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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rag 74 the stars and strikes a Oneida a May 8, 1963 slalom run brings 3 to safety in Berlin engine howls9 tiny car zips under Barrier Berlin a it was nearly Dawn at checkpoint Charlie. It was a quiet night. The communist guards stood silently on the rns Lorn Side and american soldiers peered at them from West Berlin. Suddenly a car engine howled. A Small English sports car sped through the up in the Concrete Wall dividing the ally. A communist Border guard jumped aside at the last minute. Before he could lift his sub machine Rtin the Low ii lung car had a lipped beneath the two steel spam barriers into Western territory. The american r nerds were just is perplexed is the communist when the you tin Driver banked the car jumped out and yelled wit Joy. Lie unlocked the trunk and helped out n 48-Ycnr-old woman. From behind the sent jumped a20-Yenr-old girl. They were free. The Young engime of Lii Ntim Lam Slotik Osca a. W h 1 r Phiip pwned sunday morning and out sunday morning i knew we would in  girl. Morgn Rcpt Thurnau. Is it la nor to Fin Nee and the older woman in her  plan nod to escape for some time and inspected neveral Pincus Nona the Border but could never film the right one. We were arrested twin during the inspect on by suspicious Border guards and questioned for about Nix hours changes okd in proficiency pay system Washington special to defense officials have agreed on Basic revisions to the proficiency pay system expected to in phased in during fiscal year 19g4. Key changes in the new plan higher rates at pay for designated shortage or hard to keep specialities ranging from $504100, As compared to the present rates of to and 160. In the designated specialities All career men will be eligible for proficiency pay without taking a pro pay specially examination. Men in other than shortage Spe dallies will be eligible to compete for Superior performance pay of135 monthly. Details of the new pro pay plan. Including lists of shortage specialities rates of pay and specific eligibility criteria Are now being developed within the military departments. The new system provides two kinds of pro pay. One is for men in skills designated to receive Spe Fialty  men in these skills will draw extra pay ranging from $30to $100 monthly. The other Type of pro pay will to for men designated As Superior performers. They will get $29 i month for a 13-month period. Under the new plan each service May have in own system of awarding the 125 monthly Superior perform Ance award. If the program revisions Are on schedule the first phase of the new pro pay plan could become effective july 1," according to Wil Liam Gorham Deputy assistant Secretary of defense manpower for special studies and  further stated that about 365,000 men Are currently receiving proficiency pay. Now All of these men will be eligible under the revised criteria. Under the new system ranking of skills which will determine eligibility for and the rate of special to pay will be based on length and Cost of training. The Renell Sliment rate in the skill and other person Nel and Cost factors. Dod officials believe that the new system will be considerably More effective a an inducement for men to reenlist in the High Cost hard to keep skills. Baraboll National Leal mutant w on xi-4 a Jim can Lvell. Slik til mad Lull 001 i ii 0 of Tow. Do i nil act Mairi. I to it. A can Lyrll 11-11 . Comm Ftp Iii Lull Lam 31cww. Bub 111. Both times Mexner said. The youth sold he decided the Only any would be through checkpoint in a fast Low Slung snorts car which could slip beneath the 5-foot-Hlgh Stoel beams and Man Euver the slalom course of con Crete blocks it High Speed. I first Borrower n motor Scooter. When i got to the bar Rolern i faked motor trouble or a few minutes so t could get an idea of the height of the beams Mel Ner explained. Then i went to several car rental Awn sch until i found ther Liht car. A Small English sports car Ghoul 4\t feet High withe Windshield  on sunday my liner loaded his future Mother in Law into the trunk of the car and his Lance Behta he scat i drove nearly through Easterlin like that for a Long time o Nee if mrs. Thurnau could take it to cum she is very 111  Moscow spy trial Brit no Nusl nranian Ore Villa Wynne take the. Stand in the Moscow by trial against him and Olej Zenkovsky director of the soviet committee for scientific coordination. Wynne u accied of being the Contact Man for Penkovsky in passing military secrets. A briton., Russ plead guilty continued from Page 1 of Justice Viktor Boriso Glebosky. To has two Lay judges. The court announced that nine experts would testify As Well a five we in uses. In the official indictment u was alleged that Wynne and pen Kovsky had pm ended guilty to espionage against the soviet  Mikhail Afanasyeva Secre tary of the court read the indict mint with both Wynne and pen Kovsky in the prisoners Box. The indictment claimed tha Wynne and Penkovsky Hod and milled regular espionage operations and secret meetings abroad Nii in Moscow from curly in 1961 until their arrest it sold Penkovsky pleaded guilty to All charges and said Wynne had pleaded guilty to espionage and to working 01 a Liaison Between Anglo american intelligence and Penkovsky. It said Penkovsky s assignment included an attempt to find out information about the deployment of soviet troops in ens Germany Anil about soviet rocket forces. The indictment charged that seven americans and six britons As Well As some re Lvcas. Had