European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes february Usan plane crash kills 16 off Philippines Philippines a sixteen servicemen from the and three Allied countries were killed and seven others were missing in the crash thursday of a air Force plane off the the Navy a spokesman said one injured american was rescued and ships of the 7th Fleet were searching the crash site in the South China sea near Tabones 20 Miles North West of Subic Bay and 70 Miles Northwest of the 1st Jeffrey Blohm of suffered a fractured left cuts and bruises and was in serious but stable condition in the Hospital at the sub in naval the spokesman Blohm was stationed at Clark air North of the four engine a modified version of the Hercules was carrying 24 filipino and new zealand servicemen when it crashed shortly after taking off from the Cubi Point naval air adjoining the Subic naval the spokesman he said the personnel were in route to a firing Range off Tabones for a combined but he could not say How Many of each nationality were the plane was from the 1st special operations so at Clark air base and had been equipped for highly accurate inertial Nav refuelling in flight and special the spokesman it was the second crash this week of a plane from an f4 phantom fighter hit a Mountain during a practice bombing Mission but the two crewmen ejected tolly1 to do he says Baker favors sending Al Salvador military advisers Washington up Senate re publican Leader Howard Baker said wednesday it would be entirely appropriate for he United states to Sena Small numbers of military advisers to Al Salvador to help Battle communist armed for us to stand by idly and do nothing would be the height of Baker told reporters after meeting with president Rea Gan at the White White House press Secretary Jim Brady said Reagan had made no decision on any Type of assistance to the military govern ment of Al Salvador but is considering a wide Range of underlining reagans pledge tuesday that the United states would not become involved in another Brady said the president would act Only in consultation with Congress and in accordance with Baker said the United states should not Send troops who might be involved in com Bat at this but he i think it is entirely appropriate for this country to Dis Patch noncombat advisers in Small num Bers 150 to Tell these people How to defend themselves against describing the regime in Al Salvador As the poor unfortunate Middle ground at which both the left and the right Are shoot Baker said advisers Are needed to train our friends on How to defend them More budget cuts ordered continued from Page i to hold spending to White House press Secretary James Brady disclosed the estimate of billion to billion for the additional Anderson said Reagan remained committed to not touching the seven major so Cial safety net including the Basic social Security he said All government including those paid to tobacco and Dairy would be looked at in the new budget Cut Ting Anderson said that new budget Cut suggestions May be made by the end of the in some so the president can meet his deadline of March 10 for submit Ting to Congress an actual budget proposal for fiscal he stressed that the administrations projections of the state of the nations Economy have not the official said Reagan expressed con Cern but not Surprise when he was told about the Hes used to budget numbers changing the wrong Anderson told reporters during a he said that presenting the news to gave the president a specific Range of the the economic session included vice pres ident George Treasury Secretary Donald presidential Counselor Edwin Meuse White House chief of staff James Baker an and Murray chair Man of the presidents Council of economic selves against the onslaught of rebel forces that Are financed by Russia and equipped and manned in some cases directly of cd but former ambassador to Al Salvador Robert testifying at a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on possible Aid to Al said there is no Demon Strable need for sending military advisers and to do so would put the country in the position of being a Vassal state of the United who was fired by the new admin contended the threat to the stability of Al Salvador government comes not from the extreme left but from the extreme military Aid to this government is not crucial and it runs the risk of diverting the attention from the real problem of Al Salva which is political to apply a military solution to a leftist threat is to go Down the wrong a state department official called for increases in both military and economic Aid to Al John acting assistant Secretary of state for latin american said Al Salvador received nearly million in economic Aid in 1980 while military Aid grew from million to but this emergency increase in military assistance will not be Bushnell but Bushnell told the subcommittee the administration does not intend to become engaged again in a Vietnam Type Situa White blamed the extreme including government Security for the deaths of about half of the estimated people killed in Al Salvador