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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rags 28 the stars and stripes sunday december 7.19b6 memorial service Marks Pearl Harbor anniversary aboard the Boone a fourteen survivors or Pearl Harbor took put in a memorial service aboard his guided missile frigate off the Florid coast while preparations were made for ceremonies in Hawaii on the 45th anniversary of the japanese attack. About 150 other veterans joined in the service Fri Day a few Miles off Mayport Fla. They cast wreaths into the Atlantic Ocean at Navy jets flew overhead inthe missing Man formation. On sunday three ceremonies were planned at the battleship Arizona memorial at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii to commemorate the attack dec.7, 1941, and pay tribute to the victims including the 1, 107 still entombed in the Arizona s sunken Hull. The Navy s annual tribute was to include a moment of silence throughout the Peart Harbor naval base at 7 55 a no the time the attack began. Later in the Day Arizona survivors were to hold a service and the Pearl Harbor survivors association was to hold an annual Sunset  Are Here to Honor those who gave their lives and those who survived that heinous event thai occurred 45 years ago adm. Michael Kalleres old the gathering aboard the Boone. We shall not forget them. We will never forget  survivors who took part in the service recalled the attack vividly everywhere you looked there were ships burning. North from Page 1 Range for delivery of Oil drilling equipment to  Middle level employee agreed to help and then called an air freight company with direct lies to thecia he told ill is company to cooperate with the ship ment which went from Israel to Iran according to people familiar with the Agency s  the Cia s account can be verified it would be a vivid illustration of How North used his position As presidential aide to Force the bureaucracy to cooperate with while House supported Covert  administration officials noted that North wielded significant authority in his Csc Post. You people in the Media have got to Stop referring to him at just a lieutenant colonel said one. He was White House aide involved in the most sensitive Possi ble operations who would scream at generals to get Cia director William j. Casey initially told con Gress that his Deputy John n. Mcmahon had Aulhorn de the Agency s participation in the 1985 shipment by Israel to Iran. But he later corrected thai testimony saying he  was said by associates to have been angered by Casey s assertion and he told Congress subsequently that the shipment had been made without his Pennisson. But congressional investigators were said to be continuing to examine the Agency s account according to the agent s testimony to Congress Mcmahon Learned after the fact that the night had ferried weapons to Iran. He was said by one administration official to have gone to the while House an insisted that Reagan mate a formal finding or intelligence order authorizing the Covert  decision was eventually reached in january of us year to continue the shipments but to withdraw the weapons from american stocks and to use the Cia directly. Said Harry Smith of Jacksonville Beach. Smith said be and his shipmate aboard the san Francisco which was docked for repairs were playing cards when we heard these planes. I thought they were ours said Smith adding that he looked out and saw the red rising Sun Symbol on the planes and yelled that the japanese were coming. Someone else said coming hell they re Heie " recalled Smith. Cecil Haverty 67, who was attached to the san Francisco s aviation unit on Ford Island was Awak ened by the Roar of a plane flying Low Over his bar Racks. We Well Over to the hangar to see what we could do he said recalling that a 500-Pound bomb fell through the roof of the building but did t explode. We used the machine guns in the Back of the scout planes to shoot at the second wave he said. Edward Kmiec 69, was coming Home from Liberty and had reached the front Gates when the japanese planes attacked they strafed All the planes that we lined up. The kept strafing us said Kmiec who was attached to a sea plane group. They began firing at the japanese planes. We Shol one of the zeros and it went into the  one word answer president Reagan yells an Wip aade Nat lore Porter whip boding for his helicopter Mariae Onett the Sorth Lawn of the White Hob. Reat a we asked whether or not he pleaded to flip chief of staff Donald Regan. The Reagan we beaded to a new Ihui my for Ibe Etc kid. Tax Law from Page 1 56 percent reduction in taxes compared to a 26 per Ceni reduction for the civilian. But the civilian will get 1605 More in after tax income under the new Law than under the old Law. The e-6 will see Only a $495 in crease is 10 less than the civilian. The o-5 will get a 33 percent reduction in taws under the new Law compared to 26 percent for the civilian. Bui the civilian will gel 12,857 More in after tax income under the new Law than under the old one. The o-5 will get an increase of Only $1,974 $883  difference is due to the fact thai the Lana bus income of the e-6 ii $7,443 less than that of the civil Ian because of the e-6 s lax exempt military allow ances. The taxable income of the o-5 is $10,402 less than Tibt of the civilian. The study s authors said critics May question whether the average service member will be Awe to perceive the losses because of the complicated calculations in , from a retention standpoint the authors said they were not concerned with the average service member. But with those who ate on the margin be tween staying and leaving. These people tend to scrutinize every aspect of we options available to them and the relative effects of the new tax Laws while perhaps not immediately Evi Dent will eventually be taken into account the study  retention studies show conclusively thai personnel Are very sensitive to changes in relative Coin re Marion even in elements whose exact value is difficult to determine such As retirement or educational  suspect 24, arrested after police foil attack Karlsruhe Germany  
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