European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes March Penny pinchers7 Are asked by officials to Cash in coins world today by Chris Estes staff writer Germany Usa eur officials arc asking soldiers and family members in Europe to break open their Piggy Banks and Start spreading the the wealth of to be hoarding and the new 22cent postage stamp have resulted in a severe Penny according to David director of finance and accounting for the army finance and accounting the shortage critically affects local finance american express military Banks and which must have pennies on Beyer by postal they Are not allowed to give Stamps in change unless you request he eight Hundred thousand pennies arrived from the United states in the first week of and by March 6 Only were left for that the Normal annual usage of Beyer and weve gone through them in approximately one people Arent turning them in and keeping there just throwing them in Beyer As 1 see a typical person is going buying a stamp for a Quarter and getting three pennies in change and throwing them in a drawer or Beyer you dont carry pennies around in your if youre not going to the Post office you cant use the Only Way they can return them into circulation is to turn them in to the local Bank or a finance Beyer said turning pennies in is the Only practical Way to alleviate the its not just a matter of or Dering More when youre Short of just one because of the Cost incurred in bringing the shipment you need More than just pennies to justify the said Susann disbursing officer for the finance and accounting she said a shipment of coins weighs pounds and contains coins of All we Supply All coins for forces in Beyer there Are enough pennies in the command to support us for probably two years if people would turn them Back in to he Beyer said his office has asked cafes to Check exchanges for any stored cafes and the commissary do not use assembling bits and bytes of information about a lion is easy when you have a computer and a Tranquili Zed Craig Packer and Anne professors of ecology and behavioural biology at the University of professors byte lion a photo use a portable computer to record measurements and Analyse blood Sample the scientists and the dozing beast Are at the Serengeti wildlife National Park in Swiss army to receive raises ranging from 7 to 20 percent Switzerland a the Swiss rated by foreign military experts As one of the worlds Best most highly motivated will get an increase in the raise will Range from 7 percent for a private first class to a staggering 20 percent for a it will be the first such hike in 15 years and in Money terms it varies from 30 centimes to 2 francs from 11 to 77 cents per the new daily pay to take effect in starts at three francs for privates and goes up to 32 francs for a corps commander two Star general in addition to his salary when he is on Man Euver privates do not Benefit this time after getting a 300 percent raise in 1972 in what they draw during Basic training and the three week annual refresher All ranks will profit from special railway passes allow ing them to go on Home leave with a five franc two Way others plan soviet including session with Gorbachev Washington a a congressional delegation led by House speaker Thomas will visit Moscow next month for talks that Are expected to include a meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba an Oneill spokesman a dozen members of Congress including House minority Leader Robert Are scheduled to go to Moscow and Leningrad april Oneill aide Christopher Matthews the visit follows a recent tour of this country by a delegation of members of the supreme the soviet 14 villagers Are massacred in fight Over Bike peking a a clan fight sparked by a missing basketball led to the mass murder of 14 villagers and death sentences for seven the peasant daily report the report said the la family Village in Guangqi Zhuang autonomous in Southern has Long feuded with the people of their neighbouring on the eve of a Spring a basketball belonging to the la clan was taken accidentally by members of the rival Village after a count sponsored the daily the la clan retaliated by taking a when their neighbors came to reclaim 14 of them were the report the next Day the captives were tied up and marched to a Mountain slope where members of the la clan stoned and clubbed them to the newspaper la head and six others were a found guilty of murder and sentenced to the paper adding that an unspecified number of accomplices received jail terms or suspended death israelis order women soldiers to leave War torn Lebanon Jerusalem a about 200 female israeli sol Diers have been ordered to leave Lebanon following an escalation of attacks on israeli sources the main reason is that it is part of the pullout from Lebanon but there is also an increasingly dangerous said one military women perform clerical and military police duties at main army radio said israels chief of Moshe ordered the evacuation following a recent increase in attacks against israeli soldiers in South of Boycott rites marking Wii linkup with soviets Bonn not because of the killing of an american army officer in East Ger the government has decided to Boycott an anniversary gathering on the Elbe River next month of soviet and Amer ican veterans of world War according to american there will be no government representative and no american Honor guard at the ceremonies april 25 in East Germany to Mark the 4qth anniversary of the linkup Between the red army and american before the fatal shooting of the Arthur Nicholson on there were plans to dispatch diplomats and a unit from the Liaison Mission in Potsdam to the ceremonies at who was killed by a soviet sen try after photographing soviet military equipment near was a Mem Ber of the Liaison it is not really the time to be celebrating the Friendship Between the two armed an american official adding that a decision had also been made to end socializing with soviet officers in there will be no drinking with the Guys for a he the soviet Union intends to Send a group of veterans to and East Germany is expected to dispatch veterans of the anti nazi about 160 veterans and other americans Are expected to be in according to Robert Swan the who was reached by Telephone in Swan said of the sunday we have All been thinking about and i think our reaction is like the in that he said More than he wants to meet with Gorbachev and mend i think the killing is a symptom of much deeper problems 40 years of 40 years of ignorance of each we have to continue on and work to improve according to British and French military commanders in West Germany met tuesday to discuss possible retaliatory measures against so Viet Liaison missions that patrol in West among measures according to one was a restriction on the soviet teams movements for a limited period of