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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q senator urges Shultz to take lie Detector test Page 2 h Pentagon studies ways to trim defense budget Page 5 j huskies seminoles win bowl games Page 21 the stm4andtripes Authon Zed unofficial. Publication for the . Armed Fowikes vol. 44. No. 257 wednesday january 1, 1936 i or fuss a d 8693 a Paris Madrid called attack targets captured terrorist tells of plans Rome paper reports Ronal a a nun who took part in the Rome Airport a acc Lold investigators he belonged to a libyan backed group of 300 commandos thai also planned attacks in Paris and Madrid Spain a Rome newspaper reported tuesday. We have the support of khad Afy and maybe Syria the Rome daily ii Tempo quoted terrorist Mohammad Sarham is telling investigators. Col. Moa mar Khaik Ify is the Lender of Libyn. Sarham is the Only survivor of four terrorists who at is this the Way Glenn Miller disappeared London not two members of a Royal air Force bomber Crew in world War ii believe they can explain one of the unsolved mysteries of the wan the Dis appearance of bandleader Glenn Miller. They say icy fear his plane was downed Over the English Chunnic by bombs jettisoned from their own plane As they returned from an aborted Mission. The to the navigator and Pilot snid their four engine Lancaster bomber was one of some 150 returning from an aborted Mission on Dee. 15. 1944 the Day Miller took off in bad Cal rear from an Airfield near bed Ford on ,1 flight to Paris where he was to give n show. The two said Llinat after the jettisoned bombs exploded they saw a Norse Man aircraft fall Inlo the sea below them apparently knocked out of the sky to Shock Waves. The plane carrying Miller who was then a major in the army and Lender of the army air Force hand was i Norseman d-64. The official version of the band Leader s disappearance is that his aircraft vanished in the Channel _ fog perhaps disabled by ice on its wings. Other theories were Marc by Arre that he faked his own death that he was a secret agent that he died in a Paris Brothel with the crash Story is cover up or that he was the victim of Lack marketeers. The Raf Crew s theory was originally Mode Public last year by the navigator Fred Shaw who now lives in South Africa. His Story which appeared in South Afri can newspapers was discounted though by members of inc Glenn Miller appreciation society a London group with an abiding interest in Miller s life and music on the grounds thai no Raf planes were assumed to be in the air that Day because of the poor weather. But one member of the society Alan Ross of Liverpool investigated Shaw s claims. Ross wrote to the defense ministry and placed an advertisement in the see Miller on Page 28 lacked Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport last Friday. Almost simultaneously three terrorists attacked an Airport in Vienna Austria where Tine gunman was killed and two were captured. Tunisian officials told the italian government that pass puns carried by the three Vienna attackers had belonged to tunisian workers in Libya and were lost or confiscated in Libya last year. The libyan embassy in Koine has denied that inc North african nation was involved. However. Libya s official Jana news Agency declared the twin Airport attacks were heroic prompting italian Premier Batlino  to respond that those who Praise such actions arc fanatic and  a total of 18 people including four terrorists died in the attacks and nearly 120 were wounded. Sarham who was wounded and is being held in a Mili Coll need on Page 28 Glenn Miller Aitolu Litls Robert und Jennifer Williamson unite in new i Hihi India of tar so Van or Nili Ord a in aug minis in. Kidnapped couple released after 7 months in Afghanistan new Delhi India up an australian Cou ple kidnapped by tribesmen and held captive in Afghanistan for seven months arrived in new Delhi tues Day looking Happy and healthy Robert Williamson 35, and his wife Jennifer 32, were greeted 31 new Delhi Airport by australian embassy officials after flying in on an Indian airlines flight from Kabul the afghan capital. Striding past a group of reporters mrs. Williamson said Only that she Felt Good to be in India after her seven month ordeal in Afghanistan. The couple said they would discuss their Captivity and future plans at a later news conference. In a statement distributed by embassy officials australian prime minister Bob Hawke said he was Happy to know of the couple s release. I urn delighted to hear that your Long ordeal is now see couple on Page 28 social Security to take extra slice out of pay Washington a the social Security system will Lake an extra dime from every j1qd that the average worker earns starting on new year s Day. The payroll Tai will Rise from 7.05 to 7,15 percent when the new year rings in. That Means that $7.15 will come off the top of every 1100 that most american workers earn with their employers kicking in an equal amount. While workers will find their paychecks a Tad lighter in Impi social Security s 37 million beneficiaries will find their monthly Benefit checks 3.1 percent fatter starting Friday. Four million aged Blind or disabled pour people who set supplemental Security in come also will gel a 3.1 percent Cost of Liv ing increase in their checks social Security spokesman Jamu Brown said. The one tenth of a Point Rise in the pay Roll lax rate translates to a  percent lax increase for employees. The lax Rale for self employed climbs from 11.8 percent to 12.3 percent. And for those workers who make More than 139,600 a year social Security s slice of their paychecks will be even bigger. The payroll Tail Cut off at $39,600 in 1935, but in 1986 it will apply to earnings up to i-s2.000. The maximum a on employees will be 13,003, which is s3ii.20. Or 7.56 percent higher than this year s maximum. Almost 9 million workers paid the Maxi mum lax in 19h5. About 7 million Are expected to pay the maximum in i9s6. The 31 million elderly or disabled work ers who qualify for medicare will face higher deductible and co insurance payments for their Hospital stays in 1986. But for a change there will be no in crease in the monthly Premium the medi care recipients must pay for the so called part ii of medicare covering physicians Bills and other out of Hospital expenses. The Premium deducted from their monthly social Security Check will stay see pay on Page 28  
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