European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday March 13, 1992 at a glance i Here Are spuds in your Eye. Couch potatoes and other connoisseurs of Good food Are sure to drool Over the recipes on pages 14 and 15. Mig remains a mystery air Force officials Are keeping quiet about a Jet of apparent soviet origin a a Mig a parked at Offutt fab neb. A a a Page 4 demo tax plan survives the Senate on thursday killed an amendment that would have junked a democratic tax Cut and raised taxes on the Rich to reduce the budget deficit. The vote was 57-39 against the amendment. A Page 5 Vermont flooding recedes floodwaters in montpelier., receded after a Crane broke up a Large ice Jam that helped divert a River into the town. A Page 6 House votes against veto the House voted to override president Bush a veto of a Bill that would impose economic and human rights conditions on the renewal of China a favourable Trade status. A Page 7 card works on image top executives of the american express co. Said wednesday that they were trying to retain the company a prestige after a backlash Over credit cards. A Page 17 Index .v., a a.  x,i,�?~ns\\%viv�v.-.v. A Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces a no places. 18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 he Rob aria a i Viarn to Lasc _ cleaned items May be picked up until april 15, Usa eur says by John Millar Wurzburg Bureau laundry service for customers of the Wurzburg Germany quartermaster laundry was at a standstill until wednesday when it was announced that soldiers Tion Points which previously collected government owned laundry for transportation to servicing plants Are closing due to unit draw Downs and a decrease in  it also said that 20 troop laundry and could Start getting their cleaning from dry cleaning Points throughout Germany quartermaster pickup Points from 11 will continue operating for unit use. But . To 2 . Monday through Friday those Points were not identified until All items have been returned. Also the 48-hour a fluff dry service on thursday . Army Europe offi will continue for units training at major vials announced that quartermaster pick training areas or participating in major up Points will Stop providing services Field exercises. March 31, but will stay open until april soldiers and civilians who were patrons 15 to return cleaned items. Items not of the Wurzburg laundry facility can pick claimed by then will be sent to the Servic up their clothes free of charge. Items that ing Plant and held for 90 Days before had not been cleaned because of the a being classified As abandoned. Mility closing will be returned dirty. The Usa eur statement of thurs laundry that was in the process of Day went on to say a Many troop collect being cleaned when the Plant closed is being sent to other facilities to be finished and then returned to pickup Points. Soldiers were also told that quartermaster pickup Points would not accept any new cleaning orders. Babs Angel spokeswoman for the 98th area support group in Wurzburg stressed that the information applied Only to quartermaster pickup Points m Aschaffenbur Gie Belstadt Kitzinger Schweinfurt Wertheim and Wurzburg. She did not know what other communities serviced by the Wurzburg facility were doing to return clothes to customers. Officials said laundry at the Wurzburg facility would be taken to other facilities to be cleaned and bedding would be taken to existing laundry contractors. Soldiers were advised to take personal items to cafes facilities. Laundry from Page 1 number of them in detained them took their passes and escorted them off the  normally Faulenburg Cavern has no Gate guards but maps were checking ids thursday morning while the workers were outside. The laundry workers still have not received termination notices. Following the guidance of their German Union Oto the employees Are to try to report to work every two Days. All have signed statements saying they Are willing to work for the army. But when they showed up at the Gates of Faulenburg Cavern on thursday an army military policeman handed employees a note forbidding them to enter the installation. The note was not signed or attributed to any organization. It said the laundry contract with Pacific architectural engineering Frankfurt had expired. A contractor personnel Are not permitted on this military installation a the note said a unless Access is authorized for reasons unrelated to their employment with Pae. The laundry is closed until further  meanwhile the 160 laundry workers who worked at the Wurzburg Plant have not received any termination notices from Pae or the army. Union officials said workers must be paid by someone because they have not been fired but on thursday it was not known who that would be. Officials at Pae claim their original contract required anyone taking Over the facility either the army or another contractor to hire employees working there. According to Oto representative Horst Cypara the Union has hired a lawyer and if no response is received from the army by today the Issue of who will pay the employees will be taken to the German labor courts next week. A we done to want to provoke this. We Only want to go to work a Cypara said. A Usa eur statement issued wednesday denied responsibility for the contract workers however. An employee who did not want to give her name for fear her Soldier husband would get in trouble said she cannot draw German unemployment compensation without paperwork proving she has been terminated. A somebody has to come up and say a you re  nobody has done that yet a she said. Ingrid so Wroniak an official from Paess Headquarters in Frankfurt said the company is worried for those who Are out of work but can do Little for them until the courts reach a decision. Richard Morris a truck Driver for Pae who has been out of work since monday wondered if the same situation would happen to other contracted employees because of military draw Downs. A is this going to set a precedent of what they re the army going to do to contractors because of the draw Down a Morris asked. Maloney the former Plant manager said there were several employee paychecks locked in the laundry a Safe when the army took Over including one for a 70-year-old, part time seamstress. A that woman depends on that Money a Maloney said adding that repeated requests to army officials to have the paychecks released have been  from Page 1 necessary for Alliano to file a request for approval before offering insurance policies under the nato Tariff Structure. As of now no such request has been filed she said. But Kirsch said the cafes contract with Alliano a is still in  Eugene Leavy executive director of overseas military sales group said wednesday that two months ago his company signed a partnership agreement with Alliano to sell insurance for cafes. His office contacted Alliano on wednesday morning and the German company gave no indication that it was backing out of the Deal Leavy said. A i have no idea Why there should be any rumours that they want to Back out a Leavy  correction because of a reporting error a Story published saturday gave the incorrect time for speeches next wednesday at Stuttgart a opera House to Mark the disbanding of Vii corps. The speeches begin at 3 . From Page 1 organizations full membership of european nations the United states and Canada. A we do not want to become a second Csc a Worner said thursday. A what we want is a stronger  Worner told Security seminar participants that nato will also work in concert with the Western european Union the nine member defense component of the european Community. A the we too is Likely to draw on military forces and assets of nato a he said. He assured the largely polish audience that even though nato is not admitting Central and Eastern european countries into membership right away it is guarding their Security through its links with the other european institutions. Through involvement in these organizations and in natos new East West cooperation forum Central and Eastern european countries Benefit from natos stabilizing influence he said. A even without offering formal Security guarantees we contribute to improving the Security situation of our cooperation partners by bringing them closer to the Alliance a Worner said. A there will be no Security vacuum a he said. Although the Alliance is not seeking to expand its membership a we keep this option open a he said. Poland has expressed Strong interest in joining nato. Kirsch said the bid requirement stated that the successful bidder should be an insurance company that has concentrated on the military Market. She then said that Alliano has limited experience in that Market. She also said the overseas military sales group which will handle the on base business is not an insurance business and is primarily a new car sales business. Staff writers Luke Britt and Norm Zelfer contributed to this report runaway trolley kills 10 in Sweden Stockholm Sweden a a two car trolley that lost its electrical Power in a storm rolled backward Down a Hill thursday killing 10 people and injuring 33 As it slammed into cars and pedestrians. The trolley had been evacuated shortly before the Accident in the coastal City of Goteborg in Western Sweden. Most of the victims were people waiting at a Streetcar Stop police and Hospital officials said. A spokesman said it was not Clear whether the Driver was aboard the trolley at the time of the Accident or what caused it to Careen out of control. Lars Berg assistant police commissioner for Goteborg said 10 people were killed. Officials at two hospitals confirmed that 33 people were injured 10 seriously