European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday March 22,1989 Gulf forces losing combat pay by Norman Black a military writer Washington imminent danger bonuses for . Forces deployed in the persian Gulf will end april 1, the Pentagon said the bonuses previously known As hostile lire or combat pay arc $110 a month and have been paid to  in the persian Gulf area since aug. 25,1987. Defense sources disclosed almost two months ago that Gen. Ii. Norman Schwarzkopf Leader of the . Central come had recommended an end to the bonuses because the truce in the Iran Iraq War was continuing to hold. Adm. William j. Crowe chairman of the joint chief of Stait approved the recommendation recently and officials in the defense department s manpower office signed the order monday said William Cald Well a Pentagon spokesman. According to Pentagon statistics about $16 million has been paid out in danger bonuses since August 1987. Before the cease fire look hold in the Iran Iraq War last August about 8,000 service members were receiving he payments while most of those receiving the bonuses were de Trident from Page 1 until the flight data is studied. The lest was the first of about 10 undersea firings planned Here in the next few months. Fall goes As planned the Navy will dispatch the Tennessee on operational patrol late this Yea with 24 of the missiles. Each of the 44-foot intercontinental Range missiles can hurl As Many As 10 nuclear War Heads to targets up to 6,000 Miles away. The Navy says the Trident ii is much More accurate than its undersea predecessors Polaris Poseidon and Trident i and can match the targeting ability of land based missiles even though it is launched from a submerged moving submarine. Published reports have said Trident ii War Heads can strike within 400 feet of their targets compared with about 1,500 feet for the Trident news Brief retired general named for top Post at Nitsa Washington apr president Bush said Mon Day he s nominating retired army Mai. Gen. Jerry r. Curry to be head of the National Highway traffic safely administration. I confirmed he would succeed Diane k. Stead. Before retiring from the army Curry was Deputy commander of v corps in Frankfurt West Germany from november 1983 to december 1984. Previously. He commanded the army test and evaluation come at Aberdeen proving ground my. Played on ships in he Region or flew warplanes Over the persian gulfs Waters troops assigned to Small bases in Bahrain and Kuwait were also eligible. As a. Result about 1,300 women also received the bonuses at one Point or another the Pentagon said. According to defense official who declined to be identified Schwarzkopf concluded Early last january that the threat to americans assigned to the Region has receded to the Point that it is difficult to justify danger  the fact that we went o a different regime on of monitoring ship traffic instead of actually escorting tankers directly changed things too observed one source speaking on condition of anonymity. The Central come is responsible for american Mili tary operations in the Middle East and Indian Ocean Region. As such it is the Parent command for the joint task Force Middle East the unit responsible for guaranteeing the safety of merchant ships flying the . Flag in the persian Gulf. 11 was former president Reagan who agreed in the Spring of 1957 to extend american military protect onto \ 1 kuwaiti tankers after they re Treist Rcd under the Stan and stripes Kuwait a Friend of Floc United states and a key ally of Iraq had seen its ships become a special target of iranian  August 1987, a month after the first kuwaiti Tanker to be escorted ran into an underwater mine the Pentagon announced it would Start making the payments to the Crews of warships operating in the persian Gulf the Strait of Hor Biuzand a Small portion of the Gulf of Oman As Well As personnel in Kuwait and Bahrain Iran and Iraq agreed to a truce last August in their 8 year old War and to Date the cease fire Nas held. As result the United Stales has slowly reduced the num Ber of warships operating in the Region and slopped conducting closely supervised Convoy runs. Instead the ships now in the Region maintain what he Navy Calls a monitoring regime of keeping . Fun glanders within radar or radio  authority to make imminent danger payments was provided to the Pentagon in 1983 under an amendment to a Law that had previously established procedures for providing hostile fire or combat pay. The new jaw specified that danger pay could be provided to service members deployed in areas where there was a risk of terrorism  physical threats even though american forces were not directly involved in combat. After april i. Only a Small number of Scrutc Emem ers assigned to four countries Lebanon Al Salvador Colombia and Peru will be receiving the danger bonuses. Goggles from Pagal tons began arising. Critics have questioned whether the goggles function properly if used in Cloudy weather or when there is no Moon. Since 1978, 37 of 41 army helicopter crashes in which night goggles were used occurred when there was not enough Moonlight for the devices to amplify i  a the most recent incident involving the questionable use or night vision goggles occurred just a week ago on the night of March 12. A Vietnam Era ch-3e Jolly Green giant helicopter assigned in the air Force Reserve crashed near Tucson ariz., while ferry ing soldiers to a training Range. Fifteen died in the. Accident according to copt. Carlos Roque a spokesman at Davis Mont Nan fab in Tucson ariz., where