European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Stefan stripes m5 i a fes vol. 52, no. 196 500 sunday october 31,1993 d 8693 a fre Crews get reprieve California s Santa Ana wind delays its return the damage from the 13 major wildfires in California last week acres burned about 152,000 structures destroyed about 720 people displaced about 25,000 number injured 62 damage estimate $500 million excellence is a waste delegates Tell army by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the army communities of excellence program has be come a wasteful Effort that should be scrapped because it returns too Little Benefit to too few people delegates attend ing the Lith annual army family action planning conference said Friday. But army officials who administer the program strongly disputed that View claiming acre is successful and viable and not nearly As costly As some people seem to think. Along with making various see army on Page 2 Navy institutes tougher policy for smokers by Cindy Killio Washington Bureau Washington sailors who smoke can t be forced by commanders to permanently snuff their cigarettes but a new Navy policy restricts where they can Light up. The policy released last week generally limits smoking to places that nonsmokers can avoid such As designated space son the decks of ships or to inside rooms that have air ventilated directly to the see Navy on Page 2 by the associated press the whims of the weather blessed fire fighters with an unexpected delay sat urday in the return of dreaded desert wind that fanned wildfires across South Ern California. In a morning conference Call . Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy informed president Clinton that four Federal disaster centers had opened. Well do whatever is necessary. So these people can get their lives Back to Gether Espy told Clinton from a fire Camp near Altadena a Hilly suburb of Pasadena about 15 Miles North of Down town los Angeles. It s pretty Smoky where i am but it seems the situation is under control,".Espy said. The conference Call also included beast master Sis John Bohmer artist Dennis Felber puts finishing touches on a 12-foot-High smoking Wolf called  the creature is one of Many characters in a massive haunted House at Burg canst can in Lan Stuhl Germany. The haunted House continue today from 4 to 10 . Tickets and information Are available from the Uso on Ramst Einab. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer both d-calif., and Federal Emer gency management Agency director James Lee Witt. The damage estimate for the fires was$500 million and counting Witt said sat urday. He said half the estimate reflected insured losses. The big threat is whether the Santa Ana comes Back Feinstein re see fire on Page 2 americans assaulted by rightists Berlin a German rightist extremists beat up a Black member of the american men s luge team after the . Athletes walked into a discotheque at an Eastern German Winter resort police said saturday. The american athletes were attacked shortly before Midnight Friday in the  disco in oberhoff a Small town where the . Team was training. Obj roof was East Germany s Winter sports capital. The germans All in their 20s, told the americans when they came in to get lost said regional police chief Karl Heinz Malina in nearby Suhl. He said a fistfight ensued Between the germans and americans two of whom were Black. A 26-year-old Black american who he would not identify by name was Hurt Al though not seriously. Malina said police were called and five germans were arrested. He said he believed the americans were attacked be cause the germans All from Suhl were hostile to  the americans left oberhoff on sat urday for Austria Malina said. The police chief reached by Tele phone said prosecutors would determine charges. This is very upsetting for us said Malina. Attacks on foreigners by rightist extremists have become a cause of con Cern in Germany in the three years since unification. However americans have not been known to be targeted and no previous scr rious Case of an american being beaten has been reported. The trouble and Comfort of being see sunday Magazine Standard time returns to America Standard time returned to Moat of the United state to 2 . Today meaning clocks get set Back or hour. The change returns America to Standard time by shifting an hour foday Sigrit from the evening to the morning. Daylight time returns next april 3