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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germany edition stripes vol. 50, no. 55 Friday june 7,1991 b author cd unofficial publication f or the u s of Ivity i Butts 35c d 8693 following the Leader when army staff sgt. Raymond a. Seymour works out kurdish children come running at. A Camp neat Zakhoo Iraq. See Story on Page 3,Bush repeats stand for Faith arid family Atlanta apr president Bush saying America a no longer lacks a moral vocabulary promised Southern baptists on thursday that he will fight for voluntary school prayer and stand firm against abortion Bush first visited a Church run Day care Center where he celebrated his Victory in allowing religious programs to share in child care vouchers for poor families. A. Civil Miglus groups upset with Bush a opposition to a House passed Bill on Job discrimination demonstrated outside the Central presbyterian Church As Bush arrived to visit the churches child development a Center. Valet in a speech before 15,000 delegates to the Southern Baptist convention. Bush renewed his Call for a constitutional amendment allowing voluntary prayer in Public schools and promised to tailor his legislative proposals a to prefer c Faith and  in his remarks Bush tearfully recalled How he prayed at Camp David before sending americans to War against Iraq. A like a lot of people. In be worried a a Little bit about shedding tears in Public or the emotion a of it Quot Bush said. A but As Barbara and i prayed at Camp David before the air War began we were thinking about those Young men and women overseas. And i had the tears Start Down the . .1 the audience a cured in applause As Bush wiped away tears confessing a a Therese go.�?�. While the president flew to Atlanta the department of health., and human services released rules for the. New $732 million child care voucher program that starts in september. ,. A. A finally Low income parents will have the Chance to a a r a. A see Bush on Page 10 president Bush talks with children at Central presbyterian churches child Center in  to crack Down on with weight drug problems by Cluck v1ncii Washington Bureau a Washington a the army will make it harder for overweight soldiers to stay in uniform and no longer is giving drug users a second Chance. The crackdown will come in the form of personnel policy changes Many of which Are simply adjustments to existing policies that until now were optional for commanders said army spokeswoman capt. Barbara Goodno. A what was once optional is now mandatory in most of these cases a she said. A ensuring Quality becomes increasingly important As we go to a smaller Force a the changes go into effect sept. 30, the end off his fiscal year. One change will require commanders to review bars to re enlistment every three months and separate soldiers with such bars after the second review. The old policy required reviews every six months. A bar amounts to a warning to soldiers that they will not be allowed to re enlist unless the. Condition that prompted the bar is corrected. To strengthen drug abuse policies the army will sep Arute enlisted troops in grades1 e-4 and below with. More than three years of service after their first incident of drug use. Previously All soldiers in grades e-4 and below regardless of time in service were not spa rated until their second incident of drug use. Army commanders in Europe were told some time ago to begin cracking Down on first time drug offenders said Usa eur command sgt. Maj. George l. Horvath. A. If a Soldier or no tests positive for drug use.  to carefully consider whether the Soldier has potential for rehabilitation and continued service Horvath said. If the answer is no he said the com Mandr is urged to consider separating the  policy requiring separation of officers warrant officers and enlisted soldiers in grades e-5 and above after their first incident of drug use is  change involves drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Previously soldiers who were unable or failed to see soldiers on Page 10 new army personnel policies Here Are a few of the changes and adjustments that will become effective by september 30,1991. Enlisted troops grades e-4 and below with More than three years of service will be separated after their first incident of drug use. Soldiers who fail to Complete the army a drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment program will be separated. Soldiers in the army weight control program who Don t meet the Standard of losing three to eight pounds per month and who have no medical reason for their condition will be separated or receive a bar to re enlistment. Soldiers without medical conditions who fail two consecutive physical fitness tests will be barred from re enlistment or separated. A amp Eisenhower letters stir questions on love affair by John k1fner t the new York times a previously unknown collection of wartime letters from Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower to his Driver. Capt. Kay sum Mersey appears Likely to renew debate Over whether the two were lovers during the last year of world War ii. Eisenhower who was married and Summersby initially denied the Long rumoured Romance. But in 197b, As she was dying of cancer Summersby published a second Book of memoirs of the War years a past forgetting my love affair with Dwight d.  she described a passionate but frustrating affair with the supreme Allied commander. �?o1 feel free to talk about it now a site wrote then 16 years after the end of Eisenhower a presidency and seven years after his death. A the general is dead. 1 am dying. When i wrote that Eisenhower was my Boss in 1648. 1 omitted Many things changed some details glossed Over others to disguise us Best i could the intimacy that had grown Between general Eken Hower and me. It was better that  in his own memoirs of the War years Eisenhower referred to Summersby Only once when he listed various members of his stall. But the new letters appear to reveal a. More extensive relationship the letters originally Pari of num Crsby s estate apparently wound up in see letters on Pago 10  
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