European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars  stripes tuesday August 35.19b7 news update arms surrendered Colombo sri Lanka a tamil separatist rebels in Northern and Eastern sri Lanka have surren dered More than id percent of their weapons an Indian High commission spokeswoman said saturday. Tie rebel surrender of arms under terms of the july 29 India sri Lanka peace Accord was Prog Ressing satisfactorily she said adding that there would be no deadline Tor the handing Over or weapons. Asked about an aug. Is arms surrender deadline announced by the head of the Indian peacekeeping Force maj Gen har Kiral Singh the spokeswoman said both Indian and sri lankan authorities would maintain a certain flexibility Over the Issue. In Nuto Cycle Cic ident army sol listed in owing a spokes a Italy a u killed and another condition saturday be Accident a Mili d. Reports indicate the struck a Wall went out of control on Aro province in North t 6 45 . E Driver was pronounced Al Al Porto Ruaro Hospital Imper is under treatment. Maj. Gene Yusko a Public Esman for the army s soul he n task Force and 5lh sum. The Accident is under invest games of the soldiers Are being with Ding notification of next of Kin Var and in the Rve in Italy Reagan claims big strides against waste fraud Santa Barbara Cali. V president Reagan said saturday i ministration Lias made enormous strides in purging the government of Wane fraud and abuse. Delivering his weekly radio address from Rancho Del Cisclo Reagan said thai using sounder practices to manage the nation s roughly $1.8 trillion annual Cash Low saved taxpayers $2.3 billion Between 1983 and 1986. Reagan urged americans not to be discouraged by snippets in then Aboul wasteful spending nmn ires j Inifi military purchases of pm aft and other items More often than a hat you be been hearing Are us oafs stories Sto Ries of waste non uncovered and corrected thu Kent said.  Reagan concluded his Speed the White House press office Here announced that the president had signed legislation calling for construction of a massive 1362 million Federal office no Lex along Pennsylvania Avenue. Statement Reagan said  Triangle do Ltd to act Wii  development of a fou will serve As Federal office satan Viil As House an component a agencies hereby allow Al government to vacate a subs la a amount of costly leased space in the District of Columbia Reagan statement said. Under the plan a private Developer would be selected to design and construct the project and then lease Illo the Federal government for 30 year. The government would then assume ownership. Such an arrangement would save the government 1281 million Over the 3d years according to a report on the legislation. Reagan continuing his 25-Day sum Alion. Was speaking while two ens of his wife Nancy were Putint the final louche on a birthday party for the lint lady. Some 50 Reagan friends my family members were invited to the ranch for the parly a belated Celebration of the birthday mrs. Reagan had on july 6. The first lady s birth Dale Hai been a subject of longstanding dispute. In. Reagan Tsay she Wibora in 1923, bul record of Aith College which she attended a Uhr was bom in 1921.  to the party include the Reagal Hitlin Ron and his wife Doria and  s older son Michael his wife Chan. And their two children Ashley Manet Ameron. While House spokesman Leslic Arshel said the presidents fug her Maureen and her husband Are Taha Waii and the reagans daughter Patio and her husband also arc out of the Southern California area. Faa chief says air traffic system Safe although Confidence of Public shaken Washington a the head of the Federal aviation administration. Said sunday the nation s air traffic sys tem remains Safe but Public Confidence must be restored in the Wake of last week s crash of a Northwest Airliner Faa administrator Allan Mcartur said the aviation system is extraordinarily Safe and cited the number of sue Ceis Ful flights before the crash of North West airlines bight 255, which claimed the lives of at least 156 people. "1 think it s fair to say that our system is designed extraordinarily Safe car Tor said in an interview on Abc tvs this week with David  prior to last sunday s tragic Accident Over boo million american flew on some 12,000 scheduled flights in this country without a fatality. But we be got to recapture the Public Confidence in our aviation system and i personally Don t measure safety by the absence of accidents. I measure it by the exposure to  Mcartor said he visited the crash site near Detroit metropolitan Airport on monday and reacted to the tragedy with sympathy for the victims and their families As Well As anger i walled to Pound on that wreckage and say Why could this