European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday november 22, 1985 hey kids Santa Caus wants you Christmas is getting closer kids and Santa Glaus is looking Tor you letters. Make sure your Complete Nam and address is included so Santa can Send you a personal reply. The workshop has already received several Santa Claus letters without return addresses. If Tori Coltman Amber no last names included and Nathaly Munera write in again they la definitely hear from Santa by can write to Santa and his elves at sinn s workshop the stars and stripes Apo 09211 the stars and stripes will Publ ish the names of those who write. Pentagon lobbies against Bill to raise tobacco prices at bases late news Apalachicola fit. A Hurri Caw Kle carrying winds up to 100 Mph pelted the Florida Panhandle with he rain and Gale Force winds thursday As thousands fled waterfronts menaced forthe fourth time in As Many months. Authorities closed roads Bridges and schools thursday ahead of Kate which continued its journey North through the Gulf of Mexico from Cuba where it left up to 10 people dead and severe damage to crops. Some people refused to leave but Many tiny coastal towns Between Apalachicola and Pensacola were ghostly quiet and motels Inland reported they were full. By Norman Blac Washington a a bid by two senators to Force an increase in cigarette prices at military bases has touched off an unusual Battle pitting health Issue against military benefits. The Senate appropriations committee at the Behest of Sens. David l. Boren a okla. And Ted Stevens a Alaska accepted an amendment to the Pentagon fiscal 1986 appropriation two weeks ago that would Force commissaries and exchanges to Price their tobacco products at the local prevailing Price excluding state and local taxes. The Bill is awaiting a vote by the full Senate. The House version docs not con Tain a similar provision. Same formula currently military commissaries Pricell their products under the same formula Selling them at Cost plus a 5 percent sur charge. For cigarettes that Means Price that normally undercut civilian Rales by As much As 35 percent. Exchanges use a different formula but their cigarette prices also undercut those at civilian outlets by roughly 20 percent. It makes no sense to be subsidizing the sales of these products and encouraging servicemen and women to use them by keeping their prices 20 to 35 percent lower on base born argues. American tax payers Are spending millions of dollars to combat health problems caused by cigarette or. William e. Mayer the assistant de sense Secretary for health affairs supports the Price increase on the same health grounds cited by born. But the Pentagon right up to defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger nonetheless is lobbying against the Senate amendment arguing there is a larger Issue at stake. According to officials who agreed to discuss the matter wednesday if not identified the defense department views the initiative As a dangerous precedent that could undermine the manner in which Mil itary commissaries Are funded As Well As their value to servicemen As a form of compensation. The Cost of running the military s 412 commissaries worldwide is covered by a regular appropriation of taxpayer dollars plus the 5 percent surcharge on All goods sold. By Selling products at Cost plus 5 percent the Pentagon calculates an a or age savings of 25 percent for military fam Ilies on their grocery Bills. In fiscal 1985, that savings was Worth an estimated $1.3 billion for military fam Ilies compared with an actual Federal appropriation of $622 million to run the stores. The Senate amendment would reduce the fiscal 1986 appropriation of $606.1 million for the commissaries by $77.7 Mil lion. It orders the Pentagon to make up that amount by reusing tobacco prices. Weinberger in a letter dated nov. 5, urged Stevens to drop the amendment. The defense Secretary steered Clear of the debate Over the health risks posed by cigarettes and instead attacked the Amend ment As one that would establish in precedent of decreasing savings to the service member to offset the appropriations for it is this commissary appropriation which is directly responsible for making the commissary an efficient Means of compensating our military members and their Summit from Page 1 which included More than five hours of Pri vate talks Many in front of a roaring fire. In spite of the fact there is As much weaponry around As before the meeting 1would be so bold As to say the world is a safer place Gorbachev said. There s no More hiding from truth when you re talking face to in a joint five Page statement the two most powerful men in the world said the agreed to meet again in the near future and would visit each other s country. The men agreed that a nuclear War cannot be won and must never be fought theut tement said. They emphasized the importance of preventing any War Between them whether nuclear or conventional. They will not seek to achieve military nuclear arms reduction was the to priority of both men but Reagan also sought agreements on regional conflicts human rights such As the plight of soviet jews and trilateral issues such As people to people exchanges. While the two countries signed an extensive Exchange agreement the statement had terse one sentence re Marks about human rights and