European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday. July 31.19b7 Reagan to enter Hospital for skin cancer operation Washington a president Reagan has had a third recurrence of skin cancer and Wilt go 10 Bethesda naval Hospital on Friday to have additional tissue removed from his nose his spokesman announced thursday. White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said tests of a lesion removed wednesday from the tip of Reagan s nose was a basal cell epithelium a and a further excision of tissue was required. The spokesman said the epithelium a is the same Type of skin cancer at the two basal cell carcinoma removed from Reagan s nose in 1985. The president is in excellent health the spokesman said. The two types of skin cancer Are rarely dangerous and have no relation to Reagan s earlier bout with Colon cancer. Goodyear orders recall for Ultra grip 2 tires Munich Goodyear of Germany has is sued a precautionary recall of some of it Ultra grip 2 Winter tires which May develop Nafi cracks on the sidewall and lose air. Tires with serial numbers starting with the letters no followed by a combination of eight letters and or numbers with the final number 6,or the number 037, 047,057 or 067, Are subject to the recall an cafes Europe spokesman said. Individuals who purchased tires affected by the recall at an cafes Europe outlet should Lake them to their local Auto parts store to be replaced Cape. Mark Batch said. There is no chaise for mounting and balancing the new tires he said. Damaged Tanker Waits to be reloaded with Oil Kuwait a driven from ill moorings by High Waves the damaged supertanker Bridge ton wailed to Load Oil in the persian Gulf Hun Day As experts searched for mines along the route the ship and its us. Escorts will follow. In Washington Pentagon sources said the United Stales wisc and eight american mine sweeping helicopters from Norfolk  to the Gulf. The sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the helicopters departure was  in France defense ministry officials said the aircraft Carrier Clemenceau and three support ships left the port of Toulon thursday headed for the Middle East to protect our interests in the Mediterranean and in the Indian  the missile launching frigates Duquesne and Suffron and the Oiler Meuse pulled away from the Dock in the Early afternoon and the Clemenceau left two Houn utter the officials said. 1 Dies when Navy copter crashes into persian Gulf Washington sri lankan government and tamil rebels who w i Coset up an autonomous tamil Homeland in sri Anka s Northern and Eastern province tamils a up in percent of sri Lanka s 16 million people at 1 claim discrimination by the majority sinhalese bit wrists who control the government and armed  tamils Are hindus the predominant i Ligion in India the rebel groups maintain exile Headquarters in India which is Home to 50 million tamils and is separated from sri tanks by the i smite palk  has been Active in trying to negotiate a Solu Tion to the sri lankan conflict and Wen to Colombo on wednesday to sign the pact. However none of the tamil rebel leaders signed it sinhalese rioted m sri Lanka on tuesday and wednesday to show opposition to the pact and 26 people were killed. Many sinhalese contend the agreement Grants too Many concessions to the tamil Recla. Shortage from Page 1 Lime last year and nearly on Par with the Peak Christmas shopping season he said. Statistics for july show sales of about s106 million 25 percent above lost year. Our sales in july were almost As god As in novem Ber which is rather remarkable he said. During the computer software problem Merchan Dise backed up in Germany. At one Point about Low of the 40-Fbol-Long containers used to transport uie merchandise by ship were in the country. However the warehouse averaged Only about 4d to 50 truck shipments a Day. Or 20,000 Tine items Worth about $2 million to the various exchanges. The backlog of containers ii Down to about 400, Hamilton said which i nearly Normal. By backlog we mean containers that Are in coun try he said. A Normal amount of containers to have off loaded from ships and in route to Giessen is a Little Over 300. We re gelling very close to Normal  50 to �0 trucks now leave the depot daily with an average of about 30,000 line items Worth j2.s million. On saturday about 46,000 line items Worth s4 million left the warehouse for exchanges he said. In the first week we shipped about so percent More merchandise than we had the week before in an alter to further Speed delivery of Merchan Dise to the store shelves the Exchange service also is introducing the use of hand held computer scanners at i 13 stores. Along with portable conveyor belts the scanners will Cut the time it lakes to unload a truck and gel merchandise onto the shelves Hamilton said. Once in use the scanner will allow employee to move goods straight from the truck to the shelves omitting the deed for storing counting and then stocking. Exchanges in the Frankfurt area will begin using the scanners first probably next week Hamilton said 8uh �1w com Mckuy Cor Artum to i report t the new classified ads the stars & stripes Are going to be find the information and the order Coupon in stripes Magazine. Additional Coupon Art ave soul at your local Stan l strip Boob Tara