European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes military Medicine on the clinics May Cut hours see pages 8-9 attacks Sec rot programs. Page 2 g shuttle getting ready to Eludy Comet. Page 5 d budget not dead director says. Page 7 d violent winds whip Germany. Page 28 the stm4andtripes of 44. No. 277 authorized unofficial publication for i Ite . Tuesday january 2f, 1986 d fosc61 or Iun a q 6693 a of Navy losing pilots to airlines at rising rate by Norman Black a Mizilar writer Washington Ai l the air Force and Navy ure losing experienced pilots at tin increasing Rule in a manpower Drain Hal officials attribute u slip cd up hiring by commercial airlines. Newly tabulated figures covering Llic i h5 fiscal year which inc been in the Wiinie locution fur four Days. Sue related Lores Phulps an pages 2, 3, and 2k. U.k., France agree on ra/7 Fink under Channel Lille France a French presi Deal Francois Mitterrand and British prime minister Marg Rel Thatcher on monday announced that their two countries would be linked by a double rail Tunnel under the English Channel. They announced that later a Road Tun Nel would be Buill but they set no Date in their statements. The winning plan was thus that of the French British Channel Tunnel group France Manche consortium a 31-Mi c twin bore for trains and special shuttle trains to carry cars and trucks. Mitterrand Annona cd that the project would Cost an estimated billion Al cur rent prices rising to 5 billion with the financing costs before the Tunnel opens expected in l��3. The official communique said the treaty formalizing the Concession by the two governments to. Build the Lunne will be signed in London on feb. 12. Speaking in Lille s City Hall draped with huge French and British nags Mitterrand thanked Thatcher for this grand indeed grandiose vision of the he said the Lannel would be a new link in the construction of Europe and indeed inc Thatcher who had been reported strongly in favor of a rival project that would immediately have included a direct Road link said the rail Only project was Eliasen because it had the soundest financial basis. Switching from English to French. Thatcher repeated that a Road la incl would be Buill later and said this is not the last word just a first 3tep" in a project which will be judged passionately by the Public by Aasc it k a project worthy of our above nil it is a Challenge and i Hope our companies and our nations can Rise to the insistence on the possible future Road connection either a Bridge or a Tunnel was seen by observers As a Concession to Thatcher s Strong desire for such a project. Mitterrand said thai the fixed Channel link would allow for the Extension of France s High Speed train network in Lon Don us Well As cities such As Brussels Amsterdam Cologne and Stuttgart for which discussions were in Progress. This is not words but work in Prog Ress said Mitterrand. Such a link by trains travelling up to 130 Mph would Cut the fastest inn and sea journey time be tween the British and French capitals from see Channel on Page 2b
