European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday March 21.1987 6 spy suspects arrested at French space Center Paris a police arrested four men and iwo women on charge of spying at the National space science Center Al Vernon government sources raid thursday the sources said five of the sin were being interrogated by officials from the French police counter espionage Ncncy inc direction de la surveillance Dutrem Tore. The sixth was charged bin then released from custody under judicial supervision the sources mid. All six were arrested monday and charged wednesday with espionage for a foreign Power the sources said. The country allegedly involved was not identified. The National Center for space studies Al Var non about to Miles West of Paris is developing the engine for the ariane 4 rocket and is studying designs for the planned arcane 5 launcher. The Center has about 1,600 employees. Saudi hostage released by Beirut kidnappers Beirut. Lebanon up a saudi hostage released unharmed in moslem West Beirut Fri Day said he was kidnapped by fundamentalists opposing the islamic conference Summit hat was he Din Kuwait in january. The saudi hostage Khaled Dib was freed by his unknown kidnappers and arrived at the Syri an troops Headquarters in the Seaside a Lect Al Baida area in West Beirut around 3 4.5 . Weinberger s trip Home includes visit to Lajes Field Lajes Field azores a defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger made a Short Stopover on his Way Home Friday following visits to nato members Spain and Turkey. Weinberger visited some of the 4,000 . Service members and their families at the base and inspected installations said Rui notes the base Public affairs officer. Moving by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Burnt Stuttgart Germany a renovation and Asbestos removal project at the . European come s command Center will prompt moving All the Center s offices during the next three months officials said Fri Day. At this Point we Don t Sec a Hazard that should cause any panic to anybody said Patch Barracks commander col. David b. Garvin. Asbestos has been identified As a cause of asbestosis a lung disease lung cancer and mesothelium a a malignant Tutor among people who work directly with it seven out of 1,000 workers can expect to develop such diseases after working 45 years in air con Taining 0.2 Asbestos fibres per cubic centimetre said army maj sounders e. Wilson Industrial Hygiene Branch chief in the preventive Medicine department 1 oth medical Laboratory at Lan Stuhl. Saunden said the command Center air contained 0.068 fibres per cubic centimetre in a 1983 test and has contained less than 0.01 fibres per cubic centimetre in All tests since 1984. Garvin said most military personnel work no More than a three year tour in the building and Mosi civilians have not worked there More than eight years janitorial workers who clean the windowless air conditioned building refused to enter it last week after hearing about the presence of Asbestos. Gar Vin said army and German officials Are sending letters to the cleaning contractor asserting the in significance of the air s Asbestos consent. The employees Are expected to resume cleaning the build in on monday he said. Building occupants were invited to a Friday afternoon briefing arranged by the command s chief of staff army it. Gen Howard Crowell. About 171 people work in the building and an other 25 to 35 visitors come in daily Garvin said. Garvin also said the $3.3 million renovation project is not expected to pose a Security threat to the Center s operations. Army cot. John Bradley is heading a task Force to supervise the redistribution of office space on the army Post but no decisions have been made about the relocation of offices. The steel and con Curcic command Center was built for ii.8 million in 1968, just after Neucom he moved from outside Paris to Stuttgart. The steel beams were sprayed with Asbestos As a method of fire Protection so that they would not melt and collapse during a tire. Asbestos was a commonly used insulating material. This situation in Neucom is no different from Many situations in the Stales including the Penta gon an army doctor said Friday. He said Many department of defense dependents schools and civilian schools still have Asbestos insulation.1 Neucom official took initial Steps to control the Asbestos in the command Center when a contractor installed a supplementary air conditioning system for computers in 1983. White they were in the area putting in the duct work the firm discovered that the Asbestos was starting to deteriorate and become friable " Gar Vin said explaining that it could disintegrate 1o particles that were invisible. The contractor moved about a tenth of All the Asbestos in tie three Story building. The decision to remove All the Asbestos stems. From an army directive that Asbestos should be removed from any building that undergoes renova Tion. Initial plans called for removing Asbestos and renovating in phases Over two years with workers remaining in the building. But Crowell decided this week to move everybody out. To play it Safe and to make sure that we Are taking care of people so. That there is no problem the decision has been made to take the people out of the building Garvin said. We anticipate that by doing this we can Cut the construction time almost in  malpractice from Page 1 eminent