European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q weather plays a trick on sunny 3 q Blacks retrace 1965 Selma 5 q Vietnam heros award 14 years 9 q Linda White visits Golden Magazine q Georgetown crushes Syracuse 21 q Australia cancels anus 28 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 320 doily Obj March 1985 d 8693 a scores die As quake rocks Chile Chile a a major earthquake struck an 800mile stretch of Central Chile on sunday crumbling houses in rocking skyscrapers in the capital and cutting communications and the government said monday that at least 124 people were killed and were Santiago and the coastal cities of Valparaiso and Vina on the Pacific with a combined population of about 6 million appeared to be the hardest hit by the which struck at people camped among the debris in City away from their weakened As dozens of aftershocks rum bled through the Region All night and through the morning authorities had warned that Walls in Many of the Adobe Homes were and that they might col lapse in the in the United the National earthquake information Center in the quake measured on the Richter within six Santiago residents had Felt about 48 some of them so Strong they rocked High Rise Milder tremors continued All at mid morning chief government spokesman Francisco Cuadra announced that the death toll had been raised to counting Only newly found victims in san Tiago and As communications Are restored and reports arrive from Remote the government the death toll will probably officials said at least people were a town Southwest of was heavily the government when the quake struck thousands of people ran screaming from their Homes and broken Glass showered the witnesses ten people died when the front Section of a Church collapsed during mass in san just outside san said Jaime governor of the the quake Shook Santiago for about five Jose who lives on the sixth floor of a downtown a photo Santiago aftermath a half collapsed apartment House Santiago apartment said All of a this huge Cloud of Reddish dust came from i thought it was the end of the Valparaiso and Vina Del mar appeared to have suffered the said the government emergency deaths also were reported in the cities of Ranc Agua and san but no figures were chilean officials said the quakes epicentre was 25 Miles off the coastal resort City of which is 88 Miles Northwest of in a nationwide radio and television address president Augusto Pinochet announced the appointment of a High ranking committee to coordinate assistance to the homeless and restore Pinochet called on chileans to remain As you have done in the last difficult and to show Solidarity to your Brothers who have been hit by electrical Power was knocked and Telephone lines were jammed All Over making if difficult to gather accurate electricity was restored in Santiago after an outage of nearly three a Santiago police spokesman said there were no major looting in authorities warned that they would Deal severely with the government said about 200 seriously injured people were at Santiagos Central emergency but a Tele phone operator at the Hospital said the number of wounded at the facility was much people across the Andes mountains in Argentina also Felt the especially the foothill cities of san Juan and but no casualties or major dam age were some residents of High Rise apartment buildings in Buenos 600 Miles East of the chilean reported slight Richter scale readings indicate the Energy released by the As measured by ground motion on seism the scale is but an earthquake of magnitude 7 is considered capable of heavy damage one of magnitude 8 is considered a great capable of tremendous new Stu cry Calls for pension Reform Washington a the Mili tary pension system not Only is More Gen Erous than most retirement plans but also harms National defense by encouraging skilled personnel to retire relatively a private group said in a study issued the need to Reform the military retire ment system thus seems the non profit Center for budget and policy priorities said in a report titled the military the founded in special izes in analyses of Federal budget including entitlement Lowin come benefits and military the military retirement with an annual Cost larger than food Aid to families with dependent children and supplemental Security pro Vides High Levels of benefits to a Small and largely affluent segment of the study it Isa far More generous pension sys tem than civil service retirement or virtually any private pension the Center the military retirement As now also works counter to our nations defense readiness it encourages the armed forces most skilled personnel to retire at a Young age when they Are just reaching the Peak of their the study the Center found that the median age at which military personnel Complete at least 20 years of service and begin collecting pensions is they pay nothing toward their pen which Are nearly three times larger than median benefits paid by private pen Sion because they begin drawing retire ment pay earlier than most other total lifetime benefits vastly outstrip those earned by an army colonel or see pension on Page 28 Reagan makes pitch for my production Washington up president Reagan asked Congress on monday to continue production of the my arguing that it would show american resolve going into new arms talks and counter a growing soviet military moving toward a series of showdown votes in the next several Reagan signed a report that must be submitted to Congress before efforts can be made to re lease billion in my production approved last White House spokesman Robert Sims said the 18page report reasserts the need for the missile dubbed the peacekeeper by Reagan and the importance of not abandoning the my program As the superpowers begin a new round of arms negotiations next tuesday in the Basic Bottom line of the report is that failure to continue peacekeeper production and deployment would significantly undercut ability to negotiate meaningful arms control agreements in Geneva and Send an unmistakable signal to the soviets that we Lack the resolve to maintain our National Security policy of Sims said at a news Confer Sims said the report argues that the missile is needed because the soviets have pressed ahead in the last year with the development and testing of new Long Range nuclear in violation of curbs in the a ratified Salt ii once sent to the my report triggers a timetable that should Lead to a first crucial vote in the Senate around March 20 just eight Days after arms talks Are to open in with democrats hoping to Muster the votes to kill the my in the House of repro Sims said the vote will be a crucial one and a difficult we Are not confident of a Victory in either he told and that Why the president is involving himself personally in Reagan plans lobbying sessions with con Gressmen As votes near in the Senate and in the Sims the my has been challenged by critics As unnecessary or even but is hailed by Reagan As a Symbol not just of his own arms buildup but of resolve to meet any soviet Reagan has sought to persuade Congress to not abandon the my As negotiators head to Geneva in Pursuit of deep cuts in offensive nuclear