European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Bye Bye Birdie National league Umpire Harry Wendelstedt invites an uninvited visitor to take his leave and let the game Between the dodgers and Phillies continue in Phila baseball roundups on Page Ujj the 34 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces May 1985 and d 8693 a secret7 Pentagon fund has Aspin says Washington not because the Reagan administration overestimated Infra Congress appropriated billion to billion More than needed for defense department programs in the last four according to Les chairman of the House armed services in a speech prepared for delivery on the House floor monday and made Public Sun Aspin described the funds As an unplanned and secret dividend for the the Wisconsin Democrat said he did not suggest any wrongdoing on the part of the defense in a Aspin did ask Secretary of defense Caspar Wein Berger to cooperate in seeking a More rational and fair system to Deal with the William Taft the Deputy Secre tary of said in a written statement sunday that Aspin was Correct in saying billions of dollars was but he said the Pentagon had made a remarkable achievement in spending less Money than which he attributed to better management and to administration Success in controlling Aspin said Congress did not have enough information to calculate precisely the extra Money the Pentagon had received because of faulty inflation he used Pentagon statistics to argue that for the portion of annual military budgets de voted to such items As maintenance and military Bil lion had been appropriated to meet inflation Levels that did not he took this figure As his minimum Esti saying inflation had also been overestimated for such functions As buying weapons and paying for he said the total surplus might be the largely unnoticed inflation Cushion will probably be an Issue when the full House debates its budget the House budget committee voted last week to hold the military budget for the fiscal year 1986 to the same level As this with no allowance for adm Nistra see Aspin on Page 28 red Cross oversees Row Swap 3 israeli soldiers for palestinians and lebanese Jerusalem up Israel swapped Palestin Ian and shiite prisoners for three of its pos monday in a massive under the supervision of the International red Cross that freed perpetrators of the worst terrorist attacks against the jewish Israel released Kozo of the japanese red serving a life sentence for the 1972 Lod Airport massacre that left 26 civilians wearing an oversized Maroon smiled faintly As he left Israel and the scene of his also freed by Israel were Hussein and Hus Sein both serving life sentences for the worst terrorist attack Ever against Israel the Tel Aviv coastal Road massacre that left 33 civilians and nine terrorists dead on March the Lone terrorist survivor of the attack on the Beach Side Savoy hotel in Tel Aviv on March was eight civilians died in the while seven guerrillas and three israeli soldiers the three years in the making and arranged by the red began when the popular front for the liberation of palestinian put three israeli soldiers on a flight from and released them in i arc officials identified the israelis As Nissim Hezi Shai and Yosef Israel released palestinians and Israel said 394 palestinians were flown from Beng Rion Airport to Geneva on three unmarked 606 others were released on the West Bank and 150 shiites and palestinians were freed at the syrian Frontier in Kun the Swap was the third of the lebanese and the second largest after the freeing on of see Swap on Page 28 palestinian prisoners of War leave the plane that carried them from Israel to radio station begins transmission to Cuba Washington a radio the governments radio station for communist went on the air Cuba promptly retaliated by cancelling an immigration trying to Jam the radio and threatening that relations be tween Havana and Washington would the cuban announcement was radio Martis Lead news Story As it went on the air at a White House spokesman said the cuban government also suspended a Hijack ing acc spokesman William Russell said government monitoring stations detected a tone being transmitted from Cuba on the same frequency As radio within hours of the first broadcast from radio Martis Washington the radio Marti signal is being beamed on 1180 Kilohertz from a transmitter in the Florida Russell said there was no indication of any Power increase on the cuban which is on a Normal cuban broadcasting nor was there any report of inter Ference with other american radio it was not known if the tone was so annoying As to actually prevent cubans from listening to radio radio monitored in re ported the cuban government is terminating a 14 agreement with the United states in response to the Startup of radio see Cuba on Page 28