European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 24, 1986 weapons smuggling pilots crushed officials say new York a authorities smashed conspiracies to smuggle $2 billion Worth of High tech . Weapons including tanks and fighter jets to Iran officials have announced. Spokesmen said nine brokers of death have been seized. Among those arrested monday Are a retired israeli Gen eral and an american lawyer based in London who were picked up in Bermuda with three other men. The four others were arrested in new York. Eight europeans also charged tuesday remained at Large. The retired general Avraham bar am was quoted wednesday by Israel radio and the daily newspaper Davar As saying that israeli authorities knew of the alleged plan. The defense establishment knows about this group of which i was an adviser and if the state of Israel does not help us i won t sit Here for a month for nothing. I la give myself up to the United states Davar quoted bar am As saying. J israeli officials denied that their nation knew anything about it. All 17 defendants were charged with conspiring to Vio late . Arms Laws. If convicted they would face up to five years in prison. . Customs service commissioner William von Raab said tuesday that the iranians who have been fighting neigh Boring Iraq for six years a would have opened a terrorist Flea Market had they succeeded in acquiring the weapons. The military supplies included f-4 and f-5 fighter planes Bell helicopters m-48 tanks Tow anti tank mis Siles and various air to air missiles von Raab said and he called the defendants brokers of  housing from Page 1 ians  the suit seeks to have the irs opinion declared illegal and to impose an injunction that would pc vent Dod and the military services from implementing it. The Navy is considering la As part of civilian wages for social Security and med icare at least at one Navy base in Bermuda. Army and air Force officials said they Are not taxing Las for social Security and medicare for their civilians and would not until they receive guidance from Dod. As an example of How the irs opinion could affect civilians a Navy spokesman said a gs-7 employee with a family of four at a naval facility in Yokosuka Japan receives $9,680 per year in la. That employee would lose $832.48 of that to the higher tax rate. A single gs-7 at Yokosuka gets $7,000 per year and would lose $602 to taxes. Pentagon statistics show that 53,000 Dod civilians live overseas. About three fourths of the state department s 9,400 member foreign service live overseas. An official with the defense department comptroller s office said he had not yet Sien the irs letter. Once we have All the documents we can go to our general counsel and see about developing Dod wide implementation guidelines he said. We have not Lyet made any decision on this at the Dod  he said it is possible for one service to tax la for social Security and medicare while the other services do not. Each service does its own payroll Siiro ramming he said. J a Navy spokesman said that service has considered la part of wages since Jan uary 1984, when the government s office a of personnel management issued a letter Defi Ning policies on taxation of allowances for social Security. The spokesman said the Navy sent a message to All its finance and accounting offices directing them to begin adding Las to wages for social Security and medicare taxation. But some Navy finance offices apparently never got the word sea officials said. Austin listed at least five naval finance and accounting offices with Dodds teachers on their payrolls that Are not taxing Las. . Nguyen an sea staff attorney said a Navy base in Bermuda apparently began taxing la Only last september. The Navy spokesman said it is possible that some Navy finance offices May not have received word to begin taxing Las because the Navy finance and accounting system is not centralized. We Don t know whether any of our finance offices around the world failed to implement this action in january 1984," he said. He said it is possible the Bermuda office May not have been informed of the policy directing taxation of Las until september 1985. He said that in that situation the la tax would have to be made retroactive to the Date the policy was first announced in Early 1984. Pension from Page 1 five years. The pension would increase with longer service to a maximum of 75 percent after 30 years. Rep. Los Aspin d-wis., chairman of the armed services committee and chief author of the Bill said this will encourage people to stay in the full 30 years and keep the people who Are the most experienced and the most  but rep. Charles Bennett d-fla., criticizing any attempt to reduce pensions said it is unwise for the National Securi while Aspin said the changes would not Hurt attempts to attract future personnel into America s All Volunteer military de sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and uniformed military leaders have strop ugly opposed any reductions in pensions As Dikris mental to recruiting efforts. Aspin and other congressional critics say the increasingly expensive military pension system needs to be overhauled. They say military pensions will Cost up to $45 billion a year by the end of the Century unless changes Are made. Congress slashed the current Pentagon request for military retirement spending Germany from Page 1 terrorists. Ost said the Federal ministry of transportation would have no problem in making the Swap but the americans would have to make the request. Usa eur spokesman Rex scribble told the stars and stripes wednesday various Security measures Are being considered and it would be inappropriate for us to comment on any specific proposals at this  Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann reported to the Cabinet on other anti terror measures including details of the arrest last from $18.2 billion to $15.3 billion and or dered the defense department to come up with changes to meet the reduced total. The proposal adopted tuesday combined proposals sent to the armed services com Mittee late last year by the Pentagon. The military pension