European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 othe stars and stripes saturday february 7, 1987 Extension options Linder the air Force s new i ten Sion program enlisted personnel and offi Cip can request 4nother full tour at tic same Locatti Atour Extension less Man a full tour Bulat least 12 month and up to 22 months for members Vern a Depar Ture a if com npwtojanf31,1988, a ohse Cutie Over As tour at specific Bice country or overseas the Ater. \ i no ski Cilc Date m return from overseas euro Vilh the under standing Ihma fixed r to can be obtained upon inquest. A sperm for retrain ing special by Serrations or retire ment. To main inf Chii current de parture Dale. Tour from Page 1 Smith said Smith said his we a asked about 18,000 people scheduled Newi from overseas this year to choose Olaf themins. Of those 86 Pacent Abed to maintain their current Date a Hub Only percent chose to extend their Tours definite re four percent fid to a their Tours extended 12 to 22 to Fps while Imp cell asked for an in place Conse live Over Seabur. Three Percy asked Tor Bons Culive Over seas tour on fir Deros do and said if the match can t made they vol the option of returning Tofle slates. Anon i percent re Quested a Colb Cutie overseas Mir and took an indefinite Bros until that Alch can be made. requested acini duty assignment retirement Extension in the Man. Air Force per Joel will be asked to close one of the option Byear before their Dale return from overseas. If Thelio not respond they time Given an ind Fin Weros Smith said. Will Benefit the a Force in i than just cutting Transfer lbs Smith the More said. Thieves the airman a bigger Opp Unity to extend he get an in place tour Wilbut us having to find another Mace for him Tob he said and at the a Mene we can a Nave them stay indefinitely fling us Morhet inuit in the Antler advantage for airmen Smil Hwd is choose another base for a consecutive a they could t do before. Program was thought about a i and biters so Many benefits that it Trombly to Shiave been a Good idea even if we win i on budget crunch. Smith said. R Meyer. Smith said the air Force s pen Nel Gnu Irementa remain Paramount. Will try to match people to their Desa if Fillan i be done then we can t approve 1 Extension but we will try to give them not option iia director robbed Washington a former clan Lottor Wil Liam and robbed of walking near his be District Jas Phurbia police re ported thursday. Colby was a who demanded ground when he Waller Fergus Colby Jet was the head of the Dellal intelligence Agency Tram 1973 to 1975, told the Wawn ton Post tha Fri had escorted a Friend to a main Siren Jockich a Jos and was walking Back to his House who lbs was approached by he muggers. Friday by four people in knocked him to the re had no i according to officer soviets Send 2 cosmonauts toward space rendezvous Moscow a two Cotmon Auis Rocke cd 10 Ward a rendezvous Wilh the Mir orbiting Laboratory Early Friday aboard a new Type of space capsule embarking on the soviet Union s first manned space mis Sion since last july. Blasl off from the Bai Konur cosm drome on the Steppes of soviet Central Asia came at 12 38 . Mos cow time and was broadcast nationwide soviet television showed the waving cosmonauts climbing into the soy i tm-2 capsule atop the rocket As snowflakes swirled around and the rocket s plume of flame and smoke As it Rose into the night sky Over soviet Kazakhstan. The flight is Normal,11 Mission commander Yuri Romanenko reported periodically via a radio Hookup As the rocket streaked skyward. Romanenko 42, and flight Engineer Alexander Lav Eikin 35, were scheduled to go into orbit and Dock sunday with the soviet s Mir space station. As the Mission approached the 30-Minule Mark the Tass news Agency said the cosmonauts were feeling Well and on Board flight system were functioning normally. Interviewed on television at the Mission control Cen Ter professor Konstantin p. Feoktistov said during the first Day of the flight the cosmonaut would Check the capsule s instruments and links with ground based sys tems As the rocket reached the Point where one a Booster stage separated Feoktistov made an apparent reference to a past soviet space Accident saying in effect once there was a he was Cut off by the television interviewer who said Konstantin let s not mention that Case four soviet cosmonauts Are known to have died during missions. It was not Clear if Feoktistov was refer ring to a known incident or one not previously reported. Dollar from million Ingras Saulo loan business. But he added,.tflyjpllar stays Down we re going to see problems. Economy obviously Are getting higher. For