European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday. March 12,1989 Uso closes 11 Sites in med Region official cites Lack of funds support Wychuck Vlinch Washington the Uso. Citing financial and personnel problems has shut Down 1 1 facilities in sin Mediterranean countries an official at the Organiza Tion s world Headquarters has disclosed. Facilities in Greece Turkey. Spain Israel Egypt and Tum via two permanent Silas and nine others that usually operate Only when ships arc in port have Clowd. Pc in. Mccarthy director of communications for Llic Uso said Friday.,. Facilities in France and Italy the. Us s busiest european locations will remain open. Operations Germany which came under fiscal . The non and Summ Cro i9s7. Grill also not be affected. Permanent facilities in the Region closed As of feb.1j arc Haifa Israel and Rota a. Spain. Tempora Ryas needed locations that closed Are Alexandria Egypt Barcelona Costa Blanca. Malaga Raima and Valencia in Spain Tunis Tunisia Istanbul. Turkey and Athens. -. Mccarthy said inc Mediterranean action is part of a Long term realignment spearheaded by Uso president Chuck hag i and designed to make More of the Uso s overseas facilities self sufficient. The Mediterranean Region fractured logistically be cause of the nature of Navy sea duly has been one of the most unstable of the Uso s regions draining Smuch As $350.000 a year from world Headquarters Bank accounts far More than other regions Mccar thy said. -. The Uso which relies solely on donations was awash in red Ink amounting to $ f.,3 million As Rece Tlyas 19s6. The Hancl shake up has restored the Organiza Tion s solvency through scaled Back operations and corporate sponsorships to pay for celebrity shows. Although More than $1.7 Milkon of the 12 million taken in try the Uso in 19 88 came from corporate sponsorships the Uso cannot afford to prop up an operation the size of the med Mccarthy said. Haget in a Tetter to top Uso management staff members last month said that he recognizes the need for services in locations thai Don t have a Uso pres ence but that his first responsibility is that we continue to manage a fiscally sound the Uso needs Community support he said. We just can t support operations from the had Quad. Ten level As we have in the past. It s not possible in this financial funding environment today if there s no Community support in a particular location we can t do it in More than one Case the Uso set up a facility at Aport and put staff in place As much is a week before a scheduled port Call Only to have the ship cancel or be. Rerouted. We made a lot of up front investments in those situations Mccarthy said. We put people in place perhaps put Money Down on some Tours we had set up and we d lose if the ship never showed. We need to pull Back on that kind of thing until we can have a thorough review of How we do business in the Mccarthy said the Uso has met with . William Crowejr. Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff . Leon a. Edney. The vice chief of naval operations and other defense department and regional commanders. Discussions have focused on the us s Lack of control Over the business activities and a blueprint on Navy needs and the amount of Navy and Uso re sources available for the regional operation Mccarthy said .1. 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The test of the radar evading bomber which resembles a big Black Wing or Boomerang had been tentatively scheduled for january but a Brief statement said Friday that an aggregation of minor system Check european weather 0""l Nic 14 i a i"v4mmlout and 60-63 n of . 3236 vat sar644 Ukoh or to four he True film 41 of Cowrt a to � Tirmiz t 4 is Giwoo t4 14�4 t s � Itrat i in a i 4j b to i 1m 4pn 43 40� to 4e a 70 1 Ali h 5 h .1 b Ilkwon i he. Life 19 4b 41 u 41 . Out problems would delay the test flight until the late Spring Early summer Lime Frame what we had was some minor prob lems which arc Normal during this Type of thing an air Force spokesman said during the Normal checkout of the air Craft we found a number of typical glitches in hydraulics and seals and other systems. He said the most recent problem involved a control system for the plane s internal Cabin environment. A component of the system failed while being subjected to a High pressure test the fix is technically straightforward. It s sex peeled that in several weeks Well have everything taken care of he said. The b-2, made by the Northrop corp.,is composed of material that deflects radar it is designed to be a Low level penetration bomber that could enter the soviet Union and roam undetected while seeking out Mobile missiles and other targets. North korean forces put on a erf Tokyo a North Korea put its armed forces on Alert saturday because of what it called the danger of War posed by the Korea military exercises thai begin this week. The North s official korean Central news Agency monitored in Tokyo said president Kim ii Sung issued the order and warned that if the United Stales and South Korea dare provoke a War against us our revolutionary armed forces and entire peo ple will turn out As one in the Light to defend the sacred about 200,000 . And South korean troops Are cup Clad to take part in the i May annual cd Cruces called team spirit which is scheduled to begin tues Day in the South North Korea has demanded a Hall to the exercises calling them a preparation for a nuclear attack on the North. . And South korean officials say the exc or discs arc defensive and vital to South Korea s Security. Nonh Korea has issued similar orders in the past at the time of the exercises. South Korea estimates North Korea s military manpower at 870,000, com pared with 656,000 in the South the korean Peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South at inc end of world War ii in 1945, when , and soviet troops ended Japan s colonial Rule Over the re Gion. The two Korea have remained enemies since the 1950-53 korean War. 7-hour hold put on shuttle countdown Cape canaveral Fla. A the space shuttle discovery s count Down was put on hold for seven hours saturday but Nasa said the delay should not affect the shuttle s scheduled launch monday. Most of the Holdup was blamed on Gusty winds up to 30 Mph that buffeted the launch pad Friday and prevented workers from sealing the engine compartment and removing work plat forms Nasa had planned to Clear the Sadat Midnight to Load propellants into the shuttle s Power producing fuel cells. That activity did not Start until 7 . Saturday. But Nasa said the countdown has 37 hours of hold time built into it to allow for such contingencies. With seven hours lost it still had 30 remain ing. The launch is set for 8 07 . Mon Day. After four years of wailing the five astronauts said they Are More than ready to go. We be had a lot of and Downs and a lot of frustrations Over those ears but this Crew has held up incredibly Well. We re certainly ready to go the commander. Navy Cape Miex chairman of Board at general electric Dies Rye , of Philip d. Reed a former general electric co. Chairman who served in a series of assignments for the . Government during world War ii died Friday at his suburban new York Home after a Long illness. Reed. 89, joined be in 1926 and be came Board chairman a age 40, one of the posts he held during world War ii was chief of the . Mission for act nomie a fairs in London. Chaco l. Coats said Friday As the five arrived to make final Crew originally is assigned in1985 to Fly a 1986 Mission but those plans were interrupted by the Chal Lenger explosion that killed seven astronauts on Jan 2s, 1986.noting.the winds after the Astro nauts flew to the Cape from their train ing base in Houston Crew member James Buchli told reporters god willing and if the weather is Good Well leave Florida for a real adventure on others Are John Blaha. Robert Springer and James a Bagian. A Phy Are to make inc third Post challenger shuttle night the first of seven missions planned this year As Nasa moves toward a goal of once a month launches by 1992, during five Days in orbit the Crew will release a $100 million communications conduct medical and science experiments
