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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 4, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Roulette play a fast paced game photographed from Hercules cargo plane the Fite Man Cam known As the Roulette from be Royal australian air Force s flying school in Sale East Victo Ria display the precision that has made them the  of be air Force. The Rou Lettes Fly italian designed Derma Chi . 32611 single engine jets. Greek leaders panic struck opposition says Athens a a warning by Premier Andreas Papandreou that continuing opposition 10 his socialist government s new austerity policy could plunge Greece into chaos Lias been roundly rebuffed by conservatives and by communist party leaders. They claimed sunday that the government is panic struck because it lost control of the country s labor movement last week and faces daily strikes staged by thousands of workers angered by a two year wage freeze. Analysts say Papandreou s ruling panhellenic socialist movement is under pressure for the first time since comfortably winning a new four year term at last june s National elections. But the Premier s warning struck a chord with Many greeks who still remember How strikes and demonstrations helped bring Down a centrist government headed by George Papandreou the present Premier s father Back in 1965. That disruptive period led to the 1967 colonels coup and seven years of military Rule. The forces of reaction May be in a position to gradually create and exploit an extended atmosphere of insecurity and chaos As in 1965-66," Papandreou old his Cabinet on Friday. The text of his speech was published on saturday. Papandreou accused the mainstream conservative opposition new democracy party and the Moscow line greek communist party Ike of trying to bring Down the government in unholy Alliance a bomb explosion in a City bus thursday night that left 29 people injure mostly teen age girls on their Way Home from night , was denounced by the Premier earlier As an attempt to destabilize the government. New democracy Leader cons Lanlin i Tsitakis Dis missed Papandreou s warning As danger mongering but claimed the socialists Tough economic measures would bring  the government s panic struck and is provoking ten Sions. We re not undermining it. Democracy in t in Dan Ger Milso Takis said sunday. The Ike accused the socialists of abandoning their commitment to Reform and asked the government to rescind the wage freeze. This Campaign of danger Mong Crine unleashed by the government is an evil portent for workers Freedom and future developments a Ike Central committee announcement added. The socialists austerity policy was designed to slash an expected s3 billion current account deficit this year and reduce Greece s bloated foreign debt which now totals More than s14 billion. Fewer spaniards in poll oppose nato Madrid up spaniards Are slowly coming around to the socialist govern ment s Call for continued membership in the North Atlantic treaty organization according to a poll published sunday. Bat the figures released by Al pais Spain i largest newspaper show that the government still has an Uphill fight in convincing a majority to vote for remaining in nato in a referendum expected Early next year. The poll of 1,278 people found that 46 percent Are opposed to Spanish integration in the Western Alliance cig it percent fewer than opposed it in an Al pais poll in april. Nineteen per cent said they favor continued membership the same support found in polls last april and october. Twenty five percent said they did not know and 10 per cent said they would refuse to vote in the referendum the poll found. The socialists were overwhelmingly elected in 1982, six months after Spain joined nato with a program opposing Spanish membership and promising a referendum on continued participation. In a turnaround prime minister Felipe Gonzalez came out this year in favor of continued membership but has promised the referendum will go Forward. No Date has been set but the government has said it is leaning toward a March vote. As part of a Campaign to convince spaniards to support the government position Gonzalez has instead called for a cutback in the 12,500 american troops stationed at four . Military bases in Spain. Talks on the american presence began last month at Spain s insistence but Diplo Matic sources have said the . Is reluctant to make any commitments until Spain s future in nato is known. When spaniards were asked in a differ ent poll last month if they favored nato integration if it were linked to a reduction in american troops 38 percent said they would vote pro nato and 34 percent said they would vote against it. Otherwise last month s poll by the Lead ing weekly Magazine Cam Bio 16 found that 39 percent opposed membership while 37 percent approved it a drop in opposition by 5 percent and an increase in support of one percent from the Magazine s Survey five months earlier. Big tax changes decreed by Marcos Manila up philippine president Ferdinand Marcos seeking the release of millions of dollars in badly needed foreign Aid saturday announced sweeping revisions of the National tax code in an attempt to increase tax collections. Marcos move came As his wife Imelda met in Tokyo with japanese foreign min ister Shintaro Abe to solicit More economic assistance for the Philippines. Abe told mrs. Marcos that Japan which last month approved $240 million in Loans to the Philippines wants to expand Trade. Using controversial legislative Powers mar cos ordered major changes in the National internal Revenue code. The revisions arc aimed at improving the level of tax collections and simplifying tax rates  
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