European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday november 9,1987page 2ff j wildfires sweep 13 Southern states Atlanta App a foresters blamed a combination of dry weather brisk wind falling leaves and fat Misti for thousands of fires burning in 13 Tail pm i Latch Over the weekend. Wesl Virginia gov. Arch Moore or dered people to stay out of the Woods in 14 counties and banned outdoor Burn ing. Kentucky and Tennessee along with la North Carolina counties and 52 in Alabama banned outdoor burning As Well. South Carolina posted ill first Ever red Flag Alert for 16 counties meaning that the area was Ripe for wildfire. Officials Here Login More than 25 wild fires in the first week of november. From Texas to Virginia More 121,000 acres of land l9q Miles an area More than the Nimes the size of Miami has Bifid in 8,018 fires in 1 1 Days. A wig 10 the . That did include Wesl Virginia which i fit outside the Forest service s 13-sule Southern Region. Damage there would bring the total to at least 249,000 acres. Seven Homes have been damaged by last week in West Virginia and fire Igol Tad a Cox corp. Railroad Tunnel.  in Nuril the Tunnel Friday and pumped carom Inide inside to smother the Blaze. The regional loll  oct. 27 through thursday by stale figures were set Tull late thursday Buff Mhamed at least Jirim 2,125 acres arb fires 3,442 acres Florida. 2iarh 2,078 acres Georgia 239 fires 062 acres Kentucky 620 fires 28,304 acres Louisiana 3.037 fires. 32,388 acres Mississippi 997 fires 14,416 acres North Carolina 310 fires 555 acres Oklahoma ii fires 177 acres South Carolina. 188 fires 686 acres Tennessee s88 fires 12,801 acres Texas 81 fires 595 acres Virginia 457 fires 3,200 acres. No immediate Relief was in sight but rain was considered possible by monday for most Southern Stales people in Charleston ,._ the smoke from fires 26nj�ilpmwjy in inc mountains of Mcce and 320 Miles away pm Tucky said Jennie n for the state for Coy mull ins. A forester with the West Virginia agriculture department blamed some of his state s fires on Squir cd Hunters who set Trees afire in an Effort Law Hub out their prey. Chair Sipf inc . Foresti scr ice in Ken Luck toed "99 out of 100" of his stale s fires Otil of lists. To help fight them 450  17 Western states have been do 220 National guard troops mobilized. Two men fighting a fire on Kentucky s Stone Mountain barely escaped the flames thursday when visibility dropped to near Zero in the smoke. The men were saved by a National guard helicopter that dumped Jitter though one Man s of 4friged and the second was Ion his neck. Firefighters also were worried about break overs when winds blow dried leaves across fire lines restarting Dor Mant fires or starting new ones. Alabama s fire Alert was expanded to cover the Northern half of the slate. We be got a major problem said Rick Hofmeister of the Alabama forestry commission. The wind and the Low humidity have taken these Airai out of control. In Virginia firefighters used air tank ers to dump water from the sky onto fires in the Jefferson National Forest and in Western Roanoke county. In the National Forest the fire had expanded Friday to ta-500 acres. Tit us Oxford miss., area thursday a major five mile wildfire threatened a subdivision along stale Highway 6. Resi dents sprayed their houses with Garden hoses to protect them. Ginsburg from Page 1 what he considered the abandonment of Ginsburg. To be honest with you i think there Are a certain number of people Down there at the White House who have no guts whatsoever Hatch said. Ginsburg who will retain his position As a Federal Appeal court judge in Washington made no comment beyond the statement he read at the White House. A senior administration official speaking on Condi Tion he not be identified said the White House Hopes to announce new nominee Early this week and gain Senate confirmation by the end of the year. However presidential aide Gary Bauer said he thinks in will be impossible to have a new nominee confirmed that soon. "1 would think that All the motivations Here would be to take one s time and be absolutely sure he said. Senate judiciary committee spoke saw. Peter Smith Taid. It probably would be difficult to Complete action on the floor this year if not  the senior administration official said that the other two judges on the final list of three from which Ginsburg was selected will be considered. They arc Kennedy and William w. Wilkins or. Of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals he said others also would be considered. Kennedy was considered the favorite of White House chief of staff Howard h. Bakerjr. After Bork s defeat Bui attorney general Edwin Melesc Iii report edly pushed for Gasburg. And several conservative Republican senators said they would filibuster against Kennedy whom they considered too Liberal. Reagan then chose Ginsburg a Little known 41 year old judge on the . Circuit court of appeals and one of Bork s colleagues who had served As an official in the office of management and budget and chief of the Justice department s antitrust division. Ginsburg s announcement came 17 years after presi Dent Nixon failed to win confirmation for two consecutive supreme court nominees Clement f. Haynsworth or. And g. Harrold Carswell. