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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, October 15, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday october 15,1986 news updates Sally ride comment Washington a Astro naut Sally ride a bureaucrat at the National aeronautics and space administration while the space shuttle is being fixed said tuesday the space Agency has done a Good Job and she has changed her mind about going into orbit again. In the Wake of the challenger Accident Jan. 28, ride was widely quoted As saying she would t want to ride the shuttle. But she said that s All in the past. I think Nasa has done a real Good Job studying the solid rockets studying the redesigns and doing the testing that would be necessary to get the Spac program Back she said on abcs today program. Boy 14, faces trial Newton Iowa up a 14 year old boy has been ordered Rostand trial next month in the death of a schoolmate whose plastic heart valve was allegedly dislodged during a scuffle Between the youths. Jasper county judge Thomas Molt on monday set a trial Date of nov. 24 for Jody Collins of Newton charged As a juvenile with involuntary manslaughter and assault. Collins also was ordered to re main in a juvenile detention facility indefinitely. He is accused of killing Justin Cupples who authorities said died of heart failure two Days after he was struck in the Chest by Collins. Temperatures l h 38 73 it m 51 57 78 68 35 44 30 43 u 70 53 52 53 75 54 70 69 75 61 80 39 70 28 50 73 91 65 73 53 86 56 61 53 62 42 70 56 69 64 78 6 76 49 61 46 60 36 60 32 63 47 70 55 73 62 73 61 61 75 69 43 63 45 67 25 50 31 61 51 60 74 w 45 61 45 62 36 67 63 77 Norto omm xxi cry  Portland. 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We re Micro managing the books of every activity something that s never been done before said maj. Gen. Wil Liam h. Gourly commander of 1st personnel come. Well be balancing every body s  the change follows a realignment of responsibilities for morale support activities at Usa eur Headquarters. More than 60 positions were moved from Usa eur s Deputy chief of staff for personnel to the 1st personnel come leaving about is positions that focus strictly on policy matters Gourly said. We both had morale support Directo rates Gourley said. In theory they were to Deal with policy matters but in actuality they were dealing with operational matters and so were  the change was one of several recommendations in a six month Usa eur Dirac cd study of organizational responsibilities in the Headquarters. Gourley said the revolutionary an sensible realignment would improve communications concerning the opera lion of morale support activities. Also the change puts the morale sup port activities at the Headquarters level More in line functionally with the army communities he said. We now have All the operators in one Camp he said. With the change he said 1st person Nel come created a directorate that will Deal with the operational Side of family issues schools and non appropriated fund activities. The command also picked up operational responsibility for the army s class i stores and the armed forces recreation Center he said. The most direct Impact on the communities will be a concerted push for activities to make Money. We now Are monitoring on a monthly basis the profitability or Lack of it of each of these types of activities Gourley said. We re trying to get every body to think like they were running a  Gourley admitted that such a stance turns off a lot of people particularly when it concerns activities normally considered a Community service. But the alternative he said is to Start closing Down some of the Money losing activities in the communities. We re not saying that everything in a Community has to make a profit he said. But we have to think toward prof  if a child care Center is losing Money for example then the alternatives arc raising prices making up for its losses with Money from other activities or shutting Down. We can t keep operating something if it s not making Money be cause the dollars Aren t going to be Avail Able to keep bailing it out Gourley said. At the same time he said the com Mand is looking for other avenues to raise Money to support morale support activities. One possibility is a lottery and another is putting Slot machines a proven moneymaker in the army s Rod and gun clubs. The command also plans to Send out experts to take a look at those activities that arc losing Money consistently and find out Why. It s not meddling Gourley said it s managing at the theater  Belgium s Leader offers resignation Brussels Belgium a belgian prime minister Wilfried Martens tues Day offered King Baudouin the Resig nation of his government the Royal  Ace announced. The King has not yet accepted the res ignation the Palace said. The Issue was the old language prob Lem opposing Flemings and balloons. The new fit of language passion broke out two weeks ago when the country s highest administrative court cancelled the appointment of a Village mayor because he refuses to speak dutch in spite of the fact that his municipality is located in the flemish area. Balloons in and outside the govern ment sided with the mayor Jose Hap part claiming he had been elected by a majority of his Village. Martens was reappointed prime min ister for the sixth time less than a year ago vowing with his Center right coalition of Christian democrats and liberals to give priority to a severe austerity pro Gram aimed at reorganizing Public finances and reviving the Economy. But the 50-year-old politician who himself did a lot to give both Flemings and balloons More autonomy could no avoid a new burst of linguistic fever that permanent danger for any belgian government. The Fate of the Village mayor an Issue that would probably not shake any government elsewhere in the world has be come a National problem in Belgium As another Symbol of the old feud Between the two language communities. Hap part. A Walloon Farmer who wants his Village to be part of the French speak ing Region has always angered Flemings who have vowed to oust him from his Job. Two weeks ago the flemish division of the country s highest administrative court decided in their favor. But the Walloon minister of Interior appealed the administrative Conn s Deci Sion to the supreme court since then. Martens vainly tried to de fuse the new political threat a first parliament debate scheduled last week was postponed at the request of the govern ment made up of Flemings Ana Wal loons after it could not agree on the future of the controversial Village mayor. Temple students propose solution to strike by the associated press students at Temple University in Philadelphia have proposed their own solution to an eight Day old faculty strike and arc threatening to withhold tuition payments unless professors and administrators resume negotiating. It s not concern or anger that s motivating us it s fear that everybody s going to lose this semester said Val Ori Zaslow Deputy director of student affairs for the University s student government. The Temple University walkout the first in the school s 102-year history has cancelled scores of classes for 22,000 Stu dents. Non unionized part time instructors and graduate assistants Are conduct ing some classes. The student government proposal Calls for a 12 percent raise Over two years for full professors and 10 percent for All others Zaslow said. The University on Friday rejected the american association of University professors latest demand of a 20 percent raise Over two years. Temple has offered 7 percent with the possibility of 4 per cent in Merit raises. No talks Are scheduled. Meanwhile teachers in proviso township iii., approved a contract and agreed to return to work tuesday ending an eight Day strike. The strike idled 5,100 High school students in the Chicago suburbs of Hillside and May Wood. Elsewhere in Illinois 8,369 students remained out of school in Mattoon Villa Park and Lincoln with Little Progress re ported in contract talks. The 500 striking teachers in the Ches Ter Upland school District near Phila Delphia promised to go Back to work voluntarily tuesday to prevent the 8,000-student District from seeking a Back to work court order. Also in Pennsylvania a court Bear ing was scheduled tuesday on an order to Force the 312 striking Bethel Park teachers to return to work. No new contract talks were scheduled a Bethel Park which has 4,700 students or lathe 2,900-student Brownsville area District where 180 teacher Are of strike. A Back to work order issued test week remains in Force in the North  District in Montgomery county pa., where 600 teachers held classes monday for the first time this year. 24 Ramstein families evacuated during fire Ramstein a Germany is at least eight families remained in temporary quarters tuesday after � fire in family housing forced them from their Homes monday evening. Firefighters evacuated 24 families from. The four Story three stairwell building about 8 . When a fire broke out in a storage room of one of the units a statement from the base said. Some residents were removed by ladder because of excessive smoke. Fourteen families were forced to move into billeting As a result of the fire the statement said. A of the residents of stairwell Awill be out of their Homes until repairs can be done because the stairwell suffered major smoke . Tammy Cournoyer of 3.16th Airi Public affairs. It was unknown when repairs would be completed. Cournoyer said residents of stairwell b could return to their Homes when the wished. The 10 famines  to their Homes after about 90  
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