the Tare if the Dollar slays Down and i expect it probably our members Are going to be experiencing problems John Duckett manager of the Navy but credit Union in Naples reports similar trends in Ili we be never really had a problem with rep Sions he said but the Dollar is hurting be sure. For example we had a customer who new porsche he d bought when the Dou Kas High. He s not replacing it because now Jum Uve to add j 5,000 to the insurance Money to he Niew Duckett attributes some a of rip in the credit Union s Small loan business for credit card program begun at base exchanges Pryear. He said customers who once borrowed and for a new stereo for exam ple Are now More off to charge the sound system at the exchanger so we re seeing a lot of Small Loans and we re not in big Loans because people just can t Aji Polto buy big items additionally Navy Federal has lost much of in traveler s checks business a sign that Many americans Are staying Home until the Dollar improve we were doing a Phenomena bus checks now that s petered out Tom bout Pentagon Federal cred Marti described it Auto loan volume As Roma a blood although customer Are moving priced in Marks and Inlo those Sologot dollars according to Terri Wolfley acting Marat Pentagon s Bremerhaven Germany Sion rate remains Flat she said since agon Loans Are repaid in dollars. Except for the re who Are experiencing troubles paying their rent and Are then failing Back on their other obligations the flak rate does t really affect our car Loans she mid said it was not Clear whether the weakened has had an effect on savings. Statistic from the credit Ruthton s Headquarters in Washington Thow the average Blu balance in Europe is normally ,000 less held in the United Stales and that trend is contrib in England where the doll by lost 30 percent of its value in the past year Loann Blu Are up slightly to about 1 percent according blown Woolen manager of the eight branches of Vecsie humeral cred it Union in the United kingdom. Sayings deposits Are up Matching what Wool Feid is a similar trend in the United states. Waite Marine amphibious 3 50 would be allowed to head Home a Marine amphibious group that had been opel with the carriers was sailing away from Lebanon will turn Over in patrol duties to a second amphibious group sailing toward Lebanon in the Central Medil Nean the sources added. The . Naval we Duclion of three americans and Anja los moslem West Beirut late last monlhai4nisappearanceof Waite. Eve for the office of the by in London said the bit telephoned her about its report of the shooting and they had nothing to substantiate the re port. They said they just had a message from Beirut in another development the state department also announced the Reagan administration has abandoned plans for a conference on fighting terrorism. My was to have begun Friday in Rome a was scuttled because .Ollkilwtravoid a discussion of . No i ally warning issued by that reporters should not speculate i�. Military strikes in Lebanon to retaliate for therrol Hico hostage taking. Despite such a of Rumon swept Europe and the Middle East on taday morning that the United states had actually Laun Vasion of Lebanon. Of there were reports this morning of some Macks some military action which Are without foundation and which we have denied Sims said. Seib from Page 1 was arrested after a nicking the country Wilh a false passport disguised Asa journalist. Wednesday s announcement by the information ministry said Seib was permanently banned from re turn ing to in Sliawa Canada s foreign office said i had been advised that Philip Engs a Canadian Engineer arrested dec. 2 on espionage charges also would be released an american telecommunications specialist and a British businessman also Are imprisoned in Iran on similar charges. Engs 29, was accused of possessing secret documents and taking pictures of top secret installations in Iran Denys pcs sir of the Canadian foreign office said the danish ambassador in Tehran who represents Canada s interests has been informed that or. Engs will be released soon but we have no confirmation thai he it now released he said the ambassador in Andreasen probably would put Engs on the first flight out of Tehran after his release Jon Pattis 50, of Bethesda my was arrested june 16, 1986, after iraqi warplanes bombed the Auad Abad telecommunications Center Southwest of Tehran. The iranians claimed that Pattis working in Iran As a consultant gave the Cia information on the Center that was passed to Iraq. John Copper 51, a British businessman and part Lime financial journalist was arrested a year ago. He Wasch Argeri with espionage dec 10
