European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d air Force brainstorm ers study Futurist ideas Page 4 d Northeast is hit by fast moving Winter storm Page 5 o photos disprove soviets on Vietnam base Admiral says Page 8 the unofficial publication i vol. 45, no. 237 wednesday february 11, 1987 tripes d 8693 a terrorists postpone say Israel May meet a threat demands Beirut Lebanon up the moslem Kidnap pers of three americans and an Indian postponed a threat to kill the hostages citing the captives Picas for mercy and signals that Israel might meet their de mands by releasing400 jailed palestinians. The islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine postponed its threat to kill the captives in a message delivered to a news Agency a few minutes before mid night monday when it had said it would begin killing the hostages unless Israel freed the palestinians. The islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine announces Wilh the caring of the last seconds for the Lime set for executing the four americans it has delayed the execution of the judgment until further no Tice the statement said. But the statement also said the group would retaliate for the insult by . Secretary of stale George p. So mlle who said the people of kidnapping beset Beirut have a Shultz denounced hostage takers As see Story. Page 5. The statement did not indicate what form the action might Lake or whether it could involve the hostages. The extremist group said in decided to postpone its plan to kill the four professors at Beirut University College abducted on Jan. 24 because of pleas for mercy by the hostages their families India and Var ious lebanese organizations. The moslem kidnappers also cited signals that Israel might be willing to release he 400 palestinians whose Freedom islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine has demanded in Exchange for the hostages. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres on sunday apparently indicated that Israel was willing to negotiate saying such requests should be made through continued on Page 28technicians aboard the Carrier John f. Kennedy work on a plane while he ship lies at Anchor off Haifa Israel. Mcfarlane hospitalized for valium overdose Washington a former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane who figured prominently in presi Dent Reagan s secret Sale of weapons to inn. Was hospitalized monday for a valium overdose that police were treating As an apparent suicide attempt. Mcfarland ingested Between 25 and 30 pills said detective Lauren Acquaviva of the Montgomery county sheriffs office but did not know How Many milligrams were in each Pill. He said a police investigation was routine procedure after a report of an unattended death or death Mcfarlane had been scheduled Lotes tiny monday before a commission investigating the Iran Contra affair according to published and broadcast reports. Lbs news quoting unnamed in formed sources reported that Hospital officials believed me overdose resulted from a suicide attempt. Lbs citing unnamed friends of Mcfarlane also reported he had been depressed recently. But one of Mcfarlane s lawyers Leon Ard garment said neither i nor the sources of the report can know what Bud Mcfarlane s intentions he called the Story the most irresponsible and obscene piece of sourcing and reporting i be heard of in my whole professional the lawyer said he had not talked Wilh Mcfarlane since last Friday full he said experts believe in s virtually impossible to commit suicide with valium. Bud Mcfarlane has served his coun try Long and faithfully and never with greater distinction than by coming for Ward and being the Only one to give a full Story under oath and without Access to a single Page of his official record of the iranian arms Sale garment said. I am sure the country will simply wish him Mcfarland 49, was admitted to be sea Mcfarlane on Page 28 of cola geared to roller-coaster6eb.i. A to Raa by Chuck Washington Bureau _ Washington Federal civilians Oversea May wonder How Low the Dollar has to sink before they Gei Acost of living allowance. The answer quite a bit. The Only countries in which All defense depart ment civilians Are receiving Cost of living allowance cola or Post allowance Asil s called by the stale department arc the Netherlands a Kulppi Gium said Earl Curtis of the stale Demon Cal s allowances staff. The stale department add testers Post allowance far All Federal . All have been receiving since the Dollar slipped below the trigger level of 2.54 guilders. The Exchange rate is decline of currently around the 2.06 level,.in Belgium the franc jus Clow the trigger level All civil ians in tha a living Post Allowa the old ology rtt alls Ance coun n Large numbers of 5p civilians is not Good Curtis said. The Best bet for the next country where the allow Ance might be paid is Italy. The trigger level there is 1,2 9 lire not far from the current Exchange Rale of about 1,321 lire to the Dollar. In Germany the Dollar has been hovering around Marks. The Dollar must fall to 1.66 before Post to milians in thai country. Istone British Pound costs about s1.51. I would have to jump to $1.82 for inc Post allow Ance to begin for everyone in that country Curtis said. There is virtually no Chance that civilians in Spain Greece and Turkey will Sec a Post allowance in their checks any Lime in the near future because i court of living is generally very Low in those counts said. Ela would have la sink to a rate of 104 to in pc full currently about 130 to inc Dollar. The have to hit a level of 79.bo to inc Dollar miamis now about 135 to inc Dollar. Turkey the Dollar m Low that it s not even Worth calculating Phlp theber level. See cola on Page 28
