European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 20,1989 Charity drive to begin late again by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart. West Germany through Good years and bad. High Exchange rates and Low the Over seas combined Federal Campaign has at least one enduring characteristic it s always late. This year is no exception. The six week overseas Campaign is scheduled for oct. 23, although officials administering the Federal government s annual Charity fund raising drive had planned Tor it to Start last Fri Day. They Hope to offset the delay with a new publicity Clort through department of defense dependents schools. The Campaign s troubles began last Spring when court challenges from organizations left off the list of potential beneficiaries caused delays said James m. Page who serves As a Campaign coordinating group member in the . European come. Then Constance Newman the new director of the office of personnel management decided to review the process of selecting organizations eligible to receive Csc donations Page said. As a result overseas Campaign officials did t get the information they needed to print their Campaign pamphlets until late summer and the pamphlets could t be distributed until this month. The european come Campaign coordinator. Air Force it. Col. Donald r. Clark said the delay Handi Caps the fund raising Effort by making it overlap with Vii corps Field exercises and the Christmas shopping season. Page said the Campaign pamphlet bears the names of More than 300 agencies. Following regulations that took effect in last year s Campaign the donation form does t allow donors to write in the names of other agencies. Past write in contributions Cost too much and minis Ratic time to process he said. Campaign organizer Kormil Ellis chairman of the National voluntary organizations Campaign commit tee said Newman s review added 33 agencies to the overseas list. Of those 18 had been originally turned Down because of incomplete data on their applications. Some of the problems were caused by what you might Call Burca Utratil thinking Page said. The other 15 agencies spent More than a Quarter of their income on overhead and fund raising last year which normally would disqualify them. But Ellis said the agencies got on the list after showing that construction projects or other one time costs caused the High level of spending and that it would subside in the future. Despite a late Start the fall 1988 Campaign raised $6.95 million in donation pledges in Europe the Sec Ond highest total in the Campaign s 23-year history Over Here american red Cross spokeswoman Joanne Jones said Campaign organizers Are counting on help from military schools to make the Campaign As successful this year. Several schools have agreed to have their third graders make a big noise All Over Europe by banging Drums Pic tins or other noise yielding objects in school assemblies at 10 . Oct. 23 to Mark the first Day of the Campaign. Other school projects also arc planned to Call attention to the Campaign. I think we re going to make it a lot More visible this year. By doing fun things and involving kids Jones said. "1 think that s been a failure in the past. We just Haven t made it visible  hews updates rare whale Dies Vallejo California a the second of two rare Beake whales that beached themselves died Early monday after a record 25 Days in Captivity officials at Marine world Africa Usa said. Hundreds of volunteers had helped care for the Young Marine mammals which had never before survived in Captivity. The whale that died monday Alexander was found aug. 24 on Ocean Beach in san Francisco with a second beaked whale that was named Nicholas. Alexander had been suffering from pneumonia. Civilian military spouses should get same Chance at jobs Pentagon says Eagle scout Wiesbaden West Germany a member of troop 15 recently was awarded the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting. Kenneth s. Wyks 18, has been in scouting for More than nine years. For his Eagle scout project he organized a cleanup operation following a fund raising run at fort Bragg n.c., where he lived at the time. Wyks also is a member of the order of the Arrow the highest Honor for boy scout campers. He serves As the assistant scoutmaster for troop 15.a graduate of Gen. . Arnold High school he is attending the University of Maryland in Wiesbaden. He is the son of Edward and Jean Wyks. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Rhein main lieutenant Dies of gunshot wound Rhein main a West Germany is an officer assigned to the 435th Security police so at Rhein main died tuesday of a gunshot wound to the head a base spokesman said. First it. Lori a. Hogan 27, was found in a recreation area on the base by a Security police patrol about 5 30 .,and rushed to clinic at Frankfurt s inter National Airport maj. Steve Knechtel  was pronounced dead by doctors at the clinic the closest manned medical , a native of Middletown n.y., is survived by her  death is being investigated by air Force authorities. Other details were not immediately available. By Deedee Arrington Doke Kalser Slauter Bureau Ramstein a West Germany in a move supported by the military serv ices the Pentagon is seeking to give the spouses of civilian workers the right to equal Opportunity in competing for jobs with military family members. We have in fact agreed this is Essary and needs to be done said fran Cipolla the acting Deputy to the assist ant Secretary of defense for civilian