European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 28,1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 incomes Rose 0.3% in january Washington a americans incomes Rose 0.3 percent in january a moderate increase that matched the gain in consumer spending during the month the government reported Friday. The Commerce department said that incomes and spending both Rose 0.3 per cent following identical 0.7 percent advances in both categories during Decem Ber. The gains were taken As positive signs that consumer spending while not grow ing As briskly As it did during the Early cars of the economic recovery will at feast Spand enough this year to keep the Economy out of a recession. Consumer spending which accounts for two thirds of Overall economic activity is being closely monitored following the october Slock Market collapse. These figures support our impression that the Economy will slow Down this War but continue to move  said Koacr by incr. An economist with data resources inc. Of Lexington. Mass. Consumer spending after adjusting for inflation fell at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the fourth Quarter the biggest decline in More than seven years. Hrin Ner predicted that much of this decline would be reversed in the current Jan uary March Quarter in part because Auto sales have rebounded. Wages and salaries the key Compo nent of the income category increased $12.4 billion in january More than Dou ble the $5.6 billion december increase. This gain included a $2 billion increase in payrolls at manufacturing companies which followed a $1.1 billion december increase. Allen Sinai chief economist for the Boston co. Said the Rise in incomes while below previous months was still Strong enough to support further increases in spending. He noted that incomes in manufacturing have risen 4.7 percent in the past 12 months compared to growth of just 1.8 percent in the previous 12 months. Louvre Pyramid takes shape the installation of Glass begins to transform a Bare framework into a gleaming Pyramid near the louvre in Paris. The Structure More than 68 feet 666 Glass panels. Three smaller models High was designed by american a each Over 24 feet High Are placed near collect . Pel. It will eventually have by. Jazzman Memphis slim Dies in Paris Paris a blues pianist Mem Phis slim who wrote every Day i have the blues and helped spread blues music outside the United Stales has died at the age of 72, Hospital official said Friday. An official at Necker Hospital in Paris speaking on condition of anonymity said Memphis slim whose real name was Peter Natman. Died wednesday. The cause of death was not disclosed. Memphis slim who was born in Memphis tcnn., on sept. 3, 1915, made his name in Chicago in the 1930s. He had lived in Europe since 1961, mostly in Paris where he played frequently at los trois Maillol a and other jaz clubs. He was one of the originals said Mike Zwerin a Paris based author on jazz and blues music. He took blues to the rest of the  a Wake open to the Public is scheduled monday at the Hospital with funeral serv ices planned later in the week in Memphis. Memphis slim recorded at least 40 Al bums during his career on Many labels including raining the blues fantasy and the blues Man mus disc. Among his songs were wish me  Mother Earth and Beer drink ing  Memphis slim was among the most Well travelled jazzmen attracting International attention with his performance at the 1959 Newport festival. Nato reaches consensus on troop arms cuts Brussels a a form Ofa consensus has emerged within nato on How to proceed with new East West negotiations on troop and conventional arms reductions a senior american offi Cial said Friday. Alton g. Keel jr., the . Ambassador to the North Atlantic treaty organization said the allies generally agreed that the reductions should focus on ground combat forces including tanks artillery and infantry fight ing vehicles on both sides of the East West Divide. The tentative consensus also includes the View that the soviet led Warsaw pact countries should make far larger reductions than nato. Talks arc proceeding in Vienna aus Tria on arranging new conventional arms reduction talks and Western officials have said they expect the formal negotiations to get under Way in the second half of 1988. Keel said Washington is encouraged by Progress in the Vienna talks although formidable obstacles to eventual agreement remain including a soviet insistence that some Battlefield nuclear weapons systems be included in the negotiations. Speaking to a group of diplomats and businessmen at the Center for european policy studies keel said even a 3-to-l ratio of arms cuts favouring nato would not be adequate to assure a balance of conventional forces. We should just say no if the War saw pact proposes such a ratio he said. Keel indicated that this week s nato meeting of government leaders in Brus Sels will focus partly on prospects for starting the formal negotiations on conventional forces. There is a consensus the form of a consensus that s emerging within nato on the form and nature of cuts to be offered in the new negotiations he said. He did not say when the West might be ready to put Forward its detailed negotiating position. The nato allies have Long agreed that the soviet bloc should make larger cuts than the West because of the East s superiority in numbers of weapons and troops. But they do not agree on How much More should be demanded of the East. 2 gis accused of improperly handling documents. F a.  i a. Lap in run Ali a Enli Furni Seal ital ii Rutlt Llev nitwit Washington two army enlisted men have been arrested on charges of improperly handling classified documents and Federal officials say the suspects May be linked loan illicit drug operation at fort Irwin in the Southern California desert. The suspects arc staff sgt. Edmond w. Tuck. 24, and spec. 4 Kelly Joe Schmidt 23. They were taken into custody wednesday night in Barstow calif., and arc being held at the fort Irwin stockade. The army made the arrests after a Las vegas television station had told the Federal Bureau of investigation of being approached last week by a teen age boy carrying a number of secret army documents. Federal officials said the teen Ager whom they have not identified had told the station that he was a drug courier for tuck in a narcotics operation at fort Irwin and had found the documents in the sergeant s briefcase. Officials with knowledge of an investigation now under Way by the army and the Fri said it was unclear whether the suspects had been involved in espionage activities. This Case is a big mystery right now one official said. In an interview Steve minium news director of the Las vegas television Sla the California desert eventually arriving lion a inv said the teen Ager walked in Las vegas minium said. The kid into the station s offices with the secret documents earlier this past week. He just came into Las vegas and we were the to station he decided to walk into minium said. The kid just walked in the door and said he had some stolen  the youth. Minium said told the Sta Tion that he had worked for several Days As a drug courier for tuck and that he had opened the sergeant s briefcase Sim ply to see what was inside. When he discovered the secret documents he panicked and drove off into flipped out he said. The station then turned Over the documents to the Fri and agreed to delay broadcasting an account of the Case until arrests had been made. The army and the Fri said tuck and Schmidt had been arrested without Inci Dent. Little information about the two men was immediately available. The charge against them improper handling of classified army documents is significantly less serious than espionage charges the army said