European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes filipino sugarcane jobs february columbian Pope to workers unionize engines fired Philippines up his face sunburned from a Day under the scorching tropical Pope John Paul ii delivered the most politically explosive speech of his asian tour telling impoverished sugarcane workers they should unionize to resist exploitation by their the pontiff spent the fifth hectic Day of his 12day asian Odyssey Island hopping from violence torn Davao to Iloilo and a where he spoke forcefully for the rights of sugarcane workers before a crowd of worshippers sweating under a fierce shadowing the pontiff As he slopped at three Island cities in the Southern Philippines was first lady Imelda wife of president Ferdinand who rented a private Jet to keep up with John Vatican aides made Little Effort to hide the fact they were annoyed by Marcos turn ing up to Greet John Paul wherever he regarding it As an attempt to capitalize politically from the papal wearing a Pink Butterfly dress and carry ing a Pink Lack trimmed Marcos followed the papal party along with Christina a close Friend and former wife of Auto magnate Henry at least nine Catholic Lay workers have been killed in execution style slayings for trying to help sugar who earn As Little As per to organize declaring it was not admissible that the profits of the land go Only into the pock ets of the John Paul told a cheering crowd in Bacolod that the worker is entitled to wages that give him a just share in the wealth he helps to working conditions should be geared not to the eve increasing economic profit of the Enterprise but to the inviolable dignity of Man As an he it has been the constant teaching of the Church that workers have a right to unite in free associations for the purposes of defend ing their interests and contributing As responsible partners to the common John Paul said of the workers struggle to injustice reigns when within the same society some groups hold most of the wealth and Power while Large strata of the Tion cannot decently provide for the Liveli hoods of their families even through Long hours of backbreaking labor in factories and in the he army says Abrams tank now ready for troop use Washington a the army thursday declared the new Abrams tank operationally and logistically ready for the it said Field and engineering tests have shown that engineering problems uncovered in experimental models have been corrected in production Model and qual Ity control problems found on Early production vehicles Are being the decision to declare the tank As Stan Dard was made by an army Council earlier this past week after a review of test the tank no longer will be labelled the but will be designated the my Abrams the x denotes experimental this action certifies that it will be operationally and logistically acceptable for its intended the army Reagan visits ranch first in office continued from Page i nuts because of the broadening base of the at a breakfast for editors before he left the White Reagan said president Kennedy advisers warned that his tax Cut would lose billion in but the Kroesen says cuts have Hurt continued from Page 1 he in my we now risk expending the Force that we might use it up in combat because its re its sustained cannot be we do not at this time have the system stocked and prepared sufficiently to guarantee Success in extended combat but he said the undermanned five Divi Sions deployed in if maintained Are a formidable obstacle to a soviet attack directed against Central eur the he is How Long they would be Able to fight because most units arc not manned for sustained Kroesen said the Inadequacy of support services for the troops Means sol Diers a Day must be borrowed from combat assignments to perform housekeeping chores essential for Day today in response to he said such chores included driving buses to take sol Diers children to and from there Are appalling living and working conditions throughout the he told the two senators the troops Are Short Barracks spaces and some Are living in Barracks from the the time of the Franco russian government actually gained so they had made quite a sizable Finan Cial error in their Reagan Jack Kennedy line about it a rising tide lifts All and this is what we believe that the tax proposals that weve what there aimed in White House Counselor Edwin Meese who accompanied Rea Gan on the trip said Reagan plans to continue focusing on the Economy but also will devote time to foreign policy and developing a new concept of federalism by returning some Federal functions to states and the president meets with Gover nors next week on the latter but until Reagan s attention is expected to be almost exclusively on his Meese said the whole purpose of coming to the ranch is to be where he can work physically by brass slug nets London a a Gold Coin dating from the reign of Henry left lying around in a Box because its owner thought it was a brass fetched at a so Thebes auction in Central Europe forecast for saturday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with