European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 18, 1994 . Consulate in Stuttgart to hold foreign service test by the stars and stripes Stuttgart Germany the written . Foreign service examination will be offered nov. 19 at the american consulate in Stuttgart. The test is the first step in applying for an appointment As a foreign service officer with the state department the . Information Agency or the Commerce department s foreign commercial service. Registration forms mailed to Stuttgart and All other foreign test Sites must be postmarked no later than oct. 7. The examination tests applicants knowledge of subjects including . And world history american and foreign governmental systems and Basic principles of economics a test of English grammar and usage and a biographical questionnaire. The registration materials include an examination outline and Sample questions. The test will be held from 9 . To 1 . Applicants May obtain registration booklets from the consulate by mailing a request to the attention of Elizabeth Rublack Diamond at the . Consulate general Stuttgart urba Strasse 7,70182 Stuttgart Germany. Applicants also can appear at the consulate in person to request booklets or can Call 0711-2100816 to order them. Quartermaster Ball set Heidelberg Germany the annual army quartermaster Ball is scheduled for sept. 23 at the Heidelberg officers and civilians club. All quartermaster soldiers sergeant first class and above civilians and retirees of similar rank can attend. The Ball is put on by the 3rd corps support come. For More information Call Dan 337-5149 or civilian 0611-7055149. Officers course offered Kaiserslautern Germany the 3747th . Army Reserve forces school will conduct the nonresident . Army come and general staff officers course beginning in october. The four phase course will be offered in Kaiserslautern Heidelberg and Wiir Burg. Army officers enrolled have three years to Complete the two year curriculum. The course enables officers to enhance promotion potential improve assignment opportunities and increase Overall value to the army according to it. Col. Dan Leeper a senior phase one instructor. Admission to the course is space available and seating is limited. The course is available to officers who Are captains and above Reserve or Active duty and with Between seven and 18 years of commissioned service. Students except those in selected medical specialities also must have completed the combined arms and staff service school. V v enrolment information for officers in the Kaiserslautern and Wiir Burg areas is available from Leeper by calling Dan 484-7199. Officers in the Heidelberg area should Contact maj. Glenn Satterly at Dan 370-9809. Army to have in fairs Heidelberg Germany the . Army Europe will offer local National employees. Information on training for Post army careers a two education fairs in late August and Early september. V /.-. The fairs Are scheduled aug. 24,9 . To 3 ., at the Heidelberg officers and civilians club and sept. 7, 9 . To 3 ., in building 2876 at Pulaski Barracks in Kaiserslautern according to Ausa eur statement released wednesday. The fairs Are part of a Usa eur retraining Effort aimed at local National employees who May lose jobs because of the draw Down the statement said employees will be Able to gather specific information from local training institutes about retraining opportunities. V the retraining program helps employees earn certification or professional degrees recognized by German authorities. Employees also can increase qualifications for different jobs within the army the statement said. The stars and stripes House puts off health vote while senators keep talking Washington Apas Senate republicans prepared to offer amendments to Senate majority Leader George Mitchell s health Reform Bill House majority Leader Richard Gephardt said he Likely will put off House votes on health until after labor Day. Gephardt told House democrats on wednesday morning that no substantive work will be done in the House next week and no votes Likely will be taken. Members will be Able to leave Washington subject to the Call of the leadership. Democratic leaders in the House have said they will not take action on health Reform until the con Gressional budget office completes financial analyses of the Bill written by Gephardt and three alternative proposals. Many House members also have expressed unwillingness to vote on health Reform until they know How the Senate votes on key issues. The budget office s analyses Are unlikely to be finished in the next couple of weeks and the House probably will re main in its holding pattern until sept. 8, when members will return to work Gephardt s staff said. Meanwhile Senate republicans were readying to offer their first amendments to the Mitchell Bill they said they were Likely to Start with an amendment by sen. Don Nickles r-okla., that would strike $10,000 penalties per worker for businesses that Don t provide the Standard set of health benefits. Mitchell says the $10,000 civil penalty provision is a general enforcement measure to make sure that employers offer their employees