European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday april 13,1989 members of promotion Board Praise Ngo evaluation report by Chuck  Bureau  of a firs promotion Board to malic extensive use of the army s new no evaluation report Are giving ii High Marks in Ever area. In comments to the army s personnel command members of he 989 sergeants major promotion Board said inflated ratings a chronic problem under the old system arc much less evident they also said the term s use of narrative comments makes it easier to pick the most qualified candidates. The e-9 Board completed its select Ion last month after reviewing .10,000 re cords of candidates eligible for promo lion to sergeant major or appointment to command sergeant major. The Board was the first real measure of the year old report because More than half of the records reviewed contained  no evaluation report and some had two wrote maj. Gen. John Shalikashvil commander of the 9th inf div motorized at port Lewis wash., and president of the Board. Tie new ref Lori is clearly a Winner Shalikashvil said. "where.present, thence eks served their intended purpose very Well. They enabled Board my Zibers to select the very Best for advancement to the top Cut isted Grade the no or was implemented in phases according to rank.  first sergeants and master sergeants received to Weir first quarterly coun seling under the new system last  major therefore were among he first to have their annual evaluation report based on the quarterly counselling sessions required under the program. Sergeants first class staff sergeants and pro notable scr cans started the sys tem in september and sergeants not on promotion list began in december. Their annual evaluations will not take place until later this year except for individuals who have a change of Rater Calua Ion. The no or is vastly different from its predecessor the enlisted evaluation report or Eer. Numerical scores with maximum of 125, have been eliminated in favor of boxes to Check and Short com ments called bullets that make specific notations about a promotion candidate. The system uses three kinds of ratings excellence Success and needs  a Success rating is considered the performance Standard and raters must just Ify every Excel Lence or needs improvement notation with Bullet statements. Army personnel officials say the new system will minimize the inflation Iii was so prevalent in the Eer system that those forms were often of Little use to promotion  Cashoili said the bullets make it easy for Hoard members to identify in stances where an. Excellence Block is checked but the comments justify Only a Success rating. Those reports where All the Excel Lence blocks Are checked and the Bullet relied Success Don fool Board Mem Bers he said. On the contrary the re port reflecting Success in All areas with solid hard hit Ling specific bullets often carries More weight Shatik Shvili also praised the form s mailed duty descriptions that enable the Board to promote candidates Excel Ling in the most demanding jobs. The duty description is key Shari. Kash Vili said. When properly completed it gives the Board n goof idea of How Tough the Job  ". Input Tram the senior Rater formerly known As the. Endorser also is crucial to promotion boards using the no or he  when the senior Rater categorizes Anco s potential for promotion As Supe rior hat Neq is normally fully Quali fied for promotion in the eyes of the Board he said. News update 85 crash at Gander Ottawa of a former supreme court Justice appointed to re View the disputed probe of Canada worst air disaster the 1985 Gander Newfoundland crash thai killed 256 americans has rejected requests that to hear new testimony. According to a letter obtained by the Ottawa citizen former Justice Willard Selcy has instead decided to base his review on the existing re cords of the crash investigation the newspaper reported tuesday. The aviation Board s report on the crash has caused considerable de Bate. Gandhi orders probe new Delhi up prime minister Rajiv Gandhi monday ordered an inquiry to identify the conspirators tic claimed leaked a report implicating a top aide in the 1984 assassination of his Mother Indira Gandhi just before Gandhi s announce ment the opposition stormed out of the lower House of parliament during a debate on the report which contains the findings of a. Commission hat was headed by a former supreme court Justice my Thakkar and investigated mrs. Gandhi s pet. 31, 1984, slay ing by two sikh . Soviet sub Captain s heroism praised Moscow a the Captain of n nuclear submarine that caught  Sank off Norway pulled one Lasi Sailor through the smoke filled Hatch before plunging into the icy Waters and dying As he struggled to reach his Crew reports said tuesday soviet Media praised the bravery of Hie 61 Crew members 42 of whom died when the submarine caught