European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday March 27,19b7 basketball fan bubbling Over free trip to game Indianapolis a a self  fanatic says he ii be too Busy cheering for Indiana in saturday s Mcaa basketball semifinal to worry about the Job he lost in the cola War by winning a free rip to the Barnes Michael a. Wilson used to be a deliveryman far a coca cola bottling company Bui Pepsi cola was the sponsor of the contest in which he won a free trip for two to the inca final four championships in new orients. Wilson 37, said he resigned monday three Days after his Bosses strongly advised him to turn Down the  says he Only drinks diet Coke. But he found a Pepsi Billle Cap with the number 63.ucla i winning Point total in a basketball match with notre Dame while picking up empty bottles on hit route. Thai number enabled Wilson to enter the drawing for in trip. Wilson said he s looking for another Job by than t contacted Pepsi. I Don l think icy re responsible fora Job forme he said. I m going to play the chips where to  the loss of his Job Wilson said he was elated about Bis trip to see the hoosiers meet in University of Nevada Las vegas. Wilson said his prize includes four nights in hotel free use of a car. S100 a Day in spending Money and two tickets to the games saturday and the championship game monday night. House committee approves extra overseas cola funds by Chuck Vin Chwatun in Bureau Washington the House appropriation committee wednesday approved a Bill that gives the Pentagon an extra 1490 million to use this fiscal Yea for overseas Cost of living allowances. But the committee approved s42.s million leu than was requested for champs and decided not to make any Money available to help fund the 3 percent pay raise that took effect Jan. 1. The administration requested si2.5 billion in supplemental fund this fiscal year. The committee scaled thai Back to $11 billion with the Pentagon taking the biggest hit. The defense portion of the request was Gui from s2.s billion to si.3 billion. The Pentagon requested $99.3 million to fully fun the pay raise. Although the committee denied that re quest. Pentagon officials said the pay raise would note affected. It s an entitlement and we re obligated to pay it said an official. If the Senate goes along with this and disapproves the supplemental it just Means that behave to find the Money somewhere else in the budget or Lake personnel actions such As cutting end strength freezing promotions or reducing  at a time when Dod has been peeking additional end strength from Congress cutting personnel is the least Likely option. We d also like to avoid those other actions he said. We d try to find As much of the Money As we could within the  the fiscal 1987 defense appropriations act provided $1.9 billion to fund the raise. The supplemental request was dented because the act specifically stated thai if the $1.9 billion proved to be inadequate the shortfall would have to be made up from within exist ing Pentagon accounts a committee staffer said. The Pentagon requested annul j42s million in extra funds for champs citing the High Cost growth in medical care and an increased use of the program bythe services. The committee approved Only $382,5 Mil lion. A Pentagon official said trim will not cause much would t be any worse than  he said. The committee was More understanding of the re quest for $490 million to pay for increases in cola costs because the falling Dollar overseas which trigger the cola payments is outside the Pentagon s control the staffer said. The committee report on the House Bill said that i Exchange rate improve during the rest of the fiscal year Dod should identify the funding in excess of requirements and provide a plan for its. Use within the military personnel accounts in addition to the three personnel items the com Mittee also approved $50 million for the Navy to Pur Chase spare parts for the Qose in weapons system an the an-Slq-32 shipboard electronic warfare equip ment s314 million for air Force special operation aircraft and $12.7 million for nato research and development. The Senate appropriations committee has not yet scheduled hearings on the fiscal 1987 supplemental request. Study says aids virus May lie dormant 15 years new York a the aids virus May lie dormant for an average of is years before causing disease according to a new study that suggests millions of aids rates May yet appear in people already infected with the virus. The study released thursday by economist Malcolm Recs estimates 2.5 Mil lion americans who were infected wit the virus by around the end of 1984 Wilt develop aids during the next 10 years or so barring medical advances. The calculations giving the 15-year average incubation period also suggest two thirds of aids cases will arise oelween10 and 20 years after infection but Rees stressed wednesday that the numbers Are not firm. The study is a picture of the thing. I snot the last word on it to not claiming it is re Essaid in a Telephone interview. He also said that if aids patients sur be longer in the future with the disease the 15-Ycar average would refer More to time until death than time to the appear Ance of the disease. Rees who is studying the Cost of aids for the British government reported his calculations in the British journal  Are based on data from aids patients who had been infected by transfusions an National data on numbers of aids costs the estimates differ from some prior research. While Rees calculated 2.3 Mil lion infected americans by the end of 1984 who would get aids the Federal government has estimated a total of i million to 2 million americans would be infected by june 1986. Other projections have been Shorter term. Government scientists last year projected 200,000 to 310.000 aids cases by the end of 1991, mostly from people already infected. Playing around in a warmer key or Mee plays Broadway literally hate it be Tifka the Wirjes on is upright parked next to a construction site. Spring like weather in new York ibis week has been a Blessing for Mee who sometimes a tips out with Bis piano. This is the first Day my hand Saren t Frozen he said. Army blocks invitations to soviets by West Point Washington a for the Sec Ond time in a month the army has blocked its , military Academy at West . A. From extending a speaking invitation 10 a soviet citizen citing a Lack of reciprocity for such appearances by americans in the soviet Union. Maj. Bruce Bell an army spokesman Atixhe Pentagon said thursday that faculty officials at West Point had considered inviting i soviet cosmonaut to address us corps of cadets on april 6 and some preliminary discussions were  Bui the spokesman added that approval to extend a formal invitation to maj. Gen. Vladimir a. Doha Nibeko was withheld by the army in line with the precedent followed earlier this Mont when West Point proposed a speaking appearance by Yevgeny Yevtushenko the prominent soviet poet. In both cases Bell said a formal invitation was never extended and thus it would be incorrect to suggest that invitations were  but there were some discussions he Din each Case before the matter was re viewed by the army he added. According to the spokesman. Penta gon regulations specify that soviet Citi Zens Are not invited or permitted Access to . Military installations without a policy review by the office of the Secre tary of defense in both cases the army decided not to Forward to the office of the Secretary he request from the military Academy at West Point he continual it is Nan four policy that we should not provide Access to military facilities los Oviet citizens in any greater degree than the soviets provide to , a Well known Cosmo naut a the russian space program a journeyed into space on five difference occasions most recently in 1985. Space Mission Accord with France signed Washington up the National aeronautics and space administration has signed an agreement with the French space Agency calling for a joint satellite Mission in late 1991 to study the oceans on a global scale. The project called topex-pose1-Don, is design Nix to help oceanographers study Ocean circulation for three eare. Under terms of the agreement the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa win provide the Basic satellites Well As several instruments. The French Centre National d Etudes Spati ales will launch the satellite on an ariane rocket and also pro vide two instruments