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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d go s idea Worth $10,000 page3 d Slayer s musical reign in pain stripes Magazine d pistons Bucks win in Aba playoffs sports Page 17  unofficial publication tomju.%. Armed Force vol. 46. No 26 Friday May 15, 1987 of a if uhf d 8693 a Navy Benefit plan endorsed William j. Batman washing oat in favor of increasing Navy bal. Better allowances for  on sea  Senate Bill also suggests restructuring sea salaries and enhancing pay for submarine duty. The Arock services committee last week a Pentagon request to allow sailors in Are married to each other to cont allowance when both Are under the cur Ramg Otcie couples Are treated housing allowance purposes and Outing allowances while at sea. Lite panel went along with another Pentagon request to Stop denying variable housing allowances to Aceti sailors who pay child support when the service member. Is assigned adequate unaccompanied a have private 1 draw Basic quarters Lhand,ane.7. _ try loses the variable housing allowance web she goes off to sea. The House last month sidestepped the requested changes and instead ordered the defense department to study How housing allowances can be fairly deter mined. The Senate panel said it intends to ask. The general Reagan closely monitored Contra Effort panel told Washington not Robert c. Mcfarlane president Reagan s former National Security adviser testified wednesday that he had briefed Reagan frequently on what his staff was doing to help the con tra rebels in Nicaragua. Mcfarlane said Many of his conversations with the president occurred when . Intelligence agencies were prohibited from giving any assistance to the con Trao. He said he considered Many of the stairs activities to be violations  to told the congressional Commil Iees investigating the ban Contra affair that the president had a far More Liberal interpretation of that than i  perhaps the Central question of the investigation is what be president knew about the actions of his  i Chi Ive answer May not come for weeks certainly not before it col Oliver l. North and rear  m. Poindexter testify. But Mcfarlane s testimony wednesday was the first direct evidence that Reagan was told what staffers were doing to help i the contras. Mcfarlane said he ipod Reagan about the activities dozens of limes but he added that the president never supported activities that were against the Law. Mcfarlane who left govern ment service in december 1985, said nothing to dispute i in presi Dent s position that he did not know proceeds from the Sale of arms to Iran were being diverted to the contras. Mcfarlane repealed wednesday that he did not learn of the diversion of funds unlit May 1936, when North told him of it after their secret trip to Iran. Mcfarlane said wednesday that he had not informed Reagan of what North told him. At the White House wednesday Reagan reacting to Mcfarlane s testimony on tuesday acknowledged that when he met with King fahd of saudi Arabia m 1983, the two of them discussed saudi Arabia s Aid to the contras. But Reagan said the King brought it up. The King told me tie was doing it and that he was going to increase the Aid Reagan told reporters at a White House photo session. He said i expressed pleasure that the King was doubling his Aid to j2 million a month. During 19s5 the United states was prohibited from aiding the contras directly or indirectly and the White House has insisted that the saudi Aid was voluntary and did not result from a solicitation. Mcfarlane s disclosures about How often he briefed the president came in pieces. Several committee Mem Bers had to ask questions before the picture became Clear. Some questions remained unanswered. Several legislators including sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii and rep. Edward p. Boland d-mass., Jed Mcfarlane to say he had told the president what North was doing. But neither they nor their colleague a suced the witness precisely what the president had been told. Agency urges air traffic freeze new York not the National transports lion safety Board saying there had been an apparent erosion of safety that could Worsen with summer travel wednesday urged immediate Steps to freeze the amount of air traffic in Peak hours through critical lectors of airspace. The safety Board formally recommended that the Federal aviation administration accomplish this by reducing lit maximum number of Rush hour flights at 22 major airports and by limiting acceptance of All requests to Fly through heavily burdened areas Between cities. Airports that would come under the suggested flight curbs would be la Guardia and Kennedy new Yor Newark Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas fort Worth Denver Detroit fort Lauderdale hous ton intercontinental Kansas City Las vegas. Los an Geles Miami Minneapolis St. Paul Pittsburgh Phila Delphia is Louis san Francisco and Washington National. The Board also called for avoiding any further relaxation of rules for front to Back separation of planes on the same air route analysing the effect of the recent reduction of spacing rules on the workload of control lers and publicizing a list of critical airspace sectors so private and military planes could voluntarily avoid them during Peak traffic periods Faa officials said that some of the safety Board recommendations paralleled initiatives already taken by their Agency and that the others would be Given careful study. The aviation administration which is port of the transportation department is not bound to act on recommendations by the safely Board an Independent government Agency. The Faa announced that it would begin regular use next sunday of a new computerized system thai enables air traffic managers at the Headquarters in Washington to display patterns of current air traffic from coast to coast. The safety Board recommendations came less than three weeks before the traditional buildup in summer air travel. It coincided with complaints from the Public about widespread flight delays and pressures from the airlines and others for the Faa to accommodate More nights. To compensation for serv mine what compensation changes i be needed. Both the Senate and House committees have recommended that sea pay by restructured so that service members will draw higher amounts for the second tour of sea duty than those paid for the first sea tour. 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