European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aguilera wins the German open a Page 26 the  authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 30 monday May 14, 1990 a a 25c daily and sunday d 8693 affo airmen slain in Philippines i Manila Philippines apr suspected communist rebels killed two american service members near Lark a sunday on the eve of talks Between the undid Stales and the Philippines on extending the lease for . Military bases. A thud american told reporters he managed to is ape. Sgt. Robert Abad of the National police operations a tar for Central Luzon said the two were slain about to pm. Near a hotel that was about a half mile from in main Gate of Clark a 50 Miles North of Manila. Maj. Wayne Crist an air Force spokesman con timed the killings but gave no further details. He reused to release the names until the victims families vere notified. Philippine police identified the dead As airman43 car bombs foil 26 people n Colombia i Bogota up a the death toll Rose to 26 sunday in the explosions of three car bombs in two cities a bloody prelude to mothers Day. Gen. Octavio Vargas Silva operations director of the National police said 17 people died in two car jobs that exploded saturday afternoon in two shopping districts of the capital. Another nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded some five hours later in the City of Cali 200 lies Southwest of Bogota. The number of wounded was 118 in Bogota and 60 n Cali the general said. One car bomb exploded on a Street in the Northwest Art of the capital in a shopping District killing 15 eople and wounding 58, including the Driver of a ubic transportation bus that was passing by. The other bomb in the parking lot of an exclusive hopping mall and supermarket killed two people and funded 60 others. In Cali Hometown of one of the powerful cocaine cartels that dominates the world Trade of the drug the Job left nine people dead in an area of discotheques ind nightclubs Vargas Silva said. J a total of 16 car bombs have exploded in Colombia since september 1989, following a declaration of War by a cocaine hit squad called the extraditable that is linked to the Medellin  related Story a Page 28 John Raven 21, and airman James Green 22, both stationed in Kunsan South Korea. They were assigned to the 8th aircraft generation so on temporary duty. A third american airman 1st class Randall Moore 23, told reporters he was haggling with a pedicab Driver for a ride when he heard shots behind him. A i ducked and ran Back toward the hotel a a Moore said. Moore said his unit arrived in the Philippines on May 3 for the annual Cope Thunder military exercise which ends Friday. Crist said the air Force ordered All troops Back to the base after the killing. Those living off Post were restricted to quarters he said. The assailants escaped and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. But communist rebels operate in the Clark area. Armed filipino troops were deployed around the base after the killings. It was the first attack on americans at Clark since october 1987, when three americans and a filipino civilian were slain by rebels outside the base. Including the two victims on sunday eight americans have died in politically motivated slayings in the Philippines since april 1989. . Officials believe All the killings were carried out by communist rebels. An american officer who refused to give his name said the two victims were waiting for a cab on Samson Street near Clark when two or three filipinos approached and shot them in the Back of their Heads with see airmen on Back Page police and bystanders search for victims in one of several cars destroyed by bombs saturday in Bogota Colombia. German Marks might pay red army Bill Bonn West Germany apr Moscow and Bonn Sre negotiating Over using West German Marks to temporarily cover the living costs of red army troops in East Germany after the two Germany merge their economies officials  no agreement has been reached and officials said the negotiations which began last week in Bonn Are at a embryonic stage. But it appears that the 380,000 soviet soldiers in yeast Germany might be Given West German Marks Tor their living costs in Exchange for soviet rubles starting sometime this summer. It would be the first use of a Western currency to Lake regular payments for the stationing of soviet soldiers. Under current bilateral agreements the soviet Union buys East German Marks in Exchange for so tailed Transfer rubles at a preferential rate. The East German Marks Are then used to pay goods and services for soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany. Goods and services Are relatively inexpensive in East Germany because of state subsidies. Bonn officials say the current situation presents a two pronged problem. The West German Mark will become East Germany a official currency As of july 2, and East German state subsidies will also Start to disappear. That Means a new rate will have to be established with the soviet Transfer Ruble and the scrapping of the subsidy will also have to be taken into account. But it is unclear How much the West German Mark payments would be and whether the average soviet Soldier would profit from the switch. A West German government official said the bilateral talks with Moscow Are at a beginning phase and it is not Clear How a new arrangement for the soviet stationing costs will be worked out. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity said he does not know what the current costs Are. He said the West germans a have not yet seen any Concrete proposals from the soviet Side on How to cover the costs of the red army troops. Any new arrangement would be seen As temporary by the West German Side. Bonn has said it is willing to let soviet troops remain on what is now fast German soil but Only during a transition phase. Government spokesman Dieter Vogel said that next monday the West German finance minister. Theo Taigel will travel to East Berlin to discuss the soviet troop Issue with the East German government. Economic bargaining will Likely play an important Rote in winning the soviets full Blessing Lor the German unification blueprints of West German to Hun see red army on Back Page