European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Pg�2b the stars and stripes sunday april 5,1987 31 by Dave Walczak Educ Tan writer american schoolchildren in Europe will return to classes monday aug. 31, for the 1987-88 school year. The first Day of classes for an estimated 151.000 department or defense dependent schools students will include All grades. The schedule which was mailed o District superintendents last week Calls for 183 Day of classroom instruction iwo fewer than the 1986-87 school year. Classes will end june 16, with teachers finishing work june 17, teachers will begin work aug. 26, giving them three Days to prepare Lor the school year. Teachers were Given Only one paid Day before beginning inc 1986-87 school year schools Wilt disc nov. 26 and 27 for thanksgiving and Christmas vacation will Hart . 21 and end Jan. 4. Spring recess will begin March 26 and end april 2, the schedule includes teacher workdays nov. 6, Jan. 29 and april ii student will not attend classes those Day. A spokeswoman for the overseas federation of teachers which represents Dodds teachers in the Mediterranean Region said the Union was satisfied with the Calendar especially the three Day preparation period. That was something we be always wanted Marie Saint Funaro said it s something we be always had in the pal until last however a spokesman for the overseas education association said the school year is Loo Long. It s taking the kids into mid june mid Mike Bauernfiend an sea attorney in Heidelberg Only 5 percent of the school systems in the United Stales go that Long. A Long school year is not necessary to pro vide a Good the sea represents Dodds teachers in the Atlan tic. Germany and Pacific regions and bargains on be half of the system s 10,017 teachers before school officials in Washington . A school system spokesman and sea president Jack Rollins said negotiations went smoothly. Focus is on Security for Shultz s Moscow visit Washington api the widening sex and spying scandal at the , embassy in Moscow is forc ing extraordinary Security measures for Secretary of state George p. Shultz s visit next week including use of a special communications trailer. Two additional Marine embassy guards Are suspected of having sex with soviet women it was Dis closed Friday and the defense department announced it had expanded its investigation Well beyond the Security breach at the Moscow embassy. The Pentagon said a 70-member Navy task Force of special agents and polygraph experts has been set up to investigate past and present military personnel As signed to . Diplomatic missions in the East bloc and other selected countries related Story on Page 5. The task Force will prepare espionage or other cases against any Navy personnel involved in criminal mis conduct and identify the full extent of any damage to National Security caused by these offences the Penta gon said. Already the entire 2g-member contingent of Marine guards has been recalled from Moscow As a precaution any step and the embassy s top Security officer has resumed for consultations with . Investigators. The breach initially involved two Marine guards sgt. Clayton j. Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy. Who Are accused of having sexual liaisons with soviet women and allowing soviet agents to tour the most sensitive areas of the embassy building Early last year. The implication of two More Marine guards was reported by reps Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee and Daniel a. Mica d-fta., chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee an International operations the state department refused comment. Fort Carson blast kills 3 soldiers fort Carson Colo. A an explosive charge of the Type used to Clear mine Fields blew up during a training exercise Friday killing three soldiers at fort Carson officials said. No one else was injured in the Accident. The victims were participating in an exercise in which an explosive charge is detonated to Clear a path through an imaginary mine Field. The soldiers who were familiar with the use of explosives to go through obstacles or barriers had at tempted to detonate the charge but it failed to go off said u. Col. Bob Crane a fort Carson spokesman. When the three went Back to investigate the charge went off killing All three instantly Crane said. The victims were identified As sgt. Ronald l Wil son 24, of Salt Lake City pvt. John a Dagraca 24, of East Providence. . And spec. 4 David s. Pin it 19, of Rochester Mich. Nasa from Page 1 observations and astronomy and enable future growth for Earth orbit capabilities and for missions into the Agency said ii would ask contractors to submit ideas for lowering the Cost of their respective work packages. It said an Independent technical and Cost review of the project will be conducted. The president s fiscal 1988 budget request for in space station will remain at $767 million Nasa said. Neither congressman would identify the two nor would they say whether the marines were suspected of abetting soviet espionage or merely violating strict . Government rules against intimate social contacts with soviet citizens. Rep. Olympia j. Snowe of Maine ranking Republican on Mica s subcommittee said the Moscow embassy s communications system has been shut Down and no area is considered secure. The embassy staff is re ported to be hand carrying cables to Frankfurt for transmission to Washington. As a result Snowe said a special