European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday june 5, 1991hie a and prices european edition circulation 125,000 col Gene e. Townsend Usan a commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor. It. Col. Gaylo w.  Deputy commander Marie Kominicki production manager Bill Walker european editor Deane b. Mcdermott circulation manager a switchboard 06155-6010. Ets 348-5741 or 5823. Telex 419-332. Business Tel fax 06155-601376. News Tel fax 06155-601.416. Mailing address. Apo 09211-4211 or Post Fach 1114 37, d-6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany. News 06155-601 plus Extension or ets 348-8 plus Extension. Quot a. News ext. 237, 255. 282 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. A features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext 226. Business Randy Mcclain ext. 326. Bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken Clauson building 103. 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Or endorsement by the u s government the department of a Felonse or the u s. European command. A. The appearance of advertising m this publication including inserts or supplements  not constitute endorsement by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products of services advertised. Everything advertised. M this publication shall be make available Tor. Purchase use or patronage without regard to race color religion sex. National origin age. Marital status physical Handicap political Adili Atton or any other non Merit Factor of the purchaser user or Patron. A its time to go Home ---�?T."x. R a take a look through the rest of this. Newspaper or any other for that matter. Notice there a Little if any news about the thousands of troops mostly guard and reserves still deployed in saudi arabian it has become a great Tuncer among members of my unit As Well As other guard Reserve units As we watch the regular army going Home in droves. You see we willingly enlisted in the guard. We understand our duly and obligation to serve  state or nation Calls us during a time of crisis. We feel the crisis is Long Over we ate often called a citizen soldiers a the time to be soldiers is Over and our civilian Ives await us. V a i could never begin to calculate How much taxpayer Money could be saved by returning the guard Reserve Backho me and getting us off the payroll. Any politically conscious tax paying citizen could fit it Urc it would save a lot of Money especially considering our nations current fiscal condition. The regular army declares  Reserve components must stay Here because we make up  and logistics. I however the regular army has plenty of supporting elements themselves a we be seen them leave already. Despite existing Laws the troops Are truly concerned about their jobs business e so d eve n t he i r fun t u r e pm p i of a ability who would hire a guardsman or reservist after this. Students too Are suffering an educational setback that will take Quot them Many semesters to recover. As an officer in my unit i am partic ulary concerned about my troops Well being including their state of mind. Our present predicament of harsh desert conditions does no to help matters. The current safety message Here is not one Mure life a free the guard. A 1st it. Carl a. Palmer operation desert storm a a. -. A v. A Quot a in mailing be this is in response to a Navy wives must  Many husbands spouses have been away from us during peacetime and conflicts. The Navy is not alone in this aspect. There is no possible was in my opinion to measure emotional pain during a. Spouses  absence. Learning to Cope comes with a degree of maturity that is Learned and. Finally something you come to term with. Members of the army air. Force Marine corps National guard reserves coast guard etc., All endure Long hours away from their families. Quot it just so happens that your Hub acid chose the Navy. And yes the Media and the above mentioned armed forces were there before and will still be around after the persian Gulf crisis. All of us military Wivo synd spouses have had to Cope with the demands of a military lifestyle. _. A  Smith. Kaiserslautern Germany parades Well deserved 1 am writing in regards7 to the television program Mclaughlin group which aired memorial Day. Should the Welcome Home parades be conducted Tor troops returning from the persian Gulf was an Issue under discussion. A Lucanor Clift thought not. What irritated me most by this woman s comments was that she referred to the War in Iraq As an expensive camping trip on our part. Id like for her to Tell that to sgt. I Nitro Perez who lost pan of his foot from an explosion a hic crossing the Border or to the families and friends of those who la never return from that so called camping trip. F was there and 1 was not camping. I was doing my Job. Defending Freedom. 