European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes sunday september 8, 1991 a it. Col. Anatoli Nikita go a Kab Security officer stands in front of a basement Section of the former prison. Infamous Kab prison converted to cafeteria bookkeeping area military Job hot lines set up for education applicants Washington a amps the Pentagon and the department of education Are trying to steer service members who Are leaving the military into careers in the classroom. Toll free hot lines have been set up for stateside and overseas callers who want More information about available administrative and teaching positions. Interested civilians and military members ideally with College degrees Are encouraged to Call officials said. From Germany Call ets 379-6059 or 6065. In the United states dial 1-800-227-5323 and in South Korea Dan Avn 738-7336.test requirement dropped Washington a amps a skill qualification test scores Are no longer a Factor in the promotion of army specialists and corporals to sergeants officials said. Specialists and corporals will not take a yearly set or the new self development test which will be required Only of sergeants staff sergeants and sergeants first class. To make up for the change 800 Points will be the maximum possible for promotion to sergeant said sgt. Major James h. Davis enlisted promotions chief for army personnel come. The promotion worksheet for specialists and corporals will allow a maximum of 200 Points for duty performance 200 Points for Board performance 150 Points for military education 100 Points for military training 100 Points for civilian education and 50 Points for awards and decorations Davis said. Another change will affect everyone involved in the enlisted promotion system he said. A in the past a promotion Point recomputation was done All in the same month for each rank every year a Davis said. A it was very disruptive for the local personnel offices.�?�. After oct. 1, Point a computations will be required Only if a score is 12 months old. Personnel offices will have a three month window to schedule updates. Soldiers can demand a recomputation of their scores any time that they accumulate at least 35 additional promotion Points he said. About 100,000 specialists corporals and sergeants went before promotion boards this year Davis service offered Washington a amps an experienced military resume writer is offering her skills free of charge to anyone who served on Active duty during the persian Gulf War. Blanche Dormandy owner of ask for Blanche resume writing service in Orlando fla., will write resumes for anyone leaving the service and preparing to enter the civilian workforce. Dormandy will also assist with sf-171s, the application for civilian government service. For the free service proof of Active duty time in the War zone must be sent with the request to Blanche Dormandy 1228 East colonial drive Orlando fla., 32803. Requests May also be sent by fax to 407 895-0219. Dormandy a office can be reached at 407 895-1479.transplant plan started Washington a amps a eligible patients can now receive heart and lung transplants under a new Cost sharing program begun by the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. Champs will share the Cost of transplant operations performed in approved facilities. Hospitals must meet certain criteria for experience in performing transplants Success rates and staffing officials said. The effective Date for the new coverage was feb. 28. However champs officials will consider sharing the costs of transplants performed before that Date if the patient and facility meet the requirements. For further information Contact the health benefits adviser at the nearest military installation. Moscow apr t he sinister steel door in la a Yanku prison still has to off Over the shoulder High Slot where Kab guards once spoke to political prisoners like swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. But today it leads nowhere. It is sealed shut and the famous prison inside the Kab s Lubianka Headquarters has been converted to a staff cafeteria and bookkeeping department. The Kab stopped interrogating its prisoners there when dictator Josef Stalin died in 1953, the secret police Agency said Friday. Dissidents memoirs Tell of endless hours of interrogation under piercing Bright lights in the Lubianka Ceils screams echoing Down Long hallways and prisoners being isolated from everyone but their jailers. Quot everyone who was repressed was brought Here for investigation Quot said Kab spokesman Alexander Kara Basinov during the first full tour Ever Given to westerners a or at least westerners who were allowed to leave. Now that the Kab is run by reformer Vadim Baka tin. The spy and police Agency cracked the Seal of secrecy for Cable news network and the associated press. Four of the 14 conspirators charged with treason in the failed coup against soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev were Kab generals. The prison s Small Cellblock with its chipped Concrete stairs and bars on the door and windows was the Only evidence displayed of the building s evil history from the torture of purged patriots in the 1930s to the concocting of criminal cases against dissidents in the 1970s and the plotting of last month s coup. The tunnels and dungeons Long rumoured to be underneath Lubianka Square just done to exist Karaba Inov insisted. Nor does the world s most infamous spy Agen Moscow up1 a new soviet defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov has decreed an end to the nov. 7 revolution Day parades a procession of tanks and rockets in red Square that annually has marked the communists coming to Power since 1917. Quot the autumn sleep of muscovites will not be disturbed this year by Drums and roaring military machines. There will be no military Parade in Moscow to Mark the 74th anniversary of the great Quot the Komsomol Skaya pravda wrote with sarcasm. It said Shaposhnikov who succeeded accused coup plotter marshal Dmitry Yazoo banned the Parade after consulting with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev and russian Republic president Boris n. Yeltsin. Yeltsin rallied the resistance to the hard line Putsch and has taken the Lead in ending communist institutions. Quot in taking this decision the user. Defense ministry was guided by several reasons it seems i prop by have a communications and command Center he said. Karaba Inov said All prisoners Are now kept at the heavily fortified Lefo Tovo prison and the archives containing dossiers on dissidents foreigners and Kab informers Are scattered All Over town. There was t even a nefarious Laboratory with Brilliant scheming scientists devising Poison umbrellas. The two Story Cellblock has become the bookkeeping department for the Kab cafeteria a heavily overstaffed like most soviet offices. Two to three clerks at a time work in each of the l -by-10 foot former prison cells now Laid with battered Oak floors. One woman said she did no to mind working in a former prison because she gained a larger office. Quot you know a whispered another Quot they say Liev kept Bukharin Here a Nikolai Bukharin a bolshevik revolutionary and Stalin rival was falsely charged in 1937 with plotting to kill Lenin in 1918, and vilified and condemned to death in the most spectacular of show trials. _ his last letter spoke of his Quot helplessness in the face of a hellish Wallenberg who is credited with saving thousands of hungarian jews from the nazis died in Lubianka in 1947, soviet authorities maintain. The second floor of the remaining Lubianka Cellblock now is used for storage Karaba Inov said. Broken bits of computer innards litter the corridor and the Metal door of room 15ia is sealed with a strip of wire and a bit of sealing Wax. Next door the typing Pool worked under a Large poster of Muscleman actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Downstairs the old cell Tocks have disappeared replaced by the Kab cafeteria. Or now to celebrate. The october coup of.1917, and no country in the world carries out military parades except for Cuba and North Korea a the newspaper said. A in the present economic situation the country cannot afford the assembling in Moscow of that military Armada and feeding and training it during two months just to have its one hour walk Over red during the military parades soviet generals showed off their latest weaponry including nuclear tipped missiles tanks tracked artillery and anti aircraft guns. A for Western analysts the nov. 7 Parade was a rare Chance until the perestroika Era to seek clues to who was in charge of the country by the lineup of the politburo atop the Lenin mausoleum. Western journalists would peer at the leadership through binoculars. New minister ends red Square Parade
