European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / Page 24 / y the stars and stripes Friday september 9,1988 Rar Pilot killed . Officer Hurt in crash it. .ex"1" from stuff and wire report Cal West Germany a British Royal air Force fighter Jet on a raining flight from Hahn a crashed wednesday near Stuttgart killing the British Pilot and injuring an american officer inboard. Police in Cal about 21 Miles South Easl of Stuttgart said the crash occurred at about ii . In an open Field the associated press reported. In a statement to the news Media police said the air plane hit a Hj-1 Uii line just before it crashed but it could riot be determined if that was the cause 6tthe  std the British Pilot of the Jaguar Jet was killed. An american flying Ashe second member of the Crew was injured when he ejected. Police said lie Watanen to a local Hospital for treatment first it. Jerry o. Black of the 50thtac fighter Wing at harm a received minor a Jurist said maj. Greg Smith a17th air Force spokesman. A spokesman for the Royal air Force Al monchengladbach West Germany told the stars and stripes that Black was but we  fact that Lieuten on an orientation flight to Rani Ariz i air stack will be Able to Brief the Board  tin Ontimar i non Ratinaud finn int Fri Urt Tat Itaw Mph in Tell la himself with the Jaguar s o it is part of  allow a fre flow of  in tactics and proce Only Between the British and crimans hut Between All of the nato air  Wim commander . " "".,_ Tavner said he did not know at wha Altitude the aircraft was flying but said it would be investigated by the Tea looking into the crash. The crash was terribly unfortunate. Of inquiry on what happened up to the moment he left the aircraft Tavner  Jaguar is a two Seal training ver Sion of the British fighter bomber. Tan or said there were no munitions aboard the  army of the Rhine spokesman col. Michel Baugniet told the a that the aircraft was from Raf col shall in England and was in West Germany for training. British mail service at near standstill Speed limit London a postal deliveries were nearly at a halt and 100 million pieces of undelivered mail piled tip wednesday in a week old nationwide strike that idled More than half of the country s 180,000 postal workers. The strikes left Only two of 82 mechanized sorting offices in operation one in Belfast Northern Ireland and one i Gloucester All 11,000 collection mail boxes in London were  National postal service said that the backlog of undelivered letters an parcels reached 100 million equivalent to the amount of mail delivered into working Days. In Washington the . Postal service announced it is Emba going mail to Britain because of the strike by postal  embargo was requested by the British postal administration because fits inability to handle any volume of mail a postal service statement  to Britain will be returned to senders. People who get such mail Bacican apply to their local Post office for a refund of the  British Mai users association said the postal dispute was costing Brit ish Industry $43 million a Day. The postal service said talks were underway. South Wales electricity pledged that no customers would be Cut off during the strike because of unpaid  National federation of the self employed and Small businesses rep resenting about 50,000 Small companies said Many companies could be in trouble if the strike continues because of the delay in receiving  with the threat of empty spaces in ice tors to the editor columns the times the daily Telegraph and the Independent invited readers to Send letters by fax machine and the bbl invited i Isth Nurs to Dic Tate their letters by  couriers were profiling from the labor  express u.k., which says it is Britain s largest courier said its 26 nationwide depots hired extra workers to handle a 400 percent increase in business since the strike began. The labor action began aug. 31 with a24-hour strike called by the Union of communication workers which said twas unfair to offer bonuses to Junior employees Only in selected  weekly bonuses of about $12.52 to $33.40 were Given to new staffers i London and Southeast England where the postal service has trouble recruiting and keeping workers. The Union represents 140,000 postal workers. The Post office says that More than 90,000 of them were on  postal worker refused to return to work on sept. 1 because local manag ers hired extra temporary workers to help Clear the backlog of mail. The walk outs since have escalated. Raised in Italy Rome a the italian Cabinet on wednesday approved an increase in the Speed limit on  ii to 130 Kph 81 Mph but voted to retain a new 110 Kph 68 Mph limit on holidays. The government lowered Speed limits in july in an Effort id reduce accidents in Holiday traffic. Before the Gammer the limit for super highways was 140 Kph 87 Mph and the limit for smaller Highway was 110 Kph 68 Mph. The superhighway limit was changed in july to 110 Kph 8 Mph and the lower figure to 90 Kph 56 Mph. The Cabinet voted wednesday to maintain the Standard on smaller highways the lower Limalu have raised protests from West Germany whose tourists Nock to Italy la the summer. The Cabinet also approved a Law Mak ing use of Seal twits mandatory beginning next year. Soyuz from Page 1 near the charred capsule. The problems began after the capsule Undeck dearly tuesday from Mir the space station where Lyakhov and Mohmand spent six Days with three other cosmonauts. After boarding their capsule and unlocking from