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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, January 16, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 1b, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3 s fight continues educator tolls luncheon muriditi1 Winder . Bureau. Raf Lakenheath England a As americans prepare to Mark the birthday of Martin Luther King or with a monday Holiday in his Honor a . Educator said the dream King strive for is far from being realized. A recent unrest and social conditions in America and our overseas communities also reminds us that or. Kings dream has yet to be completed after All a said Jane a. Ware. Quot the straggle  Ware is assistant chief of the education division for the Atlantic Region of the department of defense dependents schools. She was the guest speaker at a thursday luncheon at Raf Lakenheath to commemorate King s birthday. Although she talked about Kings accomplishments her speech was designed to a motivate people to continue is dream.�?�. A we must also remember what he stood for and try to perpetuate it a Ware said. A the struggle is not Over for our nation. We must continue to work toward narrowing the Gap that exists Between our ideals and dreams for Freedom and Equality and the harsh reality of a world for which americans still in 1993, have their efforts impacted by racism prejudice and  Ware tried to use Kings ideas to motivate her audience. For instance she talked about his stand on nonviolence and How it affected his life. Using an excerpt from one of Kings speeches Ware said the nonviolent approach is not for the weak. Quot for it is a Strong Man who can stand amid opposition a she said. A this method has a Way of disarming your opponent it exposes his moral  Kings use of nonviolence was a Way to achieve Posi Ware live social change Ware said and in a country besieged by violence nonviolence is the Best weapon. Ware who is based near London and is a native of Washington d.c., encouraged the audience to continue to follow past  was the dreams and philosophies of or. King Challenge our nation let us also commit ourselves to Equality a Ware said. A let us All make contributions in whatever Way we can. Or. King challenged America and his dream still challenges  worker met death in Somalia s wild West by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Bard Era Somalia a before his murder thursday red Cross worker Kurt Lustenberger must have known that Good Luck does no to last Long in this Dusty slum perched above the Muddy Bubba River some 225 Miles West of Mogadishu. Other Relief Agency employees interviewed in Barbera last week said somalian bandits had robbed them and shot at them often. And almost every Westerner contracts a serious illness shortly after arriving in this town of 8,000 inhabitants and 18,000 hungry refugees. A every Day i think we Are in Solferino a said red Cross Field nurse Hans von Krui Bergen referring to the italian Village where a vicious Battle in 1859 inspired Jean Henri Dunant to found the red Cross. Actually Barbera is far worse then that. Its rutted unpaved streets Are littered with garbage. The ramshackle marketplace is a Clearinghouse for stolen goods. Barefoot children Clad in rags Hawk kenyan cigarettes and nearly useless Somalia i paper currency. Many adults Chew stems of khat the mildly narcotic Plant that the somalian crisis has made famous. Some roads outside the town Are mined. One mine exploded near the Airport last month killing a . Army civilian  although one can to always see them guns Are everywhere. A they were shooting at Birds with Kalashnikov in the beginning of december Quot said Arturo Rollo an italian who works for the International Rescue committee. Many Relief agencies have been in Barbera since last summer when Soma Lian warlord Gen. Mohamed Farrah Ai did a forces still ruled there. Aided lived in the compound that the International committee of the red Cross now occupies and the room in which Lustenberg or 32, was shot is full of aided a a furniture. When the somali National front drove aided out of Barbera in october Many Relief workers were forced to flee As Well. Most returned. The continual gunfire ended a few weeks ago when the marines arrived in town conferring a false sense of Security. Relief workers asked to comment on the Jan. 2 killing of Irish Unicof worker Sean Devereux in the port City of Kismay said they did t think they were in that kind of danger anymore. A was far As Barbera is. Concerned i would be surprised if it happened Here Quot Peter Koch de goo Cynd a British employee of care had said. The former army officer added later a my personal View is that the Security Issue is out in the Countryside not in the  a live never feared getting shot a Jeff Lewis a native of Austin Texas who is an emergency officer with the world food program had said a a there a no purpose to that. We re bringing food to  unfortunately Lustenberger s death has proved both of them wrong. Lewis reacting to the Unicof workers death