European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 3 the stars and stripes tuesday March 10,1987 italian leasing firm fights Navy plan to build Complex by Norman Buck a military writer Washington the . Navy wants to build anew Headquarters compter outside Naples Italy id support its 6th Fleet the italian government has agreed but the Fiat group has t. So far he Fiat group an italian company that leases most of the land and buildings used by the Navy in an area of Naples known As Agnano is  years ago the Navy decided i wanted to Jei out of Agnano arguing that the existing Complex i overcrowded is incapable of withstanding earthquakes and is impossible to protect against terrorist  Navy prepared a master plan calling Tor construction of an entirely new Complex More than 20miles Inland from Agnano near he italian town of Capua. Lost year the service asked Congress for a s67 Mil lion int instalment on project Pronto to construct a new command Center Hospital and schools Pronto stands for proposed relocation of Naples total operation the Fiat group immediately objected and hired the High powered Washington lobbying firm of Patlon Boggs blow to help it tight the Navy s plan. The lobbying firm immediately began to aggressively press Start 5 Point of View. It argued that the Navy s proposed new location i too Remote from the port and even More prone to earthquakes than Agnano it challenged the Navy economic analysis with one of Iti own purporting to show the leased Complex at Agnano was cheaper Over the Long run. It informed the Navy it could easily obtain Moreland for expansion at Agnano and told Congress the Navy could defend the Agnano Complex As a fortress if it were willing to spend Little Money. The Navy tried to fight Back saying the Agnan Complex was located inside a volcanic Crater had Only one Access Road and Over the Yean had become sur rounded by Urban sprawl. Bui we did t expect the lobbying Effort last year a Navy o tidal working on the project acknowledged. They caught us by Surprise. They were Able to spread enough doubt that it led to deferment said the official who spoke on condition of  other words Congress blocked the spending re  service has now prepared a fiscal 19s8 budget request for $54.9 million to get the work started an another $72.1 million to continue in 1989. The total Price tag Over five years for the project is estimated to last week the Navy submitted a study requested bythe House appropriations committee. The report part of which is classified contains the results of new studies by Independent consultants three just on the threat of seismic activity All buttressing the Navy original arguments but Fiat is continuing to fight said Katharine r. Boyce of Pallon Boggs & blow Fiat has now identified an area for expansion Avagnano even larger than what is proposed at the new relocation  also is willing to help get a second Access Road into Agnano paved Nas commissioned its own inde pendent study of the relative threat posed by Earth quakes at the two Sites has  figures on the Cost of strengthening existing buildings and is prepared to negotiate new Long term leases the  willingly acknowledged Fiat financial inter est it will receive at least 75 percent of tie $3.8million the Navy pay this year on Agnano leases but the current location really nukes the mos sense she said. This is a very expensive project for the Navy when it has a lot of other things As  the Navy in t backing Down either. At its request the italian government has proceeded with negotiations to acquire the site near Capua Lor the new com plex. Congress meanwhile is awaiting a new general accounting office report on the dispute before taking any action the 6th Fleet in Naples had no comment monday about the associated press report. However Naples naval support activity spokesman it. Cmdr John Marchi last week told the stars and stripes that Seis Mic risk at Agnano is one of the major reasons for the desire to relocate the  capt. Gordon i Peterson jr., a Navy spokesman in London said the Navy also is concerned about spiral ing rents in Agnano overcrowding of existing property and inefficient layout of  the Navy has pursued the relocation plan for three years he raid. Relocating the Asa 9 one of the Pentagon s to three overseas construction priorities a Deputy assist ant Secretary of defense for installations told con Gress soviets celebrate women s Day with costly Flowers special meals Moscow a men rushed to deliver expensive bouquets to mothers daughters wives and sweethearts As the soviet Union celebrated International women Day Wilh the sentimentality of Mother s Day and the patriotism of a civic Holiday. The Holiday sunday also was celebrated in Man Homes with special meats. But in a reflection of the traditional role still filled by most soviet women the meals typically were prepared by the mothers and wives being honoured. We Hale this Holiday said one Moscow woman who spoke on condition of anonymity. She said