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Lart time soldiers Over 40 id Ergo fitness test ring by Normand Acap military Washington a agon officials alarmed by the  National guard and army reset a have ordered fitness screening for soldiers Over the age of 40.a directive by Deputy defense tary William ii Tail in concludes that health screening must begin immediately even though the National guard anti Reserve May receive some had publicity about the  is imperative that the army proceed immediately with. ,. Screening of All guardsmen and reservists Over re 40," Taft wrote in an oct. 9 directive approving a recommendation by assistant defense Secretary James . The contents of the directive were Din closed thursday. According to Webb who is in charge of Reserve affairs at the Pentagon Morr than one of every sin members of theary Reserve and National go Ted is now Over the age of 40. That  been rising in recent Jefe As the Pentagon has sought to Intro Csc the size and responsibilities of the desc rec forces he said. Orthe army in a Stejr praised by Webb recently raised its of Sical fitness Stan Dards for All Meima women in the Active service As Van As in the reserves. Inthe process Ufa a set Down specific physical Witaws Standard for men an women or the age of 40 an age group if had previously escaped such Depuit of cols. To problem however is that individuals Over the age of 40 cannot Lake the physical fitness test until they have been medically screened. And in the Case of National guard members and reservist the army has been slow to Start a screen ing program Webb  army conducted a Pilot scr Cenin program More than 18 months. Virginia in which Only 29 percent v.328 National guard soldiersdot46.8nt of the 1,522  Lucre Able to pass than Ivial Oril medical tile exam my two two Vun hians who tailed the initial am Jpn moved on to a phase ii trek of stress exam died Short time after rating the test. The army resp use to those result was to sup the pcs Fulte and to recommend drat Congress pal legislation sex i end a military medicare a ability pro to Don to part Lime sol diff. Who Are injured or die while on act Mitty for brain ing or testing Webb said. That legislation appears Likely ten Congress this week. But in the me time Webb had any red the army should not delay the initial medical exams for those Over 40 in order to find out exactly what you be  while the a National guard maintains that older soldiers will respond successfully to any emergency mobilization Webb argued thursday in an interview that the service was running the risk of sending people to fight who could t Cope with the physical stressor combat. It s a scary problem in the guard be cause they re combat troops said Webb himself a much decorated Veteran of the Vietnam War you re looking at Fielding a combat Force be ref cry sixth Guy in these ride  is Over the age of 40. Peon one going to get Over there id operational environment nod out at least a Good dumber of pm Ore. The Issue has also been clouded by lot question of Money Webb said. The army has pushed for a four step screen ing program that begins with the phase t physical exam. Those who seem at risk Are then ordered to take the Treadmill stress  third step if required would be a cardiac angiogram and definitive diagnosis and the final step would be medical treatment including surgery i needed. The army National guard total about 450,000 men and women and the army Reserve another 310,000. Inthe event of a War the guard and re serve would be expected to provide roughly half of the army s fighting  for the National guard Mireau at the Pentagon were said to  their office thursday attending a Cortence. Maj Bruce Bell an army spokes for said army Secretary John and received Tafi s directive mine and proceedings. Mar and we i  declined  when full scale testing woul Aljerin noting the army had to line up Uhrie and sched ule Tor the exams Ita  that Marsh was Dot the question of whether 1guardsmen requiring should be eligible to use military facilities. Israeli military continuing to search for airman shot Down in Lebanon Tel Aviv Israel up1 the Israel military said saturday it was continuing to search for the missing Crew member Ofa Warp inc shot Down in Southern Leb anon thursday but described the regional very  moslem militiamen in Lebanon How Over said they were on guard for a Possi ble Combine operation by Israel to res Cue the missing airman. An israeli defense forces spokesman said All efforts Are being made to find the navigator. We re doing All we  the spokesman refused to elaboration what kind of search operations Israel was carrying out saturday following two Days of massive efforts by its warplanes and ships to find the missing navigator near the Southern port of Sidon Leb anon. The Region is very quiet he said. A military source in Lebanon said 1s-fsl-Li gunboats patrolled the lebanese Shore Early saturday while ils warplanes Lew Over the area m search of the Crew member who was forced to Parachute when Hii plane was hit by Arab guerrillas while bombing palestinian targets. We expect them to land troops or carry out a combing operation in search for the missing airman at any Lime the source in Lebanon said. Uri Lubrani Israel s coordinator for Southern Lebanon affairs said he held amal Lebanon s main shiite mosle militia responsible for the safety of the Man who evacuated the  f-4phantom warplane with the Pilot thurs Day evening. The Pili was rescued 90 minutes after the israeli air mid on guerrilla targets in the palestinian refugee Camp of Liyeh Liyeh. He hid until an israeli helicopter under heavy fire swooped him away i what the military called a Quick and daring  Friday israeli jets and Guai hips prowled around Sidon in a search that israeli sources called the largest of it kind in Southern Lebanon Lince two israeli soldiers were captured in a guerrilla ambush in  that search abandoned after a week israeli armoured Forcet backed by warplanes and helicopter gunship stormed across the lebanese  of the soldiers was believed killed during the ambush while the other i thought to be held by Herb flan an extremist shiite faction backed by  was not immediately known How Many planes or naval Craft took part inthe search for the mining run Vulor thursday or Friday or what Brad planned to do to secure his return. France urged to expedite release  pm a l .11 Vii nun. Cd i by a Lebanon a an arme Nian  Don saturday called on French premiers to expedite the release of three _ easterners held in France on terrorism charges. The armenian secret army for the liberation of Armenia said it was Leav ing the door open for French Premier Jacques Chirac and his government to Deal positively with the Case of i Eastern political  we Hope Alurac Refl Speed up the release of  Varoujan  Ibrahim Abdallah Anis Naccache and their comrades Asala said in a hand written statement in arabic language statement signed a no Kesman Vahran Bahrani an was a Trow jul the office of a Era news Agency i three new published d halted the Bombi give in Paris because the French government opened negotiations we Are waiting for the French government to keep its promises if not Well restart even tougher operations an Asala Leader identified u Mihran mud Ranian was quoted As saying in the water View with France s be Monde Iper. Off  the foreign ministry confirm that the French government u engaged u no i with any terrorist oif Aniza spokesman concern us. Wei we have a cause the said. Knotty Doet not