European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. October 9, 1986 lawmakers extend Stopgap spending Bill Washington up unable to Compro Mise on the largest spending Bill in history and faced with a certain shutdown of government services congressional negotiators agreed tues Day to Emend a Stopgap appropriation measure for another week. The announce men virtually assures tha Congress will miss another adjournment target Date keeping lawmakers seeking re election i Washington for another week rather than at Home on the Campaign Trail. The Stopgap measure is needed to tide the government Over while congressional negotiators work out a Compromise on a spending Bill to finance the government for the next 12 months amid while House threats that it will veto the entire measure if any unacceptable provisions Are included. Vietnam postpones talks with . On Mia Issue Bangkok Thailand a without an explanation Vietnam has called off this week s scheduled talks on accounting for the nearly1,800 americans missing in the Vietnam War a . Official said wednesday. The vietnamese embassy in Bangkok called tuesday a Day before the talks were to begin and said they must be postponed said col. Joe Harvey. Harvey was to have led a four Man team of . Military specialists to the talks in Hanoi. We were offered no reasons or were told it was a temporary postpone ment said Harvey. They expressed their re is commander of the . Joint casualty Resolution Center the Honolulu base military unit entrusted with resolving the Issue of americans listed As missing in action chief of secret police named to chilean Junta Santiago Chile up president augus to Pinochet wednesday appointed the chief of the secret police to sit on the ruling Junta an announced the retirement of nine army generals in an apparent move to strengthen his position. Officials announced it. Gen. Humberto Cor Don head of the National information Center and secret police chief for the last eight years will become the army representative on the four Man ruling Junta. Nuke Plant s Start up protested in Hamburg Hamburg a about 10,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Hamburg tuesday to protest the impending Start up of the Brookdorf nuclear Power Plant police said. Police said the protesters broke windows in a least two Banks and one City office building but no injuries or arrests were reported. Witnesses said protesters entered one ban through a broken window and carried office furniture into the Street. Brookdorf will be the first Wen German nuclear Power Plant to go into operation since the april 26 nuclear Accident at the chernobyl Power Plant in the soviet Ukraine. East German swims to Freedom in West Berlin up a 29-year-old East Ger Man under cover of darkness Early wednesday fled to West Berlin by swimming across a River near a Bridge dividing the City from East Ger Many. Police said the Man made his escape to the Weil at about 2 . T wednesday near the Glie Nicker Bridge often the site of spectacular exchanges of spies and dissident Between East and West the Bridge ii Only open for members of the us. Military minion in Potsdam East Ger Many and for Dij i omits accredited m East Ber Lin. House oks death Pena in amended anti drug Bill Washington a a Compromise anti narcotics Bill was approved wednesday by the House which included a death Penally for drug related Mur Ders despite a threatened Senate filibuster that could kill the election year legislation. The amended version of the drug Bill first approve Din the House sept. 11, was passed on a 391-23 Vole. We have As a society to hold the death penalty Over the Heads of those who would kill at random to make sure their Enterprise their drug Syndicate remains ,1 said rep. George w. Gekas r-pa., the original sponsor of the death penalty provision. The inclusion of the death penalty for those individuals who As drug Kingpins will Slop at nothing to further their Enterprise is exactly what is required As weaponry in this War on drugs he added. The Bill would provide the death penalty Tor the commission of murder to further a continuing narcotics Enterprise. Before the debate. House majority Leader Jim Wright a Texas. Who included the provision in the revised legislation approved tuesday by the rules committee acknowledged the filibuster threat by moderate Senate republicans and Liberal democrats. But Wright added that we could t pass it under the circumstances without the death the Senate which passed its version of the anti drag Bill last week deleted the death penalty provision at Welt As several other controversial items including relaxation of the Rule that would bar the use of illegally obtained evidence in court. The Compromise drug Bill would authorize $1.8 Bil lion in the current fiscal year for drug enforcement education and prevention. It deletes