European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday february 7,1990 proposal would Cut number of gis in Neu Ulm by 800 Black history Morvith by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau new Ulm. West Germany the number of . Soldiers stationed in ecu Ulm would decline by about 800 not year under an army proposal to replace de parting Pershing ii troops with four units from other locations. The army also expects to give up 84 apartments in the City by september helping to relieve a shortage on the local housing Market according to ecu olm s mayor. Peter Bibl. . Army and West German defense officials briefed Biebl and ecu Ulm county commissioner Franz Josef Schick about plans for Wiley and Nelso Barracks the Offin Hauson support Center and the chm grub missile site at a closed meeting tuesday afternoon. Ecu Ulm. A Garrison City since 1959, now is Home to about 3.500 . Troops. That number would drop to about 2.700 after the realignment. The Pershing sol Diers arc due to leave by next year under the terms of the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty signed with the soviet Union. In a news conference following the meeting the two local leaders said they expect to Sec additional cuts in the future once a conventional Force treaty is signed in Vienna. Austria. About 550 germans who work for the american bases will not be affected by the realignments. Schick said. The stationing proposal Calls for moving four units to ecu Ulm. According to staff sgt. Elayne Venema a spokeswoman for the . Army in Europe. They Arete 557th Maint co in a Schaffenburg the 2nd in. 14th Field arty in Bamburg the 2nd in. 77th Field arty in Augsburg and co d. 1st engr in. In Stuttgart. Under this proposal the number of military personnel in the area would remain relatively  pc Nama said. She said the purpose of the transfers was to improve the units ability to maintain readiness for War and to relieve overcrowding in the Stuttgart military Community. In other developments tuesday. Vii corps head quarters named 10 Stuttgart area units that Likely will occupy Bismarck and hard caverns in Schwabish Amund once Pershing units there move out next year. Most units on the list arc stationed at incl Lingen Barracks in the Stuttgart suburb of Ostil darn. They Are the 2nd corps support come he the800th Materiel management Center the 229th move ment control Center the 16th data processing unit the 31st combat support Hospital the 128th combat support Hospital and the 428th medical support optical and Maint unit. Three other units would move to Schwa Fischground from flak Cavern in the Stuttgart suburb of ludwigs Burg 30th medical group he the 42nd medi Cal co and the 651st medical co. If the Bonn government and nato approve the transfers it will leave the Headquarters of 7th ,159th aviation regt. And the battalion s co b As the Only 2nd corps support come units at a Ellingen bar Racks. Credit Union joins Hookup with stateside atm system Frankfurt. West Germany is a credit Union has joined merchants National Bank in offering  the Opportunity to tap into their state aide accounts by using automated Teller machines 4atm in Europe. On feb. I. Finance Center Federal credit Union began offering Access to Cirrus an automated Teller network based in the United Stales. The credit Union also plans to offer Access to the armed forces financial network. Since january some merchants customers have been Able to use Afan to get Cash from their stateside accounts. Finance Center credit Union automatic Tell ers arc on line at Augsburg. Ansbach Neu Ulm and Bamburg. Coming soon will be automatic tellers at Vilseck graft Wohr. Firth and Erlanger. The merchants automatic Teller is at Drake Cavern in Frankfurt. The credit Union is not charging its Mem Bers for the service said Al Johnson operations offi cer. But  May be subject to fees charged by their other Banks. Merchants officials said service members in the United states and Canada can make withdrawals from their merchants accounts in West Germany and the Netherlands for 60 cents each. The fee applies to withdrawals using the Cirrus network. Withdrawals Cost 75 cents with Afan. Withdrawals also can be made in Japan Guam and Okinawa. The Cost is 95 cents for Afan and $2.35 for Cirrus. Service members also can use the networks to get merchants account information. Afan charges 50 cents for such requests made in the United states and Canada. Cirrus charges 35  Japan Guam or Okinawa the service costs 70 cents on Afan lines and $2.35 on the Cirrus lines. Whenever a merchants automatic Teller machine displays both the Afan and Cirrus logos the fees for Afan will apply. There is no fee when a Green machine cardholder uses a Community Bank Green machine. At present. Merchants Green machine at Drake Ca sern in Frankfurt can Only Access stateside accounts by using the Afan network. Merchants officials estimate it will be 45 Days before cardholders in West