European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 26,1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 military Fri Riidu to maj. Gen. Waller takes command of 8th inf div bad Kreuz Nach Germany leadership of the bad or Cugnach military Community and 8lh inf div changed hands wednesday when maj. Gen. Calvin , Waller relieved maj. Gen. Orren r. Whiddon. Waller comes to bad Kreuz Nach from fort Lewis wash., where he was Deputy commander of i corp. Whiddon took command of the Community and the division in june 1985 he was awarded the  service medal during Chang of command ceremonies at Rose Barracks. His next assignment is in Washington , where he will Lake the Post of Deputy commander of . Army forces come fort Mcpherson a. Rhein main air terminal to be shut for open House Rhein main a Germany the Passen Ger terminal will be closed from 10 . Sat urday until 6 . Sunday because of the annual open House. The military Airfield will be closed from noon saturday until 10 . Sunday and no military Airlift come commercial charter flights Are scheduled to arrive or depart then. Transportation offices needing seals on regularly scheduled airlines for duty passengers should Contact the european passenger Reser vation Center Al 330-72 is. While the passenger terminal is closed Mili tary members or department of defense civil ians needing emergency leave flights or Passen Gers signing up for space available travel May Call the passenger service Center representative in Hie Rhein main a hotel lobby at 069-699 7242. Whistle Blower challenges form Washington a several congressional committees alerted by a Pentagon whistle Blower have begun challenging a Reagan administration push to require employees with Security clearances to sign non disclosure agreements the non disclosure agreement known As Standard form 189, supposedly is designed to underline the obligations of Federal workers to protect classified in formation. But the form is so broadly worded that employees who sign it can face disciplinary action or Fow their jobs for releasing information that has t been Classi fied congressional investigators said. According 10 rep John d. Dingell d-micn., one administration official has acknowledged the form i designed to simplify going after someone suspected of leaking information to the press. Congressional investigators also assert the administration quietly has erected an unusual double Standard allowing employees of defense contractors to sign a less onerous agreement. Subcommittee chairman rep. Gerry Sikorski d minn., sent a letter wednesday to Frank Carlucci president Reagan s National Security adviser demanding that use of the form be suspended Sikorski wrote that continued use of the document constituted a new thinly veiled attempt to impose unnecessary and unacceptable speech limiting Mea sures on Federal  the congressional interest in the forms was spurred last month when Pentagon whistle Blower a. Ernest Fitzge Rald disclosed he had been threatened with losing his Security clearance unless lie signed he document to summarize. A government employee could be punished severely in fact fired or jailed for indirect release of unclassified but classifiable in formation which May have come into his or her pos session Ding to wrote. Dingell said his staff had recently interviewed the Man a Tisoc office is responsible for the form Steven Garfinkel director of the information Security Over sight office. Garfinkel during Ilic course of the interview said the impetus for the form was White House anger Over leaks " efforts to Contact Garfinkel on wednesday were unsuccessful. The Pentagon also declined comment. Nato War plan Success linked to weapons Cost Washington up nato s Central War Hehling strategy can improve if High technology weapons being developed perform As advertised and Mem Bers arc willing to invest in he expensive weaponry a congressional report said wednesday. The office of technology assessment a non parti san analytical Agency that helps Congress examine Complex and highly technical issues studied nato s follow on forces attack sofa strategy. The plan is intended to keep the Warsaw pact from capitalizing in a conventional War on its numerically Superior forces in Central Europe by attacking some of those forces As they come up from the rear blowing or stopping them from reaching the  to nato has some capability to do that today the report noted. The strategy relies on sophisticated sensors that can look deep behind the lines to find tanks and other targets and modern weapons that can reach and Knock out those targets. While the technology for Bolh these applications is Well into development Many systems have yet to be demonstrated the Ota report said. Strong doubts re main about How Well they will work under realistic combat situations and about whether the ultimate performance will justify the Osl. Some concerns Are the performance of Many sophisticated by Sicaras in the presence of countermeasures he survivability of important air planes and Overall performance when several sophisticated sys tems Are combined it said. The lengthy study said that procurement issues such As who will produce the equipment and How it will be paid for have assumed major importance with in the Alliance. Implementing sofa will mean bringing Man new High technology systems on line. Some will have to be procured in Large quantities. Congre win face the Issue of How to finance Chi in an Era of Lille or no increases in defense  european allies said