Snow and the Snow being heavier Over higher fog will be locally dense in the late evening and Early highs 27 to 33 lows 20 to 26 1016 in the Southeast Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook or sunday mostly Cloudy with fog and decreasing Little change in temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm p p m p s t p Snow a mostly Cloudy partly Cloudy 7th weather so 30 41 27 27 30 25 59 30 54 38 27 32 27 t s p i m r 4pm 27 28 34 39 32 45 25 28 32 36 30 46 23 32 the 59ton the first wholly new design in about 20 is named for the late Creighton a former army chief of Usa eur commander in commander in Vietnam and world War ii hero of a Mored warfare in army officials said 64 of the tanks had been delivered As of the end of but that deliveries still were late last the army acknowledged that Chrysler was at least two months behind production a Chrysler executive blamed the delay on a subcontractors slowness in supplying tur Bine engines for the army officials said they understand this problem has been the army expects to buy about Abrams envoy briefs Bonn leaders on Salvador policy Bonn a assistant Secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger met Friday with foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher and other top West German politicians As part of the Reagan administrations Effort to explain its policy in Al foreign ministry officials said Genscher and Eagleburger talked for More than an hour and had an Exchange of views on the situation in Central the German Side said both governments wished to state their agreement and under line their interest in supporting the Independence and sovereignty of third world a no other details of the talks were re Eagleburger also met with Hans Juergen Deputy chairman of Chancellor Helmut schmidts social democratic whose left Wing sympathizes with rebels seeking to overthrow the Junta in Al the Reagan administration claims the rebels Are aided by the soviet Union and would turn Al Salvador into another Cuba if they came to it was the officials second trip to Bonn within a week and followed consultations in Brussels and the the Eagleburger swing was designed to present Allied governments with details of allegations about extensive cuban and soviet military Aid to salvadoran guerrillas battling the military Junta of president Jose Napoleon times editor named London up australian publisher Rupert Murdoch has appointed editor Harold Evans to head the times of has edited the sunday times since successfully continued from Page i first John Young and Bob they watched the test froma flying to feet Over the launch when the practice countdown reached the three engines at the base of the Delta winged spaceship flashed to spewing torrents of almost invisible steam and smoke and sending a Thunderclap rolling across the scrub and Palmetto of the Kennedy space All engines Are up and the control Center launch director George Page told a news conference later that the test was per the operation of the engines was just he it raises the Confidence of everyone Here that we can proceed to Ward a launching in Early just after the More than 800 machinists Union members who do support work on the launch pad walked out in a pay dispute with the Boeing the machinists have worked without a contract since the which came without could delay an april said Richard space Center but he said Boeing had plans to bring in outside work ers that could prevent any major Greenback loses More steam on Europe markets London up the affected by interest rate increases in West Germany and closed lower on european Money markets Friday but a dealer said it still is a basically Strong Gold closed at an ounce in Zug up on the in it closed at against the Dollar moved up quickly against european currencies last week and reached its Best rates since 1977 on some but its Rise was checked this week and it closed Friday at its lowest Levels since late january and Early february in some conversion table on Page the Dollar is reacting to the Swiss and West German measures taken thursday to Shore up their weakening currencies against the Dollar and also to president reagans economic a Swiss for eign Exchange dealer the Market has a Waitan see Atti tude at the moment about the eco nomic policy if is a Little sceptical about the tax which could be the dealer the Market also has its doubts about the Polit ical possibility of getting the package through but the Dollar is still a basically Strong currency and i cant see it slipping much he Reagan to meet again with mexican president Washington up president who made a pre inauguration trip to will meet again wit president Jose Lopez Portillo in Tijuana and san die go april the White House said the purpose of the meeting is to Exchange views on bilateral and regional the White House said the april meeting is in accordance with an understanding reached by Reagan and Portillo in january to review in depth issues of interest to the United states and Mexico and to strengthen the personal Friendship they have Stab