European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday August 3,1988 House panel head wants review of military child care outside . By William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington the chairwoman of a House armed services subcommittee tuesday called for review of overseas child care and the Quality of the personnel who work in military child care centers. What about the 40 percent of service members who Are living overseas asked rep. Beverly Byron,d-md., after hearing testimony regarding a recent study of military child care in the United states. The general accounting office study to be formally released this fall found that the defense depart ment is committed to Day care with priority going to service members and extra space going to civilian pm  the congressional investigatory Agency also said that the system is inadequate to serve All military families and the number of children going without the government subsidized service is unknown. However Gao s report on capacity and a report by the general services. Administration on efforts to build More Day care centers led Byron to remark whenever i visit military Day care centers the first thing i m shown is the huge Kitchen. Then they show me the air conditioning the carpet. But what concerns me is who is picking these children up who s holding  think we do sometimes throw Brick and mortar at a problem Byron said. I would much rather have that Nice Kindred soul who s going to hug the children and give them a Pat on the  Linda Morra associate director of the Gao Shuman resources division testified that a Gao study of military Day care in 1982 was very critical of staff Quality the number of employees and the condition of buildings. Morra said the current Gao study focused on Avail ability rather than Quality of care. We think just fro what we saw that the military does have the question of deciding who it wants to serve she said. Currently All the children of Active duty service members requesting Center based care cannot be served Morra said. We do not know How Man additional Active duty service members with children at installations without child development centers have preference for such  Morra said the potential number of those with a preference for the military s Day care program which at a Price Range of $40 to $60 a week runs about 25 percent less than in the private sector Means that Long Range funding decisions Are facing the military in terms of program priorities and the Congress in terms of appropriation  while the defense department is committed in principle to providing child care Morra said the Gao Learned that in practice each installation com Mander determines whether child care programs need to be  Morra said her Agency did not review the process by which commanders determine their child care needs. Prosecutor suggests delaying North trial for conspiracy Washington a the Iran Contra prosecutor on tuesday suggested postponing Oliver l. North s trial on major conspiracy counts while he at tempts to solve the problem of disclosing classified documents in court. Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh conceding the problems of pub Lic disclosure formidable and the Outlook and other intelligence agencies turn Over highly classified documents for North s defense. Gesell has ruled that North needs the material to try to show he acted with the understanding that his activities were approved by higher authorities in the Rea Gan administration. If Gesell refuses to modify the order meantime North could be tried on charges that he made false statements to Congress obstructed Justice by shred Ding documents illegally accepted installation of a $13,800 Security Fence out Side his Home and pocketed $4,300 Worth of travellers checks from the con tras. The former National Security Council that statement amounted to a conces Sion of the Legal difficulties posed by the conspiracy charge against North and three co defendants former National Security adviser John m. Poindexter and arms dealers Albert Hakim and Richard v. Secord. The four who Are scheduled to be tried separately All Are charged with con fore taking up the three counts stemming from the diversion of iranian arms Sale profits to the nicaraguan rebels. Walsh said . District judge Ger now set for sept. 20 on All 16 counts against the former White House aide if he relaxes a july 8 order that the Cia a separate trial on those three counts later. Under this procedure the Intelli Zuments to assure completion of any additional discovery ordered by the court Walsh said in a court filing. The nicaraguan rebels. Walsh said these charges do not involve nearly As Many classified documents. Moreover he said the Crimi Nal conduct alleged in these counts is discrete and the allegations far from involving novel Legal theories Are Rou Tine. Sale proceeds to the Gesell has threatened to dismiss those charges if the government does not pro Duce the documents North says he needs to show that the Iran Contra operation was no different from other Covert operations authorized by president Reagan. Gigantic numbers game worker James fast goes about his stacking Job in a Pacific Bell warehouse in los Angeles where More than 400,000 yellow Page Telephone directories have been stored. They were waiting tuesday for the Start of a massive delivery to los Angeles area sub scribers. Before the operation is Over 3.72 million phone books White and yellow pages will be sent out in possibly the biggest delivery process in the world. New York City officials say infectious waste was t red bagged new York a More than half the City s 83 private and municipal hospitals have been sending infectious waste out with regular garbage City officials confirmed  Law requires that infectious Hospital waste be red bagged separated from general waste and re moved out of state or incinerated under controlled conditions at a temperature of at least 2,000 degrees. The environmental control Board has fined 50 hospitals a combined $481,000 from november 1985 to May of this year for the illegal practice the sanitation department said confirming a report in tuesday s new York  that have been fined lose their City pickup service for As Long As six months forcing them to use More expensive private carriers said Vito Turso spokesman for the sanitation  of the 40 state licensed private infectious waste carriers Are monitored by the sanitation department. . Attorney Andrew Maloney of Brooklyn said his office is investigating whether criminality in the cart ing Industry May be partly to blame for the medical waste that has been washing ashore this summer. City faces fines Over rejection of desegregation new York a a Federal judge found the City of Yonkers in contempt of court tuesday because the City Council failed to pass a housing desegregation Resolution. Calling Yonkers a National Symbol of Defiance to civil rights . District judge Leonard Sand imposed a Fine of $ 100 a Day doubling daily beginning tuesday. The Fin would surpass the City s $337 million operating budget by the 23rd Day. The Yonkers City Council voted 4-3monday night against endorsing a court ordered desegregation plan for 800 units of affordable housing to be built by Pri vate developers throughout the City North of new York City. Sand was to consider separately whether to Fine individual Council members. The City of Yonkers is in contempt be cause it chooses to be in contempt Sand said after a one hour hearing in Federal court in Manhattan. It does not find itself inadvertently in that  an attorney representing the City Michael Sculnick had argued against the contempt ruling saying fines of that magnitude Are devastating and will bankrupt the City in three  earlier Yonkers mayor Nicholas a Siscko had said he hoped the judge would see Good Faith in the closeness of the 4 3 vote and delay the fines. Wasiecko who voted for the desegregation plan said he would Call for another Council meeting this week to reconsider the Issue. Sand insisted the fines were Remedi Al not punitive because they would end if the Council changed its vote. Sand has said he would Fine the de fiant Council members $500 a Day. And if they remained in contempt until aug. 10, they would face prison he said