European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday january 29,1987 Reagan admits mistakes in Iran affair from Page 1 the administration prevented the presi Dent from providing details of his. A new welfare strategy to permit individual states and municipalities More flexibility in devising solutions. Revisions in the Way Congress adopts a budget and new Powers for the president to veto specific items contained in larger Bills. Over the next few weeks he said he would be sending to Congress special messages on budget Reform welfare re farm catastrophic illness competitive Ness including education Trade worker training and assistance agriculture and other subjects however Many of Reagan s specific proposals such As legalization of organized prayer in the Public schools have appeared Many limes in state of he Union messages and have never been enacted. Many Are expected to meet the same Fate in this Congress. As Larry Speakes Reagan s spokes Man noted earlier in he Day the presi Dent who addressed the Congress tues Day night was the same Ronald Reagan who had delivered five pre Vious stale of the Union speeches. Bui he was an older president almost76 years of age the oldest Man Ever to delivers slate of the Union message. Heals was a sicker Man recovering from prostate surgery and making hit first National television appearance in More than two months. Reagan s political  was i jeopardy. The latest new York times lbs news poll reported 52 percent of Hose surveyed approved of Ine Way he was handling his Job 13 Points Lowe than his rating a year ago. And despite Reagan s ardent campaigning he voters last november rejected his peas to keep Republican con Trot of the Senate. For the tint time in his presidency Reagan faced a Congress controlled entirely by democrats and sen. Robert a Byrd of West Virginia the democratic Leader said in an inter View for the cast six years the Whitehouse has set the Agenda. That s differ ent now in addition to the speech Reagan presented a legislative Agenda 10 Congress with Many details not included in the slate of Floc Union address. More than half of the 24-Page document that the while House issued elaborating on the message was devoted to american competitiveness and he no Tion that the american Standard of living was losing its historic Edge Over other  of these proposals Are related to Trade and attempts in Congress to arrest the flow of foreign imports. For the most part. Reagan Asci that Congress instead work to improve the country s ability to compete. He would liberalize control on exports to communist countries when the goods Are readily available fro Mother countries or use widely available  also asked for $200 million to combat other countries1 unfair Trad practices. That ii $100 million More than Congress granted last  also seeks authority to negotiate reductions of Trade barriers through the general agreement on tariffs and  respect to the Dollar Reagan urged support of efforts by Treasury Secretary James a. Baker Iii to encourage other major countries to join in coordinating their Domestic economic  approach is aimed at preventing the imbalances that cause currencies to turn volatile. To that end he urged sending a signal to Japan and Germany that stabilizing the value of the Dollar depended in Parton their policies to Speed up their econ  other proposals Are Tesa directly related to Trade but touch on the nation ability to build industries that can com  asked for improvement in the . Educational system that among other things would require for High school graduation four Yean of English three Yean of mathematics three Yean of science three Yean of social science and proficiency in the use of computers. He urged much closer collaboration Between government and private Busi Ness proposing arrangements under which government laboratories would share More of their research with Busi Ness and doubting spending for the National science foundation Over i years five police found explosives after arresting lebanese Bonn a Security sources wednesday said police found Large amounts of a liquid explosive when they searched a Square mile Are after arresting a lebanese Man believed linked to the kidnappings of two germans in Beirut Lebanon. Officials have said a Abbas Hamadi. Who was arrested at Frankfurt International Airport on monday May be involved in the abductions of the two germans. Authorities said they believed the Kidnap pings were intended to Force the release of Mohammed Aii Hamadi a brother of Ati Abb Shamadi. Mohammed Ali Hamadi was arrested Jan. 13 and is accused by the United Stales Ofair piracy and murder in the 1985 Twa Hijack ing in which a . Navy diver was  explosive Methyl nitrate was found on land outside the town of Beckinger in Southern Saarland state tuesday Security sources told the associated press. The sources spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity. The Cologne based deutschland Funk radio station said officials found about five Gallons of the  Ali Hamadi was carrying Methyl nitrate when he was arrested in Frankfurt police have said. Waite from Page 1 with Waite had placed him under House arrest in secret location after negotiations  