Over the past the Issue is not military he the Issue is How you Are going to Supply military Aid to a military Force that is kill ing and assassinating thousands and thou Sands of people Down do we want to associate ourselves with that sort of people hispanic exc pain files big bias1 suit against army Devlin is smuggled san Francisco up a former army Captain says his million charging he was drummed out of the officer corps because of his hispanic could trigger the largest civil rights class action suit in the history of the Aristedes citing depart ment of defense statistics that list 865 his panics in an officer corps of men and said wednesday that 500 other sex officers of hispanic origin Are awaiting the outcome of his if he wins his Gonzalez it could mean a massive class action suit against the army officer promotion poli the largest against the military in the history of the civil rights Gonzalezs suit asks the army for Back pay and punitive damages and reinstate ment in the officer corps at the rank of lieutenant colonel a he his contemporaries in the army who Are White anglos have attained while he was twice passed Over for his suit will be heard in District court in san Francisco july Gonzalez was commissioned in 1965 As a second lieutenant along with 65 others in his graduating class at the University of puerto since that Only one of his classmates has been promoted As High As he with the rest being passed Over for promotions and forced Gonzalez said he left the army in february 1980 took a Job with the army department As a statistical an not so he was that even then they wanted to hire me As a gs5 Central Europe forecast for Friday fair to partly Cloudy skies with Light morning fog and afternoon highs 3642 lows Sunset Friday Sunrise saturday 709 Outlook for saturday continued fair to partly Cloudy skies with Light morning expect increasing cloudiness by evening in Western temperatures Wlsh be slightly temperatures recorded thursday 4am 4pm Frankfurt f mfg m f a p Clr pig p mfg f f f 46 57 34 32 45 46 25 50 25 39 32 43 30 37 f 4am 4pm 28 46 32 36 36 54 16 39 28 43 41 54 39 Pearlly Cloudy of fog Iraln a Cloudy of far m mostly 7th weather so government employment level approximately equal to that of an army staff ser he fought he and was eventually hired As a gsi1 approximately equal to an army in his Gonzalez alleged that and asian americans Are Given special consideration by army promo Tion boards to redress past Gonzalez said no such treat ment has been accorded hispanic he charged that Gross under represent Tion of hispanic officers to a system that discriminates against them personally and Gonzalez said that at the time the army gave him the bums less than one percent of the officer corps was made up of hispanics when census figures showed that nearly 10 percent of the population was by he due to affirmative action Blacks comprised percent of army officers while Blacks made up 14 percent of the the record of the army is not As Good As it should be for Black officers he but for hispanic officers it is simply 1 44 journal says Reagan re studies a Choice new York a president Reagan is reconsidering his appointment of John a Vietnam War to head the veterans administration following pro tests from supporters of another Newsweek Magazine it said the strenuous opposition had come from supporters of former Ohio Wil Liam one of a handful of persons reported to be under consideration for the a Republican new York state assemblyman who lost both legs while serving in announced at a gop dinner on Long Island that Alfonse and Robert told him he would be named to the Behan said the White House was expected to announce the nomination the following but no announcement was out of Hospital Belfast a Devlin Maliskey has been smuggled out of Bel fasts Royal Victoria Hospital after recovering from seven gunshot wounds she suffered in an assassination attempt a Hospital spokesman a left Wing political and for Mer Leader of a roman Catholic civil rights was discharged from Hospital but this was kept secret because of fears of further assassination attempts amid sectarian tension in Northern joined her husband i who also was wounded in the january attack on their farmhouse Home West of and their three children at a secret the Hospital spokesman arrested in India new Delhi up police arrested about demonstrators in Western India continuing protests against Reser vation of state College places for lower caste the press Trust of India fraud action line posters destroyed Heidelberg from june to october Usa eur distributed a series of Cid designed posters entitled fraud action that were to publicize a Telephone number which personnel could Call to anonymously report incidents of fraud against the a usar eur spokesman said the posters used the letters Mony As a device to help people remember the phone number upon realizing that the letters Mony also happened to be the registered trademark of the firm Mutual of new Usa eur and Cid ordered the posters to be taken Down and the spokesman no reference to Mutual of new York was intended in the he