European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 news update the stars and stripes wednesday october 28,1987 planes for Egypt Cairo Egypt a Egypt on monday look delivery of the Sec Ond Batch of radar surveillance planes completing its Purchase of five of the airborne warning system. The slate run Middle East news Agency said three e-2c Hawkeye Early waging planes were flown in to an unspecified air base by egyptian pilots. Temperatures . Bat Tnora Man Fol Man vhf Tun Dodhiya Bourn by flt Chi Fla was Len Eva. Ottea Oenema drab Floc no Dayton nor Elm in Mem Saumil flags tilt fix it Nohl Houston october 26 h la s3 � Jinn 71 14d 25 44 ? � 90 59 h 30 a h so 32 s a of Oham. So 71 ,011 re pc mon01t,�l, i met if it 5j s Omaha my a " Ujj Ujj Pond Toft. 73 bin a i f by s � b4bimi9n � Mutt o2 33 do Flag a to by Sloan Lou Ujj w eandngos3 try. Erm d h 35n 3 m 41 h 77 51 41 u a 39 89 75 05 50 2 41 71 St 71 it . Sunj Vinnon Sui full Tampa is pm tag Zopata Turon we a Robt bang european weather Europe weather i in a in. A Tai str Wilum h-52. _ _ a rth Dif 5 0. Ichih the air 7 it our Tartu dung n 4am 4pm m w45 by of Wiki w 7 London a 63 Matt tire. I 30 u Munirji d41 m Pajni. P i m Hurt. R t. P 43 4& h u m 73 l i 40 21tf 61 morlij4 4s Moscow 49 37 Obj. Or 4fl on a Zirami. F Al k 1 . D 94 41 aicti4 pm f-1r.etfloudr. Mai. Airman gets 9 months for writing bad checks Raf Lakenheath. England Sas an airman has been sentenced to nine month in jail discharged from the serv ice and reduced to a i for writing bad checks a base spokesman said tuesday. Senior airman Joseph l Thurmond ii of the 48lh transportation so pleaded guilty to writing $2,500 in checks on the closed account of his former Roommate said sgt Dave Malakoff. Thurmond a 27-year-old material control cleric used the checks his Roommate had inadvertently left behind after being reassigned. Thurmond from Detroit elected to be tried by a judge alone in general court mar tial. Malakoff said Thurmond was sentenced monday and is serving his sentence at the base s conf eminent facility. Bill targets overseas Banks serving military installations by Willuam j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington an Ohio con Gressman has pushed legislation through the House preventing the government from covering bad checks and debts at overseas Banks serving military installations. The Bill by rep. John Kasitch. A Ohio also would prevent military banking con tract Tram offering huge Severance pay agreements for employees. A recent Case involving 141 japanese employees Laid off from the National Bank of fort Sam Houston Cost the government $200,000 per employee. What we also want and were not Able to write in this legislation but As we move through the process we Hope Weill we want the armed Force to aggressively pursue these servicemen who do Noi want to live up to their financial responsibility Kris ice said before the House passed his Bill. What Kaska s Bill would do is end he practice of allowing . Service members to receive loan and not pay in Back or to Cash a bad Check and let the taxpayers pick it up he said. We think he Burden ought to be on the financial institution to make sure hat these Loans Are repaid and that the checks that Are cashed arc properly rep. Dan Daniel d-va., chairman of the House armed services readiness sub committee said that under the current overseas banking contracts the taxpayer assumes All inc risk for bad debt expenses and the Bank. Has no incentive to curtail these the Senate has not begun studying Kasich s Bill although the congressmen s aide say they Are looking for allies in the Senate who can help expedite the Issue Kasib Bill stemmed from reve lations to the readiness subcommittee this summer that the defense depart ment had reimbursed a massive payoff to Laid Oft japanese employees of a . Overseas Bank. The banking contracts let Banks off the Hook when they can t col Lect bad Dubu. The provisions require the govern Mentlo cover any or checks As Well As cover reasonable costs that the Banks incur while collect ing delinquent Loans or dishonoured checks. The japanese Severance pay Issue occurred after banking contracts held by american express were turned Over tothe National Bank of Fon Sam Houston. Fort Sam Houston s proposal to . Citizens a Bank employee mainly members of military families mulled i the termination of 141 japanese employees who collected Over $28 million in total Severance pay. This High pay off which worked out to $200,000 per employee was hid to have been based on a formula determined by japanese labor court in a Case involving the civilian operations of american express. I want everybody to understand $200,000 is exactly said a Sich whose Bill would limit future sever Ance pay agreements to the . Average it is not 520,000, it is nol $2,000, it in $200,000 apiece in Severance pay to these 141 japanese Daniel said that what was equally disturbing along with the size of the pay ment was " he fact that it was an Allowa ble Cost under the contract and the department of defense had no Choice but to reimburse the Banks for these a wms suf claiming artworks9 value was misrepresented by gallery by Janet Howells Tierney suit writer Giessen Germany a Soldier won a suit in German civil court tuesday against an Art firm that misrepresented the Worth of Oil paintings sold door Ledoor in . Government housing areas. Spec. 4 James Thomas formerly with Bury a 2nd in 29th Field arty in Gies sen will gel Back about 324 Marks si84 he paid for iwo paintings from cart gallery h. Alenio Slu in w
