European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 17, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 of equal Opportunity Challenge cited  Burma Ramstein a. Germany despite Progress in recruiting and retaining women and minorities the air Force faces a further Challenge in opening More lop Evel civilian and military jobs for Hose groups i think Vic to miking � lot of strides but we re Mill not  said Stella Guerre Deputy for equal Opportunity to inc assistant Secretary of if air fore for manpower. Guerra arrived in Germany on Friday for a 10 Day swing through Europe 10 meet with commanders of social Ati Ion programs and to speak on equal Opportunity in the service. Hispanic heritage and women s issues. Recruitment remains the key to placing qualified women and minorities in senior executive service jobs she said. And she added when Quality applicants Are found the air Force must be willing to Cut red tape to expedite their placement we have to find ways of keeping our Best and  fisc Era said Guerra touted the air Force s treatment of women and minorities citing record numbers from those groups in the service and a solid re enlistment rate. She also pointed to the opening of 97 percent of air Force jobs to women with congressional supported act Ion for the remaining three percent. Women like men who re serving our country would like to have the Choice she said. The continued need for equal Opportunity is Nec Essary because the . Economy is shifting from one based primarily on smokestack industries loan in formation oriented society based on computers Guerra said opportunities created by the change will bypass women and minorities unless efforts Are made to reach those groups Early in heir school careers. I think a have fallen  Guerra said. A positive note is an air Force program in san Antonio. Texas which matches High school students with tutors from nearby air bases. The City of san Antonio credits the program with a substantial in crease in the number of its College bound indents my High school graduates. Guerra comes to Europe at a Lime when the air Force ii evaluating social action sen ices. Rut the social actions career Field is not in jeopardy she said. Guerra cited rating the profile of equal opportune Tyua priority. I want to make equal Opportunity a part of every management decision at the time he decision is made not As an afterthought because someone has  she said. In addition o meetings at Ramsier Guerra will travel to Raf mind Cohall and Raf Lakin Heath England Torrejon As Spain and Haim a. Ger Many.  military cooperation increasing Washington up . And saudi arabian military cooperation has reached such a High Point in the persian Gulf crisis that . Navy personnel now serve As temporary Crew Mcm bin aboard saudi mine sweepers administration sources say. . Government officials with intimate knowledge of Pentagon operations in the Gulf also said that sever Al Arab slates including saudi Arabia and Kuwait hive in effect Given the . Base rights in the  the saudis arc assisting the United slates much More than meets the Eye a congressional staffer said. Under publicly stated arrangements . Aircraft re permitted to make emergency refuelling and maintenance landings in these Arab nations during patrols to guard against attacks on . Ships escorting re flagged kuwaiti tankers administration officials said. An official did the term emergency is being interpreted with enormous leniency and the Pentagon has dispatched teams to Bahrain Kuwait and Oman to prepare contingency plans if they permit More Perma nent Basing of . Combat aircraft. The official stressed Hal no . Offensive actions can be launched from bases in those nations or saudi Arabia unless a request is made by the Host govern ment congressional staffers complained that House and Senate committees have been kept in the dark about the expanding . Military entanglement with Arab nations that has heightened the . Presence in the Region and the risk of american casualties. Administration official Are divided about whether to disclose the intensified Alliance sources said. Advocates argued that advising Congress would Quiel critics who accuse the saudi of being a reluctant ally. Others contend that mall disclosure would Compromise saudi King fahd who repeatedly has had to counter accusations Ihui he is a . Puppet sources said. To smooth the Way for a heightened . Military presence in the Gulf states. Assistant defense Secretary Richard Ann Ilage and other senior Pentagon officials have made at least 50 trips to Jordan Egypt Paki Stan and other countries in the Region since april an administration official said. Another official said thai .-saudi military cooperation May be at an All time  . Military personnel now assist saudi and kuwaiti air combat patrol operations As Well As saudi kuwaiti anti mine administration officials Are divided about whether to disclose the intensified Alliance activities. They have for some time provided Crews for saudi Azacs radar planes. An 18-Man team of Navy explosive demolitions specialists sent to the area in june is helping operate four .