European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday May 26, 1989 news updates Khomeini recovering Nicosia Cyprus a Ira Nian Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini got out of his Hospital bed and rested in a chair thurs Day two Days after undergoing surgery on his digestive tract the official Tehran radio reported. The radio monitored in Nicosia said a statement from the medical team treating the 89-year-old Kho Meini described his condition As very Good and said he was Prog Ressing satisfactorily in his recovery. The statement said the internal bleeding that prompted the opera Tion was brought completely under control. Hacker suspended new York a Cornell University has suspended the first year graduate student whose soft Ware virus last year infected thou Sands of computers hooked up to a National network the new York times reported thursday. The times said Cornell officials notified Robert Tappan Morris 23, that he had violated the school s code of academic integrity and was being suspended. In a letter to Morris dated May 16, the Dean of the graduate school and the University s academic integrity hearing Board said Morris would be suspended until the be ginning of the 1990 fall semester. Dean Alison p. Casarett said that if Morris wanted to reapply the decision to readmit him would be made by the graduate school s computer science faculty. New military leaders Addis Ababa Ethiopia a president Mengistu Haile Man am has named new armed forces commanders to replace those killed in an abortive coup led by generals last week Addis Ababa radio announced. Ming Isle also named new Navy and police Heads on wednesday but made no mention of the Fate of the former Navy commander and police chief. The government has made no mention of casualties in the coup attempt on May 16, but announced loyalists killed three rebellious generals maj. Gen. Mend no Gussick then chief of staff maj. Gen. Amha Desta air Force com Mander and maj. Gen. Denis sic Bulto 2nd army commander. Wives clubs Are real heart of patriotism official says by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer w1llingen. West Germany if wives clubs pull Back from their Volunteer efforts children will suffer a Pentagon official said thursday. An informal Survey of army wives clubs around the world revealed that the fund raisers pump More Money int scholarships schools and youth pro Grams than any other area said Shaun Whitworth chief of the defense depart ment s family Liaison office. Wives clubs operate like a highly sophisticated corporation with no head quarters fascinating Whitworth told about 600 women at the american women s activities Germany Confer ence. The organization trains women who belong to Independent clubs from throughout West Germany. Whitworth sent surveys to 280 clubs of which 102 responded. Collectively the clubs reported Raisin More than $2 million for Charity last year an amount Whitworth deemed a Low estimate. She suggested that perhaps the leery respondents had played with the Fig ures because the defense department was asking about their Money during Days of tightened budgets. She said the average officers wives club earns $26,000 a year and the aver age enlisted club $ 11,000. Sixty nine percent of the Survey an Swers came from club presidents of whom 40 percent hold full or part time jobs outside the Home she said. Eighty percent had at least some College Educa Tion and almost All had children. The Survey found the average number of Active members in enlisted clubs was 36, while officers wives clubs had an Active membership average of 253. No officers wives clubs numbered More than 750 members and no enlisted clubs were larger than 65. Whitworth contrasted these numbers with 15 years ago. When it was not unusual to find offi cers wives clubs with memberships of 1,500 and enlisted clubs with 400, she said. Enlisted clubs have always been smaller and have always been making a larger per person Impact she said. The enlisted clubs which the Survey showed charged higher dues have fewer paper memberships that is Mem Bers who join but Don t participate in activities. The officers wives clubs surveyed showed 60 percent of their Mem Bers falling into that category. Reasons cited by the officers wive for waning membership included work ing spouses the Lack or High Price of child care. Enlisted wives said they Are hindered by a Lack of recruiting skills working spouses and discouragement from . Whitworth called membership and image the clubs two greatest problems. Whitworth warned the women not to blame outside employment for falling membership. Less than half of military wives work today she said the rest do not All is Long to wives  Whitworth introduced her talk with a glimpse into the clubs history which dates Back to the american revolution. She challenged the women to Start marketing that heritage. She also charged them with developing Forward looking goals especially now that military Lead ers Are saying they need the clubs1 sup port More than Ever. To this Day. Everybody thinks All wives clubs do is raise Money to Render lives to be More comfortable. It s not True she said. The real heart of patriotism rests in the group that has been involved in wives clubs and associations for 209  Whitworth said she hoped that the women would witness More of a continuing resurgence of traditional values. She also said that perhaps they would see the Day when America through tax codes better