European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                O Bill requires credit card interest rate disclosures Page 5 d new Iran terror strikes feared Page 9 d Bobby Wadkins takes Lead in pea championship Page 21 the is and stripes  unofficial pujlic1tion for vol. 16, no. 112 saturday augusts 1337 mfg fat Cal demos file suit on Gulf escort Navy danger pay proposed Washington a president Reagan s persian Gulf policy came under fire thursday on Capitol Hill As Marc than 100 legislators said they would Hie suit to invoke he War Powers act the 1973 Law that limits the president s ability to Send troops to situations of Immi nent danger. The announcement came As a pair of democratic controlled committees in the House heard testimony on two persian Gulf a called Bills opposed by the Reagan administration. One would provide Dan Ger pay of Al 10 a month for . Service men in the Gulf and the other would halt the re flagging of kuwaiti Oil tankers. Reagan and the democratic con trolled Congress began battling in May about the administration s plan to a Flag 11 kuwaiti Oil tankers and protect them with Navy warships. On May 17, 37 . Seamen were kilted by an iraqi missile attack on the frigate Stark. But Congress has been unable to agree on action thai would Block Reagan s plan and thursday s announced moves were the latest and last attempt before Congress adjourns for its August recess. The persian Gulf plan has been sharply criticized by legislators who fear the United states will be brought into the Iran Iraq War because Kuwait has aided Iraq. The War Powers suit was pushed by rep. Mike Lowry d-wash., chairman of the House study group who said the suit would be filed Friday in . District court in Washington by 114 members of both the House and Senate. This is exactly the sort of a situation the War Powers act was designed to Deal with Lowry told a news conference. The War Powers act was enacted in 1973 during the waning Days of the Viet Nam War. It says a president can Only Send troops 10 areas of imminent Dan Ger for 60 Days unless Congress specifically approves the deployment. The administration has argued thai the War Powers act does not apply to the current Gulf deployment of . Ships because the United Stales is officially Neutral in the Iran Iraq War. Later thursday White House spokes see demos on Page 28 head Over heels in flight Elds aerobatic team Slot Pilot Al Hauff is i but fully in cd Nurul which is More than said for photographer Keith Andersan who Rittz he struggled to control Hii stomach while nuking the shot below is the team s right Wing dying Over Kamloops Lake b.c., Canada. The pilots flying Pitts s-2b&, Are part of four member Tram performing at an Al Shoh. Iran extends martyrdom1 naval exercise Manama Bahrain a three kuwaiti tankers waited outside the persian Gulf for new flags and . Navy escorts and Iran extended Ili martyrdom naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz through Fri Day . Officials would not say when the tankers would be registered As . Vessels and Given american flags so the Navy can escort them in the Gulf where Iran and Iraq have been at War since september 1980. Shipping sources in the area had predicted Friday at the earliest with the next Convoy leaving for Kuwait in a few Days. An executive based in Kuwait said the program was proceeding full  he denied a London newspaper Repon thai Iran and Kuwait were negotiating a Deal by which Iran would not attack kuwaiti ships if the emirate suspended the plan to put ii of its 21 Ankers under . Registration. Kuwait also Charters tankers flying the soviet and British flags. Cmdr. Glenn mover executive officer of the coast guard Marine inspection office said thursday in new York we arc waiting for word from Washington with regards to the actual effective Date. So As of now. The three tankers have not been  rear adm. Harold j. Bernsen has said Only that the next Convoy will leave within a month. He commands the . Navy Middle East Force during the first Convoy to Kuwait in july the supertanker Bridgton was damaged by a mine believed planted by Iran. . Warships took the companion vessel Gas Prince  through the Gulf earlier this week and it now is headed for Japan with a cargo of liquefied Petroleum Gas. Yellow dust heat plague . Warships in Gulf by Richard pole aboard the Fox in the Gulf a la. Cmdr. Charlie Hamilton has his own definition of the great  it s the Yellowish Brown dust blown across the persian Gulf. I just borrowed it Hamilton said of the term used by iranian leaders to describe the United Stales. "1 think in  Hamilton s great satan is raised by winds in tin arabian a Csc South of he Gulf and blown Sica Dily across the water where it finer into air vents and other cracks and crevices of . Warships on patrol. As executive officer of this guided missile Cruiser. Hamilton is responsible for keeping the ship its communications gear and us weaponry in lop working condition. Officers say the dust a clog electronics gear and paralyse computer if not constantly cleaned out. Other than the threat of being attacked by ran the dust and Energy sapping heal and humidity Are the main enemies of the nine ships assigned la the . Navy s Middle East Force. Cape. William Mathis. Com pundit of the to Calls the Gulf a Lake in a  temperatures this Lime of Jear new in some Djus to above 120 degrees f on a ship s upper deck and to almost unbearable Levels Bytow where the crewmen known As Hole Snipes keep the boilers and engines operating. It s hoi out Here and it s Tough on Itic sailors did Mathis. As he scanned the Placid looking Waters where the combination of dust heal and condensation Cre ates a deceptive hut seemingly permanent Haze culling Viii Biliie to a few Miles. Mathis noted thai ships Crews Tonnu i mics remain at Ballac  for hours Al n Lime is the ships move through Waters where the in Brut of iranian attack is considered greatest. Heal stress under such circumstances becomes a boo dust on Pago 28