personnel. We have put together a proposal and moved it on. We re pushing it Cipolla made the comment Friday during a talk to the International person Nel management association at Ramstein. A 1987 Law that gave military spouses hiring preference was aimed primarily at employment problems in the United states where local hire positions at Mili tary bases usually were filled through civil service registers. At overseas installations military and civilian spouses received equal priority in hiring under regulations passed by the services in the 1970s. But As a result of the 1987 Law spouses of civilians As signed overseas face severely limited employment opportunities said Dick  Olson the civilian personnel adviser forthe . European come which has its Headquarters in Stuttgart West Ger Many. Civilian spouses cannot be hired for most openings until personnel offices have exhausted the Field of military spouse applicants. We Don t think that was the intent of the Law to freeze civilian spouses out of employment Nicholson told the Sta Sand stripes in a Telephone interview. The problem we have is it is unequal because we arc All literally in the same boat overseas. The Only game in town is government employment. We feel it s imperative that Congress Amend the Cir  although he acknowledged that he has no statistics to support his theory  Olson said he expects the employment situation for civilian spouses has a Long term negative effect on recruiting civil ians from the United states. Nicholson said that there May be pockets of resistance to the propose amendment and that no sponsor has been found for the legislation. The one thing i Hope we Don t get into is a controversy Over this Issue Cipolla said in an interview after his Ramstein address. We can t afford Mohave a situation where one segment of our work Force feels that it is different than another segment. We Don t want to have morale prob lems generating from this so we re trying. To see if we can get it fixed and keep it from coming to  Frankfurt Book fair to tighten Security by Korea vis staff writer officials will step up Security at next month s Frankfurt Book fair because of the iranian death sentence issued against author Salman Rushdie. The extra Security will include More intensive searches of people and bags at the Entrance gales a spokesman for the West German booksellers association said. The measures arc being taken in Light of the bombing of a Penguin books outlet in England. And the still effective death penalty the spokesman said on monday. A bomb exploded sept. 13 outside a Penguin Viking store in York England about 210 Miles North of London. No one was injured. Three other bombs were found outside Penguin Viking stores in other cities. Rushdie went into hiding shortly after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the death decree feb. 14 against the author and those who published the Book the iranian Leader who died june 3, said the Book blasphemed islam. The spokesman said the Book which was released in september 1988, Proba Bly will not be displayed at the fair be cause of business reasons. The Book fair is a place for publish ers to sell foreign rights to books. Rush die s Book has been sold everywhere so there s no need for it to be on exhibit although i can t exclude that some pub Lishers  a spokeswoman for Rushdie s pub Lisher Viking was Uncertain whether the Book was on display at last year s fair. The German version is scheduled to appear this Winter. The publisher will be the collective name article 19," which refers to an article in the . Charter that Calls for the free distribution of ideas and opinions. The name article 19 stands for the financial backing of 30 West German publishers and numerous private organizations and private persons to diffuse any possible target of retribution the spokesman said. Proceeds from the sales arc to go to imprisoned authors. The fair will beheld from oct. 11 to is. This year s fair will again set a record for participants the spokesman said. A total of 5,578 publishers from 95 coun tries will take part a 3 percent increase from last year s fair. The theme for the 41st edition of the fair is France. The fair will be open daily for the Trade including booksellers librarians and authors from 9 . To 6 . The Public will be allowed to attend on Fri Day saturday and sunday. 3 soldiers get jail terms for rape Darmstadt West Germany is three 11th air defense signal in sol Diers have been sentenced to jail terms in connection with the rape of a female sol Dier in a Barracks a Community spokes Man said tuesday. The soldiers were tried and convicted in separate general courts martial for the May 26 assault in a Barracks room on Cambrai Fritsch Cavern Joe Hitt said. Spec. Carlos d. Webb 19, was convicted sept. 13 of rape indecent acts and unlawful entry. He was sentenced to 10years in prison ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances and reduced to the Low est Grade. Webb also was Given a dishonourable discharge Hitt said. Spec. Jan l. Harris 26, was convicted sept 9 of rape larceny and unlawful entry and sentenced to seven years in confinement. The Soldier also was ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances was reduced to the lowest Grade and Dis honorable discharged. Spec. Scott a. Howard 21, convicted aug. 31 of unlawful entry and dereliction of duty was sentenced to six months confinement and reduced to the lowest Grade. Howard was also ordered to forfeit $460 per month for six months Hitt said