distributes the wealth and the acronyms of Yuppie Young Urban professional and Dink double income no kids give Way to Osmah one Sal Ary mom at Home. Cheney s wife arranged reversal of rejection of daughter for pork Job Yellowstone National Park Wyo. A defense Secretary Dick Cheney s daughter got a summer Job at Yellowstone National Park after her Mother called Park officials who had initially rejected the girl s application. I was t calling As somebody in Washington i was calling As a Mother Lynn Cheney said wednesday from her Washington office. Mrs. Cheney is chair Man of the National endowment for the humanities. The Cheney daughter Mary a Junior at College in Colorado had applied for a Job As a youth conservation corps Crew Leader at Yellowstone but received form letter telling her she was t eligible. Mrs. Cheney then called Yellowstone superintendent Bob Barbie to discuss the matter prompting a second review of the application and Ajob offer As a sea Sonal Ranger. Mary Cheney starts next month. Mrs. Cheney s role in the Job offer was reported wednesday by the Washington Post. Mrs. Cheney said she saw nothing wrong with her intervening in her Daugh Ter s behalf and did t think her position or her husband s influenced Barbic to hire their daughter. Yellowstone officials said it s not unusual for them to review rejected Job applications. We get phone Calls from people Many Many times. From congressional staffers who had one of their constituents who called them to Check into things Park spokeswoman Marsha Karl said. We do it on a frequent basis Wherwell go Back and look at things  Karl said Mary Cheney s duties As seasonal Ranger would be to work with youth conservation corps Crews As scamp Counselor. Shell be paid $6.74 an hour for the eight week Job the spokeswoman said. This year Yellowstone hired almost300 seasonal rangers from a Pool of about 2,000 applicants Karl said. Budget cuts kill Canadian forces of a 8 Transfer pro b Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau budget cuts have killed a disputed Canadian forces Opsal to move a Squadron of Cf-i8 jets to Canad an forces base Lahr in West Germany. In response to the cuts the forces also announced they will reduce the number of Active duty service members worldwide by about 2,500, close seven installations scale Back seven others and cancel several Long Range projects said a forces spokesman Navy cmdr. Barry Fri War. The forces plan no reductions in their european commitments to nato however. The announcement follows an april order from the parliament to shave $2.7 billion $2.3 billion . From proposed military capital expenditures Over the next five years. Parliament s decision came in an Effort to reduce a budget deficit of $30 billion or about $25 billion in . Dollars. Lahr City officials were pleased to hear that the Squadron move had been cancelled. This decision. Satisfies our objections said Lahr lord mayor Werner Dictz. The Cf-i8 proposal never approved at National defense he in Ottawa had drawn protests from local politicians and residents. The Lahr City Council voted nov. 7 to oppose the Squadron Transfer and neighbor ing town councils also passed resolutions fearing an increase in Jet noise and safely hazards. Dietz told forces officials about the City s pleased reaction in a speech wednesday night at Lahr s annual asparagus dinner Fri War said. Forces officials in Europe had hoped to move the 439lh fighter so from Canadian forces base Baden Solingen to Lahr to better distribute resources and to make the Lahr Airfield More prepared for possible War through daily flight activities. The budget action Means the Baden soiling in base will retain All of its three fighter squadrons because of the budget cuts Frewer said the world wide number of Active duty Canadian Scricc members will drop to about 85,000, a decline of about 2,500. But the 7,900 Canadian troops stationed in West Germany will remain there and 300 More will join them this summer completing a Long planned increase carried out during the last five years. The budget cuts also have had no effect on plans to commit starting dec. I a Quebec based brigade to the european theater s Central Region in wartime or to build an army division Headquarters in Kingston on Tario As part of Canada s european commitment Frewer said. But the military has postponed plans to re equip the division Over is years including replacement of the 4th Canadian Mech brigade group s 77 Leopard i tanks. The budget cuts arc having their greatest effect Back Home however. A plan to buy a dozen nuclear powered submarines Over the next 24 years was one of the biggest casualties. When former defense minister Perry Beatty announced the submarine project in 1987, it supplanted some proposed new frigates and conventional submarines. Now the project is dead and military officials must make new recommendations about the forces Fleet. Installations to be closed Are Canadian forces bases London in Ontario Portage la Prairie in Manitoba and Summerside on Prince Edward Island and Ca Nadian forces stations Harrington and Sydney in nov Scotia Holberg in British Columbia and Mont Apica in Quebec. The Summerside and Portage la Prairie bases arc major employers in those areas and defense officials plan to help local governments develop alternate uses for the Sites. Frewer said. Because of consolidation the closures will increase personnel at Canadian forces bases Calgary in Alberta and Petawawa in Ontario he said