European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 28, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 army tackles relocation problems wants better counselling on moves by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington spurred by sur Veys Thali show army families often Are dissatisfied with relocation services officials Are beefing up programs to help sol Diers select or prepare for new assign ments. Individual orientation counselling and a worldwide automated information net work arc two major features of he on going Effort said Ann Tartick relocation assistance and outreach program manager for the Community and family sup port Center. Tarzier spoke about the army s efforts in an interview during the annual family action planning conference being held in Washington this week. One major feature of the program will be a computerized information Center on All army installations that Scricc Mem cars can consult before making a move Tarzier said. Most bases have information pack ets but they consist of whal the installations choose to put in them she said. Consequently some Are excellent while others leave much to be desired. We d like to standardize our scripts and ensure thai we have the latest information on All areas available to soldiers and their families she said. Supplementing the automated net work will be a series of videos on various overseas areas where soldiers might find themselves stationed. Some have been completed and others Are still being produced Tarzier said. Other plans include the hiring of Relo cation managers a program which began about two years ago. We re strongly encouraging local commanders to support this concept she said. Money is available to hire the relocation coordinators to army Community service offices at the base level Tarzier said. Acs has always sort of had the coun seling Mission but the person was Likely to be someone who wore two three or four different hats she said. The goal is to have people whose sole responsibility is relocation services. The Money is going out and local commanders should be hiring these  much of what the army has Learned about How relocation services can be improved comes from a recent test done a fort Denning. A and fort Lewis wash., Tarzier said. The army awarded coital facts for com Mercial relocation services for those two bases. Each base office had computerized information on 40 other army installations along with Counselor who could talk with service members. The goal was to get them data about their new assignment in a timely manner and help them take charge of their move rather than just silting Back and saying of Well the army Wilt Lake care of moving me " Tarzier said. The concept was sound but the method of Cliv Cong those services through contracting proved too costly. We knew we had developed a Cadillac system but unfortunately the budget was More along the lines of a Volks Wagen Tarzier said. So we re taking the most valuable facets of that test pro Gram and applying them to the Structure we have now Man refuses to allow testing of girl in baby swapping Case Sarasota Fla. A a Man has revealed to his9-year-old daughter that a Pennsylvania couple claims she is their child who was swapped just after birth for another infant but he insisted he will nol allow tests to prove  w. Mays a 43-year-old roofing Supply Salesman identified himself for the first time wednes Day As the father of the girl Kimberly Michelle Mays. He said he decided to step Forward for fear that she would be told by someone else who might frighten her. It took me a Long time to realize the seriousness of this situation he said. At first i thought it was at terrible  and Ernest Twigg of Langhorne pa., claim the girl was born to them but was swapped with another child soon after birth in 1978 at a Florida Hospital. The girl they raised died in August of a heart defect. During a news conference at his attorney s office Mays said he told his daughter a week ago of the Twiggs months Long Battle to require her to submit to genetic blood tests to prove her parentage. It was the most difficult thing i Ever had to do in my life he said. For a moment there was panic in her eyes. She said daddy i Don t want to move  it mean i m nol your Little girl he quoted her As  said he reassured the Blond fourth grader that he was her father and nothing would change then she settled  was the Only time during our hour talk she stopped me. It was All that was important to her. She wanted to make sure everything was still in place then she asked could she go ride her Bike Mays said. Mays said the Twiggs have presented no evidence to show Kimberly could be their daughter. And even if genetic tests supported their claim. Mays said he would not surrender her. I would fight to the ends of the Earth for her he said. I would t care if they traced her heritage to cab Bage Patch u.s.a., she is my daughter William Post an attorney for the Twiggs said Mays was irresponsible for coming Forward. The Twiggs were terribly distressed and amazed that he would do a thing like that.,. Thai he would Call a press conference and expose a child to this kind of publicity Post said. The Twiggs have said their daughter a healthy girl was switched in a baby Selling scheme at Hardee me Morial Hospital in Wauchula Tor a sickly child. Hospi Tal workers then altered records to hide the Swap they have said. Kimberly was born at the Hospital in Laic 1978,about the same time As the daughter the Twiggs raised Arlyna. The couple said genetic tests last summer proved Arlyna was not their biological daughter. The Twiggs filed a $100 million suit against he Hospital and some of in employees. They also persuaded the Fri to investigate. Hut the Fri failed to find sufficient evidence that Federal Law had been violated. This month the Twiggs asked a judge in Sarasola to Force Kimberly to submit to genetic tests to determine whether she has of positive blood like theirs. Jul Mays said he also has Olyph blood and does t know what Type Kimberly has. The judge has yet to Rule on whether the testing should be required. Mays said he Hopes his disclosure will help avoid a Long Legal Bailie that could evolve into a custody fight Wilh the Twiggs. We want them to please think about this child and not cause trauma in her life he said. Fleeing the cops a South korean University student jumps from the fourth floor of the Public prosecutor s building in thru wednesday in an Effort to evade police. Be Chang Han who with 10 of his colleagues seize the building during a protest demanding the arrest of former president Chun do Hwan was injured after a Surprise Landing in a police safety nil. Leffer raises question about fair trial for no by Daryle. Green  Bureau Sembach a West Germany an Anonymous ice tar claiming a jury Mem Ber acted improperly has raised the ques Tion of whether an air Force no received a fair trial before his recent conviction of rape sodomy and indecent apis. I m going to making a motion for a mistrial capt. Mark u. Devreaux de sense counsel for the no said after a Post trial review wednesday. The letter arrived at the Sembach a area defense counsel s office two Days after the conclusion of the trial oct. 19. In stated that the son of one of the jurors had been bragging at school that his parents had discussed the Case at Home prior to its conclusion and thought the no was guilty. The information prompted Dave Reaux area defense counsel from Raf Mildenhall. England to request the Post trial review. The convicted 49-year-old master ser Geant who has More than 24 years in the military was sentenced to five years in prison reduced to the lowest enlisted Grade ordered to forfeit All  and allowances and Given a bad conduct Dis charge. The no who also was convicted on two counts of assault and Battery and drunk and disorderly conduct was convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter Between december 1985 and october 1987. The stars and so rips is withholding the sergeant s name to protect the Vic Tim s identity. The juror mentioned in the Anonymous idler maj. Clarence m. Oliver of Sembach s 66lh electronic control Wing testified at the Post trial review that his wife had  an opinion about the Case. At Home my wife had stated that in her opinion the no might not be in Nocent Oliver said Oliver testified that he immediately Lold his wife that he was not allowed to discuss the Case and demanded that she nol talk about it in his presence. Maria Oliver who sat in inc court As a Spectator through part of the trial Testi fied that she told her husband i Don t like the Man the Noi Don t like his  jurors Are instructed nol to discuss the Case with anyone when they Are selected. A jury member has to make an inde pendent decision on Only thai evidence in front of him and he should t have somebody coming up to him and saying things like i Don l like him because i Don l like his eyes " Devreau said in an interview after the hearing. The judge maj. Edward m. Starr will deliver his findings based on the review some time next week dec Ricaux said. At that time the defense will have 10 Days to make a motion for a mistrial. If a mistrial is granted the govern ment has a number of options ranging from trying the no again to Selling him free said it. Col. Ralph j. Capio Sembach staff judge advocate. The expense of the trial that saw it witnesses come from England the Philippines the United slates and West Germany could Impact on the government s decision to try the Case again Capio said