European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D allies Given new warning on missiles Page 3 d High morale Low pay Mark duty aboard the Guadalcanal Page 9 d old time Rock n Roll guitar heroes still Kickin Page 17 d Ryers win stay alive in nil playoffs sports Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Ahmed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 24 thursday May 11, 198 Torrejon Bill upsets Congress and sunday d 8693 a moving costs May result in bringing f-i6s Home by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington angered by the High Cost of moving the air Force s 401st tac fighter Wing from Spain to Italy Congress is considering giving the evicted Wing of f-16s to National guard and Reserve forces. The United states agreed to remove the Wing from Torrejon a outside Madrid Spain s capital by 1992 during negotiations on . Bases in Spain last year. At the Lime Congress ordered that moving costs be borne by nato but the Bush administration announced last month that the move ultimately will Cost . Taxpayers nearly $500 million. And when housing costs Severance pay for Spanish workers and other costs arc added the . Share could reach $1 billion congressional sources claim. Nato s share would be about $625 Mil lion they said. Here was a perception in the Public mind to bring a couple of people Home. We could have lived with it and we could have saved a billion dollars said Alan Dixon d-iii., chairman of the sen at armed services readiness subcommittee during a hearing monday on military prepared Ness. On the other Side of the Capitol Mem Bers of the House armed services military installations and facilities subcommittee also complained angrily Dixon about the costs of moving the Wing from Torrejon to Croton in Southern Italy. Opposition to the costs on both panels has been bipartisan and direct. I think everybody s just tired of being kicked around Over Here an installations subcommittee staff member said. It s a met pm protect themselves kind of  congressional sources expect an at tempt to Stop the move during the vote on the 1990 defense Bill due to reach the House in  think there la be an amendment. That says they can t go Forward the House staff member said. Some guard and Reserve supporters want them the 72planes to come Home to the  the installations subcommittee also has questioned Security at Croton which it suggested is located in a communist area of , congressional critics have complained that for All the expense the planes still would have to be deployed to such Forward bases As Aviano in Northern Italy or Turkey s in Ciurlik a in the event of  estimates that the relocation will Cost $885 million 28 percent of which will be paid by the United Stales said a staff see Torrejon on Back Page sailors killed in Navy ship fire by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau washing toxic six sailors were killed and five injured tuesday Wheva fire apparently sparked by a fuel Oil leak broke out aboard a Navy Supply ship in the South China sea a Pentax clip spokesman said. The fire occurred about 2  the main engine passages of the combat store ship Wihl Plains which was on routine Maneu vers about Lott Mijes South of Hong Kong spokesman Dan Howard said. The Blaze was put out with the help of the ships in the area including the aircraft Carrier cons lation and the Cruiser Fox Howard said. He said it took 75 minutes to extinguish the Blaze. Other sources who demanded anonymity said the fire was so hot that sailors were limited to five minute stints in fighting it. The White Plains Home ported in Guam normally has 403 enlisted personnel and 25 officers assigned. Its Mission is to restock other vessels at sea with a variety of supplies ranging from food to ammunition. The while Plains was unable to Man Euver under its own Power after the fire was put put and is being towed to Subic Bay naval facilities in the Philippines by the Fleet Pecan tug Sioux a ship assigned to the military Scal Ift come Howard said. The bodies of those killed in the fire were transferred to the Constellation the Pentagon said adding a determination has not been made at this time As to the Transfer of the  the injured sailors were taken to the fast combat support ship Sacramento and four of them were flown to Clark a in the Philippines for further treatment. A spokeswoman there said they were listed in stable condition suffering from smoke inhalation and Sccon-1 third degree bums on their faces and hands. Jenc ident occurred three weeks after a Gulf food or extra Ipin Tore through a 16-Inch gun Tumpf aboard the Batty cab Iowa killing 47 sailors. The to Watlow anchored off nor fat va., was on routine Man Cuvaj near puerto Joco when the blast occurred april 19?he cause Flie explosion has not been determined and an investigation is still under Way. The associated press or sorted that three of the fatalities on the White Eklins were identified As Petty officer 3rd class m/6i Cao 22, of Ventura Calif. Fireman apr Clio Todd Allan Follis 22, of Zuni n.m., and fir Cradin apprentice Paul Dennis Novotny 22, Nib. Cao Ioir cd the Navy in september 1985 and had been aboard the White Plains since August 1986. Follis joined the Navy in october 1987 and had been aboard ship since july 1988. Novotny joined the Navy in november 1987 and had been on the ship since no vember 1988, the a said. The Navy identified four of the injured As Petty officer 2nd class James Henry Brill 24, of Nashville Tenn. Petty officer 3rd class Keith Gerald Landry 22, of Green will Springs la. Petty officer 2nd class Darryl Jerome Williams 24, of Birmingham ala., and chief Petty officer Waller Rufus Greggs jr., 41, of Mobile ala., the a said Wheley her Meg Niket too Bidav Walczak education writer w1llingen, West Germany a form of a word made famous by Little miss Muffit had an Ulm elementary High school student Silling pretty tues Day. For it was Wheley an adjective de scribing part of the meal eaten by the girl on the Tuffel thai spelled Victory for 13-year-old Amy Carter in the so Sci annual spelling Bee sponsored by european Congress of Macri cab Par cats teachers and students. Amy has a few More weeks to savor the taste of tuesday s Competition be fore participating in the National spelling Bee in was Nylon under the auspices of . Scrupps co. "Washington.d.c. That s All i be thought Abdulr the eighth grader said following her Victory. The stars and str ifs encyclopaedia Britannica Lifet Gucci National school photos and Pap american world air ways Are sponsoring Amy s trip to  s Competition began with 14  who came from As far away As re key. But after about 90 minutes comp edition Only Amy and 13-year id Byron Walker of bad or Cugnach remained at the spellers table. The two eighth graders each spelled 17 words correctly before Wheley was announced by pronoun car Virginia Wright a speech pathologist at Aschaffenbur elementary Junior High. Wheley proved a Tough word for Byron to Swallow. I heard her Wright say quasi he said about the missed word. And when i missed it All i could do was Hope that Amy would miss the next word that to vanished when Amy handled  then Leuc Itic Cor a Cully spelling to words in a Row and winning inc Competition. He kept on a petting All those words and i thought he Wood win said Amy about the had to chaos Batlle. I did t know every word and i Feln t think he would mess  Amy worked on the list onus re than 1,000 words Given to the participants by recording them on a tape then of Dlay ing it five or six times. She said  be replaying the tape a few More tin before the National Competition. I Haven t been watching too much to she said. I just studied  this year s stumbling blocks included semantic is Clea ability i lass Nephew Omeler dip Ody Roemal ing literati and  a  top speller Amy Carter