the report arc also faced with tight in some costs declining defense budgets. They Are reluctant to embark on Large spending program particularly the very Large spending programs that could be associated with a conventional buildup to compensate for drastic reductions in nuclear weapons. Sofa is unlikely to require spending on that same scale. The europeans Are concerned not Only about How much will have to be spent but also where and How ii will be spent in said. The report noted the new plan surfaced about the same Lime As a number of . Equipment developments leading Many in Europe to View it As a plan to sell . Equipment. It added that allies Are unlikely to simply buy . Systems preferring co development programs that stimulate european technology development As Well As  Swiss in uproar Over German film backing plan to disband militia Geneva a the Swiss Are up in arms Over what they View As a broadside against their militia from neighbouring West Germany three years before Neutral Switzerland is to Vole on a proposal to disband the 6io, Force a West Ger Man to film supporting the proposal has caused wide spread popular protest and a government condemnation. The film tilled the dream of the slaughtering of the holiest cow was broadcast Early this month on Channel Hal can be viewed in most of Switzerland. It describes the anti army people s initiative Campaign which collected 113,000 signatures on a petition Given to the Swiss Federal chancellors. Under the system of direct democracy in this nation of 6 i million that num Ber of signatures is enough to Force a National referendum. The proposal would replace All reference to Swiss defense needs in the Federal Constitution by the sen tence Switzerland has no army and a clause prohibiting All military training. Sympathizers include Friedrich  and Max Frisco Well known Swiss writers who made Brief appearance in the  observers predict the proposal is headed for a lopsided defeat in a country in which he military has a Long tradition. The Reserve Force has not fought in foreign wars for five centuries but is rated one of the Best trained and most highly motivated in the world. Switzerland has no army it is an army is a often heard phrase. Every militia member Between the Ages of 20 and 50 keeps Bis assault Rifle at Home to allow full mobilization in lets than 48 hours. For tresses bunkers and underground Supply depots Are common in the mountains. Switzerland is the Only West european country where conscientious objectors Are still sent to jail Al though criticism from Church and human rights groups has prompted authorities to plan changes in the Law. The German film was written by roman Brodmann 67, a Swiss television writer who was one of the Early supporters of the proposal to abolish the army. The work created an immediate uproar. German to a frontal attack on the Swiss army was the Banner headline in Blick the country s biggest circulation tabloid. A prominent member of the conservative Radical party Jean Pierre Bonny formally demanded that the government comment on what he called an unfriendly  in a statement read to parliament defense minister Arnold holler said it was incomprehensible that German television would broadcast propaganda for the anti army proposal. He expressed regret that prominent Swiss helped spread what he termed blatant falsehoods in   shirt he doubled the army s role in protecting Switzerland during world War ii when the country was surrounded by nazi armies. Frisch de scribed the army As a bodyguard of the bourgeoisie that opened fire Only twice this Century on workers during a 1918 general strike and on anti fascist demonstrators in 1932. Historians credit the army with shooting Down at least nine Luftwaffe planes that crossed into Swiss Aii space during world War ii. Most Swiss Media viewed the government response As an oven action. We risk exposing ourselves to International Ridi Cule commented the Independent Der bund newspaper of Bern. Oskar Reck a leading Liberal writer asked whether the government would henceforth react to any critical television film  army would not be Worth anything if it would collapse in the face of such pseudo threats observed the weekly Welt woche. However readers reaction to the film was overwhelmingly critical probably More so because it was West German. Polls indicate the Swiss tend to like West germans least among All their neighbors. Linnas moved to Hospital Tass says Moscow a Karl Linnas an alleged War criminal deported to the soviet Union from he United states has been moved from a prison in his native Estonia to a Hospital in Leningrad the official news Agency Tass reported thursday. Lionas was moved out of the Tallinn investigatory Ward because it lacks adequate conditions for an efficient treatment of diseases he has Tass quoted the estonian  Estonia assaying. The dispatch said . Doctors who examined Lin Nas on april 20, the Day he was deported to the soviet Union found he suffered from a peptic ulcer. It said some other serious diseases were discovered after Linnas 67, arrived in Tallinn Estonia s capital. Linnas was convicted in absent a in 1962 in an Esto Nian court of lilting part in mass killings of soviet nationals imprisoned Al the Tartu concentration Camp in Estonia. The area was then occupied by the Ger mans. Linnas who has been identified in official soviet accounts As the chief of inc Tartu Camp was sentence to death. He was deported from the United Stales after the . Supreme court rejected an Appeal from his daughter