European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday october 6, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3negotiators of military building Bill by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a House and Senate negotiators agreed late thursday on an $8.5 billion military construction funding Bill that stays on the course set last year of scaling Back Money for overseas projects and beefing up Domestic construction instead. Last year an $8.4 billion Bill was approved. The Compromise Bill provides $225 million for the nato infrastructure account a $134 million less than the Pentagon wanted a and also maintains a ban on using funds from that account for construction of a new nato base at Croton Italy. A list detailing the Fate of various projects was not available. A House appropriations committee staff member said the Bill cuts the Pentagon a overseas construction funding request about 33 percent. The request for construction at . Bases abroad was already anaemic compared with previous years even before Congress chopped it farther. In Europe for example the Pentagon sought $62 million for 14 projects in by 92. In comparison the Pentagon requested $334 million for 71 projects in Europe for by 91 that ended sept. 30. It got $64 million. In taking Money from overseas projects an earmarking it for stateside construction instead the Bill reflects lawmakers views that More attention must be Given to shoring up facilities at Home. Extension of the ban on spending any . Funds for Croton is another in a string of defeats on that project for Pentagon officials who have consistently a but unsuccessfully a argued that the base would be an important strategic asset for the United states on natos traditionally vulnerable Southern flank. Croton which would Cost almost $500 million is meant to House the 401st tac fighter Wing that is leaving Torr Jon a13, Spain. The Bill now goes Back to the full House and Senate for approval. It would then go to president Rosebud Rosebud a Dachshund found something to do with the milk her body was producing during a false pregnancy and these pot bellied piglets Are glad she did. Their Mother did no to have enough milk when she gave birth to five piglets last month forcing these babies to seek outside assistance. Owner Diane Alley in Madison Ohio says the piglets will be returned to their Mother when they finish nursing.132 feared dead in military crash Jakarta Indonesia apr an indonesian air Force plane crashed and exploded shortly after Takeoff saturday and most of the 132 airmen aboard were feared dead a Rescue official said. The Lockheed c-130 Hercules crashed into a government building. It was not immediately known if anyone was inside the Structure. The four engine Turboprop was in route from Halim per Dana Kusuma Airport in Jakarta to Bandung carrying air Force personnel who had just participated in an armed forces Day ceremony. Some congressmen admit bouncing Check blunders / a re a a in a ref a or Dahl Mecall cd to 1 n t inn the official said several people May have survived but that Many bodies were burned beyond recognition. The transport plane was carrying 120 passengers and a Crew of 12, be said. The official said one of the planets engines began burning about three minutes after the plane took off and another stopped functioning. The plane crashed and exploded at a training Center belonging to the manpower ministry just South of the Airport the official budget role handed to Dod medical official by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a the Pentagon will centralize top level management of its huge health care system while also giving local medical commanders More Freedom to decide How Best to provide care to their beneficiaries officials said thursday. The changes will probably have Little or no immediate effect on beneficiaries particularly overseas said Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Hansen. A How this will All shake out Down to the local level remains to be seen a Hansen said. A it will take a while to workout the but the main thrust of the move gives or. Enrique Mendez jr., assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs a stronger voice in How the services run their medical departments. The directive signed oct. 1 by Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood gives Mendez responsibility for managing the services medical budgets. Mendez will have to decide How to slice the total medical budget for the military services and the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services or champs Hansen said. Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Hansen. Although the plan greatly reduces the authority of the service surgeons general the services will still be responsible for administering health care both in peacetime and wartime. Operating Battlefield contingency hospitals in Europe for example will remain a service responsibility although Mendez May have some Impact on the personnel and equipment of those facilities through his new control of military medical resources. Atwoods memo also lays the groundwork for a system of a coordinated care requiring medical commanders to accommodate beneficiaries in their areas through a locally tailored mix of both their own military personnel and facilities As Well As champs. Hansen said coordinated care will be set up initially in the United states and May be studied for possible implementation overseas later. Washington apr embarrassed congressmen who bounced checks closed accounts at their private Bank while others turned sour after discovering their Money had been used to cover their colleagues financial blunders. A a in a one of the suckers that kept Money in the Bank that they used to cover bad checks a said rep. Joe Barton a Texas. A it makes those of us that try to do the right thing and do do the right thing on Friday the number of members of Congress admitting writing rubber checks at the members Only House Bank grew to 45. Among those who said they would close their accounts Are rep. Peter Kost Mayer d-pa., who wrote 19 bad checks Over one year and rep. Christopher Shays r-conn., who said he wrote 18 overdrafts in four years. In a part of a pretty Messy situation now. Its my fault a Shays said. A this kind of thing. Gives discredit to the institution and discredit to facing a torrent of criticism House members voted thursday to close the Bank by the end of the year and Send its records to the ethics committee for investigation. The Bank which dates to the last Century covered the bad checks by using Money from other depositors members said. Rep. Charles Hatcher d-ga., said he wrote checks without sufficient funds because he understood the Bank would cover the difference until his next paycheck was deposited. A general accounting office report last month found that House members had bounced 8,331 checks at the Bank in the year ending june 30, 1990. Lawyer fined for frivolous suit Over i s uncovered Knees Lahore Pakistan apr a judge on saturday dismissed a lawsuit against an islamic cleric accused of defaming islam for allowing the Princess of Wales to enter a mosque with her Knees exposed. Instead judge Ausaf Ali Khan accused the lawyer who caused a stir Over Princess Diana a visit sept. 25 to the ancient Badshah mosque of filing a false and frivolous complaints and fined him $80. Sohaib Roomi a 32-year-old lawyer alleged in his lawsuit that mosque cleric Qadir Azad had insulted islam by allowing Princess Diana into the 300-year mosque while wearing a Green dress that was slightly above her Knees. Muslim women Are covered from head to toe before they enter a place of worship. Roomi also alleged Azad desecrated islam by presenting a copy of the Muslim holy Book the Koran to an a infidel a or unbeliever. Before throwing out the lawsuit the judge read a lengthy ruling defending the cleric and accused the lawyer of misrepresenting islam. A fall the charges Are false and frivolous a the judge ruled. A the Maulana cleric neither desecrated islam nor defiled islam or the he also said it was wrong to Label Princess Diana an infidel. A she is not an infidel. She is a Chri Sitan for whom islam has shown a great respect a he said
