European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Turners enjoy festive reunion Wiesbaden Germany apr former hostage Jesse Turner was reunited with his wife and Mother wednesday met his 4-year-old daughter for the first time and celebrated thanksgiving Early with a meal of Turkey and All the trimmings. The Long awaited reunion took place at the . Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden where Turner was undergoing a series of physical and psychological tests after being held by Muslim extremists in Lebanon for nearly five years. Military officials said the family had a sumptuous lunch together in Turners suite at the Hospital that included Turkey stuffing Cranberry sauce mixed vegetables salad and chocolate brownies. Turner was to resume medical testing alter the Happy get together. Badr Turner 40, Turners lebanese wife was to hold a news conference later in the Day. Her husband was kidnapped five months before daughter Joanne was born. The pigtailed girl wore a Light Blue coat and clutched her mothers hand after arriving earlier in the Day in nearby Frankfurt. She had been in High spirits for More than a Day in anticipation of meeting her father a Beirut University College mathematics professor. A a in a going to see my daddy a she said in Boise Idaho Turners Hometown before she and her Mother flew overnight to Germany. Arriving wednesday in Frankfurt along with Turners wife and daughter was the freed captives 70-year see Turners on Page 2 Jesse Turners wife Badr left arrives in Frankfurt with daughter Joanne and Turners Mother Estelle  Job freeze extended abase closures will also help Cut thousands of jobs by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a the Pentagon a civilian hiring freeze has been extended through the end of fiscal 1992 and officials say the policy will make it possible to meet projected personnel Levels for the end of fiscal 1992. The hiring freeze was put in place Jan. 11,1990, by defense Secretary Dick Cheney to save Money and to begin trimming the civilian work Force in anticipation of Overall reduced personnel Levels throughout the defense department. ,. A a a overseas base closures Are also expected to trim by the thousands the number of civilian positions available in foreign countries said an official who requested Ano the freeze a which originally was scheduled to last until sept. 30, 1990, and affects Only appropriated fund jobs a has been extended four times. Non appropriated fund positions were affected Only during the freezers initial phase. As of last aug. 31,1,017,793 Federal civilians held Dod jobs worldwide. That figure does not include 70,221 Indi rect hire foreign nationals who receive their . Paychecks through the Host country government. Military officials Are looking to reach a civilian manpower level of about 1,003,000 by sept. 30, 1992, unless Congress moves to change the level. The difference in current civilian employee strength and projected Levels is Only 14,793, with the Fate of Many foreign nationals still in the hands of Congress. Other Pentagon published figures show Only a Small number of overseas civilian slots being lost Over the next year. As of aug. 31, there were 81,858 Federal civilians working in foreign countries not including the indirect hires. To reach the set ceiling level of 81,543 overseas workers by the end of fiscal 1992, Only 315 civilian slots will be lost figures show. Of those appropriated fund employees on Board at the end of August 47,566 were . Citizens and 34,292 were foreign nationals the figures show. A breakdown for each overseas area was not available said air Force it. Col. Doug Hart defense department spokesman. The reduction of civilian slots in the United states will be More dramatic the published figures show. From the aug. 31 strength of 935,935 civilian workers on . Soil 10,761 positions must be eliminated in the United states to reach the stateside ceiling of 925,174 by the end of fiscal 1992. More than 1,145 civilian slots in Washington d c., alone Are expected to be lost the figures show. Officials remain optimistic that the 22-month-old i see freeze on Page 2 . Moves toward ties with Vietnam inside today s paper Paris apr Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii said wednesday that the United states is ready to begin talks with Vietnam As Early As next month on normalizing relations. Speaking before his meeting with vietnamese foreign minister Manh Cam Baker said the talks would be contingent on Vietnam a cooperation in revealing the Fate of 2,300 . Service members missing in action in the Vietnam War. The United states and Vietnam a in a communique issued this month after talks in Hanoi As. Well As in earlier statements a have signalled their intention to restore the ties. Relations have been broken since the Vietnam War ended in a 1975 communist Victory Over the .-backed South vietnamese government. Baker and his Vietnam counterpart Are in Paris for the signing of a peace treaty ending cambodians civil War. Baker said it would be a a appropriate if the first .-Vietnam talks began a in the next month or  he described his proposed preliminary discussions As a a Halfway approach to normalizing relations with Vietnam the target of a . Trade embargo since its 1979 invasion of Cambodia. The United states last week thwarted a French proposal that would have made Vietnam eligible for Loans from the International monetary fund. The Cash starved Southeast asian country sought the Loans to help rebuild its Economy shattered by nearly a half Century of War and hard line communism. Washington a conditions for lifting the embargo included an end to vietnamese military backing for the Hanoi installed regime in Cambodia and full disclosures see Vietnam on Page 2 a stars and stripes Magazine euro Disney Chateaux of France