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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 24, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes sunday May 24,1937 cafes food outlet contract expected by Chuck Vinch Washington army commanders Mays Ongive control of i hair resale food outlets to cafes in return for a share of the earnings from such Exchange food activities As cafeterias and Burger bars. The agreement Between the army Community and family support Center and the Exchange service will allow More of the Money earned on bases to stay there and will also streamline food sales a Center spokesman said. Instead of placing dividends from its local food activities into a Central fund to be redistributed by Csc Headquarters the Exchange service would pay profits directly into the local commander s Morduc welfare and recreation fund he said. Collective mar earnings could jump by As much As $30 million a year if All commanders participate the spokesman said. At the same time he Exchange serv ice would control the resale food Market on individual bases he said. The agreement signed april 30, is pending congressional approval but army officials expect no opposition. The agreement which is not pan of the proposed cafes takeover of All army mar activities currently under review grew out of a realization that an insinuation master food plan was needed As the Exchange service expanded us Burger King restaurant operations he said we can t have a Burger King next to an mar snack bar he said. We Cut our own in goals. As More Burger Kings Are Buitt it makes sense to develop a coherent food management program at the base  activities to be transferred include food outlets in skating rinks marinas skeet and trap ranges Bowling and rec centers youth activities centers and free stand ing snack bars. Not included Are outlets at Golf courses and Rod and gun clubs because those Are dues collecting membership activities he spokesman said. Also exempt Are child care centers since they Are service oriented rather than recreational. Army mar employees in the designated activities would be offered jobs with the Exchange service if their base commanders decide to sign the agreement did the spokesman. About 1,200 employees could be affected he said. If a Transfer takes place cafes will still pay the base Between so percent and 75 percent of the Gross sales of the transferred activities depending on the volume of sales. The base mar fund also will gel half of the net earnings from All local cafes resale food outlets including Burger Kings cafeterias specially food and similar food facilities. The Only exceptions would be vending machines and theater refreshment stand which Are categorized differently. The amount of that payment will be deducted fro the monthly cafes dividend paid to the Central Csc fund. News update election fraud alleged Manila Philippines a opposition chief Juan Ponce in rile on Friday denied plotting against the government and a Fel Low Senate candidate said presi Dent Corazon Aquino should step Down because or alleged fraud in recent elections. Enrile fired last year As defens minister after an alleged coup bid by his followers later led a rally of up to 5,000 supporters denouncing alleged fraud in the May i1 ballot Many in the crowd chanted Down with Cory. Temperatures Al 72 Alan he City 71 6fi Austin 6 6370 66 40 7466 fl7 j6 77 _39 w do Ion m 77 84 m 40 g962 k 64 85 4z he Crft narc 63 84 co Turtu m 76 cohjftu4 54 5? Concord 45 04 0n�bf j7 Osoh of a h 71 f earn. 37 65 Fargo 60 7165 As 70 50s6 75 69 90 Jet Hixi 07 59 As leu 62 to a 67 fir Tufel 66 71 a m 09to 86 miam 4fl Fin my Kef 6j do to 8? u 8? m 63 Coriuna. A 47 71 Lobruno. 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Lenevie a member of a resistance group said she was arrested at Lyon Sfer Rache train station March 13, 1944, by Gestapo agents while carrying a letter intended for a resistance Leader code named Didier and that Barbie spent the next Days trying to learn if Levevre was Didier and if not who was. She was interrogated for 19 Days an tortured on nine of them. First she said she was Hung up by Handcuffs with spikes inside them and beaten with a rubber bar by Barbie and his men. Next was the Bathtub torture. She said she was ordered to strip naked and gel into a tub filled with freezing water. Her legs were lied to a bar across the tub and Barbie yanked a Chain attached to the bar to pull her under the water she testified. After 19 Days of interrogation they put me in a cell. They would Cany by the bodies of tortured people. With the Point of a Boot. Barbie would turn their Heads to look at their faces and if he saw some one he believed to be a jew he would crush it with his Heel she said. Ii was a beast not a Man she said. It was terror. He took pleasure in  during her last