European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday june 3,19bb military Roundup Reagan nominates Travis to be Usa eur chief surgeon Heidelberg Brig. Gen Richard t. Travis has been nominated by the president to be Usa eur chief surgeon and commander of the Toh medical come. Travis the Deputy commander of the . Army medical research and development come at fort Delrick md., will replace maj. Gen. Frank f. Ledfordjr. The nomination carries a promotion to major Gener Al. V corps begins receiving drug screening machines Frankfurt is drug abuse officials in v corps wednesday received the first of 10 prescreening machines hat require fewer workers to lest More peo ple for the presence of illegal drugs. The ji2.000 enzyme technology system can lest about s5 urine samples an hour said James hand crr chief of the Frankfurt alcohol and drug control of fice. We Only need one person to receive the urine and Load in the  he said. While the machine is running inc tests this person can enter other data in the computer and Send out the positive samples to the lab. On the old machine the operator had to do each Sample manually. Now this machine does 16 samples at once automatically. We can test More samples on More people More often with less labor  the machine manufactured by the Syva corp., can lest for six drugs but will be used by the army Only to lest for the presence of cocaine and the or to rahy Roeann Binol. A substance found in marijuana. While Frankfurt is the first Community in usar eur to begin using the device nine other v corps communities should have machines in place by the end of the summer hand crr said. Kef Lavik fire department honoured for performance Washington the fire department at Kef Lavik Nas Iceland was among the units recognized for out standing performance in the Allen g. Old Chi Competition for outstanding firefighting the Secretary of the Navy announced. The Kef Lavik fire station won the award in the Large structural category. The program was established by the Navy fire pro inc lion association to recognize outstanding accomplishments in fire prevention and Protection. 4 Safe jag personnel recognized for their work Ramstein a Wisl Germany four of six air Force judge  awards for 987 went to Safe personnel officials announced. Maj. Stephen c. Donnelly received the award for outstanding judge advocate. He was died for establish ing inc Legal office Al a new base and his contribution to inc activation of the 486th tac fighter Wing Al Owens Dracht a Netherlands. Tech. Sol. Marsha a. Ptomey received the outstand ing Legal services airman award. As the noncom is  in charge of military Justice for the 401 Ettac fighter Wing at Torrejon a Spain she Cul the processing times for articles 15. , Myers who works at the 3rd air Force head quarters Al Raf Mildenhall England won the award for outstanding civilian attorney. He received his award for completing several International Taw actions on behalf of  personnel stationed in England. Tech. Sgt. Pamela s. Corrigan assigned to the i oth tac fighter Wing Al Raf Alconbury England achieved the award for outstanding Reserve i cwt serv ices technician. Officials cited her for unravelling four Complex medical claims cases and for her assistance to three critically understaffed Legal offices in Europe. 36th tac fighter Squadron wins transportation award Pitburg a West Germany the 36th tac fighter Wing s transportation Squadron was named Safe a bust transportation Squadron for 1987. The unit was recognized for outstanding efficiency and combat readiness Alt of the Squadron s branches including vehicle management maintenance and traffic management were recognized in the award selection. Stars and stripes metro a red White and Blue Ceramic display in tact Shippe of the american lag his been put up in the Cadet metro station in Paris to help celebrate the Long history of .-Frtttch cooperation and Friend Obj and the american revolutionary War hero French Man Gen. Lafayette. Firm to sell Cessna plane rust flew to Moscow s red Square Frankfurt a a West German company i seeking to resell inc Cessna air plane that Pilot Mathias rust landed in Moscow s red Square a year ago a Hamburg sports flying club official said thursday. Karl Friedrich Nicsie Deputy manager of the Ham Burg air club said Azuma Royal cosmetics of Munich had placed advertisements for the plane in various newspapers. The company had bought the plane from the club for $88,000. The soviets allowed the Hamburg air club to Fly the plane Back to West Germany last october and the club sold it to Azuma Royal. Now they inc company arc seeking a huge profit on it and have advertised it for Sale in various places Nicsie said. He estimated Azuma Royal was asking Between $ 150,000 and s175,000 for the plane. The associated press tried repeatedly to Conta Tazuma Royal officials by Telephone thursday for com ment but no one answered the phone. Thursday was an official Holiday in Bavaria. Rust now 20, flew unimpeded Over soviet territory from Helsinki Finland and landed in red Square on May 28, 1987. On sept. 4, rust was found guilty of illegal entry into the soviet Union violating International Light regulations and malicious Rowdy ism. He was sentenced to four years in a labor Camp. Rust remains in a Moscow prison where the soviets have permitted his parents and brother to visit him on several occasions. One advertisement which appeared in the May 15 editions of the Welt am sonntag newspaper read most famous air plane to sell. Do you want the Only air plane to land on red place Moscow on 28tb May 1987? Mathias rust s Cessna 172 will be sold in Best  according to Nicsie the Cessna is now parked in a hangar at a Small Airport near the City of ulc sen 1 Miles Northwest of Hamburg. Group urges centralized control to help Cut Europe flight delays Brussels a the association of european airlines thursday said flight delays will Worsen unless air traffic control is centralized in the european eco nomic Community. The association said 1987 was a Banner year for its 21 members which carried 130 million passengers up 12 million from 1986, and posted a combined net profit of $775 million up 93 percent. The association last month said it expects net profit of its member airlines to total $650 million in 1988. The 21 airlines punctuality improved on Long flights last year the association said in its 1987 year Book. But it added on Short and medium haul routes there was a three Point drop in the punctuality Rale compared to 1986. The situation was worst during june and july when the number of flights delayed due to Airport and air Way congestion increased  association general Secretary Karl Heinz neumers ice in a separate statement said he expected congestion problems to Worsen to three months in 1988 and to four in 1989 unless something is done to plan for the  Europe s air traffic has grown beyond expectations he said. Last year s traffic reached the level predicted. For 1991, and 1988 traffic is expected to equal that predicted for 1995." he urged the dec to centralize air traffic control in Europe As soon As possible. In 1963, Belgium the Netherlands France Luxem Bourg West Germany Ireland and Britain agreed to Transfer their air traffic control operations to euro can tool a Brussels based organization. But in reality they have never done this. Today from a Center in the Netherlands euro con tool Only handles air traffic at varying altitudes Over the Benelux nation and Northern West Germany. One of inc main reasons for the failure to improve the capacity of the skies is that because states keep Sovereign rights to air traffic control Europe Hai More than 40 air traffic control centers said no Meisler there is no joint planning and a bottleneck in one air traffic sector can affect routes All Over Europe. In 1987, the association said its 21 member airlines boosted their occupancy rate by four Points to 68percent, for All scheduled services compared with 1986. Raised passenger Revenue by 24 percent in dollars and 10,8 percent in european currencies. Carried More than 10 million passengers on North Atlantic routes up 19 percent Over 1986, and the High est growth rate since 1978. Raised their european passenger traffic by 13 per cent and to the far East and Australia by 10 percent. Neumeister said the agreement of the 12 dec nations last year to make a modest beginning with de regulation of Europe s airways Marks the beginning of change for our Industry where so far full National sovereignty has prevailed. The association s members arc car lingus air France air Malta a italia austrian airlines British airways it Nair Iberia ice midair Jat Kim Luft Hansa Lux air. Malev olympic airways Sabena Sas Swissair tap turkish airlines and Uta