European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 5, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9leaving Rucksack out of your resume workshops advise service members How to sell their skills by Chuck Roberts staff writer Heidelberg Germany a service members leaving military life have something going for them says the author of does your r6sum6 Wear combat boots a these people Are very very employable a Bill Fitzpatrick said monday during a Job seekers workshop at Heidelberg a Patton Barracks. A a they be got a lot of skills. They be got a lot going for them. They stand head and shoulders above their civilian  that a just the thing that Many service members need to hear because the question most often posed to Fitzpatrick lately has been a what do i have in my background that has value to civilian employers a to help them find the answers Fitzpatrick and two other teams Are visiting 24 installations during a two week swing through six european countries. After touring Italy Turkey Spain and England last week the workshop sponsored by the non commissioned officers association concludes this week with stops in Germany and the Netherlands. Fitzpatrick said he is urging service members to first a focus in on what you want to do then. To develop a plan to go after it. You re not going to find meaningful employment without a plan and without executing that plan pretty  the four hour workshops which Are free and open to anyone provide tips on rdsum6 preparation interviewing techniques and marketing. About 90 people attended the session in Heidelberg. For example service members in Europe Are far from the . Job Market. They can compensate by letting employers know when they will return to the United states and by calling employers the Day they arrive to set up interviews. Information such As this was useful to sgt. Antonia Jones an administration specialist who is taking an Early out because her 14-year army career has come to a standstill. A this has been an Eye opener for me a said Jones who said the workshop made her realize that she did upcoming workshops the Job seekers workshops will be held this week in Germany at the following locations twi Irmburg Leighton Barracks 8 . To noon today no club. A Pitburg a 8 . To noon today no club. Q Rhein main a 8 . To noon today base theater. Vilseck 7th at 8 . To noon Friday Critte Barger Hall. Q Wiesbaden 8 . To noon Friday Lindsey air station no leadership  not have specific goals. Jones especially liked the r�sum6 tips offered by Fitzpatrick whose Book helps service members write Short concise re sums that Best explain what they did in the military. When Fitzpatrick left the army his seven Page resume not Only wore combat boots but a web Belt canteen Rucksack and butt pack. Now Fitzpatrick a half Page r�sum6 wears Little More than a pair of skivvies. Fitzpatrick suggests summarizing work experience and concentrating on the most important Job. Fitzpatrick said that soldiers who want to go into business for themselves can get help thanks to an agreement Between the Coa and the International franchise association. The Coa has set up an organization called Veteran that will help put government and former government employees in touch with 130 companies willing to help them Start their own franchises. Fitzpatrick said military people will make Good civilian employees because of a direct skills such As repairing engines or driving trucks. A indirect skills such As solving problems managing assets writing speaking and training people. A entrepreneurial skills such As innovation and imagination needed to succeed in the military. Service members also possess valuable worker qualities such As timeliness and knowing How to interpret a work order and convert it into a finished product. Fitzpatrick urged his audience to a get out there and Market yourself and done to be worried about the numbers because if there a a Job available then somebody a going to get hired and there a no reason in the world it can to be  a i Tell everybody to go out with a positive attitude a said Fitzpatrick who is director of career programs for Coa. A a done to worry about All the people who arc unemployed worry about the fact that there Are people who Are  reports unclaimed baggage Offenbach Germany a warehouse personnel Are trying to match service members and civilians. In Europe with their unclaimed baggage a v corps spokesman said. Baggage left unclaimed after 300 Days is subject to disposal. No further storage is authorized. The following people should Contact the Offenbach warehouse aet feb Dol to unit 25754, Apo a 09242, or Call ets 3205008 or 7309. The German civilian numbers Are 069-1515008 or 069-1517309. Baggage unclaimed Attar 60 Days Bernard Hector Carrion. Laureno Coombs Daniel Dagenals Gregory j. Fess Jeffrey Fletcher Marcel p. Hanover Lauren Hase Dora Johnson