European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4.1% Dod pay hike begins 1 by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau a a Washington a at the same time Congress ordered cuts in the size of the . Military for 1991, it did the unexpected. It ordered a larger pay raise than the Bush administration sought. Early in 1990, the administration requested a military pay raise of Only 3.5 percent. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney originally wanted a 4.6 percent raise for the troops but acquiesced to the office of management and budgets wishes for a smaller pay hike. When Congress finally got around to completing the fiscal 1991 budget in october it included a 4.1 percent raise for both military members and government civilians. The pay raises take effect tuesday. That translates into a monthly raise of $44.10 for an e-4 with four years of service up from $1,078.80 to $1,122.90 per month. An e-6 with 10 years service will see his pay jump to $1,502.10 from $1,443, a monthly increase of $59.10. A lieutenant colonel with 10 years in the military will officers $129.00/ month enlisted members when on leave or authorized to $6.15/day mess separately when rations in kind Are not available. $6.94/day when assigned to duty under emergency conditions where no Messing facilities Are available $9.20/d a source Pentagon. A amps be paid $3,149.40 a month up $123.90 from the current $3,625.50. Starting pay for a gs-9 increases from $24,705 a year to $25,717. / Congress also approved increases in the Basic Auar tors and subsistence allowances for military members. The increases in allowances also take effect tuesday. Another change implemented by the 1990 Congress will cause overseas housing allowances to be reviewed every three months instead of annually. The change apparently was made because of complaints that the allowance Wasny to keeping Pace with fluctuating Money Exchange rates and housing Market changes military compensation officials said. However those receiving the overseas housing allowance have an advantage Over their counterparts in the United states. Service members overseas on average Are reimbursed for 95 percent of their housing expenses including utilities. Stateside allowances cover Only about 79.5 percent of most  actual housing expenses. A the ones hit the hardest Are the lower enlisted living off Post a one Pentagon official said adding that those living in military housing do not have to absorb any costs. Results of a 1990 Survey conducted around 332 military bases will cause jump sin january in the variable housing allowance to bring it in line with actual costs. The Pentagon will recommend changes to the housing allowances in the next defense budget package which will include the idea of separating the allowances from annual pay raises he said. A a housing allowance raises or adjustments must be done at different rates a said the official who requested anonymity. Quot the rates should be tied to economic  a  a. A. An adequate allowance should cover 85, percent of a  a housing costs with the individual absorbing the remaining 15 percent the official said. Stateside surveys will also be conducted More often on a yearly basis instead of every two years. However officials Hope the Survey will not be the Only measure of what  True housing costs Are. Some Sims Jerusalem of a an Ultra orthodox rabbi considered to be a political Kingmaker has enraged religious and secular israelis by saying the holocaust was gods punishment for sins such As violating the Sabbath and eating pork. A Quot not for a Long time has any single remark caused such an emotional reaction a said Razi Barkai Host of a radio talk show that was flooded with hundreds of Calls thursday Over the remarks of rabbi Eliezer Schach. Barkai said Calls ran about 3-to-2 against the 97-year-old rabbi who said another disaster May befall. Jews for violating traditional religious tenets Quot the last time he brought destruction it was the hoi Caust. Because of the sins the almighty May bring another holocaust upon us and it May already be tomorrow a Schach Tola jewish Seminary students. About 6 million jews died in the Hazi genocide during world War ii and tens of thousands of survivors live in Israel. Five percent of israelis jewish residents Are Ultra orthodox while 70 percent define themselves As secular. A ? Quot rabbi Schach today is one of the most powerful men in israeli politics and each one of his words creates a lot of noise said sociologist Menachem Friedman an expert on religious communities earlier this year  Zrimc minister Yitzhak Shamir form a government by ordering his followers to join Shamir s coalition the factions support gave Shamir 62 votes in the 120-member parliament. In Exchange the party asked for a series of Reform Laws including a ban on sexually suggestive ads and the Sale of pork forbidden by jewish dietary Laws. The Knesset or parliament earlier this month outlawed outdoor advertising that features scantily dad people. It is expected to take up some of the other pro to Sassoon a. The proposed Laws have angered Many secular israelis who claim the Ultra orthodox minority carries too much influence. 