European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday february 3,1990 y maintenance fund Caus Jet Short Usa eur cancels seweragpr6novation by Rosemary Sawyer a v suit writer k. Heidelberg. West Germany budget con x strains 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 Tor said col. John c. Mutarelli. Usa eur budget division"1 chief. Of the army gave Usa eur $4.004 Bill 100.6 operation and maintenance expenses for fiscalv90, Muta Rulli said. Usa eur made the Cluj Hack recommendations in a guidance letter Issue Flo major commands thursday. Mul Arcolli said. Tjart commands generally Fol Low the guidance  commanders still make final decisions. The  said hol Clutton routine sewerage renovations saving $20 nillion. Change one battalion level Field training exercise Nancy on aging War reserves Sav to a command Post exercise each year Ting is 0.4 million. Freeze growth of  where sets of  equipment a s wed for use in exercises or War Savok Rcd cd ing $9.3aiffi a St theater army Ria come can save $2.4at the Sheinberg  Cavern which is being considered for Csc  s Vanguard building Home to the 7th to g8r-army area come he will receive Only emergency and staffing will be consolidated. Usa eur has already saved about $11.3 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 for example was beefed up by $ 15 million to $25 million. Certain other areas of the budget received increases too. Usa eur saw family housing funding increase from $591.4 million in 1989 to $644.8 million in 1990, Mutarelli said noting that most of the increase was marked for the government rental housing program. Under 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 a i like Ion of budget adjustments Mutarelli said. The Ammu chose to make programmatic reductions As Well a a Altnau be time annual  some  recommended adjustments which will take place gov three years include cutting Back . Saving $200,000. Consolidation of sat Asdot travel contracts saving $65,000. Convening arts and crafts facilities to entirely non appropriated funding saving $970,000. News updates namibian Windhoek lawmakers have to declare Nami mid March in status As the Cor after 75 years of South West Afri Domi la dvrs of inca people s Orfenio nation. Nail in the con said cd Nesda was chosen uni because inc uni a incs it As inc for the liminal lawmakers Namibia a Otid unanimously a Independent inn the territory s nuni s last Colony uth african Rule. I Lucyl Assembly thai March 21 Mously in part d nations recon Ilc National Day n of apartheid. Plastic recycling Trenton. N3. A one of the largest plasm it producers in the u nil cd Stales univ Hlad plans to open inc nation s first  comprehensive plastic of cycling Plant. Union carbs to let the ruling stand would int wac with management s right to of attn work to teach ers at the Cleme Purry 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 the rights. The Case  at a  of defense nip fail school m 1987 when temper lofted 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 Here. So this helps them too said teachers attorney Edward Passman. The teachers arc helping the stunts. They re the ones whose education is 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  j injurious heat and noise. Months of August and sep tember t98�shoolroorn temperatures at american Elcuri Hazai often ranged be tween 95 and 100 dc0tatj�an air Force health Engineer testified  of 95 degrees with 60 percent brought on a hazardous  additional evidence showed that during periods of intense heat individuals could experience nausea fainting vomiting heal stroke and muscle and stomach cramps. Voa taking 6 languages off air Washington a budget cuts will silence six of the voice of America radio station s 43 language broadcasts affecting listeners in Africa Europe and Asia Voa employees were told by their director thursday. We Are doing to ourselves what 30 years of soviet jamming could t do Voa director Richard w. Carlson told hundreds of broadcasters editors and engineers. This is the toughest and sad dest Day of my  going off the air will be the turkish greek slovenian lao uzbek and Swa Hili services. The 57 employees of those services will lose their jobs. Voa which is part of the . Information Agency has been grappling with budget cuts for several years. Since 1987 it has Laid off More than 200 people shut Down five bureaus in inc United states and abroad and eliminated hundreds of radio hours in various languages. Carlson said Usia and Voa had decided that amputation of several services was preferable to dismemberment of broadcast departments across the Board. This will cripple our efforts at a time of unprecedented change and Opportunity Carlson said. He praised the employees whose mis Sion is to broadcast generally favourable views of the United states to communist countries for helping fan the winds of revolution blowing throughout the world. Voa s problems were compounded this week when the administration s 1991 budget proposal released to con Gress mandated the addition of a tibetan language service. We just have no Money for it Carlson said. Voa s operating budget for 1990 was about $170 million at least $7 million less than it required he said. 1 he loss of the swahili broadcasts could affect As Many As 50 million people throughout Africa Carlson said. There arc some 30 million uzbeks in the soviet Union As Well As in Afghanistan and China he added. Slovenia is at inc forefront of political Reform in Yugoslavia and the Voa broadcasts will be sorely missed Carl son said. He then read one by one the names of those who will lose their jobs. Some of them arc foreigners on temporary visas. Many of them have worked for Voa for Over 20 years. Cosmonaut tests space motorcycle correction an article thai Tilliy Ulo Jih avy leadership awards gave  a description for Ofaf officer 1st Sandra Miuji Octy a crypt technician at Brawdy Wales. Moscow a Cosmo Naff two. Ander a. Scr Brov 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 of for special coverage of the Spac Jfe which took scr Brov As far As 33 Yards from the orbiting airspace Talion. Live  Serebro attached. Tether anchored on Mir As he prepared to ride the Cycle which looks More like a floating armchair than a motorcycle. Formally