European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 i the stars and stripes monday july 16,1990 has announced p it i by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer German readers of a Wiesbaden newspaper can cast their votes this week on what they a like to see happen to Wiesbaden a if its . Army tenants move out. The newspaper is Basi norits Straw vote on Prosper Tive troop withdrawals in Europe that could result in the airfields closure. Wie Badener Ochenblatt readers were invited to submit their own ideas or choose from several proposals from local residents and listed on the clip out ballot include convert ing the Airfield into an Industrial area civilian Airfield Park and open air concert Arena Racetrack trash dump or train station. The ballot also asks readers to explain their choices. Almost 100 responses were received by the newspaper the Day after the front Page editorial and ballot were published editor Hartmut Geisler said Friday. The 16-Page shopper gets stuffed in the mailboxes of about 134,000 Wiesbaden area residents each week. Geisler said the newspaper May run the ballot a second time before tabulating the results. Along with news updates airline safety seats Washington apr requiring infant safety scats on airliners instead of continuing to let parents hold them on their laps would Cost More lives than it would save the Federal aviation administration maintains. The Faa cited past experience to estimate that such a requirement would save Only one child a life Over the next decade a but at an additional Cost of $3 billion to families who Fly. A while the Chance of survival aboard an air plane May be slightly improved the costs associated with mandating the Carriage of a child in a separate scat will divert a significant number of families from. Air travel to far less Safe travel by automobile a said the associate Faa administrator Anthony j. Broderick. However sponsors of House and Senate Bills that would require the Faa to mandate the safety restraints for infants on airliners attacked the study As a a specious and vowed to press ahead with their legislation. New Fla. Water rules West Palm Beach Fla. Apr officials Are easing water use restrictions for most of South Florida because recent Rains have raised underground water Levels. Under the South Florida water management districts relaxed rules which will begin monday car and boat washing arc permitted any time and Lawn sprinkling is permitted every Day before 9 . And after 5 . The new rules end most water use restrictions in coastal areas from Palm Beach gardens to key West and West to Lee county. Stricter rules remain for rain deficient Jupiter and Tequesta areas. Although the South Florida drought is now in its 23rd month even below average summer Rains have topped off the Biscayne aquifer and ended the threat of its contamination by sea water. Still Lake Okeechobee the Region s backup water Supply stands at almost 31 feet below Normal. Printing the tally the staff plans to Send the Itaf amp a opinions to local politicians. Geisler doubted whether the null would greatly influence the amp it future of the Airfield Tojic said officials might keep the citizens wishes Quot inane Trak of the Airfield a Smy Leea controversy in Wiesbaden since the army Ana amp to amp dry Early five years ago that it planned to Stant it a Apache Attak amp helicopters there. An Odom ton Campaign by local indents and poli the army to postpone that rationing indefinitely. Residents of the Hessen Capri Pasaj to aircraft cause noise and unnecessary safety asks to4h� heavily populated Rhein main Region. Wiesbaden military Community spokesman George Polich said it would be inappropriate to comment on the newspapers front Page query. Quot we truly truly done to know Here in Wiesbaden what the army or the air Force is going to decide As to the future military use of Wiesbaden a a Polich the Community would never Quot presume to say what might be the use of Wiesbaden a should it Ever be returned to German authorities. Pouch added that if the base is Given up the property will go to the Federal government anyway. Even though there Are no moving vans in sight Wiesbaden politicians acid citizens Are already hotly debating the Issue the Ochenblatt editorial said. City Hall officials Are pondering possible Industrial uses for the 600-acre installation. Frankfurt residents Are eyeing the base for use As an Annex to Frankfurt internal ti0"then? of attack helicopters there will be jumbo jets Over Erlenheim Nordenstedt and Bier Stadt a the editorial said. A the noise and Sidell would surely be As bad As r _ the editorial noted the proposal from a Young socialist group for a nature Park and concert Arena. And hts id nostalgic residents would like to see the base Mast into a Racetrack As it was in the 1920s. Others have suggested building a train station for a planned High Speed Trah that is expected to run to Wiesbaden since the bases fatter ice provides easy Access to Auto idea of the Airfield it a wildest and Bahn 66, the editorial Pooh poor being made into a train dump most unrealistic suggestion. Watral Truty administrator Lothar Manker had said he envision me air base being converted into a huge garbage dump Rar the entire main Taurus Region. Act at Washingtonjr amps a the army i plan to co Frame at 50 colleges 7 states at the end of Ose Roth prod universities in the 1990-1991 academic year. Fri the decision was made riot Only because of budget reductions Bui Atso because the army will need Tweep tighten ants for the future smaller Force of vials said. The change will save the air a about $23 million a year and will tto away with 740 army slots involved in the programs. Following