European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes wednesday october 3,1990 air Force jobs affected by Stop loss actions enlisted personnel 113x0 c-141, c-5 458x2 114x0 c-141, c-5 461x0 201xx intelligence operations 462x0 208x5 Mideast crypt Logist linguist 464x0 a-b-c-0 Quot 472x0 271xx command and control systems operations 273xx combat control 472x1 274x0 command and control 491x1 242xx disaster preparedness 542x1 302x0 weather equipment 542x2 30499 ground radio communications 551x1 superintendent 552x5 304 x6 space communications systems 566x1 454x4a aircraft Pseud Taufic systems 571x0 aerospace repair it 605xx 454x4 Sac aircraft Neu Braulic systems 623xx 454x6 Airlift electronic and environmental 631x0 systems 811xx 455x1a avionics guidance and control systems 811xxa 45sx2a communications and navigation systems 457x2 Airlift aircraft maintenance a officers a a Quot Quot aircraft structural maintenance munitions systems aircraft armaments systems a a explosive ordnance disposal special purpose vehicle equipment Mechanic special vehicle Mechanic. Communications computer systems electric Power line a electric Power production construct Ion equipment operator a numbing environmental support fire Protection Quot air transportation services a Security Law enforcement Security Law enforcement military wording dog 104xl c-141 pilots and co pilots 104xn c-5 pilots and co pilots 111xb. F-15e pilots 155xb f-15e weapons systems officers 111xj f-4g pilots 157xa f-4g weapons systems officers 111xv ef-111 pilots 157xq ef-111 weapons systems officers 142xa 142xh 142xj 142xy 154xa 154xl 807 x a applies Only to those with 104 Al c-141 transport and 104xn. C-5 transport experience. C-5 air operations officers c-141 Ai r operations officers air operations officers strategic Airlift generalist air operations officers Airlift generalist c-5 navigators c-141 navigators intelligence officers desert shield to keep 2,000 in air Force awhile longer by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a the air Force will delay retirements and separations for 2,000 personnel supporting operation desert shield who had been scheduled to leave the service in the next three months. The delays known As Stop loss actions affect 15 officer and 35 enlisted skill Fields according to officials with the air Force military personnel Center at Randolph fab Texas. Most of the officers Are in flight related and intelligence jobs while the enlisted personnel Are mainly in the aircraft maintenance communications Security and intelligence Fields. President Bush on aug. 22 gave defense Secretary Dick Cheney the authority to use Stop loss actions. Almost immediately the army announced a lengthy list of Job Fields that would be affected. Both the army and air Force have divided personnel who could be affected by Stop loss actions into three groups those directly involved in persian Gulf operations those directly supporting such operations and people throughout the service with skills considered critical to desert shield. The initial authorization for Stop loss actions affects personnel scheduled to retire or separate dec. 31 or earlier. A a High probability exists that the initial period will be extended As operation desert shield continues a said it. Col. Wayne Leboeuf chief of the separations Branch at the personnel Center. The air Force could stretch it into the new year meaning personnel scheduled to retire or separate in Early 1991 also could be retained on Active duty. If the Stop loss authorization is extended those scheduled to leave the service by dec. 31 would have their retirements and separations delayed further. Some skills could be added and others dropped from the list As military operations and requirements change Leboeuf said. Air Force personnel on terminal leave or who have shipped their household goods Are exempt from Stop loss actions Leboeuf said. The service is making allowances for hardship exemptions on a Case by Case basis but approval wifi be limited to serious personal problems he said. A because of the importance of the deployment the hardship would have to be More severe than the loss of a civilian Job or schooling caused by the delay a he said. Affected people who Are being notified by personnel teams in the Field will be allowed to leave the service As soon As possible after Stop loss authority expires or the criteria Are changed Leboeuf  oks Bill aimed at airline terror Washington up a the House spurred by the memory of the bombing of pan am flight 103, passed legislation to reinforce the fight against airline terrorism with More Security intelligence activities and Money. A this Bill is a monumental step Forward in the us fight against terrorism rep. James Oberstar a Mirin told a nearly vacant House on monday. 