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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 28 i jews briefs officer attacked for views on airmen s wives to retire Peru ind. A an air Force colonel criticized for pressuring wives of senior officers at Grissom fab to quit work so hey would be available for base activities will retire next month. Col Gary r. Ebert Wing commander of the .105th air refuelling Wing based at Grissom Wason leave and unavailable for comment said Cape. Nancy 1. Cochran a Grissom spokeswoman. Ebert. 44. Came under fire following reports last summer that five wives charged that he Anda previous Wing commander had pressured hem into quilting their jobs or nol working. The wives said the Wing commanders wanted them to be available for base social and Volunteer activities. A Pentagon investigation confirmed the accusations hut said no disciplinary action was War ranted because they had no violated a written policy. Court upholds Basing of Poison Gas in Germany Karlsruhe Germany up Ger Many s highest court in a decision published Friday upheld the military Basing of . Poi son Gas in Germany As consistent with the Ger Man Constitution. Only the chairman of a seven member panel of constitutional court judges Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz dissented. Mahrenholz said the Federal government neglected its constitutional duty to protect the life and health of the people by failing to furnish the Stales with the information they would need Toplan against an Accident with chemical weapons. The government has in accused in numer Ous Legal briefs of ignoring its constitutional mandate to protect the life and health of the people. The panel majority said the Basing of the Poi son Gas Falls under the treaty of the nato Mili tary Alliance. Germany is a treaty signatory and the treaty has been Lali fied by parliament the court decided. Tanker runs aground after being hit by iraqi jets Manama Bahrain a missile firing  attacked a loaded supertanker in the persian Gulf Friday and it ran aground of Iran shipping sources said. Iranian gunboats attacked two tankers dealing with Kuwait and saudi Arabia in the Southern Gulf setting one ablaze and knocking out the radar of another. The London based Lloyd s shipping Intelli gence unit said the shuttle supertanker free Enterprise which flies the maltese Flag was hit at 11 . By missiles fired by iraqi warplanes. There was no report of casualties in any of the attacks. Flip strikes on commercial shipping in the Oil Rich Gulf arc the latest in an escalated phase of the so called Tanker War by Iran and Iraq which have been at War since 1980. Eighteen vessels have been Hil in the Tanker War this month saturday december 19,1987 Dodds Italy teachers face holidays without paychecks Bidav Walczak education writer air Force finance officials failed to make Good on a Promise to have late paychecks in inc hands of an estimated 400 teachers in Italy Friday a teachers Union Leader  department of defense dependents schools teachers who begin their Christmas vacation monday went without their scheduled dec. 14 paychecks be cause of commercial transportation problems a regional school spokesman said Otto Thomas spokesman for the Dodds Mediterranean Region said emergency checks would be issued through the Aviano a finance office in Italy rather than through Hill Nikon a finance office in Greece which handles the payroll for most Dodds teachers in  can t handle this on a regular basis Thomas said. But because of the emergency Circum stances they be agreed to do  the checks were to be ready no later than 9 . Friday. Thomas said earlier but Ernie Lehmann executive director of the Over seas federation of teachers said that no Cheeks arrived Friday in Vincnza or  would t have done any Good if they  he said at ii . Friday. Most of the teachers Are Al ready on vacation a Hill Nikon base spokesman said late Friday afternoon that he had no information about the plan to Issue checks at Aviano but said that in sounded Plau  he said the base finance office was closed at 5 30 . ,.Thomas blamed the delays on commercial airline baggage handling he cited a strike by baggage handlers in Greece on tuesday and a lost mail bag at the Rome Airport on wednesday As reasons for the delay. Lehmann threatened to set up picket lines in italian cities near Dodds schools beginning Jan 4 if the situation has t Clear cd up by  the threat came a Day after 23 teachers presented petition to Vicenza Community commander cot. Clif Ford c. Schaaf protest ing the pay  Italy teacher payment problem comes in the Wake of hundreds of complaints by teachers in Ger Many paid by the army finance office in Climan Germany near Heidelberg. Overseas education association attorney Mike Bauern find said Friday that his office is monitoring up to 300 pay problems including non payments omission of housing allow Uncas and a Lack of pension deductions. Thomas said Mediterranean Region school officials were pleased with the hell Nikon payroll operation despite the delay in sending  re Happy to have Athens handling the payroll. You have to remember the Heidelberg office handled in a year ago and those arc the people who screwed it All  took a less optimistic View. If i ran my classroom Tike these jokers run the finance office i d have been fired years ago. It will probably take a few generals to gel