European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes thursday february 13, 1992 at a glance . Officials issued a warning that pesticides have been found in some italian wines marketed in Germany. See Story on Page 9.cfc ban moved up alarmed by forecasts of a new Ozone Hole president Bush announced a significant speedup in the phaseout of Ozone destroying chemicals by american manufacturers. A Page 5a biased education America s Public schools Are badly shortchanging girls the american association of University women contends in a landmark report. A Page 6air show cancelled . Military officials in Belgium have cancelled the 1992 shape International air show. A Page 10home prices jump More renters became buyers As mortgage rates plummeted in the october december Quarter helping to drive up existing Home prices throughout much of the nation a real estate Trade group said. A Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 15 comics. 15-17 commentary. 13 crossword. 15 faces a no places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 18 sports. 19-24 to listings. 23 weather. 11 military from Page 1 mint after 15 years of service. It also Calls for e giving Active duty service members up to a year of paid leave to attend College or vocational training to prepare them for the civilian Job Market. E using military training assets that Are no longer needed As a result of the draw Down to provide training to troops and civilians who need new skills to move into the private sector. A making anyone who leaves the military Short of retirement eligible for Montgomery i Bill educational benefits of up to $10,800 in return for a contribution of $1,200. Currently the Montgomery i Bill is available Only to new recruits. The idea of allowing military personnel to retire at 15 years has been floated for some time by sen. John Glenn a Ohio chairman of the Senate armed services manpower subcommittee. But while Glenn has said such a move might be necessary if defense spending is Cut More than the $50 billion reduction Over five years As proposed by president Bush Nunn said his plan is crucial even if no further budget cuts Are made. Nunn said 1 million service members and defense department civilians will leave their jobs by 1996 and an additional 800.000 jobs in defense related industries will vanish by then. In contrast he said there has been a net increase of Only 20.000 jobs in the entire . Economy Over the past three years. A it is a real irony that the Victory of the United states and our allies in the cold War Means the loss of 2 million defense related jobs,1 Nunn said. A these people Are not losing jobs because they failed a they re losing jobs because they won a he said. A we owe them an Opportunity to use the skills that helped win the cold War to address some of our pressing Public and private sector  the Pentagon opposes tampering with the retirement system. Pentagon manpower chief Christopher Jehn has said such a move would complicate efforts to pare the Force through separation bonuses and would have Little effect on current draw Down plans. Air National guard it. Col. Doug Hart a Pentagon spokesman declined to comment directly on Nunn s proposal because defense department officials have not had a Chance to study it. But a personnel official who spoke on condition of anonymity said there is not much enthusiasm in the Pentagon for changing the retirement system at the moment. A maybe if we run into problems achieving our draw Down goals we might want to look into it a the official said. A but the draw Down tools we re using like the voluntary separation pay plans Are Brand new. We should see How Well they work before we go to some major new  yet Nunn argued that the voluntary separation incentives Are aimed at mid career personnel those with Between six and 15 years of service which would leave the military top heavy with senior officers and cos at the end of the draw Down. A the services Are reluctant to separate people with 15 to 20 years of service because these people Are so close to the 20-year retirement Point a Nunn said. A however the 225,000 people in this category represent 12 percent of the Active Force a he said. A unless some reductions Are made in this group the services will be left with an unbalanced Force with too Many senior officers and  Nunn proposes to offer Early retirement Only for the duration of the draw Down scheduled to be completed by the end of fiscal 1995, and Only to service members in overstaffed skills. The retirement formula would be 2.5 percent for each year of service multiplied by Basic pay. For example an e-7 with 16 years of service making $1,950.60 per month would receive 40 percent of that each month a about $780 a in retirement pay. To steer departing service members toward critical civilian jobs in education Law enforcement health care and other Fields Nunn wants to offer a one time recalculation in retired pay at age 62. Under that provision service members who leave the military with Between 15 and 20 years of service and go into an approved private sector Field of employment would get credit for one year of military service for each year they spend in that Job up to a maximum of five years