1 but a woman whose 21-year-old son was killed when the pan am jumbo Iet was blown out of the skies Over Lockerbie Scotland pronounced the legislation Little More than a a Start toward ensuring an end to terrorism aboard . Airliners. The Bill passed on a voice vote without dissent was sent to the Senate where approval was expected. The measure is an outgrowth of a presidential commissions findings in May that the dec. 21,1988, bombing of flight 103 a May Well have been prevented had stricter Security precautions been in effect at airports in Frankfurt Germany where the flight originated and London where passengers changed to a bigger plane for the trans Atlantic leg. All 259 passengers and Crew aboard the Boeing 747 Many of them students returning Home for Christmas died when about a Pound of semtex plastic explosives hidden in a suitcase detonated. Another 11 people died on the ground. The 747 exploded two weeks after the state department warned of a terrorist strike against a pan am flight from Frankfurt the warning came six months after the . Cruiser Vincennes mistakenly shot Down an air Iran Airbus a-300 As it flew Over the persian Gulf killing All 290 people aboard. The pan am bomber has not been found. The House Bill adopts Many of the commissions recommendations authorizing $7 million for aviation antiterrorism measures seeking Public notification of terrorist threats bolstering anti terrorism intelligence activities and providing monetary compensation to the victims of terrorism. It does not authorize the death penalty for those who commit air terrorism which prompted rep. Porter Goss d-calif., to complain on the House floor that a a it a not fair to say this Bill does everything it could do to prevent air terrorism. An Lith hour Compromise with the Bush administration Over the naming of a new official to head up air Security efforts helped the measure to passage. Originally the Bill sought the creation of an assistant transportation Secretary of Security and intelligence to Deal with All government intelligence agencies about terrorism. Had _ bins As Quot his director of Security and intelligence with the same Powers. Skinner opposed the Bill a provision for an assistant Secretary because Bestar said he viewed it a was undermining his prerogatives As  rep. William Clinger jr., r-pa., worked out the Compromise in which the directorship now held by Robbins will be made a permanent position that will report directly to the transportation Secretary officials said. A a it a Only because of those changes that Skinner agreed to drop his opposition an administration official said speaking on condition of anonymity. Lery to watch the proceedings. They had from its inception. John Flynn 21, and Miriam Wolfe 20, were passengers on pan am 103. A i Don t think it does enough but its a Start a Flynn said of the Bill. J aspirin found to reduce migraine in men Boston up a an aspirin Tablet taken every other Day can significantly reduce the incidence of migraine headaches among men and May do the same for women researchers said tuesday. A study involving 22,071 male doctors found those who took aspirin regularly experienced 20 percent fewer migraine attacks than those Given a Dummy Pill. Although the research involved Only men a there is no reason to think aspirin could not also help reduce migraine in women a said Julie Burin gof the Brigham and women a Hospital in Boston. Up to 7 percent of adult men in the United states and As Many As 20 percent of adult women Are believed to suffer from frequent or occasional migraine headaches which can be accompanied by debilitating pain she said. Migraine one of several classifications of headaches is not Well understood but is thought to be caused by the enlargement of blood vessels in the brain. Buring said other types of headaches have different causes such As muscle tightness and Low blood sugar. Headaches Are most commonly treated with pain relievers called analgesics. In a new report in the journal of the american medical association 11,037 male doctors participating in a Long term Stucy known As the physicians health study took a Standard 325-Milligram buffered aspirin Tablet every two Days while 11,034 doctors took a worthless substitute. Among the doctors who took the aspirin on a 661 a 6 percent a had at least one migraine headache during the five year study while 818 a or 7.4 percent a of the doctors who took the Dummy pills had at least one migraine. The difference represented a a statistically significant 20 percent reduction in recurrence rate a Buring and her colleagues reported. The study participants had an average age of 53 and the two groups were equally matched according to characteristics such As blood pressure cholesterol Levels amount of regular exercise smoking and alcohol consumption. In 1988, researchers studying the same group concluded those taking aspirin Cut their risk of suffering a heart attack nearly in half. At the time researchers said it appeared aspirin reduced heart attacks by making it harder for platelets a substances in the blood which Aid in blood clotting a to clump together forming clots that can help Block arteries. Because the study found aspirin had no apparent ability to reduce the incidence of the far More common and generally less painful Type of headache Many people suffer she said the researchers concluded that aspirin a effect on migraine was not due to its pain relieving ability