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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, January 19, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q Dod studying soviet environmental problems Page 3 o 4 await armed services vote in House Page 5 d hot food module rates High among airmen Page 9 the is amp Ripe unofficial Fui Licino fan vol. 45. No. 274 monday january 19, 1987 med four cd 1, my.ndld., d 8693 a services try for fewer moves m Iii Iii if Washington Bureau Washington faced with congressional cuts in military reassignment funds the services have launched several initiatives aimed at reducing moves made by service members and cutting costs i Haj gon s manpower chief said. Some  Havu mmr7tnvoluntary extensions As the Semaj mrable to meet cuts in re Orthis fiscal year. Additionally the sve made a number of policy changes such As amending Lime on station requirements and relaxing " is Culic overseas tour f Sta Tion of defense Tor personnel. Congress has a legitimate concern Over the rapid escalation of our pcs accounts. Dod and Congress have both tried to restrain that growth. The question is. How much can it be restrained one Pentagon official said Congress Iive the de sense department s2.5 billion in reassignment funds ejects for fiscal 1988 and9. Unveiled recently request about the same amount each year with slight increases for inflation. The Pentagon requested the modes increases be cause officials think the services initiatives will keep a the official said. _ r we re gelling from Congress the offic tarsal la wants to reduce the Tempo of moves by  retrying id  Congress ordered the  con duct a study of overseas tour lengths and see moves on pag3 parts of Europe emerging from cold wove by the associated press while Britain Ireland and Spain continued to thaw out sunday much of Europe continued shivering through a bitter Winter cold spell blamed for at least 270 deaths this month much of Eastern Europe where 152 weather related deaths have been counted since Jan. I remained in the grip of the bitter cold. In Hungary however temperatures began to ease snowfall ended and Only a few secondary roads remained impassable. Lows ranged from 4 degrees below Zero in Stockholm 3 below in Kiev Warsaw and Berlin and 9 below in mos cow to 41 in Dublin and 46 in Madrid readings As High As 46 were reported in Southern and Western Britain. Six More cold related deaths were re ported saturday in Western Europe three in France two in Spain and one i Britain. In France b two Day Rescue operation by some 20 men and a helicopter located 400 lost sheep Many of them ready to give birth in the Southern Alps. In Paris 4,000 people were mobilized for Snow removal operations concentrating on Side streets. In Spain paramilitary civil guards in All terrain vehicles saturday reached a Rural Reha Billalon Center for recovering heroin addicts delivering food and Medicine the Center had run out of supplies see cold on Page 26 a self propelled rotary Snow Blower dubbed the mean machine by its Drivers clears a Railroad track near Bearsted England . Celebrates Martin Luther King s birthday by he associated press the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Fri Day told a group celebrating his birthday she would lobby Congress on behalf of the poor while the Rev. Jesse Jackson decried economic injustice after another commemoration for the slain civil rights Leader Sorelta Scott King told a packed auditorium at the Martin Luther King or. Center for non violent social change in Atlanta that she will Back Laws to decrease unemployment and hunger stiffen sanctions against South Africa and Cut the National defense budget. On this Day we celebrate Martin s vision and Cour age and love but we do not celebrate the Progress behave not made she said. The Seth anniversary of King s birth was thursday. He was assassinated april 4,1968, in Memphis Tenn. In new York City Jackson said he would not participate in a planned March and Boycott to protest the killing of a Black Man chased to his death by a gang of whiles in the Howard Beach Section of Queens lust month. Blacks boycotting Uhic businesses and in arching on while communities Are missing the Root cause of the Howard Beach violence which is economic injustice Jackson said after a Church service marking King s birthday. He urged Black leaders to focus their attention on larger issues and attempt to change altitudes of those in Power specifically the altitudes of president Rea Gan who Jackson said set a tone that made Howard Beach possible. Or. King s was a nine year struggle not a one Day demonstration he said. In other observances of King s birthday. New York mayor Edward i. Koch read a proclamation saying the principles of Justice and tolerance that King advocated must guide people every Day or there would be no  at the King Center in Atlanta Kep. Newt Gingrich h-ga., earlier Friday called for a technology based free Enterprise revolution and Cash rewards for literacy to help improve the lives of poor and working people the no. 1 thing that Lias driven american society is getting More Gingrich said. If we offer Cash re wards to poor children to Leam How to read they d learn faster than they do. For All the dollars we be spent on remedial education we could have bribed most people to  also at the King Center United farm workers founder and president Cesar Chavez received a social responsibility award for his work in the labor move ment. Other awards went to Therrian Mckenzie chair Man of Atlanta s my products hair care company Cornell Mcbride the company s president and Citi corp chairman John s. Reed for business leadership and to former congressman Parren Mitchell of Mary land for governmental leadership. A state Senate committee in Idaho where White supremacists have been Active introduced legislation Friday declaring Jan. 15 a commemorative Day in recognition of King. The proposal emphasizes the anti racism stand we have taken said sen. Mary Lou Reed. A similar Bill passed the Idaho Senate last year but died in the House  
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