European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 7,1993 Banff Rac san poster fits Bill for company  writer maybe youve seen it the latest Eye catching Bill Board advertisement in German cities. The big Black on White and that first appeared aug. 3lists some of the basics of life and takes a cutting swipe at xenophobia your Christ a jew. Your car japanese. Your pizza italian. Your democracy Creek. Your Coffee brazilian. Your vacation turkish. Your numbers arabic. Your alphabet latin. And your neighbor Only a foreigner the company responsible for the billboard Campaign Der German City advertisements has no idea who wrote the message. Someone painted the text on a White background had it photographed and sent it to us said Antje Werkmann a spokeswoman for the leading billboard rental firm in Germany Der thought the idea was so Good in these times of increased attacks on foreigners in Germany that it decided to run its own anti racist Campaign and posted15,000 copies throughout the country in cities with at least 100,000 inhabitants. We still have no idea who created the poster no who photographed it. We Only know that the photo graph was sent from vol Klingen in the Saar Region. We Hope those responsible will come Forward Werkmann  far she said the main reaction to the Campaign has come from the Media. We won t be surprised if the Cranks come out of the Woodwork to complain Werkmann said. Werkmann said Der cannot estimate what the Campaign will Cost because the company is Uncertain How Long it will run. A German billboard company is trying to help fight violence against foreigners in the country with this poster. Normally a billboard must be rented from us for 10days. The rental Cost of a billboard runs from 10.50 Marks about $6.30 a Day in towns with fewer than100,000 inhabitants to 13 Marks about $7.80 in Ber Lin Hamburg and Munich. It s not uncommon for people to rent a billboard for10 Days and Spray some personal message on  Werkmann said the company also started a parallel anti racist Campaign consisting of 15,000 posters for advertising pillars. The posters show a Man with a Board in German National colors across his forehead. The German express Ion he or she has a Board in front of his head issued to describe narrow minded people. The slogan on the picture is abroad does t begin at the Borders but in our heads.". The company also has a running Campaign financed by German Industry which uses so called City Light pos ters in the larger cities in the state of Hessen Werk Mann said. City Light posters Are Back lighted signs usually placed in pedestrian zones or passageways. These pos ters also carry Strong anti racist and pro tolerance Mes sages she said. Unique status proposed for Stuttgart Community by Mark k1nkadesuff writer americans living in Stuttgart Germany will be a Leto say their Community is unique if a proposal to reorganize military communities in Germany is approved bythe . Army. The proposal would make the military Community of Stuttgart an area support organization a statement from the . Army Europe said. The commander of the organization who would be a colonel would control the entire Stuttgart Community including the sup port and welfare of the Headquarters for the . Euro Pean come. Army military communities in Germany Are grouped by size and function into three types of organizations. Area support teams Are the smallest communities an full under the control of an area support group. Area support groups act As regional administrative and sup port umbrellas for sets of communities. Many of the communities Are Large enough to reclassified As base support battalions which is basically a self contained military Community often the head quarters Community for the area support group. The area support organization concept proposed for Stuttgart would essentially be a combination of the area support group and base support battalion concepts currently used. Stuttgart would be the Only area support organization in Europe if the plan is approved the statement said. Most people won t notice a significant difference be tween the current Stuttgart Community Structure and the proposed changes a Neucom spokesman said. As the Agency in charge of support for military communities Usa eur can change the Community Struc Ture but the support for the Community remains con Stant the spokesman said. The Community would be staffed similarly to area support groups the statement said. For example be cause of the number of High ranking officers living an working in Stuttgart a colonel would command the Community. Lieutenant colonels typically head army military communities. Stuttgart was once controlled by two area support groups the 6th ask charged with maintaining the communities at several caverns in the area and the european come support group which provided for personnel assigned to the Headquarters and their families. The plan is part of a larger proposal reported earlier by the stars and stripes that is expected to consolidate army communities in Germany under fewer area sup port groups. The proposal to convert the Stuttgart Community i being discussed with the German head works Council. The reorganization could affect the local National workforce Usa eur said. German Law requires that the Council be consulted when changes affecting the workforce Are proposed. Letter from so for warns of rough seas ahead Washington a the letter from a senior enlisted Man aboard the aircraft Carrier America arrived a few weeks ago with these words Send us to sea Send us to War but Don t Send us to our deaths aboard ships thai cannot adequately defend  the recipient rep. Owen b. Pickett d-va., read the letter aloud late wednesday during debate on the defense budget. It was evidence he said that Post cold War military cuts already Are taking a toll on the armed services. The letter s author identified Only As an aviation ordnance master chief with a distinguished naval career of 20 years described a rash of problems on the car Rier. Temperatures below decks during one major steam leak reached 1,200 de Grees fahrenheit melting electrical Ca Bles warping bulkheads and scorching paint the chief wrote. He said generators Nave failed radar did t work and the ship was unable to pump fuel. The chief blamed the problems on in sufficient funding that prevents us from procuring the vital parts and spares Nec Essary to keep this old lady steaming and our aircraft  the Man said he had never corresponded with a senior official outside his Chain of command but he had reached the limit of his endurance and Felt compelled to write. In response the Navy said thursday that the America which was commissioned in 1965, has passed All its tests and is ready for a scheduled six month deployment to the Mediterranean. The ship did experience system fail ures in work  said cmdr. Morgan Smith a spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk a. But the problems have been or Are being  Smith said the work up is designed to be rigorous and if something is going to break Down we d rather it happen in the Virginia capes area than the real world operations in the Adriatic  senior Navy official speaking on condition of anonymity said the snip failed one test during the last week of june but passed on july 23, receiving the highest possible certification. During a deployment earlier this year the vessel was involved in 25 transfers with other ships that involved More than20 million Gallons of fuel and 500 tons of ammunition. All were executed free of problems the official said. Questioned on thursday about the let Ter Pickett said it was disturbing be cause it Points  hollowing out of our  ,