European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday August 7,1988 overseas go pullout proposed in report continued from Page 1 ate was considering legislation that would Force . Allies in Japan and Western Europe to do More. The report was prepared by a defense policy sub committee which held a series of hearings on the subject. It said the United states should perform a Zero based study of . Military bases and commitments overseas in order to assess and prioritize . Interests in various countries and regions of the world and realign and possibly withdraw some . Forces in some  no locations or possible troop Levels that might be withdrawn were spelled out in the report. But it did note that the panel was t in favor of near term Large scale . Troop withdrawals from Europe so Long As a reasonable p9ssibility exists for negotiating asymmetrical conventional Force reductions with the soviet  the Reagan administration s attempt at persuading . Allies to do More simply has t worked the report said and won t be effective unless the United states is ready to act. As Long As the . Accepts carrying a disproportionate share of the free world s defense Bur news briefs doctor Calls Bush healthy As people half his age Washington up vice president George Bush despite a somewhat enlarged pros Tate bothersome arthritis and Hay fever each Spring can keep up with people half his age his White House physician reported. The Rosy physical assessment by or. Rodney Savage was made at Bush s request and warned Only that he needs to continue exercising care in the Sun to avoid a recurrence of skin cancer and be cautious about his slight hearing loss to ensure it gets no worse. Based on Bush s most recent physical examination on May 23, As Well a study of the vice president s health records dating Back to 1967, Savage told Bush in the aug. 3 letter you re main a vigorous athlete. Your ability to com plete a packed official and political schedule out distances fit men and women half your  the vice president who is just weeks away from picking up the Republican presidential nomination in new Orleans released the letter and some supporting documentation after the minor stir surrounding democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis refusal to release a Complete medical history. American completes swim across English Channel Dover England a american Peter Jurzynski swam the English Channel from France to England in 13 hours 24 minutes on saturday the Channel swimming association said. Jurzynski 36, crossed the Channel from Cap gris Nez on the North coast of France and landed at St. Margaret s Bay on England s South coast. Last year Jurzynski swam from England to France in 15 07, said association Secretary Audrey Scott. He wanted to make the return trip this year she added. An american woman Penny Lee Dean of California holds the Speed record across the Channel. She crossed from Shakespeare Beach to Cap gris Nez on july 29, 1978, in 7 40. Demars nominated for key Pentagon Job Washington a vice adm. Bruce Demars has been nominated by president Rea Gan for a promotion and assignment As the director of the naval nuclear propulsion program the Pentagon said. Assuming confirmation by the Senate Demars 53, will receive his fourth Star and the rank of Admiral in assuming the Post which is attached to the department of Energy As Well As the Navy. Demars a native of Chicago now is the assistant chief of naval operations for undersea warfare. Den the allies will be reluctant to assume a greater share the report said. It noted that both Japan and Western Europe were rebuilt from the wreckage of world War ii chiefly with . Aid. Now those areas Are Strong. Many americans feel that we Are competing 100 percent militarily with the soviets and 100 percent economically with our defense allies it said. Some have said that the United states has incurred All the burdens of Empire and few if any of the  speaking of the 16-member North Atlantic treaty organization the report states in the strongest Possi ble terms that europeans had better be prepared to defend their own territory without a Large scale . Ground commitment because that commitment can not be guaranteed  the United states maintains about 325,000 military personnel in Western Europe. If the europeans determine that a Large Airlift of . Ground forces might still be necessary in the future to fight a major european War the non-. Mem Bers of nato should collectively agree to pay 60 per cent of the acquisition and operating costs of the c-17 Fleet the report proposed. The air Force has started buying the first of what is intended to be a Fleet of 260 c-17s, which will be the service s main Large scale transport in future decades. Acquisition costs Are estimated at $40 billion. The report noted that that the the japanese Constitution written with . Approval imposes curbs on that country s military forces. However the japanese can should and must do More in defense As Well As other Security related  the Senate will renew work monday on a Pentagon budget Bill which puts some restrictions on . Troops overseas. The measure orders a 10 percent reduction in . Overseas dependents by 1991, limits the total deploy ment to Japan and South Korea of 94,450 personnel and says that any increased costs of . Deployments beyond 1988 Levels should be paid for by the allies. We simply must change the share of the Burden borne by the United states and borne by our allies said sen. Bennett Johnston d-la., a chief sponsor of the Senate proposal. The present Assumption that the Alliance defense is our Job with which the allies Only help that Assumption will be changed if