European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 2 the stars and stripes Lar Delight february Rise has More yanks buying on fhe some complain of decline in allowances by the stars and stripes a stronger Dollar is taking the Edge off German rental costs for soldiers and air and encouraging Many americans to spend More Money on the according to Many service members inter View dby the stars and other americans living in Germany say the dollars recent gains have had Little or no effect on their and service members living in the Barracks or govern ment quarters complain of cuts in cos of living the German Mark Slid to an Al time Low of Marks to the Dollar in january but climbed to earlier this month a 46pfcnnig change Over 13 in even thinking of extending my said 1 Frank with the 26th signal in equal Opportunity of fice at the Dollar has taken a beating for a Long period of i think its Rise helps the morale for those who Are staying it makes it a lot easier to meet the rent and gives us More Money to buy food and meet our said 4 Mark from co 3rd 63rd Armor in aug 1 feel less guilty about spending Money on the Economy its not going to kill our budget if i spend 40 said Mary Jane Balaskovits with the Bremer Haven plans and operations of 5 Alfred with co 2nd signal in in said he shops More on the Economy now and spends Money on things he normally could not airman Mel Quattlebaum of the 603rd tac control so at Simbach air lives in the but said the dollars increase in buying Power on the local Economy has made it easier for him to get off instead of going to the no i can now go downtown More often for in he its a Good Chance to cat at German restaurants and go to local Ive been thinking about buying a new and now in thinking even More about said Charles pitch commander of the 41st ordnance co in yet the dollars Rise has not been the Only Factor encouraging americans to make major purchases on the 4 Sandra a member of the Bremerhaven Community drug and Alco hol assistance Center said she and her Thomas plan to buy German furniture before returning to the states in a few she added she will buy the furniture even if the Dollar Falls again because she would not be Able to get the kind of Furni Ture she wants in the Exchange or in the 4 Jacqueline of the 581st signal co in said the dollars value Hast been up Long enough for the difference to be i dont want to splurge right she Cook and other military personnel who live in government quarters or in the Barracks said the Dollar s Rise has not really affected i think its although it Only affects me for the 30 or 40 Marks i spend on said Bill from Vii corps in who lives in the i dont see much of a said Arturo who is with the 139th a postal at Schwa Ebisch my phone Bill is now about Marks where it was 12 Marks but now i can spend and go Volks marching for the whole the Rise in the dollars value against the Mark has worked against troops drawing allowances for living on the with some service members complaining of significant cuts in i got a raise in pay because i went Over two years in the air and ended up getting a decrease in my paycheck because of the decrease in Hola and said airman Lowell of the 606th tac control so in Bremer even with the dollars improved value against the Mark Over the past few Many people stationed in Europe Are looking for even higher Exchange i wish it would Rise to where it was when i arrived Here in 1977 said i would be Happy if it reached Quattlebaum i think it will continue and i would like to see it reach said 4 Gary of the 2nd move ment Region in that would really make me if the Dollar passes the 3mark soldiers Here will be very Pitchford with today that would probably compare to the time when the Dollar would buy about 4 complied by Bureau chiefs Rudl Williams in John Glass in Stuttgart and Roy Adams in on second anniversary of revolution Khomeini warns of conspiracies Beirut a revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned against superpower conspiracies wednes Day on the second anniversary of the Irani an president Abolhassan mean said that the embargo and the War with Iraq had Cut Iran foreign reserves from billion to the danger of communism is not less than that of Western capitalism and the iranian nation should resist the conspiracies of both Khomeini said in a Mes watching smoothers Nof illegal court says Munich up it is not illegal to watch couples exchanging caresses in a West German court ruled the Munich High county court said a who was sued for insulting behaviour by a Young couple he watched in a was in his full right to observe their Exchange of the ruling ended a yearlong suit and overturned a decision by a lower which had slapped a Fine on the peeking Sage read by his son Ahmad at a mass rally in Tehran Asaadi