European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 24, 1985 French mediator relays captors demands Beirut up a Trench mediator ended a Mission to free four Trench hostages in Lebanon monday return ing to Paris with their captors final demands White a Church of England envoy stayed out of sight in West Beirut. Newsmen waited in West Beirut hotels for a third straight Day As anglican  Terry Waite remained at a secret hideout in an attempt to present proposals to the pro iranian kidnappers of four americans. My Mission has ended and it is now up to the French government to decide what it wants to do with the conditions of the  said  cardiologist or. Rajah Raad before boarding a flight to Paris. I have passed on to the French government the exact conditions of the kidnappers Raad said. These conditions arc for the Freedom of All four French nationals held hostage and not just for two of  Raad did not say what the demands were but political sources said they included a direct Swap for five people jailed in France for trying to assassinate former  prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar in july 1980. The five including an iranian were arrested after they had a shoot out with French guards at Bakhtiar s apart ment building in Paris killing two people. A member of the squad said they were sent by iranian officials. The mediator who is of shiite moslem origin flew to Beirut a week ago and distributed medical supplies to dispensaries and hospitals in Beirut s Southern suburbs and other strongly shiite parts of Lebanon. French diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton were seized by gunmen March 22 in West Beirut and journalist Jean Paul Kauffmann and researcher Michel Surat were abducted on the Road from Beirut International Airport. November consumer spending rebounds Reagan Washington up consumer spending Rose during november rebound ing from a big october decline As Ameri cans raised their income but it no Sav a full personal income Rose 0.6 percent or $18.5 billion last month raising the total to $3.4 trillion seasonally adjusted. It was the sharpest gain since a 0.9 percent increase in april. At the same time personal spending jumped 0.9 percent to a total of j2.7 tril lion. The department said revised figures showed spending fell 1.4 percent in octo bar. A _ z reported last month. The october drop was the largest since 1.4 percent recorded in May 1960. Purchases of durable goods the Gener ally More expensive items expected to last at least three years increased 2.1 percent after dropping by a revised 12 percent in october. New car sales increased modestly in november after accounting for most of the october decline the department said. Durable goods increased 0.32 percent an spending on services Rose 0.91 percent. Disposable personal income income after taxes Rose 0.5 percent following a revised 0.5 percent increase in october. The savings rate the difference be tween income and spending Rose to 4.2 percent or $119.8 billion during novem Ber. Revised figures showed the rate was 4.5 percent in october or $128 billion. Gift from Page 1 Many. It was Christmas eve 1963. Mccar thy has a Black and White photograph of himself hanging on his Wall behind his desk. His head is buried in a huge pot and steam from the hot water is rising around him. Printed under the picture arc the words lest i  tonight 46 officers and senior cos will be Manning the guard shacks in the motor pools and at the Entrance Gates to Ferris Barracks in or Langon. Mccarthy pull staff duty officer. Mis Grant major is Hisa Mlp Abr Ficor Evrrett Shaffer Forward to walking an enlisted beat. He vows to have the most together uniform and bust shined boots out of All his fellow officers. Because Shaffer is battalion maintenance officer his boots Are usually up to their eyelets in grease. On monday other officers marvelled at the gloss he s been working into his boots for his big night. "1 look at guard not As a duty but More like an Honor he said. You represent All the other soldiers of the battalion when you re out there and the preparation makes you remember what Basic soldiering is All  Shaffer was also an enlisted Soldier. He remembers his last tour with the 1st in 46th inf in 1972. It s the same uni renamed that he s s been in . It Sti i 11 do the officers families feel about their husbands and fathers on guard duty tonight at first she did t like the idea Shaffer said but i convinced her it was the right thing to  his 12-year-old son Patrick agrees. We had to do a or Job on the officers families Mccarthy said. Now they re behind  Mccarthy said the single Soldier in t left out in the cold either. We be done every thing we could to get them into families for Christmas he said. We know this is the toughest part of the year and we want to get them Over the  tonight. Cape. John Angell commander of the same co b that Mccarthy walked into last year will stand behind the i although the duty ism Faggs each office Rajil Jwj jew it two hours  hours will equate to a a cars of stories about How Well the Bat Talion leadership takes care of their sol  the scuttlebutt is already circulating through other units whose soldiers won t be so Lucky. Privates Are asking Why can t we do this too " Angell said. Mccarthy spoke of the leadership Benefit of this gesture. This is leadership by example he said. It May be the Only Chance a Young officer will get 10 walk guard. I Hope some will remember and carry it throughout their Ca  from Page 1 age for  farm credit system the $70 billion banking network that is the nation1 largest farm Lender. The president then went to the agriculture department it hold a Brief closed Cir Cuit television no conference with form state reporters inn Effort to demonstrate concern for agric Burc s problems. Senate majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas praised Csc tent of the two Billt As essential fir Steps in restoring Hope and Confidence i Liral  the farm Bill authorizes for five Yean a Long list of probaus ranging from crop Price supports amb come subsidies to for eign famine  food Stamps and agricultural  and Extension programs. At the heart Bothe Bill arc provisions lowering Federal pc supports for major Otho Ditis incl Hng wheat Corn Rice Cotton and soybean the action is designed to make the crop More competitive in world Trade and a car . Market share lost in recent years an overvalued Dollar and excessive Suppona vols. In a gesture of cubic can Over the badly slumping farm Economy which has been hit particularly hard in she Export dependent midwestern Grain be the Bill replaces in come lost to lower Paje supports with in come subsidies. While the Cost of lie Bill s commodity sections has been estimated at $52 billion Over the next three yeas analysts say it a Likely to go considerable higher perhaps to $75 billion and program spending. Cheat from Page 1 tical commitments they cause grave con Ern regarding soviet commitment control and they Dahich current net acted in Geneva a in another sen a soviet violations Are on Are being con d  the one new charge accuses the soviets of concealing the association Between intercontinental ballistic missiles and launch ers during testing. These deliberate soviet conceal Tivi ties impede i in compliance with ii requirements Reagan said. They could also make it More difficult for the United states to assess accurately the of of equal import while some in ittle apparent Mili own right such i x trance if left i fitted 10 become Nore threatening v the report acc violations in nine cases. All except one have been raised in earlier reports. Nee Reagan said visual violations Are of iry significance in their actions can acquire in  they Are per precedents for future nations Reagan said Al the soviets of treaty Jurmon choir figure be City Condie 877 Enacle choir to his 17 years lowing a shod