European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday March 17,1968bank camera leads to conviction of go by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Karlsruhe West Germany pfc. Lloyd at Kins attempt to make some Money during his recent television appearance Cost him his army career wednesday. The camera that monitors the american express automatic Teller machine at Smiley Barracks recorded Atkins withdrawing a total of $540 with a stolen Bank card on sept. 29 and 30. Atkins 31, pleading guilty to a pair of larceny charges was sentenced wednesday to two months in jail reduced in Grade to Al and Given a bad conduct discharge. He is one of several soldiers recorded while withdrawing Money with a stolen Bank card since Mili tary Community officials installed the camera sept. 1, Karlsruhe Legal officials said. The withdrawals occurred despite a posted warning about the camera. Bank Liaison officer Thomas Mckay said thieves made off with some $30,000 from the Smiley Barracks machine during the 198$ fiscal year and taxpayers absorbed the loss because the Bank is guaranteed a set fee for its services. That loss prompted the military Community to pay $6,500 to install the camera. It paid for itself quickly by recording thieves at work on at least nine occasions. The stolen Money was recovered in every Case but one Mckay said. From the Bank s standpoint it has reduced the financial losses and it has brought an abrupt halt to fraudulent claims Bank Branch manager Marian Morse said. It Taa Given credibility to the account holders who were the victims of such fraudulent  in each then Case resolved since the camera s installation the thief had stolen the card from a member of his unit sometimes from his own Roommate Karls Ruhe Legal officials said. Also each victim had made the mistake of keeping the card and the personal identification number that must be punched into the machine to get Access to the Bank account in the mine place they said. Other recent Bank card convictions in Karlsruhe in clude those of pfc. Robert Ramirez cod 249th enter in combat pfc. Richard Lucas cob 78th engr to and spec. 4 Eric Yates 565th engr in provisional. Ramirez convicted nov. 20 on three larceny charges served three months in jail forfeited $438 pay monthly for three months was reduced in rank to Al and received a bad conduct discharge. Lucas received the same sentence except for the discharge for one larceny conviction. Vales offences occurred before the camera was in stalled. The court reduced him to Al and sentenced him to two months of additional duty in hit unit for three counts of wrongful appropriation. Pitet who repaid his victim claimed he took the card to teach the victim not to leave it lying around officials said. Military officials Are investigating four other theft cases involving the automatic Teller machine and charges already have been filed in one of them. News updates clemency Effort Bonn up1 West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher told relatives of two of the Sharpsville six wednesday he Hopes the South african govern ment will heed International re quests for clemency and spare their lives. He received Julia ram Shamo la 52, the Mother of Teresa Rama Shamolai and Joyce Mok Hesi 28, the sister of Francis Mok Hesi. Teresa Ramash Mola and Francis Mok Hesi arc scheduled to be hanged Friday. Satellite orbited Washington Jap an american communications satellite launched into a Low orbit last week rocketed successfully tues Day into a geosynchronous orbit 22,300 Miles above Earth s Equa Tor. The satellite spa cent Iii owned by get corp., fired its apogee kick motor a Small rocket engine at 11 57 . Est some 90 hours after its launch fonday nightly a French Arian rocket. Get officials said the 1,562 Pound space net Iii would initiate a stabilizing spin tuesday night this will lock its antennae int Contact with Earth. Once that is accomplished and verified the satellite will deploy an array of solar Power cells that provide the Craft with electricity. Space net Iii provides a communications link Between Points in All so of the United slates. . Citizen who died in Izmir identified Izmir turkeys a authorities on wednesday released the name of the contract employee found dead in his Home monday. William r. Richardson a billeting officer for Holmes and Narver services inc., died of natural causes a base spokesman said. He was 58. Richardson who had lived in Zaragoza Spain moved to Izmir in june. His company holds the maintenance contract for . Air bases in Turkey. He is survived by his wife Maria and son Roberto. Correction in an article yesterday on the 1st in 27th Field arty regt a name was mis spelled. The commander of the battalion is it. Col. Daniel Ferezan. Soldiers Mode some moves lost year to be closer to their military spouses by Crystal Laureano staff writer Schwet Zingen West Germany sixty nine Usa eur enlisted sol Diers were granted intr theater reassign ments to be closer to their military spouses during the past year through a permissive reassignment program a 1st personnel come spokesman said wednesday. The exact number of requests during the last year was unavailable but master sgt. Jerry l. Matherly of the enlisted assignment division said