European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday november 8, 1985 of personnel will get pay hike nov. 15 by  Hodgson  Bureau Ramstein a Germany air Force officials wednesday night reversed a previous statement and said airmen s nov. Is paychecks will include the 3 percent pay raise approved by Congress. Earlier wednesday a spokesman said the checks would include the raise Only if president Reagan signed the defense department authorization Bill thursday. Master sgt. David Wright a Saff military pay analyst said thursday that air Force finance officials Tecl Reagan s approval of the Bill is assured and there should be no further delay in a my airmen the in creased entitlement. Our computers have been loaded with the 3 percent raise for some time Wright said. We feel that it s just a matter of time before he Reagan signs off on the Bill and that it s sure to be retroactive at the established level. Another consideration was that the longer the air Force waited to pay the increased entitlements the greater the disservice would be to the people. The decision was Maile by the air Force accounting and finance Center commander. He told his people that the president will sign the Bill and that he did t want to be put in the posture of having to wait until the last minute to  Wright said he did not know of any official messages to air Force finance offices directing the pay raise implementation. But he said payroll processing at the higher rates began thursday morning at most bases. We be had Many other years when the new fiscal year pay checks were issued based on continuing Resolution authority rather than approval of the authorization Bill he said. We be never had a payday Lew  Wright emphasized that the pay rates reflected in the mid november pay statements Are not estimates As the army is planning but exact increase amounts including the payments retroactive to oct. 1. The new pay rates will be explained in the and of month leave and earnings statements he said. Mistrial declared in Fri agent s espionage Case los Angeles a a judge on wednesday declared a mistrial in the Case of Richard w. Miller the Only Fri agent Ever charged with espionage after jurors deadlocked with the majority favouring his conviction. The Foreman of the jury told . District judge David kenyan that the panel had decided 10-2 for guilt on three of the key espionage charges against Miller and 11-1 on the four other charges. . Attorney Robert Bonner said the government will seek to try Miller again. The decision by Kenyon to declare a mis trial capped a chaotic afternoon in which some jurors said they were hopelessly dead locked and others said they might still be Able to reach a verdict. Kenyon initially said he would declare a mistrial then held off on that decision when five of the 12 told him there still might be a Chance to reach a verdict on some of the charges against Miller. He said he had been deeply concerned by a juror s statement in court that some pan lists Felt pressure to get Back to their jobs and that one woman was suffering personal hardship because she had not been paid. He urged the jury to Confer and decide if More time might help them reach a verdict. The panel then returned and announced its decision. We have done our Best said the final note by the six women and six men who deliberated More than 71 hours Over 14 Days. Our decisions Are based on Strong convictions that cannot be  Kenyon rejecting a bid by the prosecution to keep deliberations going decided it was hopeless. Miller 48, a 20-year Veteran of the Fri was charged with passing classified documents to the soviet Union in Cucha for promises of s65.000 in Cash and Goto. His co defendants Svetlana Ogorodny Iacov who was Miller s Lover and her husband Niko Lay pleaded guilty in the Middle of their earlier trial and have been sentenced to jail. Miller faced a possible maximum of life in prison if convicted on All seven counts of his indictment. Two of the counts carry life sentences while others carry penalties in the Range of 10 years. Terrorist from Page 1 of the american hostages the caller said. At 2 ., the Agency said the Man had not called Back. But an official of the Agency which asked not to be identified disclosed later there had been another Call at 10 . A Man speaking arabic said bodies had been dumped in a bombed out factory in the Kola District of West Beirut. He Hung up after a few seconds. But it was not apparently the same Man who delivered the death threat. Police said at 2  They had searched the area thoroughly but found no bodies. A spokesman who declined to be named said the search was continuing. The second Call differed from the earlier one because the Man did not precede his terse message with the first words of the Koran islam s holy Book that callers claiming to speak for islamic jihad usually use. Last month islamic jihad released blurred photographs of what it said was the body of . Embassy political officer Wil Liam Buckley. It said Buckley 57, was killed in retaliation for Israel s oct. I air raid on Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in Tunisia. But no body was produced and . Officials said the photos were not conclusive proof Buckley was dead. Buckley of med Ford mass., was kidnapped March 16. 