European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday february 25,1989 hews updates Gorbachev ends trip Moscow a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ended on Friday a five Day perestroika promoting trip to the Ukraine and returned to Moscow the Tass news Agency said. The soviet Leader visited the Cit ies of Kiev Lvov and Donetsk and wound up the tour with a visit thursday to the chernobyl nuclear Plant the site of the world s worst nuclear Accident. At each Stop Gorbachev took his message directly to the people urging them to support his pro Gram of economic and social re form known As perestroika. His visit to the chernobyl plan twas important symbolically be cause of Public criticism following the april 1986 Accident that killed at least 31 people and released nuclear Cloud that eventually circled the Globe. Gorbachev met workers Farmer Sand communist party activists and spoke to groups of people on the streets at each of the visited cities. Doctors in Vietnam Bangkok Thailand a a group of american doctors on a humanitarian Mission to Vietnam has helped local surgeons operate on More than 50 children with congenital Mouth deformities vietnamese news report said. The surgeons operated to Cor rect Cleft lips and palates at the Olof palme Institute for the Protection of children s health in Hanoi the official Vietnam new Agency said in a report monitored in Bangkok. The doctors the first group of american physicians to visit Viet Nam since the communists too Power in 1975, travelled there last week and planned to do reconstructive surgery on 100 children. They were to stay until saturday. The group. Operation smile i based in Norfolk va., and is one of several private non profit organizations responding to the . Government s recommendation that Vietnam be Given private Aid in humanitarian Fields. Safe chief presents Check to help victims of 2 tragedies by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau saying he hoped the donations would help ease the pain caused by recent air Craft accidents in West Germany Safe commander Gen. William l. Kirk has presented $110,000 to the Ger Man red Cross to help victims of the Ramstein and Remscheid air tragedies. Like the red Cross the people of . Military care for their fellow Man Kirk said in presenting the Money thursday. Following the Ramstein and Remscheid accidents we joined our Ger Man neighbors in grief and shared the desire to help in every possible Way. Our people wanted to demonstrate their  nearly $90,000 of the Money was raised by americans for Ramstein air show victims and their families through fund raisers such As Benefit concerts a read a Thon by american schoolchildren in bad Kreuz Nach Road rallies grocery bagging and a bicycle event at Soester Berg a in the Netherlands. Seventy people were killed and hundreds were injured at the aug. 28 air show when three italian air Force Jet collided. One plane crashed near a crowd of spectators. The German red Cross plans to give160,000 West German Marks or about $88,000, of the Money to its Kaiserslautern county Branch for immediate Finan Cial help to people injured at the Ramstein show. The rest of the Money was raised for victims of the Remscheid Accident by More than 30 military chapels through out Safe and by individual  the individual donors Kirk said were germans who wanted to help the widow and children of air Force capt. Michael Foster. Foster was the a-10 Thunderbolt i Pilot who was killed when his plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood of the West German City of Remscheid on dec. 8 during a routine training mis Sion. Four people on the ground also were killed in the Accident. This Money was raised totally by voluntary Means motivated by the humanitarian spirit that binds our Peoples Kirk said. These donations. Are Symbol of our True caring for the people touched by these tragedies. We know we cannot completely erase the effects of these unfortunate events but my Hpe i that this occasions and others wife help ease the  / j Botho Prinz Zug Sayn Wittgenstein the German red Cross president accepted the Money. The presentation ceremony at the International emergency Aid Agency s offices in Bonn was attended by . Horst Jungkurth inspector general of the West German air Force Ramstein mayor Julius Duvivier Brig. Gen. Law rence e. Boese the 316th air div com Mander and other . And German officials. The red Cross president said the american donations along with Money collected from German contributors to tales More than 500,000 Marks or about $275,000. In addition to immediate assistance for victims the Money will be spent for special education and plastic surgery be said. G Dollar s rebound cutting cola rate for Many Dod workers in Europe Heidelberg West Germany is the Dollar s recent robust performance is decreasing Cost of living allow ances by up to 50 percent for Many department of defense civilian employees in West Germany according to a person Nel official with the . Army in Europe. Civilian employees in West German who have been receiving the allowance at classification rate 10 will Start receiving it at the lowest level classification rate 5, said Amy Boardman at the Susareu civilian personnel division. For army civilian employees the change went