European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Adventure in the Alps stripes Magazine q base closures to be studied Page 5 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 q lakers eliminate san Antonio Page 17 vol. 47, no. 18 thursday May 5. 19h8 d8693 a Dukakis wins in Ohio Indiana Jackson in . By he Antoci Ilid press Michael Dukakis harvesting another pair of landslide primary victories sounded Ever More confident or his claim to the democratic presidential nomination while rival Jesse Jackson vowed wednesday that he s in the race All the Way despite setbacks in Ohio and Indiana. Republican George Bush looked ahead to the fall and cautioned his sup porters we be pot a Long any to Jackson scored an expected Victory tuesday in the District of Columbia Hul found himself slipping an additional 120 delegates behind Dukakis who won handily in Ohio and Indiana. His latest victories moved Dukakis to fewer than 600 Delegate from the 2,031 i needs to Clinch the nomination. He also moved More than Flo ahead of his Only rival. But Jackson gave no sign he was ready in end what he colled a struggle Tor the direction of our Patty and the soul of our nation/1 we re within striking Jackson said on lbs s this morning program. It s not Over really till it s Sao Dukakis on Back Page checks Are in the mail merchants says financial writer merchants no Jpn Bank officials Are sticking to their plan to gel my checks la customers this week despite problems in tipping and mailing the Esti mated 35 tons of Check is the Indianapolis which assumed control of military Banks in we Germany Greece and the Netherlands on sunday Haa Mcd to Jet 75 of Floc free checks to most customers by 4pnday. That plan has slipped by a few Days said be army will i separation note to 1,200 cos wish Lonrlon Bureau Washington about 1,200 substandard cos will be booted out of the army before oct. 15 to help the service meet a congressional order cutting enlisted strength by 8.000. Those Alt Clad More than half of whom Are sergeants and staff sergeants represent the total number of army members now barred from re enlisting under the qualitative management 1 program personnel officials said. A normally such soldiers arc allowed to stay on Active duly until their current enlistment expires bum hat could be four to sin years depending on when Lucy re enlisted and for How Long. Of commanders arc concerned that arc being lost through other troop strength Ofiu Clun pro Grams such As voluntary Early cutbacks on new recruits while substandard i cos Are being retained. Of if we have to make such a big Cut Why should we Force ourselves to slow promotions release Quality people Early and do other the tags that ultimately Hurt us said one personnel of Fidfl. We should gel rid of the people already substandard who have demonstrated perform and or discipline problems and kill two Birds with one under the Prog inf approved april 15 by Delbert Spurlock the arms manpower chief soldiers with bars to re enlist Mufu will separate within 90 Days of notification. The Only exception is for those who Al see Neq on Back Page cause of a larger than expected number of outdated Apo addresses an other mailing foul . Additionally the ship bringing tin checks from the United states was delayed at sea. There s no grand panic said Gary Schlic idler a banking Liaison officer with the . European come who is monitoring the transition Between and american express. Customers still have 1j� american express checks. They re Good and we tic Good through the month of Hay. As we icy a customers who do not receive their checks.? Friday should Stop b Sci merc local Bank for some of the problems began when ordered the new checks from Cluse the priming company that had handled Ameri iness before the transition. Apparently a lot of people arriving overseas or a Rcd new checks before they had a permanent to number so some of the checks arrived without Correct Box numbers he said. Faced with trying to figure out Mailbox numbers for see checks on Back Page for bombs aside the Bis. The two Pound bomb huh was a to by explosives experts As attached to car in a parking lot at the military insinuation. British soldiers use mirrors to Chi a car it the in trance of a British my do Onwu demoed it Ger Many after homemade bomb was discovered duller s
