European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strobes d third Marine arrested to spy scandal,.,. Page 2 o americans Are celebrating National Library week. Page 3 d Spring has sprung in Europe stripes Magazine tripes author Iitto unofficial put Catnott for to i , Ahmed Foitl vol 45.no,a54 thursday. April 9, 1987 a d 8693 a Dollar has declined enough German banking chief says Washington Dpi the chief or Germany s Central Bank said he opposes further devaluation or the Dollar against his nation s currency while hat is finance minister said that country wants a bigger tote in shaping the world Economy. Bundesbank president Karl Otto Prochl said tuesday he believes the Dol lar1 40 percent drop in value Over the last two years against he japanese yen and the German Mark is All that was needed in order to Correct currency Exchange problems with those coun tries. Sales of German Marks to . Personnel will be at the Rale of 1.82 thurs Day based on a midday Price fixing and allowance for Standard handling  other conversion rates on Page 23. He said the Dollar has enjoyed a soft Landing so far but he warned that the Landing still can end with a crash if . Officials push Loo hard and keep lowering the Greenback s value As a Way to Spur interest in american goods. As a general Rule it would be an extremely sky policy to aim at a decline in the . Exchange rate to help the Trade balance Prochl told about 275 listeners in a speech sponsored by Johns Hopkins University s american Institute for contemporary German studies. Poehl in Washington for this Weed s meetings of the International monetary fund and the world Bank was to take part in discussions wednesday involving the world s leading industrialized nations. The United slates persuaded the other leading industrialized countries in sep tember 1985 to work together in devaluing the Dollar. Washington wanted a see Dollar on Page 24 soviets confirm identity of go who defected Moscow up the soviet Union wednesday confirmed the american Soldier Given Asylum last week was pvt. 2 Wade e. Roberts an army deserter who arrived complaining of sadistic treatment by a sergeant. Although the Story from the Tass news Agency titled i was Given a Chance to be a Man said his defection was mainly a political act because of his dislike of american values in said a master sol. Taylor drove Roberts to defect. His sergeant was a Man who flouted human dignity and human rights. Men arc turned into robots the Agency said. Maj Christopher i Alico a spokesman for v corps in Frankfurt told the stars and stripes the command had no comment on the Tass report the supreme soviet the nominal parliament Gav Asylum to Roberts and his German Girlfriend. Petra Neumann last week saying he had Lea political Perse cution. The foreign ministry first reported the couple was married. Our decision is not treason Roberts said. "1 love my countrymen. But people must realize All the horror of social injustice and of crying violations of human rights in which my country is stuck Tass said Roberts was unable to find work in the two years after he finished school could not afford higher education and saw crowds of depressed people who did not have either food or  Roberts had no Choice but to join the army where he went through arbitrary actions in their most de based forms Tass said. Commanders there get sadistic satisfaction from insults ill treatment and physical  soldiers Are taught to Hale other countries and races especially the soviet Union Tass quoted Wade As Tell ing soviet correspondents. The associated press reported Tass said it inter viewed Roberts at a Moscow hotel. It did not identify the hotel or say when the interview look place. The Agency wednesday distributed several photographs of Roberts and Neumann on Moscow s red Square and at the hotel. Tass said the couple was preparing to depart for Ashkhabad the capital of soviet turkmen a it did not say whether they planned to reside then. I n. 2 Vuic e. Huberts and his a Crumn Girlfriend a Lra Neumann were Phon a Rapheil in Moscow s red Square. Deduction for new retirement program some civilians to see bite out of paychecks by Brenda Hosier staff writer about 13,000 civilians working for the army in Europe will receive $40 to $120 leu in their paychecks Keiit week As the civil service system begins collecting mandatory contributions for its new retirement pro Gram. About 2,000 air Force Cilip Luces in the family member hire category Alio Are Aflee Ivd by the new system and will Sec smaller paychecks an air Force spokesman said. The Navy could not immediately say How Many of i employers would be enrolled in the in sick. The majority of workers All idled ire family Mem Bers serving in civil service positions and overseas limited appointees who Are mostly tourism hires and Fornitt military personnel. The Syi ctn covers two rather Large groups of Jwuc ple who have never been covered by a retirement plan before said Etin Ibeth Reid a civil in pen Ontic a management specialist for inc army in Europe. A till army and air l orc civilian personnel Ollu gals Are ret Lewing employee files to and additional workers see civilians on Pago 24