European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday. October 11,1988 officials kept from arrested Mia activists ,.-ss"" " Banc cok up . Officials have not bcet$5nted-ecess.to__ two americans or relied last week after entering Laos to publicize a $2.4 million Reward for the Safe return of american prisoners of War a . Official said Sun Day. Ross pc zing . Embassy spokes Man in Bangkok said the laotian government has notified the stale depart ment of the arrests but requests for consular Access have been delayed by a jurisdictional dispute Between provincial and Central government authorities. The two americans Donna Long 45, and James Copp 43, were arrested oct. Ing the Vietnam War 3 and taken to the laotian provincial the $2.4 rail Ott Row Ford has been t9pm-fj?Ake, about 75 Miles North pledged by if Tea congressmen and East of the National Pil Alc it Miane. Three Ott aet americans in an Effort to win four other members of the Max top la sad Seidof american prisoners of War calling itself the North Carolina Clarit "1j a were briefly detained on inc Mekong China. River on Friday by a thai Border patrol. Laotian police arrested Long Copp and their turn Boatmen after they landed on the laotian Side of the River and distributed 52,000 in vietnamese currency attached to fliers thai offered the Reward for the return of any american service member listed As missing in action Dur in addition to Long and Copp the activist group includes Bruce Adams of Wyoming whose brother Stephen has been missing in action for 22 years Lynn Hampton a nurse from Florida who served in Vietnam Bill Sullivan a for Mer Marine from North Carolina and Ted Sampley a Vietnam Veteran also from North Carolina. A thai naval patrol Friday briefly detained Sampley Sullivan Adams an Hampton when they floated Reward no Tice and $1,300 Down the River. The group released a toy Boal and the i from a Small hired boat j flags and stickers pro claiming their belief that some of the 2,393 americans missing in Indochina Are still being held the group targeted Laos because communist officials admitted holding Ameri can prisoners during the War although none was released alter a cease fire was signed in Laos in february 1973. Retention from Page t because training processing and replacing each drop out costs $ 18,000. So. Reducing the dropout rate even by 1 percent can mean Brg Bucks Syllman said in an interview. Pentagon o officials also want to assure a steady Flo of to handle the increasingly sophisticated weaponry of the High technology Battle. Field. A Rand report writer by Richard Buddin found that from the beginning a fiscal 1980 through in fend of 1983, the percentage of High Quality recruits Rose from 28 percent 10 49 Percyu for men and from 33 percent to 66 percent for women but the six month attrition rate also Rose 0.9 and \5 percentage Points for men and \ for the army Rand found the Wjk month attrition rate for men Rose from 6.6 percent i fiscal 1979 to10.9percenlinfi5call985. After new policies were introduced priding greater counselling for troubled recruits the attrition rates went Back Down to 7,2 percent. Attrition rates for-."hi6h-quaiily" recruits Ivy from base to base with the highest Levels consistently fort Jackson next to Columbia s.c., and the lowest at fort Bliss near Elpaso Texas and fort Mcclellan near Anniston Ala. Despite the improvements said Syllman we Are still dabbling with the recruitment that includes asking Rand to review the records of thousands of recruits to determine Why they dropped out news briefs state department official at the same time Sellman and his associates reworking on a Long questionnaire they Hope will give them a better handle on the kinds or people Likely to fulfil their service contracts. The questions by potential recruits about is sues As or Viou work trouble with authorities drug or alcohol Usaj probe cams in High school grades and the types of courses taken. People in academic programs tend to have a Little More Ilick loviness than people who followed a vocational program said set Man. The answers will be compared to those Given by earlier recruits who finished their enlistment he questionnaires which will take Aboul 30 minutes to fill out May be introduced by october 1989. Introducing the questionnaire will add an additional Index to the two that the armed forces have used since the beginning of the All Volunteer Force to Mea sure the Quality of recruits whether they received a High school diploma and How they scored on the armed forces qualification test. Previously said Sellman the biggest predictor has been the High school degree. Recruits with High school degrees Are twice As Likely to make it confers wit Wiesbaden Wes Uty Secretary of slate on a tour of Warsaw i Genscher Germany a dip John Whitchead who is. _. Act countries slopped in Wiesbaden on his Watilo Romania saturday for talks with West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher. J neither Man Spok to the press after their meeting but diplomatic sources said they agreed that intense efforts