European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stabs and stripes Friday april 10.1987 military Roundup voting program seeks entries for slogan contest Washington . Civilian employees and the if family member Are inv cd id participate in a National voter slogan contest with the 50 states and . Territories. State winners and overseas winners who enter via the Federal voting assistance program Wilt compete in the i9gg National Cal Oul the vote Media Campaign. The National winning slogan will appear on posters voting manuals and diner publications. The winning slogan writer will receive a certificate of recognition from the Secretary of de sense. Persons who wish to enter should Send slogans or artwork although artwork is not necessary to Federal voting assistance program office of the Secretary of defense. Room i8457, Pentagon Washington . 20301. The slogan or slogans must be written on an 8 a by a Irich Sheet of paper. Name and mailing address must be included on the entry and envelope. Voting officials must receive entries by aug. I. Of Academy getting new superintendent air Force Academy Colo Mai. Gen. Charles Hamm will become superintendent of the air Force Academy and receive his third Star air Force officials announced. Hamm will replace la. Gen. Winfield Scott jr., who retires aug. I. Hamm is vice commander of air training come Randolph afi1, Texas. Deletion of regulation on acronyms explained Washington to Clear up confusion the air Force has explained the demise of its regulation thai listed abbreviations and acronyms air Force regulation 11-2 was rescinded be cause the air Force did nol need it said col Frederick p. Hallsworth Deputy administration director. In a letter to major commands Hallsworth said because an abbreviation or acronym was in apr 11-2, Fri ices did t bother to explain the term in the Basic in other cases he said writers were forbidden to use a legitimate abbreviation or acronym be cause it was t in the regulation. Safe safety record earns Foulois award Ramstein a Germany the 1986 fou Lois memorial award for the air Force s most effective night safety program went to he . Air forces in Europe Safe officials said for the second year in a Row Safe reduced its major aircraft mishap rate to the lowest level in the command s history. The 1986 rate was Down More than 12 percent from its 1985 Low and was the lowest rate in the air Force for a Large fighter command. Australian High court blocks Marine s deportation to . Canberra Australia a the High court on thursday blocked the deportation of a . Marine who descried during the Vietnam War and was arrested in december in Australia after 16 years on the run. The court which is Australia s highest judicial body ruled invalid the warrant under which Marine Pic. Douglas bean was arrested. The court said he had nol committed any indictable offence in Australia. Blanc. 39, was taken into custody by australian naval police after he applied to the . Embassy in Canberra for a passport so he could return Home to visit his ailing father in Rutland it. The . Embassy sought his a tradition to face charges of desertion. He was freed on $13,000 bail pending the High court s judgment. His lawyers argued australian defense minister Kim Beazley had no right to order Beane s arc so under the defense act after the judgment Blanc was embraced by his wife Karen 27, and his son Andrew 12. Blanc said he wanted to become an australian Citi zen and hoped to get an australian passport immedi on companion at und humanitarian grounds so he could visit his parents in the United slates. He told reporters he was not always optimistic that he would win his fight with the . Government. He said he was not sure if the . Government now would take further action. . Authorities said at the Lime of his arrest that Blanc deserted in 1970. Me was faring court martial on charges of failing to obey orders when lie escaped from a psychiatric Hospital. Blanc who grew up in Rochester vt., was a Cook with the Marino in Vietnam and saw Little Comba action according to his parents. His father Donald Beane. Is disabled with circulatory and other health problems. Brand s Mother Christine said in a december inter View that her son had been in a military jail in Danang South Vietnam and was later sent to a military Hospital for psychiatric treatment. He escaped from the Hospital and fled to Australia with the help of a priest she said. While imprisoned her son had faced a court martial on charges that included Black Market Money dealings and threatening to kill a fellow Marine she said. Israeli chief honors executed Hitler foes Berlin up israeli president Chalm Herzog thursday placed a Wreath at West Berlin s memorial to those germans executed for their role in the Abor Tive july 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and met with their survivors. After the Wreath laying which was observed by West Berlin mayor Eber hard diff gun and a select group of 100 invited guests Herzog greeted survivors of the nazi purges and toured the i prison where More than 2,500 foes of Hitler were executed. In All about 3,000 Ger mans including Many High ranking officers were put to death for trea son after a bomb planted by col. Clans Schenk von a Leader of the plot failed to kill hit Ler at his East prussian Forward command Post. Herzog accompanied by his wife. Aura and German president Rich Ard von travelled from Plocus Consec to the West Berlin City Hall where they signed the City a gilded guest Book. President Chain Keno of Israel Lay Wreath at the Ploetze Nwe memorial. Photo reports indicate problems in soviet space linkup Moscow up the soviet Union thursday succeeded in its second try at Docking the 21-ton unmanned As satellite quantum with the orbiting space station Mir however diplomats believe the word ing of the announcement indicates dam age May have been done 10 one or both spacecraft during the linkup. The official Tuss news Agency s Iid the Alro physical Observatory failed Kvanli. Or quantum in English was docked with the Mir at 4 36 . in Etc thursday. The finl attempt failed last sunday. Hut the Brief announcement Cwm cd to indicate that the Docking was not completely successful. The module was docked to the station on the Side of the engine compartment. When mechanical Contact be tween the Docking units of the module and the station was achieved the space Craft began to be linked up. Analysis of telemetry information from the space Craft indicates however that the linkup of lie module and the Orbital station is not Complete Tav. Said. Data received so far arc being an uly cd and a decision on further operations Wilh the module will be taken on the basis of the results of that analysis it said. Pip Kinum suit the wording of paragraph was a sign of trouble and indicated the quantum May be of Only limited or no use at All. One diploma i said that in the Pinsl soviet Docking techniques have resulted in damage to both the Host and the in coming spacecraft. From the wording of the announce ment it appears that maybe the Docking was Loo rough. In the past they have docked them so hard thay have damage equipment he said. Anti her possibility was that the air locks used to secure the quantum to the Mir or the life support systems of the quantum were damaged making it impossible for cosmonauts Yuri Romano to and Alexander Lav Eikin to work in the new addition. aborted lir it Rit linkup hem ten Thi Iwu sol elites Only 200 Yards fran Cump Leniun when the quantum s inboard control system failed to respond to commands properly during the final sensitive stages. The soviets were considered far be Hind the United states in Docking tech Nique until the joint .-soviet Apollo soyuz project in 1975, the world s first internationally manned rendezvous and Docking in space. The quantum a Cylinder shaped module is 19 fret Long with a diameter of 13,6 fid ii would double the living and working space of the Mir Complex. It has its own life support system and Liv ing quarters. It carries equipment and experiments nol Only from the soviet Union but from Germany the Netherlands Switzerland and the Tiirik Ipen space Agency. 11 was designed to carry out a wide Range of investigations in extraterrestrial astronomy As Well As scientific and manufacturing a risks in space