other controversial items in the original House Bill including the exception to the exclusionary Rule of evidence for warrant less searches by police who act in Good Faith. It drops a House passed provision that would require he use of the military to patrol . Border against drug smuggling. American from Page 1 members was of latin origin and that papers on theother two or in the plane identified them As u.5. Mili tary advisers in it Salvador. The United Stales has 55 military advisers in �1salvador, where it supports the government in a guerrilla War against leftist rebels. The United states also supports the contras who have been fighting Nicaragua s marxist government for 4 a years. Congress recently approved $100 million in Aid to the contras but it has ruled out using . Military personnel to help them. Calderon identified the two killed americans a Pilot William j. Cooper and co Pilot Wallace Blaine Sawger. A translator said the name Sawger was take from a document and was assumed to be a misspelling of Sawyer. In Washington state department spokesman pet Martinez said he had no information about the two. In Magnolia ark., Wallace Blaine Sawyer St. Said be believed the dead co Piot was i son. He said his son was an air Force Veteran and worked As a contract Pilot mostly hauling he said he did not recall his Ever discussing Nicara Gua adding he s not a military adviser that s for nicaraguan troops were working tuesday night to recover the bodies from the wreckage in dense Jungle about 91 Miles Southeast of Managua and 30 Miles North of Costa Rica. Calderon said Hasenfus carried an identification card issued july 28 by the salvadoran air Force giving him Access to restricted areas of the Flop Ango air Casein Southern Al Salvador. Hasenfus told reporters tues Day he had boarded the c-123 at the base. Calderon said the sandinista also found an identification card issued to Cooper by a company called Southern air transport. That company which report edly has flown supplies to the contras said it knew nothing about Hasenfus or the flight. Sawyer s father said his son worked for Southern air transport years ago. The plane carried 60 soviet made rifles 100,000rounds of ammunition dozens of rocket propelled Gre Nades and other military equipment Calderon said. Hasenfus was shown to reporters at a news Confer ence in Managua but they were not allowed to ques Tion him. He was brought on stage for about 20 seconds wearing mud spattered Denim clothes my name is Gene Hasenfus. 1 come from Marinette Wisconsin. I was captured yesterday in Toul pm Nicaragua. Thank you he said in a shaky voice. Earlier speaking to local journalists in san Carlos near the crash site Hasenfus said the plane began it journey in Miami picked him up in Al Salvador then took a nicaraguan aboard in Honduras and entered nicaraguan airspace from Costa Rica. In Washington a . Intelligence source said the munitions on the plane were intended for contras of the nicaraguan democratic Force or fun operating in South Central Nicaragua. But Carlos Icaza an fun Leader told the associated press in Tegucigalpa that his group had nothing to do with it if from Page 1 about 781,000, Porter said. Our Force modernization program is geared to that figure he said. We be told Congress that we will stabilize at roughly 781,000, and indications Are tha Congress will support it a key reason is to avoid severe strength reductions because of budget Porter ii in Garmisch this week for the annual personnel and administration symposium sponsored by 1st personnel come. Concerning enlisted promotions. Porter said the army s decision to reduce the number of master ser Geant and sergeant major authorizations should open up promotion opportunities to staff sergeant and ser Geant first class. We arc limited in the number of master sergeant Sand sergeant major by Congress to 3 percent of our total enu Ted Force Porter said. However Over a period of Yean the number of those Slot increased beyond 3 percent he Laid increasing authorization Doet not change the Law he Bulj t we run to pita Nelp our an align than with the ceiling imposed by the Impact of the realignment Fiedt in acct no faces Potter said. It a Fol not affect Soldier already elected for promotion to the top two i Trade tons to those two grades in the first two Quarley of1987," Porter said Porter also said the possibility of creating a super Grade warrant officer is still alive. We in the army still see the establishment Ofa w master warrant Grade As essential Porter said. Army personnel officials have coordinated with theother services particularly the Navy and do not expect a non concurrence from the other Semmes he army is preparing a legislative package to be presented to Congress on the higher Grade warrant officer. 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