the cuts Active Roth units will remain at 363 locations throughout the 50 states the District of Columbia puerto Rico and Guam. The 50 programs targeted for closure were chosen based on the Low number of Roth cadets who entered and graduated Over a four year period. Potential students at schools where army Roth wifi be withdrawn May be Able to enter the program As Quot Cross enrolled cadets meaning academic work would be done at one school and Roth on another Campus still providing the program. The 50 Roth programs scheduled to close Are Arkansas Arkansas technical University. Russellville Henderson state University Arka Deihla ouachita Baptist University Arkadelphia Southern Arkansas University Magnolia University of Central Arkansas Conway Colorado Colorado school of mines Golden University of Southern Colorado Pueblo. Connecticut Central Connecticut slate University new Britain. Florida University Florida. St. Petersburg. Georgia Berry College. Mount Berry Mercer univer-3ltytnfcon. A a Idaho Junho state University Pocatello. Illinois Bradley University Peoria Loyola University. Chicago a Kansas fort Hays state University fort his. Louisiana a wills state University Thibodaux. Maine University of Southern Maine Portland. Massachusett3 Alem state coiled of Salem Suffolk University Boston. Michigan uni varsity Detroit. Dezolt. Minnesota Bemi slate University. Bemidji Winona state University. Winona. Missouri West tipster College. Fulton. Nevada Unherr to of Nevada Las vegas Las vegas. New Hampshire Dartmouth College Hanover. New Mexico new Mexico Highlands University Las vegas. J.�?~. New York Marist College. Poughkeepsie Rensselaer polytechnic Institute. Troy state University of new York at Fred Obj. Fredonia. I Jorth Carolina University of North Carolina Wilming ton Wilmington. A Ohio Youngstown state University. Youngstown. Oregon Eastern Oregon stale College. Lagrande Ore a gon Institute of technology Klamath Falls. Pennsylvania Clarion University of Pennsylvania Clarion Gettysburg College. Gettysburg Lafayette College Easton Lasalle University Philadelphia Pennsylvania stats University Behrend College Erie Washington and Jefferson College Washington York College of Pennsylvania. York Rhode Island Rhode Island College. Providence. Sooth Dakota Northern state College Aberdeen Texas midwestern slate University Wichita Falls Trinity University san Antonio West Texas state University. Canyon. Virginia Washington and Lee University Lexington. Wisconsin Filton College. Ripon Saint Norbert College Depere University of Wisconsin Milwaukee University of Wisconsin Platteville. First of albanian refugees arrive in West germ amp by i Heidelberg West Germany apr the first of More than 3,000 albanian refugees arrived in West Germany by train saturday joyously waving their hands in Victory As they Savoured their newly found Freedom. Quot people want to go away. The communist regime is an animal a Avni Azizi a 23-year-old albanian tailor said shortly after leaving the train. Quot there was no Way to a we All think that at the most in one ear the whole albanian people wifi be ree Quot he added. The group of 125 albanians arrived in the Southern West German City of Heidelberg on saturday following 26-hour train journey from Italy via Basel Switzerland. About 4,500 albanian refugees who had fled to foreign embassies in the capital of Tirana were evacuated in a sea lift across the Adriatic sea to Brindisi Italy on Friday. The refugees began crowding into foreign embassies two weeks ago seeking to their hard line country which has resisted the kinds of sweeping reforms that have radically altered other East european countries. Vajmir Earo i among the group of refugees in Heidelberg said he saw two wifi de while trying to Goi into the fest German embassy. He dim not say when that occurred. However West German officials say they do not know of any deaths. During the Early Days of the exodus albanian guards fired on would be refugees As they fied to the embassies. Two of those under West German Protection were shot and wounded West German foreign ministry officials said earlier in Bonn. Venkeo Halili a 24-year-old Mechanic said a we Are leaving our country because we done to want these communists. We Are Young. We Are poor. We be never even seen a discotheque. He said a first Well stay Here and then some May want to go to the United states or to other european nations. We chose the German embassy not because we wanted to stay there but at least we could get in three West German trains went to Italy to pick up the approximately 3,200 albanians who had sought Refuge in the West German embassy. In Basel they boarded smaller trains that look them throughout the Day saturday to 14 towns in West Germany where they were to be housed in temporary shelters. Commissaries test sales of Flowers zweibr0cken, West Germany a the army commissary system has begun Selling fresh Cut Flowers at several test stores in order to gauge customer demand for the service. Commissaries at Stuttgart a Patch Barracks Giessen and Schweinfurt All in West Germany and at Vicenza and Livorno Italy will sell the Flowers through september. If sales Are Good the service will be expanded to other commissaries said Denise Gomes an army commissary spokeswoman. Foung different size Flower arrangements and individual roses will be offered for Sale thursdays through saturdays at the test locations. A a record what crop Washington apr the . Wheat crop this year Quot is a whopper despite floods in some areas and drought in others the agriculture department says. All told the crop May be about 2.7 billion bushels a six year High and 33 percent More than last years Harvest the department said