fired in order to get this thing straightened out. You Don t treat profession Al people this  South West battered by Winter storm by the associated press a southwestern storm socked parts of Arizona new Mexico and the Southern Rockies with Snow and heavy rain Friday before showing signs of weakening by  snowfall Duitch sections of the Midwest and  skies prevailed from the mid Atlantic coast through the Southeast temperatures Early Friday dipped below freezing in sections of Northern Florida. The storm off the Northwest coast of the Baja Penin Sula caused heavy rain and Mountain Snow in Arizona new Mexico and Utah. Flagstaff Ariz had 7 inches of Snow by Early mom ing and show Low farther cast reported 5 to 6 inches. Phoenix got More than 1.5 inches of rain and Douglas in inc state s Southeast Comer got More than an Inch i n a 24-hour period. In the mountains of new Mexico Carlsbad Roswell and Clovis each got 3 inches of Snow with up to 4 inches More expected Friday. Snow advisories were issued for Southern Utah the Southern Colorado mountains and Southwest Colorado where 5 to 10 inches was forecast by Nightfall. Snow showers were scattered ahead of a cold front that extended from Southern Manitoba in Canada into the Central Rockies much of the Snow was across Southern and Central Minnesota. Diu la got 2 inches Friday morning. I Tjit Snow ranged from Eastern Ohio through Well Ern and Central Pennsylvania into Western and Central new York. Rain was scattered across West Central Southwest and South Central Texas. Southerly winds returned to the Central Plains rats ing Early morn ing temperatures into the 30s to 40s. 1,600 South koreans arrested in riots Seoul South Korea a police hurting tear Gas grenades dispersed rioters and arrested 1.600 peo ple Friday in a crackdown on stud Ems who heeded an opposition Call to oppose the government election Vic tory in the streets. Students battled police with firebombs and rocks in scenes reminiscent of the violent summer except for the Lack of support from bystanders. Frightened pedestrians tried to flee the choking Gas. Squads of riot police in Green combat fatigues and Black helmets fired volleys of tear Gas and charged the fleeing students. Protesters Shook clenched fists and screamed in valid election and Down with the military dictatorship wednesday s Vole was the first direct presidential election in 16 years. The government agreed to it after weeks of violent demonstrations in june Hal eventually were joined by hundreds of thousands of people from the working and Middle classes. Opposition leaders refused to accept the Victory of Rod tac woo candidate of president Chun Doo Hwan s government and claimed the government won by fraud. They called for a pan National struggle to keep Roh from assuming Power when Chun s term ends feb. 25,the National election commission issued formal confirmation Friday of Roh s election. He got 36.6 percent of the vote followed by opposition candidates item Young Sam with 28 percent Kim Dae Jung with 27 percent and Kim Jong Pil with 8 percent. Kim Young Sam and Kirn Dae Jung had pledged last summer to unite with a single candidacy. Their failure to do Hal split he opposition Vole and enabled Roh to  continued denouncing the election Friday de spite growing criticism Hal they created the defeat by refusing to cooperate. Boesky from Page 1 tempted to skirt fudge or deliberately break the Law that to preserve and Nour ish moral values and to preserve not Only the actual integrity of the financial markets but the appearance of integrity in those markets criminal behaviour such As Brocsky s cannot to  11 was agreed that Brocsky would sur Render to begin his sentence on March 24, the government and defense had asked that he not be imprisoned immediately because he was continuing to sup ply information to investigators. Brocsky admitted to conspiring with others who have nol been identified to lie to the Sec regarding 1984 purchases of Stock in Fishbach corp., an electrical company. Prosecutors and defense attorney Leon Silverman have told Lasker in lengthy pre sentencing memos that Boesky revealed his involvement in far More widespread illegal activity including manipulating Slock prices unlawful takeover activity under capitalized broker Deal ers and false record keeping. The government made no specs Fie sen lending recommendation asking that Lasker weigh both Boesky s extensive criminal conduct and his outstanding  Brocsky once looked up to As Wall Street s leading Speculator in stocks of potential takeover targets shocked the securities business on nov. 14, 1986, by settling Sec civil insider trading charges. Without admitting guilt or innocence Boesky agreed to pay the record Fine half in civil penalties and the rest in Dis gorged profits from Slock trades. He also accepted lifetime banishment from the Industry. More Shock Waves followed word of Boesky s cooperation with a Federal inquiry i nto Wall Street illegalities. Information supplied by Boesky who secretly taped conversations with associates before his cooperation was revealed led to guilty pleas by merger specialist Manin a. Sicgel and former brokerage executive Boyd l. Jef Tenes. In return Boesky was allowed to plead guilty to the single felony count before Asker considered by Many criminal do fee Law Era to be a lenient   
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