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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 5, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes thursday february 5,1987 palme probe crisis Stockholm. Sweden a talks Between police and prosecutors Over How to pursue the killer of prime minister Olof palme broke Down monday swe Den s National news Agency to re ported. A major crisis emerged in in easy relations Between the prosecutors headed by ones scime and the Stockholm police com missioner. Hans Holycr utter the apparent failure of a police Roundup of 20 people 10 week Sago. Palme a socialist who was elected prime minister four limes was shot from behind while walk ing Home with his wife from a downtown movie theater last feb. 28. To quoted police spokesman Leif Hallburg As saying the investigation would he reorganized. Temperatures l arc flute l h m x it tax m 71 of film 37 it � 49 til it Tel 41 i nh9uq 0 �  i so Europea i Ealther 4pn, in. P � id ii 17 l undo i d 41 4flfy ii Jobby a to Tui tit Diett is ibs s a ma17 a i Tii Riim Armik Snody ten n.1f.inr of a. A be Owdy hmm no Fitow. Air pc face i ratifies Neq found add Jab Germa Theair Force to who was foun dead Mon Day Fronin apparent drug Erdosy has been if tidied As staff sgt Atrick w. Ragman 34, was with in european  div at a Flat As Gerej Juny. He is survived Bemis wife Caro Flanagan Stepson Tom John son m Kaiserslautern and Tad aug Len Banel Flanagan and Kellie Kwh live in the United Stales. Lanagan was from Midland Tel he air Force office of special Teves Lions is investigating the Deal a Kesman for the 316th air div Grid tuesday. Agreement proposed in impasse Oxer German plates for go cars i Reavis writer the German  has pro posed an  to Over come inc difficulties of is License plates to . And government civilians 3 government spokesman said. Negotiations Between the German government and . Military authorities began last april but reached an impasse around october inc spokesman said the problem is not due to Lack Osgood will but or opposing Legal interpret nations. The americans claim the staff of forces agreement is Legal found non enough for receiving the plate Rit our ministry of Justice takes Ujj imposition that if it issues the Laup Fth vehicle must Alia be  Laws to overcome that impasse the Ger Man  drawn up a Lega agreement a trealy it Hopes will be approved by be americans said the source Abo spoke on inc condition he nolo framed. Ii will allow All . Rail. Personnel and endangered persons have German License plates on their private vehicles. The treaty was submitted to the americans in  a spokeswoman for the . Army in Europe confirmed that Usa eur i Cei Ved a response from the German Merit but she said the Cost Nan further comment Al this tit negotiations for Subj alpines Are Eon ring with the  a. Saurian . European come said pm i would be inappropriate to com0awfcuilhc specifics of these no tons null Kvare  the Arneri Albi to capt the German dial the Govel Alto spokesman said it then must get  approval before it can be sign into effect that Means several months will Pas before an actual time for License plate conversion can be set he said. He would not discuss specifics of the proposal. At about the same time the License plat discussion started in Germany americans with Allied forces Italy plates began converting to italian civilian plates. Carmine Sodano spokesman for the naval support activity motor vehicle office in  conversion pro Cess  by  a plates arc switching i Gratian plates when they apply for their dearly registration renewal Sodano  must pay a j29 fee. In Spain . Military personnel have been using Standard Spanish License plaits for about six years while Ameri cans in Greece changed from distinguishable plates to Standard civilian ones in the summer of 1986. In Belgium All nationalities assigned to shape have special plates identified by so followed by Naniben. But i Klein Brogl Belgium americans use tourists plates which blend in with those of tourists from other countries. In England services Cambera bringing Laconto the country May keep their am Crney Latch for one year. After that they  British plates. American still la foreigners in tur key Are required la a distinctive License plates. In the Nethe Nwa americans Are issued dutch plates Wreh Pectal let ters identifying ilium As am Hcan Mili tary  Tyty Tarj King crush in Naomi contribute to i port Weinberger tells Navy to drop plan freezing number of Active duty women by Norman Black a military writer Washington defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger angered because he was not consulted in Advance has or dered the Navy to