European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday april 22, 1986 Cost of living rates change in Germany by Brenda Hosier staff writer Heidelberg service members in Germany will see a change in Cost of living allowances cola in their april 30 pay checks. The change which went into effect april 16, will reduce cola for soldiers in partial and no support areas while cola for soldiers in full support areas will be slopped said a spokesman from the Usa eur re source management office in Heidelberg. Soldiers will be paid cola Only for the first half of the month he said. Air Force personnel in Germany Are also affected by the change said a Safe finance spokesman at Ramstein a Germany. The cola payment changes resulted from the april 7 meeting of the per diem travel and transportation Al Lowance committee in Washington . The average Exchange rate the week before the meeting was 2.32 Marks to the Dollar. Cola consideration for full support areas is based on a 2.30 Mark rate which is determined by the committee. Cola consideration for no support areas or those duty stations with no commissary and Post or base Exchange facilities is based on a 2.68 Marks Exchange rate. It is based on a 2.41 Marks Exchange rate in partial support areas which Are those areas with limited commissary and Exchange facilities More than 90 minutes from full support areas the Usa eur spokesman said. The cola adjustment varies according to such factors As service member s rank time in service and number of dependents. Common Market nations agree to put curbs on libyan diplomats news update Luxembourg a foreign ministers from the 12-member common mar Ket agreed monday to reduce libyan embassy staff to a minimum and limit the movement of libyan diplomats dutch for eign minister Hans Van Den Broek said. The common Market ministers also agreed to Cut staff Levels at their embassies in Tripoli the libyan capital he said. Libyan diplomats will be restricted to the place City of stationing and staffing Levels at libyan airline and Trade offices will be examined to determine if the num Ber of employees should be reduced Van Den Broek said. The ministers also agreed that any libyan expelled from a common Market nation on suspicion of involvement in terror ism will not be admitted to another member nation and that visa requirements will be tightened for libyans. Van Den Broek spoke to reporters after he presided Over the third common Market ministerial meeting on Libya in a week. He said the sanctions agreed on were intended As a signal to other countries that might contemplate involving themselves in  a week ago at an emergency meeting in the Netherlands the 12 ministers agreed on the principle of diplomatic sanctions against Libya. Hours later the United states launched air strikes against Libya in Retalia Tion for the North african country s involve ment in International terrorism including a nightclub bombing that killed an american Serviceman and a turkish woman. The common Market last week for the first time named Libya As a country involved in sponsoring terrorism. Officials said the Issue of economic sanctions against Libya which the United states asked for in january was not Dis cussed. Libya does not have embassies in All common Market nations. Britain closed Libya s embassy in London in 1984, and the libyans embassy in Belgium covers neigh Boring Holland. Van Den Broek reiterated that the euro peans prefer diplomacy to military actions to solve the  crisis. The twelve common Market nations underscore that Europe wants to prevent military actions and escalation Between the United states and Libya he said. The imposition of diplomatic sanctions reflects our serious concern about  on sunday British prime minister Marga ret Thatcher s conservative government launched a new Public defense of its support for the . Predawn air raid on Libya last tuesday but speculation grew that the Back ing May have Cost Thatcher the next election. Britain was the Only . Ally in Europe to approve the bombing Mission. Thatcher denied she had Given the United states a Blank Check by sanctioning the use of British based . Full fighter bombers and said the . Government would have to make another request if it wants to mount a second attack. I pondered Long and hard for the Deci Sion we were asked to take was indeed difficult Thatcher wrote in the mass circulated tabloid news of the world on sunday. But if you let the threat of fur ther terrorism prevent you from fighting against it then the terrorist has  foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe appearing sunday in a television interview also refused to Rule out further use of Brit ish bases by the United states to attack Libya. But he said the question was less Likely to arise if the european allies took decisive action on sanctions against Libya. Thatcher s support for the . Raid to counter Libya s alleged sponsorship of terrorism appears to have dismayed Many Bri tons. Three opinion polls have shown that two thirds of voters disapprove of the move. The common Market nations Are Bel Gium France West Germany Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands Denmark ire land United kingdom Greece Spain and Portugal. Libya reportedly recruiting terrorists from prisons foreign newspapers Hamburg up1 Libya is recruit ing terrorist commandos from its prisons and advertising for Soldier of Fortune recruits in foreign newspapers a German newspaper