regional conflicts such As Afghanistan. They agreed on the importance of re solving humanitarian cases in the spirit of cooperation the statement said. When questioned about the Lack of a human rights agreement Shultz said the president had an extensive discussion on the Issue of human rights end that s All i m going to by about on regional issues the men decided to continue Exchange of Reagan and Gorbachev called for Early Progress by arms negotiators in Geneva in particular in areas where there is common ground including the principle of 50 per cent reductions in nuclear weapons but Gorbachev s Strong statements proved they reached no common ground on ski which could prevent any Progress i disarmament talks. We Are prepared to engage in Radical Cut backs in nuclear weapons provided that the door to unleashing an arms race in outer space be firmly slammed shut the soviet Leader said. The Star wars program not Only will Lead to a further arms race but restraint willbe blown to the Gorbachev said that while he under stands How Reagan can be so caught up in ski As an individual the soviets do no understand How he could adopt his stance As a political Leader. He said he told the american president Don t you believe us when we say we won t wage a first strike we have More grounds not to believe you because we re already preparing not to go into outer Shultz said ski was discussed in considerable detail and great intensity during the first Summit meeting in six years. As far As the president is concerned he Don t forget these Holiday pulling 4 4lla Vava Sam space null nor. 29 pal parcel Airlift dec. 9 priority mall and letters dec 11 feels As strongly As Ever that the research program. Is essential Shultz president views ski As a possible shield that could be offered to All countries and eliminate the need for nuclear weapon by being Able to Knock them out of the sky. But Gorbachev contended in his almost two hour news conference that ski would cause the arms race to become irreversible and make a future agreement he called it a new Field of weaponry that is unacceptable. We re certainly prepared to come up with a perfectly acceptable solution to reducing nuclear weapons provided there Sno arms race in space Gorbachev said. Despite the obvious disagreement Reagan said he is convinced they Are heading in the right but he also had a warning. The real report card on Geneva will not come in for months or even years the presi Dent said before flying to Belgium. But we know the questions that must be answered. Will we join together in sharply reducing offensive nuclear arms and moving to non nuclear defensive strengths for systems to make. This a safer world will we join together to help bring about a peaceful Resolution of conflicts in Asia Africa and Central America so that the people there can freely determine their own destiny without Ouide interference will the cause of Liberty be advanced and will the treaties and agreements signed. Be fulfilled Reagan said the people of the world Are ready to answer Niall life his Nard Lilie Fiance on Star wan Gorbachev repeatedly said he was very optimistic about the fifire an called the Summit an important Tage in the development of reunions. Sulu said in his Brief news conference in Geneva. All of us who have worked in import of the two Leaden. Share the View we have a process under Way that can Lead to a More stable relationship 1 Reagan did not hold a news conference i Geneva preferring to speak to a joint ses Sion of Congress on nationwide television thursday night in Washington. Families Weinberger wrote. Although we cannot estimate with accuracy the Ulli Mac effect of the $77.7 million reduction it would necessarily result in increased Cost to the military families a reduction in commissary sales and reduced funding for our commissary building and everybody is aware of the health Wisla of tobacco said a commissary operation official who also spoke Only on condition of anonymity. And if we believed this would really Impact on the percentage of service men who smoke i think we d sign up to it Bui unfortunately every study we be seen has t shown thai More servicemen smoke according to this official there is a much higher incidence of smoking among servicemen 53 per cell is. 34 percent among civilians. And even with the Senate language in official added cigarettes at commissariat still would be about 10 percent cheaper than those sold at civilian stores because of the exam lion for slate and local taxes. In fiscal 1985, roughly j400 million of the commissaries Gross sales of s4.s Bil lion were generated by tobacco products. Al exchanges roughly $240 million Worth of the Tola sales of s6.8 billion were to Bacco products. We re certainly opposed to it added Walker Merryman a vice president with the tobacco Institute. We think it s unfair to iry to single out one item for this kind of trial Mcnol. It s discriminatory and extremely regressive because it hits hard est at those who arc least Able to temperatures november 20 l h 49 70 Albany l 47 ai6uauf ,u05 in Anchorage 64 71 Allan la 59 69 Atlantic city60 77 Baltimore 58 68 Birmingha mib 59 Bolm 53 73 boston42 55 Buffalo 59 49 Burlington 71 76 Charleston. S.c.47 71 Charleston . In 27 chicago35 43 Cincinnati 41 4? demand 32 49 Dallai it. 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