European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The Sta Sand stripes authohi2ed unofficial publication Foi the . Armed Fouces vol. 44, no. 180 tuesday october 15, 1985 Tim on or d 8693 a d Britain threatens to leave Enesco Page 2 d Banner year reported in War against drugs Page 5 o2 americans win Nobel Medicine prize Page 9 j Gimme my Glove dog British prime minister Margaret Thatcher tries to retrieve her Glove from a guard dog at London s Heathrow Airport. Thatcher at the Airport to Greet Indian prime minister rail Gandhi took off the while leather Glove to pet the dog named Ultra who promptly seized it and refused to let it go until Iren a Sharp order by his handler. Story other photo on Page 8. Palestinian fugitive has left Yugoslavia Belgrade a palestinian Leader Mohammed Abbas left Yugoslavia monday frustrating . Efforts to bring him to trial in the hijacking of the italian cruise ship Achille member of the p1.o delegation saying he spoke for Nam mar Hamad head of the Mission Here confirmed that Abbas has left. Related stories pages 2, 27. "1 Don t know Why Don t know where Don t know How he said. If the americans would accept Abbas As a representative of the Plo he would go to the United Stales and explain the Plo Abbas arrived Here saturday on a Light from Italy after italian authorities said they had no reason to hold him. The United Stales claiming Abbas helped plan the seizure of the italian ship had asked Yugoslavia Loar rest him. Earlier Vidoje Zarkovic president of Yugoslavia s ruling communist party had told reporters that Yugo Slavia would Deal with the . Request for extradition in accordance with its Legal system and on the basis of the assessment of relevant on similar occasions Yugoslavia has always taken such procedure and will do so this time As Well he said adding that a formal announcement would be issued shortly. In Washington attorney general Edwin a Csc said the United slates still Wauls to bring Abbas to trial. We still want very much to apprehend him and bring him Back to answer the charges against him in this country a Csc said on a television program there is no Safe Haven As far As we re concerned. Well pursue or. Abbas As we would any of her a Csc commented shortly after it was announced that see fugitive on Page 28 egyptian Leader demands . Apologize for diverting plane Cairo Egypt a president Hosni Mubarak still angry Over the . Takeover of an egyptian plane Wilh four palc Linian hijackers demanded an apology monday from president Reagan for All egyptians Mubarak told reporters he had nol read a message from Reagan delivered sunday by . Ambassador Nicholas Veliotis because i am very an american official who refused to be identified said the Reagan letter indicates a level of understanding of the egyptian position in trying to deliver the hijackers of the italian ship Achille Lauro to the Palestine liberation organization for trial. The Egypt air Boeing 737 carrying the hijackers was diverted Friday by . Jets to Sicily where they were arrested by italian authorities. Mubarak expressed Hope that the Cloud in . Egyptian relations will pass. A . Official speaking to reporters sunday on Condi Tion he not be further identified said the Reagan message was a very Good first step Loward repairing inc damage done to .-Egyplian Rel Lions by the takeover of the plane. Till now 1 did t read this message Mubarak said. Frankly i am very upset. Asked about prospects for improving Rak added i Hope that the Cloud will pass. I Hope we t relations Cuba could reach a Point where we could clarify Mubarak said he decided to hand the gunmen Over to Plo chairman Yasser Arafat rather than to the italians or americans to avoid an escalation of reprisal attacks. If Arafat did t punish them then he would be respond see plane on Page 28 scrap c/v/7 service pay system Dod urges Washington a the defense department is proposing to eliminate the civil service pay system and Grade Scales for the Federal government s 2 million workers says a democratic congressman. Under the proposal Federal Agency Heads would be empowered to set classification and pay Scales under loosely written guide lines according to documents released Sun Day by rep. Michael Barnes did. Re lated Story on Page 7. Barnes criticized the proposal saying it would politicize the Federal work Force by allowing managers to Reward political loyalists and penalize career Federal employ he called it a recipe for the defense department arguing that a pay for performance approach would help the government attract and keep High Quality personnel has sent draft legislation to House speaker Thomas p. O Neill jr., d-mass., and Senate majority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., Barnes said. In a letter accompanying the draft Bill Deputy defense Secretary William Taft wrote that the Federal Grade scale and pay system had hardly been changed for More than six decades. Administrating the sys tem he said is cumbersome tedious and the plan called the alternative Federal personnel systems act of 1985, also was criticized by the office of personnel management which oversees the Federal Job system. An internal pm memo released by Barnes warns that the plan would frag ment the civil service system and could greatly increase government payroll costs. The memo written by Helen Chrislu assistant director for staffing policy said the proposal represents a giant and Uncertain the defense department plan was based on a Pilot project c6nducled at two Navy research laboratories in san Diego and China Lake calif., Barnes said. It was aimed at making the laboratories More competitive with private industries. The pm memo noted that those laboratories experienced 11.2 percent higher payroll costs for new hires a cause for concern if the by slim were expanded in Light of the president s pay freeze and inc adminis Lvalion s position on reducing the Cost of Barnes conceded that inc civil service by slim has ils problems. However he said this Radical Alicr native is a recipe for mischief thai would aggravate an already difficult situation and does nol add to a responsible solution to these recruits7 aids virus test results won t be released Washington not the Penta gon s top doctor has ordered the armed forces not to release the names of individuals rejected for military service after show ing signs of exposure to the virus that causes aids unless the civilian health authorities formally request the information. Or. William e. Mayer assistant Secre tary of defense for health affairs took the action saying there had been news reports that some military officials had been trying to give local health departments the names of the rejected recruits so that the civilian health authorities could offer them counsel ing about aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The new York City health commissioner or. David Scencer said he had rejected such an offer on the ground that it would constitute an unjustified invasion of the Pri Vacy of the individuals. An army spokes Man and other Pentagon officials said they did not know if similar offers had been made to other local jurisdictions nor could they determine if any names had been turned Over. The offer was sharply attacked by Lead cars of groups concerned with civil lib cries or homosexual rights. They expressed fear that the names would inevitably be widely circulated and used to deprive the named see aids on Page 28
