European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 10,198b military Roundup Riscassi to get 4th Star army s 2nd-highest Post Washington a president Reagan has nominated la. Gen. Robert w. Riscassi for promotion to general and appointment As vice chief of staff for the army the Pentagon said. Assuming Senate confirmation Riscassi 52, would succeed retiring Gen. Arthur e. Brown  he army s second ranking officer Riscassi. A native of Hartford. Conn now is director of inc joint staff for the joint chiefs of staff. He would be replaced in that Post by air Force it. Gen. Hansford t. Johnson 52, Lite Pentagon said. Johnson a native of Arkun s.c., now is Dep Uty commander of the . Central come. Check garnishment begins for bad debts to Bank Frankfurt West Germany service members who of merchants National Bank and make no Effort to pay May find themselves Short of Cash when payday Rolls around. Garnishment procedures arc in effect at All merchants Banks according to a Bank news re lease. The procedures the result of legislation passed in March allow the . Government to Garnish paychecks of Active duty servicemen be re. Paychecks arc subject to garnishment  who owe the Bank for an Over drawn account a returned stateside Check or an unpaid loan make no Effort to Clear the debt or fail to respond to Bank reminders. Customers have 10 Days to Contact the Bank after a final notice is mailed before the Bank forwards the bad debt file to the government. Garnishment applies to Active duty members and family members who hold joint account with service Mcm bars Augsburg wins top award in Europe Energy contest Heidelberg West Germany top Hon ors and s500.000 went to the Augsburg military Community from Usa eur s j2 million Energy Competition this year. This was Augsburg s first win in he program that since 1979 has awarded nearly s16 million o 28 different Usa Keur communities. Augsburg will represent Usa eur in the 1989  army Energy award Competition. For the second consecutive year Schweinfurt military Community placed second winning $400,000. Heidelberg and Wurzburg military communities lied for third winning $150,000 each in inc annual Competition. Burtonwood military Community in England won j150,000 for having the Mosi improved Energy program. Darmstadt was first runner up winning j 100,000, seven other Usa eur communities divided1500,000 in prize Money for unique and innovative Energy programs. Those communities were Vicinia. Italy and Ansbach West Germany $100,000 firms cons Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. West Germany $75,000 Mannheim West Ger Many $50.000 and Heilbronn West Germany,$25.000, soviet paper acknowledges Trotsky s revolutionary role Moscow a pravda Friday acknowledged for the first time in decades that Leon Trotsky played a key role in the russian revolution but it said Vladimir Lenin considered him a  for decades. Trotsky s name has been virtually banned from the soviet stale run press and his role in the creation of the world s first socialist state virtually wiped from the historical record. The article in inc government daily was or. Cut Carpl from a biography of Josef Stalin being written by col Gen. Dmitri to Logonov. The biography described Trotsky in language thai during Stalin s Rule might Well have Cost its author his life. Being quite a gifted publicist speaker and Organ Izer Trotsky played a Well known role in Law october armed uprising and eventually in the civil War years when he was people s commissar for military and naval affairs and chairman of the revolutionary coun cil pravda quoted inc biography As saying. The words used to describe Trotsky would have been unimaginable in the pages of the communist party daily As recently As a year ago. Their publication in pravda indicated High level party support for a re examination of Trotsky. Although recognizing Trotsky s abilities and his deeds on behalf of the revolution the article noted that Lenin the Leader of the bolsheviks had called Trotsky a Judas in 1911. After Lenin s death he article said the soviet founder s appraisal of Trotsky As a self confident perennially dodging and shifting and Tricky politician became confirmed. The headline of the cull Page pravda article called Trotsky the Demon of inc revolution indicating thata full blown return to official favor is unlikely. By the time he was murdered in exile in Mexico Citrin 1940. Trotsky s image had been Cut or airbrushed from Archive photographs of the 1917 bolshevik Revo Lution and he was portrayed in official histories so Elyas a revolutionary turncoat who opposed both Lenin and is Alan. As part of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev drive for glasnost or increased openness on some