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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 28.19bb budget cuts limit summer hire plans Safe can r fund program army undecided by  Sawyer Sliffe Riter budget constraint have forced army and air Force officials in Europe to take a second look Ai i hair summer youth hire programs. In past years both services have been Able to draw Money for the programs from discretionary funds within their command budgets. This year Safe cannot fund the program and the army in Europe has yet la decide. The air Force has encouraged base commanders to consider funding sum Mer hire programs locally. Safe officials said wednesday. The army is in the process of making a decision regarding the summer hire program said i. Col. Robert Mcdowell a Susareu r spokesman the summer hire program provides jobs for family members age 14 and up. The teen agers and College students Home for he summer work in  clerical positions during two consecutive five week summer sessions. Young peo ple in inc program earned $2.90 per hour fast year. Susareu r employed an average of 3,536 youths during each summer month last year. Safe provided jobs for Aboul 1,500 Yoang people. While decisions Are pending at Many bases.  a West Germany hat decided against s paid summer hire program. Officials Are looking instead at an alternative teen Volunteer program said base spokesman capt. Donald Lamb. The teens would till the same positions thai were part of last year s sum Mer hire program. Ramstein a West Germany will de cide on summer hires by May 6, staff sgt. Linda Brandon said wednesday. Officials at Spang Dalem a West Germany said the program could not be funded out of the civilian pay budget but if Money could be found elsewhere icy would have a program. Harm a. West Germany said a Deci Sion on a summer hire program will not be made until late May or Early june. Pitburg a West Germany has not determined whether it will have a sum Mer hire program and neither has Sam Bach a West Germany. An official at the nato base Al Oei Len Kirchen said the base will not have the program unless the funds become Avail Able from Safe. Florennce a Belgium will have a locally funded summer birr program a base spokesman said. A spokesman at Rhein main a West Germany said officials Are considering a few summer hire positions funded through morale welfare and recreation channels but lout funded with opera Tion and maintenance monies would be eliminated. Meanwhile us the army makes Deci Sions regarding its program army youth activities worker Are preparing to pro vide additional programs for teens if the summer hire jobs Don t become Avail Able. We Are trying to come up with activities that will focus on the teens who Are not working said Lee Morrison Usa cur youth activities program manager. We want to gel our Icen councils working Well set up activities thai will entice the kids into the youth centers like car washes to make Money Tot trips. We will still have inc on going programs hat involve Spring clean  baby sit Ting and jobs like that in the Community. We Are appealing to the communities to open up their doors 10 let kid work if even just Volunteer work Morrison did. Pm fillip god Boll. Maim youth Active Ilies coordinator said eliminating or scaling Down the summer hire program would affect not Only the teen agers but the preteens who attend Mains sum Mer fun program. Last year Mainz youth activity Center hired is Young people to assist with the summer fun program for 6-to-12-year Olds. God Boll said that in the event of no summer hire program he d like Mainz centers to offer More daytime activities for the Community s 350 to 400 Seeru but said his centers already arc Short staffed. The Ball of Wax is. If there were funds to offer these youth activities programs we d have the summer hire program Godbolt  to i fort Tun nmn Ernul Ejmi no h Dinn Owji. Int 5miny owl e. Attn 01 kill of mum Ina my Wilbo k Bonor a.  0.1 Many commissaries Stop buying israeli Grapefruit by j. King cruder Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy military commissaries in Europe were ordered to Hall purchases of israeli Grapefruit wednesday a stay after italian officials discovered that 18 Grapefruit on Sale in a Rome Market had been injected with a lethal Poison. Limited quantities of israeli Grapefruit had been purchased this week for sate in commissaries in Europe said Adam Colin a spokesman for the defense subsistence Region Europe in Zweir Flucken Wesl Ger Many commissaries that received the fruit were ordered to remove the fruit from their shelves he said and All stores were Iod to halt purchases of the frail. There is no reason to believe that any product purchased for use by . Forces in Europe is involved in the contamination problem Cohen said. The poisoned Grapefruit bearing the Brand name Jaffa were discovered tuesday after an unidentified caller tipped a Rome newspaper Paolo Franciosa a spokesman for the italian Minu iry of health said wednesday. News reports quoted the caller As saying we Are going to Poison israeli products such As Grapefruit As a