European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d of Captain from Berlin still restricted in probe Page 2 q rep. Smith mourned fatal crash investigated Page 4 o Navy oks agreement for military credit cards Page 18 d Jim Mcmahon traded to san Diego sports Page 25 the stars authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol.48,no. 125 sunday August 20, 19 i out and sunday d 8693 a army to expand drug checks Widen substance search by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington the army to crack Down on inc use of a wider Vart Ety of addictive drugs has expanded test ing of urine samples randomly collected from Active duly soldiers. In addition to testing All samples for cocaine and the inc Active ingredient in marijuana and hashish a third test will be done effective immediately to Check for traces of one of three other types of drugs amphetamines opiates such As morphine and codeine and also known As pc or Angel dust. The army s labs have not been equipped to do the expanded testing accurately before now. Army spokeswoman Paige Etc Solc said. We could have done the tests but the results would not have been reliable Evrsole said. The army insists on accurate tests so that soldiers won t show thit Mccivion on which of the three of drugs to be tested from a particular Sample will vary. Soldiers to know which drug that think Cost is for Ever sole said. That gives in orca scr degree of deterrence. If soldiers soon t know which drug they re being they have a reason to abstain for Orvall in Europe cocaine is Back on Thel of drugs for testing on a rotating basis she said. Over the past few years the Only drug for which All samples have been tested in Europe has been the. The army had previously tested for cocaine in Europe but the incidence rate was so Low that the requirement was dropped she said. We re putting co Caine Back on the All drug tests will continue to be cd Don a single urine Sample and Allidel Dicks still will be tested on an once a year. Evrsole said. The army decision Toj expand its test ing program is not traced on trends or statistics that indicate widespread use of the secs of drugs among soldiers she d. It s just a natural outgrowth of the Rygula Cabug testing program in that we pc inc technology to do the other tests accurately said. We know there Are Peg Jimh the civilian world using so we have to assume there Ais ome people in the military doing the in Grade e-5 and above who use illegal drugs can be involuntarily separated after a first offence although they May he retained if there Are extenuating circumstances eversoll said. Soldiers in Grade e-4 and below can be involuntarily separated after a second offence. The air Force tests All random urine samples for the and cocaine and 10 percent of samples for amphetamines opiates and pc. The Navy traditionally has tested 100 percent of its samples for All those drugs. Solidarity journalist ready to Lead Poland by the Washington Post Warsaw Tadeusz Mazowicki a Catholic intellectual who played a significant role in the creation of Solidarity in 1980, met with president Wojciech Jaruzelski Friday and indicated afterwards he has Bee chosen to become the first non communist Leader of an Eastern european government in More than 40 years. I can expect such an offer. I am ready to accept it Mazowicki said after his two hour meeting with the communist president As he arrived at the National As Sembly building to Brief Solidarity s legislative leaded the selection of Mazowicki who was kit in internment Camps for More than a year after by Ruzalski imposed martial Law to suppress Solidarity Decem Ber 1981, completed a round of far Cap eng change that have come about with stunning spied after weeks of political deadlock and As the country continues to suffer rising inflation and shortages of food and con Sumer goods. Jaruzelski s decision to Schect Mazowicki came after communist prime minister Czslaw Kiszczak formally submitted his resignation to the president thursday after failing Totory a government. Local chapters owns communist party expressed dismay Friday at die turn of events according to the official news age Ircy Pap and party Leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski Calla a meeting of his Central committee for salurday/0 discuss the changes in the government. The Cost fiction of Solidarity and two Smalt parties formerly Allied with the communists that was pro posed several Days ago by Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa has been expanded into a virtual four party Tadeusz Maz Chiccki coalition with communist ministers to stay in charge of Poland s army and police. Under the constitutional amendments included in the april 7 round table agreements Between the communists and Solidarity thai led to the re Structure a of inc government the president is commander in Chat atom the armed forces and can nominate and recall the prime minister subject to approval of the scam or lower Hanse of the National Assembly. The president can also do Marc martial Law. The is responsible for the daily actions of government including proposing Laws to the parliament drafting Lynnual budgets and National plans for the Economy. Under the new politics find Lions in Poland in has yet to be tested whether the president or the prime minister will hold the balance it Power. While the Concession by was that the communists would retain control of the stay and police placated fears in Moscow and Hal Covvin Jaruzelski s assent efforts by communist leaders it stain a third Cabinet Post the foreign ministry have been rebuffed Solidarity leaders said. At most said Bronislaw Gerc Mck head Ritj Sidari to s caucus in the scam a communist May scr cab the ministry s top civil service official. The status of the rest of the Cabinet Gerc Mck said was still being negotiated among leaders of Solidarity and its two new allies the peasants party and the democratic party. Each of the coalition s three principal groups is to have a Deputy prime minister. Solidarity sources said see Poland on Back Page 4 captured after using copter in prison escape Ordway Colo. A two women hijacked a helicopter at gunpoint Friday snatched two inmates from a prison Yard and fled the Region in a wait ing Van. All four were captured after a shootout in Nebraska authorities said. We can confirm they were taken into custody All four of them said Juanita Novak a spokesman for the Colorado department of corrections. The wild shootout in Holdrege neb., involved a gunfire punctuated Pursuit of a rented Van through a residential neighbor Hood said a witness to the final showdown. They crossed a median and hit a tree said a woman witness who spoke on condition of anonymity. We could definitely see they had guns and were shooting. The police tried to arrest them by swerving in front of the truck but they ran up into a Holdrege police chief Ken Jackson said one suspect was wounded and was treated for a gunshot wound in a others were in custody in the City jail Jackson said. Jackson said there were no other injuries despite indiscriminate shooting by the St oits As police converged on them in this farming town of about 5,600 peo ple in South Central Nebraska about 40 Miles North of the Kansas four were in a rental Van when a Holdrege officer tried to Stop them. The Van rammed the police car and shot were fired at the officer. At least eight shots penetrated the car s Windshield the police chief said. Another witness John Swenson said he and his neighbor Jim Brenn ducked behind Brenn s pickup truck when the shooting began about two houses saw the gun come out of the Passen Ger Side of the Van and then they never stopped shooting Swenson said. It was just like on to. These were big guns not Little there s probably some pretty excite people mayor Helen Anderson said. We re not accustomed to in the Brazen Daylight prison break frustrated guards held their fire because they could not get a Clear shot at the helicopter and feared the Pilot was being held hostage said Liz Mcdonough. A corrections , authorities ordered an investigation to determine Why a guard see prison on Back Page
