European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 1, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 bases expand tax assistance  Kaner Lautem Bureau Ramstein a Germany air fora member sin Europe who need help filing 1986 lax returns will find an expanded program of Tret assistance on base this year. From the tas busters Al Izmir a. Turkey to the strategic tax initiative at Comiso Sicily Safe installations have been Given More Freedom in devel Oping a Range of lax help offerings thai go beyond the traditional unit tax adviser said maj David fancy chief of the administrative Law division of the Safe Slaff judge advocate s office. To tire has been some perception Hal people should go off base to get their lax returns prepared he  s a Public relation problem. It s important for the customer to know that the services Are Here on base for  people with tax questions should Check with the Trost Calls for building of 2 new aircraft carriers to replace older models base Legal office for a list of services available locally. In Yean past Legal offices trained members from each unit at a Given installation to answer tax1 questions. This year in addition to having the unit adviser program bases can hire part or full time tax help when Money is available expand Volunteer lax help programs and even set up special tax offices for coun  s tax busters and the Comiso tax initiative Are two examples of higher Profili. Tax assistance offices. Al Hill Nikon a Greece an additional civilian employee has been added to Field questions during tax  Legal office at Ankara Turkey is offering Day Long tax assistance seminars Al geographically Sepa rated  Ramstein the special tax office has a Well chosen Telephone number 4fio-help.where Lack of funds prohibits hiring additional peo ple family members and civilians with tax experience Are being called on Fahey said. And the tax help is available to any taxpayer regardless of How simple or Complex the return. Safe also is testing a computer program Hal helps people with More complicated tax problems. Turbo tax computer software allows taxpayers to Experiment with different strategies of filing the form 1040 and various  program which is available Al All base Legal offices Wiir be of most use to people who want to Start planning now for filing 1987 tax returns. Fancy said. Turbo tax allows them a Quick glance at How different methods of filing will of Eccl the lax payment next year. The Legal offices also will keep a closer watch on who needs help who offers help and what kind of help is needed Fahey said. Of 36 base Legal offices in Safe 22 Are plugged into a computer system Hal will compile information of tax services used. A study of that data will determine changes in programs offered next year. By Norman Black a military writer Washington the Navy need so Start building iwo new aircraft carriers now because it has an Opportunity to save billions of dollars and is convinced is carriers is the right number to ensure the nation s Security the service s lop officer said thursday night. Thanks to president Reagan s military buildup the Navy has 15 aircraft carriers noted . Carlisle . Trost the chief of naval operations. But several of them will exceed 45 years of age bythe late 1990s, and the Navy needs to Start building their replacements he said. Trosi a nuclear submariner by train ing who advanced to the Navy s top uni formed Job last year added it is Clear Elohim that carriers would be needed Well into the 21 is Century. No matter where our technology May Lead in the future there is Likely to be no substitute for the rational human being in the cockpit and the Large deck plat form thai can take him virtually any where in the world he declared. Troll made his remarks in a speech to the Leesburg rotary club in nearby Northern Virginia. An Advance text was released at the Pentagon. The defense department s budget re quest for fiscal 1988 includes a $640 Mil lion Down payment on the construction of two nuclear powered Nimitz class carriers. The two ships carry an estimated total Price tag of $6.9 billion and would be delivered in the Laic 1 "90s. The request has generated controversy on Capitol Hill where democratic Lead ers arc questioning whether the Navy can afford to launch such an expensive pro Gram Al a Lime of huge budget deficits. Trost. In defending the request said the United Stales would have to build even More Carrier if it wanted to be completely Safe and secure in every Case. But we have to balance our require ment against our resources he  cannot be All powerful in every the Ater Al once in the 1970s, with Loo few ships too much time Al sea Loo Many people get Ting out of the Navy the United states lost much of its Long standing sea going advantage Over the soviet Union the Admiral continued. Today the margin of Confidence lies in our favor. By every yardstick 13 carriers has proved to be the right number for our requirements. Replacing those carriers that will soon be too old to per form lies squarely in our National inter  Trost acknowledged that the Navy failed to warn Congress last year that such a budget request would be Forth coming but Only because we did t know that the Opportunity to save this kind of Moncy would present  the Newport news shipbuilding & dry Dock co., the Only Yard that can build the huge warships is months ahead of schedule in building two other carriers that were ordered earlier. This Means that if we properly plan our procurement of the two replacement carriers we will be Able to meet our minimum needs for Carrier aviation in the 21st Century Al a tremendous savings in Cost Trast said. We have an Opportunity to save $3 billion by starting the procurement process with next year s  sometime in the future when our National leaders ask As they do today in every crisis where Are the carriers i Hope the chief of naval opera Lions of that pm won t have to reply that we left them Back on the drawing Board troll said. Military clothing buyer pleads guilty to charges Philadelphia the Deputy director of the clothing and textile directorate. Defense personnel support Agency has pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to defraud the United slates. Frank l. Coccia entered the pleas tuesday in connection with an investigation of fraud and corruption involving military clothing procurement activities according to a release Friday from the department of defense office of the in Spector general. The guilty pleas arc part of a plea arrange ment with the . Attorney s office. Coccia is the fourth person to plead guilty As a result of a three year investigation. He faces a maximum possible sen tence of 25 years in prison and $500.000 in fines. Lawyer Joseph Touhey left and Griffin o Neal leave courthouse after Nihar. Actor o neat s son Given probation in fatal Accident Annapolis. My. A Griffin o Neal son of actor Ryan o Neal was fined $200 and placed on 18 months probation Friday for a boating Accident Hal killed the son of film director fran Cis Ford Coppola. Anne and Del county circuit judge Martin Wolff my a stringent list of conditions for probation and told o Neal that if he violated any of them the judge would invoke a 3 Way jail term that had been suspended. Under the conditions o Neal will be required to submit to periodic drug test ing will have to attend school or work and will have to perform More than 400 hours of Community service. Wolff said he had found nothing Good about o Neal in the reports Given to him. You have a history of lying with Little respect for others the judge told the 22-year-old defendant. Wolff said he hoped the probation period will allow o Neal to gel his life in order. O Neal was convicted by Wolff on dec. 19 of negligent operation of a boat. The judge found him Innocci of a More serious charge of boat manslaughter. O Neal was driving a rented 14-Footrunabout on the crowded South River near Annapolis last memorial Day when in struck a Tow line Connic no two sail boats. Gian Carlo Coppola 23. Was Hil bythe rope and thrown backward Onjo the deck of the aluminium boat. He died of massive head injuries. O Neal Coppola and Jacqueline do la Fontayne Coppola s Girlfriend were in the area for filming of gardens of Stone a movie directed by the elder Coppola. O Neal Iasi Ifird he did not Sec the rope until the last second Loo late to warn Coppola and Wolff said he believed him. Wolff said Al the conclusion of the trial thai the testimony proved o Neal did not follow Safe boating rules and operated the boat in a negligent  judge said however that death and negligence do not equal  while there was testimony that the two men had consumed a six pack of Beer during the a fit Moon and had drinks with lunch Wolff said there was no Evi Dence to show that o Neal was drunk