European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday. April 17,1987 updates Mellon chief retires Pittsburgh a Mellon Bank announced inc retirement of chant and. David Barnes. 57, been under pressure since acknowledging management mis takes thawed 10 the tint quarterly loss in the tenk s 118-year history. The boar of directors ejected its senior . Nathan w. Pearson a to fill inc vacancy until a search Conan it tee can find a new chairman a a chief executive the Bant was Hurt v troubled Loans to developing Naf Lons Pri Marily Brazil and Loans love Energy dependent Southwest a pitch Stales student return of t Goldsboro . A a teen age Homecoming Queen who was expelled from a Church school for modelling swimsuits can keep her title and go on working when she returns to school under a settlement reached Here. If you really believe in some thing and just Slick up for it ii will work out for the  Machelte outlaw 17, said. The settlement restored her full privileges at Goldsboro Christian school. Outlaw was expelled March 11 by the Rev Tom Harper pastor of the second Baptist Church after Harper Learned she had been modelling swimsuits at a fashion show at Weil s depart ment store. Temperatures 30 u to 7 u Muu  4 t la 47 it t43 Alt Tavid Biu Wynn Tai european wealth 4vn 4pn 41 m to 6244 61 46 64 h r 43 a 41 u 36 a dim. A. U to Tonto p _ 43 �7 a wow. M 49 h of kit ai9u34iw1 Plutt t ,,. Defense test program rates ., foreign made har Kvare  Brussels Belgium  Defense contractors face an increasing Field of competitors in the race for military Busi Ness through a program forcing Side by Side testing of american and foreign products. It s another indication thai the  Is in fact serious about International armaments cooperation said Navy capt. Dennis Sullivan manager of it depart ment of defense International lest and evaluation programs. "1 can save our taxpayers a lot of Money by not reinvent ing inc  Sullivan addressed a symposium on nato Industrial cooperation this week in Brussels. He manages the nato comparative test program and the for Jen weapons evaluation program cd compare  And foreign made military hardware if a ranch of the  Armed forces is thinking of procuring a product defense contract dec lobby the service to try to sell their goods when the service requests it Sullivan s office has the funds to Eval uate he pro Virtus in Competition. Side by Side listing is designed stretch defense Money through acquit lion of existing Havare thus avoiding costly research pc pcs. Why should any of a and a partic ular we in the United Stem spend the re research and development Money to develop something. If it already exists Sullivan said. With testing and evaluation you can spend a lot less Money and find out if a product that already exists meets our . It s kind of hard to Are  but there arc Hose who do a argument. Sullivan listed prob lops the programs face including a Jfe Judice against products not inv nub in the United Stales and the a wire to buy american. Of to avoid political so a Iblis resulting from the military Jaf chasm of foreign goods Sullivan office operates under narrow guidelines first the individual ranch of the Ardd service must request the lest. The products in Competition must Mecl a frown requirement. Products have demonstrate a solid return on investment. And preference is Given to syst cry with a proven record. Trae programs do not give you the european contractor an advantage Over a. Contractor he said. If this pro in did give you an advantage. Con iss would Knock in off instantaneously it would just  the Benefit to the armed service comes in lower costs and improved chances of congressional funding Tor items passing through the testing pro Cess Sullivan Taid. The advantage from Congress s View is the return on dollars spent. For every on research about $4 of nil. Dollar  i buil Tipeni on Sullivan programs -to-1 return he said. Navy is far and away the largest Riser of the iwo programs with 26 prod Cuti scheduled Lor testing in fiscal 1987.the army follows Wilh 20, and the air  with ii. Hardware to be evaluated ranges from held telephones to anti tank weapons. Foreign Competition will come Tram the United kingdom Germany Brawl. Australia Sweden France Belgium hol land Japan Italy and Norway. The British Are most Active in the pro Gram with 20 products being tested the foreign weapons evaluation pro Gram has been around since 1981 and opens Competition to the world defense Industry. But the concept of Side by Side testing received added muscle from the 1985 Nunn amendment that called for increased cooperation among nato forces. Part of the amendment created and funded the nato comparative test program which concentrates on Competition within the Alliance Sullivan said. Congressional support for testing apparently remains Strong. Funding for the foreign weapons evaluation program Rose from an initial $9.15 million in 1981 to ji8 million for 1987. Theato program will receive $39 million in 1987, but the figure will increase next year to about $50 and will stay at that funding level for five years. No senator continues Campaign to involve a military in fighting drugs by Wil Jam j. Batman  despite Pentagon opposite in to using the armed forces to fight if War on drugs one senator con to Nuchin Call Fornall it use of the Mill Lary to combat the flow of illegal Nar i into the United  in. Alan Dixon d-il., said his staff cured military facilities in the Bahamas face neral America and along the United slates coast where the armed forces help with drug control. He said they found the nation s military resources can and should be applied to our efforts to locale and interdict the narcotics Trade. Dixon a member of the armed serv ices committee had unsuccessfully placed an amendment onto last year s defense Bill calling for military help in fighting Trie drug War. The measure proved unpopular with the committee s majority not to men Tion defense Secretary Caspar Weinberg or. Weinberger said the armed forces Are not trained As Border control guards. But Dixon said his staff interviewed  military personnel in the Bahamas ventral America and along the coast Here ail four branches of the services have worked with drug enforcement and customs officials in narcotics detection 1 found participants unanimous in to stir opinion that in work pro divided invaluable Overall t ranting an contributed gift cantly to or feral military Reading Dixon fun noted that Gen John Calvin com Mander of the  Southern come in Panama has re Quested $430,000 to design a Navy training Hopes to use armed for 310,000 Miles of River throughout Cen trial and South America frequently used by drug runners Dixon said. \ Dixon said the armed service som Millee recently Learned thai oper Mion blast Furnace which used  Military forces in cocaine producing Bolivia May Lily. Gavin \ to patrol Mormance. But despite the military activities he cites Dixon has no plans to reintroduce legislation that would place the military in the drug War. Thai could change one Dixon aide said. We continue to believe thai the equipment is there and available and would be a Good use of taxpayers  in addition to Weinberger s opposition and his colleagues wanness however Dixon also must face the fact that the new chairman of the armed services committee Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn also opposes using the military for drug control. Aides said Dixon will seek to persuade his Senate colleagues that letting the armed services attack the drug problem would be Good for inc country and the Soldier. As military personnel gain this experience in radar and target acquisition they assist in curbing the flow of illegal drugs which find their Way onto the streets of our cities he said on the sen return to South America for a repeat per a ate floor just before easter recess. 24-hour strike stalls spam s Public transport Madrid Spain up a 24-hour strike by airline train and ferry workers Over wage demands halted Public trans port across Spain wednesday causing heavy tourism losses at the Peak of the easter week Holiday. Between is and 20 percent of the 2.2 million foreign tourists expected in Spain during easter week cancelled reservations leading to losses of about 40 Bil lion pesetas s315 million according to the association of tourist zone Hote Liers the strike has also delayed delivery of the stars and stripes la readers in Spain our biggest concern is the bad image that this is giving  said Joni Cas Sempere press spokesman at the tourism ministry. If this makes us look like a land of conflicts the effect on tourism could be very serious nearly 600,000 passengers were affected by the walkouts the fourth in three weeks by Spain s 88,000 airline and Jiin workers. Trike by 3,000 ferry workers added love he travel chaos by reducing services that link inc Mainland to inc resort islands of the Balearic in the Mediterranean and the Canary archipelago in the Atlantic. Strikers Are demanding salary in creases of Between 7 and 7.5 percent challenging the socialist government s wage guidelines of s percent that Are aimed at curbing inflation