European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday october 16,1991u.k. Low level flights will be curtailed by Amy Geiszler Jones . Bureau London a the number of Low level sorties flown by jets Over the United kingdom is expected to decrease by 30 percent Over the next three years according to a British ministry official. Both the Royal air Force and the . Air Force will reduce their flights said Kenneth Carlisle the parliamentary undersecretary of state for defense procurement who made the announcement monday in the House of commons. A the reduction reflects the smaller number of front line Raf squadrons the phasing out of the Buccaneer and f-4 phantom a Small reduction in the amount of training carried out on Hawk aircraft. Together with the substantial reduction in the number of United states air Force aircraft based in this country following the withdrawal off ill and a-10 aircraft from the .,�?� said a ministry of defense statement. Also playing a part in this reduction is the rafts replacement of the Jet Provost with the Turboprop Tuscano aircraft for Basic training the statement said. A spokeswoman for 3rd air Force the . Air forces numbered command operating in the United kingdom said in response to the announcement that �?o3rd air Force was already planning to Fly fewer Low level flights because we Are replacing six squadrons off ills with two squadrons of f-15es.�?� a the of Llly a primary Mission was Low level flight whereas the f-15 is dual role and it will Fly air to air As Well As Low level a she said. A we done to know what percentage of each  Fly just  the United states announced in february that it would withdraw All of its f-111 aircraft based at Raf upper hey Ford and Raf Lakenheath by 1994. The f-15e strike eagles Are scheduled to begin arriving at Lakenheath in Early 1992. Upper Heyford will revert to standby status but stateside based Falls will deploy there yearly for exercises. In May the air Force announced that it was withdrawing its a-10 aircraft based at Raf Ben Waters Raf Woodbridge and Raf Alconbury. The Ben Waters and Woodbridge bases will be returned to the British ministry of defense. Alconbury will become the Headquarters for the 39th Spe Cial operations Wing which flies Hc-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and Mh-53 and Mh-53j helicopters. The 3rd air Force is also expecting the number of Low level sorties flown by the 39th�?Ts helicopters to be less a because there Are less helicopters coming in than there Are a los leaving a said spokeswoman master sgt. Merrie Lowe based at 3rd air Force Headquarters at Raf Mildenhall. Low level sorties Are conducted at altitudes of 250 to 2,000 feet said an Raf spokesman in London. Low level flying Isnit confined to certain areas of Britain because a your policy is to spread Low flying As evenly As possibly among those areas that Are suitable a such As sparsely populated agricultural areas he said. Nobel prize in economics goes to British researcher world Stockholm Sweden apr Ronald coast of Britain won the Nobel prize in economics tuesday for his pioneering work in explaining the importance in economic theory of the costs of entering contracts and managing businesses. In awarding the $1 million prize the Royal swedish Academy of sciences said the 81-year-old Coasey a research in the 1970s and 1980s pointed out an important flaw in Basic microeconomic theory. The Academy said coast a showed that traditional Basic microeconomic theory was incomplete because it included Only production and transport costs whereas it neglected the costs of entering into and executing contracts and managing  such costs Are commonly known As transaction costs and they account for a considerable share of the total use of resources in the Economy the Academy said. A by incorporating different types of transaction costs coast paved the Way for a systematic analysis of institutions in the economic system and their significance a the Academy said. The Academy said coast a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago a Law school also pioneered the concept of property rights. It said his theories a Are among the most dynamic forces behind research in economic science and jurisprudence  coast a succeeded in specifying principles for explaining the institutional Structure of the Economy thereby also making new contributions to our understanding of the Way the Economy functions a said the Academy. A it took a Long time for his approach to gain a foothold a said the Academy which said his contributions were a a result of methodical research work where each segment was gradually added to the next Over a period of Many  coast was born in London in 1910. He was on vacation in the French Riviera and had not been notified that he had won the prize said Carl Olof Jacobson Secretary general of the Academy. The Nobel memorial prize in economic science a the Only Nobel prize that was t established by Alfred Nobel a was established in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden As a memorial to Nobel. Since 1969, when the first prize was presented 60 percent of the laureates have been american citizens Ronald coast or 18 out of 30, the prize has been shared seven times including last year when it was awarded to three americans. Britain has won five economic science nobels Sweden and Norway have gathered two each and one each has gone to the Netherlands the soviet Union and France. The Nobel peace prize was awarded to burmese pro democracy Leader Aung san Suu Kyi on monday in Oslo Norway. The physics and chemistry prizes will be announced today. Earlier this month South african novelist Nadine Gordimer won the literature prize and German scientists Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann shared the Medicine prize. Turkey pulls ships from exercise Ankara Turkey apr Turkey has withdrawn its naval units from a nato exercise in the Mediterranean sea after its demand for the inclusion of the Aegean sea in the exercise was turned Down press reports said monday. The exercise deterrent Force began at the italian port of la spezia on sept. 12 and is scheduled to end nov. 7 in Barcelona Spain. The general staff announcement quoted by the newspapers said the ships were scheduled to make port Calls in Izmir and a turkish naval base on the Aegean coast. The statement said the Allied vessels held military exercises in Mediterranean Between the port Calls. A we decided that exercises outside the Aegean would not be useful to our naval units a it said. This was the first time Turkey has withdrawn from a nato exercise. Greece took similar measures in the past to protest the exclusion of the greek islands in the exercises. Warships from Britain the Netherlands the United states Italy Greece and. Spain took part in the exercises. Turkey contributed a guided missile frigate and a refuelling ship. The disagreement apparently stemmed from longstanding disputes Between nato allies Turkey and Greece Over the Aegean seabed and airspace the militarization of some greek islands close to the turkish coast and minority rights.37 killed when bus hits land mine in Angola from wire reports Luanda Angola a thirty seven people died when the bus in which they were travelling hit a land mine in Central Angola the government said monday. The incident occurred saturday Between the cities of Huambo and Kuito Bie. It was the most serious incident of its Type since the May 31 peace accords that ended 16 years of civil War Between the leftist government and .-backed rebels. Officers from both armies declared the mine cleanup the most urgent task after the truce. So far some 40,000 of the estimated 1 million mines planted have been  visiting Greece Athens Greece a Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the . Joint chiefs of staff is visiting Greece to meet with officials and View a military exercise. Powell arrived on the Island of Crete on sunday night. On monday he met in Athens with his greek counterpart Gen. Ioannis ver vakis a defense ministry spokesman said. Powell was to meet tuesday with president Constantine Caramanti Premier Constantine i Tsitakis and defense minister Ioannis Varvitsiotis the spokesman said speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with greek practice. Powell will visit the Northern City of Salonica on wednesday and then go to the Region of Ltd Thoron near mount Olympus to observe part of Greece a Large Parlemon �?T91 military exercise he said. The United states maintains a naval support facility at Souda Bay in Western Crete and an air Force electronics monitoring and communications Center at gouges on the East of the Mediterranean  to return to . Prague Czechoslovakia a czechoslovak president Voclav Havel will visit the United states on oct. 22-24 at the invitation of president Bush Havel a spokesman Michael Yantovsky said. During his visit Havel is expected to sign a declaration on relations Between the United states and Czechoslovakia and an agreement on Protection of investments Yantovsky said. It will be Havel a second visit to the United states since the fall of Czechoslovakia a communist rulers in in late 1989.brandt recuperating Cologne Germany a former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt 77, got out of bed monday for the first time since a cancer operation last week and asked for a television set to see today a soccer match Between Germany and Wales. Brandt head of the socialist International party and honorary chairman of the German social democratic party was operated on last week for removal of a cancerous intestinal tumor. The Hospital said there was no sign the cancer had spread