European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday june 22, 1977 Navy gets of to keep Al 8 alive Washington a defense Secre tary Harold Brown has tentatively approved a Navy recommendation to keep alive the k18 fighter plane program a Pentagon spokesman said tuesday. The Secretary made the decision on the technical merits of the Case spokesman Thomas Ross said when asked about a report that House speaker Thomas p. O Neill had exerted Strong pressure to pre vent the Navy from scrapping the planes in favor of another fighter the f14. The Al Al s engine is produced at a Gener Al electric co. Plant in o Neill s Home state of Massachusetts. The f14 is produced by the Grumman arrows Pace corp. constraints the new York times said tuesday that the f18 had been set to be effectively shelved in fiscal year 1979 because of tighter budget constraints imposed on the Pentagon by the Carter administration. The Story Navy s decision to retain the f18 program with $-119.6 million in research and development funds in the fiscal 1979 budget will sharply curtail funds for the f14.the times said Massachusetts s two senators. Democrat Edvird m. Kennedy an Republican Edward w. Brooke joined o Neill in pressuring the White House and the Pentagon to keep the f18 unchanged Ross said he did not think budget guide lines were changed As a result of the f18 Navy came Forward with a recommendation the f la be continued and the Secretary approved said Ross calling it a tentative decision. He made the Deci Sion on his did not say if congressional pressure played any role in formulation of the Navy s recommendation to Brown but added that members of Congress have a legitimate interest in weapons being built in their spokesmen had no immediate comment on whether congressional pres sure had influenced its decision. A spokesman for Brooke Sena Tor had argued in favor of the fib before the Senate appropriations committee. San Francisco Bay area jolted by quake san Francisco a an Earth quake Shook virtually the entire san fran Cisco Bay area monday evening but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. University of California seismologist Bruce Bolt quake at 7 43 . Registered 4.7 on the Richter scale and its Epi Center was located six Miles East of Lucr More a City East of Oakland. Bolt described the quake As moderate but one capable of causing damage. Radio station Kobs announcer Bob Don Nelly quake jolted the Mike sus Pended in front of him. Players in German lottery Are afforded a dutch treat Frankfurt a the six win Ning numbers last drawn in the West German National lottery coincided with dutch lottery results a week earlier a spokesman for the Frankfurt based company said tuesday. The weekly venture a National craze that very often produces unidentified millionaires had 205 firsts last week end who were paid 30,737.80 Marks $12,800 each instead of the fortunes they had expected. The spokesman explained the phenomenon with the theory that Many West germans living in areas along the dutch Border simply copy the previous week s dutch lottery results when filling in their German tickets for the Lime the German draw produced 9,17,18.20.29 and 40 identical to the previous dutch draw. Only the additional figure drawn for the event that no one has six Correct numbers differed in Germany it was 42, the dutch figure had been 31.the last time such Low winnings were paid out in Germany was on aug. 10, 1958, when All six numbers were correctly guessed by 75 lottery players who each received 30,095.05 Marks $12,540 at current Exchange rates. Purge offer Fry of kill Amin hundreds Are fleeing massacre1 in Uganda Nairobi up hundreds of Ugan dans including senior civil servants and army officers have fled to Kenya to avoid a fresh massacre taking place inside the country the Kenya news Agency said of ugandans including Mili tary and civilian personnel have defected to Kenya running away from certain death during the current purge in Uganda following an assassination attempt on president Ida Amin late last week the government Agency said. It said Amin had been wounded during the ambush and quoted sources close to him As saying he had been hospitalized in Uganda. Diplomatic sources in Kampala were quoted by the Agency As saying there certainly is a massacre taking place fleeing refugees were also quoted As saying the dreaded state research Bureau had embarked on a rampage of killings of innocent people and members of the armed forces suspected of having taken part in the assassination Agency said there was a mass movement of troops within Uganda particularly the capital of Kampala where residents have also reported increased troop movements. In addition to the hundreds of Ordinary refugees fleeing the Agency said also run Ning away were senior government offi cers mainly civil servants fearing they would be victimized during the a party of senior army officers also crossed into Kenya the Agency said and immediately asked Border police for Politi Cal Asylum after surrendering sophisticate Swiss general sentenced Lausanne. Switzerland up Brig. Gen. Jean Louis Jeanmaire found guilty of spying