European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shortest cop App Haio at 4 feet 11 Indus Mcl Liu Jine Staples Udov cd by 6-fool-7 John dolby i instructor i the new South Wile police Force Academy Lasydney Australia. Staple is do f tar test trainee cd accepted by the Force digital protests procurement by air Force Maynard mass. Up digital equipment corp. Said it has filed a format complaint with the general services Board of contract appeals in pro test of a pending solicitation from the air Force. Digital alleges thai the air Force solicitation for Standard multiuse Small computer requirements contract contains illegal specifications thai unduly restrict Competition As it effectively requires Confer Mance with one Vendor s specific proprietary products. Digital has asked thai the procurement be sus Pended and its allegedly illegal specifications be deleted. The procurement involves the Purchase of approximately 20,000 computer systems at an estimated value of j3.i billion officials said. The proper procedure. Digital said in the complain announced thursday would be for the air Force to set Forth its minimum needs in a functional specification to mandated by Federal regulations the air Force solicitation requires operating sys tems to conform to american Telephone and Tele graph co proprietary system v interface definition As measured by at to s proprietary system v verification suite officials said. Such specification limits Competition to those pro Viding operating systems conforming to these restrictions thereby depriving the . Government of opportunities to get the Best technology n the Lowell Price digital claims. Digital equipment corp., headquartered in May Nard is the world s leading manufacturer of networked computer systems and associated equipment. Cardinal quitting Post Cologne. Germany a Cardinal Josef Voeltner archbishop of Cologne is retiring As chair Man of Germany roman Catholic Bishops Confer ence Church officials announced Friday. A statement from the Bishops conference died health reasons forthe 80-year-old prelate s decision. Sunday August 8,1987 the stars and stripes f 1 Page army lists dates rules arly out pro Washington so i the army has announced details of its Annua a is Narge Holiday present for soldiers and  atthe end of the year. Unless they wish to remain on Active duty  release Date and earn their full Pav end All enlisted members and optic Crsp or serve obligations whose terms  dec. 2 and Jan 3 can leave dec. I loj officers qualifying foul Carly release could be kept on Active duly jul Kuncir Normaj release if their commanders be Jcj real their retention is necessary those a Tig Ible for the Early release Are Reserve Compon a officers and enlisted members on Active  special training programs or fixed officers who have army approved separation or soviets violated of . Says Washington a radioactive debris from soviet nuclear it Clasi month wafted across the coun try s Border Violan the 1963 limited test ban treaty but causing no Tiru Hazard the stale department said thursday. Department spokes Nao Ries e Redman said a underground explosion at Thev Hoet testing Sile on the Island of Novara Zemlyak on Aupke Catuna the release of radioactive material that was Den he outside soviet territory. Redman said there were reports of  Tive readings in Northern Sweden which Isikeh West . To it does not pose calculable health safety or Ron mental risk the spokesman said. The 1963 .-soviet testing treaty was signed Lime of growing concern about nuclear a Hotuj nuclear tests. Under the treaty atmospheric  banned and the countries promised i recent Cross Border leakage of radioactive mated from the underground tests. F we have conveyed to the soviet Union our con Cern regarding this failure to Claffy with its treaty obligations Redman said. It was the second time sync the current series of soviet tests began in fcb nor that the United states has complained about radioactive leaks. One of the first tests in the series to resulted in the Cross Border spread of nuclear rare trial the department said Nomarch 11. No heal Nazard was posed by that leakage according to . The  began the testing after ending a19-Monthjakiratorium that it had asked the United . The Reagan administration declined Theofla on grounds that it needed to lest weapons to Are the credibility of u a. Nuclear deterrence. Racers who arc being relieved i vol i scheduled for retirement and sol rights for favourable personnel actions have1 suspended. Lien who have absent we Ghoul leave time or sip be made up can apply for the program if pc Dcasio dates fall within the specified dates. " soldiers who Antum Hal resident aliens serving Athree year enlistment Andt to fulfil naturalization requirements should not i Taia for the Early out program army officials said army officials also noted that two year to have enrolled in me new go Bill Are eligible for in educational benefits if they enlist in the selected Reserve for at least four years. Bui they could lose the added Bendis if they fail to Complete two full year of Active duly. Ii in always Fine John Domjan us porters thursday ways  the trial in Jerusalem for Alk i 15 he Speaks with re i in Fine i am Ijo Uit worker is Ani hat crimes. Instead the administration pro from both countries be allowed to o Testan offer the soviets declined. The United states carried out its own Undi nuclear test thursday morning at its weapons site in Nevada.  s Mideast businessman released after being held hostage in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a a prominent Middle East official of the International Lions club kidnapped 11 months ago in moslem West Beirut has been freed police said Friday. Victor Kano 31, a natural izod lebanese born i Syria was set free in the suburban town of shwe Ifal Ai 11 30 . Thursday and spent the night at his Home in West Beirut s Verdun neighbourhood police said. Kano a wealthy Christian businessman who headed the 39 International Lions clubs in Lebanon and Jor Dan a kidnapped near the French embassy com Pound sept. 10,1986, by three men armed with Silencer equipped pistols. No group claimed responsibility for the  spokesmen have speculated that Ransom was the Molive but said Friday they did nol know if a Ransom has been paid to win Kano s Freedom. He s in Good shape. Physically he s of. We re Happy to have him with us Kano s wife. Rose Lold the associated press. Mrs. Kano said her husband needed rest and did no want to meet with reporters or photographers. We re trying to keep a Low profile she added. A police spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity quoted mrs. Kano As saying that she was grateful to lebanese and syrian authorities for helping win her husband s Freedom. Kano operated a prosperous import Export business in the moslem and Christian Ichton of the lebanese capital. The Lions club is among the few social institution thai maintained in existence despite the 12-year-old civil War that has claimed nearly 130,000 lives in Leb anon. The lebanese Lions club continued to hol Christmas and new year receptions in Ecsi Beirut restaurants despite he growing influence of pro Irani an shiite Motley fundamentalists opposed to the Western lifestyle