European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stabs and stripes Friday March 20,1987 Navy to give 3 050 by William a Bartma Washington tartan Washington congressional budget cutting will once again Force the permit about 3,000 sailors in do officers to leave the service up to 90 Dayi Early. Congressional funding Levels for the final year 1987 Navy. ,. Pay account Force modification of program to meet budgetary constraints a Navy release said. The Navy released 3,000 Sailor Sand 3i officers Tost year ahead of etched Amy Garter s car Providence . A Amy Carter has her wheels Back. The Brown University soph Omore and presi Dent Carter showed up at citizens Auto body in Johnston on wednes Day and paid $120 Cash to retrieve her 1983 Mercury Capri towed after it accumulated $335 in City parking tickets a garage official said. A Boston radio station paid the tickets but Carter still owed Tor age charges on her car on March 11, citizens business manager Mike Russo refused to a Cepl Carter s Check for $120. M against company policy he said be cause irate people used to pick up heir vehicles pay with a Check and then Stop payment in retaliation. Temperatures 30 47 79 Ftp tto Nomus m n jmcwi44 s4 73 7 Kiwitta n Zeij in 12 Iha Ngim european weather Aykul Fontai Mixon Dadi urn it mow a Viva ctr tax uni Ruhp Wiwi tool a Mua noun my mow nun 4n pm 37 37 �3d 43 3b 37 u h 36 41 31 la 94 Latak Pymm. P Munch. Pm. I flaw. At to s3 Moln Ai Obs 30 Hun v n 1 s a Osta h 39 Taib. A b4 4b v4ncovw. D it 21a 19 30 a 19 ule to meet Gramm Rudman constraints. Commanding officers have been asked to review Earty release req tests closely making sure they will not have an and verse Impact on Fleet the offer is available to personnel schedule to leave the service before oct. 1. A Navy spokesman said the programs strictly voluntary for the person who was planning Togo Back to school at separation this would be perfect for him the spoke. Man said. Bui we re not going to be forcing anyone out who does t want 10 those Noi eligible for the program will include regular officers who have Noi submitted resignations or officers in the training and administration of Reserve program. Regular and Reserve officers obligated for bonuses continuation and Spe Cial pay or tuition assistance. Personnel in medical status who May be processed for Early separation upon completion of treatment. Personnel in disciplinary status except for those with minor infractions who May be released Early a the discretion of the commanding officer. Personnel scheduled for retirement or Transfer to the Fleet Reserve. Naval Reserve personnel on Active duty undergoing training. Navy officials warn that sailors with out critical skills could face a problem if they seek to return to the Navy after asking for an Earty release. Mcfarlane note mentions Money from saudis to contras paper says Washington up former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane wrote a note before he tried to commit suicide detailing a saudi arabian offer to donate million of dollars to the Nicara Guan Contra rebels the Washington Post reported thursday. The note to Mcfarlane s lawyer with other letters to three members of con Gress described his failure to divulge hat saudi ambassador Bandar bin sul Tan had approached him in 1984 an volunteered to contribute $1 million a month to the Nicaragua rebels. According to the Post Mcfarlan wrote the two Page note to Bis lawyer. Leonard garment to leave a full an truthful account of his knowledge of the Iran arms Contra Aid scandal Mcfarlane also penned one Page confidential letters to Sens. David Boren d okla. And William Cohen a Maine chairman and vice chairman of the sen ale panel investigating the Iran Centra affair and rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind.,chairman of the House select committee. The letters to congressional member said a foreign National later identified As the saudi ambassador offered to con tribute to the contras and Mcfarlane thought the donation had been nude Bandar has repeatedly denied he Orother saudis made any contributions to the centres one source told the Post saudi Arabi Ahad contributed $13 million for three Covert operation that will not be made Public because they Are so sensitive but garment denied Mcfarlane knew anything about such an arrangement. After he took an overdose of valium feb. 9, Mcfarlane told Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh congressional committees and the Tower Board about his 1984 meeting with Bandar. During the discussion Bandar offered to make a personal donation of a Mil lion to the contras at a rate of $ 1 million month Mcfarlane said. Records show deposits of is million month from july 6, 1984, to feb. 7, 1985, were Mode to a Cayman Island Bank account for a total of feb million. Mcfarlane told investigators he did not keep tabs on Bandar