the Bill is passed Johnston said recently. It will be our premise our purpose from this Day Forward that defense of the Alliance the nato Alli Ance As Well As our Pacific allies is a Mutual concern and the Burden should be fairly shared he said. Glenn from Page 1 recommended a 2.4 percent increase in Federal pay but Congress enacted Only a 2 percent raise. Glenn has problems with the linkage of military and Federal civilian pay and the loophole that renders the pay commission useless. That Law is no longer valid and we need to do some work on it he said. We can t afford to let government pay get further behind the private  Glenn has no formal proposal but suggested retain ing the current system linking Federal pay to the labor department professional administrative technical and clerical Index a measure of White Collar wages. Military pay could be tied to the labor department employment Cost Index a measure of annual wage Ira claims responsibility for Disseldorf bombing Belfast Northern Ireland up the Ira claimed responsibility saturday for planting a bomb at a British  base in Disseldorf West Germany and Security along the Border with the Republic of Ireland was stepped up amid reports a banned american activist would seek to enter the province. The claim was made at the end of a week in which six people were killed and More than two dozen wounded in a spate of attacks Ira sources said were aimed at showing the British  it had failed to police the territory properly since it was its deploy ment in Northern Ireland in 1969. Officials said they were concerned that Martin Gal Vin Leader of the . Fund raising organization no raid would attempt to Cross the Border into Northern Ireland and address a rally. Hikes for 90 million private sector workers. The eci puts the Gap Between military and private sector pay at More than 11 percent. That would be one approach Glenn said. I m not sure yet if that s what Well try to do. Maybe we can somehow tie an automatic pay raise to the quadrennial review of military compensation. The key is to close the loophole that makes it so easy to Cap raises because of budgetary or political  the Legal provision that Calls for Matching raises for Federal civilians and service members also must go he said. It makes no sense because you can t compare Mili tary jobs to other jobs Glenn said. A clerk in the department of labor and a clerk in the department of agriculture May do the same Job but a military clerk in the defense department May also be required to pick up a gun and go shoot people at some Point. How do you compare those kinds of duties for wage purposes what is the civilian equivalent of an infantryman we re talking about totally different  when the 1967 Law was passed that linkage favored service members because military pay had begun to fall behind civil service wages. But in the late 1970s, Glenn said Caps on Federal pay also held military pay Down leading Many people out of the services. Retention Levels were so poor that Congress approved an 11.7 percent raise in 1980 and 14.3 percent in 1981 to help Stem the exodus. That kind of situation should never have happened Glenn said. We can t afford to let it happen  because Federal pay raises Are a popular budget Cut Ting option in Congress Glenn is unsure How far his initiative will get. All i can do is try he said. I think Well get a favourable response. It s just too important to put off. I Don t have a time schedule yet but i d like to Intro Duce legislation in the next session when Well have a new  trains derail in Montana Missouri Saco Mont. A two trains derailed saturday one sending 163 people to a Hospital in Montana and another forcing the evacuation of about 1,000 people in Missouri. Thirteen passengers and an Amtrak employee remained hospitalized in Montana after a 12-car train derailment that was blamed on tracks warped by heat near Saco. Hospitals treated and released 149 passengers said sue Martin an Amtrak spokeswoman in Washington. In Elsberry mo., 14 cars of a freight train derailed and struck a tank of diesel fuel that exploded authorities said. No injuries were reported. The Amtrak train in Montana in route from Chi Cago to Seattle was travelling at 79 Mph when it was derailed Friday. At least five of nine passenger cars toppled throwing passengers from their seats and Leav ing 165 injured authorities said. The train was carrying about 375 passengers and a Crew of 10 to 15, Amtrak officials said. Amtrak made arrangements saturday to get passengers to their Desti nations. The Engineer said the derailment was caused by deformed rails in nearly 100-degree temperatures. About 85 passengers left on a bus for Spokane wash., and other passengers planned to Fly to their destinations Martin said. Investigators from the National transportation safety Board and Burlington Northern Railroad which owns the track were due saturday Martin said. Meanwhile a 10 to 12-Block area was evacuated in Missouri because of a fire and potential chemical hazards caused by the freight train derailment and subsequent explosion a Lincoln county spokeswoman said. The 113-car southbound train from Galesburg 111., to St. Louis was derailed about 6 45 a.m., said burling ton Northern Railroad spokesman Brian Sweeney. Several cars hit the diesel tank causing the explosion Sweeney said. At least one car carrying lumber caught fire As Well. A Missouri state Highway patrol spokesman said firefighters were letting the diesel fire Burn itself out. Missouri Highway 79 was blocked at the North and South edges of Elsberry a town of about 3,000. Traffic was rerouted around the town which is about 50 Miles Northwest of St. Louis