European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday september 21, 1985 Reagan rejects Weir s plea for hostage Deal Washington up president Reagan will not make any deals with he captors of six kidnapped Ameri cans still in Lebanon despite the pleas of freed hostage the Rev. Benjamin Weir that their lives arc at stake a spokes Man says. Weir 61, a presbyterian minister urged the administration thursday to seize a new window of Opportunity to seek the release of the sin other americans. Reagan who watched Weir s nationally televised news conference wild a great Deal of interest and enormous sympathy rejected Weir s Appeal that he begin Crea Tive negotiations with the captors believed to be Mem Bers of the Radical islamic jihad or holy War. Responding to a barrage of questions thursday Reagan said the United Stales is continuing to do everything we can to win the release of the six men who like Weir were abducted on the streets of West Beirut in separate Inci dents Over the past 18 months. Reagan acknowledged criticism from some relatives of the hostages that the administration has not done every thing possible to secure their loved ones release. Unfortunately we can t Tell even the families All the things that we Are doing he said. We just have to take that criticism but it is not Mexico from Page 1 Day thursday a sobbing Mother told a mexican television reporter. His name is Alfonso Rodriguez. Please please help me find him the Mother pleaded Over television. Associated press reporter Mike Cochran visited one of several temporary morgues in Mexico City and counted 89 bodies. Officials earlier had confirmed 60 dead in Mexico City. Between to and Iso people were killed in Jalisco state too Miles Northwest of Mexico cily and about 1.500 injured a fire lieutenant Juan Manuel Sanchez said from the state capital of Guadalajara. A Michoacan state 30 people were reported killed when two hotels collapsed at the Beach resort of Playa Azul. The first pledges of Aid began to arrive from abroad from Britain Denmark and the red Cross in the United states. The . State department said presi Dent Reagan sent a message to mexican president Miguel de la Madrid offering full . Assistance but there was no immedi ate word on the response. De la Madrid declared a state of Emer gency and appealed for Calm. The Mexico City television station Tele visa said 10,000 soldiers were deployed in the City of 17 million to prevent looting and keep people away from buildings still in danger of collapse. Of god cried the Banner headline on one of the afternoon newspapers that Man aged to publish the near total loss of electrical Power. The words were heard Over and Over again in the ravaged streets of this capital. Three Large areas of the capital were hardest hit the historic downtown area around the vast zocolo Square the East Side District and a Southern District around the National medical Center. Multistory buildings became heaps of masonry their collapsed floors stacked like pancakes. Others tilted crazily. Streets throughout the City were littered with Bro Ken Glass and plaster. Thousands of people spent the night out Side because they had no Homes to return to or feared buildings still standing might col lapse. Temporary shelters were set up in offices and Public buildings. Bulldozers and cranes removed mountains of broken Concrete bricks and Glass and Aguirre said 50,000 workers were Tak ing part in clean up and Rescue operations. Survivors wept As they ran through gutted streets calling out the names of loved ones. At first 1 heard a tremendous noise and i grabbed my daughter and jumped out the window. I had no Chance to help my wife who was killed when she was buried by rubble said a tearful Young Man shown on mexican television. Gas and Power lines snapped by the quake touched off dozens of fires some of which still burned Friday. Half the capital was blacked out thursday night but Power was being gradually restored Friday morn ing along with some Telephone service. Officials said water supplies would be irregular for at least three Days. Mexico City s Airport had been closed while officials checked for possible cracks in the runways but was open Friday. Radio stations broadcast appeals every few minutes for surgical instruments blood medical supplies food and picks and shovels to dig through rubble. Audits from Page 1 ent sizes should receive different allow ances. The committee also is investigating whether it could and should pay the move in move out expenses part of the allow Ance in a Lump turn at the beginning of an overseas tour. Twelve dollars or $ 15 is not As meaning Ful As $300 when you re buying transform ers and other Large items Sirkis said. But we Don t know yet whether it is Legal or whether it makes sense to pay ii that he said it might be useful if it helps keep Young service members out of debt incurred from government ordered moves. In other changes the committee has developed a clearer list of expenses and created a briefing to help make sure service members know what they arc entitled to. These expenses Are associated with items necessary to bring housing up to . Standards or because of climate conditions Are necessary to make quarters habitable the list says. The list includes plumbing and Gas electricity and Telephone installation. Items not approved include rugs curtains dishwashers televisions mattresses Light bulbs and fences. The committee developed a housing expenses form that will help it gather data needed to administer several aspects of the allowance. The form was tested during the last 30 Days by the coast guard and the Navy in