European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d property weight limits for gis under further study Page 2 q remembering the spirit of St Louis. Page 6, Magazine d today s Dollar buys 1.77 Marks rates Page 27 the of is and a Pes hut Honiley unofficial Public tin for the . Ahmed fohce1 vol. 46, no 33 wednesday May 20, 1987 q 8693 a Stork s death toll now at 37 Reagan orders . A ors to defend Yourse ves  writer Wiesbaden Pentagon officials tuesday raise to 37 the number of tailors kilted in sunday s iraqi missile attack on the . Navy frigate Stark. President Reagan said monday that the attack on the Stark must never be repeated and that from now on the order for . Sailors in the persian Gulf will be defend yourselves the associated press re ported. Reagan in a High school commencement address delivered in Chattanooga tenn., said american sail ors Are putting their lives on the Tine in the Gulf. The have a right to protect  see reined Sto ,pie4,5uid28. This tragedy must never be repeated the presi Dent said. Our ships Are deployed in the Gulf in order to protect . Interests and maintain free Access and maintain Freedom of navigation and Access to the area s Oil supplies. It is a vital Mission but our ships need to protect themselves and they  from now on he said if aircraft approach any of our ships in a Way that appears hostile there is on order of Battle. Defend yourselves. Defend american  the a said two sailors seriously injured in the attack Are in stable condition at the Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center with Burns Over 40 percent of their bodies a Hospital spokesman said. They were flown tothe Hospital Early tuesday morning. They have weathered the first 24 hours of their condition very very Well or. Col Robert a. Oil More director of Hospital services at Wiesbaden said tuesday. Navy officials in the Pentagon said that As of tues Day afternoon there were 22 sailors confirmed dead and 15 missing and presumed dead. Gilmore speaking to reporters at Lindsey As near the Wiesbaden Hospital identified the two Crew Mem Bers As Petty officer 3.c. Lawrence m. Bar Ford and Petsy officer 3.c. James Wheeler Bareford 23, is from Fredricksburg va., an Wheeler 28, is from Elpaso Texas Pentagon officials said. To wanly five members of the flying ambulance surgical trauma team from Wiesbaden and two surgeons from the army regional medical Center in Frankfurt see toll on Page 28 daredevil s Freedom glider a Polk nun in hading Germany inspects b homemade motorized Imog glider that brought a daring Czecho slovak nun across the Border to free Dom monday night. The Pilot 39 ear old Engineer who was not named said two communist military jets swooped toward him but were unable id intercept the Craft before it hopped into Bavaria. See Story on Page 3. Military s raise in pay Likely to be limited to 3% Washington is it s Nowal most certain that a pay raise for service members will be limited to 3 percent effective Jan. I i9ss. On monday the House during debate on the fiscal 1988 defense authorization Bill voted to push Forward the effective Date of the pay raise from april i to Jan. I. The House armed services commit tee in drafting the Bill had set the later Date to save about s500 million in the defense budget. The full House was Able to move that up by three months after stripping the same amount of Money from the Pentagon s funding request for the strategic defense initiative. The Senate armed services commit tee in its version of the Bill recommended a 4 percent raise effective Jan. I but most Senate committee staffer said it s Likely thai will be lowered to 3 percent when Senate and House conferees meet to Iron out differences in the two Bilts i m not Loo sure we can sustain the higher figure said a Senate committee staffer. The pay raise is always a Nib profile target for budget  panel oks Bill allowing gis to file malpractice lawsuits by Chuck v1nchwashington Bureau Washington the House Judic iary committee approved legislation monday to allow Active duty personnel to sue the government for peacetime medical malpractice at military health care facilities the Bill now goes to the House floor for a vote according to a committee staffer. Approval by the House is Al most a foregone conclusion she said since a similar measure passed the House last year by a vote of 317-90. But the Bijj faces rougher going in the Senate. Sen. James Sasser d-tcnn., introduced the same legislation in january but the Senate parliamentarian inadvertently referred he Bill to the armed serv ices committee rather than the Judic iary committee a spokesman for Sasser said the sen ate armed services committee docs not look favourably on the Bill. But we have a few cards to play he said. There arc ways 10 cd i them to hold hearings on it. We re going to do everything we can to see panel on Page 28 Owen fes of being courier Between North contras Washington a Robert w. Owen depicting life As middleman in the Iran Contra affair tuesday testified about picking up envelopes stuffed with Cash attempting to arrange secret air drops of weapons to nicaraguan rebel Sand joking with it. Col. Oliver l. North about going to jail if discovered. On a couple of occasions we would laugh about it and joke Owen said when asked if there was any discussion about whether he might go to jail for his role in a secret Supply operation for the contras at a time when . Aid was banned. Owen recalled thai North who was an aide on inc National Security Council said on several occasions he would Al ways be the fall Guy if the secret arms Supply Effon became publicly known. Testifying under oath with limited in Sib courier on Page 28