Germany can use the Cirrus network to withdraw Money from stateside financial institutions. Jim Smith a merchants executive said All Green machines will be connected to the networks by late summer. Fees for withdrawals from stateside accounts Over Drake s Afan network Are set by the financial institution in the United states. Malcolm x the Radical Leader bom in 1925 As Malcolm Little became one of the most fiery and controversial Blacks of the 20th Century. While serving six years in prison for burglary he converted to the utopian and racist Black Muslim sect led by Elijah Mohammad. After he was paroled from prison in 1952, be replaced his last name with x and became an outspoken defender of Black Muslim doctrines. Speaking with bitter Elo Quence against White exploitation of his people Mal Colm developed a Brilliant platform style that soon won him a Large and dedicated following. He was suspended from the Black Muslim movement i 1963 for suggesting that the assassination of John f. Ken Nedy was justified. He formed his own religion in organization Muslim mosque inc and dictated his autobiography to Alex Haley in the last year of his life. Malcolm x was murdered in 1965. This is another in a series of paintings by spec. James Scott that will appear throughout february. Services scheduled for military policeman Wurzburg West Germany is memorial services will be held wednesday for a 3rd inf div military policeman who shot and killed himself feb. 1, a division spokeswoman said. Spec. Mark d. Ponich assigned to the 3rd my co shot himself with a .45 Caliper pistol he d signed out for work. 1st it. Donna Mcaleer said. Ponich 29, was found dead in his room on Leighton Barracks after he failed to show up for work. She said extremely loud music apparently prevented anyone from hearing the shot. The incident is being investigated. Services will be held at the Leighton Chapel at i . Mcaleer said. Ponich is survived by his 5-year old daughter. Ashley of Aberdeen . 2 seamen with 6th Fleet sentenced for rape by  Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Naples. Italy two 6th Fleet sail ors were sentenced monday to More than four years in italian prison for the rape of a Naples woman. They appealed their sentences tuesday. Brian t. Vaughn. 20. Of los Angeles and Patrick r. Mccoy. 22. Of ports Mouth. A. Both seamen recruits were on Shore leave from the destroyer tender Yellowstone at the time of the rape in september 1988. Said it. Paul Weis Haupt of Fleet air Mediterranean. The sailors who have been in Navy custody since shortly after their arrest at the crime scene were convicted by a Naples criminal court of rape assault with injuries breaking and entering and property damage. Mccoy also was con \ i Clad of resisting arrest. Weishaupt said Vaughn was sentenced to four years and six months in prison while Mccoy received four years and 10 months. Judge Angelo Spirito also or dered each Sailor to pay $60,000 to their 44-year-old victim a Vendor. The trial was conducted under Italy s revamped criminal Justice system. At their request the sailors were tried in absent a at a so called abbreviated hear ing a simplified trial allowing any punishment to be reduced by one third. Weishaupt said both sailors filed appeals on tuesday. The process could take months. Meanwhile the sailors Are being held on provisional Liberty at the naval sup port activity in Naples. Under terms set by the italian court the sailors Are for Bidden to leave Italy unless in Navy Cus Tody and must report daily to a local italian police station. The trial was closed to the Public to spare the victim embarrassment. The sailors submitted a letter to the court apologizing for their conduct. They said they would not be present because we Are ashamed. We ask forgiveness. And we understand we will be punished for what  Vaughn also is serving a six month sentence in the Brig for an unrelated court martial for failure to obey orders disrespect assault with a Means Likely to produce harm and a number of unauthorized absences. Vaughn and Mccoy were arrested on the night of sept. 7, 1988, when police heard screams from a basement apart ment in a downtown area of Naples. The area called the gut is off limits to . Forces. Police pried open an apartment shut Tor and saw two sailors having sex with a woman. The sailors were arrested after trying to  woman told police that the men had broken into her apartment and beaten raped and sodomized her. She was treated at a Naples Hospital for numer Ous bruises on her head and lacerations on her lower body. Prosecutor Pio a conc said tuesday that lawyers for Vaughn and Mccoy told the court that their clients met the woman outside her apartment where she was Selling contraband cigarettes. They said she invited them into the apartment. She said however that they broke into her apartment while she was watch ing television. Contributing to Inis report stall writer Candy san Ono in Naples