European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes May 21 1985 weather puts Damper on Florida fires Palm up forty major fires burned out of control tuesday in two dozen Florida coun but officials said widespread rainfall helped firefight ers keep the worst outbreak of Forest fires in the states history from these Are All leftovers from what we had last Paul wills of the state forestry division they Are still out of but there not what were trying to do is choke them to death hold them right where they Are until they Burn themselves wills said the 40 fires had consumed acres of Brush and Timber since in 109 fires burned an estimated acres since destroying 200 Homes and damaging 400 wills two firefighters were killed and seven firefighters and rangers were injured since the fires began last thursday and turned into a major problem a Day wills said several thousand people had been forced to leave their Homes during the we cant put a number on he we cant even make an accurate scattered showers were reported Over most of the state tuesday and wills said they were helping firefighters keep the blazes from the More rain the he Light rain gives you a it Doest put out the but it keeps them from in some residents returned to their Homes to find piles of debris burned in flames so intense that cars were melted in among those returning were residents of Palm a Small Atlantic coast Community hardest hit by the some found their Homes but others found Aspin from Page 1 Tion officials asserted this was irresponsible and damaging to National the senates budget Resolution permits military spending to Rise by the administrations estimate of tafts statement we have already returned to the taxpayer billions of dollars we have not Weinberger used somewhat different phrasing in an appearance on the Abc news program meet the press when asked about the Issue of such surplus we give it Back and ask that it be applied to next he a staff member from the House armed services who spoke on Condi Tion he not be said in very Little unspent Money is returned to the but in some cases Congress is made aware of some of the inflation overestimates and is then Able to reduce future military appropriations he said this amounted to Only a Frac Tion of the total Money he Esti mated that the total surplus from lower inflation reported to Congress annually varied from billion to a figure much lower than those put Forth by several members of the Senate armed services committee expressed anger last week when in an attempt to stave off reductions in or elimination of any major weapon buying reported that the Pentagon had found billion in inflation caused surpluses in the current Fis Cal year and billion in unspent Contin gency funds and other the sen including some conservative backers of High military said Weinberger had damaged his if Only by the timing of his Aspin suggested that to make inflation predictions More each appropriation should be calculated on the inflation that occurred in the previous in his Aspin noted that the Pentagon used four different inflation estimates each budget including fuel and for developing and buying weapons and the Reagan administration has applied a special inflation prediction which is 30 percent higher than the general pre diction used for the rest of the this Factor is meant to reflect historically High costs for using presidential budget Aspin the administration has consistently overestimated inflation by a substantial averaging about percent age Points a Cuba from Page 1 the cuban government has decided to suspend All kinds of the proceedings relat ing to the execution of radio Havana in the broadcast said Cuba americans would be barred from travelling to the state department had no immediate comment on the cuban were aware of the said department spokeswoman Sondra the cuban reaction Doest seem a said Charles director of the United states information which oversees radio we Are broadcasting in a Legal the radio Havana broadcast said relations with the United states would be More difficult for a Long time and the introduction of radio Marti would impede the possibility of Progress in bilateral it also said the cuban government would adopt additional measures relating to the communications Between the United states and but did not specify what that under a special Section of an immigration treaty signed in As Many As cuban political prisoners were expected to arrive in the United states this the agreement stipulates that a Maxi mum of cuban immigrants can come to the United states each year if Cuba allowed the return of undesirable cubans in prisons and mental health the radio Havana announcement was made Only hours after the first 11 cuban political prisoners and their relatives arrived at Miami International Airport under the terms of the new at the White Deputy press Secre tary Larry Speakes said that not Only had Cuba responded by suspending the Mariel agreement but also suspended an air plane hijacking Speakes said the cuban government was informed sunday that radio Marti would go on the air at that time they informed us of their actions which were obviously Well prepared in Speakes were not exactly Clear what they mean by suspension of these he if that is their reaction to the lawful presentation