European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse D legislation would allow some refunds on go Bill Page 2 d one count against Meeham dropped Page 5 q medical personnel cuts upset Glenn Page 8 q giants picked to win no West Page 23 the be Rue a vol. 46, no. 347 Friday april 11986 . Jet crashes into town killing Pilot Man on ground a Phola by l Neil be & j one House where one Silun d Itil lies in ruins and another behind ii is heavily damaged after a Jel trashed into neighbourhood in font. Badavi Tarrant und cd Skavis staff writers Forst West germans an air farce f-16 Falcon Craig ice into a Smull Lown and exploded thursday killing inc Pilot and 31 Casl one Man on the ground authorities said. The Jet Fisher on i routine training Mission was flying Sugih from Llanah Aboul 9 40 . When the plane smashed through three houses in the town a Forsi Aboul 1 Milt i Norih Cam of Karlsruhe said maj. Gregory Smilk. A spokesman for he it hair Force. Smoke Anil funnies were pouring put of inc plane s turbines said of Wotschokowsk. A German red Cross worker who was cleaning the Agency s Van nearby when the Jet he Lilor zoom Ilover his head. I jumped nut of he Van and saw the plane passing Aboul 30 feel overhead he said. I could see Ilia he was trying to Bank inc plane to Llie right but he was going too slow and he a 60-year-old Nian in one of the houses was killed when a Wall fell on him a Forst spokesman said. German police had not accounted for one other continued an Paga 3 Meese told of concerns Over probe Washington he saying int a num Ber of members of t Ungross Are deeply concerned Over open tins of the jul since Dupan Mcnol Republican sen. Strom Thurmond met thursday with actor nov general Edwin me Csc 111. The South Carolina senator the ranking re publican on the Senate judiciary committee issued a statement using a number of people on Capitol Hill have expressed deep concern about inc problems at the Justice department. I went today to talk to the attorney general to convey these concern to him. 1 do not feel it would be appropriate to comment further i this the meeting Wilh Thurmond was ii reason Melesc was Laic for a scheduled news conference in Fri Headquarters. Where he refused to answer reporters questions on hit resignation of two of his top Eides. The resignations came amid in creasing scepticism on Capitol Hill Over whether Meese can continue to run he Justice depart ment. A the news conference culled to announce a major drug bust meet briskly turned aside at least half a dozen questions relating to the possibility thai he might quit in inc Wake of tue Day j resignations of Deputy attorney general continued on Back Page 4% go pay raise clears panel for House vote by Chuck Vinci Wuhl Ngann Bureau Washington the House armed services committee has approved o military pay raise of 4 per cent effective Jan. I 1989, Svetli Nellc stage Forab Arieon Lic mouse door in the coming weeks. In completing work on the House Vunion of the fiscal iwb9 defense authorisation Bill wednesday the armed services committee has put in self at Odds Wilh the House budget committee which has approved a military raise of Only 3 percent. We knew the budget commit ire s Resolution Cut the raise to 3 percent but our members were More concerned Wilh inc $299 billion budget limit set by the economic agreement Between the administration and see raise on Back Page Senate approves resuming humanitarian Aid for contras Washington a the Senate gave lopsided approval thursday to a 148 million humanitarian Aid Bill thai would break a one month drought in inc Low of . Supplies to Nicaragua s Contra rebels and Send medical care to War injured children. Approval on an 87-7 Vole sent the measure 10 presi Dent realm. Who has promised to sign it into Taw so rebel fighters can be sustained in the Field As they wait for agreement Wilh the leftist san Dinita government on a Long term cease fire and a reconciliation Between the iwo warring sides. White Louic spoke Ryan Marlin Fitzwater said Rea Gan who leave Washington Friday far b 0-Day Vaca Tion wanted to sign inc Bill before he leaves. Congress had twice earlier this year rejected Aid proposals for the rebels and their last . Support i Pird on feb. 29. The easy a Mac of the Bill in the Senate and a Day earlier in the Home was made possible by a March 2 Accord on 3 60-Day truce Between us Contos and the Nicaragua regime reached after talks in 5,, Nicara Gua. Sen. Christopher Dodd. A Utonn. Noted the Aid Bill fell Shon of inc dts Iraj of Contra supporters who would have preferred to tend a Zanoni to the rebels and also bothered rebel opponent who oppose tending any 4id. A Contra proponent. Sen. David Boren d-okla., said the action would tend a Strong signal thai the contras Are not being abandoned. If the sandinista knew hey could simply wait of the Central they see contras on Back Page
