European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse control Job Washington a it a Percsi Deni Bush said wednesday he will nominate a Pentagon official Susan Jane Koch 10 be assistant director or the . Arms control and disarmament Agency. Koch 46, would succeed William h. File in inc arms control Post if confirmed. She is a former Central intelligence Agency analyst who has worked Lor the defense department since 1982, most recently As director of an office on nuclear forces and arms control under the assistant Secretary for International Security policy. A native of Bridgeport. Conn., she is a mount Holyoke College graduate with a . In political science from Harvard. She taught political science at mount Holyoke and the University of Connecticut from 1970 to 1975.citizen Rostropovich Moscow apr celebrated cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife opera Singer Galina Vishnevskaya have had their soviet citizenship restored 12 years after the government stripped them of it Tass has reported. The supreme soviet legislature resumed their citizenship and also nullified inc decree that stripped them of All their medals and honorary titles the official news Agency said. Rostropovich 62, left the soviet Union with his family and was stripped Ofhie citizenship in 1978.embattled Parkway Atlanta apr a new Roadblock has been thrown up in the 7-year-old Battle to build the presidential Parkway that would link downtown Atlanta in the Carter Center the presidential Library on the outskirts of the City. The City Council has voted 15-2 to oppose construction even though the Georgia supreme court already has ruled inc City cannot rescind its support first voted by the Council in 1982, Council member Bill Campbell a Parkway foe who represents the District through which the 2.4-mile Road would run sponsored the legislation the stale department of transportation is pushing the project to provide belter Access to surrounding suburbs. Opponents of the Road contend it is too expensive unnecessary and would damage historic Atlanta Parks and neighbourhoods. Usa eur child care chief cites benefits within new military Law by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer Heidelberg West Germany a a new Law that gives More Money to childcare workers will help protect children from the harmful effects of poor care usage urn a child development chief said thursday. The 1989 military child care act promises child car workers salaries consistent with people of similar education training and experience said Bonnie storm child development services program manager. For the army this Means a starting wage of about 56 an hour up from the current average ofs4,50 an hour. The average child care worker has two years of education beyond High school and every employee receives 38 hours of Quot intense hands on training Quot during the first six months on the Job. Storm said in a speech to members or the american society of military comptrollers. She coated child care workers to the average Blue Collar worker in the United slates who with less education and training cams about 19,50 an hour. A let s ask ourselves Why would the society put the welfare or the education or the Well being of children As a much lower skill than say a commissary Stocker Quot who receives s9 an hour storm said. Army child care centers lose More employees to the commissary Job than any other she said. If the centers can t keep Quality workers have to Trade developmental care for custodial care. That Means children being left unattended in cribs or simply milling around with other children. Stoma said. A no longer Are children in centers for two hours Quot storm said. A they re in centers for 2,13, 14 hours a for children up to inc age of 4 or 5, she said it Means a that most of their capacity for learning a most of who they will be a is formed in those Early years. So if they re with us for 13 hours a Day five Days a week what we do with them will have a major Impact on who they Are As people in our society. A you know that irreparable harm would be done if we merely put children in cribs and did no to do anything with them besides Usa eur officials have until the end of inc month to come up with a Way to fund the salary increase which must be Pul into effect by mid february she said. Congress did not authorize any additional funds for the pay increase out ordered the defense department to pay it out of pocket. The act also prohibits the military from raising child care fees to cover costs. �?o1 know that s not Good news for those who Are not in my business a storm said a because some other programs will undoubtedly have to lose while storm applauded the Progress that the planned wage increase represents she questioned whether s6 an hour was enough for a starting employee. But the pay raise does t Stop at so. A with training and education they will Rise to $10 an hour ultimately and it is not dependent on whether or not Al Mil Are available Quot storm said. A a it a dependent on the exr Rienche and training that they while the wage increases signal Good news construction funding for new Cen ters has been waning in Europe. This year Usa eur was granted s2.9 million for Center construction Down from fiscal year 1989 s j13.1 million and the 1986 High ofsi6.s million. However storm says she Hopes that congressional interest in Militar childcare Wilt continue. Congress has never turned Down a department of defense request for childcare centers she said. And when Fusaji eur failed to seek Money for such Coit Street Ion in its fiscal 1990 request. Rep. Patricia Schmo Cdr