European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday March 2,1989 news updates University lawsuit Washington Brg .,.13,000 non lady  12,000 annually acc try from the new port cities said col. Danidl. Sullivan commander of the 21st replacement in which processes most of the soldiers moving to and front West Germany through Rhein main. The base has been Chi traditional port of entry since the  disco Lin lid using troop ships in and out of of trim or Haydn some three decades ago. Sullivan said that the new ports will create More work for his battalion which handle 120,000 soldiers and family members 9 year but that inn Den will have better service. He said soldiers contemporary duly emergency leave and other official travel also will be booked through the local air hubs. An eight Soldier detachment will be fielded at both mar Roll Barracks  and a Ellingen Barracks near Stuttgart to process people and handle personnel problems Sullivan said. Spraggins said the new ports Are de signed to get soldiers settled into their units faster improving Quality of life rather than bringing the  any mate rial savings. Some Remote areas already use a Simi Lar system. For example a spokeswoman for Karlstedt s 2nd  div fwd be tween Bremen and the North sea said about �0 percent of the unit s soldiers go through Hamburg s Airport less than Atwo hour drive away. Spraggins said the flights to numb org and Stuttgart will be Normal military charter air planes like Hose now flying military people to Frankfurt. Service also is expected to improve because the airports have less traffic Frankfurt Airport handled some 300,000flights with some 25 million passengers last year. By comparison Stuttgart handled fewer than 80,000 lights with 3.7 million passengers. And Nurnberg one of the  s larg est communities has one of West Ger Many s smaller Airport handling 36,000 flights with some 1.3 million passenger last year. ,. The  is calling the civilian air Pom Aerial ports of dry Arkalon pm a Arkalon adding abode to inc list of military acronyms. Nuclear protesters blocked Colgate by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart West Germany is police removed 19 protesters Block ing the front Gale Al Patch Barracks on wednesday Corning during a Demon stration against . Atomic weapons testing. The protesters part of a Church move ment called the peace test Campaign sat in front of the Gate it 7 40 a.m., and police started carrying them away at 8 14 without incident Stuit Gatt police spokes Man Herbert Gaiss mayor said. The volume of traffic entering the  Post site of the . European come headquarter usually peaks at that Lime of Day. A Stuttgart military Community spokeswoman however said the protesters did not hamper operations at the base. She said the group left bouquets and fliers near the Gale but caused no damage or injury. About so demonstrators attended the event As did 60 or 70 police officials Gaiss mayor said. He said the District at Torney s office will decide whether to file charges against the protesters. The protesters released a four Page let Ter addressed to president Bush that urged an / immediate and comprehensive Stop to All nuclear testing As 3 reasonable and logical first step toward achieving total nuclear  the letter said the group scheduled it protest to Mark the 35th anniversary of a . Hydrogen bomb test on the atoll of Bikini in the Pacific Ocean and to pro test another . Test scheduled for this month in Nevada. In the Case of War breaking out it would be Here at Neucom Wynene the deadly  in Nevada. With the nuclear tests would come i Ful Circle the Lei Ler said. Sullivan Watkins approved for Cabinet posts Washington apr the Senate voted 98-1 on wednesday in favor of the nomination of or Louis Sullivan ask Lealih and human services Secretary. As the 55-year-old blood specialist moved toward confirmation the Senate voted 99-0 to approve retired adm. J mics d. Watkins As Energy Secretary. The dissenting vote against Sullivan was cast by sen. Jesse Helms . Aside from Helms republicans an democrats praised Sullivan. Sen Lloyd Beni sen a Texas praised the attorn doctor s commitment 16 pro Viding he ally care for inc needy and said his politics at has will define president by ibo s Calt fora Kinder gentler Ameri  Sullivan will be the Only Black Inrush s Cabinet. I am confident or. Sullivan is going to be a caring adv Cale for these millions of americans Bentsen said. Helms said thai As 3 matter of con science he could not Voie for Sullivan based on his failure or refusal to take a position on a number of extremely important issues All of which were related to abortion. Those issues included whether inc Federal  Back medical research using tissue from aborted fetuses,1 Watkins As Secretary of Energy faces one of the Bush administration s biggest challenges revitalizing the department nuclear weapons Complex and planning a Long Range cleanup operation that May Cost 1100 billion. Key parts of the 12-Stalc weapons Complex arc shut Down because of safety technical arid managerial concerns Leav ing the United slates without the capacity to build nuclear weapons for the lint time since the Dawn of the nuclear age. Watkins told his confirmation hearing that the department s weapons Complex was antique out of Dale desperately in need of  he also ripped the department s management Structure Call ing it a mess.". Watkins is a 1949 graduate of the naval Academy. He served As it submarine commander Cruiser and destroyer Force commander and commander of the 6th Fleet before capping his career As chief of naval operations. The service Slop position he retire Dan 19s6. The department has a budget of $14 billion this fiscal year it spends about two thirds of its budget on developing building and testing nuclear weapons for the Pentagon. The remaining one third is spent on conventional Energy projects mainly research. Hiring Sullivan s confirmation hear Ings few senators displayed much inter est in his views on abortion. He said he shares Bush s views he opposes abortion except in cases of rape incest or danger to the Mother s life. He also said that like Bush he opposes fed eral funding for abortions except when the Mother s life is threatened and would Welcome a supreme court decision Over turning Ili 1973 Roc is. Wade decision. Sullivan is a Friend of the Bushes and the founder of the Morello us school of Medicine in Atlanta. He will direct the largest department in the Federal bureaucracy controlling budget of nearly s400 billion and Man aging 114,000 employees has which administers a third of All Federal spend ing includes medicare medicaid social Security the food and drug administration and the us Public health service.1". In other action on Capitol Hill involving Bush appointees William Bennett he former Educa Tion Secretary who has been named to the new Post of chief drug enforcement executive was appearing before the Senate judiciary committee. Edward a Erwin set the former Illinois congressman and undersecretary of state was appearing for a second time before the veterans affairs committee on his nomination to head the new vet Erans affairs department