European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 the stars and stripes Friday August 3,1990military Roundup a it h a a Munich can pus still accepting applications for fall semester Munich West Germany a. Applications arc still being accepted at Tajc University of Maryland a Munich Campus for the fall pm Star which begins aug. 28. Qualified applicants also can be considered for a $1,400 honors program scholarship and for Federal financial Aid Prog tons. Tuition fees and a dormitory room for one semester Cost $2,370. About .60 percent of the University a 600 students meet Soimi of their College expenses through Grants Loans scholarships or part time jobs according to the financial Aid office. Additional information can be obtained by calling civilian 089-690-0093 or its 440-6530 or 6535, or writing the University of Maryland Munich Campus Apo 09183.drug, alcohol abuse meeting set at Vicenza Vicenza Italy a teens and adults arc invited to attend the youth to youth summer conference Here aug. 21-23 that will focus on establishing drug and alcohol abuse centers.7 the Vicenza youth a services is holding the three Day conference for people to willing to take a leadership role in their Community by beginning to youth or similar teen program. The conference will be broken Down into Small groups which will study the Impact of peer pressure on today a teenagers. Youth to youth is a non profit program that sponsors drug and alcohol rehabilitation prevention and education services. It gives a Clear message to teens that it is of to say a Inq a to drugs. Flip Cost is $60 for meals conference materials and recreational events. Lodging is $4 per night. For More information Call Jill Povoor or Teresa Floyd at ets 634-7515 or 634-7378, firefighters again earn Fop Muster prize we Brucken a West Germany a the we Brucken a fire department won the seventh annual european fire Muster for the sixth consecutive time saturday. The we Brucken firemen were lied for first place with Aviano air station. Italy As they entered the final event but won the bucket brigade Competition to repeat As champions. Seven teams competed in seven events at the Competition. .2 directors at Ben Waters win air Force mar award Raf Ben Waters England a two directors of morale and recreation activities at Ben Waters have been chosen to receive the 1989 air Force meritorious mar award. Keith Beaumont the director of the base arts and crafts program oversees operations at the Auto Hobby shop the woodcraft shop and the arts and crafts Center. He is credited with saving the air Force thousands of dollars by purchasing a seven vehicle Fleet through military surplus sales for use by mar. He also developed an Auto part retail Concession specializing in parts for japanese and european vehicles Dalton troll the sports and fitness director was responsible for improving the base s gym and developing playing Fields at Rae Woodbridge a nearby base supported by Ben Waters. Tilott a . Government employee has been at Ben Waters for two years. Beaumont is employed by the British ministry of defense and has worked for the base mar program since 1975.world Toda >3 men working inside Well on farm die of asphyxiation Perugia Italy Are three men working inside a Well died of asphyxiation tuesday caused by an electrical Short circuit authorities said. The deaths occurred on a farm near this umbrian Lull town in Central Italy. Police and fire officials said an electrician was fixing a pump inside the 23-foot-deep Well when the Short circuit occurred. Two owners of the farm who tried to Rescue Ivy were also overcome. The victims were aged 40, 36 and 34. Pacifists invade City Hall in Croton to protest Croton a Italy up a about 200 pacifist demonstrators inv cd the Croton City Hall ripped out telephones and scrawled anti american slogans on the Walls tuesday in a protest against the planned Transfer of Natof a 6 Fig Ter bombers to Southern Italy. J City officials said the demonstrators covered the Walls of the City cd mail chamber and the Entrance Hall with protest Slegatis and damaged equipment. The demonstrators left the building after mayor Giuseppe Vrenna received a delegation then they staged a March through Tiff streets of Croton a calabrian coastal town on the to per of Italy. The protesters were part 3f a Large group of pacifists camping at Isola i Capo Rizi to some 10 Miles South of Croton and the site of the Wanned f-l6 base. The campers came from All Over Italy and were organized by the National anti nuclear and anti imperialist coordination a left Wing organization nato plans for the Transfer of tie 401st tac fight 2. A a. A a i. A a. A a Quot a to on Way to replace space station Crew Moscow apr two