European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february ?., 1990 army maintenance fund caught Short Usa eur cancels sewerage renovation semary Sawyer to a command Post exercise each year saving $10.4 area for example was beefed a by Rosemar suit writer Heidelberg. West Germany budget constraints have forced the . Army in Europe to cancel this year s plans to spend $21 million in sewerage renovations a lop budget official said thursday. Usa eur recommended that action and other Money saving measures to its commands after it received $98 million less than it had planned for said col. John c. Mutarelli. Usa eur budget division chief. The army gave Usa eur $4.004 billion for operation and maintenance expenses for fiscal 1990, Muta Rulli said. Usa eur made the cutback recommendations in a guidance letter issued to major commands thursday. Mutarelli said. The commands generally Fol Low the guidance although commanders still make final decisions. The guidance to commanders said e hold off on routine sewerage renovations saving $20.8 million. Change one battalion level Field training exercise t million. Freeze growth of Pom us Sites where sets of military equipment arc stored for use in exercises or War saving $ 17 million. Reduce maintenance on aging War reserves Sav ing $9.3 million. The 21st theater army area come can save $2.4 million at the Rhein Jerg West Germany Cavern which is being considered for closure. Re Cinberg s Vanguard building Home to the 7th theater army area come he. Will receive Only emergency repairs and staffing will be consolidated. Usa eur has already saved about is 1.3 million of this year s Money by scaling Down its Centurion shield exercise Mutarelli noted. We must do less with less and still have Mission accomplishment Gen. Crostic Saint Usa eur s commander wrote in the guidance letter. Training remains our number one priority but we must train  funding for the upgrade of the Hohenfels training area p by $15 million to $25 million. Certain other areas of the budget received increases Loo. Usa eur saw family housing funding increase from $591.4 million in 1989 to $m4.8 million in 1990, Mutarelli said noting that most of the increase was marked for the government rental housing  the program the army contracts directly with landlords to rent houses for soldiers. A decision was made Early in the budget balancing process that Usa eur would not Salami slice absorption of budget  Mutarelli said. The command chose to make programmatic reductions Aswell As Normal one time annual  some of the other recommended adjustments which will take place Over three years include cutting Back custodial service saving $200,000. Consolidation of Sato and itt travel contracts saving $65,000. Converting arts and crafts facilities to entirely non appropriated funding saving $970,000. News updates namibian lawmakers Windhoek. Namibia a lawmakers have voted unanimously to declare Namibia inde pendent in mid March ending the territory s status As the continent s last Colony after 75 years of South african Rule. Leaders of the South West Afri Ca people s organization Domi Nant in the constituent Assembly said wednesday that March 21 was chosen unanimously in part because the United nations recognizes it As the International Day for the elimination of apartheid. Plastic recycling Trenton. . A one of i he largest plastics producers in the United states unveiled plans to open the nation s first Mullimax trial. Comprehensive plastic Recy cling Plant. Union Carbide chemicals and plastics inc. Said the facility would be the first in the nation to Recycle the ubiquitous plastic bags. The Plant also will Recycle plastic beverage containers. The recycling Center is expected to open next year. Eagle scout Heidelberg. West Germany John Murphy who has been involved in scouting for eight years has been pro moved to Eagle scout. Murphy is a freshman at the univer sity of Maryland s Munich Campus. For his Eagle scout project he initiated a Christmas food drive in Heidel Berg collecting enough donations to feed 600 families and establish a food Bank. He was a member of troop i at the time of his project. The 18-year-old is the son of com Mand sol. Maj. George Murphy and Jan ice Murphy. To earn the Eagle scout award the highest Honor in scouting a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Correction an article thursday about Navy leadership awards gave the incorrect Job description for Petty officer 1st class Sandra Murrisky. A crypt technician at Brawdy. Wales. Dodds teachers in Athens win Case about working in hot classrooms by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington defense depart ment school officials in Athens Greece acted improperly when they kept teach