European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 6, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page a flip travel costs $150 million paper says Milwaukee apr a government investigation shows regulations governing travel on military air planes Are so vague that High level Federal officials use them virtually without restriction at a Cost of $150 million a year the Milwaukee journal reported sunday. The newspaper quoted a draft report by the general accounting office the investigating  of Congress As saying the planes based at Andrews fab md., average More than 75 flights a month. A the policies and their implementation by the air Force and the department of defense Are inadequate and do not provide Assurance that the Wing is being used appropriately and an adequate deterrent to abuse a the report was quoted As saying. The investigation has been under Way for about a year at the request of rep. Frank Horton of new York senior Republican on the House government operations committee. The journal said it obtained parts of the draft report. The study covered air planes of the air forces 89th military Airlift Wing which had 22 fixed Wing aircraft As of december. The Wing provides travel for the president vice president members of Congress Cabinet secretaries judges and High level military officers. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii announced last week that he would Start using commercial flights for personal travel after the journal reported on another Gao study showing he made 11 private trips on military aircraft at a Cost to taxpayers of $371,599. The Gao was quoted As saying its estimate of the $150 million annual Cost included pay for about 1,600 military and civilian personnel aircraft maintenance and fuel and other operating expenses. The Agency said that in most cases the use of the vip Wing aircraft was considerably More expensive than commercial  gets Chance to vote on Elvis stamp by Crystal Laureano staff writer americans overseas can take part in the unprecedented voting that begins today to decide the design of an Elvis Presley stamp. Military postal officials said in february that Mili tary Post offices in Europe could not participate in the balloting. Since then the . Postal service has agreed to include overseas military mail patrons in the contest after a request to be included was made by military mail officials in Europe said Barb Lutz spokeswoman for the army postal group Europe in rheingau Germany. The nationwide poll offers . Postal customers a Choice of head shots depicting a Young or older Presley for a 29-cent stamp to be issued next year. Ballots must be postmarked by april 24. This is the first time in the 152 years since the United states issued its first stamp that the Public will be Able to select a stamp design. Five million postcard ballots displaying color photographs of the two proposals have been distributed in the states. About 50,000 ballots have been sent to army Navy and air Force Post offices in Europe say officials from the commands. However official ballots Arentt necessary to vote. Cast your ballot for the stamp showing a Young Elvis left any postcard with the words a a Young or a a mature written on the Back indicating a Choice of the two designs May be sent to Elvis poll . Box Elvis Memphis Tenn. 38101-1001, say service officials. A 19-cent stamp must be affixed to ballots or postcards. There is no limit on How Many times a person can vote. Presley hailed As a the King of Rock a no Roll a is remembered in Germany for his overseas tour with the army during which he took a three year hiatus from performing. Presley was assigned to co a 1st in 32nd Armor 3rd army div in Friedberg in 1958. He lived in an eight room three Story Villa in bad nauheim with his father and drove a Mercedes to work according to the divisions archives. His army pay was less than $150 per month but he collected $1 million in royalties from his record sales. On the Job Presley drove a or an older one. Voting runs from today through april 24. A jeep As a platoon sergeants Driver. He was often late to work due to teen age German fans crowding around his House say division historians. From 1956 until the mid 1960�?Ts, Presley a belted out versions of rhythm and blues songs like hound dog and Heartbreak hotel and ballads such As love me tender were instant hits. So were his More than thirty movies. Graceland his Home in Memphis Tenn., has become a shrine for his Many fans since his death aug. 16,1977. The winning stamp design will be announced in May and released in 1993 in sheets of 40 Stamps and in booklets with other Rock a no Roll stars whose names have not yet been announced. Anyone who would like More information on the stamp when it is released should include their name and address on their ballot postcard officials  vows to hold on to Powers continue reforms Moscow a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on sunday said he would fight parliamentary efforts to trim his Powers and would use his full authority to press ahead with Radical economic reforms. A Only one Way can exist today the continuation of Radical reforms a Yeltsin said. He addressed supporters at a conference on the eve of the Congress of Peoples deputies whose leaders Are demanding that Yeltsin relinquish some Powers and ease the pain caused by his reforms. Barely four months after presiding Over the death of the soviet Union Yeltsin could face a political firestorm during the session of the 1,048-member body convening today in the grand Kremlin Palace. Yeltsin a allies and aides huddled in the Kremlin on sunday and hammered out a tentative agreement to form a  Reform parliamentary bloc to try to defend the president at the session. Yeltsin said he would continue to shuffle his Cabinet and to make a partial corrections in the reforms. Opponents from the right and left say that during the Congress the first since the soviet collapse last de Cember they will demand changes in his reforms and press for repeal of his Power to Rule by decree. Pro communist and russian nationalist parliamentary factions met sunday and debated whether to seek a no Confidence vote. More than 2,000 other Yeltsin critics also demonstrated sunday in Maneth Square next to the Kremlin. One speaker denounced Yeltsin and former president Mikhail s. Gorbachev saying a fall that was possible to sell has been sold All that was possible to betray has been  magic reportedly May quit Over handling of aids crisis Washington up professional basketball Star magic Johnson is so fed up with the governments handling of the aids crisis that he told president Bush he May quit the presidents National commission on aids a Gay newspaper quotes him As saying. The White House declined comment saturday on the report in the advocate but noted the government spends $3 million to fight aids. The advocate quoted Johnson As saying in an interview that he told Bush he would a step Down. If things done to  White House spokesman Michael Busch said he had not seen the Story. Bush appointed Johnson to his commission last fall after the los Angeles lakers Star decided to retire from  basketball after testing positive for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. In the interview with the advocate Johnson is quoted As saying a i want Bush to Stop dancing around the truth. A if he a not going to do anything i want him to Tell me straight out a we can to increase the budget a instead of running me , 6, who pulled knife on child May face charges Lorain Ohio up a first grader who pulled a 9-Inch knife on a classmate for taking his crayons has been suspended from school and juvenile authorities said they Are considering felony charges against the boy. An assistant Lorain county prosecutor Lisa lock grave said she will review the Case before determining whether to pursue charges of aggravated menacing and carrying a concealed weapon. Police said the 6-year-old pulled the knife on the alleged Crayon thief in arcs room at Emerson elementary school in the Northern Ohio City allegedly threatening to kill him or anyone who battled on him. A i think its the youngest in be heard of a grave said of the suspect. A i was talking with some juvenile probation officers the other Day and the youngest they could remember was 10. A the question is culpability a she said. A the question is whether someone that age can form criminal  the boy who is in a class of pupils with severe behavioural problems has been suspended from school for 10 Days. Police said the incident occurred when the boy was leaving the cafeteria with his class around 9 30 . Thursday