European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. March 30.1997 Thatcher Tours monastery High Rise near Moscow Zagorsky . Up1 British prime minister Margaret Thatcher exchanged Summit try for sightseeing sunday on the eve of talks with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev touring an ancient orthodox monastery in the heartland or russian christianity and taking a close up look at a modern High Csc area near Moscow. Thatcher later attended a special performance of Tchaikovsky s Swan Lake Ballet in mos cow s Bolshoi theater As the guest of Gorbachev . Wearing Herb a Campaign smile and a soviet Type fur hat Thatcher Drew smiles applause and compliments As she tramped first through the layered Snow of the holy Trinity monastery at Zagorsky. 44 Miles Northwest of Moscow and then through the mud of a new High Rise com plex in the Northwestern suburbs of the capita. Two Days of formal talks with Gorbachev were to begin monday morning in the Kremlin. Iran Oil terminal raided by iraqi warplanes Nicosia Cyprus a iraqi Warp net ported by the official iraqi news Agency. The iraqi jets also attacked Iran s Imam has san Oil Field in the Vicinity of Gan Aveh and a big iranian gunboat spotted near the iranian coast the Agency quoted the communique As saying. They were the first iraqi air raids reported since last sunday and monday when Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal came under attack for the first Lime in several weeks. There was no immediate comment from Iran on the iraqi claims. A Anarch is the coastal terminal of a network of pipelines and the pumping station sending the Oil onto the Harg Island loading terminal 23 Miles offshore. . Reportedly admits spying against friends London a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger acknowledged during the trial Oran american traitor that Washington spies against Friendly countries including Israel South Africa and saudi Arabia a. British newspaper re ported sunday. The sunday times said Weinberger made the disclosure in a secret 41-Page affidavit he submitted during the trial in Washington of former . Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard. Pollard an american jew. Was convicted this month of Selling . Secrets to Israel. He was sentenced to life  newspaper said Weinberger suggested in the affidavit that Pollard had done immense damage to intelligence gathering in Friendly countries particularly to operations against South Africa which had been alerted by Israel. Three countries in particular Are singled out Israel itself saudi Arabia and South Afri Ca the newspaper said in its report from Washington. Japan from Page 1 other analytical functions at lightning Speed. Government officials were not available for com ment sunday. Hajime Tamura minister of International Trade and Industry on saturday said Japan would seek emergency negotiations with the United states to try to resolve the dispute in the two weeks before the duties take effect. Semiconductors Are tiny electrical circuits that Are the build ing blocks of most of today s electronic devices. Traffic moves into neb. By United press intent Loul a Spring blizzard moved East sunday after Paralez ing traffic in the Midwest. Plans were being made to Airlift feed to hungry livestock. The storm subsided in Kansas As it moved into East Ern Nebraska and Iowa sunday on a path cutting to Ward the Western great lakes the National weather service said about 300 stranded motorists spent the night at the Bingo truck Stop in Minden Iowa near the Nebraska Border after a Root of wind whipped Snow reduced visibility to Zero along interstate 80, roads were closed throughout much of Eastern Nebraska where up to 15 inches of Snow fell. Omaha buried beneath 13 inches of Snow set a record for heaviest snowfall so late in the season interstate so was closed through most of Nebraska and parts of highways 30,18,141 and 169 were closed in Iowa. In Kansas interstate 70 westbound from to Peka was also shut Down. Sunshine began to replace falling Snow in Kansas but High winds created problems with Drifting Snow. The Sun it shining the wind is blowing and we got drifts everywhere you look. They Range anywhere from 2 feet tall All the Way up to in fed said National guard sgt ten minion in Norton in Northwest Kansas. This is sunday. Cod s showing his sense of humor and he s testing ours she said. The National guard was waiting for the winds to subside before starting a helicopter Airlift of 1,500 Pound Bales of Hay to curving cattle in the Western part of the stale. We Hope to begin tomorrow said major Joy Cote. They la die without any  the guard also continued its sweeps of Snow covered roads in search of stranded motorists. They keep finding people Cole said. _ five National Juard armoires in Western Kansas put up More than 200 Snow stranded motorists overnight in Southwest Kansas much of Garden City and sur rounding Finney county was without electricity be cause Power lines and poles snapped from wind gusts in the 40 to 50 Mph Range guardsmen in a tracked vehicle left Garden City at 9 . Saturday for Holcomb 6 Miles to the West to deliver insulin to a woman. The trip took 12 hours. No kidding Schmaus