1 believe we deserve a Parade to Welcome us Home. A tech. Sgt. Richard a. Pratt Wiesbaden Germany editor s note letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length cd taste  is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes. Apo 092h-4211  information or assistance Are answered in a feature called readers action Len which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to. Readers action line 1 he stars and stripes Apo  1 9211-4211.a Telephone Hiigli image this is in response to the letter concerning mar Calls for the desert storm troops and All supporting units. As a Telephone operator located at Ramstein i was astonished to read such a letter. We process about 500 mar Calls daily. When one considers that the phone lines were set up to handle official Calls of  daily and Han die double that amount Vav Fth the mar Calls the writer should feel grateful she got through at All. Our regulations at Ramstein allow for Only a five minute Call with the caller s. Commander s permission. Many people believe that they Only need a phone and the Lis number to Ramstein. There Are Only so Many phone lines and when they Are Busy they Are Busy. It is very frustrating to put a person through then have an emergency Call upon which someone a life depends that cannot get through. Then the caller who a gets preempted Quot rings Back to cuss us out believe me vye receive our share of those Calls. V these Calls Are a favor and out commander has been very generous to allow them. It your phone lines Are Busy on mothers Day or Christmas in the states do you cuss them out i think not. A a. Furthermore Many bases will no longer Olf net Calls not Only because of the amount of Money involved but because their operators Are being abused. A Linda a. Henderson _ Ramstein a Germany shopping Remindo v i i like to comment on tie article describing shopping Tours to Prague Czechoslovakia. Americans Are under tie mistaken impression that Czechoslovakia exists solely Tori heir shopping pleasure. A a a Quot Czechoslovakia is attempting to enter the european common Market and the world of free Enterprise Thev face the problems inflicted on them by Quot a generation of oppression a state controlled Economy and a Gross National product dedicated to a military Industrial Complex instead of consumer goods. This is a country where toilet paper is  to the editor and. Items most americans take for granted Are non existent. Now bring in thousands of West Erners. Most of whom Curry the equiv. Lent of three or four months pay for a czech citizen $225-300and  them Loose on the Economy. Like vultures at a Slaughter they converge on the comparatively inexpensive goods a goods nor anally unavailable to czechs because of their Cost or Scarcity. A one could i suppose fault the store owners for Selling to the foreigners. But faced with the prospects of rapidly rising inflation and having to feed and clothe their families the Choice becomes Clear purchases of restricted items and removal from Czechoslovakia is Black marketing and smuggling. Innocent shopping and gift buying Many of the shoppers caught with restricted items write bad checks to the Border guards or bribe them with Cash . Hardly innocent. A ? As stated most escape undetected. Yet Many shoppers Purchase not for themselves but for resale at significantly higher prices. Those who complain they Are being unfairly charged for exporting restricted goods out of Czechoslovakia Are being selfish and greedy they Are not. Being charged import taxes by the German government As they should ,.and if the items Are shipped in household goods  taxes often As High As 50 percent of the actual value Are also  pc those who travel to Czechoslovakia will understand the czechoslovakian nation s struggle to overcome its economic problems and that it is fighting for survival in the new age. Of capitalism. A a. _ a capt. Dennis Desmond popping in Germany _ la question about guns a recent article sparked a question in my mind. 1. A sixteen percent of career felons surveyed said the Prospect of lengthy prison termsfor., weapon s. Violations would not keep them from breaking gun  a. A a a a a a a forty live percent of the criminals responding however said they thought Stitt sentences were a  who could possibly summarize the Linlor pation above As. Many career melons remain undeterred by the threat of Long prison sentences. A a Only the irrational anti gun groups most readers Avo wild conclude from the information above that a mandatory and lengthy prison term  using or possessing a firearm during a crime is an it Yective deterrent. The criminals surveyed agreed almost ,3-to-l. That a something to think about. A tech. Sgt. David l. Gerber Hahn a Germany making up a scandal  Media made Kitty be Jiey a Biog Raphy of Nancy Reagan a Best seller a taking uncorroborated charges Froin in  at face value. Did the tact that mrs. Reagan invited Frank Sinatra to lunch in a the Whitt House solarium prove they were Hakim an attain t a Kelley  those luncheons h her 19s6-biography of Sinatra minus it innuendo. 1 he Only thing that change was Kelley s need for a new scandal to sell books. Kelley claims  foundation has spent a Mere $90,000. Tin Toni nation says it has a disbursed a million and is reviewing Grant applications Tor an additional $1 million. A Eric Lindhoff Munich Irma no