European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o 3 killed 76 Hurt so far in Maneu vers Page 2 n Dod orders special pay for some hostages Page 8 d is weekly football predictions Page 26 the Saml filpes Noff Icell Hubli cation Fob the i armed feb Cei vol. 46, no. 153 Friday. September 18, 1987 0 8693 a plan to change pay Job ratings could hit Europe army civilians by Dave Walczak stuff writer Aschaffenbur Germany All army civil ians in Europe could face changes in pay Job Security and performance ratings by 1989, a Pentagon person Nel official said thursday. It col. Bill Jersey said the army s civilian person Nel modernization project will be tested in seven . Sites beginning oct. I Ait acting an estimated 12,000 employees. If the program succeeds there he said it could be applied to overseas employees in two years. Jersey who worked on the project that would Over haul the army s civilian spoke to equal Opportunity and personnel officials on the fourth Stop of a five Day ivc City tour of Vii corps communities. We re looking at managers developing their own organizations their own performance indicators and hiring their work Force he said. If they save Money Over a year s period of time a portion of that savings would be resumed in the form of bonuses. It s what we Call profit non appropriated fund employees in Heidelberg and Stuttgart will work under similar conditions begin nine in 1988 As Pun of a lest. Usa eur officials plan see plan on Page 23 teamwork a photo Pope John Paul ii listens intently As Nancy Reagan repeals a question shed by a student it immaculate con caption school in downtown los an Geles. The first lady accompanied the pontiff on a visit to the Catholic school where a gave Short lecture and then answered questions. Later John Paul flew to Monterey Calif where he look up the cause of migrant farm workers urging landowners id re Spect the just claims of their Brothers. New task Force to study reports of harassment of Navy Marine females by William j. Warttman Washington Bureau Washington Only hours after a scathing report on mistreatment of female sailors and marines overseas went Public. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger thursday announced the creation of 11 special task Force to tackle the continuing Issue of sexual harassment. The defense advisory committee on women in the services or dacoits said it found the Navy and marines pro Mote a Macho image that contributes to behaviour that is at Best inappropriate and at w St morally repugnant. Members of the committee which monitors women s issues for the Secre tary of defense made their report follow ing a tour of military installations in the Pacific and far East. David Armor the Pentagon s acting manpower chief and chairman of the new task Force said the panel s August tour resulted in the most serious Allega Tion that dacoits has Ever Huncov Rcd in the As a result of a dacoits complaint the Navy is investigating charges that the commander of the Sal Vage ship safeguard engaged in Public sex attempted to sell female sailors to the South korean and fraternize with enlisted women. Dacoits said such allegations against the commander were cited repeatedly by a majority of the 94 females Armor said it was his understanding thai the Sale of female sailors to he South koreans was announced Over the ship s Public address system. There is some speculation that it might have been done As a joke but i have no further information Armor said. Some of the findings in the Daco wits report Armor said Are about Basic treatment of human beings not continued on Page 28 chaplain wants my As pos to be remembered Bureau Nuernberg a painting of St. George slaying a dragon hangs on the front of he desk where Chap lain maj Vincent j. Inghilterra puts together the 2nd Arrond Cav regt recognition Day for . Prisoners of missing in action in Vietnam. In this room on Murrell Barracks St. George Patron Saint of the armoured Cavalryman battled the dragon of forgetful Ness that Inghilterra. Says is devouring the National consciousness concerning he pow Mia Issue. Even at the highest Levels of government he says. There Are those who want to gel it Vietnam Over wit i. But it s never Over until we know the Fate of every Soldier sent Nghil Terra talks with his hands folded but beyond those hands a scratched and denied band of Bright red rings he wrist. Eit gawd on the band is sgt. Danny l Widner .a.," formerly of Texas lost somewhere in Vietnam since May i1968. A pow Mia support group founded by former air Man Russell w. Schilling p oxides the wristbands Tor j4 each. Called task Force Omega the group will engrave the name of a missing on the band to be worn As a memorial. Inghilterra plans to Send his band to we incr s family if Danny or his remains Are Ever found just to let Ihm know you be never been alone. Every Lime i read 1hw Mia Day about new remains found i follow the Story wonder ing is it Danny task Force Omega claims a missing in action list of More than 2,200names, including . Civilians find women. In a War with no front lines Inghilterra says everyone is a potential pow. And everyone has Brothers Sisters mothers fathers and friends who Are is ill in pain waiting for there arc 92,691 americans unaccounted for from the last four wars 2,413 americans from the Vietnam War 8,177 from Korea 78.7si from world War ii and 3,350 from world War 1. President Reagan has declared today National pow Mia recognition Day. Inghilterra insists that military people have a special obligation to keep the pow la Issue at the forefront of National consciousness. He cites the More than 2,000 sightings of . in Vietnam since the War ended almost 1s years ago. With that Many sightings i have no doubt that there Are some alive Over Inghilterra welcomes Reagan s initiative in sending retired Gen. John w. Vessey or. To Vietnam to add emphasis to the government s int credit in resolving the vah Dily of such sightings la is an interest some critic say is Drifting into forgetful Ness As time goes on. Just As important. Inghilterra says is that the troops Back Home keep Faith Wajih those who possibly remain continued on Page 3
