European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 base commanders Given More local Power by Norman Black a military writer Washington sometimes even a bureaucracy decides ii s gone Loo far. Like it or not the armed services have been mid to Stop managing the tiniest details of the operation of i hair bases around the world. No More regulations requiring a base commander to get permission from Washington to fix a leaking roof no More rules telling service members to Send of equipment for repair when they can fix in themselves and no More rules telling base commanders their room can decide whether cans of Spray paint Are still Good. Those Are real examples by the Way. Deputy defense Secretary William h. Taft in is sued the Orden in a directive dated sept. 4 thai was not disclosed publicly until wednesday. The commanding officer of an installation is responsible for accomplishing the Mission assigned to the installation tall wrote. Regulations that limit installation commanders Freedom to do their jobs Are contrary to the Basic Dod installation management policy and shall be cancelled or revised. Except where required to preserve  War time support capability. Installation commanders shall be free o Purchase goods and services wherever they can get the combination of Quality responsive Ness and Cost that Best satisfies their requirements. Exceptions should be  to understand Why that directive is considered a big Deal Pentagon officials Point to the results of a 3-year old Pilot Effort known As the Model installation pro Gram. Begun on Jan. I 1934, the program freed the com Manders of 15 bases from most of the rules and regulations that governed the Way they ran the base. Like Al other base commanders those participating in the lest Stilt received a fixed budget each year for operations and maintenance. Bui it was up to them to decide for the most part How thai Money was spent. And if they saved Money they got to keep in for other projects. The program was considered so popular and successful after the first year that we More than doubled the number of bases participating says Doug far brother inc Pentagon s principal director for installations. Test Sites in Europe were ecu Ulm Germany Hanau Germany Raf Lakenheath England and Rota naval station Spain. Taft s directive will expand the management approach throughout the defense department far brother said. The Pilot program quickly resulted in such decisions As the one by an air Force commander in new Mexico ordering his base Engineer to fix a leaking roof rather than wite to Washington about it. Another base commander overrode a directive that specified his servicemen had to obtain a military Driver s License to drive a military car even though they had a valid state License and could drive their own car on the base. A commander told his marines maintaining air planes in Eltoro calif., o buy High Quality Guaran teed socket wrenches locally rather than continue to rely on lesser Quality tools purchased through the Gen eral services administration. And the commander at Whilman fab to saved $185,000 by deciding  new carports did t need to be built with roofs As sturdy As the houses they and joined. Picking on Garden club proved major mistake for Larouche forces Leesburg a. Up1 after years of picking on the Queen of England and Henry Kissinger political extremist Lyn Don Larouche apparently went Loo far when he knocked the Leesburg Garden club. Larouche s characterization of the club As. Drug dealers and a soviet front last Spring galvanized this Community against him said it. . Mccracken of the Loudoun county sheriffs depart ment. The action helped give Rise loan underground resistance Force that provided authorities information on Larouche and his 300 local followers and assisted in setting the stage Tor this week s crack Down against his global Empire. State Federal and county authorities monday capped a 1-year-old investigation by raiding Larouche Headquarters in Leesburg. An old civil War town of about 12,000 residents and seizing two truckloads of material. The strike coincided with the indict ment of 10 aides accused of participating in a credit card fraud scheme that authorities charge helped finance la Rouche s network believed to have up to 1,200 members worldwide. I want to express thanks to the Citi Zens who helped us said Loudoun county sheriff John Isom. They came Forth and brought us leads that allowed us to go  no charges have been brought against Larouche who lives on the outskirts of acc Burgon a heavily fortified si.3 Mil lion estate and authorities will not say publicly if they plan to seek any. Last Spring Larouche accused local critics including Garden club members who successfully opposed his plans to open a summer Camp of being drug dealers homosexuals or fellow soviet  for years Larouche 64. Who established his group a generation ago in new York used similar words to blast a Host of Public figures such As Queen Eliza Beth ii Kissinger a former Secretary of state and actress Jane Fonda. When he moved in Here m 1984 with those intimidation tactics he Sim ply bit off More than he could Chew Mccracken said wednesday. When you Call someone like Agnes Harrison a Gar Den club member whose family has lived in Loudoun county for centuries a communist and a drug Pusher you re going to make 99 percent of the people of Loudoun county mad at  hundreds of residents provided information on the actions and movements interests and habits of Larouche and his associates Mccracken said. Some local people who worked for la Rouche but were not among his follow ers gave a detailed description of the layout of his tightly secure offices that proved helpful to authorities in planning their predawn raids. Mccracken said one unidentified source gave authorities a notebook of financial records said to have been lost in town by a Larouche associate. Jeweler Stanley Caulkins 61, said they the Larouche people treated us like we weren t important. They in fringed on our rights. They riled us  Caulkins said that shortly after Mon Day s raid Hij store received the follow ing Anonymous Telephone Call Tell Stanley Caulkins he is next on the list. We won t forget  during the past year a number of peo ple in Leesburg and surrounding loud Oun county said they received similar Calls after speaking out against la Rouche. Larouche has consistently denied threatening anyone. Who s the pigeons a photo by Rob i talking la the binds is a gnat Hobby once you get the hang of it. Certainly ibis Man in Rome s Vatican Square does t Stem to Belt for friends. But could it be Bis flutter Nils just looking for a handout glacial dam Breaks freeing trapped mammals Yakutat Alaska up a glacial dam plug Ging the Mouth of Russell fiord finally cracked unleashing a thunderous Roar of water like Niagara Falls and carrying trapped Marine mammals on a wild ride Back to their Home in the sea. It s making quite a roaring said Larry Mayo a . Geological Survey glaciology so. There s a continuous Din of caring water and the Boom of ice falling. The 80-Milc-Long Hubbard Glacier had surged for Ward june i choking off Russell fiord from the Pacific Waters of Yakutat Bay at the lop of the Southeast Alaska Panhandle. Trapped in the 34-mile-Long Inlet renamed Russell Lake were dozens of porpoises and seals who had been feeding in the Rich Waters. Animal lovers last month tried to Rescue the Mam Mals but the skittish porpoises refused to be herded into nets. By wednesday night the water level in Russell fior had dropped 63 feel but was still 20 feel above sea level. Water continued to flow out to sea and scientists predicted the fiord would be Back to sea level thursday. Mayo said it is Likely the Ever shifting Glacier Wilt again move across the Mouth of the Inlet