European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 29 the stars and stripes january 1978 Carter Economy key to world Washington up president Carter said thursday outer nations Are closely watching to Sec if the has the the to solve its Energy prob lems and end its insatiable appetite for foreign he told a news conference that the eco nomic Well being of Western democracies rests on the and the Stone of that Economy is i believe we a have the resolve and the National will to Deal with the Energy Carter noting that delays in congressional approval of an Energy package has been a trying period both to himself and the Carter said he Learned on his seven nation foreign trip that ended last week that other nations Are looking to our coun try to see whether we have the the re solve to Deal with our Energy problems could harm ties with aide says Bonn won Aid Neutron decision by Clint Swift Scalf writer Bonn the can expect no Public help from West Germany in deciding whether to produce the Neutron a German defense ministry spokesman said the Federal Republic will Lake no Posi Tion on production far fear of jeopardizing relations with its Eastern bloc hats bombard Schweinle we dont want to give the soviets the Alibi that we Are increasing East West ten is he the ministry chief of Public spoke to about 20 american Stu dents of International relations who visited government ministries As part of a univer sity of Southern California Schweinitz also dismissed As politics the Conten Tion of the opposition Christian democratic Union that nato could not withstand a concerted soviet offensive for More than several said the Federal Republic would not directly support improving China Milliard by at the expense of the soviet Union be cause that also could Barm Ost politic or Evron encourage the soviets to attack Western described himself As confident that in an a solution would be found to the problem of us French firing Short Range nuclear tipped missiles at an enemy on German said he had seen no poll on West German Public opinion regarding the Neu tron hut the trend in government thinking was to permit the to decide whether to produce the weapon and then to enter the debate on whether it should be added to the nato asking who has a human nuclear Schweinitz said debate Over the Neutron bomb had raged wrongly aver the morality of its the Neutron bomb kills humans by radiation while minimizing Snow t continued from Page to the lower great three persons died thursday in Ala Bama in what authorities said were weath err Eluted a fourth fatality was reported there Friday after a woman was struck by a passing vehicle As she exam ined her car after a minor a Tennessee woman died of exposure and a woman in Illinois suffered a Fata heart attack while shave Ling schools were closed Friday in the Caro new new Georgia and scattered showers continued to fall along the Pacific Europe cow str Vina Hnnry won ii until 4vn 4pm a b 54 a it a x 13 v r 14 v h it u wast and heat damage to he said the question ought to be whether it would lower or raise the nuclear thresh old in Europe and contribute to a spokesman for he defense expert Manfred has written that the limited depth of nato territory and the vulnerability of its Supply lines made it unlikely the Aires could hold out Lone against a dem lined Warsaw pact and Sweln Lusaida German antitank defences Are Sophis is the German army Leopard troops Are stationed on the czech Border and a new brigade is due in enough vital arms and equipment Are stored Well and key parts of nato equipment can be used by troops of several Allied nations or will be standardized but i never said improvements Are not he Schweinitz also said his country would not agree with a Carter administration presidential review memorandum As re ported in two major those reports said the might give up on third of West Germany rather than Sinai site Issue causes Snag in Egypt Israel talks Cairo a deadlock on the future of jewish settlements in Sinai forced the adjournment of egyptians Rae i military negotiations Friday and the return of israeli defense minister Ezer Weizman to Jerusalem for consultations with his military officials said the two countries did agree on the principle of dividing the Sinai Peninsula three including a Section which will be taken Over by the egyptian before his departure from Cairo and on his return to Tel we Man said problems and a serious Gap existed Between the egy Wianand israeli egyptian War minister Moham med Tamassy said Che resumption of the military and Wel mans arrival Back in depended on the out come of political talks scheduled to open in Jerusalem the Jerusalem talks will be led by the egyptian and israeli foreign Mohammed Kamel and Moshe Tayaru Secretary of stale Cyrus Vance will also French drug ring sentenced France a five men