European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Marine helicopter commander relieved of duties Page 2 o complexity of w-4 tax form criticized Page 4 d the Centaur program Nasa s big mistake daily Magazine the stars Ancic stripes authorized Uno Piecul Hill Catlon Armid Ponce i vol. 45, no. 272 saturday january 17, 1987 Bru to 8.3% go pay hikes so 08693 a t Rion raises Cox Cas for comi to match Privat sector Over 2 years cup nmn Cox by Chuck Ning that service members deserve "5mhh�pctitiv a compensation that keeps Paar put i . The Pentagon s Ryan of tick vowed to for military pay Aling 8.3 percent Over to jmj of years Apman Cox speaking at a prcssfl9ljh�nce a wednesday said it s Only fair for i _. _ country to give compensation raises that Are con ble to the private he said military pay caught up with private sector wages in 1982, bum Gap of about 9 percent has opened since. To continue to attract and retain Quality personnel we need improvements in compensation and our qual Ity of life,1 he said. We really Don l have any recruiting and retention problems right now because of that pay Gap but i m still not comfortable with it Cox said. I would be very Upsel if we did t get a 4 percent military raise next fiscal other than pay raises there Are few big ticket personnel items contained in the two year defense budget request submitted 10 Congress on Jan. J. We re under an atmosphere of constrained re sources a Pentagon official said. We be got to be realistic. Considering the current mood of Congress we think the personnel program we be presented is fair within that constraint the Pentagon has asked for about $211 million in new Cost compensation items. About one third of thai is for a request to repeal the variable housing allow Ance offset. Lawmakers reasoning that service members should t More in housing allowance than they pay out Lan task March. It Calls for service More in via than their actual housing half the difference. You can t just to Hal rent and reimbursement to determine the on individuals Cox said. There Are other Fah Tahat Congress has t taken into Tao a Pentagon official said thai vhf nil Masedon a Survey of the average housing costs Itin military housing areas in the United states. That s an average he said. That Means you 1 see Al pay on Page 28 kills 10 in Utah Salt Lake City api a com Muter aircraft and a private plane collided thursday killing All 10 people aboard both pianos and showering de Bris Over a residential area falling wreckage from sky West air lines twin engine Fairchild commuter aircraft and the single engine plane damaged three houses. There was no fire and apparently no one on the ground was Hurt said Salt Lake county fire marshal Frank Brown. Dozens of police sheriffs deputies and firefighter rushed to the snowy crash site about is Miles Southwest of downtown Salt Lake City and sealed off us blocks around he main wreck age after the 12 56 . Collision. By evening More than 200 Law enforcement and Rescue workers from at least seven agencies had fanned out Over the area. Officials said searchers by evening had found the remains of All 10 Vic Tims. Salt Lake county sheriff Pete Hayward said searchers also had found the commuter plane s Black Box. The Accident was the first . Commercial aviation disaster of the year. It came Al a time of increasing concerns Over air safety. On aug. 3, 1986, the collision in Cerritos calif., of a private plane and a acro Mexico dc-9 jetliner killed 82 people. Sky West flight 1834 was carrying six passengers and a Crew of two from Pocatello Idaho los Ali Lake internal Tiona Airport said Ron Reber a sky West vice president. The Turboprop aircraft can carry 18 passengers and two Crew members. The other plane a Bluc and White Mooney m-2q with a Man described As an experienced Pilot and a flight instructor aboard had taken off 26 minutes before the collision from air port no. 2, a Small facility near the crash site. Ron Nelson base operator at air port no. 2, identified the Mooney see collision on Page 23 Arpna lauding gear Sticks out of a House crushed by wreckage Tram the Uaea collision. 1985 Twa Hijack suspect arrested in Frankfurt Frankfurt a police have arrested a suspected sky pirate who vanished after the 1985 Hijack ing of a Twa jetliner and the murd7 of a . Sailor of Board a state prosecutor said thursday. In Washington Justice department spokesman Pat Rick Konen said he United states will seek extradition of the Man identified by officials in Bonn As Moham med a Hamadi 22, a lebanese citizen. Hamadi is the firs suspect to be arrested in the hijacking in which a . Navy diver was shot to death Al the Beirut Airport in Lebanon. The 33 other americans were freed after 17 Days of Captivity. He was arrested Al Frankfurt Airport tuesday upon arrival from Beirut on a Middle task airlines flight the Security officials said. We have notified the Federal Republic thai the arrested Man is wanted in the . For air piracy Mur Der and other offences related o the Twa 847 Hijack ing in june of 1985," Charles Redman a state depart ment spokesman said from Washington. Hamadi was arrested after customs agents discovered that three wine bottles in his carry on Luggage contained Methyl nitrate a fluid similar to Nitro Glyco Erin often used in making explosives sources said Hamadi is one of four suspects who was indicted in the United states after the hijacking of the Twa plane. See suspect on Page 28
