European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 1,1992 at a glance a Patron at a recycling Center in Wiir Burg Germany unloads scrap paper. Around Europe americans Are beginning to ride the Green wave of recycling. See stories in sunday Magazine. Rottweiler kills boy police in South Carolina have arrested the owner of a Rottweiler that killed a 7-year-old boy who was leading the dog to find its master. A Page 4 hate crimes growing politicians jumping on the a buy american bandwagon Are fueling hate crimes aimed at asian Amerl cans said civil rights commissioner William b. Allen. A Page 6 Alamo action upsets texans san Antonio has come under fire for downplaying the Alamo site of a famous Battle during the Texas revolution in preparing for an International drug Summit held in the City last week. A Page 7 yugoslav leaders retired the serb dominated remnant of Yugoslavia s presidency has announced that 30 top generals and admirals have been retired. A Page 8 hero focuses on future John lev Tow who As an airman first class won the medal of Honor in Vietnam chooses to focus on the future rather than the past. A Page 9 sex banker indicted the former chairman of entrust savings Bank in Florida has been indicted on charges alleging that he propped up his failing Thrift with a $25 million Sham Purchase of securities by the now defunct Bocci. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers 14 commentary. .13 faces no places a .14 letters. .12 Money matters. .15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. 18-24 weather. .11 troop withdrawals feeding commissary worker shortage by Kevin Dougherty Kaiserslautern Bureau the troop draw Down in Europe is contributing to personnel shortages at some commissaries an official with the defense commissary Agency says. Many cashier clerical and accounting positions Are going unfilled said Denise Gomes an Agency spokeswoman. Military communities especially hard hit by commissary personnel shortages Are Mannheim Heidelberg Wiesbaden Darmstadt Stuttgart Augsburg Bamberg Giessen Kiiren and Aschaffenbur. Many commissary employees Are spouses or dependents of service Mem ers. Those workers frequently quit several months before their sponsors Transfer to prepare for the move and to do last minute travelling Gomes said. Store managers have come to rely on a labor Pool that is perpetually replenishing itself through relocation but the draw Down has upset that Cycle. In addition some commissaries Are finding it increasingly difficult to hire local nationals who Nave been a reliable labor source for military communities Gomes said. The Lack of Job Security and other uncertainties tied to the draw Down and installation closures Are leading Many to look elsewhere for employment. Aside from the draw Down Gomes said she thinks Many prospective employees Are not applying because they think commissaries Arentt hiring. A there May be a perception out there that commissaries Are subject to the same hiring freeze As other Dod departments a said Gomes noting that the commissary Agency is not under any hiring freeze. In Bremerhaven a Community facing closure the commissary is not experiencing a significant personnel shortage. But the stores manager expects that to change possibly As Early As this summer. The Community is scheduled to shut Down during the second half of fiscal 1993, said Reed Leader the commissary officer at Bremerhaven. The commissary which had sales of about $4.5 million in 1991, is not yet in the draw Down Mode. Still Leader is planning for the inevitable. A a there a a lot More to it closing than Locking the door and saying a of we have no More groceries a a Leader said. In an Effort to alleviate personnel shortages some commissaries have held Job fairs to fill vacancies and pad their list of potential employees. Last week for example 31 people applied for 17 positions at a Job fair sponsored by the Frankfurt commissary. Similar fairs in Hanau and Firth also have proven successful. A unfortunately we done to have the luxury of an intensive training session right now a Gomes said. A we need them  Mia pow Effort to accelerate Bangkok Thailand up . And vietnamese technical experts have agreed on further a cooperation measures aimed at accelerating the search for american service members missing since the Vietnam War state run Hanoi radio reported. The broadcast made available in Bangkok on saturday said a . Delegation led by Brig. Gen. Thomas h. Needham commander of joint task Force full accounting ended three Days of talks Friday with a vietnamese team led by the Deputy head of the foreign ministry department of american affairs Nguyen Xuan Phong. Washington has said the talks were aimed at a improving and increasing cooperation Between the United states and Vietnam to accelerate results in accounting for missing  radio Hanoi said late Friday that