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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q lower mortgages Spur refinancing boom.,.Page 8 q princely proprietors medieval snacks daily Magazine 3 today s Dollar buys 2.26 Marks rates Page 27 the  Sony is vol. 45, no.43 �uthohi1e0 unofficial Hehli cation fou the . Aimeb fohcc1 Friday May 30, 1986 us Tsai am saw of d 8693 a by Chui Washington Bureau Washington president Reagan has nominated . Carlisle . Troll  reel commander q he the new chief of naval operations. Pentagon offi Ciali said thursday troll would succeed . James d. Walking whose tour of duly ends june 30. Reagan also announced his nomination of Gen. Larry d. Welch currently com Mander of the strategic air come to be the new air Force chief of staff. Welch would succeed Gen. Charles a. Gabriel whose tour of duty also ends june 30. Both nominations need to be ratified by the Senate but Pentagon officials said they expect no opposition to either. Trust was selected despite the fact thai Navy Secretary John Trost Wych Lehman favored vice . Frank b. Kelso 11, commander of the operation against Libya in april officials said. Trost was favored by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and . William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the join chiefs of staff. Weinberger was impressed with Kelso but believed he did not have Trost s breadth of experience officials said. Weinberger reportedly also was reluctant to pass aver four Star admirals to pick the Junior Kelso who holds three Star rank. Trost began his career aboard a destroyer but quickly switched to submarines he held numerous submarine and submarine staff commands from the mid-1950s to the Early 1970s. His other assignments include hours As dip sae nominate on Page 28 Reagan denounces kamikaze1 revised Trade Bill Washington a president Reagan thursday denounced a sweeping revision of the nation s Trade Laws approved by the House As Kamikaze legislation that would throw millions of americans out of work and Send our Economy into the steepest nose dive since the Ore  i Reagan in a  of Bdl Mvi Erica does t need to hide he s. Given a level playing Field americans can out produce and out compete anyone anywhere on  the audience of about-.400 people sat silent through the 20-Minule speech in a a cd the framework of an agreement to open japanese markets to . Computer chips and prevent japanese companies from dumping their chips on . Markets. The Issue has been the subject of intense negotiations Between the two countries. Reagan said details of the Lallow Forsing Toifl 57? Access his speech represented a new offensive against election year pressures to erect Trade barriers and impose retaliatory tariffs to curb America s huge Trade Delict. Just last week the House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Trade Bill that would require the president to i see Reagan on Page wow Era Bride fakes Fri Down memory Lane byed Reavis staff writer Frankfurt sixty of car years after she left As a Young american Soldier s Bride Lisotta Maria Rosa katrina Mccartney fulfilled a Long held de sire to return to her Hometown. Accompanied by four of her five children and their spouses Mccartney spent a week in a hotel in the Section of Frankfurt where she was born and raised. I was born in 1899 and brought up in ibis Vicinity said the go year old Orcsi Dent of Austin Texas. My father used to work in the train station and As a Young girl i worked for the Post of fice which was also in Here but it certainly has changed a  her old neighbourhood near the train station is now a red Light District i was standing on the j. Kaisers Rosse the other night and one of the ladies of the Mccartney night told me to move on she said chuckling. I must have been standing on her  Mccartney met her husband John Mccartney on a Blind Date while he was stationed with the us. Occupational forces in Koblenz. He died in 1985. He was a handsome Young Man and although i did t understand a word he was saying. I was impressed with him we started dating and a or standing each other. He then wrote his father that be wanted to marry a German girl. He wrote Back you la have to live with her son then he got permission from the army and we married two see Bride on Page 28 Burt discusses new passport policy with soviet envoy to East Berlin Berlin apr the . Ambassador to West Ger Many outlined american allies objections to a new Berlin Boundary policy in a meeting with a soviet envoy thurs Day but East Germany said it will keep enforcing the regulation. Ambassador Richard Burt met with the soviet Ambas Sador to East Germany and strongly criticized the new policy saying everybody should be allowed to circulate freely in the divided City Western sources said. Burt told Vyacheslav 1. Koch Emusov that the allies have never recognized any measures by East Germany to hamper movement among the sectors of the City said the sources speaking on the condition of anonymity but the sources asked whether Burl s statement was a formal protest said we re not saying it s a protest we re saying he raised the Issue with him. Burt was speaking on behalf of All three West Berlin allies Britain France and the United slates under the three countries agreement to rotate monthly the handling of Berlin affairs with the soviets. Thomas Hainan . Diplomatic Mission spokesman in West Berlin said details of Burl s meeting with the Sovi ets would probably be relayed to nato capital and to a meeting of nato foreign ministers in Halifax Canada. East German guards on monday began requiring East see Burt on Page 28 Pentagon should be allowed to set european troop Levels senator says by Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf , England the senior member of the Senate armed services committee said at the end of an eight Day european tour that Congress should leave it to the Pentagon to manage . Troop Levels in Europe. It appears to me that Congress has gone a Little far in trying to limit troop strength said sen. Strom Thurmond . I thin kit could Handicap our performance Over  Thurmond 83, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and chairman of the armed services subcommittee on military construction visited commanders and troops in Belgium England Iceland Germany and Berlin during his visit. He told the stars and stripes he had met with several . And european military commanders and they were concerned about congressional attempts to limit the num Ber of . Troops in Europe they expressed concern because they Don t have the Thurmond flexibility to go up or Down in order to meet changing conditions Thurmond said they Congress should leave it to the defense department to increase the figure so they have More  Thurmond is considered the most Likely person to replace sen. Barry Goldwater a Ariz As chairman of the Senate armed services com Mittee when Goldwater retires later this year. I won t seek  Thurmond said i m the ranking Man now. If seniority b followed i could choose that if i gave up the judiciary committee. 1 Haven t made any final decision on that but i m leaning that  Thurmond said moves to limit or Cut troop strength see Pentagon on Page 28  
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