European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The stm4and? to. 53, no. 58 50c tuesday june 14, 1994 d 8693 Seoul brings up reserves to bolster defense Drill Seoul South Korea apr reflecting rising tension Over North koreans nuclear program South Korea on monday called up 6.6 million reservists for one of its biggest civil defense drills in years. South Korea has been stepping up War preparations As the United states and other nations move to seek punitive . Sanctions against North Korea Over its refusal for 15 months to allow full inspections of its nuclear facilities. The nearly 2 million soldiers of the rival Korea Are already on heightened Alert. In the past week South Korea put its 130,000-officcr police Force on Alert and ordered a nationwide Check of 223,000 underground shelters and 60,000 emergency water Supply Points. The civil defense exercise to be held wednesday will involve All military and civil defense corps members whose Job is to organize evacuations and provide first Aid for air raid victims. Seoul has staged monthly civil defense drills but because of military tension with North Korea this month s is being expanded nationwide and will include More personnel and equipment. Former president Carter arrived in Seoul on monday to try to help ease strains that have Arisen from growing sus so Seoul on Page 2 Dod pay plan seen As signal to Clinton by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington a 2.6 percent pay boost for Servic members next year cleared an important hurdle late last week As members of the Senate armed services committee joined with their House colleagues to approve the increase. The raise is contained in the Senate committees version of the $263.3 billion fiscal 1995 defense authorization Bill which now goes to the full Senate for deliberation. The 2.6 percent increase is a full percentage Point higher than the raise proposed by president Clinton who has sought to hold Down spending on Federal pay a including military salaries a As a deficit cutting measure. Quot by this Point it should be pretty Clear see pay on Page 2 by official Down Liberty Road s4.5 Dave Casey police on motorcycles Lead participants through Cherbourg France at the Start of the vote de la liberte Road of Liberty cycling tour. More than 70 . Service members and civilians from throughout Europe Are among the 530 participants in the annual event which follows the route taken by the allies from their invasion of France on a Day to Bastogne site of the Battle of the bulge. See Story on Page 4. Inside today future looks Bright for Rhein main medical Dentai clinic r i Beirut Lebanon apr a confessed palestinian terrorist startled a Beirut courtroom monday by claiming he carried out the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 that killed 270 people. The chief investigator said he doubted the claim and believed it was an attempt to mislead the authorities. Youssef Shaaban 29, a Follower of terrorist Leader Abu Nidal a Fatah re Volu tonary Council made the claim during his trial on a charge of assassinating a jordanian Diplomat in Beirut in january. Shaaban offered no details to substantiate his assertion. The bombing of the plane Over the scottish town of locker Oie has in the past been blamed variously on Iran Syria and Libya which has been targeted by International sanctions. There was no indication Why Shaaban would make such a claim. But he May be trying to take the pressure off Libya where Abu Nidal is believed to be living. Shaaban Quot i personally blew up the Lockerbie plane a Shaaban told the judicial Council Lebanon a highest trial court. Quot i pc told the investigating magistrate about it before but my confession Wasny to documented. I say it again the magistrate Sneed Mirza denied that Shaaban mentioned the Lockerbie bombing during questioning about the Jan. 20 killing of Naeb Imran Maaytah first Secretary at Jordan s embassy in Beirut. Quot its a Mere lie. Had Youssef Shaaban confessed to such a Case that still preoccupied the world i would have Given it see official on Page 2
