European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The Star band stripes sunday december 14,1886 air Force increasing rotation options Page j floating rotation Date with the understanding that Arhat rotation Date can be obtained upon request. Request a contract rotation Dale and at the sometime the Ron dered for a consecutive overseas tour to a specific base country or overseas theater of prefer ence. Tji Ost contract rotation Date Are an interesting Way of doing business the spokesman said. There s to limit pm to Long someone can slay overseas under that concept " the contract rotation option leaves open the Dat thai a member is eligible to return from overseas he said. If personnel who have served the minimum overseas Lour choose the ton Iran rotation option it s Csick Jally up id Mieia to decide when they return to the unit Tii tin consecutive overseas tour contract option Al Jodi a member to have an open ended rotation Date whip awaiting another preferred overseas assignment under the old consecutive overseas Lour policy you could Only request a Lour in another country the base in eng actor for Pitburg a Germany. Or you could ask to go to a base in the the spokesman stressed that the program is voluntary. The changes will not Force anyone to Lemai overseas beyond the Normal tour length. But com Manders still have the option to return someone who has finished his overseas tour to a stateside assign ment. In addition to changing overseas tour rotations Theair Force also is looking at changing assignment proce dures for the Continental United Stales. Officials would like to see stateside two year tour preceded or followed by an assignment at the same location when possible the spokesman said. The air Force can no longer afford to consider any member who has completed a two year tour automatically eligible for a Pennanen change of Turon move Hei Aidt. To the changes in overseas rotation policy men wit. Longer than the currently prescribed tour at i locations he said. In yet another change the air Force is Elimra Tahti moves from one stateside base to another unless a Bat Falls below a 90 percent Manning level in a particular specially More emphasis will be placed on using train aft school graduates and those resuming from overseas Tofill stateside assignments the spokesman said. The air Force is faced with a shortfall of about million in fiscal 1987 Pennanen interview top Reagan administration officials As it presses on Wii its Iran Contra investigation. As Congecsi anal investigators prepared to pursue the Struci a Inifi. Reagan vowed not to Lei the con Inov Triy Cdr track hit presidency. Sai Rudai. A leading House Democrat said the Iran mini Ronier cum threatens a scandal deeper and wider than watergate. Wait Nat was horrible but or. President this scandal ha.-, deeper and wider ramifications for it Nourtses. On in Power to declare War the most Awc-6om-. Decision any Leader or nation can rep. A Savitri e humor. A mice. Said in the democrats wee it Radji Iid Drei. 7ht panel will meet monday afternoon to decide which lop adminis Iraklion officials 10 Call later in the wee. Cia director William Casey is already scheduled Toletti tuesday other Likely witnesses include Secre tary of ii at Furge is Iulla and defense Secretary Cas Par Weinberger both of whom opposed the plan to sell id Iran. It was the diversion of some of those us German officials discuss Exchange rates Kiel Germany up . Treasury Seo Irton. James a. Baker Iii and German finance minister Gerhard Sloue Neie conferred sat-urtt3 Hill reached no agreement on stabilizing currency a Hany said thej1 discussed increased financial and economic cooperation among thing Industrial nations and currency mailers. They have no details of their meeting but mid reporters no agreements had moslem return to . After Laid to free hostages Beirut up1 an american moslem mediator Jaid he Ami i fellow Midi Irma were re amt Taine sunday with assurances that the is. Krauft in Lebanon were in Good heal that a message to us american people to exam Ine tie causes of their difficulties in the middy. The Aell i Teci hostage declined Tonai Jueius 13-da Muon to Emit and Jam aide said it was tuna Mebdie the Secretary neral of jteew�mfe4asai National Council of islamic Ftp in Vav tit Tacud by a unidentified by Fth of in Beirut Friday night fatwas not nmn Iragene enough 10 old Mission. Heel alis cd Tau me did our Best but 1 Amla Orty to to we did Tal to and said Dan Jaleh i in the Mission. Profits to the nicaraguan Contra rebels that touched off the most serious foreign policy crisis of Reagan s presidency. Another witness could be White House chief of staff Donald Regan said congressional sources. Three figures in the probe have refused to adm. John m. Pom Dexter and Marine it. Col. Oliver l. North cited their fifth amendment rights in refusing to testify. A third while House National Secu Rity aide Marine it. Col. Robert Earl refused to testify citing the sixth amendment which guarantees the right to Legal counsel. Howard Teichr another Csc official declined to testify Friday saying he needed More time to find lawyer. His testimony was reset for tuesday. Meanwhile