of balanced and objective news then that Speaks vol Umes for the cuban commercial broadcasters in the United states have Long feared that once radio Marti began beaming religion and sports to Castro would retaliate by interfering with their the cuban government also keeps its right to broadcast radio transmissions addressed to the United states to inform completely on Cubas Points of View about the problems of that country and its International radio Havana we Are concerned that american am radio stations could suffer substantial inter Ference As a result of an action that Castro could which presumably would be prompted by the inauguration of radio Eddie president of the National association of he some of the increase in weapon costs was a result of inflation but some was from other such As inefficient production rates and design changes that prevented military Industry workers from learning How to cheaply build equip ment stable in if All or almost All of the Cost increase since 1982 is unrelated to Aspin then we have appropriated an unnecessary billion for major Aspin said he did not have enough data to be sure what had happened to the inflation but he said he suspected that some of it had gone to military since inflation predictions Are included in Many if a contractor is paid moneys for inflation that never he these monies should logically show up in higher army names Soldier killed in Accident Germany the army has identified a Soldier killed May 14 when the armoured personnel Carrier in which he was Riding overturned in a train ing area near the Soldier was identified As 4 Michael of co 1st 52nd he is survived by his Hamilton and Esther Gardner of a Soldier who was injured in the Accident is in stable condition at the army hos Pital in a division spokesman three other soldiers suffered minor scrapes and the spokesman temperatures May 19 West condemns fatal shooting at Berlin Wall Berlin a West Germany and its allies on monday condemned As utter contempt for human life the apparent fatal shooting by communist East German sentries of a person who tried to flee Over the Berlin Wall to the West German government spokesman Juergen Sudhoff said the incident was in compatible with the goal of Good neighbourly relations Between the two West Berlin police spokesman Wolfgang Lausch said residents of the Spandau Dis on the Western Side of the heard the sound of machine gun fire at and called Lausch said West Berlin police who rushed to the scene could not establish the source or target of the a second series of shots was reported by residents at 3 he and police arriving soon afterwards saw a body covered with a plastic Sheet in the dimly lit romans land zone on the communist Side of the he said police gazing through the gloom could make out a pair of feet sticking out from the but could not determine if the form was male or East German Border guards soon were seen carrying the body away from the West Berlin police Lausch said an earlier report that the shoot ing occurred at 6 monday was West Berlin police said they believed the victim was attempting to escape Over the Border when the shots were fir l h 45 60 47 74 39 49 54 78 50 68 46 68 48 79 49 80 44 78 47 61 50 69 43 59 65 80 48 77 41 79 45 80 36 58 54 84 45 68 51 83 34 79 33 36 50 67 44 65 66 76 63 78 46 79 64 77 52 80 64 93 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Worth Denver Des Molnes Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas l h 56 82 60 71 51 79 54 80 72 83 58 76 46 82 58 85 49 66 55 77 55 77 55 79 61 87 46 69 36 70 36 59 54 70 47 71 47 80 42 78 55 81 65 87 54 78 62 67 52 63 46 66 42 61 58 82 51 75 53 81 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Paul Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh Maine Providence Raleigh Reno Louis Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita Swap from Page 1 palestinian prisoners in Exchange for the release of six israeli who expressed dismay in a prison interview that he is was put aboard the first Boeing when he got off the aircraft in he had to be the 394 palestinians handed Over in Geneva were to Fly on to while the israelis were winging their Way Back to newsmen were barred Access to the sealed off area of the Airport where the Exchange took in Tel the israeli military com Mand said the prisoners were released in three groups and totalled 879 Security prisoners who had been held in Israel and the administered Territo a reference to the West Bank and Gaza strip which Israel captured in the 1967 150 prisoners who were brought to Israel from Lebanon on april 2 when the israeli army closed its South lebanese de Tention Camp at 121 prisoners who remained in israeli hands after previous prisoner exchanges with the Plo and Syria in 1983 and european weather forecast for tuesday mostly Cloudy skies with isolated Light by the afternoon isolated Thunder storms with a Chance of High temperatures 6573 lows Sunset tuesday Sunrise wednes Day Outlook for wednesday expect Little change in weather and temperatures recorded monday 4am 4pm f cd f cd p 64 84 59 61 64 84 61 68 57 72 m 48 73 in 55 66 4am 4pm p 45 64 p 59 73 cd 52 66 r 50 63 p 50 64 the 52 61 r 63 70 Pearlly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a Cloudy hair r rain by Del 7th weather tra Bentzar