said. The tracked vehicle got stuck and we had to Send another vehicle out to unstick it. You can t believe this  from Page 1 said it would Stop holding Public protests. We called off the strike against the government s pay policies because we be got to have National Unity at a time of crisis with Turkey said an official from the civil servants Union Addy. At one Point the government demanded a temporary shutdown of operations at an american military base new Athens citing a clause in the 1983 Grtxk-. Defense to coid that permits such action during National emergency. The Continental shelf dispute last brought Greece and Turkey to the Brink of War in aug. 1976 when Simsik a carried out Oil testing in International Waters. As a Radical opposition politician then Papandreou urged the conserva Tive government to Bink the  this time Papandreou blamed the United Stales and nato for encouraging Turkey to provoke Greece and he urged the turkish government to agree on asking the International court of Justice at the Hague to Settle the dispute. Although Turkey has rejected similar proposals in the past Ozal said saturday in an interview with the a in London that he might take the Continental shelf Issue Back to the Hague. Greece s claim hat each of its 2,000-Odd Aegean islands is entitled to ils own Continental shelf is sup ported by the 1982 International Law of the sea treaty which Turkey has t signed. Turkey says the Eastern greek islands belong to the Anatolian Continental shelf extending beneath the turkish Aegean coastline and wants Aegean seabed minerals to be shared on the equity principle. Dive from Page 1 location for dinner on weekends. Off base Leisure activities have also suffered. The us. Army element at shape offers Low Cost hours for in members. Last year there were waiting lists for every bus. Last month a ski trip to Germany was cancelled for Lack of participation. And regulatory complications make life difficult for soldiers and airmen in Belgium during a time of a dropping Dollar. Service members must pay a lax to watch television to own 8 car radio or own a second car. They receive no special Relief from value added taxes on goods Pur chased. Simply setting up a two car family with transportation can Cost 1350 in taxes. Belgian Utility Bills come every three months Mak ing Money management More difficult said Dee Thomas a financial Counselor with army Community services at shape and the drop of toe Dollar has intensified the problem. In january 1986, emergency Relief Loans totalled 53,320, said Bonnie Nelson an acs staff member. The loan total jumped to $14,802 in january 1987. End of year Utility Bills caused a special hardship. The Dollar also has taken a loll on activities geared toward americans but not related to the military. Pastor Ray Reynolds of the International Baptist Church has seen tithing from the congregation hold steady but he said operating expenses which Are paid in francs have jumped. 30 percent. Giving has maintained its level maybe even in creased a bit Reynolds said. That s the nature of the military Community they respond to a  americans make up 48 percent of the civilian Mili tary and family member population at shape and businesses Are feeling the effects of the tightened .pockclbooks. Mike Hopwood of travel car International the on base Auto dealer at shape said the Market for cars sold in francs has dried up. The audis vows and bows which Are sold in francs Are virtually finished he said. Business remains brisk in Dollar priced cars. Travel car sold about 180 can in 1986 and expects to hit 100 this year with about 80 percent of sales going to americans Hopwood said. The Nissan military sales Dealership off base also Sells in dollars. I feel bad that the Dollar is Down for the spending Power said Joe cof Lcy a Nissan Salesman. But it s made our cars More attractive. People Are being More careful because of the  . Facilities also have benefited from the Dollar s fall. Volume at the chevres commissary jumped 20 percent from last year manager Philip Claycomb said. That in crease has come with Little Rise Ini prices he said. Cafes Europe retail sales in Belgium Rose 23 per cent in fiscal 1986 Over fiscal 1985, said copt Marie Besich cafes Public affairs officer. Business also is brisk at the . Dining facility at shape. Soldiers and airmen gathered there for lunch offered differing appraisals of inc effects of the Dollar on their lives people arc doing the same things said air Force staf sgt. Mike Taylor. It s just costing More 1 but Jeannette Lawrence disagreed. Everyone has quit shopping on the Economy the air Force staff sergeant said. You have  and Lawrence has a Stem warning for service Mem ers with orders for Belgium. Don t come Here in debt she said. Get your Bills taken care  the drop of the Dollar clearly has pinched Pocky books and scaled Down the lifestyle americans enjoyed 18 months ago. But for old belgian hands gelling 38 francs for the Dollar is not so bad. Reynolds took Over the inter National Baptist Church in 1973 and remembers the Days in 1979 when a Dollar bought 26.9 francs. He sounds an Odd note of optimism during the current financial Situa Tion. I Tell my people hey it could get worse "