European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday january 20,1990 Parachute drop Story corrected Washington a amps a an associated Pressnar Lilc published in the stars and stripes yesterday was inaccurate when it reported that women now will be allowed to make Parachute jumps from air Force c-130 anti c-i4i transport planes during cargo Airdrop missions. The air Force announcement actually said women will be allowed to serve As Crew members on Airdrop missions involving the two aircraft plus the future c-17 transport said capt. Tom Dolincy a spokesman for the military Airlift come at Foti fab 111. The change affects All aircrew positions including pilots and navigators for officers and flight Engineer Load master. And flying Crew chief jobs for enlisted personnel. Dolincy said women have served on c-14 is on air to land missions but were Nail allowed on Airdrop missions such As those that were flown in support of the recent Panama invasion. All c-130 aircrew positions except those on wc-130 weather observation aircraft had been dosed to women he said. Although the command could not immediately identify How Many positions will be affected by the order to lift the restrictions which was signed dec. J 4 by Secretary of the air Force Donald Rice Olnfy said the change will have an Impact. "c-130s make up 39 percent of our four engine Airlift Force a he said. A when you talk about opening up 39 percent of the Airlift Fleet to women a its certain to have an  the c-i4i makes up 46 percent of the command s Airlift Fleet and the is the last 15 percent. The Only military Airlift come planes on it which women arc not allowed to serve Are the ac-130 gunship. The h c-130 and Mc-130, and aircraft flying what the service Calls Quot special operations Low level missions a Dolincy said. The change was made As a result of an air Force review of aircrew assignment policies taking into account recent changes to the combat exclusion policies for women in the military that were put into effect in late 1?86. Those policy changes prompted the Navy Early last year to allow women to apply for More than 9.000 positions on its combat logistics Force ships and 500 positions on Orion ep-3 reconnaissance aircraft. Usa eur child care chief cites benefits within new military Law by Rosemary Sawyer stuff min Heidelberg ecu Germany a a new Law that gives Morl Money to childcare workers will help protect children from the harmful Al Eccli of poor care usage urn a child Devot piment chief said thursday. The 1989 military child care act promises child care workers Ularich consistent with people of similar education training and experience say Bonnie storm child development services program manager. \ for the army this Means a\s1arting wage of about 56 an hour up gym the current average of 14.50 an hour. The average child care worker he years of education beyond High a and every employee receives 38 Hod Quot intense hands on training during he first six months on the Job. Storm said a speech to members of the amerind society of military comptrollers. Lid in Ricton she compared child care workers the average Blue Collar worker in that a army child care centers lose More employees to the commissary Job than any other she said. If the centers can to keep Quality workers. They la have to Trade developmental earn for custodial care. That Means children being left unattended in cribs or simply Milting around with other children storm said. Quot no longer arc children in centers for two hours a storm said. Quot they re in centers for 12, 13, 14 hours a  for children up to the age of 4 or 5, she said it Means Quot that most of their capacity for learning a most of what they will be a is formed in those car years. So if they re with us for 13 Gnu a Day live Days a week what we do Orth them will have a major Impact of who they Are As people in our society r Quot you know that Irre Paragji harm would be done if we merely put children in cribs and did t do anything with them besides  i Usa eur officials hive until the end of the month to come up with a Way military from raising child care fees to cover costs. �?�1 know dials not Good news for those who arc nor in my business a storm said a because gome other programs will in doubled have to lose Money a Ivy to storm applauded the Progress that tote planned wage increase rep reset Al she questioned whether 56 an b was enough for a starting employee. A a a l at 16. United states who with less education \ to fund the salary increase which must and training earns about 19.50 an hour  Pul into of Eccl by mid february she would the f3 1 Quot a ctr a ask ourselves Why society put the welfare or he education or the Well being of children As a much lower skill than say a commissary stocker1�?T who receives s9 an hour storm said. Obsolete by William j. Batman Washington Bureau Washington a sr-71 spy planes in Europe and the Pacific began heading Home thursday leaving air