European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday August 10, 1978 Post allowance system for . Civilians will be changed on aug. 27 by Linda Wilson staff write Heidelberg s4s after aug. 27 All . Civilians overseas who receive Post allowances will notice a difference in the size of their paycheck a Usa eur offi Cial said the most part those earning Over $30,000 a year will get More Money an those earning under $30.000 will Jet less. The change is due to a revision of the full time appropriated fund civilian employees and full time non appropriate fund civilian employees recruited in the .the Post allowance is similar to the Mili tary s Cost of living allowance and does not include housing. It was designed to keep civilian s Standard of living overseas on a. Par with that of civilians of the same salary level who live in Washington . Survey update the changes Are based on an update of the Bureau of labor statistics consumer expenditure Survey released in May 1978.elbe previous pay schedule was based on data from 1961. Edward Mckenzie supervisory person Nel management specialist at Heidelberg nid the new system was designed to simplify the administrative system and of provide More equitable under the old system Mckenzie said. I there was one Post allowance schedule an people earning Over $20,000 All received it the same amount of Money. There was also an additional increment system which made Money available for each child. F with the new system there Are six differ int Cost of living schedules ranging from employee with no family through employee with five or More in eluding a husband or " some lose some win Ujj Mckenzie said this system would More equitably reflect the Cost of living for an in what it Breaks Down to. Is that the a family husband wife and one " earning $10,000 annually can t to lose $60 per year. A person earn $30,000 annually will lose about $20 astar and a person earning $50,000 a year will gain $185 per year. This Scalp applies to those living in an area that has been Given a Post classification of 5 percent according to Mckenzie. F. The Post classification percentage reflects the amount of Money that it costs to live in various overseas areas compared to Washington. . This percentage varies according to the area. Families making $10,000 at posts with a higher Post allowance classification win lose More and those making Over $30.000 will gain explanation Mckenzie said it May Cost him a person earning $50,000 a year $185 More a year to maintain his Standard of reference to the loss of $60 a year by people earning $10.000 a year or less me Kynzie said the loss in t that change is automatic and will appear on paychecks for the first full pay period after aug. 27.persons wanting further information May Contact civilian personnel offices. Scientists shun conf Reno i n Tokyo due of Dollar Dif Tokyo a More than 500 Amer ican and european scientists san edited to attend a conference uni Tokyo later this month have cancelled their visit be cause of the Dollar s declining value against the japanese yen one of the organizers said wednesday. The Lith International Congress on gerontology the study of aging was Mohave drawn 3,500 scientists and experts from 48 countries including 1,000 Japa Nese Hajime Orimo said in a Telephone interview. I m not really surprised Orimo said. Most of these people Are dependent upon dollars and the fact is. The Dollar won t go very far in this coun Over the past year the plunged from 260 yen to less the yen. A decrease in value of Alec a percent. Orimo said Many americans shying away from the land of to ing yen because of the High Cost. Tel rooms and the Price of food. A ble room in downtown Tokyo set the equivalent of $70 a night. A _ dinner for two can Cost $100 Doltan More with a Small bottle of these prices maybe even people will drop out Orimo the 800 american participants Ray half havely expected Nearl the organizers they said. Have won t Boss of German anti terrorist s explains problems of forming Gro by Lucia Guajardo staff writer Heidelberg Sis news of his current assignment made him feel like he was in the ejection seat of a phantom fighter the colonel said. The assignment to form the German anti terrorist squad now famous for its Rescue of a plane Load of Lufthansa Passen Gers held hostage last october in Somalia was Given to col. Ulrich Wegener of the German Border guard in 1972. I Felt As if i was sitting in an ejections at of a phantom fighter. I had to be successful. There was no question about this. But no one could Tell me How 1 should Doit Wegener told a group of about 500 Mili tary persons Here attending a presentation sponsored by the amerika Haus on wednesday. Amerika Haus supported by the German and american governments works to inform the Peoples of both coun tries about one another. Explaining the inception of the unit we Gener reminded his audience that numer Ous bombings armed robberies and other terrorist activities of the red army fac Tion or Baader Meinhoff gang at that time were creating a great feeling of insecurity in the general he called the sept. 5, 1972, attack by the palestinian organization Black september commando against the israeli delegation to the olympic games in Munich the worst in the Federal Republic of 5 Young yanks jailed in Iran on car charges col. Ulrich Wegener the results were All 11 hostages dead five guerrillas killed three jailed but later released and a policeman killed when an other High jacking occurred a month later. The available police forces were not Ca Pable of effectively combating a terrorist attack with their conventional method Sand weapons Wegener said. Most of the terrorist groups especially those trained by the palestinians and including the germans were fully prepared for their assignment tightly controlled a. Heavy y armed Wegener of the terrorists had received in a Para military training. Daily equipped High performance we Don t Wear any badges or bars in an operation. We Don t ii the other Side who s to be killed Gener explained. According to Wegener. So far has suffered one wounding and to and that happened during an training session. Only the Chancellor or German can make Wegener s group the reason is that when we Start action it is always of some he for future missions Wegener terrorist activities of 1977 the at Tion of German attorney general Buback in april Jurgen Ponto i of the Dresdner Bank in july to snapping and eventual murder of Tiff Martin Schleyer the spokesman German Industry and the the Lufthansa Airliner in october it very Clear to the people Republic of Germany that still is a main threat against the in system of this country he said. Said. Free repairs available for manual no. 4. Get Wegener and 20 u 25 per inf"68 � the mani5jrt Short y after the Black september com Mando incident Wegener was assigned to organize Border guard unit no. 9 Gsg 9 i " i a manual of i"5 Urban Gerril of by Carios Marghella and fire arms and a handbook used by the Weatherman in the . Were used As Tex books for the squad Wegener slut Risi ? a set months of Aschaffenbur Milter a
