European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q travellers my Tab orb Exchange rate lose�,.,.Page 2 d How to a Tex Relief at american bazaars Page 13 d today s Dollar Ballf buys 1.82 mar1cs.rates Page 27 aut hominid . 45. No. 35s Friday april 10. 19b7 Foit of , to roue i say missions . Accused of creating intolerable conditions9 Hep Olympy Snower male and Din Lei Mica a Fla discuss embassy Security. Lawmakers criticize Security complacency Moscow a foreign ministry officials thursday charged that . Agents bugged soviet diplomatic mis Sions and housing in the United states creating intolerable conditions far so Viets. The officials displayed items that looked like pencils and hair brushes and said they were listening devices planted on soviet property in me United states. They said the devices were found recently but did not say when. The soviets called a news conference in response to . Allegations that soviet agents penetrated the . Embassy i Moscow and compromised Security  soviet Union has denied the allegations maintaining the United slates is trying to Poison the atmosphere for next week s visit by Secretary of state George  . Campaign plays into the hand of the extreme right which is opposed to Normal relations with the soviet Union foreign ministry spokesman Boris Frady Shiv said. By Adushev said the bugs planted by american agents created intolerable conditions for work and life of soviet sin the United states. The soviet people act angered and indignant about the bugging he said . Mir skin a representative of the foreign ministry s Security service said bugs had been found in the soviet embassy in Washington Hie adjoining residential Complex the soviet Mission lathe United nations in new York and the consulate in san  said the state of the Art see bugged on Page 28 Washington a two , just Back from Moscow thursday blamed the soviets apparent penetration of both the old and new . Embassies there on a lax american attitude and complacency toward  asked on the Abc to today show who was to blame for the Security breaches rep. Olympia Snowe of Maine the senior Republican on the House foreign affairs International operations subcommittee said it s Clear to me that everybody bears a substantial part of the blame As to what look  be and panel chairman rep. Daniel Mica a Fla returned wednesday from a three Day inspection of the current embassy in Moscow and the new $191 Mil lion diplomatic Complex next door. It appears to us based on our inter views again that there was an erosion of Security ethic and Standard procedure Sand As a result 1 think created a very lax Altitude and complacency toward Security which resulted in one of the most tragic and unfortunate events in the his tory of . Embassies Snowe said. Mica interviewed with Snowe. Dis counted a report in thursday s editions of the Washington Post that the United slates tried unsuccessfully in 1979 to implant bugging devices in apartment buildings at the new soviet embassy Complex in  report quoted John Carl wac cake or who helped design the Complex As say ing the soviets discovered the devices in the Walls and took Steps to remove them Billing complaints reported on credit card phone firm  editor International Tel charge a private company promising ". Rales for credit card phone Calls from German to the United states is drawing con Sumer  Dallas based firm reached by dealing 0130-2928 from a German or West Berlin phone awakened a great Deal of interest when an article about its service appeared in the january edition of the army s eur army mag Azine. Customers Are complaining about receiving Bills that Are higher iban anticipated getting different answers to questions about rates and discovering the Billing method is not always the same. Lynda Bridges financial and con Sumer affairs officer of the Heidelberg army Community service office i warning people about using the serv  far neither the Legal assistance office for the army nor the air Force in Europe has received complaints about the company but cant. Maria Fernandez of the Usa eur Legal assistance office recommends  eur army article said that Rales would be based on eastbound Usa-lox3ermany Dollar based Tariff plus a 12,50 operator assistance charge see 8ilung on Page 3 dizzy Buck jolts lifestyle of americans in Holland or Nimitr nor tire or r of Uli Iliili us Mil byjoe Mapother Bremer Haven Bureau blues Singer . King Sang about a broken relation ship in his classic the thrill is gone but for the 7,000 american military person incl civilians and their families a s a Dol of Nell Rland i he tune goes More like the frill is  the sledgehammer effect of wildly fluctuating Exchange rates has been blunted by increases incest of living allowances for the military and Post allowances paid to civilian employees according to persons interviewed i North Central and Southern hol land extra Cash and availability of military Exchange facilities mean families Are making ends meet those interviewed said. But they said growing Reliance on the Dollar Economy within the military system has meant lifestyle changes and occasional rude financial  As Utility and Telephone Bills. Far example there Are Only two full size commissaries in the Netherlands. An air Force commissary serves Holland s largest . Military Community ats Oesterberg a 25 mites from Amsterdam. An army facility at Schinnen is in the far Southern Comer of Holland near the Border with Belgium and Germany. To reach these facilities Many persons stationed i Holland face round trip drives or several hours. De pending on the size of the family Reliance on Dollar shopping facilities can mean several commissary trips a  Price comparison of selected items Between the Soest Erbig commissary and nearby dutch stores explains Why the trips Are made. One Pound of lean ground beef costs to cents in the commissary. A Pound of lean ground beef in a local meat Market costs 7.50 guilders or using 2.07 As a Exchange rate $3,62. A half gallon of milk in the commissary costs $1.04. Two liners of milk in a dutch supermarket Cost 2.54 guilders or st.23. The Price of tomatoes was about equal 98 cents per Pound in the commissary and 2 guilders per Pound in the dutch  Utility costs arc paid by estimated Bills based on the Utility costs from the previous year. The meters read once at year s end and Money is either re funded or additional payment is  a newly arrived american family used to the stateside Norm in heating their House and not versed inthe tricks of saying on neat in older. Dutch housing the year end Bill can Hurt. One Soldier after 1mmeter was read faced an additional charge of 2,000 guilders or nearly $ 1,000.in february 1985, he would have had to Shell out Only $509.there ate other reasons Why americans in Holland Are singing the  dizzying upward spiral of the Dollar against the Guilder and other european currencies in the Early pan of this decade peaked in 1985, the Dollar topped  at 3.93 guilders in february of that year according to quarterly report of the Bank of the Netherlands. The Low posting that year was in december $ i equaled2.77 dutch guilders. At present the Exchange rate is hovering around the2-Buiidsr level. I knew the Dollar was Down but 1 did t figure i continued on Page 3