European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Back in the Saddle stripes Magazine d Nobel chemistry physics prizes Page 3 d Randy Barmett s car Corner Page 13 d world series action sports Section the  Impf Neil  Job Tim u.�. Rid reflect Good morning vol. 47, no. 18s thursday october 20, 1988 St of d 8693 a death toll May hit 164 in 2 India plane crashes Ahmadabad. India a an Indian airlines Boeing 737 Irving to land in Hick fog crashed and exploded wednesday killing 130 people officials said. Laler authorities said a plane leased from Indian airlines slammed into a Hill during heavy rain. And All 34 people aboard were believed dead. Five survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage of the 737 after in hit a tree and a Power line near Ahmadabad Airport 500 Miles Southwest of new Delhi. The twin engine Jet was carrying 129 passengers and a six member Crew from Bombay to Ahmadabad. An Airport police inspector , said the Pilot made More than one Landing attempt and lost Contact with the control Tower about a minute continued on Back Page Senate oks veterans court new a status by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington in a bum oblast to Cuiule activity the Senate gave veterans Christmas in october by approving the Elevation or the veterans administration to Cabinet level status and by passing a Bill that would set up a new Federal court to handle appeals of veterans benefits cases. Both Bills passed on voice votes tues Day As the Senate worked to dear its Calendar prior to Congress adjournment which probably will come Early next  a Cabinet Bill was passed by the House two weeks ago and now goes to president Reagan who is expected to sign it. The a would become the 14th Cabinet level department next March. Such an Elevation has Long been championed by the nation s 27 million Veter ans who have argued that a representative on the president s Cabinet would give them More say in budget negotiations. But in was t until Reagan suddenly announced support of the proposal last november that Congress began to warm to the  More contentious Issue has been that of granting veterans judicial review for benefits claims denied by the Board of veterans appeals a quasi Judie Iai Arm of the a that now is the last resort for  More than 50 years veterans have been barred by Law from suing the a Over benefits the staffer said. Their sol resort has been the Bra which includes More than 60 hearing officers who sit on 21  Senate has passed at least five Bills in the past decade that would allow veterans to Lake their cases directly to Federal count when the Board denies  those Bills have died in the House veterans affairs committee in the face of Strong opposition by that panel s chairman rep Sonny Montgomery. D  s concent has been that allowing judicial review of claims would destroy the historically non adversarial relationship Between the a and Veter sae veterans on Back Page Ess l.  Lilii  of Hope a welder using a plasm Torch on Metal sends Sparks Hying As he Gorki at Job that spells hop for the future. See Story on Page 3. House panel upset Over Dod plan to hike tobacco beverage prices by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington a congressional panel has vowed to use legislation if necessary to Block a Tenta Tive Pentagon plan that would halt sales of cigarettes i military commissaries and boost prices on tobacco and alcoholic beverages sold in military exchanges Starling in january. The House armed services committee s morale welfare and recreation panel in a Sharp letter to Secre tary of defense Frank Carlucci last week said the Planis ill conceived and would amount to a to on military personnel and their families particularly those serving overseas. The plan is contained in a sept. 28 memo from the defense resources Board to Deputy Secretary of de sense William h. Taft in according to an aide on Themer panel who asked not to be identified. The plan apparently is designed 10 boost mar revenues by increasing Exchange sales. The aide said the memo contained four alternative plans raise prices on tobacco products in exchanges sea plan on Back Page Shultz re elfed Iran offer to Swap hostages for . Efs official says Washington a Iran offered to secure the release of four american hostages in Lebanon in Exchange for 16 .-Buill fighter jets owned by Chile but Secretary of stale George Shulti rejected the Deal according to a Reagan administration official. Confirming the substance but not the specifics of an Abc to report the official said tuesday night. We turned it off definitely in Santiago in Israel and  the official who would comment on the Story Only if his name was withheld called the proposal one example of Many in the last few years of people offer ing  another . Official who also demanded anonymity said that in is Correct there was no Deal nor was there any . Government interest. The United states did not and does not discuss deals for  Abc said the complicated scheme began last de Cember. It said Iran was desperate for weapons to use in its War with Iran and initially approached the chilean government using a group of arms dealer from Argentina Israel and Britain along with several iranians living in Europe. The Deal which in its original form would have bypassed the . Government contemplated sending see Swap on Back Page classified ads today