rescind a decision to freeze the number of women on Active duty far the next five Yean Weinberger s order was announced tuesday by Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims one Day after the Navy disclosed that adm. Carlisle . Trost the chief of naval operations had decided that female enlisted strength had to be Frozen. The policy in t changed Sims  policy is the same As it was and any thought of changing it has been rescinded by the Secretary. He said the Navy would be free tomake a Case for changing its current goals for female strength. But he said Weinberger was pleased with the Navy s original goal of increasing female enlisted strength by roughly 10 percent Over the next five year. If the Navy has reasons for changing its policy which he Weinberger is perfectly comfortable with i m sure they can present it to him and hell have an open mind on the subject Sim said. But the fact is he is pleased with the policy we had before. He was not Consul Ted about any changes. He became aware of them and has asked that those pro posed changes be  asked Why Weinberger had not Bee informed of trost1 j decision in Advance Sims added "1 just can t explain it. I Don t know Why a change in policy was made without any reference to assistant Secretary Chapman Cox or to the Secre tary. But a change web either planned or proposed nod it is now on  Cox is the senior aide to Weinberg Erwith responsibility for personnel issues. The Navy monday said troll decided his service had to limit the growth of enlisted female sailors because of the congressional ban on assigning women to combat ships. The Navy n currently growing to Ward a 600-ship Fleet and needs men for Hose vessels the service said. Congress has not approved some recent increases in enlisted manpower sought by the Navy forcing adjustments in the num Ber of jobs maintained at Shore installations for men the service said. Those adjustment involve the designation of various jobs As either Shore in Tensive or sea intensive ratings. The Navy s goal is to maintain enough Post Lions or billets at Shore installations to ensure that male sailors can rotate periodically to land bases instead of drawing perpetual Tea duty assignments. Since women can t draw the same sea going assignments As men Trost decided the Navy could not afford to continue increasing the number of women filling the Shore based billets. Under Trust s decision the number of enlisted women on Active duty would have been capped at the current figure of 46,796 through fiscal 1991, instead of being allowed to grow As originally projected by roughly 10 percent w . Weinberger ordered the Navy to rescind its decision because he does t like to learn of such things second hand be cause be is committed to including women to the greatest extent possible and because he wants to head off an controversy with Congress said an aide who did not wish to be identified. According to the most recent Penta gon statistics the Navy has 46,796 females on Active duty or about 9 percent of its enlisted Force compared to an Overall Pentagon figure of 10.04 percent. The Navy refused to comment tues Day on Weinberger s order. Domenic apologizes to Mikulski for joke Washington a sen. Pete do Menici , has apologized to sen. Barbara a. Miku Sld d-md., for making a joke about her during a dinner at a Washington All male club last weekend. Domenici speaking Al the Alfalfa club s annual dinner saturday night jokingly claimed to be so electrifying that just like the Singer Tom Jones women often throw their panties at me when 1 speak i happened again just yesterday. Just Don t know what got into senator Mikulsky the dinner attended this year by 650 businessmen and government officials it billed As strict in for laughs and tradition ally is closed to the press. But the Washington Post citing sources reported the joke. Mikul Slu who won election to the Senate last novem Ber said she found it outrageous and insulting and not particularly funny. Civilian killed crossing autobahn Munich ,. ,._ 12. From the army s 66th military genre brigade was struck by two can and lulled saturday evening As he walked across an autobahn . A memorial service for hover will be at 3 or  spokesman Iyer s Hometown and the names of his survivors were not available tuck scene. An Audi a b spokesman said. He was then hit by Mercedes limousine staff car driven by an american Soldier the spokesman said. Boyer was pronounced dead at the the staff spokeswoman sol. Elayne Venema he police spokesman said the Audi s injured and his 21-Merwhl severely injured. The merc cac  injured the spokesman said  
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