz Braun 48, told police he made up the tale that he drove through a Berlin Wall crossing in a station Wagon painted to resemble a soviet patrol vehicle to Call attention to the Wall s 25lh anniversary which is aug. 13, the spokesman. Volker Kaehne told the associated press. The Berlin Wall was built by the soviets in 1961in an attempt to prevent people from fleeing to the West from the City s communist Eastern sector Braun told police the car in which he claimed Mohave escaped was painted in West Berlin and the mannequins and soviet uniforms were obtained there according to Kaehne. Braun told his escape Story to a news conference arranged in West Berlin last Friday by a reputable human rights group the August 13 working  claimed to have been assisted by Wolf Quasner a West Berliner. Kaehne said police still were looking for Quasne wednesday to question him. The chairman of the August 13 working group Rainer Ili Debrandt said wednesday he believed the escape Story because he had worked with Quasner earlier. The escape Story came into question in some West German Media after it could not be confirmed. A West Berlin police spokesman Dieter Piele said no soviet patrol car passed from East Berlin at the in  crossing Point on the night of july 30, when Braun claimed to have escaped. Braun was interrogated by the Western Allied Powers in Berlin Over the weekend said Tom Oraan a spokesman for the . Mission. Homan refused to comment on what Braun said. But the Ard television network on tuesday quoted unidentified Allied sources a saying Braun confessed the hoax during the questioning. Suchite said Braun is not under arrest but prosecutors Are investigating him for wearing a soviet uniform. It is illegal for germans to Wear Allied uniforms. Prosecutors also Are investigating whether Braun forged a soviet License plate Kaehne said. Braun wore a soviet uniform and drove the alleged escape car with the soviet plate for a film that purported to show his escape but actually was made in West Berlin. The film was shown on West Ger Man television last weekend. East Germany on saturday denounced Braun escape Story As a swindler s tale fabricated from a to  uniformed military patrols of the soviet Union and the three Western allies Britain France and the United slates May pass freely Between the divided City s Eastern and Western zones under the terms of Post world War in occupation agreements