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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4.page b a the stars and stripes Friday August 91991 military organization Day set for 1st personnel come Schwet Zingen Germany 1st personnel come will hold its organization Day from 8 . To 5 . Aug 16 at Tompkins Barracks in Schwet Zingen. Because of organization Day activities services will be limited to emergencies. Assistance can be obtained during the Days activities by calling the staff duty no at ets 379-6451.walk-in hours reduced Heidelberg Germany a the Job information Center at the civilian recruitment Center in Leiden Germany will have reduced walk in hours for customer service beginning monday. The change was made because the Center has had fewer walk in customers a Usa eur spokesman said. The office provides information on department of the army career programs throughout Usa eur. The new walk in hours Are from 10 . Until 2 . Monday through Friday. Telephone customer service hours will remain at 8 . To 4 .fishing events to be held Kaiserslautern Germany the Rheinland Pfalz Fly Fishers will participate in a fishing event labor Day weekend on Germany Straun River in Bavaria. On the following weekend the group will hold another event on the Salle near the one time Border of former East Germany. Both of these Rivers offer Trout fishing. The club charges 30 Marks about $18, per person for each weekend event. Camping Sites Are available for approximately $12, and there will be a Barbecue on each saturday evening. Participants must have a current German fishing License. The club also welcomes wives and children to attend. For More information and to a sep those interested in participating May Contact Marco Montragudo at civilian 06357-7682 or ets 4967812 Ray Newlon at civilian 06841-68413 or Fred Bridger at civilian 06385-6110 or ets 4967487. Sex iranian Leader offers changes of command col. John w. Beaver will relinquish command of the 7lh signal brigade to col. Joseph a Nowland at a change of command ceremony at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim at 10 . Today. After commanding the brigade for the past 24 months Beaver has taken an assignment As executive officer for the director for information systems command control communications and computers in the Pentagon. His replacement comes from fort Monmouth n.j., where he was director for readiness at the communications electronics come. The 1st, 44lh, 63rd and 72nd signal battalions and he co 7th signal brigade will participate in the ceremony. Brig. Gen. John s. Cowings bid Farewell to the 3rd corps support come and the Wiesbaden military Community at a change of command ceremony at Wiesbaden a Germany last week. During the ceremony he passed the reins for both commands to Brig. Gen. Robert k. Guest a native of Royston ga., who last served As Deputy commander of the 22nd theater army area come in the persian Gulf area. Before deploying to the Mideast guest was Deputy commander of the 21st theater army area come in Kaiserslautern Germany. After 22 months As commander at Wiesbaden Cowings will be stationed in Washington d.c., to serve his third tour at the Pentagon. He will be the Deputy director for plans analysis and resources in the logistics office of the joint chiefs of staff. Troops from the corps support commands 16th corps support group 7th corps support group and 68th medical group As Well As the Wiesbaden military Community and the 3rd army div band participated in the ceremony Paris apr former iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr said wednesday he is willing to present evidence alleging that officials in former president Reagan selection Campaign bargained to delay the release of american hostages in 1980. In an interview with the associated press Bani Sadr said he would place correspondence with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other iranian officials plus six volumes of notes from his 18-month presidency at the disposal of . Congressional investigators. Senior democrats in the Senate and House of representatives announced panels monday to investigate allegations that Campaign officials for Reagan and president Bush then his running mate secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the release of 52 am icons held hostage. Bani Sadr Iran a president from 1980-81, and others have alleged that the Reagan Campaign promised Radical iranian mullahs . Weapons in return for holding the hostages until after the 1980 elections. The 444-Day hostage crisis was one key issues that led to Reagan a defeat of president Carter. The hostages were freed minutes after Reagan was sworn into office Jan. 20,1981. A i am certainly ready to testify and have been for a Long time a Bani Sadr said at his Home outside Paris. A i will make documents