said sunday. The sunday edition of the Bild newspaper which has Good intelligence sources said the libyan terrorists Are being trained by East German and cuban experts and by former Fri and Cia agents. Khad Afy also is buying weapons for ship ment to rebels in Al Salvador the newspaper said. The newspaper attributed its dispatch to israeli British and lebanese intelligence reports. The libyan intelligence service is recruiting terrorists in libyan prisons Bild said. People who committed serious crimes Are released on the condition they be willing to take part in suicide missions outside  khad Afy has a new tactic he is hiring mercenaries for terrorist actions through advertisements in English Arab and moroccan  Bild said one of the men training terrorists Patrick Argo Alo took part in an attack in september 1970 on an Airliner of Al Al the israeli airline. The dispatch published sunday in the Bild elaborated on a Brief account released in Advance saturday. Bild said khad Afy is paying Abu Nidal Leader of a fanatical palestinian group $12 million yearly to finance terrorist attacks. It said khad Afy and Nidal at a secret meeting in the libyan capital of Tripoli last september agreed that american British and israeli installations and nationals should be attacked. The newspaper said khad Afy has worked out a Price list for terrorist attacks and pays $1,770 for planting a bomb $3,550 for a hand grenade attack and $5,330 for an attack with a sub machine gun. Organizers of suicide missions and those who take part in them get $53,330, Bild said. More indictments Knoxville Tenn. A a Federal grand jury has issued More indictments against bankrupt Finan Cier . Butcher jr., bringing his possible sentence to 703 years if he is convicted on All charges. Butcher has been charged with Laun Dering More than $250,000 Worth of . Treasury coupons at his father s Union county Bank in Maynardville in 1983-84 when the elder Butcher was the Bank s executive. Butcher his 82-year-old father Cecil h. Butcher sr., and Bank Teller Emma Bailey were charged with circumventing reporting Laws by Cash ing coupons up to the $10,000 limit. By Law Banks must report trans actions of More than $10,000 to the internal Revenue service. The Bank also is named in the indictment. 4 file damage claims Palm Springs Calif. A four men who say they were injured by police trying to break up a crowd of unruly Young vacationers easter week have filed damage claims that total More than $4 million. The men said they were Hurt Dur ing a March 29 Melee in which some youths pelted police with rocks and bottles. Three of the men face Mise Meanor charges. Police tried to disperse crowds after Beer drinking vacationers poured water into passing cars and ripped clothes off some women. The rampage capped a week of revelry by College and High school students who crowded this resort town during Spring break. Fast food record Oak Brook 111. Up Mcdonald s opened a record 597 restau rants in 1985, giving the world s largest fast food Chain a new store every 15 hours company officials said in their annual report. The nearly 9,000 Mcdonald s restaurants in 41 countries had record sales of $1.3 million per restaurant for the year the report said. Mcdonald s normally opens about 500 new restaurants a year company spokesman Stephanie Skurdy said. The increase this year is mainly from our new openings overseas and at non traditional Sites she said. Bomb explodes near . Envoy s residence in Peru Lima Peru a a car bomb exploded before Dawn monday outside the residence of . Ambassador David Jor Dan blasting a Hole in the compound s outer Concrete Wall and breaking windows. An embassy spokesman said no one was injured. A police sergeant at the scene said the bombing occurred minutes after a four hour curfew ended at 5 . He said police around the residence saw two men running away after the explosion outside the rear of the compound. The officer said police opened fired with sub machine guns when the men failed to heed orders to halt. The men escaped into the predawn darkness. As far As i could see it was a medium sized bomb said . Embassy spokesman John Ecsodi. Nobody was Hurt. Until now nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack he said. The residence is on sprawling grounds along one of the City s most elegant boulevards. The explosion blasted a 3-foot-wide Hole in the 12-foot-High barbed wire topped Wall which is about five Yards from the residence at that Point. It woke up the ambassador his family and the staff said an embassy official. He s a heavy Sleeper but not that  president Alan Garcia imposed the cur few in february As part of a state of Emer gency intended to halt a wave of terrorist bombings since the beginning of the year. Police did not immediately blame either of the two leftist guerrilla groups held responsible for previous bombing and machine gun attacks on the . Embassy . Consulate and ambassador s Resi Dence. The last attack on the residence was in May when leftist guerrillas tossed several Sticks of dynamite Over the Wall at night. Some of the dynamite fell into a swimming Pool. One stick exploded but caused Little damage. No one has been injured in any of the attacks on . Install tons. The maoist inspired shining path launched a terrorist War in 1980 to Over throw Peru s elected governments. A Small terrorist group that is pro Cas Tro the tupac Amaru revolutionary move ment has been Active since 1984