communications vehicle u being prepared for Shutlz s use when hear Rives in Moscow on april 13 for talks with soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Hell be reduced to negotiating foreign policy in a Winnebago she said even though the United slates has spent billions of dollars to improve the Security of . Diplomatic missions in Moscow and elsewhere around the world. We built padlock around the Back door and we built stronger windows while they were walking in the front door. Mica said. State department spokesman Charles e. Redman would not confirm but did not Rule out the possibility that Shutlz might use a special communications trailer to avoid embassy equipment subject to soviet eaves dropping. But president Reagan asked by a reporter whether Shutlz would be using such a trailer replied Well i Hope he s got one with Mica said the state department had informed him and Snowe that the Only Way Shutlz could communicate securely while in Moscow was to write messages on a child s erasable magic slate holding up a plastic sheeted slate bought for 87 cents from a local toy store Mica declared this is the most secure technological equipment in America a. Gen. Carle Mundy jr., director of operations at Marine corps Headquarters in Washington asserted before Aspin s committee however that All Marine volunteers for embassy guard duty must undergo six weeks of rigorous training and continuous screening. Those who survive and Are sent oversee Are the Cream of the crop Mundy said adding that the 15,000 marines who have served As embassy guards for the past 36 years have done an extraordinarily Fine Job. Col. Carmine Del Grosso commanding officer of the Marine embassy guard battalion said every recruit 19 warned from the outset that a Don Juan Type of Marine is a liability to his electronic sure pay speeds deposits by Brenda Hoster Surit Wriler Heidelberg a new electronic fund Transfer system is gelling army civilian paychecks from Europe deposited in stateside Bank accounts in less time than the previous method of mailing checks to the Bank a civilian pay official said. We have been working on this option for Over a year now raid Mai. Craig Morton director of civilian pay for the 266tn theater finance Center. We reached a agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank system and the army finance and accounting Center in Morton s directorate has More than 34.000 employees on its payroll. Nine Hundred stateside Banks currently serve 1,900 of those employees he said. Before the new system the 266th sent a Check through the mail to each of the 900 Banks along with a list of names account numbers and the amount to be deposited in each customer s account. That method often meant delays in deposits getting accredited to customer accounts Morton said. The 266th now sends a computer tape through express mail to the Federal Reserve Bank in Indianapolis irid. The tape lists deposits to be made to each Bank and to what accounts. The Federal Reserve Bank then sends that information electronically to each Bank which then posts the deposits. Appropriated fund employees and department of defense dependents schools personnel who have stateside accounts with Banks in the Federal Reserve system May apply for the new option Morton said. Employees who want to apply for the program must Complete a Standard form 1199a. That form which is available at Banks civilian personnel offices and finance offices must be completed by the employee and the participating Bank or credit Union before it is sub melted to the 266th s civilian pay operations office Morton said. Pope from Page 1 Rrana of the Andes a chilean nun who died in 1920 and is credited with several miracles. Beatification is the final step before sainthood. But the Pope also intended the rile billed As a mass of reconciliation As a Call for dialogue be tween the Pinochet regime and chileans who want him out protesters virtually took Over a Section of the congregation Selling up barricades and causing disruptions from the time John Paul appeared. Police vans circled the protest area firing tear Gas canisters and women were seen falling to the ground apparently because of the Gas. Priests on the altar wiped their Eves and children cried and choked but Vatican officials said the Pope was not harmed. Protesters shouted slogans against Pinochet calling him and his secret police murderers and threw Nocks at police. They set bonfires and the fire depart ment was called in. Some Battles Between police and hundreds of protes ters erupted Only 50 Yards from the Pope who skipped Over parts of his prepared homily to end the Massmore quickly. Priests who had assisted the Pope during the mass came Dawn from the altar 10 Calm the crowd and to Slop organized columns of masked protesters Many wielding clubs who were provoking the disturbances. Policemen had to Duck behind the papal altar to avoid flying rocks later before going to bed the Pope who usually prays once every night prayed three limes Vatican officials said. After the mass the Pope met for 20 minutes with representatives of chilean political parties ranging from the right Wing to communists. The Poptic asked Ihm to reject the temptation to resort la violence and the politicians told him they would work toward a peaceful solution to Chile s Trou Bles. Pinochet seized Power in a bloody 1973 coup thai toppled the government of the late president Salvador Allende an elected marxist
