European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page s the stars and stripes thursday june 4,1967 news updates suit by Labolt Reno Nev. A evidence regarding any past libel cases involving Mcclatchy newspapers or reporter Denny Walsh will not readmitted during the trial of former sen. Paul Laxdall s j250 million suit against the newspapers a fed eral judge has ruled. . District judge Edward c. Reed on tuesday also removed five Mcclatchy editors As defendants in the Case but denied a Mcclatchy request 10 limit Puni Tive damages in the suit. The suit is scheduled to go to trial june 2 j. Laxdall is cuing the Mcclatchy newspaper group Over a 1983 Story in its Bee newspapers in Sacra mento Modesto and Fresno Calif. The Story claimed the internal Revenue service had evidence of skimming at a Carson City hotel Casino when it was owned by lax Alt j family. Sea probe sought Washington a a new York congressman wants a Justice department investigation of statements made by Small Busi Ness administration officials concerning the scandal plagued wed tech . John j. La fake d-n.y., says incs Titsler should determine whether sea employees misled Congress three years ago by saying there was no indication that Agency officials gave preferential treatment to Wedech. The South Bronx de fee contractor received a Lions of Dott tra in no bid contracts through the sea s set aside program for minority con tractors. Temperatures a 71 Atun h u atm Elm m to it c �1 � a n u n mum 7 v 7� w 63 h Bulna 68 78 Burn grim by cum 62 4 Osmo awol 69 to of Tom h can Onogi 48 n  m ammo u to oamttwt57 71 cotc04 Leun Glan 81 81n i in i o m Toi thaa Dot upon t3 a Tuuu Al work Beach 811 6986 us i rope a weather fat Cul Tor the my Fcker Tofy atom u Obud am with no  f vat noun vol Midei Prowd 4wi m it Niroj and mud win Trail Warto we m Yosif m Hal Kotti. A nah mip Sirur 57-63. A a Hun a b m. Tun my Fri a 4 u que Pooh Lor Friy Monty Cuddy o Cox Xuy will toil ski Lamit Nwihim  Gat my and it or us we. Shh Tutt not n Imp waru a in actor Tut Muy i Awn . F k 7j c a in Gin. P 54 u h few Wiki u 67 t2 find of m us raw he. P a 48 of Pun. M 54 h m rom. P  t&61. I w of. To tax to. 1 7 61 Van comr r supp Newlby try if it it oui pm i by you by. Army information conferees get the facts on management by Charlie Bowden Munich Bureau garm1sch, Germany the Modem army and its leadership have a Vora Cious appetite for information but the information of lathered must serve Apar Post a top defense department official said wednesday. We can Bury a decision maker in in formation so it s not Only the information but the level of information that they need to do their jobs said la  o. Lang Deputy assistant Secre tary of defense for mobilization plan Ning and requirements. Lang made his remarks during the opening of the 1987 european information management conference. The conference is the first in Europe since communications automation printing and publications records management and visual information were consolidated three years ago. About 550 participant Are on hand for the conference including about two dozen vendors exhibiting the latest in computing communications and Auto mation hardware. Lang said army information managers face a Challenge in effectively integrating those five disciplines so that information is available to decision makers when and where it is needed. We be go to find a better Way to look at information As a total resource and its management As an integrated Mission area Lang said. We be had too Many groups working heir own piece of the problem in the information management area going their own Way without regard As to How and when the necessary compatibility be tween the parts might be  information management has become a major growth Industry in the world and is the fastest growing Industry in the United states Economy Lang said. The same is True in the army. We project a 70 percent increase Over the next five years defense programs in Lota Dollar obligations that we will make toward the systems that gather secure communicate. More process retrieve and present information Lang said. Over the five year period the army s outlays in these systems will buy today the pm ire Slock value of the combined assets of Xerox Rockwell Honeywell Lockheed and Mcdonnell  a major Challenge to he army s communicators is choosing systems compatible with information management sys tems of yesterday today and tomorrow. Lang said. You have to make sure that the pieces work together that they Are sup portable today and tomorrow. The important drive to take advantage of the new must be carefully balanced against the need to maintain backward compatibility with the  hand in hand with hat Lang Laid is the requirement to let Industry know what the array needs a major Challenge is to get Industry to become a full partner in their planning and thinking in terms of information management instead of just isolated products he said. Despite the revolutionary High tech products Lang said it is people who Are the vital cog in the