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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 19, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 mock inspections helping inf Sites prepare for visits by soviet teams by Chuck v1nchwashington Bureau Washington the Pentagon s new on sit inspection Agency is conducting mock inspections at the . And european missile Sites that will be opened to soviet officials when and if the Senate ratifies the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty. Osia personnel plan to hold at least one dry run teach of the 26 locations 14 in the states and 12 in Western Europe that would be covered by the treaty and they slowly Are working their Way Down the list an Agency official said tuesday. Agency inspectors visited penning ii Sites in Southern West Germany in Early May. The inspections arc meant to familiarize . Play ers who will be involved in the treaty s verification provisions he said. Agency personnel will pull double duty As both inspectors of the soviet Sites and escorts for their East bloc counterparts. Non Agency personnel permanently As signed to the 26 Western Sites also will be involved in escort operations. The . Inspectors will have Acress to133 East bloc bases six in East Germany one in Czechoslovakia and the rest in the soviet Union. Everyone is still feeling their Way around the official said. It s the first time in history that a verification mechanism like this has been put into place by two major Powers. There Are a lot of aspects to the process that Are unique simply because they be never deployed intermediate Range weapons Praveen done before the mock inspections Are designed to let the peo ple involved know what s allowable and what in t what they can and can t do the official said. Much of that Effort goes into the physical limitation that will be placed on the inspectors since there will be strict guidelines on the areas of the Sites open to View. For example there May be a trailer parked on a sex Netherlands Leader Willem Drees Dies at 101 nol covered by inf agreement but Weil Germany has uttered 1 Evroule Tow per Sfung mss Des runway near an area open to the inspectors the offi Cial said. The people at the base know for sure that it does t hold a treaty related item that it s just a work trailer or something. But the measurements May be right the doors May be the right size to hold such a item so the escorts would have to open it up to let the soviet inspectors see there s nothing in it that violate the treaty he said. Those Are the kinds of things we re planning for.". The . Learns doing the real inspections in the East Likely will consist of about 10 people with such proper expertise As familiarity with the russian Lan Guage and the various weapons systems involved the official said. The inspection teams will be a mix of officers an civilians. Military members will be drawn mostly from the army and air Force since the Sites to be inspected come under those services but Navy and Marine corps personnel also will be involved. The Osia formed in the month following the signing of the inf treaty in december is headed by army . Roland Lajoice. Once it is fully staffed it will have a permanent complement of about 125 , 51, was chief of the . Military Liaison team in East Germany from 1983 to 1986 and also has served in a number of military attache missions including a Post to Moscow. He also has had a tour a commander of the army s russian Institute in Gar Misch West  new Agency comes under Robert costello undersecretary of defense for acquisition and was assigned to the defense department Only after a reported turf Battle be tween the Pentagon the state department and the .arms control and disarmament Agency. The Osia temporarily is housed in a government build ing in downtown Washington but is scheduled to move to a permanent facility at Dulles International Airport about20 Miles from the downtown area in september. The Hague Netherlands a Wil Lem Drees the nation s longest serving pre Mier and the architect of its comprehensive postwar welfare system has died the government announced wednesday. He was101. Drees died saturday at his Home the Hague and was buried in a private ceremony tuesday according to a government statement. News of his death was withheld at the request of his family the statement said. The cause of death was not  began in politics As a member of the social democratic workers party the forerunner of the current opposition labor party which he helped found afterword War ii. During 10 years As Premier from 1948-1958, the labor Leader supervised the nation s re Merg Cnoc into  1949, he introduced a stale pension for All dutch citizens Over 65, the basis of today s welfare system. Although Drees primarily is known Ashe father of the dutch welfare stale he coped with the Netherlands major for eign policy Issue As Well. It was his government that waged two dutch colonial wars in the late 1940s in a attempt to hold onto the dutch East indies. But it was Drees himself who decide that maintaining a colonial Empire was a lost cause and ultimately handed Over sovereignty of almost All of the Colony to the new Republic of Indonesia in 1949.born into a poor Amsterdam family on july 5,1886, Drees began his political career As a stenographer in the dutch  won a seat in the Hague City Council in 1919 and went to parliament in 1933 for the social democrats. Drees pulled out of the labor party in1971, claiming the party s left Wing had betrayed social democratic , under whose tenure the nether lands joined both nato and the com Mon Market had sharply criticized the labor party leadership for its unconditional opposition to deployment of cruise  Lubbers government decided in favor of deployment in 1985. Under Las december s .-sovict agreement to withdraw All medium Range nuclear mis Siles from Europe deployment of the 48 missiles in dutch soil was called off. Deceased jewish Leader allegedly was embezzler Bonn a before he died this year the Long time Leader of Ger Many s jewish Community apparently embezzled millions of dollars in government funds earmarked for Holo Caust survivors his successor said. A family lawyer said wednesday that he believes Werner Nachmann the former president of the jewish Council of West Germany stole the Money to bankroll his troubled Busi Ness. The lawyer said Nachmann s heirs have filed for bankruptcy. I am shocked horrified and furious that such a thing could be even possible Heinz Galinski Nach Mann s successor As Council presi Dent said tuesday. Than $6 million in interest accumulate from holocaust survivor funds. He called the radio s figure  Peter Paepcke who said he had worked for Nachmann fora decade claimed he discovered the irregularities and estimated Nachmann had embezzled As much As s15.6 million. I m afraid that what has been said bythe jewish Council is by and Large Cor rect he said by Telephone from Karls Ruhe where Nachmann lived and owned a textile and raw material wholesale business. Nachmann president of the Council since 1965 until his death at age 62 of a heart attack was in charge of disbursing the funds to holocaust survivors around the world and had unlimited Access Thoc Swischer Rund Funk radio in Frank them the radio report said furl reported that the Council believes about $236 million was appropriate Nachmann who died in january pm Buzz cd about $19 million in holocaust reparations from 1980 to 1987. Galinski confirmed that an investigation has been launched and said Nach Mann is suspected of having stolen More by the government in 1980 for Holo Caust survivors who had not previously made reparation claims. The funds herein addition to $47 billion already paid by West Germany to holocaust survivors or victims families. Navy training chief orders review of risky drills Washington not the chief of Nav training. Vice adm. . Thunman said tuesday that he had ordered a thorough review of training procedures that involve risk. He said he was acting to prevent another death like that of Lee Willia Mirecki a Sailor who drowned in an air sea Rescue , reached by Telephone at his Headquarters in Pensacola Fla., said he has instructed com Manders of training programs to determine Are we training too close to the Edge arc we too closet the margin whatever the outcome of that inquiry the admirals id he has ordered commanders to assure that All training is properly supervised by officers and chief Petty officers and not left to inexperienced or unqualified Junior noncommissioned officers. Airman recruit Mirecki who was in training a Pensacola Nas to become a member of an air sea Rescue team died March 2 after being forced to take part in swimming drills against his will and after pro testing to his instructors that he wanted to Stop according to some reports. After an inquiry two Petty officers first class an three Petty officers second class were charged with involuntary manslaughter and the officer who had been in command of the training exercise it. Thomas a. Torchia was charged with dereliction of duty for failing to prevent the  Navy s inspector general also found that train ing procedures at the school were inadequate and out dated according to Navy officials in Washington. Instructors had not been taught proper teaching methods or How to handle emergencies the officials said. A report is due in about two weeks. The review of training in Thunman s command Cov ers Basic training at bases in san Diego great lakes in Illinois and Orlando Fla. Two dozen aviation training schools and All Navy surface warfare special operations and technical training schools. Only submarine training is separate. Altogether the Admiral said there Are 70,000 people in the command  
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