into effect with the pay period that began feb. 12 and will appear i March 9 paychecks. Air Force civilian employee allowance changes also went into effect feb. 12 and will appear in paychecks dated March 3. Employees in the West German cities ariane launch threatened by strike . Reviews cuban rights record of Bonn Buren Cologne Dusseldorf Hannover Hemer Jillich Kerpen Koblenz and Sheinberg As Well As Berlin went from classification rate 15 to 10 beginning with the Jan. 29 pay period Boardman said. Other allowance changes that went into effect Jan. 29 include reduction from classification rate 30 to 25 in the Netherlands and from classification rate20 to 15 in Belgium. The Cost of Liying pay known As the Post allowance is paid to full time non appropriated fund employees hired from the United states and All full time .appropriated fund employees. The state department determines Al Lowance rates by comparing local living costs with the Cost of living in washing ton. Civilian employees in isolated areas with no military support facilities prepaid at a higher classification rate. Employees in West Germany first received Post allowance in july 1987 As a result of the falling Dollar. The most re cent rate adjustments were in november. An individual s Post allowance i based on salary and number of family members. At classification rate 5, an employee without family earning Between $16,000 and $17,999 annually receives $410 per year or half the classification 10 rate of $820 per year. The same employee with one family member will receive $460 per year Down from the classification 10 rate of $920. At classification rate 5, an employee earning Between $28,000 and $29,999 receives $575 per year without family members and $650 per year with on family member compared with the classification 10 rates of $1,150 without family and $ 1,300 with one family Mem Ber. Paris a a strike by workers atthe european space Center launch site in French Guiana threatened to delay the launch of an ariane rocket next week. The rocket is scheduled to blast of Between 10 31 . Tuesday and 1 34 . Wednesday carrying into orbit Europe s first operational meteorological satellite and Japan s first commercial telecommunications satellite. Last wednesday 230 workers employed at the Kourou French Guiana launch site by the French company Thomason Csc went on strike demand ing higher wages. Some of the striking workers run space enter offices but about 70 of them Are technicians handling radar controls operating computers or performing other tasks necessary for the launch said aria nes Pace spokesman Claude Sanchez. The formal decision concerning an launch is made at the flight readiness re View Sanchez said. A meeting saturday in Kourou will discuss the  Sanchez said some of the workers per form jobs that could affect flight safety. He added that these concerns would be give priority Over meeting the launch deadline. Geneva a the United nations on Friday released its first Ever re port on human rights in Cuba. In the 400-Page report for the . Human rights commission detailed testimony about alleged torture in cuban prisons contrasts with statements Prais ing the government s efforts to improve the living standards. It cites a statement by or. Pablo Llabre Raurell a leading cuban human rights activist that there is disregard by the authorities of a Large number of individual rights of our  also included is a Jan. 9 note from the government saying there Are very few countries in the world if any with such a Clear and clean human rights re Cord As  the report was compiled by a six member group that visited the country for 10 Days in september after receiving an invitation from Cuba. The group was headed by Senegal ambassador and included diplomats from Bulgaria Ireland Colombia Nige Ria and the Philippines. The 43-nation panel is due to Star discussing the report tuesday. The cuban government in its not last month made Plain that it will not extend a new invitation. It said that any attempt to continue the consideration by the United nations of human rights in Cuba where there Are no anomalous situations to justify it is  the United states has announced twill press the commission for continued scrutiny of Cuba. J . Assistant Secretary of state rih Ard Williamson has said the commis Sion s decision on whether to continue reviewing Cuba s human rights Recar would be a crucial  italian general Given new command Casteau Belgium is italian army Gen. Natale Dodo i will assume command of Allied land forces South Ern Europe on March 23, nato com Mander Gen. John r. Galvin announce Friday. The Post is a main subordinate com Mand of Allied forces Southern Europe which is commanded by . Adm. James b. Busey. Dodo i 58, is a native of Venice and succeeds Gen. Benito Gavazza who will retire after More than 43years of military service. Dodo i comes to his new nato Posi Tion from Sicily where he has been com Mander of the italian army s Sicily Mili tary District since 1986. The 38-year military Veteran is a graduate of the ital Ian military Academy the infantry application school the italian War College and the United kingdom s joint warfare course. He has commanded the 114th inf Root and was the commandant of the italian military Academy and the folgore Mech div