European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. February 8,1990 Csc pledges totalled $7.18 million b Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart. West Germany the 1990 overseas combined Federal Campaign reaped a record s7.i8 million in pledges in its fund raising Effort last tall the Charity drive s coordinators said. But. While pledged contributions Rose 3.38 percent they failed to match the 4.74 percent increase in the number of eligible donors according to James m. Page a european come Campaign coordinator. Page said the Campaign provided More evidence of a continuing decline in the number of people who give but an increase in the average amount of their individual donations. The 1990 overseas pledge total topped the 1988 total of $7.03 million As the highest in the Campaign s 23-year history. Overseas contributions for 1989 to tales $6.95 million. Campaign totals for each service Branch Rose in the 1990 Campaign. The . Army Europe turned in $3.92 Mil lion in pledges a 0.9 percent increase from the 1989 Campaign. Air Force do nors pledged $2.53 million up 7.5 per cent while Navy contributors promised $633,392, or 4.6 percent More. European come personnel pledged $62,422, up 29.6 percent while another $40,000 came from Small units and . Embassy personnel scattered throughout Europe. The percentage of eligible donors who contributed dropped in every service Branch and Overall from 43 percent in 1989 to 39 percent in 1990. Only 34 per cent of army personnel pledged contributions to the latest Campaign for exam ple Down from 39 percent the previous year. The air Force rate dropped from 48 percent to 47 percent and the Navy talc from 70 percent to 63 percent. The overseas combined Federal Campaign ran from oct. 23 to nov. 30 in most areas but was extended to dec. 15in Usa eur communities. Campaign officials will collect most contributions throughout the year by payroll deductions. News Brief army prisoner escapes from guard in Frankfurt Frankfurt. West Germany army officials arc searching for a prisoner who escaped from his guard tuesday afternoon in Frankfurt. The Man is considered dangerous. Staff sgt. Michael a. Yarn who was being held at the army confinement facility in Mann Heim awaiting trial was in Frankfurt to see his attorney a corps spokesman said. However military officials would not say Why he was considered dangerous or what charges had caused him to be held in pre trial confine ment. Yarn. 37. Was assigned to he co 5th in 18th inf in Fried Borg. He was last seen in Battle dress uniform near the Frankfurt main train station. Anyone with information concerning yarn is asked to Call the fran fun Provost marshal at ets 325-7637 or 6385 or German civilian 069-1541-7637 or 6385. Army officials still adding up wind damage to copter Fleet Nurnberg West Germany is last week end s windstorm was unkind to the army s helicopter Fleet in Europe and officials said it would take at least a week to tally the damage. In Kalterbach West Germany two uh-60 Black Hawk Utility helicopters were blown Over on their sides causing a fuel spill that was believed to be negligible capt. Ujj. Rolkowski a 1st army div spokesman said in a release. At Feucht army Airfield near Nairn Borg the Blades of an a i cobra attack helicopter received damage estimated at about $7,000, said maj. William Belcher a spokesman for the 2nd army Cav regt. Belcher also said that extensive damage was done to a leased temporary hangar. Aluminium Side panel from the building blew across the Airfield which is the Home base for the regiment s helicopter Fleet. However the . Government will not have to pay for the damage because the building was leased. Belch or said. In the Frankfurt military Community the wind caused $1.5 million damage a majority of which was to roofs in family housing units a v corps spokesman  and equipment throughout v corps also sustained wind damage but the extent and Cost were not yet known he said. Corps officials declined to comment on a report that eight Apache helicopters were damaged at airfields in Wiesbaden Hillesheim and Hanau West  of the helicopters reportedly were blown on their sides. Another four reportedly suffered damage to their Rotor assemblies after the winds loosened the ties hold ing Down their Blades. A recreation services tent that housed telephones and tvs for stateside bound reformer troops was partially damaged in the Grafe Wohr training area a spokesman there  Usa eur spokesman said it would be one to two weeks before Dollar amounts could be assessed. E. Germany soviet from Page 1 Lif cd workers to the West. The East has never had enough workers for their poor Way of organizing  Schmidt said. But now they really arc feeling the  or. Otto Vogl of the German Institute of econ omy in Cologne. West Germany said there also has been a loss of authority in the factories. When they re working it s a go slow situation at Best. And to keep up with forced delays it Means 15-10 16-hour  Vogl said. Schmidt said deliveries from other East bloc countries have slowed to a trickle because the coun tries now prefer to sell to markets with solid Curren cies. Imports of soviet Oil for example have ceased. As a result. Schmidt said production in the coun try is plagued with shortages. If