European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes Friday january 31, 1992navy to test coed Barracks at Boot Camp Orlando Fla. Apr men and women Navy recruits will train and work together and sleep in the same Barracks in a Pilot program at the services largest Boot Camp. Recruits at the Orlando naval training Center have been segregated by sex and forbidden to communicate or fraternize with the opposite sex. The base which trains about 27,000 recruits a year decided to try the new program after a study suggested that it could build teamwork and increase respect for women in the ranks. Quot its a Radical departure a a said it. A Nide. Ray Kempisty a spokesman for the Pensacola based naval education and training come. The men and women will run and Drill together sit in the same classrooms and sleep in. Alternating compartments on the same floor in each dormitory or Barracks. Currently men and women Are assigned separate dormitory floors. Separate physical fitness goals will be set for each sex. About 530 men and 360 women Are expected to take part in the five month trial program. It will get under Way in Early february. Luck a some Good some bad a Only one person was seriously ii Jurod and two were slightly Hurt despite the catastrophic appearance of tips Accident scene at the intersection of German Federal highways 8 and 45 West of Hanau thursday morning. After a moving Van was demolished after slamming into an overpass support two other cars smashed into the wreckage according to police. The Accident resulted in the Highway being closed for several  tax taking bite out of scouts profits Portland Maine a girl scouts say their cookie profits Are crumbling because of Maine a 5-month-old Quot snack  they want the legislature to give them a break. A the snack tax is devastating a said Priscilla Mercier who Heads the cookie Sale for the Kennebec girl scout Council in Southern Maine. She estimates the tax will Cost the Council $40,000 in profits this year. Designed to help reduce the states budget shortfall the 6 percent sales tax on snack foods ranging from pies to potato chips took effect on sept. 1. By the time the Council Learned about the tax last summer it was too late to change the order forms to tack on an extra 15 cents to each $2,50 Box of cookies. The councils 13,000 scouts not the cookie buyers ended up swallowing the tax. The Council sold $1 million Worth of cookies last year earning profits that accounted for 60 percent of its operating budget Mercier said. In Northern Maine the smaller Abnaki girl scout Council managed to make a last minute change in its 7,000 reprinted cookie orders and raise the Price to reflect the tax. Scout officials want the legislature to Grant tax exemptions to sales by boy scouts and girl scouts but they re not optimistic. A because of the budget situation in Maine we be been advised that this is not going to be easy a said Janet of Toole president of the Kennebec  Irish prime minister to step Down Dublin Ireland a prime minister Charles j. Haughey whose administration has been rocked by scandals has told members of his party that he will resign next week his office said thursday. First word of Haughey a intention to step Down came from a senator who attended a party meeting thursday. The senator who spoke on condition of anonymity said Haughey would step Down after a successor was elected. Haughey who has led the fianna fail party since 1979 and is serving his fourth term As prime minister is resigning at the insistence of the Junior partner in his coalition government. Haughey 66, had come under fire after one of his former close allies publicly accused him of lying about a 10-year-old wiretapping scandal. Sean Doherty who was Justice minister in the government Haughey led in 1982, said Haughey had been fully aware of taps on the telephones of two journalists. Haughey insisted last week that he had not authorized the wiretaps. He also said that he had Learned of them after the fact. The revival of the wiretapping controversy was the last Straw for a Leader under fire because of Ireland a sagging Economy and 20 percent unemployment divisions in the party and fianna fails first Ever defeat in a presidential election in 1990. Finance minister Bertie ahem 40, and former finance minister Albert Reynolds 56, have emerged As the leading contenders to succeed Haughey As Leader of Ireland a dominant political party. Chicksands airman pleads guilty to larceny charges by the stars and stripes Raf Chicksands England an airman was Given a bad conduct discharge and confined for four months after pleading guilty to larceny and forgery charges at a special court martial held Here Jan. 21, a base spokesman said. Airman Robert d. Johnson with the 6950th electronic Security group was also ordered to forfeit $487 per month for three months and reduced one rank to airman Basic during his one Day trial. The 20-year-old Shelbyville tenn., native was convicted of stealing Blank credit Union drafts a equivalent to Bank checks stealing funds from a credit Union account and forging 15 drafts according to master sgt. . Evans. Johnson used the drafts to take More than $486 from his former dormitory roommates account from june to september 1991. The maximum sentence Johnson could have received included a bad conduct discharge six months confinement forfeiture of two thirds pay for six months and reduction to airman Basic. Leader to keep military s feet to fire on female combat pilots Washington apr defense Secretary Dick Cheney a delay in opening combat Pilot slots to women was criticized wednesday by a senior member of the House armed services committee. Quot this committee plans to keep your feet to the fire on this Issue a rep. Beverly Byron d-md., told Pentagon officials. Congress in the fiscal 1992 defense Bill repealed the ban on women flying combat missions for the Navy Marine corps and air Force. The performance of women in the persian Gulf War prompted the change. Women who make up 215,000 of the nations nearly 2 million military personnel had been barred from combat positions in the three services under the 1948 combat exclusion act. The army has its own regulations Banning women from combat jobs. While the new Law opens the Way for female pilots to be assigned to units that might enter combat a such As fighter Jet squadrons or units aboard aircraft carriers a it does no to require such assignments. Instead it establishes a 15-member commission of presidential appointees to study Quot the implications if any of the armed forces permitting female service members to qualify for assignment to positions in some or All categories of combat  Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said last month that Cheney has decided to put off any action until after the commission issues its report in november. Quot in a disappointed with defense Secretary Cheney delaying placing women in combat aircraft. Its logical that we begin the lengthy training immediately Quot said Byron chairwoman of the panels military personnel and compensation subcommittee. Christopher Jehn the assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel told her that a we need to begin understanding the  a fall the services Are involved in working this through. At some Point in the future we will put together a recommendation to the Secretary of defense a Jehn said