a Choice of plans and that they do not discriminate against certain workers. A bipartisan group of senators also was meeting to Hammer out details of a Compromise plan it Hopes to present to Mitchell. Republicans have discounted passage of the first democratic amendment to Mitchell s Bill saying it is Gephardt just the Start of a Long fierce Battle. They say they will offer amendments aimed at killing Mitchell s plan this is perceived to be Progress. It has nothing to do with Progress sen. Pete Domenici r-n.m., warned tuesday evening minutes after the 55-42 passage of an amendment by sen. Christopher Dodd a Conn. The vote on Dodd s amendment to expand health coverage for pregnant women and children put an end to Mitchell s threat to keep senators in session around the clock until Progress on the Overall Bill was made. Even cautious democrats said it was a  s All we be Ever asked for Dodd said. People can vote for or against these things and then Well see what the Bill looks like at the end of the  tuesday s vote came after five Days of often repetitive often contentious debate on the amendment which would require All health plans to offer free preventive care for pregnant. Women and children Gramm starting in july 1995. The measure is designed to cover Only the interim period before the Mitchell Bill would similarly expand benefits. Republicans finally agreed to the vote on condition that they could offer their own first amendment wednesday. They said Early amendments would Likely try to strike one of the Mitchell plan s taxes or to Grandfather All existing health plans so that hey would t be subject to provisions in the Bill. Sen. Phil Gramm a Texas one of the most dogged opponents of the Mitchell Bill said he would use the amendment process to defeat the democratic Leader proposal. I m going to offer a hell of a lot of amendments he said after tuesday s vote. Either we re going to beat this Bill or i m going to continue offering amendments to Knock the bad parts out of it. There Are a lot of bad parts Gramm Saia. Serb blackmail of convoys prompts protests from . Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a bos Nian serbs Cut off from vital supplies from Serbia Are. Demanding fuel from . Convoys and taking food from Aid trucks passing through their territory. . Officials wednesday protested the  bosnian serbs informed . Officials that starting today no  convoys would be allowed to pass their territory without giving fuel v that is blackmail and we will not comply said . Spokesman maj Rob Jannink. V the demand apparently was made Only of . Con Voys supplying  , Aid officials re ported that serbs also had posed new obstacles to Relief convoys preventing one from reaching Sarajevo and taking flour from another going to the Eastern enclave of Gorade. ".y. V it s not the first time the bosnian serbs have demanded such tolls from . Convoys. But the latest instances appeared connected to Serbia s closing of its Borders to Bosnia and Herzegovina cutting the bosnian serbs main source of vital supplies. Jannink said that the bosnian serbs did not give reason for asking for fuel. But that it was logical to As sume that they will feel some pain from the embargo imposed on them by Serbia. Thus they want to ensure supplies from another source he said i the International Community had threatened to tighten sanctions imposed on Serbia for fomenting the bosnian War if bosnian serbs maintained their rejection of the peace plan. Fighting has flared and ebbed for weeks most recently in an area just North of Sarajevo. In the Northwest pocket of Bihac a German plan aborted a Mission to Airdrop Aid after ground fire was reported from the area. The general assessment was that it was Independent operators on the ground Hay ing fun shooting at bundles said sgt. 1st class Phillip Tegtmeier a nato spokesman in Naples Italy. Mar expo to begin oct. 22 in Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany is the latest in morale welfare and recreation will be on display oct22-26 at Heidelberg s Patrick Henry Village Pavilion during the third mar expo. The expo according to organizers brings mar professionals from All military branches together for a series of seminars workshops and special events directed toward improving military recreation services. The seminars will focus on various aspects of mar including family services clubs financial management recreation and marketing according to organizers. Some scheduled seminars Are the key to generation x entertaining today s generation preparing for the future of recreation and ". Army in europen unappropriated fund  More than 80 exhibitors from the United states an Europe will be on hand with product and services Dis plays in the expo exhibitor Hall. Mar employees will be Able to make on sight Pur chases. Registration packages include lodging meals and entry fees. Commuter packages and itineraries also Are Avail Able. To Register Contact the 26th area support group operations div at Dan 370-8180 or 06221-1600387. Tel fax to 06221-166792. Outside Germany the coun try code is 49. 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