European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes yanks in foreign jails Dally Magazine q Burl says nato should keep Strong Page 2 o commission proposed to of base closings Page 5 u . Aid for nato allies angers obey Page 28 the stars Fries Haft Clatl publication the . Amid 0hc1i vol. 4s, no. 361 Friday april 15, 19b8 Good morning d 6693 a car bomb destroys Uso club in Naples by j. King chug Erm it can a Burrau Naples Italy a violent explosion apparently set off by a car bomb lore apart the Uso club in downtown Naples around 8 . Thursday possibly killing live people and injuring a Many As 20. The reports we Are gelling Are very sketchy. The lairs police report lists live dead and up to 20 injured but we have no hard figures. We have no information on the severity of the  said Tim Randall a United Stales information service spokesman in Naples. A stale department spokesman. Ken Audrey said that he tried to enter the area where he Uso is located on a narrow Street not tar from the City s port see bomb on Back Page Aspin expects House of of 4% pay hike for is by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington the House will adopt on armed services comr Illee proposal for a 4 percent pay raise for military personnel despite concern thai civil servants lag behind  in pay rep. Los Arpin d-wis., chairman of the committee pre , Mccuing with reporters also critic Icid Penta gon plans to meet budget constraints by cutting people but said thai continued cams in officer strength May not be a bad idea. The 4 Pyrc Cal raise causes heartburn for Congress men who have civilian districts and their people arc getting 2 percent while the military is gelling 4, Aspin  such concerns he said the House will pass the 4 percent raise. The Senate is weeks away from discussing the 4.3 percent requested by the Pentagon. Las year it initially supported a similar increase but inter gave in to pressure from the House to lower it 10 2 Pyrc Cal be cause of the Federal budget deficit. Aspin said the Pentagon was Happy Wilh what we did this year because inc 0. Percent that was lopped off the pay raise request was transferred to other pay. Related accounts such As Basic allowance for quarters. Aspin also criticized Pentagon plans to meet congressionally set budget limits by cutting Back on personnel. Between i960 and 19 15, defense budgets went up 50  Aspin said. During that same time Force Structure has gone up about 3 percent. It s not Clear to me Why if you could maintain a certain size farce Structure in those years cuts have to be made now because of relatively Small spending  has unit Cost gone up thai much that we have to Cut forces he  said that while defense spending should drop see hike on Back Page Saa his Page 4 nations sign pact to withdraw soviet troops from Afghanistan  api the United Stales the soviet attain Neiot Illions Between Afghanistan and papist Genev Uniec Union Afghanistan and Pakistan on thursday signed an Accord to withdraw an estimated 115,000 soviet troops from Afghanistan. Secretary of stale George p. Shuttz soviet foreign minister Eduard  afghan foreign my inter Abdul Wakil and acting foreign minister Zain Noorani of Pakistan signed the agreement during a ceremony Al the . Building in Geneva. The settlement followed is years of on again off Agai negotiation Pakistan which represented the afghan guerrillas in the . Mediated talks. The moslem insurgents have been fighting the marxist afghan government for 10 years. The soviet Union which supports the afghan government and he uni cd Stales which aids the guerrillas agreed to act As guarantors of the Accord. The agreement commits Pakistan and Afghanistan to not support directly or indirectly rebellious or see pact on Bach Page Trade deficit figures stun Dollar new York a Slock prices and the Dollar plunged and interest Rales shot higher thursday after an unexpected bulge in the Trade deficit want Shock Waves through the financial markets. Related Story pages on Wall Street Llic do Jones Industrial average tumbled 35 Points within 20 minutes of the opening Bell on the new York Stock Exchange. I stabilized until after lunchtime. Ihen began sliding again and ended the Day at 2005.64. Off 101.46. The Dow s decline triggered a ban on the use of a form of computerized program trading on the new York Slock Exchange the first time the Collar has been triggered by a decline of 50 Points or More in the Dow. Traders scrambled to sell dollars Bonds and stocks after the Commerce department reported thursday morning that inc nation s Trade deficit had risen id is 3.8 billion in february. That was the Biggol Short fall since the record of j 17.6 billion in october and the second Mon Inry increase in a raw. Many economists had been end cling the deficit id narrow. Gold and Silver made Strong gains. The Dollar began falling sharply within seconds of see figures on Back Page a photo algerian Interior minister Al Hydl Kheduri learn air liner escorted by hooded Hojic Kara. Hostage pleads with Kuwait Algiers Algeria a a passenger aboard the Hijack red kuwaiti jetliner Al Algiers Airport pleaded Wilh his government thursday to Mckei the gunmen s demands As negotiations stalled in the Effort to end the 10-Day-old crisis. Algerian mediators and the shiite moslem hijackers suspended their talks for the release of the remaining passengers and Crew aboard the Kuwait airways Boeing 747, hijacked april j on a night from Bangkok Thailand to Kuwait the official algerian news Agency said. Alg Crit Presse service did not say Why the talks had been suspended but thursday evening the talks resumed. Three members of Kuwait s Royal family Are see Kuwait on Back