once again i warn you of the american danger in the especially in the Region and in All those United against the islamic Republic Are linked with Khomeini also spoke out against the Power struggle Between clerical and secular factions in admonishing moslem clergy men not to interfere in matters that were not their concern and about which they knew who Heads the secular told the throng Iran needed Security from zealots and must exert tremendous Effort to pull itself out of its economic diff Banisadr said that next to the War with Iran most pressing problem was the our foreign currency reserves have de creased a great he it is unlikely that our foreign currency reserves exceed 53 turks arrested Ankara up turkish Security forces have announced 53 arrests in the Dis covery of an outlawed leftist organization in Adi Yaman province in Southeastern a military announcement said 22 of the group were accused of being members of the outlawed organization while 31 others were held As while at the end of the year which started in March 1979 our foreign currency reserves were the Rea son for the reduction in our foreign currency reserves was the War and the economic Washington blocked All Trade with Iran last year because of the seizure of american most allies Fol Lowed temperatures l 9 Rock 32 Angeles 32 39 32 Beach 19 Paul 47 Orleans 17 21 City 21 16 46 44 Maine 36 21 34 24 22 Louis 5 Petersburg 0 Lake City 14 Diego Francisco 15 Juan 59 31 39 2 37 news update a few Good men London up the special air service Britain most secret army whose men ended the iranian embassy was besieged by hundreds of men wishing to join it after it put advertisements in newspapers and on radio for the and asking for Young men for work of National importance was placed because Only about 1 Man in 10 passes its stiff three year a senior officer we want men in their he teenagers Are just not mature our wartime role is raiding and reconnaissance behind enemy and for Young men lured by the dramatic embassy he said they would not do that kind of we Are not an Antiterrorist Chrysler loan approval Washington up Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said he will sign the Chrysler pending re quest for More Federal loan guarantees if All conditions Are responding to a question following his National press club Regan said the new administration in general does not look favourably on govern ment subsidies for inefficient but in this he Congress has approved loan guarantees in principle and a government loan guarantee headed by his William has approved another Mil lion in Chrysler provided a financial plan is implemented which includes financial concessions by Chrysler Bankers and transplants unnecessary up a 13 year old whose illness led his parents to discover he was switched at birth with their real son in a mexican Hospi is showing improvement and will not have to undergo painful Bone marrow Efren de Loa of has responded Well to chemical treatment for plastic Sylvia Guendel a clinical social worker at Chil Drens Gendelman led a search in no vember to track Down the teenagers biological parents when extensive tests on his parents and seven Brothers and Sisters in Richmond revealed that they were not his real life term recommended a a jury has recommended that Darlin june Cromer spend the rest of her life in Pris on without Chance of parole for the racially motivated strangling of a 5year old Black the jury delivered its decision tues Day after one Day of deliberation in Ala Meda county Superior judge Wilmont Sweeney will sentence Cromer March the jury found a 34yearold White guilty on 16 of first degree murder with special Circum the killing occurred during a kidnapping and was racially defense attorneys had argued that a resident of was a psychiatrist testified that Cromer thought she was killing a Rabbit when she squeezed the life from Reginald Wil on Cromer spirited the child into her car from where he was playing near his Alameda strangled drove the body North to a mudflat on the Edge of san Francisco Bay and buried White Collar heroes new Orleans a an attorney for a Vietnam Veteran imprisoned for murder said his client was depressed by the adulation heaped on the freed hostages when he Cut his wrists and wrote in blood on his cell Wall White Collar it was something Ive been expecting for a Long said Graves who defended Robert Wayen Felde in his trial for killing a Shreveport police Felde was convicted in August of the first degree murder of Thomas Glen the jury recommended that Felde be sentencing is set for Friday the 13th an appropriate Thomas said in a Telephone interview from his Shreve Hes supposed to be sentenced to and he will be cause he asked for the death penalty at his discovered bleeding in his he was treated and returned to
