European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. March 13. 19b7 the stars and stripes Pago 7 88 Price hike sought on is class mail new York not the . Postal service will seek an increase in inc 22-Ccnl Price of a stamp for first class mail sometime in 1988, a postal official said Here wednesday Michael s. Coughlin the Deputy Post master general said that the postal serv ice in consultation with the postal Board of governors would formally make the proposal for the increase in inc next few months. Although the precise filing Dale has not been determined. Coughlin said the rate increase was necessary because of $2 billion in unexpected additional costs that inc postal service would incur in the neat to years. We truly can t absorb that much additional Cost tic said. Coughlin was speaking in Manhattan at a postal customer Council business breakfast attended by representatives from some 500 new York businesses. The Council is one of several Hundred across the country he said the exact amount of the in crease sought was not yet Clear although he indicated that the new Rale would be in the Range of 23 cents to 26 cents. The unexpected costs arc a result of the institution of a Federal employee retirement system by Congress last year. All Federal employees who were on the payroll before Jan i 1984, have been covered by the civil service retirement system but anybody hired after that Date will be covered under the Federal employees retirement system. Anyone covered by the civil service plan can switch to the new plan from july 1 to dec. 31 this year if it is found advantageous. If employees Transfer to the new sys tem the postal service must contribute More Matching Money that system just enacted last year will have the effect of increasing our costs by As much As s2 billion cough in said. Coughlin estimated thai us Many As 40 percent of the postal service employees would Transfer retirement programs arid that As transfers continued More costs would be incurred by the Agency. The More employees that Are transferred the higher our costs will go he said. Last july postal officials said a Rise was unlikely until 1989 because inc Post Al service reported a $1 is million profit in the Quarter that ended june 6 and was predicting a surplus of $414 million in the fiscal year 1986. Although the Agency did not quite meet that prediction it did finish the fiscal year 1986 with a surplus of $304 million. That was still a substantial gain Over the s251 million loss the Agency suffered in 1985. Caughlin said that despite the surplus last year the new costs caused by inc change in the retirement system would Force the postal service to make a re quest for the increase one year earlier than expected. Increasing postal charges is a Long pro Cess that can take from 12 to 16 months after a forma request is filed. The last increase occurred in 1985 when the rate for first class postage went from 20 cents to 22 cents. Scientists link dust like diamonds to dying Star new York. A trillions of incredibly tiny diamonds possibly formed by a dying Star before the solar system was born 4.5 billion years ago have been found by researchers studying four meteorites. The powder like diamonds could be among the old est things on Earth said Roy Lewis senior research associate at the University of Chicago. The diamonds May yield clues about the Chomis try of stars and if scientists can determine How they formed that could suggest belter ways of manufacturing tiny diamonds for Industrial purposes he said it s quite possible that nature is doing it More efficiently than we be been doing it he said. So maybe we be got something  Lewis reported the discovery in the latest Issue of the British journal nature along with Edward Anders and others at the school and Eric steel of the National Bureau of standards. The new find is surprising said John Wood staff scientist at the Harvard smithsonian Center for astrophysics although diamonds have been found be fore in meteorites they were formed relatively recently by the Shock of Impact he said in a Telephone interview. Bui Wood said the new report made him quite sure the newly found diamonds Are older than the Sun. Lewis said researchers never expected to find diamonds when they started investigating a Stone like meteorite that had plunged into a mexican Cornfield in 1969, they were studying an unusual Carbon dust in the App hold Finger held vial contains Over a trillion tiny diamonds. Meteorite and to purify the Sample they went through several Steps to dissolve other materials. They expected the Sample to remain Black through the purification but to their Surprise inc final step turned it while Lewis said they had believed the final step had dissolved inc Carbon icy wanted to study. But tests showed that the while residue was in fact made of Carbon. Other tests