European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes n Gao team arrives to probe censorship Page 2 n Man finally claims his $3 million Page 5 d baseball cardinals talking with slugger Bob Homer Page 21 ripes Var recut vol. 46, no. 264 saturday. January 9, 1968 it 08693 a Pentagon to seek 4.3% go pay hike by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington tie Pentagon will push con Cress for a 4.3 percent military pay increase in fiscal 1989, but officials and congressional staffers offered no predictions As 10 to the Battle might go. The Only certainty at this Point is thai everything s Uncertain one House staffer said. After harbouring High Hopes for a 4 percent raise this fiscal year the defense department received a scare when administration and congressional officials flirted briefly with the idea of freezing All Federal pay As a Way to Cut the deficit. Congress finally settled on a 2 percent raise but it did t Lake effect until Jan. 1, four months into the see Pav on Back Page Stock Market crash study recommends new controls Washington map a presidential commis Sion studying the october Stock Market plunge Friday recommended the formation of a single Federal Agency to oversee the nation s financial markets. The Stock Market which closed before the report was released plunged in its third worst daily loss. See dosing Prim. Pant 17. The five member commission headed by former senator Nicholas Brady also called for circuit breaker mechanisms such As Price limits and coordinated trading Halls to protect the Market even in Advance of the release of the report the findings some details of which had been leaked had generated criticism on Wall Street where traders generally suggested it proposed Steps that Are too Radi Cal. In a statement issued with the final report president Reagan called inc task Force s work a significant contribution to our understanding of the events of mid sea controls on Back Page Eye catching App Loid those Nuy eyeglasses made vague by Elton John Are Hill being made in Britain. These Classy bicycle specs Aad Coc Tuil gluon Are being sold by a Berlin optician for 100 to 300 Marks a pair. Safe Rollback of affect careers of 5,000 airmen by d a alb. Green Kalser Slatlem Bureau Ramstein a Germany about 5,000 enlisted air Force members assigned to Safe will he forced to make career decisions in March and april As part of an air Force Rollback pro Gram Tor fiscal 1988. Safe officials said Fri Day. Due to a shortfall in the military personnel appropriation account an enlisted Force reduction is necessary said copt. William a. West chief of the Quality control Branch for Safe personnel. The air Force is cutting some personnel pro Grams in order to reduce the shortfall. Voluntary Early separations and denial of re enlistment to airmen with substandard performance Art among the Steps being taken. The air Force Olio is encouraging members set to return to the United Stales during the fiscal year to extend until october. The also is considering some Type of Rollback program that would involve the release of several thousand soldiers up to three months Early a Pentagon spokesman said. An official announcement on the s program is expected monday. Under the air Force program first and Sec Ond term airmen with a Date of separation fall ing Between april i and sept. 30, must either re enlist or separate by the end of March. West said. First and second term airmen with a Dale of separation Between oct. I and March 1, 1989, must re enlist or separate during april of this see Rollback on Back Page storm virtually closes . Area after plastering Southern states by the associated press a major Winter storm swept up the East coast thursday virtually closing the nation s capital after blanketing the South with More than a foot of Snow that collapsed hundreds of poultry houses and left thousands without Power. The Snow and cold were blamed for at least 45 deaths _. Snow lows and Salt spreaders rolled this morning in new York City and Philadelphia though forecasters were unsure How much Snow would fall. Snow stretched from Eastern Kansas to the Atlantic coast with 10 inches in parts of Alabama More than a fool in Tennessee and Mississippi 16 inches in North Carolina and Georgia and is inches in South Carolina. More than a loot of Snow had fallen by Friday morning in sections of Maryland and Delaware and Washington ., had s inches on the ground by 7 30 a.m., with another 4 inches forecast. Up the coast parts of new Vork City had up to 3 inches by mid morning. Federal agencies were closed thursday giving some 340,000 Federal workers the Day off but tie supreme court was open. Municipal offices in the Washington area also were closed. President Reagan cancelled an appearance at a dedication ceremony for the recently renovated and Navy club two blocks from the White House. Cold affected an even broader area. At least 11 cities shivered with record lows thursday and temperatures fell below freezing along parts of the Western Gulf coast and below Uro in Oklahoma and northeastern Arkansas. Corpus Christi Texas fell below freezing the first time this Winter. Record lows thursday included 13 below Zero at grand rapids Mich. 3 below at Muskegon Mich. 4 below at Oklahoma City 5 below Ai Tulsa. Okla. And 4 above at Wichita Falls Texas. Pans of the South looked Forward to warmer weather after a night that left about 61,000 Alabama Orcsi see storm on Back Page firefighter Steve flt Oke s eyebrows and Imis Tuche Are fn�te4 As he beads for a Blue in a two Iii
