European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D Navy notes Rise in soviet activity off Alaska Page 3 d Reagan mum on Pardon rumours Page 4 d Safe title game in pictures pages 14-15 the Sims anti St Lopes Autho Izreo unofficial publication for the . Meo Foutts vol. 46, no. 220 tuesday november 24, 1987 d 8693 a 2% military pay hike Likely by will am j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington  should get the same 2 percent raise Feder Al employees Are to receive under terms of a deficit reduction Compromise reached by the White House and con Gress last week Pentagon officials said monday. It s going to be a 2 percent raise for civilians an official with the defense department comptroller s office said. We kind of think it would be the same for military personnel under Law military personnel Are guaranteed the same pay raise Given civil ians. But in past years. Congress has Given service members a larger raise by passing special legislation. We be had informal Contact that it was going to be 2 percent for service members said the official who asked not to be identified. But there s nothing in writing yet. It s still kind of up in the air As far As we re concerned but we think it s going to be 2  under the terms of the Friday agreement civilian workers would receive a 2 percent raise instead of the anticipated 3 percent hike and their so called within Grade raises based on seniority would be Frozen in order to save $450 million. Nearly half of the Federal work Force was expecting those raises. The Compromise was significant Lor the Reagan administration which had originally proposed a 4 percent raise for service members and in the past has encouraged bigger raises for military personnel compared to civilian workers. But this year after a major Stock mar Ket crash last month was largely blamed on the Federal deficit military personnel Are not expected to gel any extra Breaks. If Congress fails to pass the deficit Cut Compromise reportedly $75 billion Over two years the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law will begin an automatic $23 billion across the Board Cut in government spending. T a car Liik i Louic Lias used its authority under Law to exempt military person Nel from those reductions. But that Only Means that military compensation can not be Cut. The size of any raise would still be up to Congress which recently agreed on a 3 percent Rajsic the same Rale civil servants were anticipating. The Compromise is strongly opposed in some quarters but the president and congressional leaders have been urging its passage. Gramm Rudman officially went into effect nov. 21, although orders for government agencies to begin implementing the cuts have not been issued yet. Sis photo by j. King Cruger Jane Pauley elks with Crew members aboard the Coral sea with co Anchor Bryant Gumbel at right Cora sea gets carried aweigh with anchors in today spec a  Mediterranean Bureau Cannes France if they left in up to the Crew of the aircraft Carrier Coral sea Abc could do us today show Wilh anchors Jane Paulcyn an Bryant Gumbel aweigh every Day provided the show s anchors were aboard their earner. Today was broadcast live via satellite from the Coral sea monday afternoon As the Carrier Rode Ai Anchor Aboul a mile offshore of inc French  everyone of the 4,300-Man Crew who could be freed from duly Sal or blood on the flight deck or lined vultures walk on the Carrier s is land to watch the two hour Long production. Hours before the show aired sailors began Stak ing out the first come first served seats. The first one to Nail one Down was Petty officer 1 a. Roger Anderson who settled Down Inlo inc Middle of inc third Row Al 9 45 . I Vegol three science fiction books to read to help pass the Lime and the cold won l bother me. I m from Green Bay Wisconsin so i m used Loil said the 38-year-old electronic., repairman. If the weather did t bother Anderson it sure made life miserable for everyone else on inc flight deck where most of the show originated. Although the temperature hovered around 60 degrees there were stiff winds and driving rain. Whenever they weren t on camera co anchors Pauley and Gumbel. And Weatherman Willard Scott huddled under umbrellas to avoid inc thorough drenching experienced by the bulk of the audience. The show was put together in Aboul three weeks. Sea anchors on Page 28 . Offers full review on deportations Washington a the United slates react ing to rioting at two prisons in Louisiana and Georgia has offered to impose a moratorium on the return of cuban nationals denied . Residency because of mental instability or past crimes attorney general Edwin Meese Iii said monday. Me Csc said the moratorium would be in effect until each Case could be reviewed in a full fair and Equita ble manner and affected All such cubans detained in the United  said the offer had been sent to both ins Titu  Atlanta earlier monday cuban inmates awaiting deportation seized several hostages and torched build Ings As they tried to take Over the Federal prison during a lunch break authorities said. At least six people were injured including two inmates who were shot. The action in Atlanta followed a similar revolt by cuban inmates who still controlled a burned out Feder Al detention Center near Oakdale la. The inmates threatened monday to kill 25 hostages if authorities stormed the  Black smoke poured from the Stone prison in Atlanta which was surrounded by City police and fire fighters Georgia stale patrol troopers and emergency medical  prison officials held control of some parts of the main building and 23-Acrc compound but authorities refused to discuss what areas were under inmate  a Lama inmates had no guns bul were holding a number of to slags including Federal prison officials said Mike Caltabiano cd Culive ass Island to inc . Penitentiary  said guards fired several warning shots but he declined to explain How two inmates happened to be  inmates among 1,500 cubans held at the facility started a fire in the Broom factory of inc prison industries Complex a building immediately behind the prison he  trucks remained outside inc gales of the inner City compound. Caltabiano had no details on the sex Lenl of the fire damage. Inmates had made no demands and Fri negotiators were trying to persuade them to release the hostages Caltabiano Saio he declined to say How Many hos Lages had been taken or where they were being held. A special team from the . Immigration and nalu Rali Calion service was called from Miami to help. Many of the cuban inmates voluntarily returned to their cells alter the disturbance which began at the see review on Page 28