European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 b the stars and stripes tuesday april 7,1992d�s %flti0rihks go rope a id Tow Coc Gene e. Town to u0af i  bernaroa.zovmto0ki Bow news and Elf Tobias bh1 Walker european editor Deborah Absher Ory Wotan news editor City editor sob Tokar Georje Manaa sports editor special sections edit by to write us unit 29480 Apoate 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06165-601 plus Extension or ets 348-6 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255,262,226,326. Sports ext. 225,269,263,332,321,221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jim Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Kan Clauson building 103, Carl Schurz Carem Apo a 09069 Telephone ets 3426659 or Dyllen 04714872. 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Pom Al Shabon or any other non Merti Fector of he purchaser user or Patron. European comment. Of Athert song in this pub Scabon including wits Doe not Oon stautis Andora Amant by something a amiss this is in response to your March 19 Issue. On the front Page you ran the article Quot Bush stops joking about bad checks a in it i noted that three Cabinet members and numerous members of Congress had written bad checks. It stated that our own defense Secretary Dick Cheney had in fact bounced As Many As 25 checks. One was for $1,945 to american express a $1,945 is More than my monthly base pay e-6, Over eight years. On Page 3, you ran a Small article about an airman in Italy being sentenced to six months imprisonment bad conduct discharge forfeiture of $200 per month of imprisonment and reduction in rank to Al for bad Check offences. Is something wrong Here or what the airman admitted guilt the same As our leaders had. He paid for his wrong deed. I think that its time our leaders pay a Price too they Are not above the Law. What would each of them say to a six month prison sentence forfeiture of pay and getting fired. I think they should clean up their act before the american people do it for them. How can anyone who can to keep their Check Book balanced be expected to balance our nations budget a Ron Culler Edzell Scotland it adds up to trouble concerning a previous letter stating that voters Are at fault there is always the saying one person can make a difference. But reality still stands that the people in the House Only see Green Money that is. While service members the soon to be fewer Are writing to vote them out they Are still cutting Back on the budget the military and beneficial projects. Its sad to see that the poor get poorer and the Rich get fatter. If the average Soldier can survive on a Little of nothing then Why is it so hard for a member of Congress to live on $100,000 a year maybe simple addition and subtraction is needed subtract them and add us the Soldier. A sgt. Gerald Morgan Stuttgart Germany a done to bleat about speeds the German Federal court ruling that arbitrarily assigns Accident liability to the Driver of a car exceeding 80 Mph is bad news for driving enthusiasts. Germany is the last bastion of performance oriented driving. Speed in itself does not kill. Reckless irresponsible Speed kills. Driving while under the influence of alcohol inattentive driving and driving faster than prevailing conditions dictate i.e., heavy traffic rain or Snow Are far More dangerous than a competent Well disciplined Driver flying Low in Light traffic. The 221st base support in Provost marshals Assumption that Quot americans generally done to drive As fast As the germans a in t quite on target. Some of the most capable sports cars in the Kaiserslautern area Are owned and driven As they Are meant to be driven by americans. In response to the question Quot will the High court ruling cause people to slow Down a a done to count on it. As for the growing chorus of car hating sheep bleating for autobahn Speed limits hush up and stay in the right Lane. A Brent r Knutson Ramstein a Germany editor s note letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. A letters requesting information or assistance Are answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211.hurrah for articles As a Reader of stars and stripes for years May i say Quot Hurrah for the stars and stripes on the publication of the articles a the mail mystique and Quot Wheeling and  both were Long overdue. I would like to dream that the head of the cafes Auto Branch in Dallas is either 1 no longer in that Job or 2 willing to buy a car in Texas without the Benefit of the a Lemon  i am sure that neither dream will come True nor will policies change. The army and air Force Exchange service the eighth or ninth largest retailer in the United states serves itself not its customers. Cafes is the Only company that still charges your credit card As soon As your mail order is processed instead of waiting until the order has been sent. The interest accrued from this Petty swindle is of course Quot passed on to the Exchange  and if you believe that then ill sell you a car. The misery of the Ford Bronco buyer who took the vehicle to a German Ford Dealership for service was caused by the fact that the apprentice system in Germany puts the learner on an american owned vehicle. Do you believe that if the Burgermeiste of that town purchased a Bronco and took it in for service that a jugend would do the work no a the Meister would come out of the Back room after finishing off his Beer and take the matter in hand. Regarding the mail change i have Given up completely on it. My Apo number did not change and the . Postal service machines a when and if they Are even put into place a will be Able to pass the mail on to me eventually. The four line system is a farce since As the retired general quoted in the article says most companies and governmental agencies a including the irs and the office of personnel management that manages to get a Check to me monthly a will use Only three lines. The cold War is Over but the Powers that be in the dodos postal service have not awakened As yet to the fact that the unit listing is no longer needed. I must say that i loved the complicated explanation about How a letter might take so Long to get from Point a to Point b that part about How it May have been stuck in the Comer of the Post office Box and not picked up and that when it is processed it might miss the bag and remain on the floor for a few More Days. Have your writer visit Tallahassee fla., since it certainly must letters to the editor have lots of Loose seamed mailboxes and twitchy mail Sorters. Letters that once took a week Are now 14 to 21 Days in transit. Anyway thanks for the articles a your paper has come a Long Way since Gen. Patton tried to keep the slapping incident out of it. A Bob Bartlett Pitburg a Germany Check hold is a squeeze recent letters complaining about the amount of time merchants Bank holds a Check prompted me to do a Little research. Each week i write a Check on my stateside account and Deposit it in merchants. Sometimes i also Cash checks at merchants from my stateside account. So i went and looked at my november statement from my stateside Bank. I wrote seven checks in november which were either cashed or deposited at merchants. On average each Check cleared the stateside Bank in three Days. The longest a Check took to Clear was six Days which included one weekend and one . Holiday. The shortest a Check took to Clear was two Days. The Only conclusion i can draw is that merchants is trying to squeeze additional profits from the a a float of funds Between Europe and the United states. A Patrick Deshazo Heidelberg German body fat test outmoded if you went to the local garage to get your car repaired and it  use the most accurate diagnostic test or the second Best or even the third and it used a test that was imprecise outdated and on certain vehicles gave an inaccurate result  you be angry that a what the air Force is doing every time it measures you for body fat. No one in the civilian medical profession uses the tape method. The most accurate method is the potassium radiation emission test extremely accurate and expensive. The two most widely used and highly accurate a to within 3 percent a Are the water immersion test and skin fold Caliper test. A properly calibrated set of calipers costs approximately $200, and it takes three Days to train a person. The air Force people Are our most important resource. Is $200 too much to spend on a persons career a Testa. Sgt. Rusel c. 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