European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday november 17, 1991 at a glance Earl Black is the Uso lounge manager at the Airport in Frankfort Germany. Are you planning to Fly to and from the states this Holiday season we have some tips for you. See Story in sunday Magazine. Pow families a preyed on a senior defense department official denied any conspiracy to cover up information on any american pos in Vietnam and said Many who claim live sightings Are Quot preying on the families of the missing. A Page 4 Louisiana drifter charged Louisiana drifter Danny Harold rolling was indicted in Gainesville fla., in the grisly killings of five College students stabbed in their off Campus apartments in August 1990. A Page 7 British bomb kills two an Irish Republican army Saboteur and an accomplice May have blown themselves up planting a bomb that wreaked havoc overnight in a London suburb. A Page 8 soviets stealth sub Jane s defence weekly said it has obtained the first photographs seen in the West of a so called stealth submarine which defense experts regard As the soviet Navy s most modern secret weapon. A Page 10 Bocci figures indicted the founder of the Bank of credit amp Commerce International and a saudi businessman already accused by regulators of being Bocci s . Front Man were indicted on Federal racketeering charges. A Page 15 Thrift sues Milken american savings of Florida filed a $1.2 billion fraud suit accusing imprisoned junk Bond executive Michael Milken of controlling and looting the Thrift. A Page 17index i .  .-.s. . Is .v.v, v.-, Viv,w.r.v� Abby Ann Landers .14 commentary. .13 faces a no places letters. Money matters .15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. Weather. .11 Layoff from Page 1 representing Moravek and three other Laid off workers said he expects arc to begin the Layoff procedure All Over again after the other pending court appeals Are adjudicated. The court is scheduled to Rule dec. 12 in the cases of his other three clients. Quot i think arc is deceiving All its employees a Holtz said referring to the notion that the partial . Troop withdrawal from Europe prompted the layoffs. A fall the layoffs were based on things that weren to True a Moravek said Friday. Both arc general manager James Mccrindle and his assistant Michael Cain were away from their offices Friday and could not be reached for comment after the court decision. The centers Deputy personnel director Rolf Brauning said earlier this month that 50 arc workers have filed labor court appeals since june to fight either layoffs or Job Grade reductions. Most of the cases involve layoffs he said. Even Brauning got a Layoff notice. Asked whether he is challenging it he answered a of course. I done to see any reason for  Brauning attends the labor court proceedings for arc and he said that duty alone will be enough to keep him Busy Well into 1992. Of Rcd a German government representatives said in a court statement last summer that . Troop withdrawals in Europe prompted the Center to cancel All its construction projects and that cancellation in turn prompted layoffs including Mora Vekos. Holtz challenged those claims in a written rebuttal. He argued that a arc far from abandoning building projects is administering construction contracts in Progress with a total value of $6.3 million in october a typical of other periods during the past three years. Other projects already approved and funded suggest that the Pace of construction is Likely to continue through 1992. A four engineering department employees worked 1,353 overtime hours during fiscal 1991, six times More than in 1989 and enough to justify another full time position. Instead arc wants to Lay off five of the departments 12 workers including Moravek. A troop reductions have a marginal effect on patronage of arc facilities because military retirees in the United states who Are far More numerous also Are eligible to use them. A Moravek and some other Laid off workers had More priority Points on the scale used to determine Layoff sequence than other employees who were allowed to keep their jobs. A arc officials intentionally awarded contracts to outside companies for work that their own employees could have performed. A More important they also recruited new employees during an october trip to the United states. The printed minutes of an oct. 31 arc he staff meeting appear to confirm the last of these claims. A we went on a Job recruiting trip to Minneapolis a the minutes report Cain the assistant general manager As saying. A we interviewed 28 people there and made offers to 12 of them. From there we went to Denver. Interviewed another 28 people some management positions too. Well make offers to about 10 people. I recommend that we do the same thing in the april Tim Frame again but do management recruiting  the workers who received Layoff notices said the recruitment action deprives them of their jobs unfairly and violates a defense department hiring freeze. Mar from Page 1 get climate. But a driving Force behind the air forces reorganization has also been the battering its mar program received after revelations surfaced two years ago