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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, April 13, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d of civilian workers deadlocked on unpaid furlough plan Page 2 q drug dealing changed mafia. Witness says., Page 5 d air Force reverses self will keep 37 Roth units Page 7 q Cleveland takes Al East Lead. Sports Page 21 the St is and of ripes voj.46. To. 359 wednesday april 13, 19bb  06693 a 12 More hostages released hijackers seek Algiers charts Warnaca Cyprus Al hijackers of a Kuwait airways jetliner Rel Caird 12 More hostages tuesday and Airport workers refuelled the plane government spokesman Akis Fantis said a Short Lime later he gunmen asked the control lower at this Mediterranean Airport for flight charts id travel o Algiers. Then a voice Lold the control Tower by radio a tanks  forty people were believed on Board the aircraft after the latest release including a half dozen hijackers. The plane was seized a week ago by gunmen demanding free Dom for 17 Prev iranian terrorists held in Kuwait. The plane radioed the control lower tuesday night to ask workers to remove air conditioning units near the Craft apparently because the plane was about to tile  plane was refuelled after repeated de mands by the hijackers who i ave killed two hostages in Warnaca. The freed passengers were driven from the Boeing 747 at around 10 24 p.m., then taken 10 Warnaca Gen eral Hospital reporters at the scene and Hospital officials said. A Hijacker told he Tower the released included two palestinians with jordanian passports and 10 others who were sick poor or had numerous children. They said the releases were a Goodwill gesture but added also thai the jordanian nationals were freed As a present to the uprising in Palestine a reference to four months of anti israeli violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. The plane s engines started shortly after the latest passengers were re Kasid and oud Bangs rang but across the Tarmac. Official said the noise was caused by the engines. The hijackers said earlier in the Day that they Hud on see hijackers on Back Paga giving cafes control Over class i colled matter of economics by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington a congressional directive ordering the arms and air Force to give up control of their liquor stores was simply a matter of econom  a Capitol Hill staffer did this week. This House armed services morale welfare and recreation panel directed inc two services to Iraq scr Irir class i stores to the army and air Force Exchange service by Oci i As Nurt of the House version of the fiscal iw9 defense authorization Bill. The order was not a result of Lawman Cre impatience with inc services head Way on the Transfer Issue said a panel staffer who also indicated that the oct. I deadline is flexible. This is a period of decline for mar appropriations and efficiency is the  the staffer said. The directive was purely a Mailer of  several factors combined to convince the mar panel that the army and air Force should follow the Lead of the Navy which last october moved its class i sea cafes on Bach Page give overseas lottery a Chance Dop urged by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington the House armed services co milk c wants the Pentagon to look again into establishing a lottery overseas. The committee s morale welfare and recreation panel Ripon on the i9u9 de sense authorization bin also touched on mar personnel creation of a business command and continued tightening of rules governing the use of appropriated and non appropriated funds for mar acl Vilies. The Bill must be approved by the full House and Senate and be signed by inc president before is is binding. Highlights of the report the Bill would order the defense department to Eon Duci an Independent assessment of the merits of a military Loiler overseas a concept studied by the army More than a year ago but shelved infinitely. Senior military officials have shied away from a Louery because of questions of the morality of offering such an activity 10 the troops. Bui a staffer on the mar panel said the morality Issue does t hold tin in View of the fact that Slot machines Are such a big part of the services mar operations. The 1,500 military personnel within 1he services mar Oscr Lions would be replaced by civilians by oct. 1,1990, officer and enlisted development programs Aren t structured to produce skilled business managers the report stated. The frequent rotation of Mili tary personnel hinders management continuity. The limited career Fields in mar management Are not conducive to military career  the staffer said deep Force cuts also played a part in the decision to order the phase out. When you be got people being Cut from armoured units from infantry units it Don t male sense to have military personnel managing  he said. The Bil would order the defense see lottery on Back Page Oscar winners Cher a Kew in luge Ullh Michel Gnu Tiu a inc shrine auditorium in in Angek monday utter the inn tre honoured u Best Ctm did by Ictor it the 60lh Academy a buds cer Emony. Story on Page 28.  
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