1984. Islamic jihad has demanded the release of 17 comrades convicted in Kuwait of bombing the . And French embassies in december 1983. The other missing americans Are Peter Kilburn 60, of san Francisco librarian at the american University of Beirut missing since dec. 3,1984. The Rev. Lawrence Jenco 50, of Joliet iii., roman Catholic priest kidnapped Jan. 8,1985. Terry Anderson 38, native of Lorain Ohio chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press kidnapped March 16, 1985. David Jacobsen 54, of Huntingdon Beach calif., director of the american University Hospital kidnapped May 28, 1985. Thomas Sutherland 54, born in Scot land the Dean of agriculture at the Ameri can University of Beirut kidnapped june 9, 1985. Defector from Page 1 statement that you should be aware that approximately 15,000 to 20,000 individuals seek Asylum in the United states each year hundreds of these cases involve Seaman who have jumped  still the Case attracted attention coming after a dizzying series of developments involving soviets in Washington new or leans and Kabul Afghanistan who at first appeared to be defectors and then decided to go Home again. On wednesday alone a grinning votary Yurchenko the Kab spymaster who decided to return to the soviet Union after three months in the bands of the Cia boarded an Ilyushin 11-62 Jet in Washington and flew Back to Moscow. He beaded to an Uncertain future and left behind theories on whether he was a genuine defector with a change of heart Ora Kub punt. A broadcast report from Canada said a woman who committed suicide in Toronto May have been the mystery woman some us. Intelligence sources said was Yurchenko s Lover. Canadian officials denied the dead woman was connected to the soviet spy. A Senate committee issued a subpoena thurs div for a soviet Sailor who apparently tried to defect near new Orleans but later changed his Nind calling him to washing ton to  whether his change of heart was made in Cly. Meanwhile the fun  a med on president Reagan s administration to use All Legal and legitimate meant to resolve the Case of 22-year-old Miroslav Medvid. Members of Congress from both parties have criticized the administration s handling of Medvid who appeared to be seek ing Asylum last month when he jumped from the ship. But he was Given Back to the soviets when he declared in follow up inter views that he did not want to stay in the United states. Temperatures of from Page 1 after reviewing the Case the trial judge declared a mistrial because a member of that jury violated orders of the court. Morales conviction was set aside he was not retried and eventually was Given an administrative discharge. At the time of Morales trial military officials said that convictions in drug of sense cases using Only evidence from a forensic lab would become More common be cause military labs had tightened their procedures for testing urine samples. The lab changes came about after a 1983 study by Lexicology its and Legal specialists had looked at ways to improve verification of lab results involving urine specimens. William Manders a retired colonel who was an air Force scientist was a key government witness at Jackson s trial. Al though Manders had helped develop the air Force s urinalysis program during the past few years he had become a prominent critic of the program. According to maj. William s. Colwell. 3rd air Force s chief of military Justice Manders did not think the program was being used correctly. Manders had testified for the defense at Many drug trials in the United states and had attacked the stateside military testing program for what he called its Sloppy proce dures and inadequate analysis Colwell said thursday. The Legal official explained that Mand cars. Who is now setting up his own forensic lab in the Washington d.c., area had been brought Over to England recently to testify As a defense witness at another trial. While in Europe Manders took advantage of an invitation from the air Force to go to Wiesbaden to tour an army forensic Laboratory there where urinalysis for the . Military in Europe is carried out the Legal official said. He changed his stance after seeing the lab s operation said Colwell. He was very impressed with the lab s staff and procedures and thought everything there was being done As it should be. Consequently he offered to become an expert witness for the  he said that Jackson who is single had been tested along with 30 others in his Squadron during a random urinalysis Check oct. 22, 1984. Jackson s Sample came out positive when it was checked at the lab in Wiesbaden and was the Only evidence used against him at his trial. Jackson had been offered an article 15 in lieu of court martial but instead asked for trial with a jury panel that included enlisted members. Four officers and three cos made up the court martial panel according to Colwell. Jackson was defended by both military and civilian counsel. The Legal officer said that had Jackson accepted the article 15, his punishment would have been far Les severe. He Jackson had a Good record with no article 15s or past courts martial and he did not have an unfavourable information file. So if he had taken the article 15, he would meal Likely have had one Stripe taken away lost some Money and been Given a general discharge. 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