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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 27, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 27. 1967 the stars and stripes pafl�9 poor Exchange rates Cost Aid 3hinoton apr the  Zitur nil Tinl r i has lost the  dollars by using unfavourable Exchange rates for us Money in countries it was helping inspector general Herbert Beckington said tuesday. The Aid Mission in h Salvador exchanged . Dollars at a lower offi Cial rate than a higher parallel Commer Cial rate fits september 1982 of tember i98s. Resuli fog in Shaft of a 133 million  of Des Beckington  opera Lions Subco Milf a the Senate a Propri Tiong uni tree. His Dea y7 James Dumiel said later that Ujj Fiir latin american countries lice examined Guatemala Ecuador Al Salvador and Peru they found a totsofs50 million ourt lil added that under pressure office the Agency Mac lha used for saved $ so  year  to help poor in Many Fields. Including Edun housing health and family planning. Like other major Federal departments and agencies Aid has an inspector general with Power to make investigations independently. Most . Aid agreements require that the dollars inc United Stales con tribute must be exchanged at the High est Legal rate in the country concerned Many countries have several rates to favor tourists groups. I Ujj Melreit people in the Field let _ local governments make them use the least favourable rate for the United states Beckington explained after his Timony. The Agency s Bureau for a Mullen Caribbean had followed his  and taken heps to Deal Wii problem. A up to this moment for reasons unknown to me this has not been done worldwide Beckington added. In his testimony he said additional hundreds of millions of dollars May be Tost or their value seriously reduced be cause the countries that the United slates helped did no make the agreed contributions to project. . Law re quires that on development Aid projects the Host country must contribute 25 percent of the Cost. We found that most Host govern ments failed to make their agreed upon contributions and in Many cases Are not even financially capable of doing so Beckington said. He contended that the widespread existence of this problem and the fail Dresa it clearly jeopardize the Jii investment of already limited fun Ontal reign Aid pro  _ the Reagan . Re questing $2.2 billion for foreign rom the 1988 fiscal year starring oct. I. 1,000 in dec notions expected to die of cancer from chernobyl London a about 1,000 people in the euro Pean economic Community will die from cancer Over the next 50 years because of radiation from the Cher Nobyl nuclear disaster according to a British study released wednesday. One of the authors of the study said about 2,000 non fatal thyroid cancers would occur in the 12-nation bloc because of chernobyl fallout. The study by Britain s state funded National radio logical Protection Board said most of the 1,000 deaths with be concentrated in Southern Germany Greece and Northern Italy. But the study conducted for the Brussels Belgium based executive commission of the dec said that Over the same 50-year period about 30 million people in the Community will die of cancer from other sources it said it Wilt be impossible to determine which can cer deaths were caused by radioactivity released during hut april s fire and explosion at the chernobyl Power to tation in the soviet Ukraine. I he Board said the report is the first Complete assessment of the effects of the chernobyl disaster on the 320 million residents of the dec an explosion inside a reactor at chernobyl lulled 31 people in the soviet Union and sent Clouds of radioactive cesium-134, iodine 31 and strontium into the atmosphere. The radioactive pollution was carried by the wind across the Ukraine and Western Europe and eventually around the world. Doses generally grew weaker the farther the pollution was carried from the stricken Plant. The report said people in Southern Germany were exposed to the highest average chernobyl radiation doses in the dec with each adult receiving an average of 380 Micro Sieverts of radiation from chernobyl since the disaster. The report said that figure compared with average doses of 500 Micro Sieverts in Greece 200 in Northern Italy and 50 in Britain. A Micro Sirvert is a measure of radioactivity. The average dose of radioactivity Over a year from rocks and other Ordinary sources is 1,000 to 2,000 Mic Rosie verts the or porn Laid. It said most of the 1,000 predicted chernobyl linked cancer deaths in the dec about 750 would occur in Germany and Italy. It said people who spent a lot of time outdoors or ate above average amounts of contaminated food May have received As much at 1,900 Micro Sieverts of Radia Tion from chernobyl in Southern Germany 1,300 in Greece 1,100 in Northern Italy 970 in Eastern France 840 in Western Britain and 520 in Northern Ireland. One of the authors of the report Mary Money told British broadcasting corp. Radio the variation in the doses is due to the different weather conditions experienced in each country As the radioactive Cloud passed  jazz artist Brubeck playing for soviets Moscow a american jazz pianist Dave Brubeck arrived in the soviet Union on wednesday for a concert tour Long awaited by soviet fans and repeatedly postponed because of uneasy .-soviet relations. Brubeck told reporters at the Moscow Airport that he wrote new material for the 13-concert Lour and that he Hopes to Issue a new record album in both the United states and inc soviet Union the 66-year-old pianist has been Well known through radio broadcasts records and tapes for 30 years in the soviet Union. His previous plans for a concert tour of the soviet Union fell through because of strained relations Between the. United states and the so Viet Union Brubeck said. Officials of the soviet government Organiza Tion that books concerts gos Kossert smiled broadly and handed him bouquets As they told Brubeck How Long they had waited for his tour. We be started out Many times. Actually we were in Europe on the Way Here when the cultural climate changed Brubeck said. It seemed absolutely the right time now. I be written new material but i hear they want the  most of Brubeck s fans will not gel an Opportunity to Sec the concerts limited to Moscow Leningrad and the estonian capital of Tallinn Pentagon to centralize plan pm airspace needed in toning Washingto tap the Pentagon May not be Able to resolve Rufft residents complaints of being bombed and strafe toy warplanes but it has decided it has to bring somerder to the process of setting aside airspace Tor Milita Waining. The defense department in a to 24 letter to the general accounting office officially incurred with a new audit s conclusion that the Navy Arlly in Force have been approaching airspace manage Man Iii Hap Hazard fashion. Because it has not been a High priority in the 1 apartment of defense the military services Havel attempted to forecast or coordinate their Reo Job to restrict airspace said the Gao the  watchdog Agency. The result the Agency added has Hiff the deploy ment of High Speed tighten to base Puiai don1 have sufficient restricted airspace  purposes and which have Little Prospect of paining rights to such airspace without touching Preitler fights with Resi dents and the civilian so Jon Community. While offering a few Veals the Pentagon agreed it was time to Centra a planning and better define its needs  by july Imp the department of defense plans to develop afr Active that will require the services 10 Develor no maintain airspace plans use these plans to he remake aircraft Basing and Mission decisions and me these plans with the Federal aviation adminis Alion and affected Stales the Pentagon wrote the Gao. Airspace planning withe Dod however can Only be effective if  by planning from other lectors of ave it some of the most disruptive changes to a franic flows in recent years have been the  airline decisions to centralize the hymn their aircraft through designated regional air Jinx  e 27-Page audit by the Gao initiated on its own Writy last year was published monday. It paints in Bleak terms a problem thai has become Only Loo real to Rural residents in recent years particularly in the West too Little airspace to accommodate the Pentagon s de s for Low flying fast moving jets Taniza ions such As the Denver based Western Soli Ofcky and the Washington based Rural coalition Are Tiomi expansion of military air training corridors and Are de boding strict enforcement of rules govern ing such thin direct flight paths Over ranches and farm Homes to the Gao said  of at least four states Nevada North Cah Toa Florida and Oregon have complained Ronnall Tui military demands for More airspace citing safely Uto inic and Environ mental concerns. To the Gao predicted that the proct Tais going to get worse. The Faa has increased so Callella special use airspace for military operations from 79w Square Miles to 860,000 Square Miles Over the past five tors. But the volume of airspace needed for military training and testing. Will continue to grow thanks to the introduction of new air ran the Agency warned  
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