European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d military stressing the value of values Page 9 q Mol Tor s hitting Streak ends at 39 games sports Page 17 d Bucky Fox examines Safe football stripes Magazine Utko Ueo unofficial Puiri cation f0 thu Dmeo Foickel vol.46. No. 132 Friday August 28. 1987 ii few d 8693 a thu a Pentagon oks danger pay for duty in persian Gulf area by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon wednesday appeared to have ended a political storm by granting imminent danger pay to about 10,000 service members in and around the persian Gulf. The action should nol cause implementation of the War Powers act which would give Congress Power 1o end the . Naval presence in the War torn Gulf or. David Armor the Pentagon s acting manpower chief said at a press briefing. Armor did no acknowledge the intense pressure Congress has applied for granting service members in the Gulf the additional $110 per month Pur review of the situation in the arabian Gulf area indicates that the special pay is warranted on the basis of k or arise actions and other conditions he said. Personnel from All service branches the wide majority of them sailors on ships in the Gulf will qualify for the payment for As Long As the Pentagon determines they Are Inan area of imminent danger. That area now includes the entire persian Gulf plus the countries of Bahrain and Kuwait the Strail of Hormuz and the Northwest tip of the Gulf of Oman oils id the , who was criticized during recent congressional hearings for the Pentagon s failure to Grant Dan Ger pay in the Gulf said defense officials have never opposed offering the Benefit for the area. He said they simply had to follow the rules and wait for a request to come m from a local commander. The request for danger pay in the persian Gulf area see Gulf on Page 24 Rainy Day in pans spirit Tilton hold umbrella to Najr France s   the to in Job thums Claca from the relent Day s 3-84-Inch downpour bronc a ten leu Tea to they View the Eiffel Tower Tury old record in the capital. Ermany willing to crap missiles. Soviets a Bonn not in Viellor Helmut Kohl said wednesday Thrif the United states and the soviet up agree to scrap their medium Range my Shorter Range nuclear missiles Germa will get rid of its Pershing a missiles. The unexpected statement conference by Kohl who  vacation on monday addressed an i that had become a major slurp by Block at the Geneva arms negotiations and a divisive political Issue in Bonn. When Kohl s government belatedly endorsed soviet american negotiations j toward a pact on medium Range three months ago the Chancellor Ulaler that it not include the 72 per a missiles that Are owned by but whose nuclear warheads me con trolled by the United states. The soviet Union. How to declared that the warheads had loaf covered in the pact and the Issue pfc Llyd into an1 if hour obstacle to Angr Cement. Kohl insisted a cow a that the mis Siles could never covered by the talks in Switzerland whih involve Only soviet and american to Pons and he accused the soviet Side of a pm the Issue to raise an artificial bards at the arms negotiations. But Ihen talks were at a decisive stage Hofard adding i want to Hel the Arny ican president to successfully Conlu the Geneva arms  iffy be two superpowers reach an a Griemel on dismantling All medium Raflee and Shorter Range missiles and Afler the Accord is  put into effect Kohl said in to Lucase i can de Clare today that wimme final dismantling of All . Jyh soviet medium Range missiles to Pershing Las will be nol   in Moscow be soviet Union reacted guardedly a Kohl $ statement stressing that he cd set preconditions for the missiles. But Western dip. Moscow suggested that the Jin might have Lime Choice but to ome Kohl s proposal soviet american talks on medium is Are Only one of a series of arms negotiations Between the Superb Are also talks on strategic weapons avd anti missile defences and on conc Nikon arms in Europe. Those focus ing on inner Mclatc Range forces however have made thelast Progress. The United Tes and the soviet Union have agr Coita principle to the so called double Zero pfc to rid Europe of All missiles with ranks from 300 to 3.000 Miles but Many ties remain to be resolved including them tails of How to carry out and verify a Parthe superpowers report cafe remain far apart on strategic arms and frn Sive anti missile systems. Kohl said tie had been in very Liten Sivc consultations with our Amer in friends in the last is  he Saidl had not talked to Reagan but he twit made the Point that he wanted to help him saying i want the incumbent president to sign an Accord this  historic agreement near Reagan says los Angeles not president Reagan citing Chancellor Helmut Kohl s decision wednesday to Dis Mantle 72 Pershing 1a missiles in West Germany predicted that we can wrap up an agreement on intermediate Range nuclear missiles quickly we Are near a historic agreement he said. But even As Reagan and other senior officials expressed cautious optimism that an arms control agreement with the soviet Union is near the president challenged the soviet leadership to publish its military budget publicize the size and nature of its armed forces and open for debate in your supreme soviet the big issues of military policy and  i say to the soviet leadership it is Lime to show some glasnost in your military affairs " Reagan said addressing the town Hall of California a speakers forum in los Angeles. His talk was transmit try by satellite for simultaneous broadcast to the soviet american meeting in Chautauqua. . Although Reagan s speech contained other barbs he accused soviet forces of indiscriminate bombing and civilian massacre in Afghanistan for example by and Large his language was More restrained than it see Reagan on Page 24