European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday March 22,1987 Weinberger s trip Home includes visit to Lajes Field Lajes Field azores a p defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger made a Short Stopover on his Way Home Friday after visits to nato members Spain and Turkey he was met by Gen. Hugo Rodin Vidro he portuguese president s representative on he azores at the joint . Portug Csc air base at Lajet on the portuguese archipelago. Weinberger visited some or the 4,000 . Servic members and their families at inc base and inspected installations said Rui Notts the base Public affairs officer. General from Paga 1 str cling arms and air Force and space armaments a communique will follow. Fighting communist Union news Media quoted the caller As saying. Giorgi Cri shot several times in the Chest was dead on arrival at a Hospital police said. Giorgi Cri s Driver was quoted As telling police that when he looked into the rear View Mirror of the Navy Blue Fiat 131, he saw a motorcycle with two men aboard because the motorcycle kept flashing ill head Light the Driver pulled Over to let it pass he said. Then the firing began. The motorcycle stopped alongside the car and the Man on the rear got off and fired More shots at the general police said the Driver told them. The killers then sped off. Police quickly set up roadblocks to try to Block their escape and Wens exam ining a motorcycle found nearby to see if it was the one used in the attack. Bush from 1 the plan to Tran   replied. Bush in a a Whf encounter 5 House corridor said of in once response Al he sub Vas exactly the  while House spoke so Parlin fat wafer said Rea matter briefly at their regu reporters in a White Side s news Confer pan and Bush disc Lar daily meeting on the president Dent did express ported the policy the presides ceremony who replied simply that the vice Presl pc to him but always sup the demons . Durin  signing he is  Bush s advice Mac   was Bush s press taking Hisk Sam Post in february the  has said he a presi during la process but has never said he o in term Fot telling inc president about the has sep he supported the president and the to stakes were  fan l Sec a conflict Fitzmaier said. As the president and first lady Nancy Reagan left.  m Camp David the president was asked if Bush had supported him and said he did. Before reporters i rations de to it icy. He find Spring from a 1 forced Sand the worst to Over from  said Roy Osugi a Hydro Oglu for the a Nonal weather service. They did  a  a new storm was a key approaching the Central Pacific coast Regio pne Ather service said forcing the posting of  for Friday night and saturday of note mount Nteta area and Northern sacramental Llcy in California ii  told in Paris the West. The Low Ojtko a Oakland Calif broke it Accord for the 42. Set five years ago and the ump Zero at r inti Mucea nev., was the coldest Ever for that City late in the season. A elsewhere Light Snow fell in new England we fair weather prevailed across much of the Central Anae St can United slates. E u com moving off ices doting Asbestos re Rudval Seph Owen Art Bureau Stuttgart germ a a renovation and Asbestos removal project at a Lufka european come s com Mand Center will prompt Mottoa All the Center s offices during the next three months Ombis said Friday. At this Point we Don t see a Azard thai should cause any panic to anybody Salvo att Barracks commander col. David b. Garvin. Asbestos has been identified As a cause asbestosis a lung disease lung cancer and  tumor among people who work directly with ii seven out of 1,000 workers can expect to i such diseases after working 45 years in air con. 0,2 Asbestos fibres per cubic centimetre said j maj. Saunden e. Wilson Industrial Hyglen cd. Chief in the preventive Medicine depart Junt i oth medical Laboratory at land stunt. Saunders said the command censer Jar contained 0.068 fibres per cubic centimetre in jfl983 test and has contained less than 0.01 fibres if cubic centimes Ter in All test since 1984. Garv Kimaid most military personnel work no More than Jirec year tour in the building and most civilians be not worked there Mare than eight Yean. J janitorial workers who tean he windowless air conditioned building reaped to enter it last week after hearing about the pro juice of Asbestos. Garvin said army and German Jet trials Are sending letters to the cleaning  the insignificance of the air s Asbestos cosh no the employees Are expected to resume clean wine building on monday he said. Building Feu pants were invited to a Friday afternoon betting arranged by the command s chief of staff Araf it Gen. Howard Crowell. 