interrogation Barbie ordered her to lie Flat on a chair and struck her on the Back with a spiked Ball attached to a Chain. It broke a Vertebra and she said still suffers. He Lold me i Admire you but in the end everybody talks " but she never did and she heard Barbie say finally liquidate her. I Don t want to tee her any  she was condemned to death by a Ger Man military tribunal but was placed in wrong cell and deported to Ravens Bruck concentration Camp where she survived the War. Levevre said she identified Barbie a february in a face to face confrontational St. Joseph prison. During the confrontation Barbie told her " i never tortured women " she said of seven witnesses who testified Fri Day All said they were tortured and de ported by Barbie whom they recognized from Media photographs. Fraudulent aids treatment fliers sent out berlins a officials from the . Come Berlin and . Mission sat urday denied sending out fliers slating that germans can receive free aids test ing at he army Hospital in Berlin. The Mission spokesman said that Dur ing the past several Days citizens of Ber Lin and Germany have been receiving Anonymous fliers distributed in the name of a legitimate organization the initiative Berlin Usa ., encouraging membership in that organization and announcing a free aids test for any Ger Man citizen at the army Hospital. The commander of the army Hospital and the chairman of the initiative Ber Lin Usa  Have disassociated them selves from the announcement. The matter has been referred to the Berlin police for investigation and Possi ble prosecution under German Law. The leaflet Campaign is especially malicious because it misleads members of the Public seeking health care for a Crit ical problem confronting the Community a command spokesman said. He said . Military Hospital facilities do not treat German civilians except in certain emergency situations and authorities have full Confidence in German medical facilities in Berlin and in the Federal Republic to meet the medical needs of those seeking competent aids testing and treatment. . Army hospitals Are maintained exclusively to provide medical service for the . Military and other . Government employees and their families. The . Army hospitals in German have no role in administering to the Ger Man population although close professional ties and cooperation arc maintained with the German medical Community the command spokesman Laid. A recent example of such cooperation is the essential emergency support provided by Berlin hospitals and medical personnel following the bombing of Ibe la Belle disco in 1986. Any German citizen seeking aids testing should do so through German medical facilities the Mission spokes Man said. Isle Lional misuse of the num Bers listed in the fliers now in circulation could pose a life threatening danger to eligible patients seeking care at the Amy Hospital in Berlin the spokesman said. Those misusing these Telephone num Bers May be subject to criminal prosecution under German Law. Initiative Berlin Usa ., founded in 1986, is a legitimate organization established to promote German american cultural and educational exchanges Ell Aslo broaden Contact Between Beri Inen and americans. It is not a . Govern ment organization and has no formal relationship with the . Array or another . Government Agency. Friar seized in Sicily As escaped murderer Catania Sicily a police on Friday went to monastery and arrested a carmelite brother who they said escaped during world War ii bombing from a prison where he was serving a life sentence on a Mur Der conviction. The italian news Agency a i. In dispatch from this Aquino Eastern sicilian port City said Antonino d Aquino 83, had originally been sentenced to death after he was convicted in the 1930s for involvement in a slaying that occurred during a robbery. The sen tence was later commuted to Fife imprisonment. In 1943, in one of the heavy bombing Sicily suffered during the War a bomb hit the prison housing d Aquino and he and several other inmates escaped in the confusion Agi said. Tipping off police to d Aquino s whereabouts in the monastery of car mine in Catania was his sister Angela Agi said. The Agency said the woman was worried about the bail publicity for the carmelites a contemplative religious order and possible prosecution for Eer if the Friar was discovered. D Aquino has been known As brother Longenio since he joined the order shortly after h is escape Agi said. The Agency said d Aquino probably won t do made to serve the rest of his Lerm because of his age but it will be up to a magistrate to decide if clemency will be Gracie a. In the meantime while d Aquino Fate is decided the Friar is being held under arrest in a Hospital Annei of a Pris on Agi said adding that he was in poor health  
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