d-colo., added it to the Bill she said. Obsolete blackbirds future up in air by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington a sr-71 spy planes in Europe and the Pacific began heading Home thursday leaving air fora planners to Ponder the future of the dynamic much romanticized but now obsolete us person in Jet. One of two sr-71 s assigned at Raf Mit Den Hall England and a single Blackbird stationed at a Danu a Japan lifted off for the flight to Beale fab Calif. Mildenhall s second Blackbird was to depart on Friday. The air Force s air staff will meet tuesday to begin reclassifying the sr-71 program and to decide what it wants to do with the aircraft still the fastest and highest flying in the skies. Despite its superiority the Long Range advanced strategic reconnaissance aircraft has become a maintenance Nightmare air Force sources said. Its functions have been replaced by highly sophisticated spy satellites. Maj. Dick Cole an air Force spokesman acknowledged thai a because of the Cost of operating the Fleet it is no longer Cost Eft Clive. And we have other Means to collect the despite the March of technology it took the air Force two year to win congressional permission to kill the sr-71 program. The main reason for the resistance congressional and Pentagon sources agreed was the romantic notion of the plane which is capable of surveying 100,000 Square Miles of the Earth s surface in an hour from an Altitude of above 80,000 feet. Cole said the air staff is a in the process of. Getting the final decision on where those air planes Are going to go. The majority of them will be released to museums. Some May end up in it was unclear whether the scheduled de Pai idl Turc of the two Mildenhall planes also. Al cd the chances of any British aviation museums to display one of the planes. According loll col. Tom Henichek commander of Del 4 of the 9th strategic recon Wing at Mildenhall two sr-7 is arc destined for the smithsonian institution in Washington and the air Force museum at Wright Patterson fab in Ohio others could go to Nasa which is interested in still Hying the planes and to strategic air coma bases in the United slates As displays. Henichek said it would Lake about 90 Days to dismantle his unit. The 87 serv item embers with Del 4 will be reassigned or retrained and about 75 civilian contractors will be reassigned with their Parent companies or Laid off there is no replacement aircraft for the sr-71. Contri Huiling to a wot to wit an Lott ill Jonas it Raf few Nhia England gis civilian charged in Vicenza murder services set in Furth for youth Leader f0rth. West Germany a amps. A a funeral will be held today for the director of the Erlanger military Community youth program. Louis Lima or. Died monday of an apparent heart attack. He was 62. Lima a retired army sergeant who had lived in the Niernberg area since the mid-1970s, had worked with the Community youth program since 1981. He is survived by his wife use. And children Leslie David. Michelle and Jeffrey the family has requested that contributions be made to the Erlanger youth services program in lieu off Lowers. Services will be at 11 . At the Firth Friedhof. By Steve Taylor staff writer two american Servic members have been charged with murder in the nov. 3 beating death of a 32-Ycar-Otd ghanaian outside a disco near Vicenza Italy. A third service member and an american civilian have been charged with instigating inc murder said Paolo Mccori a defense attorney in Vicenza. The . Embassy in Rome identified the iwo charged Wilh murder As spec. Alexander l. Rogers 21. And pfc. La Suasa g. Young 26. Sgt. Mark a. Davis 25, and civilian Ricky v. Bynum 29, arc charged under italian Law Wilh instigating the murder through the use of inflammatory language Mccori said. Italian investigators said that Johnny Baleng a citizen of Ghana was struck on the cad with a piece of Wood during an argument with the americans outside the palladium disco near Vicenza. Mccori said that Rogers and Young blame each other for the death. The four had been in italian custody pending the outcome of the investigation said Mike Hahn an embassy spokesman. No trial Date has been set and the italian government has not waived its right to prosecute the Case. The three Servic members Are being held in a Vicenza jail and Bynum is under House arrest and has had his passport revoked Pecori said. The three Servic members Are assigned to the Southern european task Force said Dorothy Spagnolo a spokeswoman at the Caserma Ederle base in Vicenza. The civilian was not connected with the base she said Spagnolo would not comment further on the Case. to Iii report Tun Wirtur Candida a Jav torm to Napua. Tatty f at amp to wants special Valentine s Day rates Washington apr american Telephone and Telegraph co. On thursday proposed offering special Valentine s Day discounts on Long distance calling for residential business and International customers in an Effort to make amends for the near collapse of its network monday. The company in a filing with the Federal communications commission said it wanted approval to declare feb. 14 an additional Day of Holiday calling. Quot we Are making this gesture to underscore How much we value our relationship with our customers knowing there is no Way to make up for the inconvenience they May have experienced at amp to chairman Robert e. Allen said at amp to a special Holiday prices discounted an average 33 percent from regular weekday prices will apply on All Oul of state direct dialled Long distance Calls made by residential Ana business customers on at amp to s Public network