25 t /175 people work in the building and another visitors come in daily Garvin said. Garvin also said thcjl0million renovation project is not expected to pop Security threat to the Center s operations. Army apr John Bradley is heading a task Force to  redistribution of office space on the army Rios Jet no decisions have been made about lie relocate of offices the so Frand Concrete command Center was built Tillion in 1968, just after Neucom he moved Side Paris to Stuttgart. The steel beams were _ i with Asbestos As a method of fire Protection f hat they would not melt and collapse during a fire. Asbestos was a commonly used insulating material. This situation in Neucom is no different from Many situations in the states including the Pentagon an army doctor said Friday. He said Many depart ment of defense dependents schools and civilian t schools till have Asbestos insulation. Neucom officials took initial Steps to control the in the command Center when a contractor i a supplementary air conditioning system for they were in the area putting in the duct work to hmm discovered that the Asbestos was Start ing to Delenti ale and become friable " Garvin said explaining  disintegrate to particles that were invisible to fun tractor removed about a tenth of All the Asbestos inv three Story building. The decision to re Mcmall the Asbestos stems from an army directive that  removed from any building that undergoes re flotation. Initial plans called for removing Asbestos and renning in phases Over two Yean with workers remaining Inge building. But pm Well decided last week to move Ever Fety out. To play it Safe and to make sure nil we Are taking care of people so that there is no problem the decision has been made to take the people out of nth building Garvin said we anticipate that by doing ten we can Cut the construction time almost in half Bill function Itiat he  although he is medically discharged and receives full disability payments Longo said he knows of no investigation of Hiso Lunil Aid Center which failed to diagnose his condition Congo s is just one Fate umber of similar stories being heard on Capitol Hill Tusse Days As the House and Senate hold hearings on Kcf Lalion thai would allow service members to sue the Over Ament for peacetime military medical malpractice the legislation proposed by sen. James Tel Jasser d Tenn has ignited a debate Between some Lawch re and cd service members on one Side and the Pentagon � lice department on the other Over the viability of a j year old Legal precedent known As the feres doctrine the feres decision handed Down by the court bars military personnel from suing Star Overn ment for medical malpractice at military foties. Feres dealt with three lawsuits. Of was for a bar Racks fire that killed a Soldier and others were for alleged medical malpractice Byj Funy doctors. In one of those a Towel marked us Jiffry medical depart ment was found in the sur Raeh of a Soldier who had been operated on nine muffins earlier. Sasser says the Tim was come for a change. The feres deck Fin serves to treat military person Nel As second a Kris citizens he said the men and women who Jerve this country should have the same right to up fact themselves from medical malpractice As All Owr  a get notary 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 Tom Hwy personnel. It is handled through the lion. Ithal s found to be Inadel Upple d encourage con Gress to revise the  rather than allow Forecourt  be said.  ill timed now. Willard said  number of ton litigation cases in it courts has been rapidly approaching a crisis a opt a fist a Good Way to Deal with social problems he it s a social problem in itself. We need to find some. Or Way for people to Deal with the Issue of military medical malpractice rather than suing the  h. Lawrence Garrett Iii the Pentagon s top Legal couiy.1 Jaid the legislation would be disruptive because in in it servicemen bars against the  Helft Dtho Bill if passed would create pressure on Congressi  individuals who arc injured or killed due tollents other than medical malpractice Willard a reel to this Bill would  in which a percent age of service members coff Locue but the majority could not he said. Someone Nouraf Ceable to sue for negligence by a military doctor or Den Hilbus not for negligence by a military bus Driver or . This would create a privileged class of claim Sasser s Bill has not progressed beyond Lee hearings. Last year an identical Bill Neve nude it out of the Senate judiciary committee. All Hoodbh it passed the House by a vote of 317-90. Kampelman said the Pace had slackened again Ait Tai expected to propose a text of their own which contribute to further delay. The official said he did not of pct Annj be concluded in the  next round is scheduled a  23 with icam Pelman Back at Thoj Fol neg table. To see Terry shroud or a spokesman said on whether Kampelman will be Well enough to be there. He s been working very hard and been working Long  besides heading the . Delegation. Kampelman was named by Reagan in Januar " part men coun co Tim Bylel foreign minister Eduard and possibly with Gorbachev breeder said Talf in Vul to accompany Shutlz. The Moscow talks  impetus to the negotiations and also set the Siam of Weh Pimmit meet ing in Washington later in the year below Power leaders