happen in our system after All that we designed into this system after All the inspections after All the procedures after All the checklists after All the warnings after All the train ing and recurrent training How do these things still happen and if anything in renewed my commitment to make sure that this would not happen again he said. Mcartor said he did nol know the Rea son for the crash bul he suggested it Muld have been Pilot error. John Thornton National coordinator of the National air traffic controllers association said the system is Safe but he added that there Are danger signals that must be heeded. One is the increase in near miss re porting the increase in system errors and we have an air traffic control system that requires 800,000 to 900,000 Houre of overtime to staff the facilities Thornton said on the same program now is the Lime to get involved to Start hiring More air traffic controllers get them trained gel them into the facilities where they need to be. The system i outgrowing the work Force he said. Thornton voiced concerns Over the decision to extend the restricted airspace Over los Angeles and saturday s announcement by transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole to establish restricted air space known As terminal control areas at nine additional airports. Our concern Over the recent Rule making in los Angeles and that trial was announced yesterday is it s just been done automatically and then the next Day the controllers go in to work and have a whole new realm of problems to Deal with Thornton said. John Baker president of the aircraft owners and pilots association complained Aboul the decision to create teas at nine More airports saying in does t mean anything it s Patent or work that has no relationship to reality Baker said on the same show. If you talk to the adminis Trator he going to Lei you they could t put teas in those airports now if they wanted to. They Don t have the peo ple they Don t have the equipment Mcartor defended the plan which would affect airports in Charlotte . Baltimore Washington International Washington s Dulles Airport Tampa a. Orlando Fla Memphis Tenn. Salt Lake City Houston Hobby and Phoe Niz Ariz. We re trying to provide More Posi Tive control in the airspace Over our major metropolitan areas and the Way that we do thai is with a terminal control area so that the controllers can pro vide a margin of safely in and around congested  Mcartor said. Private pilots for years have fought any attempt to expand the number of teas because the flow of air traffic with in such airspace is restricted closely by air traffic controllers and aircraft must have navigational equipment nol needed elsewhere. We re not trying to keep Small air planes Oul of any airspace we re trying to co exist Mcartor said. Japan expels soviet Trade official Tokyo a the soviet Union s vice Trade representative Yuri g. Pokrovsky left Japan sunday three Days after being ordered out in an Exchange of expulsions Between Japan and the soviet Union. Pokrovsky flew Home on a soviet car Flut plane an airline official said. Last thursday Japan announced in was expelling him because a failed to appear for questioning concerning allegations that he bought information Aboul aircraft instruments and controls stolen from a japanese company. The announcement came shortly after Moscow said in was to pc Lin i a japanese defense attache Nobuhiro to Kichima for alleged espionage activities and a japanese businessman Takao on for purport Day trying to obtain commercial secrets from the soviet Trade ministry. Japan s foreign ministry denied it was expelling Pokrovsky in retaliation. It Iii said no basis existed concerning the soviet charges against Takeshima one of three japanese defense attaches stationed in Moscow. Takishima. The firs japanese Diplo mat ordered Oul of the soviet Union since world War ii is expected to return to Japan this week. Japanese soviet relations have chilled during past months Over allegations of illegal transfers of High technology mate rial from Japan to the soviet Union. In april the japanese government said Toshiba machine co. Illegally sold Moscow computerized milling machines. The United states said the machines enabled the so Viet Union to build quieter submarines. In May japanese police charged thai several soviet officials purchased Large numbers of . Aircraft technical manuals stolen by a japanese worker Al the . Air Force s Yoko la a located out Side Tokyo. Police said in july that Pokrovsky Pur chased information stolen from Tokyo aircraft instrument co. By a japanese employee. The company reportedly makes instruments for military airplay Essich As the f-15 Jet Fighier and the p-3c Anil submarine patrol plane