European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a the stars and stripes saturday april 7,1990base seeks waiver on child Center Ramseck West Germany a amps a the Stuttgart military Community is seeking a waiver from an army regulation that prohibits Wood Frame child care centers. Community spokeswoman capt. Renee Mongo said such a Center is expected to open May l. It will be housed in a new $500,000 one floor multipurpose building next to the Bowling Alley at the Pattonville housing area. A we expect the waiver to be approved and it does no to have anything to do with the building being Safe a Mongo said. A Pattonville master plan Calls for construction of a much larger $3.5 million child care facility near the housing areas dental clinic but no Money has been appropriated for it yet. Because of the need for a child care facility Community officials decided to put up a building using non appropriated special authority funds approved by . Army Europe Headquarters. They chose a Wood Frame design because it was economical and could be built quickly. The army awarded the building contract april 24, 1989, and the building was finished before the Community Learned that the regulation bans Wood Frame construction for such centers because Wood can Burn. Now the Community is seeking a department of the army waiver. Mongo said the building is equipped with sprinklers and fire extinguishers and All rooms open to the outside permitting rapid evacuation. . Civilian Law and West German Law do not ban Wood construction she said. The Center would give Pattonville nearly twice the child care space it has now Mongo said. It is to House children up to age 4. School age children will remain at their current  on travel to East reviewed Heidelberg West Germany a amps a Usa eur officials Are reviewing regulations that require . Forces personnel to obtain Advance permission to travel into East Germany or into the one Kilometre zone. Current regulations require service members government civilians and their family members to receive clearance 30 Days in Advance of their proposed trip command spokeswoman Millie Waters said Friday. The one Kilometre zone is the strip of land in West Germany that Borders East Germany and Czechoslovakia. A the significant changes in the relationship Between West and East prompted the review Waters said. The current requirements have been in effect since september 1988. Prior to that personnel had to apply for travel clearance for ail Eastern european countries except Yugoslavia 40 Days before travelling. Restrictions on travel Between East and West Berlin were eased last month. Humvee stolen from Gellhausen found in truck by w. German police by Gary Pomeroy staff writer West German Border police have seized a stolen army humvee that was concealed in the Back of a rented truck a 3rd army div spokesman said Friday. The police were acting on a tip from a German citizen in Ronau when they conducted a routine Check inside the truck near the Border town of Weg Scheid Austria on feb. 16, maj. Van Jenerette said. The German police also confiscated two squad radios and some night vision equipment in the vehicle. The humvee was stolen from Coleman Cavern in Gellhausen Between sept. 11 and 12. It has been returned to its unit. Three people who were in the rented truck Are in West German custody Jenerette said. West German police were unavailable Friday to comment on the Case. Military authorities Are still investigating the theft of the recovered humvee and two other military vehicles stolen from two caverns in the Hanau military Community in november. A second humvee was stolen nov i from Armstrong Cavern in Budinger i. Bumper markings were 4/7th Civ Anda. Idilio truck was stolen nov 13 or 14 from Fliege Horst Cavern in Hanau its markings were 3 Tiv and he 35 both vehicles contained unspecified types of communications equipment. Criminal investigation come officials Are often no $ 1,000 per vehicle for information leading to their recovery. Anyone with such information can Call ets to 8863 or 06181-120024. 2�?~ personnel team arriving in Fairford to relocate enlisted service members by Amy Geiszler Jones . Bureau an air Force personnel team will arrive at Raf Fairford England later this month to begin handing out new assignments to about 850 enlisted personnel who will be displaced when the base shuts Down oct. 1. Fairford will shut Down operations As part of a budget trimming plan announced by the Pentagon in january. A caretaker Force of about 50 airmen and an undetermined number of British and american civilians will remain at the base after Jan. 1, 1990. The base currently has a population of about 1,000. The 12-member team which arrives april 23, will consist of officials from the . Air forces in Europe the strategic air come and the military personnel Center in san Antonio. During a five Day stay the team will be determining which enlisted airmen will remain at Safe bases which ones will be stationed to stateside bases and who will Transfer to Raf Mildenhall in England according to capt. David Fruck a base spokesman. The caretaker Force has already been established. Officers will receive their assignments through Normal