Only a very Small number of enlisted requests were not approved. He estimated the denial rate at less than 10 percent. The army wide program began in february 1987 and allows servicemen Bers to request intr theater reassign ments to live with their spouse. If the move is allowed the soldiers pay All moving expenses. Matherly said the most common Rea son requests Are denied is the Lack of Ajob at the new location. There has to be a current or projected vacancy and an authorization for their mos military occupational Spe Fialty he said. The reassignment will place soldiers no farther than 50 Miles or a one hour drive from their spouse s assignment we try to do much better than that As often As possible Matherly said. To qualify for the program a Soldier must Complete 12 months at the current duty station and must remain at the gaining unit location for 12 months. Most of the soldiers requesting per missive reassignments Are either not enrolled in the army married couples pro Gram or got married overseas Matherly said. We really make every Effort to assign couples together before they arrive in country he said. In fiscal 1987 there were 1,626 re quests from stateside assignment branches for enlisted joint domicile assignments in Usa eur of Thote 1,600, or 98 percent were approved Matherly said. Since May 20 army officers have been granted permissive Remassi Ingemi Laid u. Col Fred schattauer a bks at officer assignments. He said he knew of Only one request that was not approved. The air Force has had a similar pro Gram for Many years said chief mater sgt Patrick Mcglennon at the Safe assignment policy division. The air Force program called the permissive join spouse program has most of the same requirements As the army pro Gram except for the requirement to com plete a full accompanied tour at the gain ing location he said. Students on bus Are searched by police Baum older West Germany s4s some High school students subjected to a police search last week while Riding on school bus were cleared of any wrongdoing in the theft of a bus Driver s purse. A spokeswoman for the Baum older Mil itary Community said wednesday a German bus Driver for the High school discovered Ona regular afternoon bus run March 10 that his Money purse was missing. The Driver whose name was not released then drove to the Baum older military police station to report the theft of the Pouch. The German criminal police Noti fied by the maps arrived on the scene and conducted a bus and Quick frisk search of some us. Students and cleared the students instantly of any suspicions the spokeswoman said. During the course of the German criminal police investigation investigators Learned another German bus Driver had entered the bus while it was parked in front of the High school and whip the theft victim was out of the bus. The Case remains under investigation by the German criminal police. No information was available on the number of students on the bus during the incident. Wiarton renova on Nof delayed by Blaze Heilbronn West Germany is renovation of a four Story Barracks at Wharton Barracks should end on schedule in August despite a March 2 fire that caused As much As $300,000 damage a military Community official said wednesday. We lost the whole Peak of the roof and the upper attic said John Balzer Community Deputy director of Engi Neering and housing. There was no fire damage below that  military police determined that a welder accidentally caused the fire about4 . While cutting a pipe near the roof of building 6, said Community spokeswoman Susanne Schmidt. Heilbronn fire fighters put the Blaze out in about two hours. Balzer said the roofs structural sup port was the Only wooden part of the vacant building. The building hid housed the Community Headquarters detachment a credit Union office and the Heilbronn Eagle Community newspaper office until the Stumpf and Muler contracting firm began renovations in Early february. Schmidt said the contractor s insurance is expected to pay for the dam age. Viets take . Team to plane crash site Bangkok Thailand up Viet namese authorities took a . Military team to the crash site of an american warplane and said they had information and material on 29 americans killed in action and in some cases their re Mains. The wreckage of the aircraft was near the vietnamese port of Haiphong said it. Col. Joe Harvey delegation Leader and head of the Hawaii based joint casually Resolution Center. He refused to give any details about the plane. Harvey also said vietnamese officials told his group that they arc investigating 29 Mia cases. The vietnamese told us they Are investigating 29 instances where they have received information and material or remains Harvey said after arriving from Hanoi the vietnamese capital. Harvey said it would take at least three weeks for the vietnamese to draw any conclusions from the investigations or repatriate any  Are 2,411 americans listed As missing in action in Indochina 1,774 of them associated with Vietnam and its coastal Waters nearly 13 years after the War ended. The five member . Delegation provided new information on a number of Mia cases emphasizing Thote mentioned by president Reagan s special envoy to Vietnam last August retired army Gen. John Cesscy