European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 a run Landers dear Ann Landers As chairman of the Senate subcommittee on children fam Ilies drugs and alcoholism. I want to add to your excellent response to the letter in a recent column claiming that today s Mother works to buy a Bow and a country club membership. Women work for the same Tea son men work. To support their Kyj families and pay the Bills. Far from destroying the traditional ? family Mot Civ wages keep Mil Lions of children from sinking below the poverty line. Two thirds of the women in the work Force today arc either the sole support for their children or have husbands who earn less than $15,000 a year. In 1988 fewer than one in four single mothers received the full amount of child support due on Lime. And while women in the work Force have been n Boon to business most businesses have not responded by providing on Silc child care or granting parental leave Ann please keep telling your vast readership that american women Haven t turned their backs on their children by entering the work Force. They have gone to work to keep their families together. Sincerely sen. Christopher j. Dodd a Conn. Dear sen. Doddi1 appreciate the backup. Most mothers Tell me they would love to slay at Home and be full Lime mothers but in just in t financially possible. Thank you for stating the Case so Well. Dear Ann Landers when i read the letter about the woman whose neighbor sneaked into her bedroom and planted a pair of lace panties Between the sheets As & joke it brought Back some fond memories. While i was in High school a Friend decided to play a joke on me and planted a Gay Magazine in my locker. The plan was for me to find it while the school football team was in the locker room. I did. It was Only seconds before the taunting and kiss blowing began i tried to explain bul there were whoops of laughter and my declaration of innocence was drowned out by the jeers. Afler a few minutes i became so enraged that i threw the Magazine across the room. As it sailed through the air a piece of paper fluttered out. It was a mail order receipt wild my Friend s name and address on it. What could have been an ugly episode turned intone of the Best examples of a joke that backfired. Everyone laughed at the unexpected turn of events. There s a moral to this Story that i Hope is recognized by All practical jokers out there. Sign me the last Laughin Alameda Calif. Dear Alameda Call me a sourpuss but i think practical jokes Are for the Birds. Most of them have a seed of Petty meanness and some Are downright cruel. In my opinion something is fundamentally wrong with people who enjoy embarrassing or humiliating others and then expect the victim to be a Good spurt and laugh it off. Dear readers the pig lovers of America have United to let me know that the beloved porker has More sensible eating habit than dogs horses or humans. They will not overeat dangerously Mea culpa nor do they eat like  they do not wit Down their food but Chew in savor it and shove it about with the snout to release and enjoy the Aroma ii humans ate like pigs the authorities say they would be a great Deal healthier. In Anomie i tin i syndicated columnist lenders Welcome your  cd writ. Ill her ran of the slut and Bullet. Apo wz1i. Us. Foickel letters free Home travel suspension explained so he bureaucratic a has fallen on he Epcot in place cons Culive overseas tour free Home trave Benefit but not the itt Infra Thaler Transfer Bene fit. -.--. As a taxpayer this makes absolute sense to me. Why should we give a Soldier and his family a free trichome if they Are going Locust stay in the same place those soldiers who decide to slay in Europe but move to another location should gel the free trip Home. After All they Are the ones who arc being moved to new temporary quarters and eventually moved again to permanent ones. Those soldiers and their families will need the free trip Home to rest Between moves. Ai a taxpayer 1 understand As a wife i do not. Inlay 19bb my husband requested an ii cot and was old it was verbally approved by 7th me com but Usa eur would not Cut the orders until october. Injury we were informed thai Usa eur would be end ing the Epcot Benefit but we could Check our options if we did not want to stay. Give me a break please. With a Deros Date of return from overseas of february 1989, Pur options were definitely limited. So what 1 would like to know is " 1. Are the itt benefits still in effect because the department of the army pays for the moves and the trip Home 2. How much Money was saved in fiscal 1988 by not moving Epcot soldiers 3. If Usa eur. Officials were so upset Over this decision Why not come up with an alternative Solu Tion Send soldiers and their families Mac to the United states and let them use space a to get close to their Home of record. Most people will have to come up with a couple Hundred dollars to get All the Way Home but thai is much better than a family of five footing the whole Bill of around $3r500 themselves. Joanne Arnold pm Maseru West Germany editor s note sgt. 1st class Steven , no in charge. Management actions Branch 151 personnel come replies the free Home travel connected with an in place consecutive overseas tour was a Benefit Lor soldiers who completed one overseas tour and elected id serve a full consecutive overseas tour at Hie some duty station. An Epcot not Only served As a permanent change of la ton Cost avoidance for the array for the fiscal year i which the Soldier was originally scheduled id return to conus Bat it also reduced the annual Ltd costs of the Soldier s pcs to and from Europe by spreading the costs Over a longer period e.g., six is. Three Yean. While ii to obvious that significant pcs savings were realized from the Epcot program coils la the army another budget areas became an overriding Factor. Specifically per department of defense directive the borne travel costs associated with the Epcot program were required to be paid for from he Mission funds of the command to which the individual was assigned. In this regard Usa eur spent $7.5 million to fund Epcot Home travel in Lical year 1988 and projected costs for fiscal year 1989 tit $9 million. It became evident that Usa eur simply could not afford such significant decrement of its critical operational and training Mission funds. Hence with department of the army s concurrence the Epcot program was reluctantly suspended. As you mention Itte Home Irani benefits do continue to exist for Millers who serve a consecutive overseas tour in conjunction with an Tetra Heater pcs. While this May seem contradictory in View of the suspension of the ii cot program the Basic fact is that the casts of free Home travel for this program Are borne by i Hearty s pcs Accra no and not individual command mis Sion accounts. Accordingly a funding dilemma such As thai described for the Epcot program Doe not Exell. Be assured that this matter was Given utmost consideration and was reviewed at the highest Imu of the army. Every Effort he made to find funding alternatives but the continuing severe budget constraints imposed on the army simply did not provide any viable options. The option you mention of flying Soldier and their families to Anil from conus Aerial port via  command transportation could not be offered As space required travel. Mac a also severely limited by Mission running constraints. Further the space available Mac travel within conus option Yon men Tion is prohibited by Law for family member. 1 Hope that you and All other readers now better understand the rationale behind the suspension of in Epcot program. Farther this decision Doe not necessarily mean permanent termination. Headquarters department of the army is still studying the Isnow and viewing Mil associated monetary impacts. Additionally the Normal foreign service tour Exten Sion Ste program within Usa eur remains a High priority. Those soldiers who cannot now be offered an Epcot certainly Are still eligible to extend for any period of Lime less than that equating the length of consecutive overseas Lour and we strongly encourage them to do so. ".,. 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