European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse G military medical readiness heightened Page 5 o . Official Calls Berlin Wall an ugly scar Page 8 g Boston s Clemens wins Alcy Young award Page 21 vol. 46, no. 209 .othoi1ed we Opriciu. pout Friday november 13, 1987 wot d 8693 a overseas military fund opted by plunging value of Dollar. I ,. A he a Tell 1-111fir t-tf.1 m c9 i re by Norman Black a military writer Washington less than iwo months into the new fiscal year the Pentagon is facing a deficit of a least $325 million in its overseas allowances for servicemen because of the i Uehling Dollar. Defense department comptroller Robert w. Helm said the Pentagon had been caught by Surprise just As businessmen had by the Dollar s rapid fall Over the past month. The Dollar s value against such Curren cies As the japanese yen and inc West German Mark is already roughly 20 percent below what the Pentagon had estimated at the Start of fiscal 1988, he said. Those declines Are forcing the Pentagon to adjust upward every month the overseas housing and Cost or living allowances paid to military personnel. Helm allowances vary by rank Fammy Sim and foreign country but they Are essential to give them a Compa Rable living Standard wherever they Are overseas with what they might have Here Helm if the Dollar does t sink any lower the allow ances have risen to Niton Els. An or fire destroys Frankfurt opera House. .1. Era Tell Billows cat from the collapsed not of Frankfurt s opera Hsc bars 4�j. It fire slut of Binl 3 mud caused u estimated 158 million do or. Police be wrested suspect to idol Tetil setting inc Blue. No. I priority is saving personnel not weapons from cutbacks Taft says by Charlie Bowden Munich Bureau Grafe Woehr Germany protecting people in the nation s military from the budget As May mean a slow Down or deferral in the Purchase of Large weapons systems the Deputy defense Secretary said thursday. Our policy Haa been even in the fac of rather significant reductions to protect our people and to be sure that the programs that we have for them starting with pay but also in benefits Quality of life housing and facilities Are protected As much As we can William h. Tauv said shortly after watching a live firing exercise on the army s Range at Grafen said that in faring the budget Cuis not everything could be protected completely but in Selling priorities peo ple come first. Those Are the priorities we be had in the past and they re going to continue he its people accounts a continued on Page 28 improved Trade figures Buck up troubled Dollar London api the Dollar Rose thursday against All key currencies in european trading after belter than sex peeled . Trade figures fanned expectations that Exchange rates will stabilize. The . Government said the nation s Trade deficit narrowed from is s.7 billion to 114.1 billion in september its Best performance in four months. A stoic 3. The Dollar had edged higher in Ner Vous Early dealings then jumped sharply when the figures were released dealers said. Sale or German Marks to is. Pel Mowl for personal use will be Luw Nolc of 1,67 Friday bused on a Price fixing to midday and allo Mure for Standard handling charges. Other currency rules on p.r37. There in t any trading Range but i think we re in a More stable Penroo than we be seen in a while said a dealer in Frankfurt. The Dollar later fell from in highs but rallied again when . Officials indicated that a budget deficit package could be agreed As soon As thursday Between the White House and Congress. In London after a three week slide the Dollar Rose Tor the third straight Daylo 11.7680 late thursday up from jl.7795 late wednesday. Blustery snowstorm blamed for 18 deaths a the associated press a wintry storm blamed for 18 deaths blustered up the new England coast thursday after dumping a re Cord i inches or Snow near Washington. strand ing hundreds of students at schools and disrupting veterans Day weather raked Eastern Massachusetts dumping up to a fool of Snow South of Boston. Kinds of to to so Moh erased visibility. Causing air and Iraq by tie us. Power outages and school closures. The storm also hampered emergency efforts when iwo bos ton commuter trains collided. Boston s Logan International Airport was closed around 3 . Thursday to allow Crews 10 Clear the runways but High winds and while souls hampered their efforts. Officials said they would not be Able to open the Airport until after noon when the Snow was expected to taper Alt Sharon Gioia 23, of North Andover Sal on the floor of the Eastern airline terminal waiting to leave for a we Klong vacation in Tampa. Fla. I m going to kiss the ground when 1 gel there she said. National weather service officials said in was the heaviest Early snowstorm in the Boston area since it began keeping records in 1891. A spokesman said the Only comparable storm which dumped about 4 inches. Occurred in 1897. .,.,Marlboro, a Western Boston suburb had almost a foot of Snow. Gloucester. On the North Shore had 5.5 schools in Northern Virginia the District of Colum Bia Maryland Massachusetts and Rhode Island were in Maryland the inner Loop of the capital Beltway in Prince George s county was closed at mid Mommy because of hundreds of abandoned vehicles. Stale police spokesman Chuck Jackson air moving behind the storm meanwhile. Sea snowstorm on Page 28