for retirement pay purposes. At age 62, they would get a one time recalculation in their retirement pay to reflect the amount of time they spent in that civilian Job. For example if the e-7 with 16 years of service spent four years in an approved civilian Job at age 62 his or her retirement pay would Rise from 40 percent of Basic pay to 50 percent the level it would have been after 20 years in the military. Nunns proposal to alter the Montgomery i Bill program is meant to give All military personnel particularly those whose jobs do not readily Transfer to the private sector an Opportunity to learn a new skill while staying on Active duty for up to one year. Those personnel would be placed on a educational leave while continuing to draw military pay and allowances. Upon separation they would have to serve four months in the reserves for each month of training for a maximum of four years of service in the  from Page 1 tuesday that his lifting of Price controls last month has proved to be an a extremely painful first step toward a Market Economy. A the Reform has yet to become irreversible and wednesday every Effort however Small is important if it facilitates changes in the russian Economy including the efforts by the West a Yeltsin told foreign diplomats in the Kremlin. Former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev also said this week that the . Aid is desperately needed. A i think this May be the most critical moment for the country the most critical moment for economic Reform a he told Abc news. The comments by Yeltsin Zhitnikov and Gorbachev come amid Sharp complaints in the russian Media about the relatively modest scope of the . Airlift and the humiliation of a superpower accepting Charity. Izvestia a leading russian newspaper reported monday that the . Airlift would not make a any noticeable improvement in the situation with food or Medicine because the volume of supplies is very very  Ordinary russians interviewed at random this week also expressed a mixture of gratitude and wounded Pride. A honestly i think its shameful. In principle our country is like America. Look How Low the government has brought us a said Vladimir Boiko a 20-year-old forklift operator unloading . Aid at Moscow a Sheremetyev Airport. The . Airlift which began monday consists mainly of Medicine and food left Over from the persian Gulf War. Izvestia pointedly compared the . Aid which it estimated at Between 5,000 and 5,500 tons with the amount of assistance sent since december by the european Community. It said the dec contributed 114,000 tons of meat 77,000 tons of dried milk 10,000 tons of baby food 22,000 tons of butter 10,000 tons of vegetable Oil 2,500 tons of Macaroni and 3,000 tons of Tomato concentrate. The fanfare surrounding the . Air lift has provoked a negative reaction in Europe. A front Page editorial tuesday in be Monde Frances most respected newspaper described the . Operation provide Hope As a a publicity  a european countries understandably suspect the United states of trying to overshadow them glorifying an Effort that is much less discreet but much More modest than theirs a be Monde said.., Turkey seeking to Stop Iran influence Washington apr president Bush and turkish prime minister Suleyman Demirel on tuesday agreed that expanded Aid is needed to guide the Muslim states of the former soviet Union toward democracy and away from fundamentalist influences. The two leaders did not develop a specific proposal but stressed the importance of fostering democracy in the new Central asian states in the face of potential iranian influence officials said. Jury clears eater of hashish laced cake correction because of an editing error a Story in wednesdays newspaper failed to clearly state that Moscow area residents would receive 100,000 meals As a result of a flight connected with operation provide Hope. Raf upper Heyford England a amps a an air Force master sergeant whose birthday cake was spiked with hashish has been acquitted by an eight member jury of intentionally using the drug. The three Day court martial for master sgt. Verdell Graham jr., assigned to the 20th component repair so was held Jan. 30-31 and feb. 1. Graham 34, tested positive for the drug following a urinalysis in May. His defense was that he had unknowingly ingested the hashish that was put in his birthday cake for a party five Days before the test said base spokesman Richard Colley. A local briton Jonathon Burge testified during a pretrial hearing sept. 24 that he had added the hashish to the cake Batter Colley said. The cake was prepared by another British Friend Jay Limerick who also was apparently unaware Burge had added the drug because she had a stepped out of the Kitchen in the process of making the cake a Colley said. Burge could not be located to testify at the general court martial which is Why the testimony from the pretrial hearing was admitted during the court martial Colley said. Experts testified that a urinalysis would prove positive for the drug if someone were to eat a cake laced with hashish said Colley. No other military members were at the party said Colley quoting Legal officials. Graham who is still stationed at upper Heyford is a 16-year Veteran