European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Europe s open air museums see stripes Magazine d National training program will help aids patients Page 5 g Navy s Mccallum gets of to play Lor nil raiders Page 17 d Utah Wyoming election results Page 24 the  vol. 45, no. 126 urho Ailep unofficial putucn0w Friday. August 22, 1986 d 8693 a harder fitness test adopted by Navy from suit and wire reports Navy personnel can expect tougher physical fitness tests More often under a revised physical readiness directive issued by the new chief of naval operations the new standards Laid out by . Carlisle . Trost Are tougher than the old Navy standards and current air Force requirements but they Are not is stringent As those in use by the army. Although the standards arc effective immediately copies of the new directive have not reached european commands. Commands that have not held their 19s6 physical fun tests can give this year s Iasi under the old standards until he new rules arrive according in information released by the Pentagon. The new rules Call for to cols at least twice a year instead of once add push ups to the exam and raise standards for the 1.5-mile run and sit ups test. The directive suggests he new test standards cannot be met without routine weekly exercise. A minimum of three weekly i cruise periods of 30 minutes Dura Tion Are required to maintain fitness it Stales. Com Manders arc strongly encouraged to use the Normal work Day to satisfy this  the semiannual costs will include four tests plus a measurement for body fat. The tests Are the Sil reach a measure of flexibility in which the toes must be grasped while silting with the legs fully extended push ups Sil ups and the individual s Choice of either a 1.5-Milc run or a 500-Yard swim. Push ups Are the Only new aspect of the lest. Troll s memo said push ups were added because Over so percent of All Navy occupations require pushing pull ing lifting or  performance on the army and Navy fitness tests is graded by sex erd age. Soldiers must meet the army s see fitness on Page 24 berserk mailman kills 14, himself Edmond okla. A a postal employee threatened with dismissal walked into a Post office wednesday with a mailbag full of guns and ammunition and opened fire without saying a word killing 14 co workers and himself related stories photos. Page 3 six other postal workers were injured in the rampage by part time employee Pat Sherrill. 44, a Marine Veteran and expert Marksman who was told tuesday that he would be fired if his Job performance did t improve. Records show Sherrill had a history of discipline prob lems at the Post office. He worked for the Oklahoma City Post office As a letter sorter for about three months in 1982 before resigning. He started As a letter Carrier in Edmond in april 1985, earning 19.35 an hour. Larry ver Chilli a Steward for the american postal workers Union said Sherrill attempted to reach him tuesday apparently Sce Kinga Transfer. Postal workers said they knew Little about Sherrill and described him As quiet and reserved Man. He apparently had no criminal record. Sherrill lived atone in a House in okla homa City thai he shared with his Mother until her death several years ago. I was the nation s worst attack by a Lone gunman since a rampage at a me Donald s restaurant in san Ysidro Calif., on july in 1984, left 21 people dead and 20 injured. Police said inc shooting started about 6 45 . As mail carriers were sorting irays of mail and preparing to leave on their daily routes. Most of those killed were found near their work stations. One body was found in the parking Loi behind the one Story Brick building. There Are normally Aboul 90 workers in the building at Ihal time of Day no customers were in he Post office. Lawmen began moving into the build ing Ai 8 30 . And heard one final gunshot on their Way in. They found three people Safe in a storage room where they had taken Refuge. Officers found a bag with a Large amount of ammunition two ,45-Caljbcr automatic handguns and a .22-Caiibcr handgun next 10 she ruts body. W photo Edmond okla., police officers stand near one shoaling victim outside the Post dec. . Considering mandatory drug tests Santa Barbara Calif. Not the Justice department is seriously considering proposing a presidential order requiring narcotics testing for More than half of the nation s civilian government employees administration officials said wednesday. If president Reagan signs the proposed order 1.5 million out of the 2.8 million civilian Federal employ in would be tested. Anyone found 10 have been using illegal drugs would be dismissed. Although Reagan has previously talked about voluntary testing he has not proposed Broad compulsory drug tests. The new proposal has led to a debate within in Reagan administration which is facing Strong Republican pressure 10 shape a program to curb drug abuse partly because democrats in Congress have seized the Issue. In recent weeks Reagan has made the drug Issue a priority of his final two years in the while House although officials say that at least five administration working groups have not yet drawn up specific pro Grams. Congress is preparing in the fall to pass legis lation to stiffen penalties for drug related crimes and to increase Federal spending for drug prevention and rehabilitation. Some government officials said wednesday that the administration s Ami narcotics drive was threatened by inc potential controversy Over drug testing. There s a drug epidemic in the streets and the schools and the administration response is to lest 40 year old bureaucrats complained one administration official who is involved in planning new ways to curb drug abuse a Justice department official said no formal proposal had been made to the administration Domestic policy Council on the testing of All government employees with Access to sensitive or secret information. The official said the proposal for an executive order was under discussion As part of the administration s drug strategy which is to be disclosed in sep tember