your trained engineers have fled West you can t keep the trains running on time and if Materi Al does t arrive you can t build automobiles washing machines or  furthermore food shortages have begun Schmidt said. There is. For example a shortage of apples. There has never been a shortage of apples in East Germany before. They can t Cope with the Job of distributing the few goods that  to help the country West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl established a committee to study the creation of an economic and monetary Union with East Germany. Kohl Hopes his measures will slow the flood of East germans to the West which is running at about 2.000 people a Day. At the hold in Saalfeld an employee said much has 10 be done. Whenever Ecsi German businessmen think about our country s Economy what they see is a place where a lot of Money has to be invested the employee said. This hotel for example would have to be totally rebuilt. It s an  contributing to Inis of port Ihrl Assoc my press in sell Ltd. Ella g0rmany from Page 1 Kov who confirmed Feodorov s account said we cannot Rule out the emergence of new parties. But we communists arc not going to surrender our positions. Just As any party in the world we will shall be waging a struggle for our  the official news Agency Tass quoted him assaying the party will talk with any political fora1 that stands for democracy and rejects violence. We shall speak not Only with communists but with the whole people to Sotnikov said. Tass and official radio Moscow did not provide details about the rest of the platform which also called for allow ing private property in the soviet Union. They said the document would be published in official newspapers. After the platform was approved delegates said the Central committee debated the lithuanian communist party s decision in december to split from the National party. Sources said Gorbachev made a report on his visit to Lithuania a month ago but no details of that or of the debate were available. Both hard line communists and reformers had sharply criticized Gorbachev s platform with hard liners complaining he was going too far and reformers saying he failed to go far enough. Populist Leader Boris n. Yeltsin cast the Only vote against the platform Feodorov said apparently be cause it was not Radical enough. Yeltsin on sunday addressed a huge crowd that gathered outside the Kremlin to demand reforms and he promised to pre sent the demands to the Central committee. There also was one abstention Feodorov said. There were few major changes in the document Gorbachev presented to the Central committee on Mon Day he  249-Membcr Central committee was joined in the meeting by More than 700 other officials from around the soviet Union and All were allowed to vote on the platform he said. The committee agreed to move up the Date of the next party Congress from october to no later than july radio Moscow said. The Congress the most powerful party body is the Only group that has the right to choose a new Central committee. The Central committee the party s policy making body is considered by reformers to be the main Bas Tion of hard liners wary of Gorbachev s Reform pro Gram and the Congress offers Gorbachev the last step in a Long struggle to Reform the committee to his liking. Sources inside the Central committee meeting said the committee would recommend to the supreme so Viet parliament that it delete article 6. The supreme soviet could take up the Issue at its meeting next week. Galvin from Page 1 in showing the will to carry out the vision that we have. But let s get treaty before giving the 195.000 door another  noted that drawing Down . Troop Levels to 225,000 in All of Europe with 30,000 outside the Cen trial zone would allow another 50 overseas bases to close. Last month the Pentagon said it will shut Down 12 overseas bases As pan of the fiscal 199  another Issue. Sen. Sam Nunn d-oa., the chair Man of the committee questioned the military s Asser Tion that two aircraft Carrier Battle groups Are needed in the Mediterranean . Frank b. Kelso ii the commander of the Navy s Atlantic Fleet said he supported the concept because he fears the United states won t have the political flexibility to use the air Power provided by Theair Force s 401 is tac fighter Wing. The unit now stationed outside Madrid Spain is to move to South Ern Italy in the Spring of 1992. Nato nations have occasionally grumbled when the United states has used its european based Force for what the allies consider non nato missions such As the 1986 bombing of Libya that originated from . Bases in Britain. We need a maritime Force to project Power in the Southern Europe Region Kelso said. Galvin said the 401st would provide a third of the total air Power in the Mediterranean with the res coming from Carrier based aircraft at sea. And Al though Alliance plans Call for the presence of two car Rier groups in the Region that objective is hardly Ever met Galvin  Only keep 1.1 to 1.2 Carrier groups on average in the Mcd now when you add in the overlap when one Carrier comes in to replace another he said. Anything less than the current Carrier presence would Hurt the Alliance s deterrence and War fighting capabilities and that s something we Don t want to