ers in classrooms in heat that health offi cers considered hazardous according to the Federal labor relations Board. In upholding an earlier arbitrator s finding the labor Board rejected the de sense department s claim that to let the ruling stand would interfere with management s right to assign work to teach ers at the elementary school. Citing previous rulings the Board said that one portion of an Agency docs not have the right to assign duties to an employee which another division of the Agency has determined arc a risk to the employee s health and safety. The government has no further Appeal rights. The Case stemmed from an incident at a department of defense dependents school in 1987 when temperatures topped 95 degrees. Although the ruling pertains Only to the school in Athens the overseas federation of teachers is citing it in a Simi Lar arbitration Case in Rota Spain. None of the rulings refers to the health hazards posed to students. The students have no recourse  this helps them too said teachers attorney Edward Passman. The teachers arc helping the Stu dents. They re the ones whose educations suffering under these conditions he said. The federation contended in the Athens Case that its contract with the government had been violated when teachers were required to work in unsafe and injurious heat and noise. During the months of August and sep tember 1987, schoolroom temperatures at american elementary often ranged be tween 95 and 100 degrees. An air Force health Engineer testified that a temperature of 95 degrees with 60 percent humidity brought on a hazardous  additional evidence showed that during periods of intense heat individuals could experience nausea fainting vomiting heat stroke and muscle and stomach cramps. Program of removing License plates has sharply reduced illegal parking by Chuck Roberts staff writer Darmstadt West Germany the threat of having License plates re moved for illegal parking came in loud and Clear to most members of the Darm Stadt military Community. Except for four that is. Under the new program . License plates arc removed for serious parking violations. The four offenders had to report to the military police station with a supervisor to get the plates Back. Capt. Richard i. Mccaughy the Community Provost marshal began the pro Gram after the issuing of hundreds of parking tickets proved ineffective. Mccaughey said wednesday that the program has drastically improved the parking situation near the Post office and child care Center which arc two Mai problem areas at Cambrai Fritsch Ca sern. Also parking space has increased at the Cavern because most reserved parking spaces were removed about the same Lime the program was implemented Mccaughy said. Before the program started. I a could go Down to those two areas and sit about five or 10 minutes and be guaranteed with coming up with one or two violators with no problem he said. He staked out the area for about 35 minutes one Day this week and spotted Only one offender and that person left before Mccaughe could summon a military police officer to Issue a ticket. Even the ones who arc violating it seem to be doing it quickly Mccaughey said. The program will be reviewed in two weeks to see whether it should be continued. Mccaughy said. Cosmonaut tests space motorcycle Moscow a cosmonaut Alex Ander a. Serbrov cruised through space thursday on a special motorcycle de signed to Rescue spacemen in distress. It was the Cycle s Maiden voyage and soviet officials said it performed Well. Soviet television interrupted its regular programs several times during the Day for special coverage of the space ride which took Srebrov As far As 33 Yards from the orbiting Mir space station. Live pictures showed Serbrov attached to a tether anchored on Mir As he prepared to ride the Cycle which looks More like a floating armchair than a motorcycle. The device formally known As the cosmonaut movement system is Simi Lar to the manned mane vering unit that . Space shuttle astronauts have used soviet space officials say. It weighs 484 pounds has 32 engines and is designed to be used in repairing satellites and rescuing spacemen. It can move to a maximum distance of 50 Yards from Mir. The Cycle was delivered to Mir on dec. 6. Mission commander Alexander s. Vik Torenko. 42, stayed at Mir s exit Hatch and monitored the Cycle s operations. He and scr Brov the flight Engi Neer have been aboard Mir since sep tember. The 20-ton Mir was launched in february 1988 and was designed to be permanently manned but it was mothballed in april for four months because a mod ule and another add on were not ready and because it would have Cost too much Money to keep a Crew aboard. Mir already is joined with Kvanli an astrophysics Laboratory