the Heli copier was based the crewmen on that chopper were wearing goggles that night. But investigators have determined that the goggles were not a Factor in the Acci Dent Roque said.,. The evaluations will be conducted by experienced army pilots and will Lake about 20 minutes each said it col. Greg Rixon an army spokesman. They can be performed on the ground in a specially lighted room. Rixon said the army inspections Ore aimed at Climina in from he stockpile any goggles  a Distor Tion problem that was identified some time ago inside the Light amplifying tubes of each goggle there is a built in twist to an optical fiber line that can produce distortion in the Lens if not made properly he explained. Every goggle that can be used for flight is going to be evaluated Rixon said. If there Are no problems the goggle is cleared for use. If there is a problem it lakes about 45 minutes to change the  the spokesman said the Cost of replacing the goggle lubes ranges from ,100 to.15,000, depending upon the Model Marine from Pagal. To reporters about the incident. -.-. During the exercise norwegian soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Marine Reserve unit were ordered one by one to stand up against a Wall to face a firing squad using Blank ammunition. When one norwegian officer refused to leave his car a Marine put his Rifle through the car window and fired Blanks at the officer said the norwegian spokes Man who added that two Marine officer were ordered out of the country before the end of the exercises. They later explained it was a joke but it was Abad joke and nobody thought it was funny at All maj. Gen Torke Hovland who commanded a norwegian division in the exercise said in Oslo. The marines said the men were from the 1st in 24lh Marine Rygl a Marine Reserve infantry battalion based in Detroit and attached during the exercise to the Jyh Marine expeditionary brigade in Norfolk a. The officer in charge of an Clement of the Reserve Unitas immediately relieved of his duties and returned to the United slates. He was subsequently removed from the selective Marine corps Reserve through administrative process the Marine statement said. Cape Dan Carpenter a spokesman for the 4h Marine expeditionary brigade said the officer lucked out of the reserves was a Captain but he declined to identify him. Carpenter said one other officer a lieutenant was present at the incident but no action was taken against him and he remained with the exercise in Norway. The Junior officer did not have a role in this Carpenter said. The senior Marine acted unilaterally. No action was taken against anyone else in the  testing from Page 1 Sandra Day o Connor Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens. Justices Thiergood Marsh All. And William j. Brennan dissented. In she customs service Case Marshall and Brennan were joined in dissent by Scalia and Stevens. Marshall in a dissenting opinion in the railway workers. Case accused. The court of being Short sighted in allowing Basic constitutional rights 10 fall prey to momentary  teaches that grave threats to Liberty often come in limes of urgency when constitutional rights seem Loo extravagant too endure he said. Seal a in his Diss tin opinion in the customs service ruling said there is a crucial distinction be tween the tests for that Agency s workers and those involved in Rait accidents. ". The demonstrated frequency of drug and alcohol use by railway workers and the demonstrated connection Between such use and grave harm makes those tests reasonable he said. By contrast Scalia continued the evidence to sup port the tests for customs service employees is Lack ing. The customs service Rales Are a und of immolation of privacy and human dignity in symbolic opposition to drug use he said. Tuesday s rulings will have an important bearing another drug and alcohol testing programs conducted by Federal state and local governments. " former president Reagan signed an executive order in september 1986 calling for drug testing of govern ment employees. That Call for a drug free work place has been echoed by numerous Public officials. In. The railway Case the Federal Railroad administration in the . Department of transportation is sued regulations in 1985 aim a it alleviating what it said was a significant safely problem caused by Alco hol and drug use among employees. Government officials said thai from 1972 through 1983 Railroad accidents linked to drug or alcohol abuse killed 42 people injured �1 and caused some $19 Mil lion in property damage. In a highly publicized subsequent Accident a con rail freight train ran through a series of Stop signal Sand collided in january 1987 with an Amtrak Passen Ger train near Baltimore killing 16 and injuring 1j8 others. Tests revealed thai the Conrail Engineer and brakeman had smoked marijuana shortly before. The 9th , circuit court of appeals based in san Francisco ruled in favor of the Railroad workers de daring that la mandatory drug and alcohol tests re unreasonable searches banned by the Constitution s fourth amendment in the customs service Case the government said it is important that workers in sensitive jobs do not use drugs to prevent them from being targets of bribery or officials said the tests Are particularly important now because the customs service is hiring thousands of Young workers and drug use in that age group is More prevalent. The tests were challenged by die National Treasury employees Union but were upheld by the 5th . Circuit court of appeals based in new Orleans in 1987. -