European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d student travel deadline nears for military families Page 3 q Texas air will take Over people express Page 5 o today s Dollar buys 2.04 Marks rates Page 27 uthoi�0 unofficial Pui cation for Thi . Mio Pouci vol. 45, no. 152 wednesday. September 17. 1986 i do Sun d 8693 a Federal workers Union sues to Block plan for drug tests Washington up a Union tuesday filed suit in Federal court seek ing to Block president Reagan s plan to test government workers Tor drug use a spokesman said. George King a spokesman Tor the National Treasury employees Union which represents about 120,000 of the nation s 2.8 million Federal employees. Said the lawsuit seeks an injunction to halt Reagan s mandatory drug testing plan. No innocent Federal worker should be subjected to this demeaning urine test. It robs them of their constitutional rights said the Union s president Rob Ert Tobias. The lawsuit filed in . District court came just a Day after Reagan sent Congress a sweeping set of anti drug initiatives including his order that thou Sands of government workers be tested for drug use. The lawsuit also requests a court order requiring publication of the executive order for Public notice and comment As outlined in the administrative proce Dure act. Tobias said discipline of Federal employees for off duty misconduct without regard to their Job performance also is illegal. Reagan should have done his Legal Homework before trampling on the rights of Federal employees with a simple flour see sues on Page 28 americans others begin lining up for visas by Unda White travel editor a few americans lined up along with canadians finns and others at the French consulate in Frankfurt tuesday to apply for visas to France. On sunday French prime minister Jacques Chirac said All foreigners except those from the 12 european economic Community countries and Switzerland Long lines form at Paris airports Paris up lines formed tuesday with people waiting up to an hour at Paris airports when a new anti terrorist measure went into effect requiring Visi tors from nearly All countries to secure visas to enter France. Airport officials said issuing visas proceeded smoothly at Charles do Gaulle and orly airports and most passengers did not complain despite delays of Between 30 minutes and an hour in processing the first arrivals. The longest Waits came when planes arrived almost simultaneously at Charles de Gaulle Airport from los Angeles Tel Aviv Lisbon and North Africa in the Cany afternoon. It s Normal. It s a Good idea and anyway it s matter of Security said Ernest Rogillo of Maxwell n.m., after receiving his visa. Visitors who arrive after sept. 30 without a visa will be turned away a foreign ministry spokesman said. He admitted that there could be delays in obtaining visas because French embassies and consulates in Many countries Are ill equipped to Cope with a sudden surge in applications. Would need visas to enter France. Switzerland was exempted French officials said because tens of thou Sands of people Cross that Border to work each Day. The measure came in the Wake of a rash of bombings in the last two weeks in Paris that killed one person and left dozens injured. Confusion remains As to whether . Military personnel will need visas. On monday the chief of the App Kho a bomb cons Loos French riot policeman pecks inside shopper s bag at a suburban Paris mall. French Border police station near Strasbourg said .soldiers with identification cards and leave orders can enter the country without visas but family members must have visas. An to tuesday quoted a French embassy spokes Man from Bonn As saying . Military personnel must have visas. The visa clerk at the French consulate in see visas on Page 28 terrorists worn of Paace attack Beirut Lebanon a a statement purportedly from a group that has claimed responsibility for a spat of bombings in France threatened tuesday to hit the French presidential Palace unless three imprisoned comrades Are freed. The threat was attributed to the committee for Soli Darity with Arab and Middle Eastern prisoners in Europe. It demanded the release of George Ibrahim Abdallah Anis Naccache and Varoujian Garbidian from jail in Paris. Abdallah faces trial on charges of complicity in the assassinations of an israeli Diplomat and a . Mili tary attache. He is serving a four year sentence for Possession of weapons and false documents. In related developments tuesday the government offered a million franc $130,000 Reward tuesday for information about two Brothers of an imprisoned lebanese terrorist or about anyone involved in the series of bombings that has terrorized Paris. French Premier Jacques Chirac on tuesday can celeb plans to visit Canada saying he must stay Home to Lead the French government s fight against the wave of terrorist bombings. Honic no hissing flopping guards report for duty staff writer Darmstadt Germany the army has taken delivery of the first of 900 geese that will be used to defend air defense and communication Sites in Europe against terrorist attack. Nearly 400 of the Birds were Deli ered sept. I to 32nd army air defense come bases along the Rhine where they Are expected to honk Hiss and Flap at intruders alerting human guards according to Ralf Schuchmann a Farmer who supplies the Birds. The army will receive another 300 of the fowl next week Schuchmann said. The air defense come had no immediate comment. Schuchmann said he thought that his Deal called for the military to pick up the Birds but that he ended up making the first delivery himself in a rented truck with hastily built pens in the Back. The army said they just did t have anything to pick them up in he said. The air defense come began studying the idea of guard geese in Jan uary after maj. Gen. Victor Hugo jr., commander of the air defense unit saw see geese on Page 28
