European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes tuesday january 14, 1986 top cos Hail credit cards in exchanges n my Williams Washington the lop nigh commissioned offi Eer Sof the four services say the use of credit cards in Hist Vul Hiing is i leap in Quality of life program for and their families. Ami they said they him i think soldiers airmen Oil Mir fact or their Funi Ilio will abuse the new privilege. Kim exchanges the United suites begun i Cix pling master curd and visa Jan. 6. Overseas in to lunges Are expected lust if accepting Eredini cards by mid ear. Ress made a tremendous move by luit Luigi Iii a is in nov vol credit said chief Muster t of the air Lorca s Iii Parish. Places oaf people an a Par with contemporary society in being Able i use Reedil card in our facilities. If our people Are uni allowed to use credit cards in Llie base Exchange. Ihen re join ii to use them outside Parish said. We be ilmk1 a pretty Good Job in proc Dine financial counselling for our people Sterling in Basic i lobbied fur credit curd use a Long Lime ago when i was so aligned in bad Toel Germany 1979-si said sergeant Fajar of the army on e. Mar Roll. Credit curds have been around Cor years and we be been behind the limes in l Surblis Liing. To licit use in our a Citilia. H prohibiting credit card use in our exchanges we denied soldiers Tiitu their families the Opportunity to make Mil buy. When to Kricos i Jim Niimi to Mikic Stair i mail third purchases Llie pm imy pay Loo Morrell said. Tod officials estimate credit card use will increase cd Clinge Saks by s20 million to �30 million. Sonic people arc worried about soldiers of Crux end ing heir budget but after careful investigation we find thai Many Soldier already use credit cards within the limit of their Means Morrell said. Ii is Good for mor ulc. It gives our soldiers a Chance to late advantage of Good buys in our is Chungmui and provides an Opportunity for them to gel a better product it a reduced Price sergeant Majur if the Marine corps Robert a Cleary said the use of credit cards could be a quamily of life improvement if it s properly the marines and dependents should be schooled us that they understand i hair responsibilities Cleary said. Using or Ceil cards in Exchange sales stores is a Psi live step Forward find i opens new resources for our enlisted people said William h. Plackett master chief Polly officer of the Navy. It brings the Post Exchange system into sync nigh retail i Laek etl Saij. And it s another contribution lathe Quali of placket does no foresee major problems with troops misusing or Ceil curds. The percentage of a Rublein. be relatively Tow because there arc a lol of Safe guards Hill into a sys tem he said. A person a in bad credit will not be Given it arc till card los Lar or Ceil cards will nol be used on ships it sea because in arc is no Way to process Idem a spokesman for the Navy Exchange service said some people might say we re penalizing our people aboard ships but you have lit have an electronic Fink to validate the credit cards he said. The cards can be used in main exchanges clothing sales stores and some Exchange concessions and convenience stores. However shoppers cannot use them for personal services such As a theater tickets meals in Resi auranus at Bowling fees. Visa and master card Are the Only credit cards approved for use in exchanges however plans Call for adding other nationally credit cards such As american express. Diners club and Carle Blanche later this year. Mai. Flu Loti i a Ocan parcel inform Allan s lil Asilo cd 10 the of ambassador with a Golden voice . Ambassador id Wesl Germany Richard Burl Icell sings Ullh Tommy Humour be Lead vocalist of a West Berlin bund the us blocs. Hurt report edly his singing Patail wild hit classic Ain t she Street and i rolling stones song Tell me t the Tri Lunus studio in Berlin s Kreuzberg District. Hurt to tilted Berlin for several social Over the weekend. Weinberger says claim libyans downed Jet is patently absurd Washington a defense see relay Caspar Weinberger repealed Penta gon denials sunday of a kuwaiti Row l that libyan anti aircraft missile batteries shot Down a us. Jel fighter Over i lie Mediterranean last week. That s absurd a Tenily absurd. There s nothing to that at All Weinberger said in an interview on Abc s this week with David the report by Kuwait official Kuna news Agency quoted a Lebanon based Diplo mat As saying the wat Lane was downed wednesday by a soviet made missile As it flew Over the Gulf of Sidon. The Kuna report no cd that . Navy officials in Rome had announced thai a Marine f-18 Hornet was missing wednes Day after taking off from lie aircraft car Rier Coral sea and was believed lost off France s Southern coast near Nice. Weinberger said the plane was lost Dur ing a routine exercise in the Mediterranean he said the plane went Down in a storm Way up off the coast of but there was nothing remotely resembling any libyan action or anything of that kind their missiles Don l �0 that far even if they had that degree of accuracy be said. In Tripoli Mustafa Ahmed a libyan information ministry spokesman said of the Kuna Story we can neither confirm nor deny this he noted Bat none of the official libyan Media had reported any thing about it. Privately however an information ministry source , i think the libyans would be the first to report such a thing would t you .1" the Coral sea had left Naples Italy on Jan. 3, tending about eight other vessels from the 6th Heel to cars on Okinawa burned Tokyo Cap Ami military arsonists set fire to 10 automobiles belonging to members of the Japan self defense Fane on the Southern japanese Island of Okinawa police reported. They said the attack occurred shortly outside an apartment building in the okinawan capital of that i ousts Mem Bers Fla self Defenso Force Japan s Mil Ilary Force. Two banners were found near the build ing with the slogan. Japanese military get out of the police said. They reported that the cars were doused with gasoline before they were set afire. There Are Aboul 6,000 self defense Force troopers on Okinawa along with 30,000 of the 46,000 . Military person Nel stationed in Japan. Anli military sentiments have Long been Strong on Okinawa where some 100,000 civilians were killed in the bloody Battle Between . japanese troop in the closing Days of world War ii. Lebanese forces claim 2 Beirut districts seized Beirut Lebanon Apt Chris Ian militiamen of the lebanese forces claimed they seized two key districts held by preside a Atlin Gemayel s phalanges party monday in an escalating Power struggle in the streets of East Beirut. The claim was not immediately confirmed by police or by Gemayel s forces. The fighting flared at Dawn when the lebanese forces. Gemayel s main rival for control of the Christian Community launched a crackdown on the right Wing phalanges. Hospitals in cast Beirut reported five lebanese forces militiamen killed and 14 wounded. There was no official word on Hahn isl casualties but one resident speaking on condition of anonymity said she saw one Phala Gist killed by sniper fire. The voice of Lebanon radio said the Battles set a fuel dump near the Harbor ablaze and appealed o civil de sense units and firefighters to prevent the flames from igniting a neighbouring Oil Lank Complex. The Bailies raged As Jemayel a Mara Nile cathode arrived in Damascus far talks with syrian president 1 life Assad on a peace Accord Sci when the Christian militia the lebanese forces and moslem to Lilios intended to end Lebanon a 10-year-old civil War. Assad did not Street the lebanese head of Sta to Al nun ascus Airport. Officials declined to say Why Assad did i Lead the welcoming party. Syrian vice president arum Lalim Haddam a Home tinted inc dec. 28 peace Accord led the official reception for Gemayel. They drove to Assad s presid enlist Palace where Gem Acyl Assad and their senior aides met privately. Shortly after Gemayel s arrival in Damascus the Leb anese forces command claimed its forces overran Pha Lange Strong Points in Cir i s Mckay los and Isrel Basha District s. The i plur of the districts would allow the lebanese a rfcs to Advance on key Highway Crossroads Bort heart of Hei Rul Ilia com Sci Gemayel i Palace in suburban a ads null ins Hont town of Bike ii i. Jug
