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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. June 2. 1980 members of he Mesclun a Union stage tuneful protest outside abcs Broad casting House in London. The 41,000 member Union b on strike  dec Ion to fire fire Bouse orches tras is i part of its Economy drive. The musical pickets strike a Fol it hardest at radio 3, Whicher Glarry airs be classical mask pro Grunt. The radio stations May not air More than 117 bom of recorded in taper week. Off dab Bare not said Bow Bey win tin the raid. A . Pulling j,800 marines from Mideast Washington up the United states is withdrawing 1,800 marines it sent to the arabian sea in mid March As part of a military buildup there following the Iran and Afghanistan crises the Pentagon an  defense department spokesman said the marines who Are embarked on four amphibious ships left the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Straits. They Are accompanied by a Cruiser and a frigate. The Pentagon announced feb. 13 it was deploying the marines to the arabian sea to exercise with the . Naval Armada Sla defense Secretary Harold Brown is in London and planned to Confer monday with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and British defense officials. Following that he will attend a two Day session of the nato nuclear planning group in Bodo Norway and then will go to Bonn to meet with West German Chan cellar Helmut Schmidt before returning to Washington. A Pentagon spokesman said sunday we Don t Rule out the possibility of sending them Back if they Are  the United states is maintaining about 25 ships warships and support vessels in the arabian sea indefinitely. In Early june seven cargo ships also will be sailing from East and West coast ports to the Indian Ocean with heavy equipment for a Marine amphibious brigade. Defense department officials say the United states is exploring the possibility of securing Access in Egypt for f-5 fighters if they Are needed in the area and is reason ably near pacts with Kenya and Oman for Access to airfields and ports there. Ruiyu Wizig Hullt 1iw i ��t,�.iim u a T few u1i1ii�vw1i. Carter says . Planning no troop cuts in Europe Liconti Auto from pane ii about their very lives because those to continued Page i co dance with the balanced budget that i submitted and the five year plan is to have a 4 percent real growth above and beyond the inflation Rale in appropriations for de sense Carter said. This gives us a Strong commitment to defense predictability Good planning. ,. On Iran Carter said that the United states has not closed any option including a very severe response if any of the 53 captive americans Are put on  the same Lime he implied that his administration has been responsible for Sav ing their lives to Date. If you remember Early we were fearful planned go pay raise is termed not enough continued from Page i total 58 percent Over the next five  military pay abreast of manufacturing salaries would add $400 million in 1981 to the s47 billion proposed by the administration for pay allowances and retirement the study  the next five years the additional Cost would total $6.8  study said that even with pay in creases that kept Pace the administration s plan would not. In 1980 and 1981, enable the services to attract enough enlisted recruits while also maintaining the desired percentage of those holding High school i  with pay increases equivalent to manufacturing salaries the services would have to accept More recruits who had not graduated from High school or fall Short of recruiting goals by As much As 14 percent the study  study was written before Carter endorsed a Senate package known As the Nunn Warner amendment for increases in allowances and  Nunn Warner amendment named for sen. Sam Nunn a a. And Juii Warner r-va., does not include a pay raise. Instead it would authorize variable housing allowances pegged to local costs increased payments for moving expenses higher sea and flight pay and subsistence allowances and re enlistment bonuses for service members with Between 10 and is years of service. The addition of the Nunn Warner pack age to the administration proposal would help retain career personnel but would do Little to solve recruiting problems the study said. While the study did not endorse any particular plan it said that one possible pack age could include the administration and Nunn Warner proposals plus added enlist ment and re enlistment bonuses accompanied by modest reductions in retirement  it said that would Cost about s4 billion above the administration s proposals. Abou threats to their safety and to their lives were made open and publicly Carter said on the face the nation program that was taped saturday for broadcast sunday. The president said that while he had t made adequate Progress in Iran what we be done since the very beginning is to try to protect the lives and safety of those hos tages from the original threats that they would be tried and  he said that with the failure in april of the . Attempt to Rescue the hostages it became then better for us to concentrate on a Broad based International economic pres sure to be exerted against  As a result of that Effort the european allies have now imposed economic sanctions against Iran he said. While i would rather they be much More severe in their minds they Are  the president warned anew however that the United states would take a very grave View of any attempt to put the hos tages on trial a course that Iran continues to discuss publicly. He said that the administration stated its categorical opposition to trials at the Start of the crisis and that statement still pre vails. . Actions if trials were to occur would be very severe against Iran he said. We have not closed any option for our nation to  he said it would be inappropriate to publicly spell out the options. Central Europe monday if Lei will m Mouty tax Xuy to parity Cloudy with Only widely isolated afternoon rain Howert. High temperature wll Range irom the my Soi id mid Tel on tuesday Eipel Era duty  conditions with dignity warmer temperature. Sunset monday tj3 . Turn pm tuesday set am. Temperatures recorded Sun Day. Adana m Watnem. A Ano. M Benin f Ruuth. Copenhagen p 4am torn7j � u n u u u m so � 41 Ftp fran Murl. R London m Madrid pm urn r part m Roma r 4am 40m� u u 14 to 41 4s10 it u ssh fair no Moll Clous. A Pat of adv. A rain Lin Weaner world briefs guns still missing Seoul a the South korean government said in a weekend report that while 80 percent of the guns seized by anti government re Bels in Kwangju have been recovered More than 1,000 weapons and More than 86,000 rounds of ammunition Are still unaccounted for. Begin ducks crisis Jerusalem up1 prime minister Menachim begin Side stepped a Cabinet crisis sunday by assuming the vacant Post of defense minister until he finds a successor to Ezer Weizman All his coalition part ners can accept a government spokesman said. Saudi hike Likely Beirut up an Arab economist said sunday that saudi Arabia Likely will hike its Oil prices by another j4 per barrel and trim production by 1 million barrels a Day if other Oil producers agree to freeze their prices for the rest of 1980. London explosion London a a bomb blew out the front of the Kuwait Oil co. Office in a pre Dawn explosion Sun Day spraying tons of shattered Glass into London s Bond Street shopping pea As Middle East related terror ism hit the British capital again. There were no injuries. Pontiff lashes out Paris a Pope John Paul ii lashed out sunday in an address to Trench Bishops at Catholic dissidents both conservative and reformist calling their views extreme and  Corsiga cleared Rome not a special parliamentary commission saturday Dis missed As unfounded an accusation against prime minister Francesco Corsiga that he had enabled the son of the vice president of the Christian democratic parly to escape arrest As a terrorist suspect  
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