European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2b the stars and stripes Friday january 18.1987 Reagan won t apologize for arms Deal Washington a president Reagan believes he did nothing Tor which he need apologize when he approved secret arms sales to Iran thai led to the diversion of funds to Nicaragua rebels the while House raid thursday White House spokesman Albert  made i he statement in response to questions about a Story in the new York times Hying that tone top republicans in Congress believe he president should apologize and Appeal Tor forgiveness asked whether congressional republicans had directly or indirectly advised the president to apologize Brashear said,"1 am not aware of any such counsel. The president has said that mistake were made but he certainly feel that no apology it necessary Brashear  president feels that he has done nothing for which he feels he must  Brashear said he had consulted officials at the White House before making his statement but would not say whom he consulted. He did Lay that his statement reflected the president  he said he did not know whether in president would mention the Iran arms controversy in his state of the Union address to Congress on Jan 27. After the arms deals were disclosed i november Reagan said thai mistakes had been made in carrying out the policy but defended the policy itself saying it was designed to build a Bridge to mod Erate forces in Iran and was not a Wip of arms for the release of american hos tages. On nov. 2$, attorney general Edward Meese said some of the proceeds from the sales had been diverted Loaid rebel fighting the marxist led government of Nicaragua without the knowledge of the president midair collision leaves at least 16 dead in Utah Salt Lake City a a commuter plan collided thursday with a private aircraft scattering the bodies of at teas 16 people and wreckage Over residential ares authorities said. At this time we believe a four passenger Pri vate plane and a commuter 16-passenger plane apparently collided said Salt Lake county sheriffs chief dispatcher David Marks. The commuter plane was operated by sky West.  arms talks resume one on one Geneva a the Genera superpower arms talks resumed thursday with a on on one luncheon meeting Between . Delegation Bead Max Kampelman and his new soviet counterpart Yuri  two delegation leaders met privately at soviet request instead of heading a meeting fall three lop negotiators from each Side which usually Marks the beginning of a round.. Spokesman Terry Shroeder said he had no information on when the next meeting of the seventh round of arms talks would be. I have nothing for the news Media on this As yet he said. Pay from Page 1 some people who Are underpaid for via and in effect nose people Are penalized by the offset plan. We think the Way we calculate via is fair and proper without the  Cox said he thought the chances thai lawmaker would repeal the via offset Are about 50-50." eliminating the offset would Cost about $60 million in the first year he said other personnel initiatives in the two year budget request include selective re enlistment bonuses. Last year con Gress ordered the services to Start making Tump sum re enlistment Bonus payments of 75 percent to  who re enlisted after oct. I i986. Congress reversed itself last fall by giving the services Only enough funds to make Lump sum payments of 30 percent which had been the figure for Many  Law ordering Lump sum payments of 75 percent however is Stilt technically in effect. Pentagon official would like to have it removed. That would save on paper about $180 million in fiscal 1988 and $140million in fiscal 1989. Claims. Pentagon officials want to raise the amount that can be claimed for loss or damage to Persona property from $25,000 to $40,000. This would cover damage to household goods during ship ment. The program would Cost about $ i million. Overseas Tours. This would provide round trip transportation from overseas locations to the United states for service member and their families when the sponsor extends his or her overseas tour by half the Normal tour length. The program is expected to save about $8 million Over the next two fiscal years. Civilian clothing. The Pentagon has requested about $2 million to provide a civilian clothing allow Ance to personnel assigned to High threat overseas locations where the wearing of civilian clothing is mandatory next of Kin. This program would offer govern ment paid round trip transportation for two family members of a sponsor who is seriously injured or ill while on Active duty. Cost of the program would Beabout $2 million. Dental Proi theses. Family members in Remote areas have to pay for the Cost of any materials used for false Teeth bldg work and other Prost Hodolic  Pentagon is asking Congress for is million to provide these materials for  budget also requests funds for several program for Navy personnel. They include who pay child support to elect not to accent govern ment quarters when they Are assigned to sea duty. Permitting service members in the grades of e-4and above who Are married to other service member assigned to sea duty to refuse government quarters an live m off base housing. Raising the maximum annual payment under the aviation officer continuation pay program from $6,000 to $8,000. Granting a selective re enlistment Bonus for enlisted members in some critical skills woo re enlist inthe reserves for three years of full time duty for train ing and administration of reserves known at tar suspect from Page 1 culled  believe the Man was preparing a bomb attack but it was unclear whether the bombing was Mohave been in Germany schroers said. Police declined to identify the suspect but senior Interior ministry officials gave his name As Moham med Ali  suspect is in investigative custody and has not been formally  minister Friedrich Zimmermann told journalists in Bonn thursday the suspect was a big  was one of three men named in arrest War rants and criminal complaints issued by a Federal Courtin Washington in july 1985 alleging air piracy and murder in the hijacking of Twa right 847 and the killing of . Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem passenger aboard the plane. The Frankfurt arrest came one Day after italian authorities slopped a lebanese Man carrying More than 20 pounds of plastic explosives and detonators through the Milan Airport. Neither German nor italian authorities have Given any indication of a link Between the two cases. Bashir Al Khodr. 26, was arrested monday nigh when italian customs found the explosives and detonators hidden in chocolate easter eggs and in picture frames. The Twa Airliner was hijacked june 14, 1985, on flight from Athens to Rome. It was taken to Beirut where the hijackers killed the Navy diver and held 39other americans for 17 Days before releasing them. The Man arrested tuesday had flown to Frankfurt from Beirut on Middle East airlines schroers said. The suspect who was carrying a forged passport was identified by fingerprints As one of the hijackers of the Twa plane Security sources Aid. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said he is believed to belong to a shiite moslem  said authorities had found material on the Man that could help in further  refused to elaborate. There have been no previous arrests in the 1985twa hijacking. The hijackers. Ski it militants freed the hostage after syrian mediation when they freed the hostages two of the hijackers hooded and carrying handguns read to lengthy statement to reporters at the Beirut Airport terminal. Then they walked away and were not seen again. The lebanese indictment was issued in Christi Neast Beirut and was largely symbolic As it was unenforceable in moslem West Beirut Beirut Airport is in territory controlled by the areal shiite  Man s arrest in Frankfurt was first reported in the Rhei Pfalz daily newspaper of Ludwigshafen. Frigid from Page 1 Copenhagen 12 degrees in Stockholm 9 degrees in Vienna and Zero in Helsinki. Travel by air and sea was disrupted. France closed nine airports and Llady closed five due to Snow or ice. A dutch freighter with a Crew of seven was miss ing in the storm Oft the Southeast roast of Sardinia. In Denmark authorities warned Small boats nol to leave Harbor without assistance from an icebreaker. Reports from associated press bureaus put the Toul of weather related deaths in Europe excluding Poland and tilt soviet Union Ai by since Friday. Poland and the soviet Union which Only issued reports for All of january said the total in the two countries since Jan. I stands at 112 77 deaths in the soviet Union and 35 in Poland. Among the deaths were 10 from expo sure reported by a hungarian newspaper and a 79-year-old German woman who wandered from a Home for the elderly and was found Frozen near the be Linwall. London s daily Telegraph newspaper said soviet tanks based in Hungary slowed through deep Snow monday to Rescue motorists mostly austrian and West germans after their cars ran Inlo snowdrifts in route to Budapest. We had no fuel left and had Given up Hope when we heard a noise like Thun Der the newspaper quoted an Austria Motorist As saying. It was a soviet Lank that came charging through the. 2-meter-High 6-foot Snowdrift. They smashed Inlo our car before they came to a Stop but at least we were saved the newspaper quoted the motorists As saying they had feared death As wind reached 62 Mph and temperatures fell to minus 4  czechoslovak newspaper rude Bravo said hungry Wolf packs have Bee driven by the bitter cold to scavenge for. Food including cattle and geese near Iso lated communities. In Britain Royal air Force helicopter son wednesday flew nine pregnant women to hospitals. One woman who was in advanced labor was airlifted from a Highway in Norfolk when her ambulance was caught behind a Sno plow that failed to break through drifts. Eight Een inches of Snow had fallen in he area. Army personnel carriers ferried food and Relief supplies to snowbound towns and coastal islands in Kent in Southeast Ern England. In London government buildings and churches were opened to House the homeless. Many British roads and rail links were impassable. A notice at London s Char ing Cross Railroad station which oper ates commuter lines to the Southeast warned traveler there it very Little Hance of anyone reaching their intended destination and even less Chance of the getting Back again. Anyone who does in Sist on travelling does so entirely at thru own  in France Premier Jacques Chirac called in nearly 2,000 soldiers to help Clew streets in pans alter the capital Wai blanketed by set inches of Snow the fourth largest accumulation on , which usually gets Only a dust ing has just two Snow lows and Cit workers began working with shovels and wheelbarrows to Clear thoroughfares