London the army in Nuernberg the air Force at Spang Dahlum a Ger Many and the marines on Okinawa. In one of its first uses the committee Hopes it will help eliminate cases in which service members Are wrongly reimbursed for utilities expenses. If the utilities Are in the rent you Don t get the allowance Sirkis said. If the utilities Aren t in the rent you get the allow Ance. The problem occurs when part of the utilities Are in the rent. Some people have been receiving the whole allowance. He said the information supplied on the new form will make Clear which category members fall into. Effective april 1,1986, a member whose rent includes some utilities or maintenance services May have the Utility recurring maintenance portion of the allowance reduced. The amount by which that portion of the allowance is reduced would be added to the member s rental allowance ceiling. On the form utilities Means electricity heating air conditioning and water or sewer As Well As trash disposal. The committee changed the joint travel regulations to Widen the definition of a housing Sharer and thus narrow the category of those who can share expenses while still receiving a whole housing allowance. Under present policy service members Are sharing housing when they live with another service member or . Government employee authorized a quarters allowance. Members who arc sharing receive a proportionately reduced allowance. Starting april i service members will be sharing if they live with anyone except a dependent family member who contributes to the rent mortgage or utilities payments the briefing Sheet says. Starting oct. 1, rent plus will have a new name. It will be called the overseas housing allowance. That s cosmetics with a purpose Sirkis said. To the unfamiliar rent plus seems to mean an allowance with few or no Lim about 100,000 service members receive rent plus which costs about $230 million a year. It is designed to make up the differ ence Between the Basic allowance for quart ers and the actual Cost of their housing. The amount of the allowance depends on Loca Tion and is based on a Survey to determine the costs paid by members in different pay grades. Sirkis called rent plus which has come under fire on Capitol Hill because of its Cost and some documented cases of abuse a remarkably Good tool for ensuring an Ade quate Standard of living for troops Over seas. He rejected the idea that Sec Mcm bars live in it s a Good investment in readiness he said. Service members Don t have to worry that their families Are living in slums or about their safety or sanitary conditions. They can concentrate on being soldiers sailors and a helicopter radioed that at least 30 buildings were sighted Down in one neigh boyhood alone. Scores of patients were buried under de Bris when the three Story Juarez Hospital near the Central revolution Plaza col lapsed. Hotels apartments and businesses also crashed to the ground. One fire destroyed the hotel Regis and trapped an unknown number of people in Side the old landmark before it buckled. The roman residential District near downtown was cordoned off because of Gas leaks. Radio announcements urged Resi dents not to Light matches smoke or switch on electrical instruments. Hundreds of citizens pitched in to help forming Impromptu ambulance squads and taking victims away in private vehicles. Red Cross workers raced downtown by any transportation available from ambulances to commandeered taxis. Subways in the City s metro system which carries 4.5 million people a Day screeched to a halt when the quake struck. Commuters followed the rails in the dark to the nearest station. Most of the country s communications to the outside world were disrupted when the Central microwave Tower in the capital col lapsed and caught fire. The Tower carries the bulk of Telephone telex and television circuits. With Many parts of Mexico Cut off from All communication reports were still sketchy 19 hours after the earthquake hit. Tel visa said 25 worshippers were killed when a Cathedral collapsed in the town of Guzman. Temperatures kidneys from Page 1 Cheryl wern and or. It. Col Edwin Meyer. Or. Maj Albin Harris a kidney specialist accompanied the specially packed kidneys on the trip. Time was essential. The transplants had of be performed within about 30 hours from the time the artery feeding the kidneys was clamped. The More Lime we save the More viable the kidney will be. That s the name of the game. The sup cooperative Effort has been overwhelming said army Sec. Ronald Paar a dialysis technician. The dialysis technicians coordinated the Effort. The Hospital had alerted the 322nd air lift div at Ramstein wednesday night that there might be donated kidneys to Fly to Walter Reed Runy medical Center. The division then identified the Best flight and backups and secured priority maintenance for the chosen c-5 aircraft so that it would be ready to go. The c-5 was scheduled for a Normal afternoon cargo flight to Dover fab Del. It was delayed for the special Mission which eventually took off shortly after 11 . Ramstein officials had earlier notified local German officials of the expected night flight because of area quiet hours. The aircraft Crew members were air Force reservists. The Pilot was Mai. Jack Gray a from Atlanta and the co Pilot was maj. Robert scotch of High Bridge n j. The pilots assigned to the 326th military Airlift so. A Reserve unit at Dover fab. Del., Are Eastern airlines pilots with experience in transporting donor organs. Air Force reservist pilots frequently Fly mis Sions a Ramstein spokesman said. 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