found thai in contained an unusual combination of forms of the Gas xenon indicating thai in came from outside the solar system still another Battery of lest identified the residue As Diamond dust so Fine that a Row of 20,000 grains would extend about the Width of a human hair. The researchers also round diamonds in three other meteorites. Lewis said. Tests show All four meteorites Are As old As inc solar system and that the embedded diamonds did not form within the meteorite As a result of collisions he said. So the diamonds must have Arisen somewhere else before inc meteorites formed making them As old or older than inc solar system he said. The diamonds May have formed in the upper Atmo sphere of a Star in the Laic red giant stage where inc temperature and abundance of Hydrogen could encourage diamonds to form As Carbon Gas condenses he said. Recent japanese and russian research has shown that such conditions can Lead to Diamond formation he said. Diamonds on Earth form instead under great pres sure underground. 2 soviet planes intercepted in . Radar zone Atlantic City . A air Force and air National guard planes escorted iwo soviet planes Down the East coast this week As they flew through . Radar zones apparently during a routine test of american defences officials said wednesday. The two soviet planes were identified As Tu-9s Beard models which arc four engine reconnaissance aircraft Capa ble of carrying armament said it. Joseph Murphy a spokesman for the 177th fighter interceptor croup at the air National guard base Here. They did not violate our airspace or come near the continent during the flight monday Murphy said. They do Fly Down through this part of the country every once in a while. I imagine they re just testing our  officials of the North american Aero space defense come selected inc two soviet planes on radar when they approached . Airspace without notification Murphy said. When the two planes were tint detected on radar Oft the Massachusetts coast two f-106 Delta darts from inc air National guard s 102nd group were sent out immediately he said. Other air National guard planes joined the intercept Mission As the soviets headed South. Murphy said including f 106s from units in Atlantic City and Homestead fab Fla and f-4d phantom ils deployed from Seymour Johnson ,. No radio Contact was made Between the soviet and . Planes he said be cause the soviets were operating on Dif Ferent frequencies. The closest the two soviet planes Ever came to the United states was 140 Miles off Cape halt Cros ., Murphy said. The incident marked the third time this year that soviet military aircraft have been intercepted identified and tracked off the . Coast air National guard officials said. Arkansas Senate honors hillbilly Little Rock Ark. A stale sen. Joe Yalcs has a reputation As a shrewd country Talkin lawmaker. And he can add to that the bragging rights As inc last known hillbilly in Arkansas. Yalcs was so named tuesday in a Resolution by the slate Senate. After the vote he said thank y All. To Recial your vow of Confidence in me. I la Leach y All How o talk. In May Lake me a few years but you la learn  police instructor killed in shoot out new York a a Veteran police officer was shot to death wednesday in a gun Battle with two robbery suspects while leading Rakic police officers on a training Mission police said. One of the suspects also was shot to death in the gun fight and another was wounded and arrested in a car shortly afterwards said 1 olice commissioner Benjamin Ward. The slain officer 60-year-old Detec Tive Louis Miller had been on the Force 34 years said Deputy commissioner Alice Mcgillion. Six officers the Trainer three Rook ies and two experienced robbery investigators responded around noon to a report of a burglary in a fifth floor apart ment in the Fla Bush area of Brooklyn Miller and officer Mark Del Pino 31, a plainclothes robbery investigator took the elevator 10 the fourth floor Mac million said. A Rookie and the Oiher investigator went up the stairs to inc apartment and the other two rookies went to the roof. No robbers were at the apartment or on the roof but Miller and Del i Ino con fronted two sup cols on the fourth floor Mcgillion said. When they asked the men for identification a fight and a gun Battle broke out she said. The officers from above rushed Down to find their two colleagues on the flour critically wounded and a suspect dead on he stairs. Ward said. Ward identified the dead suspect As Ricardo Johnson. An alleged accomplice. Charles Lloyd was arrested in a car and had a .3h-Cali Ber revolver from which All six shots had been fired Ward said. Del Pino was listed in mrnous but Sia ble condition. The rookies were police Academy graduates who were undergoing routine train ing. Mcgillion said. After leaving the Academy rookies ride with veterans