European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The vol. 51, no. 300 350 saturday february 13, 1993 Powell defends status quo is in by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington in a detailed assessment of the future of the . Mili tary the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has rebuffed Calls by president Clin ton and various lawmakers to make sweeping changes in the roles and mis Sions of the armed  m willing to look at anything but i m not going to apologize for the fact that Weare trying to protect a Broad Range of Capa see related Story on Page 3. Bil tics to serve the nation in the future said Gen. Colin l. Powell. It is not in the National interest to do some of the thing that have been  in a report titled roles missions an functions of the armed forces of the United states released at a Pentagon news briefing Friday Powell outlined a number of recommendations that he said would streamline service  example the report proposes to reduce depot maintenance by 25 percent to so percent Cut the number of aircraft dedicated to defending against strategic attack and consolidate such functions As flight training and helicopter aircrew an maintenance training. Powell could not provide a figure for total Cost savings if All the report s recommendations were implemented but i appears to be rather modest in the con germans vow investigation of Security at Frankfurt Frankfurt Germany a the government pledged Friday to track Down Security lapses at Frank Furt Airport that let a gun toting ethiopian Hijack a Lufthansa  Hijacker identified by . Officials As 20-year-old Nebiu Zewoldi Demeke commandeered the Airbus 310 Airliner thursday on a flight to Cairo. He threatened to kill Passen Gers if the Pilot did t Fly to Newyork. He surrendered peacefully at Johnf. Kennedy International Airport. The weapon turned out to be a starter s pistol that Only fires Blanks. The 11-hour drama whose peaceful conclusion was seen live on television sets around the world has embarrassed German authorities and Frankfurt  has also raised questions about supposedly stringent anti terror Secu Rity measures Talicen at. The sprawling Airport since the 1988 bombing of Panama flight 103, which was torn apart Over Scotland by a bomb allegedly placed aboard in Frankfurt. The Hijacker has told . Official that he got through Security controls at Frankfurt by putting the starting pistol under his hat and placing the hat on a table As he passed through Metal Detector. He then picked up the hat As he headed to the  Lufthansa Airliner called Chemnitz after the East Germa City returned to Frankfurt on Friday with 50 Happy passengers Many of them germans. The Airbus 310 originally carried 94passengers, including seven Ameri cans along with japanese egyptians germans and one Canadian. There were 10 Crew  Goebel the Captain of the hijacked jetliner declined to criticize Security measures at the Airport. But sitting next to German Interior min ister Rudolf Seiters whose Agency is responsible for Airport Security the Lufthansa Pilot added that there s Al ways room for improvement As Theresee germans on Page 2 a passenger from the hijacked Lufthansa Jet Waves after leaving the Airliner in Newyork on thursday after the ordeal was ended peacefully. The Hijacker of the Airbus 310 surrenders thursday at Kennedy International Airport. Text of a defense budget that still tops$260 billion. The report May Well disappoint Man officials including Clinton and sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the chairman of the Senate armed services committee who have called for far More fundamental changes in the armed forces. In a speech in july Nunn urged the Pentagon to thoroughly overhaul the see Powell on Page 2 woman set for of Post paper says Washington a president Linton is preparing to name the first female Secretary of the air Force Accord Ingojo a report published Friday. The Washington times quoting unidentified defense department sources said Sheila Widnall would Bethe service s top civilian  would be the first woman to head Branch of the Mil itary service. The sources told the newspaper that the announcement was Likely to come soon. Widnall Widnall a professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge told the times in a Tele phone interview thursday that she me with defense Secretary Les Aspin in see woman on Page 2 stripes annual 1/atentines dais special insert in sunday Magazine