European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2b the stars and stripes wednesday december 1988 up worker gets grand paycheck As in 10 grand by Rosemary Sawyer stiff writer when Diane Vachon opened her paycheck thurs Day she was surprised but not too surprised. Granted the Check appeared to be Tor ,000, twice her Normal paycheck but she just Fig ured payroll officials had t realized they had Al ready compensated her for a missed paycheck. Be sides she was t paying Loo much attention she Aid. But when Vachon mentioned the extra Money to a co worker at the 4th brigade dining facility in Mainz West Germany her Friend looked at the Check stub and with wide eyes said that s not 11,000, that s j 10,000." sure enough upon studying the . Treasury Check Vachon saw $10,143.94 alongside the statue of Liberty staring Back out at her. It was a  the dining Hall up shift Leader said but 1 knew it was t mine. Vachon said she never considered keeping the Check although a few co workers advised her to put it in an interest drawing account for a while. I Tiess i m just Chicken she said. I did t want to be put in  although Vachon would t have landed behind ban she would have received a phone Call by the end of this week said sue Pfeiffer director of civil Ian pay for the 266th theater finance Center. A routine computer Check would have caught the Blooper she said. Vachon 31, returned the Check monday to finance Center officials in sch Elzinger who thanked her and then proceeded to Issue her a second Check for the wrong amount. This time the Check was for "s1,000 something Vachon said. Financial officials issued a third Check while she waited. Hopefully this one s right Vachon said. I m not sure because it did t have a statement with  the first error occurred when a payroll clerk was inputting figures on a computer screen Pfiffer explained. A slip up gave Vachon j9,93.64 in Post allowance. And according to financial records Vachon still was due Money for an extra pay period Pfeiffer said in explaining the second Check. If she could have kept the 10 grand. Vachon Sald he would have bought her husband Robert anew car because i just had an Accident and messed my Mercedes  since the fat Check was t hers to keep however she said she d Settle for the next Best thing a photocopy she made before resuming the original Loschel Zingen. Gorbachev chief s death in crash of f-16 leaves 16th air Force in Shock from Page 1. Ful Days. We Are certainly prepared to make our contribution toward that cud Gorbachev spoke in russian with the English trans lation read by Viktor Sukhu Dreyer a soviet foreign ministry official who has translated a .-Sovicl summits for two decades. Gorbachev was accompanied to new York by for eign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze politburo member Alexander n. Yakovlev and Deputy Premier Vladimir Kamont Sci according to the official Tass news Agency. Yuri Dubinin the soviet ambassador to washing ton and his predecessor Anatoly Dobrynin who Isnow a foreign policy adviser to Gorbachev also were on hand at the Airport. There was Advance word that the soviet Leader May offer new proposals to Case superpower tensions strengthen  nations and improve the world s  . Official acknowledged the possibility of a grand gesture such As a reduction of soviet troops in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. It is plausible they would do it on the eve of the opening of negotiations with the West and also As Public relations move said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official Lold the associated press that the Sovi ets gave no formal notification in Advance of Gorba Chev s visit of a troop  the offi Cial said it is certainly on our list of expectations the North Atlantic treaty organization and the Warsaw pact arc expected to open talks on reducing troops tanks and other non nuclear farces Early next year. A motorcade of some 45 limousines including Sovi it diplomats. . Officials and Security officers headed for Manhattan giving the City the first taste or the traffic tie  expected during the Gorbachev three Day stay. It was the first visit by a soviet Leader to new York since Nikita Khrushchev a 9