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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d rep. Wants overseas 01 s counted in census Page 2 d officers to share lessons Learned Page 3 d Garvey ending 17-year career Page 26 de unofficial Yutuc vol. 45. No. 270 Friday january 15, 1988 d 8693 a car delivery gets Green Light pos leaving for pickup Points monday Jjoe Mapother  Bureau Bremerhaven Germany the first trucks Laden with personal vehicles belonging to military Community Mem Bers will leave t  monday in route to pickup Points throughout South Ern German 1. An agreement Ilia takes effect today Means people no longer must drive to the  port to pick up their per 5onol vehicles.  based near Stuttgart will deliver most of the 26.000 privately owned cars that arrive in Bromer Haveri each year to 34 military pickup Points in Southern Germany. The company also will pick up most of the 20,000 cars that leave Europe through Bromer Haven annually from the 34 pickup Points. Military residents in Berlin will continue to pick up and drop off vehicles in Bromer Haven a Usa eur spokesman said. In Belgium Luxembourg and the nether lands residents will continue to pick up i hair cars in Rotterdam Netherlands. The Benelux terminal there ships about 3,000 Carsn year  said. The contract follows a decision by for a Secretary of defense Caspar Wein Berger in May to allow Usa eur to move personal vehicles Inland at govern ment expense. Jung Mosolf company project manager for the Usa eur contract said inc first four or five trucks will leave Bremerhaven monday a to a. Holiday in Honor of inc Laic Martin Luther King. Or. The contract spares vehicle owners the 630-mile round trip from Frankfurt to . Or the nearly 1,000-mile round trip from Munich to tie North Ger Man port to pick up a Cor. The new contract is expected to save the . Military More than 82,000 work Days and Sio million annually according to a Usa eur announcement. Bui in economically troubled by cmdr Haven the loss of Auto repair business from . Military motorists required to meet Usa eur Auto inspections will Hurt sail Klaus Koacr manager of the local tradesmen s association. It will have major consequences Kim or said. Unemployment in lire mar Haven hovers around in percent one of Germany s highest rates largely because of the collapse of the country s shipbuilding Industry and troubled fishing Industry. At Northern Germany s largest pm dealer Joealed near inc  vehicle processing Center business manager j6m acc scr said the garage Section of Nis firm expects to lose Between 600.000 Marks ij7s,000 and 700.000 Marks 1437,500 annually in repair business from the . Military. They naturally Cnoc to us. Arid now we Arelo Singhal Bael Craid. However his firm docs a targe business in new car sales of varied makes and the loss in repairs comprises a Small percentage of the firm s Gross he said. The $4 million contract with Mosolf see delivery on Bach Page a town Reader wins super bowl contest by Bucko Fox staff writer  Bob Kondo can go Home again. All he Hail to do was win the stars and stripes super bowl conies now he owns two tickets to the Jan. 31 super bowl in san Diego not far from his i Hunting inn Beach Home. I won i Don t believe  he said at wednesday s Surprise presentation at his panic Cavern office. Kendo s winning ballot beat 72,134 other entries from he con Lam that ran last month. His Winner had All 12 College bowl games marked correctly the sugar bowl tie counted As a win. Then came his Blind line tiebreaker. He predicted that the Orange bowl would produce 35 Points. Miami beat Oklahoma 20-14, so he was off by one. Twenty other ballots showed All 12 games picked perfectly. No one touched Rondo on the tiebreaker. The closest were Manuel Espinoza of Heidelberg who predicted 31 Points would be scored in the Orange bowl and Jim Rhodes of Wiki Hadyn s Lindsey As who picked 37 Points. Espineira took second place Over Rhodes because of his Superior number in the second tiebreaker. Kopido said of his Golden harlot i filled ii out sent it in and forgot about it. I did l talk about it or think Uhul  he s talking about it now i pc rally Sis  super eur two Tont isl Winner Hub Kond Iund wife Cathy a i bridle lie ipod news. To wife Cathy who s flying with him. Along with the two Garni tickets the Cou ple gets a round trip flight to san Diego and four nights at a hotel in tic Southern California City. Thai s incredible said Cathy at the office Celebration lie gave me one of his ballots to fill  that s probably the one that won quipped Bob. Ill take you with me said Cathy. Since their return flight is scheduled the Day after the super bowl Bob will gel to hold his a sch birthday party on feb. I in his Home stale. Not that he knew this All along. I made it a paint to pick Ilie games randomly said Kondo who remembers mailing in five or six ballots. In other contests 1 had always picked by what teams were Heller. This one was just for fun. The con Cal was free the mail was free. I just in Sci  with the conference championship games scheduled sunday what teams docs Kondo want to see in the National football league title game who s playing he joked. "1 think Cleveland will Lake it All. I m hoping cd pc Lind against  Kondo once played football despite his , 130-Pound be. He ran Tail Back at Banning High school in his native Wilmington Calif. I graduated sea contest on Back Page Webb urges review of foreign commitments b Richard i Mallohan Washington Noti Secretary of the Navy James h. Webb or. Called wednesday for a thorough review of . Commitments to foreign nations and a re examination of the deployment of american Fortes around the world especially in Europe. In a speech to the National press club he also called for greater Reliance on sea Power and advocated having the a my and inc air Force take the bulk of cuts in the current round of military budget reductions. The speech was somewhat unusual in that Webb was not reflecting the administration s Public policy. Aides suggested that he hoped to have a ions term influence on tic National Dute. We need to Vero base our military commitments Webb said using Penta gon jargon mean ing to Mart from the begin nine and to review commitment without regard to precedent. Further the size of american forces and their missions need to be justified As Well As the location of our military units based on a reassessment cd where things stand in inc  he appeared to be less forthright than in his proposals circulating within the 1 Mason. Navy officials said Webb had been under pressure from Secretary of defense Frank c. Carlucci to tone Down his remarks. Even so Webb s speech clearly suggested that american ground and air forces in Europe be reduced and thai the europeans and the japanese be required to Bear More of the Burden of their defense. He also urged policy makers to pay More attention to . Interests in Asia. Ulin America and in third world countries. Some of Webb s proposals were consistent with those made tuesday 10 president Reagan by a commission of strategists led by undersecretary of defense Fred c. Ikle and Albert  of an heuristic u military consulting con Cern. Others however went beyond that especially the suggestion of reducing forces in Europe. Army officers vigorously opposed the idea mid sought to put Down rumours that withdrawal of one of the american divisions in Europe was planned for budgetary reasons. Webb said a sweeping National debate on these issues would be most helpful if it began  aides said thai was an invitation to those running for the presidential nominations  
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