Dwaine Johnson k. Jordan Jeffrey Kollmer Jason Matthews l. Mcadam Joanna clog Barbara Moore Thomas baggage unclaimed Alexander k. Brewer Elwood Gudson Annette Hobbs Cindy Omega John Parks Barrett Quichocho Anthony Wutzen Bichard Ryan James l Smith Sterling Snyder David Spann Shortey Stewart Jonathan Vann John Vreyens s. Warthem Pricilla Weber John Whitehurst Consuelo Wilson Bobby e. Womack Tanyanika after 120 Days Mccary Wayne Rowson Daniel Salters Carolyn r. Wroten first name or initial unknown former aide says Zaire s Leader could be target of assassination by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a Zaire a Long me president Mobutu s6s6 Sydko could be killed soon by one of his countrymen or by westerners who say he knows too much his former translator said tuesday. A if the Man stays there in Zaire one Day or another hell be killed a said Jean Lucien who worked two years for Mobutu and is now seeking Asylum in Belgium. A if he comes Here As a refugee seeking Asylum like in a doing now in a sure hell be killed. Nobody wants him to talk. He knows too Many things about the  Lucien spoke to students in a City colleges of Chicago social science class and to members of a Black history month committee tuesday at Brussels nato support activity. He told the group that Mobutu a death a might happen very soon a saying the presidents own bodyguard could kill him. Mobutu reportedly lost control of zairian troops in the former belgian Colony last september when they did no to receive their pay. Opposition leaders claim he planned the chaos in order to impose a military government. Mobutu Heads a presidential army that is larger than the National army in a situation similar to that of executed romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu Lucien said. Mobutu so so Elko Apelle after the unrest broke out in Zaire last fall France and Belgium sent troops to help evacuate foreigners. Both countries have demanded that Mobutu end his 26 years of dictatorship and Institute democracy. Western politicians have been reluctant to take Concrete action against Mobutu because he knows too much about their past wrongdoings Lucien said. He did not detail what those were and also did not specify which leaders or countries he was talking about. A they can to say anything against him. They will condemn his actions but they will never take any step a Lucien said. Lucien who is multilingual was allowed to leave Zaire about four years ago by claiming he was going to study Lor three months in the United states. Instead he went to England and eventually moved to Belgium where he is now seeking Asylum. Lucien told of How kidnappings killings and unwarranted arrests Are commonplace in Zaire a country Rich in natural resources including uranium which is used for nuclear Energy and nuclear arms. This wealth of resources is one reason Why Western nations continue to tolerate Mobutu said Lucien who said he was forced to serve As the presidents translator after one of Mobutu a relatives recognized his translation skills at a meeting in Ethiopia. If Zaire a government does change soon it will be a move toward democracy Lucien said. He said he knows one of the country a key opposition leaders. Space based worldwide phone system approved. A a a Ai a 1_ j a a i Uit int i in from evict int Nam i nil a flip of Pali by the Washington Post Washington a representatives of 124 countries tuesday cleared the Way for a new multimillion Dollar communications system that would use dozens of Low orbiting satellites to relay Calls to and from people carrying pocket size phones anywhere on Earth. Under the proposed system which could Start working by the mid-1990s, a person standing in a Field in Kansas could Call someone in a mongolian tent using a phone network that would be based entirely in space. The Call would go directly to an overhead satellite that would route it to another satellite and then on to the Correct phone thousands of Miles away. To Mesa Aye a agreement which set aside a portion of the world s increasingly crowded radio spectrum for the new system was taken at the end of a monthlong meeting in Spain of the International telecommunications Union a . Affiliate. The agreement removed a major hurdle for the plan but it still faces financial technological and regulatory obstacles As Well As commercial uncertainties resulting from Competition from existing ground based cellular phones. The . Government pushed hard for spectrum space for the satellite system at the meeting in part be a a. A. I in not it Tiff la cause putting the system in orbit would bring major orders to . I High technology companies. All five of the leading contenders to deploy this new technology Are .-based. A these decisions will be Good news to our. Manufacturers or our . Service providers a said Jan Baran chief of the 70-member . Delegation