European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 bundled up for the Job a Pho mall Carrier Isidor Lustenberger does t let the Snow deter him from delivering his malt in he Swiss Canton of Lucerne when he roads Are burled in Snow Leitenberger dons skis to cover his route. Kissinger others meeting in Moscow with soviet officials Moscow a soviet Leader Mik Hail s. Gorbachev met wednesday with an i a member . Delegation Hal includes Henry Kissinger and former . Ambassador canc Kirkpatrick. Journalists were allowed in 10 see Gorbachev Greet the delegation and Over heard several joking comments he made before talks started at the communist parly s Central committee Headquarters. Gorbachev told Kissinger you Are a co author of Many interesting policies which arc still operative but which they Are now trying with your participation to Kissinger Secretary of state under for Mer president Nixon was one of the architects of the 1970s detente in super Power relations. Shaking hands with retired air Force Gen. David Jones former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gorbachev joked i Bacn quote from the private . Delegation from the Council on foreign relations is in mos cow for meetings with top soviet officials. The group includes Harold Brown and Cyrus Vance respectively defense Secre tary and Secretary of stale for former president Carter former sen. Charles Mathias red. Former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson and top officials of the Council on foreign relations a Pri vate organization based in new York. The group met tuesday with communist party Secretary Alenander Yakovlev who last week became a non voting member of the politburo the parly s lop policy making body. Coos guard realigns staff for drug War Rescue duties Washington a the coast guard is closing its District offices in new York and Alameda calif., in a move aimed at assigning More people to duties such As search and Rescue and the Pursuit of drug smugglers. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole who announced the closings tues Day said the coast guard also is establishing new maintenance and logistics commands in new York and Alameda. Dole said the moves would allow a switch to operations assignments of More than 500 Shore personnel. This action will permit us to use uni formed personnel in positions in which they will be most effective. The War on drug smugglers search and Rescue mis Sions and treaty enforcement will All be enhanced by this action she said the realignment stemmed from an internal study initiated by adm. Paul a Yost the coast guard commandant after he look Over in May 19s6. The study was designed to see where the serv ice could grow from within to meet in expanded operational missions. The realign mini is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The command responsibilities exercised by the now closed districts will be assumed by others. For example the jurisdiction of the 1st coast guard District which now covers new England will be extended to the Toms River in new Jersey and will include new York City. The coast guard said the new maintenance and logistics commands will free the remaining 10 coast guard districts from those support functions and allow them to concentrate an directing operations within their boundaries. Army marines to Coll up 257,000 reservists Washington a the army and Marine corps with Little Public fanfare have launched the nation s largest peacetime military Call up by preparing orders for some 357.000 inactive reservists to report Tor a single Day of Active duly. The Call Are part of a defense department Effort to improve the readiness of the individual ready re serve by screening reservists medically and reminding them they still have a military obligation. All four branches of the military have been directed by Congress and Pentagon brass to begin mandatory one Day musters of their ready reserves during the current fiscal year. Bui the army and Marine corps Are the first two services to launch the Effort on a nationwide basis. The army whose ready Reserve Force of More than 300,000 is by far the largest Goi its program off to a Rocky Start in october thanks largely to a delay in congressional passage of the Pentagon s budget. But ii is now sending out a Stream of some 16,000 to 20,000 notices a month or Dering reservists to Telephone recruiting stations and sched ule their one Day appearance. Reservists who report for screening arc eligible for one Day s pay and reimburse men of travel expenses. The Marine corps decided to narrow the number of inactive reservists it would recall this year by waiting until january to Start the process bul its program is also now under Way. The marines Are taking a slightly different tack compared with the army Selling a specific weekend during each month when a group of reservists must report to one of 52 mobilization Cen ters. Because of various co emotions the army says its Call up program for the year is focusing on roughly 240,000 inactive reservists. The Marine corps has targeted 16,900 of its 48,000 ready Reserve members this year. The air Force and Navy say they will begin nation wide musters in april bul their plans Are still being formulated. The army says the current musters already constitute the largest Ever undertaken in peacetime. Previous Call have been linked to specific wars with the largest Call up of army reservists involving 240,500 soldiers mobilized during the korean War. Alt told the four services have roughly 500,000 men and women in the ready Reserve compared with 2.1 million on Active duty and 1.13 million in the selected Reserve which consists of the regular Reserve and National guard. The ready Reserve includes men and women who have served in the military bul who upon leaving Active duty do not move into a regular Reserve or nation Al guard unit. As a result they do not Drill regularly and receive no pay. But they arc subject to the same obligations us their counterparts and can be recalled in the even of War until they be fulfilled their military service obligation thai obligation including Active duty service is i ther six or eight years depending upon when the individual entered the military. Since selected Reserve units would move out with their Active duty counterparts the ready Reserve of fers the Only source of additional trained manpower in the Early Days of any War. The army s program Calls for sending recall notices by mail to inactive reservists one to two months before their birthdays. The notice explains the reservist must report for a screening session during the month of his birthday and instructs him to Contact his nearest army recruiting Center for an appointment. The army is using 2,200. Recruiting stations across the country to screen the reservists checking their medical condition updating their military records and testing Many of them to determine How Well they Vereta ined military skills. According to Pete Shugert a spokesman for the army Reserve almost 50,000 inactive reservists received orders to report far a Day of Active duty in october november and december. Of the 49,654 individuals to whom orders were sent 19,116 or 3s.5 percent actually showed for screening Shugen said. Roughly 10 percent of the notices mailed were returned As undeliverable and the remainder were apparently ignored by the reservist. that relatively Low response rate we re going out in the Field now to conduct a Public aware Ness Campaign says maj. Gen. William f. Ward the chief of the army Reserve. The Marine corps meanwhile launched its pro Gram in january by issuing orders to 1,373 individuals to report to a mobilization Center. The Marine corps enjoyed unexpected Success with its first monthly Call up with More than 67 percent of those receiving Muster orders actually appearing said maj. Gerald Linn a Marine spokesman. Although a reservist who ignores a recall order can face various administrative sanctions including receipt of a less than fully honorable discharge Ward Stid the army intends to emphasize Public awareness at tuis Point. Later this year he explained the army will begin calling reservists who have not responded by mail