for the soviet Union from 1962 to 1975. Has been sentenced to an 18-year prison term stripped of his rank and thrown out of the army. De weapons and hand of christians and Choli and Langi tribesmen were reported murdered earlier in the year after Amin allegedly uncovered another plot to topple him. Other unconfirmed reports filtered out of Kampala that members of the Naganda tribe and army personnel were being rounded up in the last few Days. In Kampala the Uganda Cabinet held a regular session As the mystery of Amin s whereabouts deepened. Rome prof shot by All woman guerrilla team Rome up two Young women in jeans ambushed and shot a Rome University professor in the legs and Groin tuesday in Italy s first All woman guerrilla attack. They riddled me with prof. Remo cac Claresta Dean of the school of economics told reporters in the Hospital before undergoing emergency surgery. I looked them Well in the face. They were Young and Beautiful and one of them wore a Blue Caccia Festa. 64, said he was about to take his car out of his garage to drive to work when the girls approached him asking for he turned to show them the Street they were asking about he said one girl told the other shoot shoot and a Bullet hit his leg. Three More shots went through a briefcase he hurled at the girls and More bullets hit him As he fled shouting for help. Police attackers escaped in a car driven by a third woman. It was the first known time a guerrilla action in Italy has been carried out by an All woman com Mando although women joined men in five attacks Over the past 14 months. V1. Brezhnev cites peril to peace Paris a soviet president Yonl Brezhnev said tuesday that peace fat Europe is threatened by Many dangers obvious and and stressed that the heightening arms race is the main in a Toast at an official dinner at Presl Dent Valery Giscard d Estwing s Elysee Palace Brezhnev arms race Wai seeded up by propaganda poisoned by Bellicose circles enemies of detente with the aim of developing hostility Between the people and earlier had made his first appearance before Western crowds in three years laying a Wreath on the Tomb of the unknown Soldier in Paris and visiting the City Hall. Soviet flags burned demonstrators burned several dozen soviet nags on the champs Elysee later and were dispersed by Baton wielding French police. A dozen demonstrators were arrested the rest chased Down Side streets. Brezhnev s statement at the official dinner came Only hours after chief Ameri can arms negotiator Paul c. Warnke arrived in Moscow voicing optimism Over the Progress of strategic arms limitation said there is no More burning problem no task More important than ending the arms said currently the Prospect of the worldwide dissemination of nuclear arms and the creation of new types of sys tems of massive destruction constitutes a defect cuts Short cruise missile test Washington a a malfunction of undetermined origin Cut Short a test of the Navy s cruise missile off the coast of California on monday the Pentagon missile known As the Tomahawk plunged into the Pacific Ocean about 30 seconds after it was launched in the Vicinity of san Clemente Island at 4 33 ., a spokesman test was considered the most Cru Cial for the cruise missile in 17 months of flight experimentation for the first time the missile was successfully launched by rocket Power from submerged submarine tube. But the Mal function prevented it from flying on its engine about 60 Miles Down the California Range where it was to have hit a target Navy termed the test partially successful the missile s transition from underwater launch and boosted flight to the cruise engine powered flight was Suc he said that the soviet Union is doing and will do everything on its Side to pre vent such developments. We Hope that France will also act in tills the soviet Leader added that the Road to general and Complete disarmament is probably a Long one but that Progress must be language he said disarmament has been a sub Stantial part of his two Days of talks with Giscard and he believes they have found a common France has maintained that limited Dis armament favors the superpowers. Gis card in his reply said we must attack the disarmament problem resolutely and France is ready to take but he added the condition that France would Only take part so Long As the objective is to arrive at real and general disarmament under efficient International control and respecting the right of states to guarantee their Giscard focused his Toast on the prob lems of detente. Temperatures Cess Ful the spokesman said. Approximately 30 seconds later the missile sustained a malfunction and fell into the Ocean. Officials and engineers Are conducting a detailed review to determine the Caus of the the Tomahawk is in the Advance stages of its development but the Navy has not yet ordered it into production. The air Force is developing another cruise missile to be launched from aircraft. I h is u Altuner 77 it Albuquerque a to manlio pc it a Heull u 90 mania it 71 Atlantic City 71 Chicago 17 14 Cincinnati s4 u Cleveland is � Columbia. 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