European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes Friday november 2,1990surplus sales Wiesbaden Germany Low priced household furniture will be in the spotlight at two defense re utilization and marketing office sales scheduled for this week. The Firth demo will hold a retail Sale in building 946 on Johnson Barracks from 9 . To noon Friday Only . Identification card holders May attend. Much of this household furniture was purchased on the Economy. It includes Complete Kitchen units with cupboards sinks stoves and refrigerators. Also for Sale will be washers dryers living room Wall units bedroom closets Beds storage cabinets sofas dining room sets and assorted appliances. Customers must remove purchases by 2 . The same Day. Tie Central furniture management office warehouse in Neu Ulm will be the site of a Sale from 9 . To 1 . Saturday. The building is at 5 Bungartz Strasse. Only . Identification card holders May attend this Cash Only Sale. Items will be sold a was is a and All sales Are final. Items available include chairs China hutches buffets servers lamps rugs and tables. Purchases must be picked up by 2 . The same Day. Groups say . Must act to control health care Cost Road death nets no 3 months hard labor Sembach a Germany a amps a Sembach air traffic controller has been sentenced to three months hard labor for the traffic death of an 86-year-old German Man. Werner Egan died March 27, two weeks after inc Accident near Coppard udon Hauson near Koblenz. A panel of officers convicted staff sgt. Roger Desmarais 32, of negligent homicide oct. 25 following a special court martial at Sembach. In addition to the hard labor without confinement Desma Rais was ordered to forfeit $300 per month for five months. Desmarais was sightseeing with his family in the Eiful Region March 13 when he ran a Stop sign and hit a car in which Egan was a passenger. Alcohol was not a Factor in the 2 45 . Accident authorities said.. Sailor charged with rape assaults Naples Italy a a 25-year-old american Sailor was arraigned in Naples on thursday on charges of raping a female officer and sexually assaulting an officers wife. Seaman apprentice Robert t. Stom Baugh an aircraft engine Mechanic assigned to Fleet logistics support so 24 at Nas is Gonella Sicily also faces charges of assaulting an officer breaking and entering and impersonating an officer. Stombaugh a resident of Newport Beach calif., is scheduled to be tried by general court martial nov. 26. The charges Stem from an incident in the Bachelor officers quarters at Nas ii the naval air station operational base. No other details were  Munich Germany a the army and air Force Exchange service has issued a recall on Panasonic microwave ovens models in 5500 and in 5500-a. The ovens were mistakenly sold during a recent promotion for $155. The ovens Are 120-Volt, 60-Hcrtz models that could cause a fire if used with european current an Exchange spokesman said. The ovens should be returned for a full refund the spokesman said. Washington a an expected doubling of medical costs in the next 10 years makes it More important than Ever that the government coordinate a National health care system private groups said wednesday. A a we be got to do something to get health care costs under control or health care is going to be unaffordable for millions of americans a said Ron Pollack executive director of the families Usa foundation. A report by Pollack a group and citizen action estimated that health care spending in the United states will Rise from a projected $606 billion this year to nearly $1.5 trillion by the turn of the Century. The report does not recommend any specific solutions to the problem of rising costs but at a news conference Pollack said a this is a National problem. Ultimately we need a National  Pollack and Robert Brandon vice president of citizen action blamed the rising costs on a variety of factors including insurance companies inefficiencies escalating fees for doctors and hospitals and uncoordinated use of expensive sophisticated technology. The report which lists health care spending state by state identified Massachusetts As the largest per capita spender. There state and Federal governments residents employers and other private sources will pay an estimated $3,031 for every Man woman and child this year. The National average is estimated to be $2,425 this year rising to $5,515 by the year 2000, according to the report which based the estimates on 1987 medicare and medicaid data the changing state demographics and a Model of How those demographics will change health care spending. The estimates Are also based on state spending figures compiled by the health care financing administration in 1982, the last year the Agency developed state figures. According to the report California was the next highest spender at $2,894 per capita. It was followed by new York at $2,818 Nevada $2,757 Rhode Island $2,707 Connecticut $2,699 and North Dakota $2,661. By the turn of the Century per capita health care spending in these states will be More than $6,000, the report said. The lowest Levels of per capita spending were in South Carolina $1,689 Idaho $1,726 Mississippi $1,751 Wyoming $1,756 and Utah $1,784. In 10 years these