European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday february 3,19b7 Berlin smog Alert putting gis on foot Bujok a Poitier Bremerhaven Bureau . Military personnel in West Berlin left i hair cars at Home and resorted to Public transportation As the weekend smog Alert Tinl led City officials to impose stringent driving restrictions continued monday. A West Berlin police spokesman Mon Day afternoon said 18,000 motorists had been stopped and told to Park their care under provisions of a year old smog Aler plan. About 3.000 motorists were fined 40 Marks about $22,25 for driving in Defiance of the provisions the spokes Man said. The restrictions which ban polluting vehicles from City streets were to continue at least through monday the police spokesman said. Can without catalytic converters Dic Sel engines or special permission have been banned from City streets until pollution readings fall. The anti smog Law is facing its first test since going into effect in late 1985, he police spokesman said. Members of the american military Community which numbers 13,000 in a City of 1.2 million inhabitants also fac driving restrictions. West Berlin police can require a . Military Driver to Park his or her vehicle but they May not issues Fine said army Cap. Scott Johnson spokesman for the . Comet Berlin. 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Tracks with diesel engines and with a Gross weight of 2.5 tons or less Are exempt from the driving restrictions the spokesman said. " the smog albeit has t been much of a problem for the Genera populace be cause the Public transportation is Osgood Johnson said. Air Force la. Col. Johnnie Rump Public affairs officer at Tempelhof Cen trial Airport said the base Public address system was used sunday to Alert person Nel on the first Day of the smog Alert. Signs wanting of the driving restrictions and a Telephone Alert were used sunday to ready personnel for the upcoming work week he said Kump said monday the Alert if any thing has Only delayed the arrival of some people who Are using Public trans  military police have been stopping military motorists and advising them of the restriction Johnson said. Thai prac Tice will change As the word gets out to the Community through radio and other channels he said. Police will require Drivers of vehicles not in compliance with the City code to Park their can. Military travellers driving to Berlin Ait advised to display a copy of their lag orders in the Windshield of their vehicles when leaving the Dre Linden checkpoint and driving to their accommodations. Vehicles not in compliance with the smog code May not be driven during be visit said spec. 4 Erik Faye of the . Come Berlin Public affairs office. German authorities Are issuing passes to incoming motorists that allow them to reach their hotels City police officials said. Vii corps clean team program urges gis to fess up to drugs Byton Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Nuernberg Vii corps wants it soldiers to turn themselves in before they re caught using illegal drugs. Clean team a Vii corps program begun last june to discourage sold ice athletics from taking drugs was expanded last month to include All 35,000 corp soldiers. Corps officials said the program Origi Nally was designed to include combat and combat support fighting teams and Crews. All that was missing was enough equipment to do the testing. Now that 16 portable test labs Are i place in 12 communities a Soldier s chances of getting caught Are 300 percent greater than with the Surprise unit urinalysis inspection program. With clean team abusers Are first Given a Chance to turn themselves in. Bull col. Skip Mohr who oversees vol corps personnel policies stressed that clean team is not intended to replace the random inspection program. It relies instead on the positive traits found in athletics to help abusers help themselves and each other. Clean team brings peer pressure and unit cohesive Ness to Bear on member of squads teams sections and Crews to clean up their act Mohr said. Soldiers scheduled to Lake part i major Field exercises Are Given a 30-Day Grace period before training when they can come Forward admit they have a drug problem and Lake advantage of treatment at local drug and alcohol coun seling centers. Mohr said the program s intent is not to catch drug abusers but Locure them. Testing of units within each battalion begins within two weeks of training. If a Soldier abusing drugs does not come for Ward by then and he s caught he is very Likely to face a court martial Mohr said. With clean team they decide for themselves Mohr said. It s in their Best interest to fuss  soldiers know in Advance that at least to percent of their unit will be tested he  program will Reward units that maintain a 100 percent drug free status for one year with bigger and belter re wards for hitting two and three year drug free Marks. At least to percent of unit must be tested no less than three times during the period in order to qualify Vii Conn alcohol and drug abuse chief Wil Hardy said statistics on the athletic team testing program show thai out of 2,394 soldiers tested for drugs be tween last june and Friday Only one was positive. The corps $240,000 investment in the testing equipment gives it almost three limes the capability it had before to test its 85,000 soldiers. Mohr said he does t think any other command has a similar program but we be been getting a lot of inquiries  canadians sober driving rate up Hie but jewelry do ref de in yester Jay s Stan and stripes is available through Dir cafes mall order Catalon. By Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Lahr Germany Holiday season traffic accidents involving alcohol impaired Canadian forces Europe driven in 1986 cafe s first year in the Cele brate sober Campaign were about half As numerous As in 1985, officials said. Officials hesitated to give the Holiday Campaign credit for the decline however saying stiffer drunk driving penalties and other factors could have affected statistics. Six cafe licensed Drivers were in traffic accidents after drinking Between dec. 1 and Jan. 4, said Pamela c. Frail Csc cafe regional drug education coordinator. Thirteen intoxicated cafe Drivers were involved in Holiday season Acci dents the previous year. We had absolutely no impaired driving charges from the 22nd to the 28lh of  Fralick said. Cafe joined the . Military s Cele brate sober Campaign for the first Lime in 1986, trying to convince people they should not drive after drinking. Military police increased spot checks and patrols during the five week period stopping 2,964 vehicles with cafe License plates if one of our goals in this Campaign was to raise awareness we certainly accomplished it Fralick said. Some times people made jokes but at least they were talking about  she said factors other than the Campaign could have had an effect on driving habits. For example cafe officials used to suspend a Driver s License for three months after the Driver s first drunk driving offence six months after the Sec Ond offence and two years after the third. Maj. Gen. David p. Wightman the former cafe commander raised the suspension periods in july 1986 to one two and five Yean. In the last six months of 1985, when the old penalties were in effect police found 73 cafe Drivers in vehicular Acci dents to be impaired by alcohol. Fifty six others received summonses for driving under the influence. In the latter half of 1986, Only 58 alcohol impaired cafe Drivers were in accidents and 66 other driven received summonses. It s hard to draw any real conclusions from these numbers because we had an increase in the Fortes Over Here and we Don t know the increase in the number of driven said maj. David j. Ashton the cafe command Security officer. More than 12,000 soldiers civilians and dependents at Lahr Baden Solling in Ramstein and Heidelberg in Ger Many and  in the Netherlands hold cafe Driver licenses. The number of Active duty cafe Mili tary personnel has increased about 30 percent in the past two Yean. Despite that increase the number of alcohol re lated traffic incidents involving cafe driven declined from 316 in 1984, to278 in 198s, to 268 in 1986. "1 think it s probably reflective of changing times Fralick said. Perhaps the decline reflects society s response to education. I think education works but it lakes  Fralick said she plans to expand the scope of celebrate sober in 1987 10 in clude a designated Driver program and other successful features used in . Military communities. She also Hope to Sun a Canadian version of the .farces summer sense program a mid year Effort to curb drinking and driving