convicted of smuggling almost one ton Al including 500 kilograms of heroin to the were handed Down sentences Between 10 and 17 years by a mar Seille Jeanbaptiste the alleged ring is still at Large but was sentenced in absent a to 17 years in according to French narcotic author me drug ring collected More than to million during its activities from resort to nuclear weapons or spend up to billion extra to Mike an effective for Ward defense in the German natos readiness to deter la sufficient for Schweinitz but he was Quick to we will never be a party to a position where we would have to be 200 soldiers isolated by Alpine Snow Vicenza Italy up11 police and volunteers dug through deep Snow in a Bellz Zarril Friday in an attempt 200 army soldiers isolated in the Alps by two Days of snowfall that paralysed much of Northern a spokeswoman at Southern european task Force tse Taft Headquarters in Vicenza said the combat infantrymen of the 1st 5090 airborne inf were in Good shape and did not Lack food or we expect the Road to be cleared to Morrow i she the soldiers were on a Winter exercise at feel up in the asiago when an Avalanche came Down on the Access Road isolating them and an estimated 34 villagers and skiers in a nearby several dozen italian to gamekeepers and volunteers were trying to Clear the the asiago plateau was the scene of bloody Italo austrian fighting in world War one of the heaviest snowfalls in recent years has isolated numerous communities All Over the italian Alps and closed a number of passes leading into Switzerland and continued Iro Mageli prove meats far exceeded the among its the study reports that in percent of All changes in military compensation made by Congress Over the last decade were favourable to service there has been an absence of structural changes in military pay and benefits in contrast to the private sector in the past said the shortly before structural changes were made in the form of Active duty and retirement pay three Library of Congress National de sense specialists took almost one year to Complete the 62page the study makes a Point that per capita Are not necessarily the since they assume the service member u a sergeant it in and Aspin said that Many service personnel assert that they were Given real pay raises in the late 1960s to catch up with the civil Ian but that the government has Al Lowed their pay to slide downward since 1971 this is Only one of the erosion of benefits often he which Are also becoming their j As a nation we Are increasing our re mands for foreign Oil and we have cons vation forced on us by our Isalla appetite for if our own country is not if t strength is being sapped by excessive i then we cannot provide the Verj ship other countries depend Clear that our heavy dependence on if ported Oil is part of the almost every foreign Leader sin the need to Cut the wasting of Energy americans and the need u strengthen t he was asked if House Senate Congo who have been deadlocked on car Energy have reached any 1 of Compromise on Federal controls of n ral Gas pricing and whether he passage of an Energy program there Wilt be a Compromise i said Carter of an Overall Energy i think it will come very Early in t but he indicated one of the key i is still unresolved his attempts to Federal controls on natural Gas i there Are nine senators for i senators against any sort of program la has been proposed at this Civ Carter also said the has no i inject itself into the struggle in the i Africa Between Ethiopia and so Maluci criticized the soviet Union on the Maui the soviets have done just the i he in have used to the War taking place h Somalia and they have i arms to both Somalia and he also said the soviets were ble for the presence of cubans May became combatants in eth Ana that the has expressed in t concern to the soviet government sources earlier cuban military minister Raul Fidel castros brother is Cui possibly to help that leftist government plan War against Dollar Advance against major european Mont London a the boosted support from the Federal Reserve i late made solid gains almost All major european in relatively Light marked u by wild fluctuations of the italian t Dollar was Able to recoup losses it suffered in the pan two most of the dollars Rise Over late european rates came based on the dramatic Lin of the Federal Reserve Bank in the american the Dollar in Europe Friday morning Well above close the night before the dollars Only toss was against the surprisingly Strong Btl the Pound apparently received i port from Arab sources re who were Able to push Sterling up Days High off the Dollar recouped 1 slightly in later trading and the closed in London at up from 1 other quotes against the Dollar i Europe Friday Frankfurt German Marist a from Paris French up Zurich Swiss up i 19655 Amsterdam 22675 dutch t from