a both sides unanimously agreed that the past three years or More was a period of Good and successful cooperation Between Vietnam and the United states in solving the american Mia Issue. A with a View to enhancing the results of this humanitarian operation both sides shared and agreed on some mechanisms and measures for cooperation from now until the end of 1992, mainly aimed at settling the cases of priority concern to the United states a the radio said. It gave no further details. Needham a visit resulted from a Mission to Hanoi last month by retired . Army Gen. John w. Vessey former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and now president Bush a special envoy on Mia issues. . Assistant Secretary of state for East asian affairs Richard Solomon is Vietnam Cambodia and Laos from tuesday until thursday to discuss the Mia Issue. Solomon will be one of the most senior . Officials to visit Vietnam since the War ended in 1975. The Pentagon says 2,267 . Service members Are still missing in Southeast Asia. Of those 1,172 Are listed As prisoners of War or missing in action. The others Are categorized As killed in action but whose bodies have not yet been recovered. The Fate of the missing service members is a Kev Issue holding up establishment of full diplomatic relations Between Washington and Hanoi. The most extensive search for missing . Service members is already under Way in Vietnam. The Effort which began last week with local government assistance involves 32 american experts who i also scheduled to Lead a delegation to will spend a month in Southern Vietnam. 14 Hurt in 60-car pileup on autobahn from wire reports sixty cars smashed into each other during a spectacular Chain reaction crash saturday on a foggy stretch of the German autobahn. Fourteen people were seriously Hurt police said. And in France 53 people were injured five of them seriously in pileup on highways saturday involving about 130 vehicles police reported. In Germany five trucks burst into flames in the crash near the bavarian City of Ansbach. Authorities said visibility was Only about 50 Yards. In another saturday morning crash bavarian state police said that 18 people suffered minor injuries when a bus struck a truck on another foggy stretch near the City of schwaben. On Friday about 20 cars were involved in a Chain reaction crash in the Eastern German City of Wittstock. One person died and eight were Hurt. In France thick fog and numerous motorists in the highways because of annual school vacation contributed to the High numbers of vehicles involved. About 100 cars were involved in two crashes on the a-31 Highway saturday morning near Thionville about 175 Miles East of Paris near the Border with Luxembourg and Germany. Some 80 vehicles ran into each other in a pileup which was worsened when another 20 cars ran into the first group police said. The crashes injured 19 people. Iraq from Page 1 tons will formally agree in new York within the next two weeks and the process will move Forward positively at that time Quot he said. However Holland said his Confidence was based Only on his feelings that a the United nations is so determined to see its orders carried out and not on anything the iraqis said to him. Holland said his team was the first to be assigned the Job of destroying Iraq s equipment for building Long Range missiles. Other teams have overseen the destruction of scud missiles and launchers and a . Team is now in Iraq blowing up More than 400 rockets with damaged chemical warheads. Under the persian Gulf War cease fire agreement the United nations ordered Iraq to scrap nuclear chemical and biological weapons and scud missiles along with the Means for producing them. Some of the weapons have been destroyed or seized by . Teams. But Saddam a government has lied repeatedly about its arms capabilities and tried to conceal production and research facilities. The iraqis told the Security Council on Friday that they would not destroy their missile making equipment because it could be converted to peaceful uses. Pickering called the letter a seven gages of  a he said it was in accept Holland said he had remained optimistic that the iraqis would give in until an hour before fridays 9 . Deadline. He said that at that Point an iraqi official read a copy of the letter that was sent to the . Special commission in charge of destroying iraqis weapons of mass destruction. A the statement did no to actually use the word yes or  but i am afraid these statements rarely do a Holland said. He said that after the statement was read he sought to determine whether there was any Chance the position would change. A i then Cross examined them and eventually got a Clear undertaking from them that if i had remained and gone to any of the Sites then i  have been allowed to destroy anything until after the Iraq delegation visited new York a he said