Force planners to Ponder the future of the dynamic much romanticised hut now obsolete supersonic Jet. One of two sr-71 s assigned at Raf m in t Congress did not authorize any additional funds for the Bay increase but ordered the defense department to pay it of of pocket. The act also prohibits the the pay raise does no to Stop with training and education they ill Rise to $10 an hour ultimately and it not dependent on whether or not funds arc available Quot storm said. Quot its dependent on the experience and training that they  while the wage increases signal Good news construction funding for new centers has been waning in Europe. This year Usa eur was granted 12.9 million for Center construction Down from fiscal year 1989�?Ts si3.1 million and the 1986 High of 516.5 m illion. However storm says she Hopes that congressional interest in military childcare will continue. Congress has never turned Down a department of defense request for childcare centers she said. And when Usa eur failed to seek Money for such construction in its fiscal 1990 request rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., added in to the Bill she said. Is future up in air do Natl England and a single Blackbird stationed at Kadena a Japan lifted o t for the night to Beale fab Calif. Mild Thoits 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 Anil highest lying in the skies 1 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 sophil Bica of spy satellites. Maj Dick Cole an air Force spokesman acknowledged that a because of the Cost Fop creating the Fleet it is no longer Cost it festive. And we have other Means to Cottec Floc  Damp Pilot the March of technology it took the Ajr Force two years to win congressional a permission to kill the sr-71 program. To main reason for the resistance congressional and Pentagon sources agreed was the romantic notion a of the plane Gyrich is capable or surveying 100,000 Square Miles of the earths surface in an hour from an Altitude of above  Tell. Cole said the air Staft is a in the process of. Getting the final decision on where those air planes Are going to go. The majority of thin will be released to museums. Some my end up in  it was unclear whiter the scheduled de parture of the two m ild Cohall planes also killed the chances of any British aviation museums to display one of the planes. According to it. Col. Tom Henichek commander of Del 4 of the 9th strategic Mccon Wing at mild Nhail two sr-7 is arc destined for the smithsonian institution in Washington and the air Forte museum at Wing he to Atterson fab in Ohio. Others could go 1o Nasa which is interested in still flying the planes and to strategic air come bases in the United Stales As displays. Henichek said it would take about 90 Days to dismantle his unit. The 87 serv Iceme bets 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.  veto Hij a sport trait in Amy gel it few Jonat it Raf or Edenhall England gis civilian charged in Vicenza murder news update rites for comedian Godalming England apr comedian Terry Thomas was cremated wednesday with his trademark monocle and cigarette Holder on display and an Organ playing the theme from his most popular movie Quot those magnificent men in their flying  Quot he was everyone a englishman a real Tollif Ever there was one Quot said Reg Swinson. Secretary of the entertainment Artistes benevolent fund. A Nephew carried the monocle cigarette Holder and a red Carnation on a Pillow in front of the casket at the Church m Godalming 30 Miles from London. By Steve Taylor staff writer two american services timbers have been charged with murder in the nov. 3 beating death of a 32-year-old ghanaian outside a disco near Vicenza Italy. A third Servic member and an american civilian have been charged with instigating the murder said Paolo Mccori a defense attorney in Vicenza. The . Embassy in Rome identified the two charged with murder As spec. Alexander l. Roggi 21, and pfc. Lea Suasa g. Young 26 sgt. Mark a. Davis 25, and civilian Ricky v. Bynum 29, ate charged under italian Law with instigating the murder through the use of inflammatory language Petori said. Italian investigators said that Johnny Boateng. A citizen of Ghana was struck on the Bead with a piece of Wood during an argument with the Ami tipans outside the palladium disco near Vigenza. Petori said that Rogers and Young blame each other for the  four had been in Rallin custody pending the outcome of the a Vestiga lion 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 service members arc being held in a Vicenza jail and Bynum is under House arrest and has had his passport revoked Petori said. The three  arc 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. Coth amp uting 1q is i port turf wite Ca Kama sad a on m nip int in by at amp to wants special Valentines Day rates Washington apr a 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. 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