information manage ment wheel there is no such thing As information without people involved to absorb it in Ler Prei it and apply it Lang said. Understanding the technology its possibilities and especially in limitations is Only the beginning. Information is in formation Only when it s related to my people with real problems and helps them do their Mission faster better and More economically preferably All three., that s our  California educator to head Dodds Washington is John Stremple superintendent for the Fresno Calif unified school District was named director of the department of defense dependents schools on tues Day. Stremple who Wilt assume the Job next month has worked in Fresno since 1979. He was formerly the superintendent of the san Juan unified school District in Sacramento Calif. The department of defense is de lighted to have or. Stremple accept this position of extreme importance to the Well being of children of military and civilian members in overseas areas said Chapman Cox the Pentagon s manpower chief. We Welcome the 37 years of experience As an educator and Leader of Educa lors which he brings 10 the  Dodds has born without a Perma nent director since Beth Stephens left the position in August to resume leaching in Texas. Stephens recently died of a heart attack. Following Stephens departure the director s Job was filled by Jerald  Bloom left to take Over As director of Dodds Pacific Region Bob Rauner took Over Rauner win return to his previous Job us chief of the Pentagon s office of eco nomic adjustment a Dodds pokes woman  received a Bachelor s degree from California stare University at san Francisco a master s degree from Sacra mento University and a doctorate in education from Brigham Young University in Utah. Stremple is a member of the school administrators association of califor Nia Urban schools of California. Great cily schools and the superintendent advisory Council for the stale superintendent of Public instruction. He to in the air Force and serves on the executive Board of the boy scouts of America. Dodds has about 150,000 students in 270 schools located in 20 countries. E. German president on Netherlands visit Rotterdam Netherlands a East German president Erich Honecker arrived in the Netherlands wednesday the first East bloc Leader to visit the West since last week s Warsaw pact Summit. During his three Day visit Honecker is expected by Western officials to Brief this Independent minded nato nation on the substance of the Summit held in East Berlin. Honecker arrived at Rotterdam s Zes ire Hoven Airport where he was met by dutch Premier Ruud Lubbers foreign minister Hans Van Den Broek and Rotterdam mayor Bram Peper. After a dutch army band played the East German National Anthem Honecker inspected an Honor guard made of on company of the Princess Irene battalion of world War ii Fame. The 74-year-old Honecker on his first official visit to the Netherlands is accompanied by foreign minister Oskar Fischer foreign Trade minister Ger hard Beil and Gunther Millar a High ranking communist party official responsible for Trade matters. Id 1934, Honecker reportedly took ref Uge in the Netherlands after being forced to Llee nazi Germany because of his communist party activities according to the Rotterdam daily Algereen Dag Blad. Although the East German Leader s visit has Long been planned one nato nation Diplomat in Rotterdam said his government believes Honecker May be delivering a message from the Summit to nato via the Netherlands one of the most outspoken of the european Nat nations. Or. Honecker will be the first one from the Warsaw pact who meets a member of nato about the outcome the Diplomat said. It s a very High ranking delegation. You have a rather Small official Agenda the Diplomat said. He said he expects Honecker to use his visit to explain in More detail elements of the communique issued at the end of the Warsaw pact Summit. The communique suggested that the Warsaw pact might accept nato de mands for cuts in the pact s numerically Superior conventional forces a dutch foreign ministry official also said he expects thai the Warsaw pact Summit will be discussed and confirmed that Honecker s talks with Lubbers and Van Den Broek Are expected to Deal with nuclear arms limitation human rights and East West troop reductions. Soldier 36, Dies of ruptured blood vessel Ansbach Germany a 1st army div Soldier died monday of a ruptured blood vessel in his Skull a division spokesman said. Sgt. Harry Swanson jr., 36, complained of a headache and collapsed Early Friday morning while on guard duty at Border Camp Reed dear the Hohenfels training area said maj. John Shea. Swanson was treated at a German hos Pital then transferred to the . Army Hospital in Nuernberg where he was and milled in critical condition. He died in the Hospital monday afternoon. Swanson had been assigned to co a,1st to 6ih inf at Storck Barracks in ule Beim since november 1986. The Nashville tenn., Soldier is sur Vived by his wife Rinella and daughters Roche la and Sherand Wade