European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday. August 15,1906 views up onto Flynt improves los Angeles  Hus Tler Magazine publisher Larry Flynn hospitalized sunday in Crit ical condition with an undisclosed medical problem Wenj upgraded to fair condition wednesday night and moved from intensive care to a private room a Hospital spokes Man . Wise spokesman Force Dars Sinai medical Center Slid re fused to divulge the reason for Flynt s Hospital nation. Flynn 43. Has a history of drug abuse since being shot and Par Al Zed during an obscenity trial i Georgia in 1980. He went through a drug detoxification program at he Hospital a few years ago. He recently Wai ordered to Paya 12 million libel judgment to he common Law wife of rival publisher Bob Ruccione of per i us. Merger completed St. Paul Minn. T tier to Ai of ten Ianuly Nhia of a ajar. Ph3irr a twi i Dodds officials Hope to renew accreditation within 2 weeks by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington after nearly Sis months of Long and difficult negotiations department of defense dependents schools officials expert to sign a contract inthe next two weeks with the nation s largest school accrediting Agency. If the signing with the North Centra association of colleges and schools occurs on schedule it will come just a week before school opens sept. 5. It s been a Long and difficult procure ment but i intend 10 make an award this month said Thomas Bush Mill a contracting official with the defense Supply service in Washington. Dodds contract with inca ran outta the end of july. But Ken Gose. Executive director of the inca commission on schools said Dodds membership was continued during the negotiations. Bushnell Gose and other Pentagon education and contracting officials declined to give specifics about the negotiations saying the talks Are continuing. Three sources who spoke on the condition that they not be identified con firmed thai a sticking Point in the negotiation was the frequency with which the schools would be inspected by inca teams. They said Dodds director bet Stephens had sought to raise the interval from the present five years to 10. The Standard inca re View Cycle is seven years. Stephens said she could not disclose the substance of the negotiations but said the idea of 10-year intervals de serves to be explored. Many . Schools Are reviewed on10-year cycles by other accrediting groups she said. If some of those school have achieved excellence in education then it would be appropriate to consider a 10 year Cycle Stephens said. A seven year Cycle has its advantages she said. Jit s extra attention to  the trouble is she said you pay for  the Cost of the accrediting contract could be spread Over 10 years instead of seven she said. The last inca contract Cost Dodds s23l,3is. It was a one year contract. Stephens said accreditation represent san objective outside evaluation of Crit ical element of a school. Colorado based inca founded in1895, accredits schools in 19 states from Arizona to West Virginia. Inca membership obligates a school to demonstrate that it meets standards in 13 areas in eluding number and tyres of courses offered qualifications of teachers and administrators and adequate  said schools generally spend � year in self study and pitying Host to. Team of inca educator making on site visits. School official then spend five years seeking to implement what was Learned from the review. The Tail year misspent planning for the Keiit review Cycle. This year for the first time since Mca began accrediting defense department High schools in 1946, the schools sought to award the accreditation contract through competitive bidding Stephen said that while sole source awards May have been acceptable in the past Newdold rules require the competitive approach. ,."competitive bidding is a Good idea in itself Bushnell agreed citing us ten Dency to keep Cost Down Bui some times sole source contract Are justified on the basis that the longtime contractor builds up a store of knowledge and expertise that is difficult to  inca is the Only Agency that has Ever had system wide accrediting responsibility for what is no  bid process started last March Bushnev said. Starting exercise of autumn forge planned tuesday shape Belgium nato s annual autumn forge exercise series kicks off my week when the air forces of five nations meet in Denmark a shape spokesman said. Chief of information at shape col. Gordon Braz said the first exercise. Tactical fighter weaponry will involve aircraft and ground support units from Den Mark Germany England the Netherlands and the United states. It is to begin tuesday and end sept. 4. The entire 1986 autumn forge program will consist of 20 National and multinational exercises throughout Allied come Europe and will run through mid no vember he said. He said the program Wilt involve nato s airborne Early warning aircraft and More than 200,000 service members from the nato nations. Tie Overall goal of these exercises is to provide realistic opportunities for Allied military units to de ploy test evaluate and improve the procedures tactics and equipment of nato military forces for deterrence and the defense of nato nations territory and to demonstrate nato s Solidarity and resolve to main Tain peace with Freedom in the West Brata said. Half of the exercises will be held in Allied com Europe s Northern Region six will occur in the Central Region and four will take place in the Southern Region. A live flying exercise called cold fire 86," coordinated Wilh major National army Field training exercises will be conducted within the Central Region area sept 10-16. German police seeking witnesses to robbery knifing Pitburg Germany Sis the operator of Small downtown refreshment stand was robbed and knifed late wednesday and German police Are seeking  said the woman shopkeeper apparently left the stand for a few minutes around 11 30 . He attacker entered the stand took about $200 from the Cash Register and attacked her with a knife when she returned. The woman was wounded slightly in the shoulder and  describe the attacker As a Black male about 6 feel tall and of medium weight and build. He was wearing a red sweatshirt and jeans. House panel orders army to re evaluate Short tour concept Fly Chuck Vinc Washington Buran Washington the House armed services committee seeking ways to trim the Pentagon s permanent change of fat Tion accounts has ordered the army to Lake another look Al its18-month overseas tour option for first term soldiers. This is the second time in two years thai the committee has ordered the army to re evaluate the Short tour concept. The committee does not believe that the army has nude the Case for retaining the first term 18-month Lour u Europe and Japan states the House committee report on the fiscal 1987 defense authorization  army reduced the first Lerm european tour from 30 to 1& months in 1980, citing increased disciplinary problems and Low retention and morale As  committee noted that those problems have largely been alleviated since 1980, but it credited improvements in military compensation and overseas Quality of Fife increased Punde in military service and pay raises for that Juc Cesi the committee report said the Anny has not provided definitive data to support continuation of the Shorter tour length. But the report said an army decision earlier its year to involuntarily extend All overseas hours Tor three months to order to Cut moving costs provides a Uei ique lest situation forthe army to prove or disprove its claims regarding the Impact of longer Tours on indiscipline rates and retention. The committee directed the army to track and compare retention rates and discipline problems of in to onto tint term soldiers who were involuntarily extended with Thos of 18.month first Wermers who served in Europe immediately before the extensions were  committee directs Dod in conjunction with the army to report on the appropriate duration of such a longer tour the manpower policies thai would have to be changed to accommodate such a Lour and How the changes would be achieved the report  Pentagon must provide thai information along with the data from the comparisons of the two groups of first term sol Diers on 18-month Tours by dec. 31. World War ii bomb found Frankfurt German construction workers found an unexploded 100-Pound world War ii bomb tuesday at a Babenhausen Cavern construction Silc near Darmstadt a v corps spokesman said. The discovery site was roped off for safety and guarded by american personnel until wednesday Anera Oon when a Germani explosives Orf Nance disposal team defused the bomb and moved it to a disposal site. The area was being searched thursday for additional ordnance