for medical malpractice at military facilities. Feres Deall with three lawsuits. One was for a bar news fire that killed a Soldier and he others were for alleged medical malpractice by army doctors. In one of those a Towel marked ". Army medical depart ment was found in the stomach of a Soldier who had been operated on nine months earlier. Sasser said inc Lime has come fora change. The feres decision serves to treat military person Del As second class citizens he said. The men and women who serve this country should have the same right to protect themselves from medical malpractice As All other  a military member in peacetime can be subjected to the grossest and most negligent military malpractice but has no Way to seek redress from . Courts Sasser said. Richard Willard an assistant attorney general with the Justice department said there already is in place a no fault system of compensation for injuries to Mili tary personnel. It is handled through the veterans administration. If that s found to be inadequate we d encourage Congress to revise the administrative system rather than allow More court dues against the government he said. This legislation is particularly ill timed now Willard said because the burgeoning number of tort litigation cases in . Courts Lias been rapidly approaching a crisis Point. This in t a Good Way to Deal with social prob lems he said it s a social problem in itself. We need to find some other Way for people to Deal with the Issue of military medical malpractice rather than suing the  k. Lawrence Garret i the Pentagon s top Legal counsel said the legislation would be disruptive be cause it would pit service members against the serv  he said the Bill if passed would create pressure on Congress to compensate individuals who Are injured or killed due to incidents other than medical malpractice Willard agreed. This Bill would create a situation in which a percentage of serve remembers could sue but the majority could not he said. Someone would be Able to sue for negligence by a military doctor or dentist but not for negligence by a military bus Driver or fellow service member. This would create a privileged class of claim ants Sasser s Bill has not progressed beyond subcommittee hearings. Last year an identical Bill never made it out of the Senate judiciary committee although it passed the House by a vote of 317-90. Reagan from Paga 1 he read the report that he could Sec what was going on and that the policy had become totally arms for hos tags so i Don i Sec where i could say now that in t what it degenerated into said Reagan who says he opened talks with iranians in Hopes of establishing tics with moderate elements within the regime. Reagan said he continues to explore every possible Avenue for winning the release of eight american hos tages in Lebanon. He added that whenever an Ameri can citizen is denied his rights anywhere in the world. It u the responsibility of this government to restore those  Reagan opened the 39th news conference of his presidency by uttering a Rock solid pledge to veto any attempt in Congress to raise income tax Rales. And he called on the House and Senate to adhere to the requirements in Giamro Rudman legislation to make deep new spending cuts. It s time Congress Cut the Federal budget and left the family budget alone he said. On another subject Reagan said he was not ready to decide whether to authorize new tests of exotic anti missile technology. But the president insisted that a 1972 arms control treaty with the soviet Union does not prohibit such tests and he quoted a soviet military Leader As his authority. The news conference was his first since nov. 19, a four month period of political and personal trial for Reagan. The Iran Contra affair has mushroomed in the intervening months Wilh the president s popularity plummeting in the polls to the lowest level of his presi Dency. Thus Many republicans in Congress said in and Vance that Reagan needed a skillful polished performance at the news conference 10 still any doubts about his ability to Lead the nation for the next two Yean and they were Quick to rally to his support afterwards. He was his old self said Senate Republican whip Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Rep. Henry Hyde r-ji1., said it was clearly an improvement Over his previous news  democrats also gave Reagan generally Good marts. Overall i think the president was much Mctier prepared than he was Al his Hist news conference said sen. Sam Nunn a a i think that helps  the president joked Wilh reporters and gave them the Back of Bis hand by turns. When one Raspy avg Jcck questioner exclaimed thai she had caught his laryngitis which the president faked last week to avoid answering questions Rea Gan provoked laughter when he replied imitation is the a merest form of flattery but when another reporter asked whether the Deci Sion to pursue his iranian policy was casually made the president replied the Only thing i be done casualty in the six years since i be been Here was hold a press  the president also defended his management style which came under criticism in the Tower commission report. I set the policy in this administration and they Are then to implement it Reagan said of Bis staff. You gel the besi people you can to do a Job then you Don hang aver their shoulder criticizing every thing they do or picking at them on How they re doing it he said