European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                La the vol. 53, no. 119 ws3w 500 sunday August 14,1994 d 8693 a stateside col As coming in 1995 lower enlisted grades expected to Benefit making allowances by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington after floating around the Penta gon and Capitol Hill for a number of years the idea of a stateside Cost of living allowance for service members finally will become a reality in 1995. Lawmakers completed a plan to pay the allowance in various High Cost areas of the United states As part of the $263.8 billion defense authorization Bill for fiscal 1995. The Bill was approved wednesday in a House Senate conference. In essence the new stateside cola will be just like the overseas cola in that it will be calculated As a percentage of a service member s spendable income rather than Basic pay a House committee staffer said. That will put the focus of the allowance where it be Longs in the lower enlisted grades the staffer said. It will also give the services the ability to adjust the Al Lowance depending of whether a service member is sin Gle or has a  Pentagon officials will pay the new allowance in locations where the Cost of living is 8 percent or More above the National average which will probably cover about 20 metropolitan areas. The Broad provisions of the stateside cola Are set. But its effective Date is Uncertain because the Senate armed services committee included language in the Bill that requires the Pentagon to provide a report on How the allowance will work and How Many people Are see cola on Page 2 the following is a list of the locations Pentagon officiate Are fairly certain will be among those where people will get the new . Cost of living  the allowance begins next year and living costs can change Between now and then other Sites May qualify for the new allowance the locations that will qualify source the Pentagon is is March in with a smile and a Howdy by Kevin  Bureau rank once Macedonia years from now the children of this Small nondescript Village in northeastern Macedonia will recount for their Chil Dren the Day they first met american soldiers. The meeting was a Chance encounter As the Story goes. This Community patrol one of Man designed to familiar ize . Troops with Rural macedonians and vice versa had been planned for an other Village up a narrow dirt Road. But with a beverage delivery truck Block ing the humvee Way the eight member patrol decided to Stop Short of its objective and add ran Kovcke to its growing list of villages visited. The object Here is to show the . Flag say Howdy smile and wave said . Army capt. See March on Page 4 Yugoslavia is is John Bohmer . Army sgt. Minh Phan right and 2nd it. Quinzel Chestnut meet with residents of the macedonian Village of rank once. The soldiers Are part of the Mission to observe the Border Between Macedonia and Yugoslavia. Nato s Worner Dies after cancer fight Worner Brussels Belgium a nato Secretary general Manfred Worner who led the military Alliance during the tumultuous changes that marked the demise of its Long time adversary the soviet Union died sat urday of cancer. He was 59. Francois be a Levenne a nato spokes Man said Worner died at his Brussels Home at 1 13 . No immediate meeting was planned of the nato ambassadors to Dis cuss a successor to Worner. The tall Dapper Worner had been waging a Public Battle with cancer for More than two years. During that time he ignored his Doc tors orders by interrupting his convalescence from surgery several times to chair crucial nato meetings on the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After several operations for Colon cancer head taken the summer off to recover and had planned to return to his Post in september., at a june nato foreign ministers meeting in Istanbul Turkey a session Worner could not attend . Secretary of state Warren Christopher paid tribute to him saying his strength resilience and courage inspire us  toward the end Worner had become a gaunt Fig i. But he insisted on holding news conferences even late at night after All Day nato session to explain Stillin a forceful manner nato decisions. Worner was ins to mental in reshaping the 16-nation North Atlantic treaty organization after the collapse of communism ushered in a new Era in Europe. A Strong opponent of the soviet military might during the cold War he was Quick to see that the Alliance needed to develop new roles such As peacekeeping with the easing of see fight on Page 2