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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday april a 1987 news updates shark attack port Arkansas Texas a friends of a girl recovering from a shark attack have marked fund to help defray her medical c031j. The fund established at Lake Buchanan stale Bank at Buchan Andam. Will Aid april Dawn Vogli no 16, of Kingsland school offi Cial , described As an a and b student at Llano High school was in cheat deep water at an isolated Beach near Mustang is land when the shark attacked. Her father. Robert Vogl Irto pounded atthe shark and carried his daughter ashore Andre Landry a fish behaviour expert from tews am univer pity at Galveston said there have been 13 to 15 documented shark attacks along the Texas coast with in the past 100 years. Fire toll increases card Elf no a a 15-Monllt-old boy has died making him the eighth victim of a Row House fire Alberto Acry Cdo whose Mother 3-year-old sister and 4-year-old brother were among those killed i monday s fire died tuesday from smoke inhalation according to Shirley Bonnem vice president of children s Hospital of Phila Delphia. Investigators Are trying o deter mine the cause of the fire which also killed a Young woman he two Young children and a Young Man. Temperatures european weather tout Fino. Louky far for or it  Tan Ian unum. I ski my. A afro twin Szulim. I 4ini 4pm 4art pm 50 77 copy Hanifl. M 34 a 11 " Bow non. I b m in Ilia m do ii re we inv so. Trust much � � oho. A. To Roth. A it 0 u we Muiir. R -�5ype4w by i mhk4m4 pm few a Henty Andy. Kwiw Tolj Rudyj Cloudy Mirzl s wife 91 14 Wil � plan to adopt 2-year budgets for Dod proving hard to enact by Chuck  Bureau Washington lawmakers who approved a measure last year Catling for two year Pentagon budget Are finding thai putting the concept into effect is tougher than they  members of the committee that Deal with the military budget Are recep Tive to the idea. But others including some member of the House a Propri ions committee Are against it Accord ing to Capitol Hill staffers. Pentagon officials fully support two year budgets claiming thai greater Stabil Ity in military spending win Cut costs by  weapons procurement More efficient. The Pentagon sent Complete budget for fiscal 1988 and 1989 to Congress in february calling for 3 percent spending increases each year plus adjustments for inflation. Money was sought for All de sense department programs for each of the two  when the House armed services committee approved its $306 billion version of the 1988 defense Sinh origin lion Hill april 9, Little work had been done on the Pentagon s fiscal 1989 re quests the committee marked those weapons programs that had stability and for which it fell it could look two years into Lite future stated the report accompanying the  committee acted on just $16 Bil lion of the $95 billion procurement re quest for 1989. In research and development action wan taken on Only $2.9billion of the $44.2 billion requested for 1989.committee chairman rep. Us Aspin do is said he Hopes to see the two Yea process expanded in the future. But he admitted. We will never authorize everything for two  the committee will want to inspect hot items such As the strategic de sense initiative on an annual basis Aspi said. Programs such As the stealth bomber arc too volatile to be authorized for two Yean at a Lime while others such As the bib bomber face political problems thai Wamul a Shorter Leash he  Lack of a two year appropriations Cycle Abo hampers the process he  armed services committees authorization Bills give the Pentagon Permis Sion to launch we programs and continue old ones the appropriation committees then decide on the level of funding for those  makes no sense to authorize for two years if we Don l appropriate for two Yean Aspin said. The Senate armed service Tod appropriations committees plan to producers Complete a two year budget As Possi ble staffers  a House armed services commit tee staff member said some House appropriations committee members Are Cool to the  d like to do More the staffer said. We re hoping that when the appropriations committees go into Confer ence in a few months to come up with one Bill the Senate Side can bring the House Side around. But frankly it does t look too Good for this  beef Giveaway offer nearing end for gis zwe1bruecken, Germany s4s last Call for free  current Cycle of the beef Giveaway which began april 1, will continue until the meal runs out said Denise gome spokeswoman for the commissaries the us contractor supplying the beef to the a. Department of agriculture which is supplying it to commissaries overseas has said it will have fulfilled its contract to deliver the 8 