European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d letters to Santa Are Risemas colouring contest no. 6 age 27 d news anchors interview Reagan on Summit  28 vol. 46, no. Z2\ saturday december 5, 1987 d 8693 a 2% pay hike Likely 01 43% is pos Sib byc Hucl Futch Washington t Washington the size of military pay raise for fiscal 1988 is finans called maybe. The Senate appropriations defense Subco mrsh Tec approved a 1285-4 billion defense funding bilt that provides for a 2 per cell increase effective Jan \. The House appropriations committee in it allowed enough Hinds for a 3 percent in Cream that and other differences in  will have to be resolved in conference. But Louse staffer said the lower figure is a Virlum certainty because of the recently concluded econ pc Summit Between lawmakers and adminis Ralu Orf Iclal. However staffers  officials still May be Able to swing a 3 jew rent raise if Congress lets the Pentagon fund the extra percentage Point with Money from olt i military accounts. The Pricejr for that percentage Point would be about St million and Pentagon officials were Uncertain bout whether the Money would be readily Ava Jume if Congress gave them the authority to go a cd with the shift. The economic Summit convened to find ways to Cut the Federal deficit concluded nov. 20. Partick Uchs the deficit by another 145 billion infants agreed to a packaj30bilfion in fiscal fiscal 1989. House jul rate armed services committee fell As Pentagon officials claim that the vague on the Issue of a military pay Al but the House appropriations committee her said that was one of he f w Clear items to of the meeting. Nil is giving the appropriations commit tees Only  Dollar guidelines to work with the Stan maid. But one thing they were Clear about is  a pay raise they veal Lowed Only enough nah a to fund a 2 percent in crease for All Federal calf be including service  House and Senate armed3huces committee staffers said most lawmakers on idol a ills favor a 3 percent increase but since the appropriations commit pcs locate the Money they ultimately determine the size raise staffers said. If they appropriate Only enough Money for a 2 percent raise that s what it will be even if the armed services committees already have approved a bigger raise they snid. Prison standoff ends Sac restricts cubans free hostages Atlanta a cuban inmates freed their 89 hostages Early Friday peacefully ending an 11-Day prison uprising under an agreement thai provides moratorium on deportations of 3,800 Mariel detainees nationwide. The hostages were released moments after the eight Point agreement was signed. The agreement signed shortly after i a.m., also provided for a Quick review of the immigration status of the inmates would allow some logo to a third country rather than Cuba and called for no reprisals for dam age to the prison. The siege one of the longest prison uprisings in , left one prisoner dead and three buildings gutted. As they filed out of the prison some of the hostages Shook hands with their former captors and embraced wailing friends and relatives. At the signing ceremony broadcast on live National television one of the inmates Silling at the table had wrapped himself in the cuban and american hags. The group placed a Large Silver Crucifix on the table before them. After the agile mint was read in Spanish and then English and signed the inmates Shook hands with cuban bom auxiliary Bishop Agustin roman and the others in the room and began losing. Relatives of the hostages wearing yellow ribbons and carrying balloons had packed into a Small room at the prison to Wail for their loved ones. I could walk on air said Carol Dixon whose Hus band Gene was a hostage. Shortly after the agreement was approved thursday afternoon cheering detainees waved and Sang the cuban National Anthem on the t oof at the Stone prison. Tomorrow everyone will go Home the inmates said. Later Federal authorities rushed roman from his Home in Miami on a . Customs service Jol. Roman helped negotiate an end to a similar Sta Idoff in Oak Dale la and his presence apparently was requested by the 1,1 of inmates who had held to a prison since nov. 23. Upon arrival in Atlanta roman said he would be praying with my Brothers and receiving All the hos  he flew by helicopter into the prison compound and stopped briefly at the Bureau of prison s regional Headquarters before entering the Penitentiary at 10 52 . The Atlanta standoff and one that ended sunday in Louisiana had threatened 10 unravel an agreement be tween the United Stales and Cuba to Deport some of those imprisoned after arriving in the Mariel boat lift of 1980. The two Page proposal had the approval of . Attorney general Edwin Melesc Iii and was initiated by All six inmates representatives in a meeting wit Federal negotiators said Patick Korten another Justice department spokesman. Tradition ensures sellout for  Navy game sports Page 2 ? by training Washington not the strategic air come has suspended Low level flights for the new by bomber limiting the training of Crews for their main Mission of Low level bombing according to officers at the com Mand s Headquarters in Omaha. The suspension which was not announced followed the first crash of a by in which three of the six Crew members were killed on sept. 28 after the plane ran into Birds at a Low level. It was another setback in the command s Effort to bring the nation s most advanced Long Range bomber Imp operation. The aircraft which is designed to evade detection by flying Low has been troubled with technical problems which the air Force says have been mostly corrected. Officers at the command s Headquarters said la