issues. Soviet historians have been Marc frankly As Sessing their country s past including inc role of Taiin foes like Nikolai Bukharin lev Kama nov and Trotsky in a major Kremlin speech last november Gorba Chev credited Stalin with preventing n takeover of the communist party by Trotsky and his supporters in inc Laic 1920s, and mid Stalin was defending the orthodox line Sel Down by Lenin. But since then inc official slate run press has stepped up its aria ski on the bloody legacy left by Stalin s 29 years in Power including a system of Politi Cal and economic control based on terror and purges i which millions died. Europeans launch two . Satellites european rocket blasts Oft thursday night with . Satellites on Board. Kourou French Guiana a two american satellites designed to improve . Telephone and Cilc vision service were in orbit Friday after a flawless launch by a european rocket. The ariane 3 rocket lifted off at 8 . Thursday from the european space Agency s launch site on the Edge of the Gotanian Jungle on the northeastern coast of South America. About 7 minutes later the rocket attained Orbital Altitude and both satellites separated from the vehicle. Officials at the space Center called the launch Complete Success Frederic d tallest president of Arian space the com Pany created to handle commercial shots called the 25th launch of an ariane rocket a special launch symbolic shot after the challenger catastrophe of 1986, we were the Only ones capable of assuring with the heavy responsibility thai that implies the replacement of the free world s satellites that were coming to the end of their lives he said. The satellites aboard the ariane 3 belong to get Spac net and to satellite transponder leasing corp., division of Tum. Both arc designed to expand and improve television signal distribution Telephone communications and data transmission in the Continental United states Alaska and Hawaii the Sta Roll weighing 2,799 pounds will completed the s network of three Spac net satellite. As the satellites built by general Elc Tricy Astro space Divi Sion were launched aboard european rockets. The sbs-5, constructed by Hughes aircraft corp., weighs 2,735 pounds and is expected u function for about a decade. A similar satellite was launched in 19b4, and a third in the lbs series is under construction. Afghan rebels shoot Down plane 3 officers die Islamabad Pakistan a Mas Lem guerrillas shot Down an afghan Mili tary transport plane killing two army generals a colonel and All 13 other peo ple _ aboard Afghanistan s government radio said thursday. It said insurgents brought the a.n-32 transport Down wednesday with a . Built stinger missile. The plane carried 12 passengers an four Crew members according to the Kabul radio report. Among the passengers were two Briga Dier generals Mohammed Ismail Noori and Abdul Ahad Gazmenda and col. Mohammed Hassan Koshiar political affairs director for military forces in the Gunduz Region the radio said. It de scribed Gazmenda As a defense ministry lawyer. The plane was bound from Kabul to Gunduz City 160 Miles Northeast of Kabul near the soviet Border the Broad cast said. Major Battles Between guerrillas and soviet and afghan forces have been re ported in the Gunduz area. Warplanes flying from soviet territory bombed in surgent positions late last month. The soviet made an-32 is a twin engined Turboprop that can carry 39 Pas sengers 30 paratroopers or 24 stretchers and is built for Short runways. Soviet soldiers began withdrawing from Afghanistan May 15 under a , mediated agreement and half the Esti mated 115,000 had left by aug. 15, All troops arc to be pulled out by feb. 15,1989. Moslem guerrillas began lighting aftera communist coup in april 1978, and soviet military forces entered the coun try in december 1979, the insurgents were not a party to the agreement reached april 14 in Geneva and have continued lighting. A separate Kabul radio report said two of Pakistan s .-built f-16 Jet fighters intruded into afghan airspace Over Asmar in Eastern Kumar province on a reconnaissance Mission wednesday. It also quoted the government As de Nying Pakistan s report that an afghan warplane was shot Down wednesday in pakistani airspace. Pakistan said wednesday that four afghan warplanes flew Over its territory near Nakagai 12 Miles from the Border and one was downed by pakistani fight ers. In Geneva a . Official said afghan refugees will be trained to dispose of mines left by soviet and afghan govern ment forces. The mines Are estimated Lon umber from hundreds of thousands to millions. The proposed program by the . Office coordinating Aid for Afghanistan also Calls for Public inform non campaigns to warn resuming women an children about mines