available that will help this  among the material Bani Sadr offered to provide were letters suggesting Khomeini knew of the alleged talks Between iranian officials and Reagan Campaign leaders in october 1980. Bani Sadr said the documents add to allegations made in his Book on his presidency my turn to speak. According to Bani Sadr representatives of the iranian government met in pans with . Intelligence agents and representatives of Reagan and Bush. The meetings allegedly took place oct. 20-22, 1980, at the Raphael hotel. Bush has denied he participated in any such meetings. Bani Sadr said he did no to know whether Bush attended saying he was better informed about the iranian end of the alleged talks. But he has alleged that the late director of the Central intelligence Agency a William Casey who was Reagan a Campaign manager a was present. Bani Sadr said he was made aware of the alleged contacts in a letter from an unidentified source inside Iran in october 1980. He promised to make it available to a amp Gressional investigator she also cited an aug. 17, 1980, letter to him from Iran a then foreign minister Sadegh Shotz Sadegh that read a we Are informed that the Republican party is doing everything to hold up the release of the american hostages until the american elections take  the alleged Deal Cut Between the iranians and the Reagan Campaign Bani Sadr said allowed for arms shipments to Iran via Israel to help Khomeini a regime wage the War with Iraq. Bani Sadr said he could provide a list of iranians present at the talks including representatives of his former foe and the current iranian president Hashemi a Sfanjani. World scout Jamboree begins in s. Korea amid tight Security a group of scouts from Germany Wash their clothes at the Jamboree campgrounds in South Korea. Sorak mountains South Korea a bomb sniffing dogs patrolled the rugged mountainous site of the 17th world scout Jamboree on wednesday As thousands of scouts from 120 nations gathered. There were unconfirmed reports that president Roh Tae woo would visit the scouts encamped about 25 Miles from the heavily armed and tightly sealed korean Border with communist North Korea. Soldiers and police dressed in civilian clothes apparently to avoid alarming campers moved around tents and hundreds of Camp facilities with bomb sniffing dogs on leashes. The dogs could also detect drugs. Scout officials said drugs and alcohol Are banned during the event which began thursday and concludes aug. 16, but there Are no special facilities to detect abuse such As might be used in an International sports meet. Security at the event is the most extensive in 70 years of Jamboree history with some 1,200 soldiers deployed around the perimeter and at least 400 police wearing scout uniforms inside the camping area. South Korea has the largest delegation with 5,000scouts followed by 2,900 from Japan 1,400 from great Britain 900 from the United states and 600 from Germany. Their Ages Range from 13 to 86. The Jamboree is South koreans largest International gathering since it hosted the 1988 olympic games. Soviet pilots to strike for 3 weeks Moscow apr soviet pilots decided wednesday to strike and air traffic controllers May join them. The nations 57,000 pilots plan to Stop flying for three weeks beginning saturday officials said. They said that if the 12,000 controllers decide to join the work stoppage the strike would go on indefinitely. Klim Kutukov vice president of the pilots Union reported a we put Forth the same demands during the last threatened strike and the Cabinet of ministers ordered the ministry of civil aviation to fulfil our demands. A but our ministry did no to want to do  air traffic controllers and pilots abandoned a threatened strike in May after the Cabinet decreed that the retirement age for controllers be reduced to 50 for men and 45 for women that annual vacation be increased to 48-50 Days and that salaries be raised 50 percent. The controllers who earn an average of 400 rubles about $225 per month wanted their salary tripled. The average soviet monthly salary is about 350 rubles about $197. The controllers ask that the ministry of civil aviation end what they called reprisals against Union officials who took part in the earlier labor activism. Several airports wanted to Cut salaries of officials especially Active in the movement. The controllers will announce their decision on whether to strike after meeting with the civil aviation minister thursday. The pilots want their wages increased threefold from an average salary of 551 rubles $313and an increase in vacation time to 72 Days from 48 Days. They also want the Job of Pilot listed among most hazardous professions which would entitle them to Early retirement and give them additional financial benefits  
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