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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d shuttle flight extended a 2 n dentists can spot in ii 8 d three records set in Usa eur 25 the stars Ano stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 108 August 1985 ooh end sunday d 8693 a at least 132 die As jetliner Burns near Dallas Rescue workers search the charred Hulk of the Delta air lines l1011 that crashed at Dallas fort Worth a photo Texas a workers using a huge Crane searched saturday for bodies in the charred wreck age of a Delta air lines jumbo jetliner that crashed in heavy rain and exploded on final approach to Dallas fort Worth International killing at least 132 authorities Charles Dallas county medical said the bodies of 119 people aboard flight 191 had been recovered Early and they Are still in the process of picking up Linda a Secretary at the medical examiners said the chief investigator at the scene told her at least 132 people were Twenty six passengers and three flight attendants sur Vived the fiery crash of the Lockheed l1011 which went Down about a Quarter mile North of Dallas fort Worth International Airport at Delta spokesman Matt Guilfoyle he had said 29 passengers but later said that was an Guilfoyle said the plane carried 149 passengers and 12 in Delta spokesman Jim Ewing said there were 149 passengers and 11 crewmen area hospitals reported treating 35 including an infant who later died and a Man who was not on Board the a witness said one Man was decapitated when the Jet struck his car on Texas the victims bodies were taken from the wreck to a temporary morgue in a Delta hangar at the most of these bodies do not have identification on Petty adding that relatives were being through to provide dental fingerprints and anything else that might help identify the flight 191 was about to make a scheduled Stopover in route to los Angeles from fort when it skidded into the Earth North of the authorities the plane bounced across the Highway and a clipped one or two water tanks and skidded across see crash on Page 28 budget freezes pay of Federal civilians by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the billion budget Bill approved by House and Senate conferees holds the pay of Federal civilian employees at this years level but allows military and Federal civilian retired pay to keep Pace with the oneyear freeze on Federal civilian salaries will save an estimated billion during the 1986 fiscal according to House and Senate the cos Tolliv ing adjustments for retired military personnel will Cost about according to Pentagon in the defense department comptrollers office estimated that inflation would be percent next the Reagan administration had pro posed that civilian employees of the Feder Al government set an example in reducing the Federal deficit by accepting a pay Cut of 5 percent next but one staff Mem Ber of the Senate budget committee said that idea never had a the package approved thursday As Sumes raises for the civilian work Force of percent in january 1987 and per cent in january the White House and the Senate had proposed freezing costo living adjust ments to military and Federal civilian retired but the House refused to last president Reagan abandoned the Senate on the freeze and then sided with the House once More against a Senate proposal to adjust the payments every two years instead of the adjustments Are indexed to inflation the same Way increases in social Security pay ments the adjustments Are automatic unless see budget on Page 28 soldiers get pub owner gets tanked a to wow to thy we Frankfurt up How much is foggy and Rainy evening after their own a soviet tank Worth to a thirsty tank Vodka rations ran they had just Crew lost on recent Maneu vers somewhere enough czech Money to buy one More in Czechoslovakia the Price seemed right bottle in the when that was at two cases of an item in sat the Crew Leader plunked Down Urdas Frankfurter All Gemeiner Zeitung his Gold wedding ring for the next few the article recounted How four lost much the soldiers were seen crewmen parked their tank in a Pigsty leaving the pub with two cases of Vodka behind a pub in Rural Bohemia one and a couple of kilograms of herring and police found the Crew sleeping in a nearby Woods two Days but neither the the police nor the soviet military officials who were alerted to the Case were Able to say what happened to the the first clue turned up 10 Days later when the director of a local Metal Recy cling Center told police he had just paid a pub owner a goodly sum for a Load of sawed up steel of High the badly mutilated carcass of the soviet tank was soon found in the Pigsty of pub owner Josef the article Novak insisted he had purchased the tank from four soldiers for 24 bottles of the pickles and he he threw in As a gesture of camaraderie with the soviet  
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