of serious funding abuses at Ramstein a Germany and other bases during the mid to late 1980s. A there were things done at Ramstein that did no to fit the rules and they got the attention of the Secretary of the air Force Donald b. Rice a Lezy said. Rice called for an audit of about 50 other bases and found the problems were not limited to Ramstein so the service leadership said a we be got to fix this a a Lezy said. The renovation started with taking mar out from under its traditional place under the personnel umbrella. At the service Headquarters level for example there were several layers Between Lezys position and the chief of staff most notably the three Star Deputy chief of staff for personnel. The same structural changes have been made in the Field. The director of mar for . Air forces Europe for example now works for the Safe commander. The same goes for individual bases. A it was All done for the same reason a to Cut out layering so that commanders Are really plugged into what a going on in mar Quot Lezy said. A the chief and the Secretary Are really serious about fixing problems and doing what a Good for our  the air Force has also revamped its mar Board. The four Star vice chief of staff now chairs the Board rather than the three Star Deputy personnel chief. The Board is made up of representatives from several Field commands civilian per of computer program keeps customer in mind by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the Core goal of the military morale welfare and recreation Mission is to figure out what the customers want and How to give it to them. A a we be tried to do that in the past but its been sort of hit or miss a some bases did it very Well others did no to said Brig. Gen. Norman Lezy the air forces mar chief. A but if we re going to operate like a business the first thing we need to find out is what kinds of programs and services the customers want. A what Are you looking for what Are your expectations what Are you willing to spend a the air Force is banking on an innovative computer software program to give mar managers at every base the ability to answer All those questions and More with just a few Clicks of a keyboard. Called a corporate prism a the software is a deceptively simple package bulging with detailed information on All base mar activities who is using them and More importantly who Isnit said maj. Horace Larry chief of air Force mar business policy. A it gives managers the Chance to sit Down and look at their mar programs and ask a what do we need to do to reach the share of our Market that we re not reaching now a a he said. Corporate prism starts with an extensive mar Survey conducted at each base. Data from those surveys form the Backbone of the computer programs. When the computer program for a particular base is activated an mar manager can get rundown quickly on Overall base population demographics How Many use on and off base recreation facilities what the customers think can be done to improve various activities and much More. Larry demonstrated the program by asking it to review a fictional base Bowling Center. The computer responded by asking if he wanted information on the Bowling Centeri As a whole or just the pro shop. By asking for the big picture Larry could Access information on How Many people bowl on and off base and How frequently. He could break that Down further into age groups and population segments such As Active duty civilians spouses children and retirees. Going deeper into the program Larry asked for information on How the people who use the Bowling Center think it could be improved. Topping the list were such suggestions As greater restrictions on smoking More lanes and longer hours. Fndeea0/arlnas Toltl Kcf inting Cess a Lez said a we have t0 make sergeant of the air Fnu r or master that As we do our Day to Day business of Neston operate within the rules and keep Trai oversight is the key m this whole pro what a going  fro i Page 1 citations Only helped Dukes cause. Pre election polls showed Edwards leading and Duke began a last minute attack renewing old accusations that Edwards sold jobs in previous administrations. Edwards said the payments were Campaign contributions that were Legal at the time. Observers said the race polarized the population exposed a political fault line with National repercussions and pitted Black against White and Urban against Rural. Hotels and restaurants pleaded with employees that a Duke election would ruin tourism and sports leaders warned of losing major events. Duke said the predictions of economic doom were scare tactics and he criticized the news Media for harping on his past. His railings against crime drugs High taxes affirmative action and a the welfare underclass a As Well As the corrupt politics of the past a received an Enthus Iai tic reception from Middle class White to ers frustrated by a decade of recession 1 the Oil dependent state. Edwards led the Field in the state oct. 19 open primary with in Cumber gov. Buddy Roemer a Republican Pla my third. Edwards Drew 34 percent of the Vot Duke 32 percent and Roemer 26 percen Edwards was governor for 12 year 1972-80 and 1984-88