fire and Sankin the norwegian sea on Friday. The Tass news Agency said Cape. 1stclass Yevgeny Van n was the last person to leave the submarine when it started 10 sink after tic Crew could not put out the fire. " Tut prior to that he looked once again into the submarine s exit Natch belching out smoke. On of the semen. Was there Tass said. The. Commander helped him to get out. And Only after that he dived into the icy water swimming toward the inflatable Fife rifts. But too much Energy was expended ii Rich struggle for saving the submarine and in helping his comrades the com Mander died before the very eyes of his fellow  Knur survivors from the nuclear submarine that Sank off Norway with a loss of 41 lives from left Leonid a cats Yuri Podgen Rusov str Jel Dvo Rovand Igo Orlov. Rising seas could Swallow London London Kupij London and other British cities could disappear be Neath the sea within 50 years unless action is taken to combat global warm ing. An  report i said tuesday. The study conducted for the Ark conservation group by the University of Durham said Low tying land May be inundated by rising seas at least in feet above current Levels. There is a Clear relationship be tween the Carbon dioxide Content of the atmosphere and Iea Levels the re port said. Now in 1989. Due to wide Pread burning of Fossil fuels Carbon dioxide Levels in the  have already risen. And arc expected to double by 2030." Carbon dioxide and other gases weaken the Ozone layer of the Earth s atmosphere contributing to a global warming that melts Polar icecaps and causes sea  Rise the Ark report said Britain should erect sea Walls dismantle All nuclear Power plants around the coast and seek new Energy sources to reduce car Bon dioxide emissions the study said London May be sub merged in the next half Century if d preventive strategy is not t male Genii d. But government officials Dis missed the warning there s been an awful lot of re search the government is doing into the problem of global warming Anil our scientists Tell us it will be at least to to 15 years before we have devel oped the computer models to give us any idea of an actual figure for this said Alex Traill spokeswoman for the government s environment depart ment. The Ark report said history provides belter data than computer analysts. Little Faith can be placed in predictions based on those models the study said. What is of far greater value is ihi1 evidence of previous ice Ages when the seas shrank and the ice built up and of the subsequent warm ing period when sea Levels  London is protected from flooding b inc 5 ear old thames Barrier which was built 10 combat surging Ulvi the melting Polar icecaps were on of the reasons Why it was constructed said in Gitte Daniels a spokeswoman for the thames water authority. The increase in water level at London Uridge has been 23 inches Oer the last  Daniels said government scientists predict an annual Rise in global sea lev Els of one third to two thirds of an Inch which Shi will could be easily contained by the thames Barrier. London has been swamped by major flooding twice this Century in 1928 and 1953, cashier fined for stealing store s funds  Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy an american employee of the Navy Exchange liquor store has been fined $435 arid Given a sus Pended jail sentence after being convicted by an italian court of stealing from her place of work a Navy spokes Man said tuesday. Estrella a Hetrick 54, wife of Navy Petty officer 1st class Joe a Herrick was round guilty March 30 of continued aggravated theft by a court in suburban Pozzuoli she was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined 600,000 lire or about $435, said  Weishaupt. However the court suspended the sen tence and placed Hetrick on probation for five years Weishaupt said the court found that Hetrick routinely stole Cash from the store where she had been employed As a cashier for nearly year Weishaupt said Hetrick a arrested at the package store on March 29 by ital Ian police As the result of a continuing probe of missing inventory by the naval investigative service. According to press reports Hetrick was monitored by a hidden television camera at the store. The surveillance re \ sealed hat she pocketed Money whenever a customer s Bill Carnilo a round Fig ure and she was not required to give change. The reports said thai an investigator was sent  to Purchase liquor with two marked $20 Bills and that he Rick pocketed the Bills after the investigator left the Storc the marked Bills along with an additional s 100 from the till were discovered in Het Rick s handbag after her arrest according to the reports. Wieshaupt said Herrick s Case will be reviewed by the base s civilian misconduct Board this month. He said the Board 1 could recommend an Early return to the United Stales or toss of base privileges