cosmonauts rocketed into space wednesday to replace a two Man Crew aboard the of rotting airspace station the Tass news Agency announced. I the soyuz tm-10 spacecraft carrying it. Col. Gennady Malakov the flight commander and Engineer Gennady Strekalov was launched on schedule at 1 32 . From the Tass Malakov and Strekalov were expected to Dock with the Mir after two Days in orbit radio Moscow reported 5 they will replace cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Alexandcr Balandin who have been aboard the Mir sine feb. 11 and arc scheduled to return to Earth on aug. 9. The 4l/ month Mission is the first spaceflight for Malakov. The 40-year-old lest Pilot was a member of the backup Crew to Solovyev and Balandin. Strekalov 49, is a Veteran cosmonaut who is making his fourth flight having worked aboard the salyut space station. The launch of the soyuz spacecraft was not shown on soviet television. During their Mission the cosmonauts Are expected to receive a joint soviet japanese Crew that will be launched on dec. 2 on an eight Day Mission according to the inter fax new service. It said the two japanese contenders for the Mission with two soviet cosmonauts Are broadcasters Kij Tuti Rioko 26, and Akiyama Toshiro 48, the news service said. Tass reported that the cosmonauts arc expected to make at least two spacewalks during which they will conduct further repairs to a Hatch on the kvant-2 module attached to the Mir Complex. The news Agency did not specify what needed to be done to fix the Hatch. During a july 17 excursion outside the space station to repair Tom Thermal insulation on their soyuz tm-9 capsule Solovyev and Balandin discovered they could not dose a Hatch at the end of their spacewalk. They were Able to dose it on a subsequent excursion a 26. Or Wing s Al 6s from Torrejon a in Spain to Calabria Are going ahead despite a mounting protest by local on the nato financed base at Isola i Capo Rizzuto is scheduled to Start is month acid the Transfer is scheduled to take place in late 1991 or Early 1992. The Transfer was forced in nato by Spain a socialist government in january 1988 when it insisted the f-16s must leave Spain within three years. Nato asked Italy to accept the fighters in May 1988, and on june 30, 1988, the italian parliament voted final approval. But since then the dramatic improvement in East West relations has caused Many italian politicians to question whether the Transfer is necessary. In Washington monday the House of representatives voted 312 to 82 to reject president Bush a request for the appropriation of $260 million As the . Contribution to the building of the calabrian base and other costs of the Transfer. July a amps Dave Oil Filby Bye Blackbird tech sgt. Bob Peets left and tech sgt. Ron Perryman carry away one of the last signs that the sr-71 Blackbird spy plane had at its Lair at Raf Medenhall England. The sergeants Are leaving to is week. They re the last of the once-160-Strong det 4 of the 9th strategic recon Wing that hew the Ultra fast reconnaissance plane. The air Force retired the Blackbird in january West German officials checking goats for a mad cow disease Frankfurt West Germany apr a authorities said tuesday they were investigating whether goats in a West German state May have been infected with the a mad cow disease that originated in Britain. Agriculture ministry officials in the Southern state of Badin Wurttemberge ordered the Slaughter of 1,126 sheep Over the weekend alter suspecting they might be infected. On tuesday however state officials said the sheep were suffering from scrapie a fatal degenerative nervous disease that attacks sheep and goats and not from Bovine spongiform encephalopathy As mad cow disease is formally known. But in the westfalen agriculture minister Klaus Mal thicken said tuesday that similar symptoms had been noted in a number of goats belonging to or Farmer. The goats were being examined to determine whether they Are suffering from scrapie or from the mad cow disease Mal thicken told reporters. Officials said the two diseases Are similar. They said mad cow disease had not been confirmed in West Germany. Scrapie was first discovered in West Germany in the Early 1980s after a Herd of sheep of British origin was imported from of British sheep has been banned in West Germany since 1985 because of scrapie and the Nln port of British beef was sharply restricted in june alter an outbreak of the mad cow disease there. 1, Britain a agriculture department said tuesday lo.fi-8 cattle have died from mad cow disease in the last our years. Between 200 and 300 cows die each week trom the disease that attacks a cows brain and Central nervous system a department spokeswoman said. I 1
