European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 1, 1993 the stars and stripes a Pago 3major closures in draw Down by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Stuttgart Germany a the army plans to close one of Germany largest american military shopping centers March 31, and other Stuttgart area installation closures also Are Welt underway. The four Story shopping Center is at Globins on Barracks much of which is eing turned Over to the German government As part of a partial . Military withdrawal from the capital of the Baden Wil Ottemberg state. The shopping Complex includes a Large ground floor army and air Force Exchange service outlet that once Drew military customers from All Over Southern Germany. A smaller Post Exchange and other shops Are expected to open in the commissary building a few Hundred Yards away which will remain under . Control. Until 1991, the local military Community a population was nearly 32,000, including Active duty troops dependents a a and civilian employees. That number has dropped to Between 8,500 and 9,000, according to George Huettig a local army. Spokesman. A a the 6th area support group responsible for closing dozens of installations on the North Side of town and in the Northern suburbs will move its offices from Robinson Barracks to Kelley Barracks about june 1, and will merge with the Neucom area Suppi after to Ort group Huettig said. After that the army will release most of the Robinson Barracks administrative buildings the shopping Center and other Post buildings to the germans around june 28. It will keep the Chapel the Library building which will become the Chapel Annex the movie theater and a Small Complex of buildings on the East end of the shopping centers South parking lot. A nearby elementary school and a . Military housing area on adjacent land also will remain in american hands. Security for what remains should not be a problem Huettig said. A we just will simply redraw the Fence line somewhere a he said. The Baden Wiir Temberg state government already has told the army it plans to House up to 800 Asylum seekers in the Robinson Barracks buildings the army is releasing Huettig said. Some activities now operating on Robinson Barracks Wilt move to Kelley Barracks located in Southern Stuttgart a my Ringen District. Others including veterinary services and outdoor recreation will go to pan 848 Rompf Cowton the Post Exchange at Robinson Barracks a Well known landmark in the Stuttgart military Community will close March 31. Zer Cavern in by Bingen a suburb to the Southwest others will close. One of the doomed enterprises is the Robinson Barracks Thrift shop which a local scholarship Council runs in a barn like Concrete building hear the Chapel. The shop is Short of both staff volunteers and customers manager Tracey Lingo said. A there used to be three of us and All three of us were hopping All the time. Now there Are just two of us and we could almost do with just one Quot Ungo  shop stopped taking consignments feb. 20. All its merchandise becomes store property by april 20, and will be re  in Price until sold. The store closes May 1. In Ramseck 10 Miles to the North the health clinic at Pattonville housing area will remain open until about june 15, two weeks before the sprawling housing area itself loses its last tenants. A the idea of course is to leave As much out there As Long As possible to service the Community Quot Huettig said. The army plans to give up the housing area around aug. 30. Judging by the Scarcity a of cars there a casual visitor would conclude that More than half the housing units Are vacant already. Other draw Down plans include a release last weekend of stut garters Tasse housing area in ludwigs Burg. A emptying by today and release by april 13 of Wallace Barracks a former German cavalry Post that sits atop the buried ruins of a roman fortress in Stuttgart a bad Cannstatt District. The consolidated maintenance Center and the motor Pool once housed there have moved to Panzer Cavern. A release about March 12 of aiding cars Tasse housing area also in ludwigs Burg. A emptying of Ludendorff Cavern in Kora Westhem by about april 1, and its release around june 2. A departure by March 15 of support activities from Rabb Cloch Cavern in ludwigs Burg departure of the inactivating 51st signal in by april 15, and release of the Post by about May 17. A partial release of the Stuttgart army  Leinfelder ech Terlingen in 1994. The closure plan will reduce the number of . Installations in the Stuttgart area from a cold War Era total of 46 to 20. Patch Barracks Home of us. European come Headquarters will emerge As the Post offering to most comprehensive Community services. Recent improvements there include renovation of the Bowling Alley and the youth services building and the opening of a new snack bar. Defense in of court martial asks judge to bar Dan based lab tests 4 by Craig Martin staff writer Rhein main a Germany a the trial of an air Force noncommissioned officer accused of murdering and mutilating a woman resumed sunday with defense attorneys making a motion to bar Dan test results from the trial. The third Day of the general court martial of tech. Sgt. James Ancell Thomas began with military defense attorney capt. Rodger Drew or. Requesting the suppression of the Dan evidence. Whether the results of the Dan tests which can be used to identify people through genetic sampling May be presented As evidence will depend on a ruling from european circuit judge col j. Jeremiah Mahoney. Mahoneyq a ruling is expected today or tuesday. Thomas. 33�?Tassigned to the 435th civil engr so at Rhein main is charged with premeditated murder and desecration of the Corpse of his Girlfriend Yolanda Pengson 27. The filipino woman a body was found sept 9, 1991, burning in a forested area near Karlsruhe Germany. Pengson a head and hands were severed and have never been recovered. Officials still do not know where and How she was  was unclear sunday exactly How the Dan Evi Dence might link Thomas to Pengson. However during testimony in a sparse courtroom sunday chief pros cuter maj. Ronald Gregory painted in intricate detail a picture of How general Dan testing is conducted and How specific results can be obtained from Small amounts of cells. A key prosecution witness or. Mitchell Holland of the armed forces Institute of pathology in Washington d.c., testified that by . Standards the test results did not yield 100 percent certainty. Joel Cohen Thomas civilian lawyer questioned the Validity of the test results arguing that the data were based on european standards which he said were not necessarily conclusive by . Standards. No plea has Bee entered in the trial which was delayed Tor two months by a defense motion that Thomas constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated. He was arrested and confined sept. 22, 1991, but not charged by air Force officials until May 29, 1992. Mahoney ruled that Thomas right to a speedy trial Wasny to violated Cohen appealed the ruling to the air Force court of military review in Washington which upheld Mahoney s decision. Mahoney has barred the prosecution and defense attorney and witnesses from discussing the trial with Media members. The trial is to continue today at 10  attacks ending hiatus Berlin apr Neo nazi thugs appear to be ending their Winter hibernation of returning to a regular weekend ritual attacks on refugee Homes brawls with leftists and chants of a Heil  Neo nazi violence routine since Germany reunited in 1990, dropped sharply after the shocking arson deaths in november of three members of a turkish family in the West German . But in the gloomy East German City of Halle the Home of dying chemical factories once run by the communists about 15 Young Neo nazis carrying anti foreigner signs hurled rocks at a refugee Home late saturday night. Saxony Anhalt state Interior ministry spokesman Uwe spick said police arrested 12 people before anybody was Hurt. In the East German town of Zeitz he said police arrested eight Young thugs who were pulling people from their cars late saturday and beating them up. In the nearby town of Lotze police broke up a rumble Between 33 leftists and rightists and arrested four people for giving the a Heil Hitler Quot Salute a illegal m Germany