European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday april 2,19b9 Dogem to study new look of old world new Safe chief has to contend with Gorbachev by William j. Bartman Washington Burea Washington in mid-1963, As air Force cant. Michael j. Durban was preparing to end his cold Parlour in Europe an american news Magazine informed his countrymen that a quarrelling soviet Union Andred China were in a struggle Dver who will Bury today As Dugan now a general returns to Europe to replace Gen. William l. Kirk As commander of Safe and i is 90,000 people that same magazines heralding soviet troop cuts in Europe As a Brave new world and Back Home where the former of i Copilot hat spent most of the last 24 years in a climb to the August rank of four stars nobody Calls China red anymore. Not everyone could easily adjust to such a Shin Bundu an who joined the air Force in 195s, is returning to the old world with a fresh want to go. And find out whal s important Over there Dugan told the stars and stripes noting that the world has turned Over a couple ofttimes in the last the biggest Issue to borrow Dugan s own borrowed phrase is Gorby mania the world fascination with the political savvy of soviet president and communist system reformer Mikhail older commanders did t have to Deal with that the general said Gorbachev has changed the tune and Outlook of lots of democratic Peoples said the 52-year-Otd Albany n.y., native adding that he Hopes the soviet Leader lives Tong enough " o keep his , while he is hopeful of Gorbachev s move to Ward peaceful co Nisi once Dugan said that if Hope i your major management tool trial s not the new climate does not mean there is no longer threat said Dugan who like his predecessors also will carry the title of commander Allied air forces Centra Europe. "1 will have some influence Over How the rest of Theair forces in Central Europe look at and Deal with maintaining combat readiness said Dugan As the air Force Deputy chief of staff for plans and operations far the past year. The air forces i Central Europe arc from the United kingdom West Germany Belgium Canada he Netherlands and the United Stales. Dugan appears read to tackle the sometimes conflicting goals of main Taining combat readiness while keeping Good relations with Host country leaders and citizens. Denoted that West Germany has nearly a million sol Diers stationed within its Borders and the Ger Man population is Loler ant As it is.1 but strains Are growing Over plane crashes Low Dugan level lying and noise pollution All exacerbated by thera Steid air show disaster that killed 70 people. Dugan noted that the allies have a number of efforts under Way to ease the Strain particularly in West Ger Many which has 400 . Jet fighters in operation an about 600 More Allied fighters that routinely Fly in the country. But he said the designation of specific flying areas instead of flying permission throughout West Ger Many does contribute to noise pollution by fixed Wing fighter air planes which is Why Dugan sees Promise in a proposal by West German defense min ister Rupert Scholz to expand the flight training area to cover the entire country in my View that proposal definitely has Merit the general said. He is less enthusiastic about a proposal to move Safe fighter training to sparsely populated moroc co. In Morocco you would have different weather different ground conditions that would not compare Well with Central Europe. Also the fighters must coordinate with other aircraft in practice he said. You can t have the quarterbacks train in Germany and the players in air crashes Dugan said the air Force lost3.7 planes per 100,000 flying hours worldwide last year. Safe s Rale was 4.2 lost a reran per 100,000hours. That difference is not statistically significant he Gorbachev has changed the tune and Outlook of lots of democratic Gen. Michael j. Dugan said. There were 19 aircraft accidents in German last year. Four involved i he . Air Force. We d like it lobe Zero. But there will be. More i joined the air Force our Accident rate was 50 per 100,000 flying hours for fighters. We be gotten lot better in terms of equipment. In Pilot training however Dugan said open questions remain such As he amount of Low level flying time an individual Pilot can lag on each the amount of Low level flying from the current average of 25 minutes per sortie is Noi sufficient for a combat ready Pilot to maintain the skills he needs Dugan said.. Pilots outside West Germany average 100 to 120 minutes of Low flying per sortie four times the average in West Germany Dugan said Dugan also would like to see night flight practice now banned for political reasons. The enemy we re looking at has a great capability to Fly at night he said. We have some technology that will give us an advantage at simulators arc not an adequate replacement to lost flight time he said particularly because they re script car and therefore Don t offer adequate variety. Dugan who embarks for Safe Headquarters i mid april plans to visit All the installations under his command beginning with the larger will visit individual