had said he hoped the incident would not pass without some kind of reaction by the Relief agencies and the foreign military coalition. Otherwise he said bandits will kill More Relief workers. A i Hope the response is unified a Lewis said a if it comes Down to Unicof pulling out and stopping jail operations 1 Hope All of us do. 300 cos to retrain Byra Crowden Washington Bureau Washington about 300 air Force cos will be forced to change Ca Rcck specialities this year As the service tries to match its shrinking manpower with jobs it needs. However Only a handful of service members in Europe will be among those affected. Unless their Tours end before sept. 30, the end of this fiscal year service Mem ers overseas can to be reclassified under the program said chief master set. Dan Morgan of the air Force military personnel Center at Randolph fab Texas. Voluntary separation incentives contributed to shortages in some skill areas Morgan said. So air Force personnel planners began the fiscal year in october with a goal of reclassifying 1,900 staff technical and master sergeants he said. About 1,300 air Force cos already have volunteered for retraining. The volunteers came from a worldwide Pool of 4,000 cos who were notified that they were a at risk of being reclassified. A some took the Opportunity to take the training and some hoped they could ride out the storm a Morgan said. This is the third year that the air Force has conducted involuntary reclassification. Morgan said he expects that As in the two previous years about 300 cos will be ordered to change specialities. Another 300 Are expected either to leave the service or to Volunteer for other jobs this year. Some will be ordered to return to former Job specialities they now list As secondary skills. Other cos will be retrained in new Fields Morgan said. Many cos hoped to avoid reclassification because they like their current Job location or both Morgan said. And the forced Job shifts May cause some a Short air of Barce specially codes air Force codes and Job titles. Targeted for reduction for the Racks of staff sergeant technical sergeant and master sergeant. 361x0 451x6a 452x3 452x3c 452x4m 453x1 466x0 542x0 542x2 551x0 552x0 566x1 602x3 603x0 b11x2 Antenna systems installation maintenance f/fb-111 Auto equipment f/fb-111 avionics f/fb-111 avionics communication navigation and penetration aids tactical aircraft maintenance general aircraft guidance and control air launched missle systems electrical systems electrical Power production pavements and construction equipment structural utilities systems traffic management vehicle operations Law enforcement source air Force personnel Center Sas term morale problems a he said. The decision to retrain cos resulted from several factors Morgan said. They included the shift of some aircraft into National guard units and the elimination of some round the clock jobs no longer needed with the casing of tensions following the cold War Field commanders will select individuals for reclassification Morgan said but commanders cannot select anyone for reclassification if that person is the Only one on an installation who can perform a particular   ring Bell for presidential inaugural space Center Houston a endeavours astronauts Friday rang in the Clinton administration a few Days Early As scientists on the ground worked to Salvage an Experiment using a $14 million a Ray spectrometer. The Crew also planned to show schoolchildren via a to Hookup the physics of toys in space. They planned to toss a Ball around and play with Windup Bathtub toys and a toy car to show How objects behave outside Gravity. Early Friday the astronauts video taped themselves delivering a Brief message and ringing a Small Model of the Liberty Bell. The tape which was transmitted to the ground but not broadcast is the astronauts contribution to president elect Clinton so Bells for Hope Quot inaugural ceremony in which people across the country Are to ring Bells simultaneously. Since endeavours astronauts will be asleep during the ceremony at 6 . Est sunday Midnight Central european Tim their tape is being sent to the inaugural committee Nasa spokesman Jeff Carr said. A a it a not easy turning your bedroom dining room bathroom into a recording studio Quot shuttle commander John Casper said during the taping. The astronauts also beamed Down some video of a Cyclone moving across the Indian Ocean. Crew member Gregory Harbaugh said the massive storm was rotating subtly and looked a like a Blob of Clouds just hundreds maybe of Miles across. Ground controllers tried to fix the main piece of scientific equipment aboard endeavour the a Ray spectrometer that shut Down while scanning space. The spectrometer is designed to measure Low Energy a rays emitted from the space Between stars or interstellar medium. Scientists Hope to prove a or disprove a the theory that the solar system is filled with a hot Gas produced by a nearby and fairly recent Supernova or exploding Star  
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