participated in one Way or another in the espionage network. State Highway patrolmen called to Birmingham f continued from pane 1 evade police As they headed Bac downtown in new York former baseball Star Jackie Robinson sold that he will join the segregation demonstrations in Birmingham next week. Hob in -.on, an executive with the chock full o nuts restaurant Chain made the announcement at a meeting to raise funds to Back  in the South. Robinson broke baseball s color line when he entered the major leagues with the Brooklyn dodgers in 1947. I am going Down to birding Ham  suld Robinson. "1don t like to be bitten by dogs be cause i m u Coward. I Don t like to go to Jill either because As i suy i m a Coward. But we be got to show Rev mar ten Luther King thut we Ore behind  demonstration came shortly after King held out Hopes of a truce in the incl no tension that has resulted in More than 2,200  minister told a news con Ference that racial demonstrations would continue until a Start has been made toward agreement wit demands of negroes Here. . To evacuate dependents from Haiti continued front pane i lice used tear ibs to break up what they termed the comma  Demon Trot ton an arrested More than so persons. The strike was called u the immediate threat of War with halt appeared to have largely dissipated. In another development the state department said it was no opposed to a meeting wednesday of the United nations Security coun cil requested by Haiti on the Hal lift a do my ill can Republic situation. But the us. Position u that the organization of american states rather than the United nations. Should continue to handle the mat Tor state deportment press offi cer Joseph reap raid. Meanwhile in Congress the Home foreign affairs subcommittee on latin America headed by rep. Army steal i. Selden or. Dala., called a closed door session for wednesday to discuss uie crisis with administration official. State department officials said the evacuation decision was mad tuesday and was prompted by continuing conditions in h a ill Raster than by any sudden new development . Naval units with about 2,000 marines aboard have been Viand ing off Haiti several Days for possible Rescue Mission in event americans in Haiti were endangered. Earlier Haiti foreign minister Rene Chalmers suld All political refugees in Asylum in latin Ameri can embassies would be granted Safe conduct guarantees and Al Lowed to leave Haiti. Four concessions demanded by negroes As their Price for halting racial demonstrations Here Are employment Opp Ortu a eternities desegregation of downtown lunch counters. Release of the estimated 1.200 negroes still in Jull As a result of the protest mar chs. Creation of a by racial com Mattce to work out plans for grand jul desegregation of Public  largest mass arrests about 850 occurred monday filling three jails to overflowing. It took More than four hours to serve breakfast at this City s Nln Jill tuesday. Muny of those arrested still were being pro Emu a tuesday. King said More than 2,200 have been arrested so far. The afternoon Birmingham news called on president Kennedy in a Telegram to use the influence of the White House to end thin Ope Law violation and provocation a spokesman in Washington de scribed president Kennedy a pre occupied with the Birmingham in clot tension. The spokesman mid he was in continued Contact with atty. Gen. Robert f. Kennedy about the  said that for the most part negroes who have Boon arrested have been treated Fine by local authorities. To sold there were Only isolated cases of mistreat ment including an incident Mon Day night when newly arrested youngsters stood in the rain in City jail Yard. Chief Jailer Robert Austin said the negroes were Given a Chanceton come in out of the rain but re fused to do so. About 500 negroes gathered out Side the jail monday night to pro test the hardships of the juvenile arrested and hauled to the lockup in a shuttle of school buses end Paddy wagons. Police dispersed the group without incident. The test was successful before taking off for the checkpoint he removed the Windshield and stacked bricks in the trunk id offer the women some Protection in Cense the communist guard opened ire. When i got to the first Barrier on the Eastern Side i stopped showed my passport and was admitted into the control area. In Stead of stopping at the inspection Point where they would have found to two i quickly drove through the Klu Lom course.". As soon is 1 in through pulled my head Low of that 1 could it see anything stepped on the7ns pedal and aimed for the barriers Mexner said. Meixner and a Helper on the Western Side. A Friend was Sta cloned there to make sure that no cars would head into the Eastern sector it the time of the escape and Block the sports car s  austrian came to Berlin fit february 1962, after rending news paper reports that West Berlin was Short of skilled workers. He is � inthe operator soon after he arrived he began helping relatives of colleagues by delivering food packages and let Tern to the Eastern sector. Only went germans and foreigners Art no lord to visit Enst Berlin. Duran of one of my trips i met Margnret and we were engage lost  my liner sold. The communists found out about our Onro remont. And twice n week officials would show up Atmur Grelo r House when i Wal therr and try to make me Settle in knit Berlin. Of course we and already makeup our minds to get out somehow. Now we will net married the youth added happily. Team Hopes to put j 6 on Everest Peak j Katmandu. Nepal  
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