European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pane 2 the stars and. Stripes tuesday february 4,1988 misunderstanding delays soldiers checks Byton Nauroth Nuernberg Burn Fuerth Germany a first sergeant s overzealous enthusiasm to encourage his soldiers to sign up for sure pay resulted in some government Check recipients not getting their Cash what officials monday called a misunderstanding of a battalion commander s new pay policy soldiers Inone company within the 4th support in 1st army div were not Given their government Chiccki until their 4 30p.m. Mail Call even though the first sergeant had them at 7 cashier window at the local army finance office closed at 4 30 . Friday. The local american express military banking facility closed at 3 30 ., but was open for three hours . Col. Franklin Mcglynn battalion commander said the sergeant withheld the checks in an attempt Roget More soldiers signed up for sure pay. " think we have Here is an Over Baloiu first sergeant Mcglynn said. It was not a Good judgment calf but at the same time he did nothing soldiers involved in the misunderstanding were have Bills to pay today one said. How am i going to do that now another said there s one thing you Don t mess with mag Ynn told his unit last fall that As of Jan. 1, his pay officers would no longer Cash us. Government checks. Instead they would Only Cash personal checks Ami convert dollars to Marks. A Booth is now set up near the pay officers for soldiers to sign up for sure pay he sure pay guarantees that paychecks Are deposited automatically in a financial institution of the soldiers Choice. It is designed to safeguard pay no matter where Soldier is serving. It also decreases the Chance of checks being lost or stolen in the army tried last year to make the program mandatory for All soldiers. The plan ran into Legal tumbling blocks and was postponed. However new soldiers must sign up for sure 90 Days of entering the service. Soldiers already in the service cannot be forced to sign up but the army is strongly encouraging voluntary participation. One of its Selling Points is that sure pay contribute to combat soldiers deploy often to Many different Loca ,1 Mcglynn said. I looked at this policy from readiness standpoint. It s very difficult to get the sol Dier s Check to him out in the Field and there s no Way for him to get Money Back to mama of buy diapers and Mcglynn said soldiers technically received their checks on payday which fulfilled the unit s obligation. But he said the usual battalion policy is to distribute checks in the morning and release soldiers from duty at 11 . So they can take care of financial one out of the eight companies in his 1,100 member battalion had the problem Friday he said. This certainly is not the result of any battalion vide policy he said. Yes we arc encouraging sure pay but we re doing it by Selling it on its own merits not through any -twisting."Mcglynn said Friday s incident will not be repeated. Mai. Dick Rankin finance officer for the 501st, said70 percent of the 45-plus units his office services were on sure pay As of dec. 31. Anyone who does t Haw it is fool a Jerk Riwkin said. If you re on the French Riviera ots payday you know you be got your said the Best time to have sure pay is during reassignment. He pointed to the invasion of Grenada Ana lesson in sure pay education. Before the 82nd airborne div deployed 53 percent of the soldiers were on sure pay he said. They were in Grenada their checks were on for Bragg and their families were out of Luck Rankin said. When they got Back the sure pay rate went up to 100percent." France expels 4 soviet military diplomats Paris a France has expelled four soviet diplomats the foreign ministry said monday. Official sources said the four we remembers of the Gru the soviet military intelligence linked with the recent arrest of Frenchman spying for the soviet Union. It was the most important expulsion of so Viets from France since 1983, when 47 soviet officials were told to expulsions followed the arrest 12 Days ago in routes of a Frenchman working As a agent for the soviet secret police. The foreign ministry refused to say whether there was a link Between the two incidents but the sources indicated this was four diplomats left French territory by air plane Over the weekend said the sources speaking on condition they not be named. They All were attached to the soviet embassy in Paris As military or commercial at taches but in fact were member of the Gru said the sources. Bernard Sourisseau a retired French air Force non commissioned officer was arrested More than a week ago and charged with spy ing on French nuclear submarine activities for the soviet Union the prosecutor i office i Rennes revealed Friday. Sourisseau 44, was alleged to have mad regular trips to the Atlantic ports of Lorient and Brest where be observed movements of warships at naval insufflation As Well As activities near the he de Tongue nuclear submarine base near Brest officials said Sourisseau bad been recruited by a soviet Kab agent based in Paris. Preceding Sourisseau s arrest officials had noticed a persistent soviet interest in the re Gion. This included the unusual presence of soviet trucks allegedly picking up freight efforts by Aeroflot the soviet airline to begin services to Brest site of a minor regional air port and efforts to twin Brest with the Esto Nian port of november 1983, Brest mayor Jacques Berthelot suspended a Friendship agreement with Tallinn saying his dry was becoming a key Point for East Uoc in 1983, an Aeroflot plane arriving in Brest to take tourists to the soviet Union flew Over the nearby Landi Visias naval air base. Soviet trawlers regularly cruise the inshore Waters of the Region and often ask permission to Dock with technical problems. The 1983 expulsionsof47offidals, diplomats Enesco representatives Notts " director of the soviets official Tan umm Agency in Paris represented the biggest spy sweep French history. The authoritative be the state run tf1 television Patio last be a published contents of allegedly confidential so Del Mec to " Francois Mitterrand that he should order the i documents revealed that gathered by soviet agents in the West base tabled the soviets to improve certain Anos uni. Silsand combat planes. 1 the soviet embassy protested what it mid was a Calum Nious Campaign of flagrant own formation. / i " no 4 in family Safiu Fez won f on spy Swap injured in Blaze Fie m l i a a is is ask vows . Comr Irenr of ass Aenis n array housing Are apartment monday morning seriously injured a their three . Dale Roy was listed in very serious condition following the 7 30 . Fire in the army s Berlin brigade housing area a Taylo Traue the Public affairs office . Of he co 6th in 502nd inf. Was being treated at the a Tinkum Stegitz Aberlin civilian Hospital. His wife Gloria Roy and three children Wen flown to the army Hospital in lands Tull Gloria Roy was in serious children Caresia 7 Mark 3 and Rebecca 3, were listed in stable Blaze caused an estimated $42,000 damage to the building. The cause of the fire is under investigation. 32ndaadcomso/d/er is suspect in robbery Mannheim Germany is authorities monday identified the suspect in the $100,000 robbery of the is. Amy. Finance and accounting Center. Europe As a 32nd army air defense come Soldier. The Soldier whose name was withheld a r held in the army jail at Mannheim j further investigation by the charges have been filed. Authorities released no details of the 430pan. Friday robbery at Funari Barracks but they said two military policemen stopped the suspect who was fleeing from the scene a .45-Cauber pistol the Soldier was carry ing was the same weapon taken from a pay agent daring an at tempted robbery in Hanau Friday morning. Washington Dpi Secretary of state George Shultz declined comment monday on reports that Anatoly Shucha Ransly would be released in an East West spy Swap but he said the plight of soviet dissidents is of tremendous importance to the West German newspaper big quoting Moscow Kremlin codes first reported agreement had been readied on the largest East West spy Swap since world War n. The new York times quoted Reagan administration officials As saying the agreement Calls for Shch Aransky and three or four West pm intelligence operative held by the rus sians to be released in Berlin feb. 11 in return for the freeing of an equal number of East bloc agents jailed in the West White source in new York s jewish Community said the Swap could be any Day now White House and state department spokesmen declined to confirm the , interviewed on Abc s Good morning America said he bad no com ment to. Make at All on the reports. But he added there is no subject that we have worked on harder or that makes sculptor l Borglum Dies Corpus Christ Texas a Lin Coln Borglum the son of mount Rushmore Tor of the Abraham bin fish Carum on toe More difference to people in the West no just in the United states release of dissidents in the soviet Union More Emi Gration for those who wish to emigrate More respect for people expressing their religious beliefs in the soviet Union he Are things of tremendous importance to us All and if the soviet Union decides to move Forward in some of these areas i m sure it will be a positive development she Haransky a jew has been seeking permission to emigrate since the 1970s. He has served eight Yean of a 13-year sentence for spying for Washington. The founder of a soviet monitoring group to Check human rims violations by Moscow he is in Perm labor Camp 500 Miles East of Moscow. According to the reports the East Ger Man and West German agents will be swapped on genl cake Bridge Between East and West Berlin where captured u-2 Pilot Oary Powers was exchanged for soviet master spy Rudolf Abel in 1962. The by identified the two key agents to be freed As Yevgeny Deli aka a sow spy arrested in 198s in Cologne and Lothar Erwin former West German defense min or Iclal serving 12 years for . To bred. Shch Anusky s wife left the soviet Union in 1974 and has to free israeli Mountain has died at 74. Lincoln Borgtor worked on the mount Rosmore National memorial from age 17 until he was 29. Aba declined comment e used to Waco reitme. The soviets offered Shch Aransky 37, the same Deal two Yean ago Bat be timed of Dawn on grounds he was not a spy. But the new York jewish activist rid ruled Shch Aransky s 1978 conviction for spying saying we Don t care. We Jos twant him Back. We Are not going to my on ceremony 4,the negotiations reputedly iwelm1 reps. Benjamin oilman ,Lantos, d-calif., both Memiss of House foreign affairs committee and to state department officials. Oilman and Lantos were not available for immediate comment Soldier found dead at Frankfurt station Frankfurt is a a Soldier was found dead in the Restom of the main train station officials said Moo Day. " the 9th engr in Soldier Fromberg was found about 5 40 put according to officials of the Public affairs office a the Frankfurter Mundschau Querij newspaper reported monday Thaten Ifft Apte Naua was found near the Utu Joeand that be died of on apparel dose but the military officials said the of death bad not yet been would not comment on the dreg connection.2.-the Soldier s name is being held it Toft . Of i