it quoted unidentified sources close to the  of Canterbury Robert Runcie spiritual head of the anglican Church said he had no direct evidence to confirm the report but was greatly con  Britain the foreign office said late tuesday that British diplomats had rave led to West Beirut trying to follow up leads on Waite without Success. A spokesman for the British embassy in East Beirut said the embassy lacks the resources to conduct an actual search for  jihad or islamic holy War the group with whom Waite reportedly is negotiating holds Terry a Anderson 39, chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press and Thomas Sutherland 55, of for Collins colo., acting Dean of agriculture at the Ameri can University of Beirut the group it believed to be Loyal to Iran s revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah , Little it known about the organization and ils links to other shiite groups that also claim to hold hostages. Navy plane s Crew presumed dead  Bureau Naples Italy seven Crew members of an ea-3bskywarrior that crashed in the Central Mediterranean Lale sunday night Are lost Al sea and presumed dead the Navy said wednesday. The electronic reconnaissance plane assigned tovq2 at Rota naval station in Spain crashed while trying to land on the aircraft Carrier Nimitz at 11 28p.m. Sunday said chief Petty officer Patricia Hooks a Navy spokeswoman at Rota. The Navy ended ils search for the plane s Crew tuesday after intensive efforts by air and surface units were unsuccessful in locating any survivors she said. At the Lime of the Accident the plane was returning tothe Nimitz after a routine flight in support of 6th Fleet operations Hooks  dead Are it. Cmdr. Ronald r. Callander 37, of Minneapolis Minn. La Stephen h. ,30, of Plymouth . La Alvin a. Levine 26, the aircraft s Pilot from Syosset . La James d. Rich Ards 27, of Utica Mich. Petty officer 2.c. Richard a. Herzing 22, of St. Mary a a. Petty officer . Pat ride r. Price 28, of Mobile ala., and Petty officer 3.c. Craig a Rudolf 20, of Milwaukee  was attached to the naval communications station at Rota and Rudolf to a naval Security group activity at at bins. The others were assigned to Rota s vq2. Some soldiers will get corrected w-2s Heidelberg is some soldiers in Europe will receive a second w-2 form reflecting the Correct amount of social Security tax withheld a Susareu resource management official said wednesday. Either copy of the w-2 May be used for filing 1986income tax since the incorrect amount shown on the form was for Pica tax and not Federal or state income a said sgt. Maj. Robert �. Sears of the resource management staff. A tax adjustment was made in december by . Army finance and accounting Center in Indiana Polis ind., for Soldier a who had a it Bill refund or veterans education assistance program deduction in their monthly paycheck Sean said that change was not reflected on the first w-2 form. Corrected w-2s Are expected to be mailed by feb. 2to soldiers servicing finance offices and will be distributed upon receipt Sean said. Dollar from Page 1 on what it wants the Dollar to do. The Dollar s latest fall followed president Reagan state of the Union message tuesday night in which he praised the currency Exchange strategy of Treasury Secretary James Baker Iii Baker who has been promoting a competitive devaluation to revive . Export Trade said tuesday he thought Market forces ought to be the arbiter of the Dollar Exchange Rale. The Dollar devaluation is hurting the exports of countries like Germany and Japan which have Strong currencies apparently without producing dramatic improvements in . Export performance. However the strategy called talking Down the Dol Lar opens the Way for inflation in the United states Ana other countries because it has made imports comparatively cheap. And because a depreciating currency is not an at Tractive investment medium the strategy could Force up Dollar interest rates and make the deficit spending policy of the . Government More costly. The policy also is having an Adverse effect on americans living in Europe and Japan including member of the armed  television claimed that Vas. Forces in Ger Many were planning to Lay off 15,000 German worker Sand to replace them Wilh american civilian who Are badly in need of cilia income to pay German prices. From Page 1 $60 $127 instead of $100 in a partial support area end is 69 instead ofj14j in a no support area. Netherlands an a a who has eight years of service lives in full support area in the Netherlands and has no de Pendents will get s179 instead of 1166 and 1256instead of j23 in a no support area. The amount of cola is determined by the per diem travel and transportation allowance com Mittee in Washington ., which meets twice a  will Start for some civilians when the Over seas Cost of living Index exceeds that of Washington,. A Usa eur he spokeswoman Aid. For Germany the state department has tet the Index at 1.66 Marlu to the Dollar she said. When cola u authorized it ii paid Only to civil taut in areas where there Are no us military facilities such As commissaries and Exchange in Germany those area include Bonn Cologne Dusseldorf Hamburg Juelich and Kerpen