million pounds of Beefy the end of april she said. Commissary officials have determined based on past participation and shipping schedules that most commissaries will have distributed their supplies of beef by the third week of  customers picking up their ration of free beef during the current Cycle will have the april portion of their ration card annotated even if the pickup is in May. Customers who already have had the april portion of their ration cards annotated Are not eligible to receive another ration of free beef Gomes said. All civilian and military personnel and their family members who hold . Identification cards and 197 Green ration cards May receive the free meat. The beef is available chilled when possible. However due to processing and shortage requirements some beef is being fro zen in the  advise customers to Check with their local commissaries for approximate availability dates for beef. Spanish air controllers plan strikes during May Madrid Spain a Spain s federation of air traffic controllers said wednesday Mem Bers plan nine Days of 24-hour strikes starting May 4, to press he government to meet de mands for improved working conditions in a statement the federation said its Mem Bers would walk off the Job May 4-6, in 22-23 and 29-31 to Force the transport ministry to agree to reduce annual work hours per individual from t,500 to 1,200 hours and to improve health coverage benefits. Civil aviation department officials said the strikes Are expected to halt air traffic into and inside Spain on the strike Days and to result inthe cancellation of hundreds of flights by the state airlines Iberia and Avico As Well As by foreign airlines. In recent weeks Spain has been hit hard by series of Public transportation strikes by workers of Iberia Avico the National rail system Renee and the  ferry serv ice linking the Balearic and Canary islands tothe Spanish Mainland. Vet who got wish to see platoon Dies Terra Alta . A Vietnam Veteran who was granted a wish to relive his War experience by seeing the movie platoon from his deathbed has died of cancer. Roy Rhodes 38, who was decorate twice for bravery in Vietnam died at Home tuesday with family and friends Aphis bedside said his Mother Louise sharpies. He told friends in March that he wanted to relive the highlight of his life by seeing platoon a graphic por trayal of the Vietnam War. Rhodes bad been bedridden an breathing with the Aid of oxygen and was too weak logo to a movie theater. Group of friends contacted platoon director Oliver Stone who sent a video tape of the movie by express mail on March 6, family and friends Hel their last party for Rhodes watching the movie Al his bedside. He said that film was the closest thai any movie had Ever come to showing the Ruth that went on Over there Sharpless said tuesday. He was thankful to Oliver Stone for making the arrangements for him to see in. He said he was glad to have seen it Rhodes who was a specialist four inthe army s 101st airborne served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970 and was awarded the Bronze Star and the army commendation medal for  years ago he was diagnosed As having lung cancer and Hod a lung re moved. Last october Rhodes doctor told him he had developed a tumor inthe remaining lung. It s a genome Rembrandt reproduction Enid okla. A an etching it owner had hoped might be an original Rembrandt has turned out to be just an other pretty picture. Dale Sayre got the bad news tuesday from rotheby a a new York Art dealer that his copy of Rembrandt s Chris Healing the sick is Only a reproduction. I was real disappointed boy Sayr said. Sayre said a trip he look this week Lone York City which included an inter View on Abc s Good morning Ameri Ca and a visit to rotheby s for an examination of the etching was fun despite the sour ending. Until then Sayre had believed that the etching which he purchased at a dutch Flea Market some years ago for $25, Wasan original Rembrandt. He got that Idee after William Riggs director of the Goddard an museum at Ardmore said last week that the etching showed All the characteristics of an authentic work by the 17th-Century dutch master. Kings said the etching seemed original because of the amount of shrinkage and because of the Way the Ink and indentations Lay on the paper. After miking to Riggs Sayre a car Salesman thought the etching was Worth As much As 116,000."i m just pretty upset that he pumped my balloon that full Sayre  said tuesday that he regretted the matter but he defended misstatements. I did not authenticate it. I identified it Riggs said. I m really personally Dis appointed. The whole thing is t night Mare to   
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