European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 22. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 world s crises seen through eyes of Plo b Dav Walczak education to str Heidelberg Brad Wyatt leafed through the latest Bales of dispatches thursday morning Licking glances toward the podium where the . Secretary Field Sway Over a debate on the future of the israeli occupied territories. A head of the Palestine liberation organization delegation Wyall was awash in messages especially concerning the Security Cound broke real Resolution that had staked the tempers of the Arab delegations scaled nearby. The annual mock Security Council meeting was heating up. For three Days 240 students from 16 department of defense dependents schools in Germany had met for Mally and informally tackling the same subjects that have tested diplomats from around the Globe. The world i crises bore in relentlessly on the Plo representative. From the Jordan delegation came a request to yield the floor later in the debate. And from the israeli contingent of All people came a note that called Walt a worthy  Walt scribbled a few notes of his own handed them to a Page and then took a break from the oratory featuring a soviet attempt to alter the Security Council Resolution in favor of the palestinians. A query asking if the Plo supports the Resolution by an East Ger Man Delegate who admitted that he was t paying attention went unanswered. To wanted an Active part Walt said ref nine to his role As a Yasser Arafat Confederate. And the Flo is  Wyall a Mannheim High school senior had spent weeks pouring through Middle Eastern history Reading newspaper articles and picking the brains of his social studies teacher to prepare for the three Day meeting. His Diligence paid off. You be got to be up to Date on what s going on he said. There Are so Many kids who know what they re talking  inside the Hall the soviet Delegate was responding to a query from Algeria. Wyatt sympathized. You be got to be Quick when you re up there. One students front 16 schools Tike part in a mock United nations Assembly at Heidelberg High school thursday. Of the delegates challenged me yesterday Over Why Arafat was in Jordan and not Palestine since the latest violence started. I said it was t Safe for any Palestin Ian to be in the occupied territories right now you be got to be prepared for things like that. Wyatt s advice was t wasted on another of the Stu dents taking part in the Heidelberg meeting. Cliff mar tin for one had been Reading everything about of Corgi Shultz s Middle East peace  we re representing Israel s interests on the Security Council said Martin also of Mannheim thai s not easy because Israel refuses to Deal directly with the  Mckell Styf Fonsen of Berlin High school took Lier role As a soviet Delegate As seriously As her Mannheim h High school counterpart took his. I be been Reading every . Chronicle i can get my hands on she said plus a Book on the Iran Iraq War. I be Learned a  which is exactly the Point of the mock Security Council according to Heidelberg High school social studies teacher and project coordinator Richard Knapp. They learn More about these countries and the world by doing this than they d learn in a classroom he said. And the kids organize the whole thing. They set the Agenda allot Lime for debate and form Commil tics. I m Jusi the  Wyatt went Back to the room in Lime for inc Vole on the Security Council Resolution that passed 35 to 4 with six abstentions. A note from the Zaire delegation congratulated him on the the result. Wyatt wearing a Kaffir cd or traditional Arab head dress was relieved thai is role was winding Down. We Don t have any More formal proposals to sub Mil he said. "1 might support on of the East bloc countries if they be got anything but i la be glad when this is Over. It s hard playing someone from the Plo when i m an  plan to privatize commissaries May be shelved by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington Congress Likely will drop further study of a plan that would turn military commissaries Over to private contractors when work on the final defense Aulhorn action Bill for fiscal 1989 is completed. The House armed service commit tee s report on its version of the Bill would prohibit any full store privatization or contracting nut of  Pentagon and Capitol Hill staffers say the committee s Senate counterpart agree to the provision ensuring that the commissary Issue Dies when the Bill be comes Law. The Reagan administration rather than the Pentagon has been driving the commissary privatization Effort based mainly on recommendations from the Grace commission which was told to study ways to Cut Federal spending by identifying government functions that could be handled by the private sector. In fact military officials admit they would not be upset if the commissary privatization project Dies because they fear the traditional Benefit of providing Scricc members with savings of about 25 percent compared to commercial super markets May be lost if contractors take Over. We re concerned that once we give the commissaries to organizations that Are strictly profit motivated making a profit will become More important Nan providing the Benefit said one official who asked not to be identified. Loss of control of the Benefit that s the big Gest  while inc services currently contract for some limited commissary functions such As warehousing and shelf blocking plans have recently been drawn up to test full scale contracting. The Pentagon has been negotiating for such a lest to begin late this summer ill the slates with the food management Institute a Commer Cial grocery Chain representative the Pentagon is convinced that contracting out would not boost efficiency or provide significant savings but it would like to follow through on the lest to put the Issue to rest. Keagan administration officials also have the private Sec Tor deserves a Chance to show what it can do with military commissaries. If Congress enacts the ban As contained in the House report however the entire plan including the possibility of a lest would be shelved the military offi Cial said. The report noted that hearings held in 1984 showed that private Industry could not operate the commissaries profitably and continue to provide 25 percent Cost cuts. Additionally the congressional budget office and inc general account ing office reported that the savings projected by inc Grace commission arc overestimated and  Gorbachev still out polls Reagan in West Europe Washington a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev continues to gel rave reviews among West europeans while president Reagan s popularity has remained fairly constant Over the past Sis months according to a poll by the . Information Agency. Gorbachev enjoys an overwhelmingly favourable opinion in West Germany 90 percent and Britain 88 percent and a substantially favourable image in France 70 percent according to Agency analysis of a Tele phone Survey conducted in those three countries March 19-23. In the past half year those rating Gorbachev very favourably have increased from 16 percent to 36 per cent in Britain and from 8 percent to 33 percent in Germany the Agency analysis said. In France Gorbachev s popularity has remained fairly constant with 6� percent giving him a favourable rating last september 68 percent favourable last no vember and to percent favourable in March. The poll had a margin of error of 4 percent. The percentage of those polled in France who had a favourable impression of Reagan was 62 percent and 44 percent in both West Germany and great Britain about the same As last september and november. An analysis of the results was circulated among government officials earlier this month and was obtained wednesday by the associated press. Usia.  handles overseas cultural and Public relations for the government periodically conducts such opinion surveys this one was designed 10 gauge the mood in Europe before the .-soviet Summit May 29-june 2 in Moscow. The Survey found High support for the intermediate nuclear forces treaty signed Al the Washington sum Mit last december. 93 percent in Germany. 80 percent in Britain and 74 percent in France. Among those polled the highest priority for . Soviet arms control negotiations was the strategic arms. Reductions talks designed to Cut Long Range nuclear arsenals by 30 10 50 percent. In Britain 49 percent gave that top priority in France 44 percent and in West Germany 40 percent. The second priority was reduction in Short Range nuclear weapons 23 percent in Britain 27 percent in France and 36 percent in West Germany. The Distant third priority was reducing conventional arms 9 percent in Britain. 12 percent in France and 10 percent in West Germany. That slacking of priorities appears More sympathetic to the soviet rather than the Atlantic Alliance stance and May cause some headaches for . Officials