1 a a schachts comment on the holocaust was simply repeating a theme common in the Bible of divine retribution against the jewish people for straying from the path of them religious Law. But on another level Many took his remarks to mean Quot because of sins the almighty May bring another holocaust upon us and it May already be  a Eliezer Schach that the jews somehow were to blame for the nazis behaviour. Quot the almighty keeps a balance Sheet of the world and when the sins become too Many he brings destruction we done to know How Long his patience holds out sometimes 20 years sometimes 10 and sometimes Only a year a Schach said. ,. \ schachts chief rival Brooklyn based rabbi Menachem Schneersohn told supporters thursday the jews who died in the holocaust were Quot pure and  a heaven forbid someone should say that the jews sinned in some Way and god settled accounts with them and imposed on them the most terrible sentence of the past generation Quot said Schneersohn the politically influential Leader of the hasidic habad  some of schachts sharpest critics were holocaust sur a visors. A a a a a a. / a Menachem Russak a survivor of the Auschwitz concent ration Camp and a former commander of the israeli police unit investigating nazi War crimes said Schach shamed and humiliated Quot millions of holocaust victims. His voice shaking Russak told listeners that Schach Quot not Only exonerated the nazi murderers but turned them into messengers of god who were sent to punish the people of Israel for not observing the  but another caller an Ultra orthodox woman who lost relatives in the holocaust defended the rabbi. Quot with All the pain i have i can understand his words we believe in the link Between sin and punishment a said the woman w to did not give her name. Friedman said schachts views reflect Ultra orthodox thinking prevalent since the 1950s, a members Settle for inadequate housing to free up dollars for other expenses a practice that causes Survey results to be misleading the official said. Furthermore some Active duty members use other allowances to help pay housing costs. When service members deployed to the persian Gulf their separate rations allowance was cancelled and Many complained that it caused a financial hardship. Obviously the rations allowance was used by some to pay monthly Bills officials said. Although the separate rations allowance was removed deployed service members Are receiving imminent danger pay which is $110 per month regardless of rank. Separate rations for 1991 Range from $129 a month for officers to $6.15 a Day for enlisted personnel. Monthly bad rates. Pay Grade 0-1.0, 0-9 08, 0-7. O-6 0-5 k1 0-3 0-2 single married 661 50 661.50 813,90 �661,50 813.9.0 661.50 813,90 606.90 733,20 584.40 706.50 541.50 .623,1.0 434.10 515,70 344.40 440&Quot l6&Quot 0-1 289.80 393.30 0-3e 468.60. 553.80 0-2e 398.40 499,800-1e 342.60 461.70 pay Grade e-9 a amp a e-7 e-6&Quot. E-5 ism. E-3 e-1 single married 401.40 .363 70 314.70 528,90 487,50 453.00 �04.70 418.50 262.50 376.20 2s60 327,30 224.40 304.50 162.00 289.80 w-4 488.70 551.10 w-3. 410.70 ,505.20 w-2 364.50 464.70 w-1 305.40 402.00 source Pentagon a amps graphic. World today australian Bush fires burning out of control Sydney Australia of huge Bush fires whipped by Gusty winds burned out of control Friday in two australian states. Two major fires and 18 minor ones were reported throughout new South Wales As temperatures in the mid-90s and winds of up to about 45 Miles per hour hampered firefighters. In Victoria an extra 150 firemen were brought in to fight sections of a Bush fire that destroyed 57,000 acres of Bush and Grassland in the Strath Bogie ranges although most of. The victorian Blaze had been contained a country fire department spokesman said it was burning out of control on rough terrain at mount wombat. Five Hundred firemen and 10 tankers were fighting that Blaze which missed the township of Strat Bogie by one half mile thursday. About 150 fires plagued Victoria on  Are desired n cities Brussels. Belgium a who wants to buy a Bunch of belgian streetcars that have been around for 25 to 30 years at least three major european cities. The Prospect was problematic for belgian foreign Trade officials. /. Seems the streetcars Are practically indestructible. The foreign cities that buy them a Bucharest Hungary the Hague Netherlands and Marseille France Are interested a will be lost markets for new belgian streetcars. On the other hand there a Pride at stake the society Des transports intercom Munaut de Bruxelles which owns the cars recalls that it sold some of its old streetcars to Cairo a Gyp which later resold them to Copenhagen pen Mark. A. It makes for More room in jammed depots. The company has 48 new trolleys of order from belgian firms of course a for $100 million