European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday decembers 19bb the stars and stripes Pagas men women to share missile duty  work 24-hour shifts underground by Richard Halloran Washington not after a yearlong trial inc air farce has decided to make permanent a policy of assigning Crews of one woman and one Man on 24-hour duly in underground control rooms for intercontinental nuclear missiles. Assigning mixed pairs in the missile stations is perhaps the boldest change in women s duties in the military since Large numbers began to enlist in 1973, alter the draft ended Mary men and women have served together in Large units but not in pairs for round the clock hours. Such assignments were begun cup Crimin tally Las january when male and female officers were paired to control minuteman missiles at Whiteman fab i Missouri and Malmstrom fab in Montana. After nearly a year senior officers said there were no reports of sexual misconduct among he mixed Crews. Because those assignments worked Well air Force officers said More women will be assigned to serve with men on missile duty. The first female male team to control my nuclear missiles the newest and most powerful in the air Force s Arsenal Are scheduled to begin work in mid january at . Warren fab in Wyoming. The strategic air come the Branch of the air Force responsible for offensive weapons also Plant to place women in minuteman missile Crews base Din North Dakota at Minot fab in april and at grand Forks fab in May. Eventually officers at Sac Headquarters i Omaha said women will make up about 20 percent of the 1,200 officers who operate 100 control Center for 1,000 missiles at seven bases. Forty eight women arc now assigned to that duty. Women who make up12.5 percent of the air Force and about 10.2 percent of All he military Are excluded from combat by la Sand Rogu actions. Three second lieutenants Ann Mccarthy Angela Roberts and heathers Williams arc to report to Warren on dec. 15 and Are to begin their duties i mid january. As Crew members they will assist in controlling 10 my missiles each with 10 warheads in silos scattered Over 3,000 Square Miles. They will Monitor the missiles to make sure the can respond to a coded order from the president to launch them. Crews Are repeatedly drilled without notice making teamwork essential. The control capsules Are built of thick steel an Concrete 65 feet below ground. They Are crammed with control panels. The Lew creature comforts in clude a col and a toilet and was bowl with Only a curtain for privacy. Crews Are teamed for months at a time going on duty about once every four Days. At Whiteman in Missouri the Experiment pairing of men and women has included 21 women in mixed Crews and 14 in All female Crews at Malmstrom in Montana 11 women have worked in mixed Crews. More women will also reassigned Iacre in May. Women began serving in Titan missile Crews which have four people in 1978 and were transferred to minus can Crews in 1986 As the Titan were dismantled. But their service was limited to two women Crews and it soon became evident that those assignments caused scheduling problems. If a woman became ill or took leave or was Scollo school for several weeks she either had to be replaced by another woman or  was pulled off duty until she returned. Two men the would have to replace the women which led the men to complain of  officers asked Gen. John to Chain jr., the commander of Sac to permit mixed Crews. He agreed but directed that assignments be voluntary so that a Man or a woman who would be uncomfortable in a mixed pair would be assigned Only with a person of the same sex. We have respected that preference said col. Thomas a Kenning or the commanding officer at while Man. One of the female missile officers at while Chan 1st i. S. Rani re incr said the move to mixed Crews had benefited the women by allowing them to serve with an experienced commander before being pro moved to command a missile Crew Kenning said there was no question about the abilities of the women to handle the missile duties. It s not an Issue Here he said. It s not an emotional  Grack dealers Back after drug unit i. R i Iii pulled out of . Neighb Rhood new York not less than two weeks alter new York City s first tactical narcotics team withdrew from a drug plagued neighbourhood in Southeast Queens county a Borough of the City crack dealer Sand their customers have begun reappear ing in growing numbers on Street Corners in Parks and even a schoolyard in South Jamaica residents local officials and police officers have said. Although rampant drug activity in the neighbourhood was held Down for nearly nine months by saturation arrest of Small dealers and buyers residents say there is now renewed trafficking in places that had been regularly swept bythe int units. People Are frightened that int was pulled out because clearly this area still has a serious drug problem said Wil Liam Scarborough District manager of Community planning Board no. 12 in Jamaica. Int brought a Ray of Hope to people because they were really provid ing some effective enforcement and it just made no sense to take it  the resumption of drug sales was re ported within Days of the nov. 20 withdrawal Scarborough said. He said in was concentrated in the Parks in South Jamaica a deceptively tranquil neighbor Hood of enormous demographic contrasts where the neat Brick Homes and immaculate Yards of the Middle class drug use by arresters " percent of Arr Estoes testing positive for any illegal drug in cities tested during july 1988 new York City san Diego Chicago -. Los Angeles Portland Ore. Birmingham Ala. New Orleans Dallas. Houston Detroit.   ,90 82 b1 77 76 75 76. 72 69 66 66 54,. Chicago tribune1 graphic source National Institute of Justice abut the rundown Frame houses of the poor Many of their Yards a Jumble of weeds old mat tresses and rusting cans. It was in front of just such a Dilapi dated wooden House that a 22-year-old police officer was ambushed on feb. 26,shot in the head As he guarded the borne of a Man named Arjuna whose complaints about drug trafficking on his Block had infuriated dealers. The police believe that the murder of the officer Edward byte of the 103rd precinct was ordered by major crack dealers. The commander of the police depart ment s narcotics division. Deputy chief. Francis c. Hall said last week of the withdrawal we have never said that were arc going to eliminate drugs. We Haven t eliminated robberies. We re talking about sin. We Haven t eliminated since noted that int had been meant to supplement existing narcotics units which arc still at work. An aide to Hall said Friday that More than 60 arrests had been made inthe 103rd precinct in the two weeks after. The teams were withdrawn compared loan average of 170 arrests in similar periods while the learns were there. Int born in the outrage that Fol Lowed the killing of Byrne was hailed by City Hall and police officials As part of avast assault on crack thai would bring the full resources of City state and Feder Al agencies to Bear on the traffickers. Average Price of Gas fall s under of . Pumps los Angeles apr gasoline prices dropped almost half a cent a Gal Tion in the past two weeks falling below $1 for the first time since Early july analyst Trilby Lundburg said sunday. A sampling of 12,000 service station throughout the United states found the average retail Price was 99.61 cents gallon for the period ending Friday Lundburg said. The average retail Price includes Al grades of gasoline All taxes and All Cash and credit sales at both self and full serve stations. As of Friday the average Price at self serve pumps for regular unleaded gasoline was 89.80 cents a gallon for Premium unleaded 105.65 cents and for regular leaded 86.84 a cols. Grand jury indicts Bakker sex aide Charlotte . A a Feder Al grand jury monday indicted Ftp founder Jim Bakker and his one time top aide on charges of fraud and conspiracy and accused two other figures in the Tele vision ministry of income tax evasion. Batter 4g, and former aide Richard Dortch were charged in a 24-count indictment with mail fraud wire fraud and conspiring to defraud the Public through the Sale of lifetime partnerships in the ministry s heritage Village theme Park. Bakker s wife Tammy also a target of the grand jury was not indicted. A second indictment of 11 count charged former pal vice president David Taggart and his brother James with lax evasion and conspiracy to impede the internal Revenue service in the collection of taxes. A a the maximum penalty for each count of mail fraud wire fraud conspiracy and lax evasion is a Tine of up to 1250,000and five years in prison. Bakker resigned from pal in a scan dal Over the payment of hush Money to Jessica Hahn with whom he had a sexual. Encounter in a hotel room in. 1980. He was later dismissed As a minister by the assemblies of god amid allegations thai included homosexual encounters. Former to preacher John Wesley Fletcher who appeared on  dub from the mid-1970s to 1981 and admitted introducing Bakker and Hahn said in an interview for Penthouse mag Azine thai he had sex  three times. He is the second Man to say publicly that he had sex with Bakker Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today dec. 6 1948 a Berlin Airlift plan crashed after taking off from Fassberg in the British zone of West Germany kill ing its Crew of three americans. 30 years ago today. Dec 6,l9it while visiting Wesl Berlin Konrad Adenauer the 82-year old Chancellor of West Germany urge the 2.2 million citizens living in the City to make it Clear to the world that the did not want to be locked Upin a communist prison."20 years ago today. Dec 6, 1968 the Dollar fell to3.9825 Marks on West German Money markets amidst renewed speculation that the Mark would have to be revalued. 10 years ago today. Dec. 6,1978 a prototype of a High Speed French train set a record of 17s Mari in a 40-mile test run Between Cougar an Strasbourg in Eastern France