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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q army put Black Hawk flight under restriction,., Page 2 d travel on the cheap tips from a to  Magazine d today s Dollar buys 1.79 Marks. Rates Page 27 ripes  unofficial Putli Catich of Thi . Ahmed fun ii vol. 45. No. 360 wednesday april 15. 1987 08693 a six marines being returned from Vienna Washington a six Marine guards at the . Embassy in Vienna Austria Are being returned to the United states four of them for questioning in connection with a growing sex and spy scandal the Pentagon Laid tuesday. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman said the fifth Marine was being returned because of a violation of local Security regulations at the Vienna facility. The sixth Marine is returning because he has been called As a witness in the or curia investigation of sgt. Clayton j. Lonetree the guard whose arrest last december sparked the widening investigation. Sims in confirming reports from Vienna about the Transfer of guards said four of the men had previously served at embassies in Warsaw pact countries and would be questioned about possible violations of rules barring fraternization with foreign nationals. The spokesman declined to elaborate on the circumstances sur rounding the recall of the fifth Marine repeatedly saying Only that he had violated some local Security regulations that the violation was no serious and that it was unrelated to the probe of Lonetree. Simi refused to release the identities of any of the men stressed hat no one had yet been formally charged with wrongdoing and said that he could not discuss which embassies the men had serve Din before Vienna Lon Cree who has been formally accused of espionage was arrested in december at the embassy in Vienna. He had transferred to the austrian capital last fall after working in 1985 and 1986 As guard at the . Embassy in Moscow the Marine corps has formally accused Lonetree and a second Moscow guard Cpl. Arnold Bracy of allowing soviet agents inside the Moscow embassy building on repeated occasions Las year while the two were working late at night As guards. Lonetree also has been accused of breaching Security at the Vienna facility by providing floor plans and office assignments for the  declined to say whether any of the four marines returning from Vienna for questioning might have served with Lonc Trcic i Moscow. He said his information indicated Only that they had worked in Warsaw pact  acknowledged that those four however had been targeted for questioning As a result of the continuing investigation of Lonetree activities. Pentagon sources have said Lonetree and Bracy became involve sexually with soviet women in Moscow who in turn introduced them to soviet agents a third Moscow guard has been charged with improper fraternization with soviet women but he is not facing espionage  Marine corps also has arrested a fourth Man sgt John a see marines on Page 28 invitation to a Summit Appolo soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev holds a invitation just handed to him in Moscow by uj5, Secretary of state George Shutlz. The letter from president Reagan is a new request that Gorbachev travel to Washington for a Summit conference. Set Story on Page 28. Experts seek reason for radiation increase Bonn a the German government said tuesday it has asked the soviet Union about unusually High Levels of atmospheric radiation i Germany and in Sweden. Experts say the elevated readings might have been caused by a soviet nuclear Accident. German experts said the increased radioactivity probably came from a nuclear Power leak. But a swedish official said the radiation was More Likely the result of burning waste or the cleaning of a reactor in the soviet Union. In Moscow soviet foreign ministry spokes Man Gennady Gerasimov told reporters any in creased radiation did not originate in his  added that soviet radiation detectors showed nothing unusual. They re functioning Well and no discharges of see radiation on Page 28 Dod Money Bill faces Tough going Aspin says by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington while the House armed serv ices committee appears committed to a 3 percent pay raise for service members and civilians the commit tee s chairman this week said Only mythical num Bers crunching can make the $306 billion defense authorization Bill passed by his panel work. After Bis committee reduced president Reagan military spending request by s6 billion. Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin said in the committee report that it would be impossible to meet congressional budget figure and fashion a rational and reasonable defens budget the House budget Resolution Calls for cuts of $23billion in authorized spending and 116 billion in actual spending. Authorized spending is spent on Long rang projects Over several years while actual spending is Money to be spent in the budget year. That could be attained if Congress were to brutalize the personnel and operations and maintenance accounts but that makes for very foolish policy Aspin said. The alternative said Aspin. An open critic of con Gressional failures to trim the budget deficit will be to play the gome of smoke and  we will have Little Choice but to scrounge around for ways to make mythical changes in the budget Aspin said. He cited an example from 1986, when Congress shifted the military s pay Date from the last Day of the month to the ant Day of the next  moved the final payroll of the year into the next year and saved almost $3 billion on paper at least. This year Aspin s committee approved a 3 percent pay raise for military and civilian personnel effective Jan. I 1988. The president had asked for a a percent raise effective that Date. The House reduction of that request would save 1500 million while the Senate appears ready to try to save even More by calling for a pay hike of Only 2 percent. Aspin said that while across the Board culs in de sense spending would save More Money Congress consciously protects the personnel operations and maintenance accounts by taking deeper culs from items such As purchasing construction and research. However the committee did reject $290 million Indefenso department requests for various pay and benefits increases such As higher travel reimbursements see Money on Page 3 Cla Ifie Dao details on Page Iii of advertising insert  
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