Mir he cosmonauts made two attempts to re enter the atmosphere on tuesday. Izvestia quoted Blagoev As giving a philosophical answer to reporters asking whether technical problems or mistakes by Mission control or the capsule Crew hereto blame for the Landing delay. Life is guilty a coincidence of circumstances Bla gov said. Izvestia said tuesday s first Landing attempt was aborted when an infrared sensor used in guiding the spacecraft malfunctioned. The sensor locked onto the wrong tracking reference Point and belatedly started an engine that slows the Craft for re entry. The Cosmo nauts manually overrode the system and shut Down the engine the newspaper said. A second attempt was made three hours later. The sensor put the Craft in the Correct position but an on Board computer then used an old trajectory program and an engine bum was incomplete. The old program had been in the computer since the soyuz tm-5 s last flight. With a soviet bulgarian Crew in june according to Vestia. The newspaper then listed a question and comment it said reporters put to Blagoev Why with this did the commander instead of turning off the computer and completely transferring to a manual control regime again give a command tothe machine which could not be corrected for the continued working of the engine and Only when the engine was shut off by an Indi cation of a loss of ship stabilization did he do what he should have done from the very beginning Stop the dynamic operation and wait for communication with the control Center to report about the  Izvestia did not say whether Blagoev responded specifically to these comments but quoted him As saying we still must painstakingly study the whole  forge from pago\1 Senate plan to discuss a Compromise Bill on Mili tary spending that Calls for a leaner Pentagon Bud get and could impose a ceiling on overseas spend ing obliging the a is to pick up the rest of the the Tab. Defense Secretary and stripes that some version of the Bill Iro lakes a punitive approach that is not the approach said. The last thing we so Carlucci told the startle language in the Senate us a bit because it Den sharing. Be been taking Beis for the United states to say we re going to do ice. And we re going la impose this on the european because that would break Down the consensus us is emerging on this  the allies believe that Burden Sharii ply a matter of measuring How much Mon try is spending on its defense Carlucci it s very much a mistake to measure sharing by percentage of Gnu Gross Natick Ucol spent on defense. It includes the Enthat is made available the risks  said. Thai s Why i prefer to Call it rifts role an responsibilities As opposed to Buwen sharing. I be argued to broaden the definition of Burden Shar ing j nato which apparently a Joncurs with Carlucci definition formed a work committee in May to look at the Burden  in All its forms. The committee s report is do in december. In the meantime Regan administration officials ave Beld a series of ski with europeans explain ing the us position on the Issue and warning that however the Burden ultimately is measured the time has come for the allies to do More. Deputy Secretary of defense William m. Taft in has made several trips to Europe and will Likely make Anou Jer before the end of the year. Tall Bat told european Leaden that concern Over Federal budget deficits the rising importance of the Pacific rim anal growing instability in other parti of the world have contributed to e climate that is causing Many to rethink the . Role la nato. Along with a general sense that the allies do no sufficiently appreciate the . Role in the defense of Europe there i the belief to put it quite Sim ply that our allies Are prosperous enough to do More than they do now. Ten said in a speech i London this year. At least some of the allies however believe the current Burden sharing talk in to much election year rhetoric. Earlier this year the Turo can allies issued report outlining their due of nato s defense Bur Den. According to fee report europeans provide 95percent of nato s ground divisions 90 percent of the manpower and artillery 80 percent of the Tan Sand combat Prcraft and 65 percent of the Alliance s major wan hips. Far from ducking the Burden sharing Issue Ich allies such As Norway have begun Rura g. About their own share of the Burden of de coding Europe. Vice . Torulf rein a senior norwegian com Mander said ibid week that his country hosts More nato exercises than it can afford. Lack of resources especially Lack of personnel arc stretching us to the limit he told the a Tenpo ten newspaper. Norway is currently involved in the nato exer Cise teamwork 88, which involves 45,000 men 340 aircraft and 200 wan hips from nine countries. For i country such Ai Norway which maintains Only a tall conscript army and pays it reservists Over be for wetting More than eight noun a Day the to has been Flaa Dally heavy rein said what extent the United states redefines its nato Respondi blues Likely will be shaped in the Olhs. A military official caution however a Bow the Burden sharing Banc i Multi Ved major exercises such at reformer Irant to be sharply reduced or Dinv that no mately Are to rated we Wanter training an2 Pic id , in a recent in but bigger tart efficiency we re to looking for the Best. Power sure that we can get the prop we provide the proper Eum r. Galvin nato s com nut with the Star and stripes belter. We re looking Forfar effectiveness. We Are display of our combat