the Swiss government which froze Swiss Bank account used for iranian arms payments has Unfrozen the account which is in ousted Csc aide10, col. Oliver l. Drill s name lbs news reported Friday. Swiss authorities were unable to keep the account Frozen because they had not received required information from the . Government including Ali nature of the crime the United slates believed occurred the report said. A Justice department source told the associated pres thai the department is in the process of supplying the additional information to the Swiss government the source said the treaty covering the Bank accounts pro Vides that a violation of american and Swiss Law must be shown and it has taken several Days 10 develop that. Lbs and the Washington Post reported that North shared Access to a second Swiss account with two other figures named As key players in the affair retired Ajr Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord and California Busi Nessman Albert other developments iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbani far. Identified As a middleman in the sales of , Ana to Tehran failed a Cia administered lie Detector lest in 1985, the los Angeles times reported in saturday editions. The tests were administered to Gbor Bamer before he became a go Between in the Contact betwee the two countries. But Casey decided that using Gbor ban far to Send arms to Iran was a Good idea anyway and he promoted the plan within the administration said the report which the times attributed la unidentified administration and congressional sources. A Cia spokesman declined to comment on the report sen. Robert Byrd d-w.va., who will be the new majority Leader of the Senate denounced the reran White House and said the democratic controlled con Gress will move quickly to investigate the arms sate controversy when it convenes Jan. 6. Byrd in his address to the democratic leadership Council called the administration s policies Towaf in and Nicaragua Reliance on Ramb ism and said the denied the nation future opportunities to serve a t Good Faith broker and an enlightened and Strong world my 34 years in the Senate i have never Seea such an arbitrary arrogant partisan while House Thani have seen the last six years Byrd told the group meeting in Willi Arnsburg a. 50 arrested at nuke sub launching Proton Conn. A fifty anti nuclear protesters were arrested saturday during the launching of the ten Nessee a nuclear powered Trident missile submarine Des tined to become the Navy s most powerful weapon. About 400 demonstrators took part in the non Vio Lent protest and police carried away those who obstructed entry to the electric boat shipyard a division of general dynamics corp. It was the same old thing blocking sidewalks. Nothing exciting said police sgt Richard Chi flies. He said the 50 protesters were released on promises to appear in court on charges of disorderly conduct. More than 1,000 guests huddled in makeshift Shel ters inside the shipyard on the thames River in South Eastern Connecticut where Strong gusts pushed the wind chill Factor to minus-13 degrees. The Tennessee will be the first Trident submarine to be fitted with Trident nor d-5, nuclear missiles. When it completes two Yean of testing due to begin in 1987. The new missile will be the most potent in the Navy s Arsenal. The d-5 and its predecessor the Trident i first deployed in 1979, were developed by Lockheed corp. The Trident a however win Nave a Range of More than 6,000 mites compared with More than 4,000 Miles for the Trident i. It will have 10 to is separate warheads also More than the Trident i and win be fir More accurate enabling it to destroy an enemy i hard ened missile silos. The Tennessee will join the Fleet in 1989, about Woy ears longer than Normal for a Trident submarine be cause of the additional test period for the i Wiki. "1 assure you this event will not go unnoticed far this ship. Is the Lead Chip of the Mompo Triu deterrent our tuition has Ever put to Tea vice b. Kelso ii commander of the 6th Fleet Tod native tennessean said in Bis keynote speech. Opponents of the d-5 aim its deployment Wib be destabilizing on the Assumption that the Only Way to avoid its destructive accuracy would be for an Eneato strike first. Clues sought in e. Berlin crash Berlin a East German authorities saturday said they had not yet determined what caused a soviet Airliner carrying is people to crash near the East Ber Lin Airport killing All but 12 of those on Board. Transport minister Otto Arndt named to Bead a pedal government Donn Nissim studying the Friday crash said investigators were the flight re Corder Lor dues. The conditions for a successful flight were there Aira Buu East German have found the Fiig fal recorder and it is now being he hid. Throughout toe Day emergency workers and meet. Cal experts sifted through the wreckage and atom to identify the bodies of the victims according to German news reports Bui Arndt said the identification Proem a to finely difficult because a Aii tier mint if towhee n bit the ground. The plane Atn-134 Don emf to the embed Friday evening White Sapanai a Landing at East Berlin s Scalene feel a loft after Dan
