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June 3,1988 Good morning 3t.fmr.rii. 08693 a Congress mood will decide gis pay raises for next year by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington next year de pending on the mood of Congress scr inc members could get a 4 percent pay raise with a percent hike in housing allowance or a 4.3 percent across the Board boost the pay raise is one of a number of personnel issues along with almost 700 other defense related provisions due to be settled by House and Senate conferees who will Eccl within two weeks 10 Iron out differences in their respective ver Sions of the $299.5 billion defense authorization Bill for 1989.the Senate granting the administration s full 4.3 percent pay raise request took to heart the pleas of Pentagon officials that continued Caps on military pay would Hurt efforts to maintain current recruiting and retention Levels. The raise in each of the past two years has been Only 2 percent. The House however approved a 4 percent raise in Basic pay and voted to use the remaining Money to fund a 7percent hike in Basic allowance for quarters and to help pay for increased household goods shipments weight Lim its. Pentagon officials Are leery of such a move claiming thai i would discriminate against the Many single members living on base who Don t draw housing allowances. Both the House and Senate support increased weight limits for household goods shipments but neither is eager to fund it  the House plan would Cut he 4.3 percent raise to pay for the higher weight limits the Senate would require the defense department to pay for the weight increase out of sex isl ing  personnel topic discussed in the conference will be officer cuts. Thesee pay on Back Page Hope of finding mine survivors fades a Coal mine writer stands near a broken window after the explosion wednesday in Borlon West Germany. Crorken West Germany a workers digging feverishly through tans of debris pulled 12 bodies from a Coal Shaft rocked by a fierce explosion and officials said they arc certain All 57 miners had been killed. Thursday. Gottfried mild the Hesse slate Interior minister said 36 bodies had been found in the Shaft. Among those killed was an 18-year-old on his first Day at  was West Germany s worst mining Accident in More than 26  least 4 of the men trapped 330 feel under ground were turkish immigrant workers. Some of the victims had survived he blast but died when their emergency masks ran out of oxygen officials said. Family and friends had kept an Alt night Vigil in the mining town of Yorken 70 Miles Northeast of Frank Furt waiting for the latest word on wednesday s disaster. Thursday Rescue workers used sensitive listening devices searching without Success for any signs of life. The chances of finding any survivors have sunk to Zero said Hesse stale mining director Wolf Bocatch Erwin Braun head of the Hesse stale mining Board told reporters thursday that the explosion was caused by a methane Gas  work is being hindered by heavy damage and Rescue teams can proceed Only with oxygen masks he said explaining that there Gilill was the danger of a methane Gas buildup in the  said Carbon monoxide Levels inside the mine had receded but were still  of the dead were found with their miners breath ing masks on he said which Means they survived the blast and apparently ran out of air. The breath ing devices provide about three hours of  miners were killed by the explosion itself and will be hard to identify because of the extent of their injuries Braun said. Overseas teachers Union sues to Block drug testing by Dave Walczak education writer a teachers Union has filed suit in fed eral District court to Stop the military s overseas school system from randomly testing teachers for drug use. The overseas education association filed the suit May 16 in Northern District court in san Francisco. A Union attorney said the court would begin hear ing the Case aug. 24. The school system has yet Locsi teachers for drug use. However a Union source predicted wednesday that bar ring a court injunction. Department of defense dependents schools officials would begin random drug testing of teachers when they return to work aug. 23 for the beginning of the 986-89 school year. School officials were unsure when the see testing on sack Page Britain gives president Royal Welcome in London London a Britain rolled out the pomp and panoply thursday to Welcome president Reagan on what is probably his last visit to this Island As president. Reagan and his wife. Nancy in route Nome from the Moscow sum Mil had Tea with Queen Elizabeth ii at Buckingham Palace before going to dinner with prime minister Margaret Thatcher. On Friday he is to deliver a speech on East West relations at the head quarters of the lord mayor of London by slopping to Brief Thatcher on see Britain on Back Page