sign of our Solidarity with the palestinian  Franciosa said 18 Grapefruit Al the Hare had been injected with a bluish Poison that instantly lulled Labo Malory mice. He said 90 percent of All Grapefruit sold in Italy is imparted from Israel. Commissary workers in Naples began removing israeli Citrus products from their stores Lale tuesday afternoon after receiving word of the terrorist action in Rome. They also asked patrons via local amen can radio and to broadcasts to return any Grapefruit recently purchased from the commissary. It. Cmdr. John Marchi a Navy spokesman in Naples said wednesday that messages also had been " had recently taken on supplies Al Onnel to Check for israeli Citrus on Naples As at the naval air station at Sigon Elln Sicily it Jack Mill the Navy Exchange officer ordered All supplies of Jaffa Grapefruit in the commissary to be withdrawn from Sale. An Appeal also was broadcast there for commissary patrons to return any suspect Grapefruit to the store. The commissary store at san Vito Dei Normanna As. Italy also yanked Jaffa Grapefruit from shelves and the installation planned to hold up All incoming shipments of israeli Citrus products while awaiting advice from air Force environmental officials Seid 1st it. Lisa Jeffery a base spokeswoman. Mia court Uwel 1� it my by j0 to Nipula Darmstadt go killed wife seriously injured in head on collision Darmstadt. West Germany is a 3rd support come Soldier was killed tuesday and his pregnant wife seriously injured when i hair car collided head on with a postal truck. Pfc. Richard Belford was trying to swerve left around a car thai was turning right when he hit the oncoming postal vehicle a 3rd support come spokesman said wednesday. Belford was 18. His wife. Pfc. Kristine Belford was rushed to the army regional medical denier in Frankfurt where docious delivered her daughter Angel by caesarean Section a 32nd army air defense come spokeswoman said wednesday. Kristin Belford 20, was in serious but stable condition wednesday said spokeswoman Sec. Sandra  Newborn baby is doing Well pc Lucano the Driver of the postal vehicle was slightly injured a German police spokesman said  Belford worked As a teletype re Pairman with the s6ih maim co in Darmstadt. He was assigned to the unit in december. Krisling Belford is assigned to co a i in Hie Morial services for the Nan calif., native will be at 1 15 . Friday at the Kelley bar Racks Chapel. Primary fro Pagal lured to death he said he would ask a reference to William Buckley the Cia official who died after being taken hostage in i Lebanon. Let him fire away Bush said of Dukakis in an interview on lbs to. Bush prodding the democrats on another Sens Uve Issue said on Abc to that he might pick up substantial support from Blacks if they decide Jackson was t Given a fair Deal by his party. If he s nol treated fairly a lol of people Are going to be open minded and if i Campaign proper with the Way i feel in my heart Aboul openness and inclusion we might uprise people there,1 Bush said will the nomination in hand for bulb president Reagan free at last to drop his neutrality was meeting with his vice president wednesday. "1 am sure the president will offer his congratulations and discuss How he can help in the Campaign said while House spokesman Martin Fitzwater. Ohio. Indiana and inc District of Columbia were the next battlegrounds each holding primaries next tues Day. We re almost getting Down to inc Mam even declared Bush who got 79 percent of the Pennsylvania popularity Vole and also won More than enough delegates needed for a gop convention majority. With 94 percent of the Pennsylvania Vole in the democratic vote was Dukakis 944,461, or 67 percent. Jackson 393.790,28 percent on the Republican Side with 94 percent of the Vole in. It was Bush 631,274,79 percent. Dole 96,346,12 percent. Robertson 73,692,9 Perrell. The gop Delegate count was far slower than the popular vote. By the associated press Delegate count Bush needed to win at least so of the 78 delegates Al stake to Clinch the 1,139 needed to nominate and he did Early wednesday. Dukakis won n separate landslide in the election of democratic delegates taking 163 to Jackson s 13. Two were uncommitted. Thai brought Dukakis National Delegate total to 1,164, compared to s51 for Jackson. It takes 2,081 to Clinch nomination. Gray from Page 1 they could do thai Job very efficiently in 1979," said wednesday. Fifteen women were trained and assigned As embassy guards under u Pilot program that year. The pro Gram ended shortly after when terrorists attacked . Davis facilities in Iran Pakistan and Al Salvador. As a result of Carlund j reversal of Cray s decision women Are being advised that they on apply for embassy guard duty. A Marine corps spokesman said the next six week training class will Start in mid May. Gray did approve several proposals aimed Al improving Home tit careers including representation on the service uniform Board Palling out a hard line against Sencaj harassment and allowing women into three previously restricted military police jobs  
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