European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. February 18, 1987 the stars and stripes when in Rome Stop a polow Wolmart in Rome stops a motorcyclist from entering the City s historic Center. On monday police turned May hundreds of Drivers who fled greeks protest nationwide seek wage increases Athens Greece apr around 1.5 million greeks joined a 24-hour nation wide general strike monday demanding immediate wage hikes and a relaxation of the government s 16-Mqnth-old aus Crity program. More than 600,000 store owners and self employed businessmen joined in he strike Akin with 200,000 civil servants. It was the biggest walkout in 5w years of socialist party Rule labor Union officials said. In Athens Banks bakeries cafes and restaurant and even the yellow Street Comer kiosks Hiti sell newspapers cigarettes and Candy remained closed. The City s 15,000 taxis started a 48 hour strike but there were few private cars on the streets because of a three Day walkout by Gas station owners. Thousands of demonstrators among hem schoolchildren and pensioners. Marched through the City Center to the greek parliament and the labor ministry shouting no o austerity and jobs for the  similar demonstrations were organized by local labor centers in to cities around Greece. But Premier Andreas Papandreou s government confronting the third major walkout in four weeks., announced it would make no immediate concessions to the strikers. Stabilization must continue. We Hope that by the end of the year conditions will permit us to justly satisfy the workers demands labor minister cos Marine iwo Jima vets will gather Vicksburg miss. A hundreds of Silver haired leathernecks whose stand Al iwo Jima proved decisive in world War ii combat in the Pacific will get together at a Mississippi Battlefield this month 10 share memories arid renew friendships. If you weren t a Marine it s hard to understand the close Bond that exists be tween those who have fought together and faced death together said Vemon Mam Mons an organizer of the feb. 19-22 Gath ering of veterans of he bloody Battle. Two years ago a working Man s reunion Al Vicksburg on the 40lh anniversary of the iwo Jima invasion attracted about Foo former marines. Illustration of historic moment shows marines raising the nag on iwo Jima. The word Gol around so now i m gel Ling Calls and tellers from All Over the coun try said mammon a Deputy sheriff in Brandon. This year s reunion which up to 1,000 veterans and their families Are expected to attend will be Hail in the Shadow of the the Vicksburg National military Park the site of one of the he Lerchl sieges of the civil War Many of those who participated in the first gel together liked uie idea of a casual gathering in a historical Selling instead of More formal reunions such As one held on the 8-Squarc-Milc Pacific Island where 6.891 of i hair buddies died. "1 love history certainly american his tory and the civil War and the military Park is one of the Maia reasons i m going said Adolph Fang of the Chicago area. And it s an Opportunity to meet with  from my squad Fang was 19 when he waded ashore on the Island feb. 19,1945. I was a private and a Amoka Man. And six Day after 1 Gol on the Island 1 was wounded by machine gun fire said Fang. I had five Bullet holes in the  everybody who went in got shot one Way or another. Maybe if had Noi got hit and i lasted another Day i would have been  mammon who was wounded nine Days after the Start of the iwo Jima invasion said organizers plan to hold Itie reunion every other year. He said inc first one also Nlle acted Navy veterans from the iwo Jima Campaign and relatives of some of those killed i remember Thi daughter of one Marine killed on the Island said she came in Hopes of finding someone who remembered her father Harmons sat she wanted to know a Lille More about those final  tips Papanayiotou told a Union delegation. Strike want the government to Gram an immediate 20 percent pay increase and resume fully Index linked wage hikes. They also Are demanding Price controls and Job creation programs to re Duce an 8.5 percent unemployment rate. The government imposed a near Fri Csc on wages in oct. 1985 after four years of Index linked increases and Gen Erous Public spending had sent the an Nual inflation rate spiralling past 24 per cent. Last month Public and private sector workers were a rented a 4,1 percent pay hike for the first four months of 1987, Well below the expected 5 percent inflation Rale. The socialist party leaders say they arc committed in cutting inflation from 16.9 percent Lam december to 10 percent by the end of 1987 As part of a two year economic stabilisation package. National Economy minister Colas Simitis says tie is determined to shrink Greece s current account deficit to ii .25 Bill Ion by the end of 1987. A $650 million saving on Oil imports and an $600 million increase in exports helped the socialists rim a record s3.3 billion current account deficit in 1985 to $1.116 million last year. That cleared the Way for Greece to get the second half of a j2 billion emergency balance of payments loan from its euro Pean economic Community partners. Eli cart fells army Copfer invalid for a an. Ing missis was forc emerged Wandi no Pelican Auw mics we a \1n a come in con l w ing Pelican satiation Chi said. Ii look and damaged tit the Heli Copi new hotel comi fess Parker at Day author Lii Crew members it landed from fuss Davy Crock Mark Kalzenstein one of oui walked up a on ii. That  the Hel out of Poi cmdr. Mitita Sci copt it from Barbara jul of. A y Helix Opien i Irain make an r Hilling a id. "1 for Cycle put a Pai of a laugh helicopter a Cal Seck department ii Mcgrew of the Rotor  landed near a Ned by actor Ich on Sun the four i injured the Street place so land Nick Ide stand officers ticket inter was on a Mug Nas. 1 Lewis said. Pm the Mission r y a personnel putt p the Beach to in High tide and through the id. The Pelican. Me in Tasi the pilots rep lie Herd of  la d