units he said. I m going to visit All the major installations. Visit commander above me and below would be fair to assume that one of his first visit when he gels Back to Europe will be with his daughter Erin an air Force Captain working As a civil engine rat Ramstein a which will be dad s Headquarters a second Dugan daughter. Colleen is also a Captai nand Flics Kc-i3s Tanker aircraft in tas news updates Delorean judgment Detroit. Up a Federal judge has upheld a $53 million judgment originally made in Britai against Farmer automaker John a Lorcan in connection with his failed Northern. Ireland sports car British court last year levied the original judgment after the former Genera motors executive failed to respond to a claim by the Briti Sharm of Clorean s sports car com Pany now called Esq property co. Ltd. That he stole millons of dollars from the Auto company.. District judge Richard Suhr Heinrich dismissed Delorean s argument that the British Case already has been resolved by the 1987 out of court settlement of the , bankruptcy of Delorean motor co Park service head Washington api James Ridenour an Indiana political associate of vice president ban Quayle will do the no a director of the National Park service which manages the country s 354 Federal Elerior Secretary Manuel Bujari has announced that Ridenour 47,who for eight vicars was director of the Indiana department of Natu ral resources will replace William Penn Molt or. As the uth director of the service since it was created in 19,16. -. Moll 79, a career Parks professional is a former director of Cali fornia s department of Parks and recreation a Post he was appointed to by than gov Ronald Rea Gan. _ nato should Foster not a a Forte Reform in East Boc Worner says writer Brussels Belgium nato canard should much As possible tonsure the Success of political and eco nomic reforms in Eastern Europe seen Lary be micral Manfred Womer said sat urday. But he cautioned that the Reform pro Cess is evolutionary not revolutionary and thai it cannot be sped up by a single event or dictated by a superpower agreement. Change on the basis of our value Sand goals is already under Way and accelerating in the East Werner said while the West and East May try to harmonize views on this neither we nor they could have Faith in a agreement which might control the Pace of change in the Short term Warner told senior Western and asian leaders participating in a conference on Europe in the 1990s. Instead,1 nato s functions should Beto act As a magnetic pole of stability and reassurance on which the new forces of change can Anchor themselves and to promote change by encouraging sup porting and actively cooperating with those forces in he East working for transformation of their societies towards our Warner said promoting change in values is the hardest of Alf human nevertheless he said nato s goal on Eastern Europe should be to open ways and create opportunities and encourage these countries to make the hard choices which they and they alone must make for As nato prepares to celebrate .its40th anniversary tuesday its greatest Challenge remains East West relations which offer More Hope for improvement than at any other time in the Alliance history Worner ideological attraction of communism is now at its lowest ebb since the publication of the communist Manifest nearly i so years ago he said. But we incr emphasized that nato Srole As a Security Force was far from wan ing and was even More necessary a changes in the som i Union make the East More unpredictable. In a speech before the same group Fri Day evening former National Security and Zbigniew Buzminski cautioned against the View that the cold War was Over. Calling the cold War As much an ideological As a military contest the Carter administration adviser said the West should not abandon its goal of a free and United Europe simply because of a lower ing of the military threat. The Berlin Wall and free elections i Eastern Europe Are not just slogans for the West he said. They re the sub stance of the political contest the cold War will thus have a Termi Nal Dale when the Wall is firmly scheduled for dismantling. And when some even if not immediately All of the East european states firmly schedule in addition to arms control negotiations the West also should undertake a comprehensive program of staged eco nomic and technological assistance to Foster peaceful change within the communist world Brzczinski said. This Effort should include technical expertise resources and financing. For its own part the West should re assure Moscow that while in seeks change in Eastern Europe its political goal is not the defection of member states from the Warsaw pact like War her Brzezinski said that Ultima Lily the end of the cold War Likely would be achieved and recognized overtime and not Ai the result of a single 1 treaty action. However if we act with the requisite strategic resolve we Are More Likely to ensure that such a perception will Coin cide also with l the recognition that the peaceful ending of the cold War was tantamount to the West s historic Victory in
