European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 13, 1bbb the stars and stripes Page 3 Money squeeze will Force reduction of nearly 50% in Safe flying time Porterfield said. Recut Liback 42  42 percent translates Inlo about 12.000 fewer hours of flying Lime for us afe  remains to be seen whether Well come up with the additional funds to Fly out the remaining flying hours but the Way it stands right now we May not be Able to Complete All of our flying hours this year be cause of a Lack of  said maj. Gen Robert a Rutherford former director of operations Tor Safe who recently assumed command of 17th air Force. The bulk of the budget cuts about is so million affect the command s operation and maintenance accounts which pay such Bills As aircraft and facility maintenance training temporary duly assignments utilities and local contracts in addition to flying  Means that along with fewer flying hours Safe will see its stocks of spare parts dwindle. It willbe Able to plan fewer conference that require Tempo Rary duty funds and must carefully scrutinize repairs 10buildings and property. Although Safe operations and maintenance funds Are protected by a Pentagon managed foreign currency fluctuation account that helps Onset the Dif Ference Between projected and actual Exchange rates the account is not limitless Porterfield said.,., ,.-,. The drop in the Dollar in West Germany from a the biggest Impact was in the flying training area projected rate of 2,06 Marks to the current Exchange by Daryl e.  Bureau Ramstein a West Germany budget cuts an the Dollar decline will mean an almost 50 percent Cut in flying time As the air Force in Europe juggles funds to make it through the fiscal year. The command which began the fiscal year wit about $100 million less than in 1987, was forced to Deal with an additional $100 million Cut in february after the much delayed defense authorization Bill was passed by  have to remember that la Congress did t pass the appropriation until just a few Days before Christmas said col. Samuel d. Porterfield the Safe budget director. The air Force staff and major commands took two More months to decide How the Money would be divided up before passing it on to the individual bases and commands in february. And so the bases his year Are scrambling to try tomake due with the shortfall and they be Only got in months to make it  Porterfield said. Those congressional cuts along with the air Force s coming up Short in its operations and maintenance budget projections have combined to make1988 a very lean financial year. Rate of 1.66, has put the fluctuation account in the red forcing the air Force to pull funding from other pro Grams cuts Safe will have to share. Although Cost of living and of sea housing allow ances also Are directly tied to foreign Exchange rates no fluctuation account mists to offset their rising Price Porterfield said. Shortages in personnel funding therefore Are being made up by Early release of person Nel and fewer change of station moves. The Hope is that the Money saved by reducing the Force or eliminating moves will remain m the military personnel budget and help pay off the deficit created by the devalued Dollar. Of the $100 million Cut that caught Safe by sur prise in the second Quarter $78 million came from congressional directive Porterfield said the remaining $22 million a whal air Sta Thad to withdraw from us to pay for things such As the foreign currency account and of he said. And As Safe cuts Corners and programs to Deal with the budget disaster of 1988. They can in no Way look for Relief in 1989."we do not want to convey that we just he to wait it out hold your breath until the new fiscal year comes along and All of our ills will be  Foneri Leld Laid. It will not be  my be Rizal on spes happiness for William by Dave  writer Willinger. West Germany eve when in was Over 11-year-old William Foley did t know what Immis Criqui lion meant. And he did t much care. Winnen Don t worry about things like that. Especially a Sish Grade Winner like William who went to the head of in class by spelling  and 17 other words just As difficult in the european wide spelling Bee thursday afternoon. The sixth annual event under the Nus Nicks of he european Congress of Amer ican parents teachers and student brought together 16 top spellers from Al ement Aries As far away As Iceland to Debattle with words. Thursday s event was the final round of competitions from department of defense dependent schools across Europe that pitted More than2,000 students from i schools against each other and a list of 1,030 words. And those words had the mostly adult audience at willing in wondering How any reasonable person would know such things. But who could be More reasonable than William the kid likes to build Model air planes enjoys swimming and even Camel a Lucky Coin in his pocket for battling words like Una and  Man gave my dad the Coin because he said it was Good Luck William  my dad gave 11 to  the Charm worked in the final head to head round when the Vincnza Italy elementary representative took on Kal Bowser of Mannheim elementary for top spelling Bee  s Correct spelling of station warily put the focus Back on Katy Whu stumbled Over Amroise Bizalion William hurdles that word Success fully then went on to end the contest with another precise  Victory earned William a set of encyclopedias. For 11-year-old Katy Sec Ond place brought an unabridged dictionary and a few tearful moments that ended in about the Lime it takes to say  m glad that William won she said. We were joking around at lunch and we were going Over a few of the words that we were studying. I think he even spelled one of the words we were joking around , to make miserable provided a somewhat ironic finish to the spelling Bee which ended with mostly smiles on the faces of the 4th-, 5th and6lh-Grade contestants. The earlier sticklers included such difficult words As pleiad Scytko Wepsic Lichac no Pharous palatial by and . . Considering Sale of aircraft to Kuwait Washington Lap the Reagan administration it seriously considering Kuwait s request id buy fib Filner Bomben and become the first fenian Gulf slate and the tint Arab country Mohave the advanced aircraft administration officials said  decision has been made but there s a Strong inclination to do it said an. Offi Cial. One Issue to be decided is How Many planes Kuwait should be allowed to  kuwaitis have asked for 40. Congress has the Power 10 reject the request As it has in the past when asked by the administration to sell particular sophisticated weapons systems to Israel potential enemies in the Middle East. The Washington Post citing unidentified defense and state department sources said thursday thai the request to Congress would be made soon. Kuwaiti interest in the l8s a Dis closed during congressional testimony earlier this week by Richard w. Murphy assistant Secretary of stale for near East Ern affairs. Firefighter Surrey the debt a of the franc Dun Igei House in the Towi nor Fulda. Canadian forces Crane Rolls into House 3 injured hofb1eber, West German Isis a Canadian Force Crane smashed into a House in Hof Bieber Elicus wednesday night injuring i rec people and causing More than$374,000 in damage German police  the injured was the Crane Driver army Cpl. John f. Walker. 30,of 4 combat engr regt 4 Canadian Mech brigade said Navy cmdr. Barry Frewer a Canadian forces spokes  said the Crane destroyed half the House and injured two people in Side. A third occupant was treated for Shock and another person who rushed into the House after the Acci Dent suffered injuries in a fall from Balcony police said. The Accident about eight mile Northeast of Fulda occurred As Walker was in route to assist a disable vehicle taking part in exercise rugged sapper Frewer said. Police said the Crane s brakes apparently failed at the vehicle was entering Ellen on count Highway 29. The Driver then lost control of the fire truck size vehicle which ran Over a traffic Island crossed a Road and smashed into the House. Police estimated damage to the House at 450,000 Marks or about 1271.000. And about 170,000 Marks or $102,000. To the Crane. The traffic Island suffered about 2,000 Marks Orsi 200, in damage. German police and . And Ca Nadian military authorities Are investigating the Accident