system has come under increasing fire in recent years be cause of its rising costs and the increasing number of people who receive pensions. For example in 1960, there were Only 300,000 military pensioners but that figure has now risen to about 1.4 million. The average Retiree is 42 years old at the time of retirement according to studies and most service members who retire after 20 years hold other jobs while receiving their pensions. Any finance office that realizes its mis take and begins adding la to wages for taxation purposes would have to make the policy retroactive to january 1984, he said. The Navy considers itself to be in Accord Ance with the Law the spokesman said. But whether there is total compliance with that Law among All our finance offices we just Don t know he said. Sea officials became involved when the air Force made plans to begin taxing lain 1984. We challenged them on behalf of our employees and the air Force backed off said Jack Rollins sea president. An air Force spokesman denies that sea pressure made the air Force reverse its decision. We started it up on our own and decided to Stop it on our own he said. Last september when the Navy finance office in Bermuda reportedly began taxing Las Rollins said the sea again challenged the action. Rollins said the Navy decided to ask the irs for clarification after the sea objections. The Navy spokesman denies that the sea objection prompted the request for an irs clarification. That came out of a general uneasiness Over the Issue of taxing Las he said. We just wanted to pin Down the  temperatures april 22 Friday of a 35-year-old palestinian on suspicion of involvement in the april 5 bomb ing of a nightclub in West Berlin they said. The West Berlin Justice department has said the suspect Ahmed Nawab Matt sur Hasi was not the ringleader in the night club bombing and police have information from which a link to Libya can be de  in keeping with joint sanctions against Libya agreed upon monday by european Community foreign ministers in Luxem Bourg the Cabinet ordered the 41-member staff of the libyan embassy in Bonn to be Cut to 19, a foreign ministry spokesman told the news conference. Germany which currently maintains an embassy staff of 11 diplomats and 11 and women from Page 1 Navy and Marine corps do not allow women to serve on aircraft or ships with combat mis Sions. Under a policy of its own the army also bars women from combat roles. The coast guard has no restrictions. Hours before the invasion of Grenada ministrative personnel in Libya also or dered three people withdrawn from Tripoli Libya s capital to bring its staff level to 19,he said. He said Libya would be free to choose which of its embassy staff members will leave Germany with the exception of a few people who have been listed for expulsion by German Security authorities because of suspected terrorist activities. Like East bloc diplomats the remaining libyans would not be allowed to travel freely outside the Bonn area the ministry spokesman said. He said the libyan embassy in Bonn currently has 11 accredited diplomats. The government had ordered the expulsion of two Middle ranking officials in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the la Belle nightclub in West Berlin. L h50 85 48 8228 35 41 5939 58 45 4953 80 36 6149 77 51 6327 33 27 4654 70 33 4024 47 28 4232 34 49 7445 78 26 5728 41 28 4632 60 41 6671 85 57 7729 47 56 7225 60 63 92 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston . Charleston . Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas it. Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas l h41 62 59 7633 48 41 5953 87 27 5640 55 48 7443 63 49 5944 68 33 6054 76 42 5432 38 46 6547 56 49 6849 63 42 7632 57 63 7349 80 59 7253 60 43 4730 31 60 9448 51 33 65 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Minn St. Paul Nashville new Orleans new York City Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis St. Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita four women military police officers with i the 82nd airborne div were stopped three times at the loading ramp of their aircraft and sent Back to their Barracks. Four Days after the invasion the off cers were allowed to land on Grenada but since on the ground were promptly sent Back to fort Bragg . After another three Day wait the women were finally deployed to Grenada. Sen. William Proxmire d-wis., has been critical of congressional and service restrictions against women in combat. The policy is riddled with anomalies Proxmire said. Navy women May serve on destroyer tenders but not on destroyers even though tenders and destroyers sail to Gether As part of the same Carrier Battle group. Women can Fly tankers to refuel bomb ers on Long Range missions but cannot Fly the bomber. Where is the logic the Tanker would be a primary target in any Battle. Shoot Down the Tanker and you have the bombers Proxmire said. Distributed by the . Times news service european weather forecast for thursday extreme Northern and Southeastern Germany will have partly Cloudy to mostly Cloudy skies with isolated rain. Rest of the forecast area will be mostly Cloudy to Cloudy with intermittent rain and isolated afternoon Thunder storms. High temperatures will Range from 50s in the North to 60s in the Southeast lows from mid 30s in the North to mid 40s in the South. Sunset thursday8 33, Sunrise Friday 6 12. Outlook for Friday Little change in weather or temperatures. Temperatures recorded wednesday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm Adana p 57 75 Copenhagen r 38 43 Amsterdam p 43 54 Frankfurt cd 41 52 Athens p 54 68 London r 45 43 Aviano r 54 61 Madrid r 43 50 Berlin m 46 52 Munich m 39 54 Bremerhaven p 43 55 Paris r 43 55 Brussels p 45 55 Rome m 59 70 provided by det. 13, 7th weather so Graben i Warbach. Other worldwide temperatures Cairo f Dublin f Helsinki f Jerusalem f Lisbon r High Low High Low 81 57 Montreal cd 45 27 52 35 Moscow cd 57 48 43 37 Oslo cd 36 36 77 54 Toronto cd 34 23 59 46 Vancouver cd 52 42 c ,. Supplied by the associated press fair cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy