European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Navy says soviets threaten sea lanes Page 5 d Hooks Calls for a act Boycott of Shell Oil Page 7 q Geoff Bodine wins Daytona 500 Page 21 Andi stripes vol. 44, no. 305 Autho Mied unofficial publication for t tuesday february 18, 1986 Buck May Wii Ormeo forces ally and sunday 0 8693 a by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington if the Dollar slides a few More pfennig against the West go run Mark nil american Scricc members stationed in Germany will receive Cost a of living allowances for the first Lime since " according to defense department office a should the Dollar sink to Rale of 2.30 Marks personnel at "fullt�rtf67pmocalions will receive the allowance said Tormis Pike chief of the economics and stall stick Brunch of the Dod per diem travel and allowance committee. We said full support locations arc those with major emissary and Exchange facilities. He said personnel in is Muller More Lim _ a cola when the Dollar hit Nam bars at m3dppl�aylin Germany got cola when the Dollar Pike said the Dollar s Long slide has Alcraa. The mechanism that pays a cola to virtually All Parsi incl in the United kingdom and Italy. In the Pacific the cola situation is More stable than in Europe. Pike said personnel in Japan have been receiving at least some cola for a Long Lime. Korea s Price averages Are so Low that there is no need for a cola there he said. Should the Dollar hit 2.30 Marks personnel at full support locations in Germany could expect the following cola payments an e-3 with two years service and no family members would get si0.98 per month an e-5 with two family members and six years service would get $16.22 per month an e-8 with 16 years service and Jour family members would receive $25.85 per month. Kith two years service and no family Mem pb85per month an o-3 with two family members Anc would receive $27.20 per month an o-6 witf7bj us cd and five family members would get $35.32 per to the cola is based on a complicated see cola on page1 Iraq attacks to retake persian Gulf port Nicosia Cyprus a ground air and persian gulfs Northern til y As Iraq to the Gulf Iran released ibis photograph of iranian troops celebrating their capture of port Fao from Iraq last week. Raged near the tried to recapture a port that cont according to communiques from a mind Iran. The combatants claim and not be verified because neither Side allow Sci in journalists into the War fronts Iraq said in of pcs launched a three pronged attack Over Niheu Mish the iranians from the stat Chic Purl Fao Al juts into the Gulf Between the kuwaiti Island Biyun and the Shalt ill Arab Estuary. But Iran said its forces liberated More land in the area tightening the noose and immobilizing the iraqi Navy at the umm Qasir naval base. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia said 2,500 iraqi soldiers died in Battles that raged during the night and sunday. This brought to 13,200 the total Iran says it killed since launching its offensive across Shalt Al Arab on feb. 9. Iraq said it killed 457 iranian soldiers in sunday s fight eng recaptured stretches of land and forced the enemy hourly narrowing communiques broadcast by Baghdad radio 25,000 iranian soldiers had been killed in counter leu against positions captured along the iraqi Side of inc a Rwy from Fao in Iraq s South to the How Izeh marshes my uric City of Basra. Irna said heavy Fly Dand air Battles persisted Northwest of Fao and cast Orver Abdallah Inlet which leads to umm Qasir. Iran brought he i copters to provide support to its advancing forces it Sala Irna said the overnight Advance t liberated another 20 Square Miles Miles in All under iranian control. Baghdad radio said iraqi planes and Navy vessel strayed and Sank a total of 53 iranian vessels since sap urday when it started attacking iranian naval targets bringing supplies and reinforcements to Fao. Iraq said its jets also bombed Harg Island Oil terminal and the onshore Central Oil pumping station at Gayaneh 25 Miles to the Northeast. . Closes door Duvalier stays in France Tallo ires France not French officials said sunday that they have abandoned attempts to expel de posed haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier to the United states after the Reagan administration refused to give him Refuge. Duvalier had been booked on a flight sunday to new York from Paris. In Washington the state department confirmed that it had barred Duvalier s entry saying officials concluded thai they could not guarantee his safety and that his presence would become a major irritant in relations be tween the United states and the new haitian government. Diplomats in Paris said Duvalier s continued presence in France is an embarrassment to the government and May cause serious political tension Between France and the United states. Premier Laurent Fabius repeated on sunday his Asser Tion that the Reagan administration is morally bound to accept Duvalier because France had agreed to give him temporary Asylum for eight Days at the request of the United slates. The eight Day period expired saturday. The Premier repealed his determination to get rid of Duvalier saying the temporary must not become per Early sunday the French government made arrange ments to Fly Duvalier his wife and children to Paris from the hotel in Tallo ires where they have been living since the United slates flew them out of Haiti nine Days ago according to Duvalier s lawyer and other sources. Seals had been reserved for the family on an air France plane leaving Paris for new York at i . Sunday. But the plan was abruptly cancelled when the Reagan administration said Duvalier would be refused admission if he arrived in the United states and would be returned to France the sources said. The United Stales has declared sex president Duvalier an undesirable alien and will not admit him a spokesman for the . Embassy in Paris said. We have no intention of taking the embassy spokesman said Duvalier s presence in the United states could be a threat to Public order because of the Many haitian political refugees who fled the Duva Lier regime and live there. As a result Duvalier and his closest relatives Are beginning their second week in a heavily guarded Tallo ires hotel. The United states contends that when Duvalier who Speaks French agreed to leave Haiti last week he said he wanted to live in France where he owns several residences and never expressed interest in going to the United states. American officials also say Haiti s new rulers May try see Duvalier on Page 28