personnel channels. A the numbers Are Small enough for the officers to handle their assignments basically on their own. We re handling them just As if the Normal tour had ended a Fruck said. He said new assignment dates have been established for All personnel at the base. But in determining the location a each persons assignment will be looked at individually a he said. The 11th strategic group which provides refuelling aircraft for nato aircraft in Europe will be consolidated with the 306th strategic Wing at Mildenhall joining two units that currently form the european Tanker task Force. The other unit occupying the base the 7020th a group will deactivate. About 575 military persons Are assigned to that unit. Fruck estimated that As Many As 200 of the 365 airmen assigned to the 11th strategic group will Transfer to Mildenhall. Mildenhall which currently handles deployments of 12 to 18 Kc-135 strato tankers will take on an additional six to eight tankers by the end of june As a result of the consolidation Fruck said. Kc-135s from stateside bases Are regularly deployed to the european Tanker task Force on 45-Day rotations. A few strategic air come personnel will remain at Fairford to handle the annual b-52 deployments from stateside bases. Those deployment will continue after the base reverts to caretaker status. New assignments to Fairford were stopped in february. However new personnel destined for Raf Little Rissing ton and Raf Kemble two bases supported by Fairford Are still being processed at Fairford. Little Tissington is a standby medical facility Kemble provides depot level maintenance for various Safe aircraft. Japan . Reach Trade Compromise Washington up a . And japanese negotiators ended three Days of Complex and intensive Trade talks thursday with a Compromise that sources said will allow More american companies to enter japanese retail markets. The talks which were to have ended tuesday night continued for an additional 36 hours As negotiators hammered out a Deal on removing some of the a structural impediments in Japan a Laws and society that have the effect of barring foreign Competition. In the Compromise disclosed by conference sources thursday the japanese government committed itself to revise its Laws governing retailers within one year and to totally abolish the Laws within three years. The negotiators Are expected to publish an interim report this week with a final report to be issued in july. In a White House statement on the Trade Deal Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater praised japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu and said a because structural problems Are deeply ingrained in both economies Complete results will not come  in Tokyo Kaifu said in a nationally televised news conference that Japan must Bear the pain of opening its closed markets. Congressional reaction to the reported Compromise was at first sceptical. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas said a a in a much less interested in what this latest agreement pledges than what it provides in the Way of increased world Trade. A put me Down As a septic who has seen too Many agreements in which the results did no to match the rhetoric. Previous .-Japan Trade agreements a and we be had a lot of them a were like nothing so much As a drugstore Cowboy All hat and no  special japanese emissary Nobo Matsunaga accompanied by Deputy foreign minister Hisashi Owada arrived in Washington monday on Short notice. The Compromise on structural impediments plus Japan a decision this week to permit . Supercomputers and commercial satellites to be sold in Japan May defuse a crisis that some diplomats had feared would explode into a full scale Trade War. The Bush administration had been working to defuse congressional threats to impose Tough Trade sanctions against Japan. Japan Sells $49 billion More in goods in the United states each year than americans sell in Japan. Many . Experts believe the reason for the imbalance is Japan a official efforts some based on cultural Bias to protect its Home markets while exploiting those abroad. Soldiers honoured for help after Accident Neu Ulm West Germany a four Neu Ulm soldiers have won the West German Kavalier Der Strasse knights of the Road award for tending to victims in a 16-vehicle Accident last fall. Neu Ulm county commissioner Franz Josef Schick gave the award thursday to 2nd it. David w. Chase 1st it. Terry l. Foster pvt. 2 Bobby e. Thacker and sgt. 1st class Laramie r. Towns. Foster is assigned to cob 2nd in 4th inf div. The other three soldiers Are from the battalions he co. The Accident which involved two trac Tor trailers occurred after Midnight oct. 18 in heavy fog on Federal Highway 28 South of Neu Ulm. Two people were crushed to death in the Accident. The four soldiers arrived within minutes because they had heard the collisions while on Field duty nearby said military Community spokeswoman Dagmar Ganser. Thacker a medical specialist provided first Aid and then administered1 ravenous lines to Shock victims w e Rescue personnel arrived Ganser s a the other soldiers shut off vehicle in a ions helped victims and directed re Crews to the most seriously injured p