should be made to end the East West conference Jon european Security and human rights in Vienna Austria by Laie no vember. J one source said Abiy agreed that the Confer ence should close Wanh a substantial and balanced document Soj that nato Warsaw pact negotiations on reducing conventional weapons in Europe can begin before the end of the year. 40 people Clie when bus crashes into Indian Pond Guy Amati India up a crowded bus attempting to pass a car hurtled off a Road Sun Day in the none after stale of Assam and crashed into a 40 people injuring 20 and leaving 10 mining police said. The bus carrying in undisclosed number of passengers was travelling from go Mahali to the Southern Assam town of Malbari when the Acci Dent occurred near Cha Bari a Village about 20 Miles Northwest of the stale capital ofgus Tahati. Police said the Driver lost control of the bus As he attempted to pass a car. Algeria from Page 1 sources in various parts of the country indicated about200 people killed and several Hundred injured. It seemed Likely the actual death loll was higher. No offi Cial Dalh toll has been issued. The unrest began Aboul id Days ago with non Ajo int strikes demanding higher wages to keep up with inflation. Algira s annual unemployment Rale is estimated at 40 percent and food prices have risen by at least 40 percent since january. But the government so far has vowed to Slick to an austerity plan prompted in part by the falling Price of Oil the nation s main Export Bend did proclaimed a state of emergency thurs Day. On Friday the military command ordered sol Diers to shoot if demonstrators failed to disperse. At Mustapha Hospital in Algiers physicians moved patients out of the Hospital to make room for the hundreds of injured demonstrators. It s terrible. Beirut. Like Beirut the same thing said an unidentified Man shown on French television arriving sunday in Paris on air Algeria s Only flight of the Day. Algiers was mostly Calm sunday As army helicopter armed with rockets flew at Low altitudes apparently to discourage the formation of crowds. Some people gathered and chanted Chad i must go but dispersed quickly when soldiers charged. Algerian radio reported outbreaks of violence had occurred in the Kaylia Mountain Region East of Al Giers As Well As in of Margla Delfa and other centers of the Southern islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the movement for algerian renewal on sunday demanded removal of the president Interior minister Thedin and the head of the ruling National liberation front party Mohamed Cherif act Vaadia. Phantom from Page 1 things thrown around people Woken up ent reason Georgc confines his activities to the below Dicks cargo holds crewmen say _. Petty officer 2nd class Gary Wei says he has twice seen a Khaki uniformed Man passing through the holds Only to have him disappear from areas that have no exits. Weiss has also heard disembodied footsteps see stacks of supplies and food once was left in the dark with an Law Jet Wemer when the lights suddenly went it even though no one else could have reached the Light switch. On one occasion. Weiss and another Crew member de a soundproof Freezer when they heard the tit Alq " we just at each other and shrugged Weiss said. Eiffel Tower strike grounds tourists dozens of tourists left the Eiffel d sunday after finding elevators to the strike by about 30 Tower employ Tower Dis top closed yes. Elevator operators and Comus at the 1 ,056-foot-High tourist attraction walked off the Job saturday vowing to keep the Tower closed until they react via 5 percent to 6percent pay increase and belter working conditions. Tourists seeking one of the Best views of Partible Cit has to offer instead milled around the base of the to or trying to figure out Why they could no Petlo the top. A spokesman said negotiations with the towers management began sunday afternoon but he would not comment on prospects for a settlement. Tower director Christian Mare Squier said saturday that the demands presented by this category of unskilled workers arc totally unjustified. A Union representative said the average salary of Tower employees is about the French minimum wage of 28,67francs 14.51 per hour not including benefits. Lenz receives Gerry Twitt literary award Frankfurt West Germany a novelist Siegfried Lenz renowned for his insightful explorations of the German psych and of the nazi Era received one of West Germany s most prestigious liter Ary awards sunday. The 62-year-old Hamburg resident was Given the German Book Trade fair s peace prize at Frankfurt s St. Paul s Church. Other recipients have included German theologian Albert Schweitzer austrian philosopher Martin Buber and Max Frisco. Lenz s the German lesson Homeland museum Law and the Homeland mus Euia which tells the Story of p Young German whose life own did by world War ii was made into a West germane vision ministries. West German president Richan Devon Wei sticker and Mohanon Meroz Israel s former ambassador to Bonn and a Friend of Lenz a were among the Lumina Ries attending sunday s ceremony