women have to buy extra groceries for the Holiday meal creating new lines at stores and new shortages in an Economy plagued by scarcities of consumer goods. Gin giving is essential on International women Day As Are official greetings from the Kremlin. On Friday soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and govern ment and party officials gathered in Moscow s Bolshoi theater to extend Best wishes and Praise women s contributions to soviet life the Leaden upbeat statements reflected the Holiday mood but a recent speech by Valentina Teres Kova the first woman astronaut and former head of the soviet women s Council sketched a pessimistic portrait of today s soviet working woman. Most women work but they occupy the lower rungs of Many occupations she said in a Jan. 30 speech to a National conference of women. In Industry agriculture and construction a Large number of women Are still involved in manual jobs she said. Women held 70 percent of the lowest paying jobs in the machine tool and Metal working industries while Only 1.3 percent of people in top positions were women she said. Only one woman Alexandra Biryukova has postin the nation s lop leadership. She is a member of the secretarial of the communist party Central commit tee. Soviet women Are expected to run the household even if they work full Lime Teres Kova said. State promises of improved services and More plentiful con Sumer goods have not been fulfilled making this Job particularly difficult she said. The time expended on housework by a woman i almost equal to the length of another entire working shift she told the conference. Before Gorbachev s new policy of glasnost or openness allowed Public debate about some forbidden subjects consumer shortages were ignored in the offi Cial press. But the party newspaper pravda ran photos of shoppers standing in Long lines to buy Flowers forthe Holiday at the City s Central Market roses daffodils Sau sages and Frozen fish were specially shipped in for a Holiday fair. Similar fairs were held in the capital jus before new years giving City markets a temporary look of abundance. But prices were Steep for a country where the aver age monthly wage is about $210. A bouquet of three Long stemmed tulips Cost the equivalent of $10.50, Andred carnations sold for about $4,50 a Stem. Those who decided to skip Flowers May have take the advice of a health columnist in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomol cts. When buying for International women s Day he advised it s better to think about something original. You know that women like everything extravagant. How about. Barbells world today wine found in China May be world s oldest be Jno map archaeologists excavating a3,200-year-old Tomb have found t Bronze Jar containing Whit May be the world s oldest wine stale run newspaper said monday. The English language China daily said the wine pee Date roman wine discovered in i ship wreck in the Mediterranean and previously considered the world oldest Vintage. A Gourd shaped Jar containing the wine was found in a Tomb in Kuoshan county in Henan province the report  at Beijing University drilled two holes in the Bottom of the Jar to extract the liquid it said. To quoted i Zhuming of the University chemistry department As saying the wine s Alco hol Content bad diminished considerably and tests were needed to do Ermine whether it wit made from Grain or fruit. German cases of aids doubled in last 10 months Hamburg up1 the number of aids cases has doubled in Germany in the past 10  newspaper quoted a bavarian govern ment official As saying sunday. The Welt am sonntag newspaper said bavarian social minister Karl Hille Neier announced in Munich saturday that 959 aids cases had been registered with the Federal health ministry in Berlin at the end of Las month. This is about double the number of cases 10 months ago. Welt am sonntag said about 100,000 Ger mans Are now thought to be infected with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus and the number is doubling every eight la 10 months. At this Rale there could be 1.5 million aids carriers by 1991, and More than half of ill Ger nuns would be infected by the turn of the Cen Tury. Quake damage forces Ecuador to ration fuel Quito. Ecuador up Ecuador impose fuel rationing sunday because flooding caused by an earthquake destroyed 24 Miles of the nation s Only Oil pipeline baiting vital Petroleum exports the unprecedented measures announced by the government to conserve fuel include allow ing Only vehicles Wilh even numbered License plates to be on the streets on mondays wednes Days fridays and sundays. Those with Odd numbered plaits will be Al Lowed on the streets on the remaining Days. Venezuelan president Jaime Lusinchi ordered implementation of a Relief plan for Ecuador that would include the loan of 5 million barrels of Oil for internal use a statement issued in Caracas Venezuela said sunday. Australian secretaries give their Bosses Low Marks Sydney Australia