s contributions but he did have one conversation wit him in 1985 when the ambassador told him the saudi contributions were in creasing to $2 million a month. Investigators Are examining whether some of the Money earmarked for the contras May have been put in a secret slush fund for coven operations con ducted by the Cia a source told the Post. They also Are examining whether president Reagan May have solicited a contribution for the contras during a 10-minute private meeting with Sana King fund in i98s. Sixteen Days after fahd s1985 meeting a $5 million contribution was made to the contras Cayman is lands account. Oral Roberts $ 1 million Short of goal Tulsa. Okla. A evangelist Oral Roberts who say he will die by March 31 unless he finishes raising s8 minion is $1million Short of his goal and says hell re treat to his Tower sunday for prayer Handfasting until he gelt the Money. The 69-year-old evangelist is right ats million1 away from the goal he said god ordered him to reach a ministry spokeswoman said wednesday. In March 1986, Roberts said god had Given him one year to raise the Money for scholarships so Oral Roberts University medical school graduates could afford to be missionaries in third world Drew National attention Jan. 4. When he told the estimated 1 million viewers of his weekly television program that he would die by the end of Marc unless he raised the final $4.5 million of the 18 million he with god s leading on March 221 am going to make the most important trip i have Ever made up into the prayer Tower Roberts wrote followers in february. I m Goinn to be in and out of the prayer Tower praying and fasting until Victory comes or god Calls me earlier this month he asked for urgent contributions and advised followers to Send him lists of their prayer requests which he would take with him into the prayer Tower a Symbol of his University since its completion 20 years ago. The Pioneer let Evision evangelist taped his hour Long expect a Miracle program in Hie 200-foot Ste Abuid Glassblower on wednesday said Jon Dargatz ministry program is to be shown sunday while Roberts is in his prayer room. The room is beside a observation deck mid Way up the Tower which is topped with a eternal flame and rises from sunken Gar Dens at the Center of Roberts futuristic Campus. Dargatz said Roberts won t spend sever Al Days in the Tower and emerge As a gaunt bearded Roberts who has de Nied requests for interview suggested in the february letter that he could die in i Elower. A 1 go from there to Jesus i will see you in heaven he wrote. But i believe that won t happen because 1 believe our god will do this mighty thing and at the end of March you and i will know the Miracle has happened and the gospel will go to the Tower will close to tourists on sunday and University Security guard shave instructions to escort any Media Crew off the private Campus in South Tulsa Dargatz said wednesday. She said Roberts May make television appearances from the prayer Tower on the daily television program of his ton Richard Roberts Aargau said she did not know whether Oral Roberts or his son would make an announcement if the is million goals reached before March 31. At least 11 die in East african blast by i sep two 6y Rev Atod Flat pwt few a Quiny emmy boat cd two i Uri v Tacna. In Iowa of Rivitt. Djibouti. Djibouti a a bomb caused an explosion thai destroyed a cafe in this East african Republic killing a least 11 people and injuring at least 40, the president said thursday. Five French citizens four of them Mil itary personnel three germans and three Djibouti ans were reported killed in the bombing. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for he explosion wednesday night at the historic cafe in Central Djibouti. The French defense ministry in Paris said three members of the French Mili tary Are among the dead and 25 French military personnel were injured. Nearly 4,000 French troops Are based in this former French Colony and the cafe is popular among French and other for Eigners. The German government thursday announced three of the dead were Marine scientists from Germany. Research minister Heinz Riesenhuber identified the German victims As Annette Hartelt Marco Carl Buchana and Christian Guenter Gei Schmitt. Riesenhuber said five of the injured were germans. The roof of the cafe caved in from the Force of the blast and charred bodies were pulled from the debris the new Agency said. Witnesses said the cafe Ter race also was destroyed. President Hassan Gouled Aptilon speaking on local radio said an investigation had not yet determined who was behind the bombing of the cafe which was crowded with dinner hour called it an Enterprise aimed at destabilizing our society and the explosion occurred on the final Day of a 27-nation conference in Djibouti of the intergovernmental authority against drought and for development