-built, 40-ton saudi mine sweepers in the Gulf government officials said. Additional . Navy personnel Are believed to be operating the ships sophisticated sonar detection systems they said. To be prepared for any  a . Government source said the Pentagon two weeks ago sen teams to conduct site 5urveys of airfields in Bahrain Kuwait and Oman. The airfields would be used As possible bases for . Combat planes such As Fiss should a shooting War with Iran break oui . Officials said. They said airfields at the saudi capital of Riyadh and in Dhah ran near the Gulf already have been surveyed the new collaboration come As tensions in the Gulf have risen to their highest Pilch. On aug. 8, a . Navy f-14 fighter reportedly fired two air to air i Liles Ai an iranian Al fighter bomber plane. Iran Laid thursday it might attack newly arriving French and British mine sweepers if Iran which considers the two nations id allies resumed air strikes against iranian shipping. Saudi Arabia Kuwait and other countries along the Gulf have for Yean established a common collective air umbrella with each country patrolling an assigned sector to avoid any centralizing of command an administration source said. In 1984, the United slam and Kuwait reached an informal understanding allowing . Fighters to Fly from kuwaiti airfields in an emergency. Kuwait agreed to build new Supply depots housing for aircraft and maintenance Crews and repair and maintenance facilities. But the United Stales did not pursue the emergency Landing rights until recently. The United states has had a similar undemanding with saudi Arabia and has had formal Access to bases on Oman since bilateral agreements were signed in 1980, that year sources said the United slates secretly based a Squadron of f-1 is in saudi Arabia 10 Preci .-deployed Azacs planes. Administration officials said that few of the kuwaiti facilities have been completed but Ilic airfields Are considered usable. If the United states were to Bate i Squadron of 1zf us at a kuwaiti Airfield it would require 500 ground based backup personnel the sources said. They emphasized that senior defense department officials oppose such a deployment because it would be a Majot escalation Iran says discloser of Mcfarlane trip is on trial Robert Mcfarlane Nicosia Cyprus up the Man who leaked new of last november s secret trip to Tehran by former . National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane is being tried in a spiritual court Iran s news Agency said saturday. The is Amic Republic news Agency Irna said the trial of Mehdi Hashemi former Leader of the liberation move ments Bureau started thursday at a Spe Cial spiritual court in Tehran s Evin prison. Charges against Mehdi Hashemi in clude murder and kidnapping before and after the 1979 revolution cooperation with Savak secret police sen ice of the late Shah of Ira illegal posses Sion of arms and explosives Possession of secret government documents forging government document and Clandestine activities Irna reported. Hashemi and his associates in the liberation movements Bureau Are believed to have been behind last year s leak about a secret trip to Tehran by Robert no " Mcfarlane and former National Security Council aide it. Col. Oliver North. Iranian sources believe the iranian government s anger with Hashemi Cen ters on his links with pro iranian terrorist activities overseas and the exposure last year of the Clandestine Iran- contacts. Hashemi s brother is the chief of staff in the office of Aya Nollsh Hussein Ali Montazeri. Who is locked in a Power struggle with More moderate iranian Leaden Over the succession to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s leadership Rote. Montazeri s office has confirmed press reports that Hashemi and his associates were responsible for leaking to a Leb anese weekly Magazine the Newt of the . Team s in to Tehran last novem Ber. Hashemi find his colleagues were reportedly dismayed at the secret contacts Between . Officials and such iranian Leaden As speaker of the parliament Ali Akbar Hashemi a Sfanjani. Shortly after the Magazine broke the news iranian authorities arrested Hashemi and Many of hit associates including several of Montazeri s aides on the same charges Ina did saturday Hashemi s associates in a move to Embarrass the iranian government briefly kidnapped a syrian Diplomat in Teh ran earlier this year iranian sources Laid. He was released unharmed within a Day. Hashemi s now dissolved liberation movement Bureau was in charge of Export ing Iran s islamic revolution and coordinating activities of about a dozen pro iranian fundamentalist groups around the world. . Intelligence and iranian we rfcs did they have evidence Hal Hashemi s liberation movements Bureau was the main instigator in an aborted coup at tempt in Bahrain in 1981. The iranian government also hat did Hashemi s associates were involved in issuing forged passports for iranian and foreign fundamentalist groups carrying out operations overseas. Monlai Eri. In a fact to fact meeting with Khomeini defended giving false passports to iranian revolutionaries say ing that would enable hem to spread Iran s revolution without implicating the government in Tehran according