European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 13, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9first flight of new Jet fighter the x-31a, a highly Maneu Merable experimental Jet fight Pentagon and the German government at a Cost of $200 unusual flight and engine thrust controls to enable it to or completes its first flight thursday at Palmdale Calif. Million is the first of its kind to be launched by the . Turn and Point More quickly at targets than do convention the aircraft whose development was jointly funded by the with another country. The Rockwell International Jet uses Al military aircraft Senate votes to begin paying . $464 billion in late dues military Roundup off of to join 4 nations in exercise in Germany Heidelberg Germany a . Air Force pilots and maintenance Crews will train with four other nato countries in the German air forces ample train exercise at Brem Garten a near Freiburg oct. 22-26. Phantom Rf-4cs from the 26th tac recon Wing at Wei Brincken a Germany along with their maintenance counterparts will join forces from Belgium France Italy and the Netherlands at Brem Garten to learn the differences in operating at German air bases. Ample train is a part of natos ample gain program which is designed to teach nato air forces about operating from Allied  commissaries again checking ids at door we Brucken Germany a . Identification cards Are once again being checked at the doors of army commissaries say officials with the . Army troop support Agency european commissary Region. Stores with four or More Cash registers will have an employee checking cards at the door. Facilities with fewer registers will have the identification cards verified at the Cash registers. The change was necessary because of numerous cases in which unauthorized people were in the commissaries according to the Agency. Immediate family members who have passports from a country other than the country in which the commis Saiy is located will be allowed to accompany authorized customers into the facility. They May not make Pur cases. Military personnel in uniform Are not required to present identification cards at army  commissary wins overseas honors we Brucken Germany a the Baum older commissary has been named the army a Best Large overseas commissary said officials with the . Army troop support Agency european commissary Region. The Baum older commissary previously won the worldwide award in 1985. Washington apr the Senate voted thursday to begin paying nearly half a billion dollars in past dues to the United nations withheld in recent years because of congressional opposition to its practices. Reflecting an about face prompted by the United nations sponsorship of a Trade embargo against Iraq the measure was included As part of a $19.6 billion Money Bill approved by a 91-7 vote. President Bush last january had requested $93 million As a 20 percent first instalment on a five year plan to pay off the $464 million in . Back dues. But lawmakers had shown no inclination to go along with it until the United nations Sharp response to iraqis invasion of Kuwait in August and subsequent taking of american and other foreign hostages. In addition to the $93 million in past dues the Bill includes $31 million to cover . Dues for supporting . Peacekeeping forces. It also provides $91 million As the american share for peacekeeping duties in the current fiscal year. Also to support the military Effort against iraqi president Saddam Hussein the Bill adds $79 million for activating another five ships in the . Ready Reserve Bonn Germany apr Germany and the soviet Union on Friday signed a treaty under which the 380,000 red army troops in former East Germany will be removed by 1994. The historic document was signed by German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and the soviet ambassador in Bonn Vladislav Perechov. At the signing ceremony Genscher said he Hopes a the soviet citizens leave our land with Good  the treaty commits the soviet Union to pulling its troops out of former East Germany within four years. Red army troops have been deployed there since the end of world War ii. In addition Germany has pledged to help build housing in the soviet Union for the troops and assist in the creation of Job retraining programs. Force for deployment to the persian Gulf. Already 41 ships in the 96-ship Fleet have been put on Active duty and sent to the Region. The Bill which finances the operation of the Justice state and Commerce departments for the fiscal year that began oct. 1, also triples to $162.5 million Bush a request for investigating and prosecuting savings and loan fraud. A the president and the attorney general just done to place a priority. On these a amp a criminals a said sen. Fritz Hollings . A they spend a Fortune arranging stings but they have been stung More than 1,300 times and done to do anything about  the Bill now goes to a conference committee to Iron out differences with a version passed earlier by the House. Voting against the Bill were Sens. Dan Coats Rind. Kent Conrad . Alan Dixon Dill. Jesse Helms  Gordon Humphrey . Steve Symms a Idaho and Malcolm Wallop a Wyo. Sens. Pete Wilson r-Calif., and Mark Hatfield r-ore., did not vote. Red army troops face grim conditions Back in their Homeland including a beleaguered Economy and housing shortage. Negotiations that produced the troop withdrawal document helped Clear the Way for the soviet unions full Blessing of German unification. The treaty joins a Long series of International and strictly German documents signed this year As the two Germany rushed to unification which occurred on oct. 3. Among the others is a treaty signed on sept. 12 in Moscow by the soviet Union the United states Britain France and the two Germany. That document ends the world War ii victors special rights in Germany. Two other important documents Are the unification treaty which meshed the vastly different Laws of the two Germany and an agreement that economically merged the two nations on july 1. German soviet troop pact signed