states will be spending nearly $4,000 per capita according to the projections. A increasingly health care is becoming a luxury item that fewer and fewer individuals and families will be Able to afford a Brandon said. A the already frayed safety net will be in shreds by the end of the  per capita spending Over the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 is expected to grow fastest in Arizona Alaska new Mexico Florida Maine North Dakota and Washington state according to the report. Families Usa foundation is a nonprofit group working on behalf of Low income and Middle income senior citizens and their families. Citizen action is a National grassroots organization with chapters in 31 states. Entries pour in for army theme contest the Pentagon May not have got around to naming a theme for the army this year but hundreds of stars and stripes readers have answered the Call by entering our give the army a theme contest. Take Nilgun and Daniel Nesbitt of Vai Hingen Germany for example. They mailed in 170 entries a each addressed by hand and in a separate envelope. We figure if they done twin the theme contest they deserve an award from the stationery Trade. The first entry received from operation desert shield came from James Craft a 101st airborne div officer stationed somewhere in saudi Arabia who scrawled it on the Side panel of a Chicken a la King Are Box. Hope the meal was As Good As your theme Jim. And then there was the letter from Bob Tanner a Sailor in Rota Spain who argues that the army does no to deserve a theme. We re sidestepping the service rivalries Bob but wed like to note that the contest is open to everyone even disgruntled sailors. Those who Haven to entered the contest have until nov. 16 to get their proposed theme to the stars and stripes. A panel of editors a each with actual army experience a will pick the Lucky Reader who gets the $100 top prize. Other top entries will be highlighted in our annual look Back at the year in december. Mail your entries to army theme contest the stars and stripes Apo 09211. Cafes keeping european Headquarters Munich Germany a amps a fest european Headquarters has been studying ways to streamline its operations but has no plans to disband its Deputy commander said thursday. A was we see it now we will have a Headquarters Here in Europe As Long As there a a significant presence of troops Here a col. Richard Dillenbeck said. Moves under a current reorganization plan will affect fewer that 10 people Dillenbeck said. Some of those people have already been moved to the Dallas Headquarters and others will move in the next several months Dillenbeck said the affected positions involve career management and advertising. He also said that cafes has been looking at several new locations for its european Headquarters but no final decision has been made. The Headquarters is now located in the Munich military Community which is scheduled to close. A if you could Tell me when this Community Munich is going to close and How Many troops Well have to support i could Tell you the size and configuration of this Headquarters a Dillenbeck said. Military troop cutting drive slows Down Washington a amps the military services have temporarily put the brakes on their drive to Cut personnel trimming Only 375 Active duty troops during september. The air Force accounted for the biggest Cut losing 1,984 personnel to leave that service with a total of 535,233, according to preliminary Pentagon figures. The Navy Cut 104 personnel reducing its total to 579,781. The army which had been cutting at least 3,000 troops a month since june reversed course to add 1,154 soldiers raising its total to 732,403. The Marine corps also increased slightly adding 559 personnel for a total of 196,652. Overall the defense department had 2,044,069 personnel on Active duty As of sept. 30, which is 86,160 fewer than at the same time last year. Congress has ordered the Pentagon to lower end strength ceilings by 100,000 personnel in the fiscal year that began oct. 1 but gave defense Secretary Dick Cheney the flexibility to limit the Cut to about 80,000 if necessary because of the situation in the Middle East. The Pentagon ceiling for last fiscal year was 2,076,405. Since the military is under that level by More than 32,000, Only 68,000 personnel would have to be Cut to meet the 1991 year end ceiling. Soviets end hunger strike at consulate Frankfurt Germany a amps the soviet protesters who gathered outside the . Consulate in Frankfurt gave up their hunger strike for political Asylum in the United states on tuesday a consulate spokesman said thursday. The strike began oct. 23 after consulate officials refused to accept the application for Asylum from the group of seven soviets. On oct. 26, two strikers came Down with the flu and moved into a German red Cross shelter. Craig Springer a spokesman for the consulate said the group would have to apply for admission to the United states at either the . Embassy in Moscow or a processing Center in Washington. Andrei gris Hershkin one of the p ters said the seven group member tired Germany illegally five month he said the group members Feare they would be sent Back to the Union and then be imprisoned for 1 the country illegally