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ranking Republican on the Senate judiciary committee said that Given the circumstances he had recommended that the White House withdraw the Ginsburg Nomi nation. Judge Ginsburg is an Able judge and in is most unfortunate that this situation has Arisen he said. Committee chairman Joseph r. Biden jr., d-del., said i Hope the administration wit Send us a new nominee soon. We need to fill the vacancy on the court As quickly As  Ginsburg said in his statement that he is bowing out because unfortunately All of the attention hta been focused on our personal fives and much of that on events of Many years ago. My views on the Law and on what kind of supreme court Justice i would make have been drowned out in the clamor. The president and mrs. Reagan deserve enormous credit for leading the fight against illegal drugs. I fully support their Offort and i Hope that the Young people of this country including my own daughters will learn from my mistake and heed their message. . News & world report reported that a senior jus Tice department official who be feel a Republican sen Ator last week told the senator that investigators Ait looking into allegations that Ginsburg May have sold drugs to colleagues or students while he taught at Harvard Law school. We have multiple allegations about ii and we Are checking them out the Magazine s nov. 16 Issue reports the Justice official saying to the senator. Papandreou caws for proof of benefits Greece threatens to close bases Gore from Page 1 Athens Greece a Premier an Dreas Papandreou saturday threatened to dose four american military bases in Greece if the United Stales fails to show it helps his nation s interests you have to prove to us that your presence serves our highest National interests Papandreou told the United states in an address to members of his governing panhellenic socialist move ment s Central committee. If you prove in we will go to the people. If you Don to youll go Home. It is  .-greek negotiations on the future of the military installations Are to begin monday. The talks concern new agreement to replace the existing five Yew Accord which expires in december 1988. The new agreement would be subject to a National referendum. By National interests Papandreou was understood to mean Greece s Long feud with Turkey Over Aegean airspace seabed Mineral rights some Northern Aegean islands and Cyprus. What exactly do the bases offer us today As far As the real danger from tur key u concerned Papandreou asked. Both Greece and Turkey Are members of the North Atlantic treaty organization american officials have said they want a new Accord by the end of 1987, but regional issues could cause a delay. We will Start the negotiations As if the United states had nothing in Greece Papandreou said for everything you propose we want you to prove what contribution this has to the National Security of the coun try. What it offers to you is your own  the bases Are u key Issue for Papandreou s government which came to Power in 1981 on a platform pledging to remove the bases and pull the country out of nato. But his government signed an Accord in 1983, asserting that inc bases would be removed when the agreement expired. Relations Between the two countries have since improved and Papandreou is now willing to negotiate a new agreement. Since the Early 1950s, the United states has operated four military bases in Greece two near Athens and two on the Southern Island of Crete As Well As 20 smaller installations around the country. A College history professor before enter ing Congress Gore Pell and Gingrich All said they Felt Ginsburg s marijuana use was not sufficient reason for opposing his Nomi nation. Meanwhile sen. Bob Dole of Kama and former Delaware gov. Pete Dupont attending a debate for gop president hopefuls in Iowa faulted the while House staff for failing to find out that Ginsburg had used marijuana. I think those who serve the president did t do the Best Job in the world Dole said. The Point is it cant happen Wain it s going to have to be someone who to Well qualified and Well received and get this second chapter behind  cafes from Page 1 eluding u. Gen. Allen Ono the army s chief by Surprise. We thought everyone was on Board the official said. Then the representatives from those two com mands stood up last month at a meeting of the Community and family review committee and expressed their reservations. Faced with that impasse the army has decided allow cafes to do an in depth study of class i stores on a number of bases. That will allow us to see How much More Money cafes would be Able to realize from operating the stores it said. It s pretty much agreed thai cafes could do a better Job. We Jusi have to overcome these concerns with the Transfer  Misulis from the cafes review would i mid january Hejaz Ime Ebion would army  about stretching out the Pau Hugu Thant Mary because lawmakers ving increasingly  inability of services to get their mar . The House appropriations committee in a recent report on its version of the defense appropriations Bill announced its desire to Cut taxpayer support or All the military services non appropriated fund activities for fiscal 1988. The army would take the largest hit with a reduction of 134 , Are sure to press military officials on the Issue during a series of hearings on military mar tentatively scheduled for the week of nov. 16. Figures compiled by the army s Community and Tamsy support Center show that if cafes look Over Alt Revenue generating mar activities a total of $142 million a year could be saved s95 million in surplus non appropriated fund profits and $47 million in appropriated funds not needed