European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday july 25,1988 officials seek Public awareness of biological weapons danger news updates Washington a . Disarmament officials Are trying to mobilize sentiment against chemical and biological weapons by focusing Public attention on the potential danger posed by these weapons in the hands of terrorists. I m not Here to terrify people but i think before the terrorism is upon us we need to Start addressing the problem Kathleen c. Bailey assistant director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency said thursday. Biological weapons programs Are in Progress around the world but because of secrecy restrictions it is going to take some time before we can get out to the Public to make an Issue Bailey told an audience at the heritage foundation conservative policy research group. Tie terrorist Angle is Likely to bring Public attention considering the rela Tive ease with which chemical and biological weapons can be transported without detection she said. When you can Tell people in Newyork City or Atlanta or wherever that somebody can walk in with a suitcase that can hold things that can kill an awful lot of people in a Small area Suchias chemical weapons or an even larger number of people Over a broader area biological weapons you can get some excitement going.". Without identifying countries Bailey said the . Government had evidence that in 1972 at least seven countries had chemical warfare programs and four had germ warfare programs. Today this has increased to 20 countries testing Chemi Cal weapons and 10 testing biological weapons she said. The United states is working at the diplomatic level to gain support for a comprehensive verifiable ban on Chemi Cal weapons far beyond the existing 1925geneva protocol Bailey said. But i Don t think we re succeeding in bringing the rest of the world along with us very Well. I would like see much More in co operation with our More Public diplomacy would be use Ful she said and greater Effort is needed to raise the level of programming computes into big Bucks for 2 gis who saved army $7 million by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer bad Kreuz Nach West Germany two 8th inf div computer buffs have been awarded $2,500 each for devel Oping common sense programs that have saved the division More than $7 million in one year. Spec. Rick Ford and sgt. Jeff Harrison of he co 8th div support come received the division level army suggestion pro Gram awards for writing computer pro Grams that simplify the management of the division s $1.25 billion Worth of heavy equipment. If higher level commands adopt the suggestion the two could share an additional $30,000. The soldiers began writing the pro Grams in late 1986 after an equipment manager dared them to come up wit something that would simplify his Job. The task was an extra one for the prop erty Book office programs analysts since program writing normally is left to High paid civilians contracted by the army but they accepted the Challenge. Jeff and i like to program Foresaid. I think my wife got mad some times we d be Here until maybe 9 or 12 o clock at the existing six army computer pro Grams madex3iief warrant officer 3 Wil Liam Weathers Job tracking excesses and shortages of some 18,000 types of equipment spread throughout units from the East German Border to the French Bor Der cumbersome at Best. The army has computer product that Are made available to everybody in logistics Weathers said. The Only thing is that the people who make these products sit up at a level so High that they re not Down at the user level and they Don t know exactly what the use needs to do their because of the soldiers ingenuity Weathers now can review division equip sgt. Jeff Harrison ment shortages and excesses in five or six Days a task that used to take 16 software even pared Down the 13-hour computer processing and print time to manageable three hours. Harrison s program allows Weathers Tosee at a glance projected and current figures on How Many pieces of equipment each unit is authorized plus How Many pieces each unit has in its inventory. With this information at hand weath ers can Speed the Transfer of excess equipment to units with shortages before those units order the equipment. Ford s program enhanced the existing program for equipment Transfer. The sol Diers then adapted both programs for a my wide use with the tactical army combat computer system. In one year the programs enable Weathers to Transfer More than $25 Mil lion Worth of equipment at least $7 Mil lion More than he could have transferred is photos by Ken George spec. Rick Ford with the previous method. The suggestion by Ford and Harrison is awaiting v corps approval. If the corp adopts the suggestion which is already being used by 3rd annd div logisticians the two will split another $5,000. A depart ment of the army decision in their favo will mean $ 15,000 More and if they re presented the presidential incentive award they la divvy up yet another $ 10,000. Harrison 23, soon will be getting out of the army to enter the civilian computer world. He said he plans to put his award Money toward a Down payment on a House. Ford 27, also Hopes to spend his Money on a Home. In the meantime though he has been automating the Divi Sion s weapons serialization process. Weathers said Ford is hesitant to sub Mit that program As a suggestion. When he brought it up Ford told him Man every time i do something everybody s Gonna think i m cambodian peace Jakarta Indonesia a cambodian Leader Hun sen thanked Vietnam and Indonesia saturday for their efforts to find peace formula for his country and said Success also depends on rebel fighting his government. He made the remarks As rejoined delegates from Vietnam and the cambodian resistance Alli Ance for the first such talks since Vietnam invaded Cambodia nearly 10 years ago. The talks we rescheduled to begin monday. Hun sen described the first informal meeting saturday As a result of the initiative of Indonesia and Viet Nam. Lefebvre controversy Rome a a group of traditionalist priests and seminarians have broken with renegade Arch Bishop Marcel Lefebvre and Are setting up their own organization Loyal to the papacy according to a roman Catholic Magazine. In an interview with the monthly 30 Giorni abbe Joseph Bisig said 16 priests and 20 seminarians have joined the group. The interview to appear in the Magazine s August Issue was re leased to the Media saturday. Bisig a former official in Lefebyre s St. Pius x fraternity in Switzerland said the new organization called the priestly fraternity of St. Peter was being set up in Hauterive Switzerland. Chinese heat wave Beijing up More than 20million workers have been sent to water crops withering under a killer heat wave that has claimed More than510 lives and scorched Southern China in one of the worst droughts of the Century news reports said sat urday. Suit on vat Law Hauppauge . A Suffolk county s new first in the nation Law regulating the use of video display terminals in the workplace is superseded by state and Federal Law and is unconstitutional a lawsuit claims. The Law affects All companies inthe Long. Island county with 20 or More of the computer terminals and with operators who spend at least 20hours a week working on them. The Law which took effect Las monday requires employers to pro vide work Breaks Eye care and Eye Glass benefits and special furniture and lighting. Gary Sazer representing the four companies that filed the Law suit in state court said state and Federal Laws have provisions for controlling hazards in the work place ensuring consistent legis lation throughout the state. Farmer ends his fast protesting Low level flights by de Ream staff writer Bokel West Germany the North German Farmer protesting Low level flights with a hunger strike broke his fast recently when the state government adopted his position. Suanne Rieschke wife of Patric Knut Otto and Mother of their 13-year-old son Johannes said in a Telephone interview saturday that Otto started eating again last wednesday. He Felt encouraged to do so when the social demo cratic government of Schleswig Holstein asked Ger Man defense minister Rupert Scholz to immediately curtail Low level flights Over the state and find a Long Range solution that will make such flights totally superfluous Rieschke said. Scholz had resisted such demands in the past arguing that Low level flights Are necessary to combat Readi Ness and that any decisions concerning the flight must be made at the National not local or state level. Otto was not available for comment because he Wason the North sea Island of Sylt participating in a human Chain of environmentalists protesting the death of seals through pollution. Otto started his hunger strike july 5, when a Ger Man air Force Jet crashed near the atomic reactor at Stade about 70 Miles from his farm. At that time Otto said he was eating dinner when he heard the news and he almost choked on a potato. He decided at once that it was time to do something dras tic and he began the hunger strike. Otto ended his fast when he received word from the politicians that they would seriously attack the problem. Otto had said earlier that military flights which occur several times a Day if the weather permits caused noise pollution that confused his farm animal Sand made his son cry. Otto was getting euphoric and i was getting Wor ried Rieschke said. He Felt he could have easily continued the hunger strike another two weeks. I was glad when the statement came from the state govern ment and he began to
