European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 31, 1991 .1 it stars and stripes a Page 9 Safe facing streamlined budget the stars and stripes by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau . Air forces in Europe has about $14 million less to spend on operations and maintenance in Fisca year 1991 than it did in 1990. Under the commands 1991 budget its of amp a funds which represent the bulk of a Safe a Money went from $1,082 billion in fiscal 1990. To $1,068 billion in 1991. But the $14 million loss does not fully reveal the magnitude of the financial Impact that inflation unit realignment and other reorganization within the air Force will have on the a Safe a budget this fiscal year said col. Bronislaw Prokuski jr., the commands comptroller. A your advice to commanders has been to operate As efficiently As possible closely scrutinize expenditures and review any of their discretionary funds to provide for possible realignment a pro Uski said in a written response to questions from the stars and stripes. The stars and stripes is also trying to obtain information on the . Army in Europe a budget. In Safe the command also faces extra financial burdens created by new expenses and inflation. The burdens include a a $46 million increase for base maintenance contracts in fiscal 1991 in countries throughout Safe. A inflation costs outside base maintenance contracts that amount to an estimated $40 million to cover civilian pay raises communications Tariff and Utility rate increases and some contract Price escalations. A $35 million More for communication costs that were paid by the air Force comm come in fiscal 1990 but were shifted to Safe when the communications command was dissolved. A $7 million for Safe draw Down costs. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. A a a $5 million More for gasoline and fuels for aerospace ground equipment. A $4 million for Mission realignment costs within Safe. Facility repairs in particular face severe funding problems in fiscal �?T91. During fiscal �?T90, Safe spent $63 million on facility projects but Only $12 million can be planned for such expenses this year Prokuski said. About $2 million less will be spent for air Crew training this year in Safe but the amount of flying that Crews did during the persian Gulf War probably will make the loss easier to withstand. Prokuski said a considering desert storm operations this program decrease should not present any serious  a a. A a a a a a a /. The wars Impact on a Safe a budget is not yet known. A we expect the air Force to reimburse us fully for Alt a net additives expenses due to desert shield storm. In the Long term its too soon to say what the Impact s will be a Prokuski said. On the plus Side of a Safe a budget transportation costs that had been covered by. A Safe scentral Supply and maintenance program within the of amp a budget have been transferred to the air Force logistics come because of added responsibility for the latter command. In fiscal �?T90, the program Cost Safe $4.7 million. On Jan. 8, a Safe a command pro Gram management Council approved the fiscal �?T91 funds distribution and set budget priorities. The first priority Prokuski said is to scrutinize All programs a closely and re pc Teddy so that each program amount represents a minimum a survive to oper ate  survive to operate Means a no frills approach to spending. The second is to fully fund the aircraft repair and maintenance program. Those costs arc estimated at $88 million in 1991. The third affects civilian employment a on a command wide aggregate basis to keep civilian employment at a level which does no to cause a re Duclion in Force other than those which May occur due to base closures or  the fourth is to fully pay for utilities a while encouraging efficiencies by allowing units to keep fy91 savings a Prokuski said. A a a ���n--jftgip#�4 a s 1 a a a a % tiptoe through the tulips or daffodils at a Young girl in Berlin takes a stroll through a Field of daffodils in the downtown area last week. The Flowers seen everywhere along roadsides in the City Are Blooming just in time for easter.6 countries ease poles visa needs Brussels Belgium apr six Western european countries have lifted visa requirements for poles staying less than three months an official statement said saturday. Under the agreement citizens from the six countries a Germany France Italy the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg a also wont need visas to go to to a land. A a a a a a \ a a a. A a a a the agreement will take effect april 8, which Means polish president Lech Walesa will need a visa for his visit tuesday to Belgium. Other members of the 12-Membcr european Community to which the six belong expect to eliminate visa requirements for Poland next year. Denmark lifted them on March 1. Belgium initially was hesitant to lift the restrictions on poles fearing it would produce an influx of illegal workers at a time when 12 million residents of dec countries Are unemployed. However polish authorities promised that poles who stay More than three months will be returned  Tower of Pisa leaning at even faster rate Pisa Italy up a the rate of movement of the leaning Tower of Pisa seeded up in the first three months of 1991, scientists from Pisa University reported saturday. The famous White Marble Tower moved 1 millimetre in the first three months of the year. The scientists said that this shift compared to a movement of Only 1.18 Millimetres during the entire previous year. Frankfurt Germany apr Good Friday marked the Start of traditional easter marches in Germany with activists taking part in demonstrations for peace and disarmament throughout the country. According to the Central easter marchers office in Frankfurt groups of activists on Friday began walking from Magdeburg to Halle and Chemnitz to Leipzig in former East Germany some carrying backpacks for planned camping overnight. Office spokesman Horst Trapp said he did not know the exact number of participants but predicted that thousands would join those and other marches Over the weekend primarily because of the recent Gulf conflict. Trapp sail that marchers had also gathered at demonstrations in Augsburg and Saa Bruecken two cities m the South of Western Germany and that 10,000 people were expected to take part in a March in the bavarian state capital of Munich on saturday. The easter marches got started in Germany in 1951, peace marches begin in Germany six years after the end of world War ii when thousands of people rallied throughout the country primarily to protest superpower testing and production of nuclear weapons. The marches reached a Peak in the Early 1980s, when up to a million people protested the Basing of .-built Pershing ii and nuclear tipped cruise missiles in Central Europe. Since former president Ronald Reagan and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev signed the Interne. Diate nuclear forces missile treaty in Washington in december 1987, participation in the traditional easter marches has fallen considerably. Last year with the Borders Between the two Ger Many opened for the first time in More than 40 years a facials put the number of easter marchers at tens of no Sands throughout the two countries. The largest number was an estimated 15,000 people in Berlin with germans from East and West taking part.4 anti War activists arrested at Rhein main four Rhein main a Germany a amps peace activists were arrested Friday at Rhein main a after crossing the Security Fence with a ladder. The four activists who included one american crossed the Fence about 8 . Near the Luft Briecke memorial before being apprehended by Rhein main Security police and German police. They were taken to the base Security police station and questioned before being taken away by German police said base spokesman Nel Lampe