European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strides d 1988 worked to women s advantage Page 2 d new military civilian pay Scales Page 3 q Proxmire slams inauguration costs pages q Cleveland s sch Ottenheimer quits.,. Sports Page 21 authorized unofficial. Publication Fob the . Asked forces vol. 47, no. 254 thursday december 29, 19ft. No a Suu d 8693 a report links 747 crash to bomb Lockerbie. Scotland a investigators probing the pan am Jet crash Laid heal damage on the cargo Bay s Plas tic lining was caused most probably by an explosion in the Luggage Compart ment the London times reported wednesday. The newspaper also said some of the recovered bodies or the passengers and Crew or the Boeing 747 were found to have slivers of Metal embedded in them. But it remains la be proved thai a bomb canted the damage and injuries in the dec. 21 crash of right 103, it said. The newspaper did not identify the in head damage found in fining of cargo Bay Vasli galore and experts cited. One investigator indicated thai the cargo Bay lining was the most significant find the newspaper reported. Ii is made of Kevlar an extremely Strong but lightweight polymer compound ideally suited to aircraft construction. The signs of heat damage were clearly evident but it Wilt be to Cal to the scientists Al the ministry of defense s Royal armaments research and development establishment at fort Halstead in Ken to prove that the damage was caused by a bomb in said tests on a suitcase and wreckage from the plane began tuesday at the Center Britain s leading explosives research unit said transport department press officer Penny Russell Smith. All 259 aboard the Jet were killed and 11 Lockerbie residents in an area where a huge chunk of wreckage fell Are missing and presumed dead. The times said More suitcases which had been ripped by Metal fragments were also recovered tuesday. Experts believe that the damage and injuries arc incompatible with a catastrophic structural failure of the Jet the other possible cause of the disaster it said. The bodies of five americans killed in the crash began the journey Home tues Day night. In biting winds commonplace in Scot land hundreds of residents lined the streets of Lockerbie to pay silent tribute As a police motorcycle led a Long White see crash on Back Page. Paramedics remove an injured woman from an interstate pileup involving 60 vehicles near Salt Lake City. Air ground travel snarled in snowstorm aftermath Chicago a hundreds of weary travellers waited to Board flights at o Hare International Airport wednesday after being stranded because of a furious Winter storm. Downtown Chicago and o Hare had accumulations of 3 inches of Snow monday and 2 to 4 More inches More of tuesday. Elsewhere pans of the Northern California coast that had t seen any significant snowfall in 12 years got a dusting tuesday causing a pileup of More than 30 care worrying Citrus growers and forcing the Home less into shelters. Snow fail As far South As 30 Miles South of san Jose with 6 inches accumulating in part  which was hammered Christmas Day by a storm that dumped up to 2 feet of Snow in the North Ern mountains was locked in a deep freeze tuesday As were Colorado Wyoming and Nevada. Ice and fog combined to trigger a 50-car Rush hour pileup on inter state 215 South of Salt Lake City and 15 people suffered minor injuries authorities said. In Nevada the Mercury dropped Early tuesday to minus 27 at wild horse Reservoir in the Northeast part of the stale and read 19 in Las vegas. In Reno the body of a homeless Man was found Frozen to death monday. The Western cold snap was expected to continue until the weekend. Farther East Snow peppered parts of Central and northeastern Oklahoma As a Winter storm moved through the slate keeping police Busy with minor Auto accidents. \ Michigan and Northern Indiana which also were struck by the midwestern storm had rain and warm temperatures Wash away monday s Snow. This made it easier for motorists in Indiana to recover their cars from a series of traffic accidents including a massive pileup on interstate 69, that claimed six lives. But More Snow up to 8 inches in some areas was expected As a new storm moved in to the Region. At o Harc United airlines the Airport s biggest customer had delays of up to 40 minutes because of see storm on Back Page pen fag troops Quality on cuts boosts of life a took Back at i  Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon followed through in 1988 with i t drive to Field a leaner meaner Force in the next decade As the number of troops on Active Duft plunged by More than 33,000 compared to 9f7. While the size of the Force dwindles service members staying inf uniform will see improvements in their Quality of life because of two personnel victories by military officials on Capitol Hill this year. Be the big win was los 4.3 percent military pay raise the Pentagon s Ftp manpower priority Marine corps la. Genii Anthony Lucman said in an interview. He Isuji hic of the defense department s military manpower policy until Jan. I. Sec related Story be 2. The pay raise went to Tab rounds. Word came from Oil Tot Hill that he raise would be 2 percent 3jpcrccnt and 4 percent. At one Point there Wiki talk of freezing military pay at fiscal 1987 lev Els. In the end the pea lagon got what in Askell for4.3 percent. It was an in Ercolini  a House staffer said. The fact that