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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, January 25, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1978 Evans asks for a acs in Europe to watch for invading Russ planes Brussels at William commander in chief of Allied air forces Central Europe made a plea tuesday for installation of an air borne warning and control system to watch for any invading soviet planes and direct the Battle against without he Allied forces would be hard pressed to defend Western the called would As now planned bring to Western Europe 1 or 18 Boeing 707s with new electronic to watch for Low flying soviet planes Over Central they would work with ii similar but less versatile planes called nimrods which he British have developed mainly to watch Over the Evans would double Allied warning by allowing Allied defense forces to detect the soviet attackers As they Are taking he would not give what he called hard figures on the warning but called in a matter of better than nothing Evans said he would have preferred an Al Boeing air but that the arrange ment now planned is better than nothing and there would be no difficulty marry ing the two types of the British decided to go ahead with the nimrods last year after Long negotiations failed to get Allied agreement on sharing the Multi Bil lion Dollar there is still trouble about snaring the Sost of the smaller who is also commander in chief of Lisafe with Headquarters at Ramstein air base in West met reporters during a visit to the Brussels Headquarters of he told of plans for making american and West european air forces More flexible by airfields so that they could be used for both american and euro Pean he said about 59 underused military airports have been spotted in Western these could be he a Iron sayut6 moving supplies from Progress 1 Moscow api the two cosmonauts aboard the orbiting salyut 6 space station have started transferring supplies from the unmanned spaceship that ferried them up during the Tass the soviet news Agency said Cosmo nauts Yuri to Ananenko and Georgl Greeh to also began preparations for refuelling the space station from the Progress l Supply the cosmonauts will Check whether the fuel pipes arc airtight and whether the fuel and Gas Supply system is in Tass according to telemetric the inboard systems of the space Complex Are functioning and the Cosmo nauts feel the report Romanenko and Srechko have been in orbit since 10 and have been supplied by two other cosmonauts who brought up the soyuz 17 spaceship and re Lumen to Earth in soyuz and by the Progress these operations have demonstrated the feasibility of supplying pro kneed space missions while they Are in Romanenko and Grechko have now been in space 45 Days and Are expected to try to break the soviet space endurance record of 81 Days and possibly the record of to scatter planes brought in from the United states As Evans put soviet air superiority in Cen trial Europe at about 24 to though he added that this could be reduced to 3 to 2 after 48 hours of they have changed from a defensive to an offensive tie soviet modernization programs have brought in More surface air releasing More planes for support of ground since Evans the soviets have increased their Range seven times and their Load capacity five As a he the ability of air bases in Britain to survive attack has been was informed in 1975 France ouf Frinks pm dutch Survey discloses Amsterdam api Poland has the Heartiest appetite for the hard stuff and West Germany guzzles the most but France aut drinks says a study compiled by a dutch re search firm to determine figures on International alcohol the annual report by the dutch coun cil for distilled Brink said on a each Frenchman drinks liners of liners of Beer and liners of hard liquor per and their total of liners of pure alcohol is a world leading French hard liquor 14th is topped by where each pole puts away m liners or hard drink a Luxembourg and Hungary were next in the rail hard stuff per basal on statistics from 57 the report said the worlds most prolific Beer drinking done in West on West germans consume liners a year of while austra Lian Knock Back liners and czechoslovak the United while ranking in Beer produces the most followed by West Germany and the United the ranks 8th in the consumption of hard the 63page report also showed that behind France West Germany and Austria had the highest figures for the total consumption of pure Ford ordered korean bribe probe Washington not Gerald Ford was informed in when he was presi that congressmen were suspected of having taken South korean and he ordered an investigation by the Justice de the former president in responding to an inquiry by the new York times made through an aide at his Home in that Secretary of state Henry Kissinger came to him in the fall of 1975 with intelligence reports alleging that four or five congressmen had accepted korean Ford is the highest american official known to have been aware of the korean that the president himself was apprised of alleged which was not underscores the sensitivity then attached to the possible political and diplomatic consequences of the Allega Kissinger has previously acknowledged that he was aware of korean lobbying in Washington As far Back As the Early when he was special assistant to the presi Dent for National Security but he has said that he did not know about any thing illegal until former Secretary of state William Rogers and former Secretary of defense Marivin Laird also have said that they knew o South korean particularly on trying to alter plans for the withdrawal of troops from but that they had no knowledge of any former aides to Ford said when told of the he seemed sur prised and said that he had not heard of such matters while he was vice president or minority Leader in the House of repro Ford is known to have entertained by ton Sun the korean businessman who was allegedly souls political and to have been a along with of the George town club there is some dispute on the Speed with panamas Leader Omar Tor Tjw Lell Wco Cli actor Julia Wayne w inc vacation file at Wayne in Panama charged by former California gov Ronald an opponent of Ine from voting Senate committee lays Hes in Panama to see Ibe total failure naval passage up Fatata which the Justice department reacted to the presidential order to former officials in the Ford administration said that they began care Ful working their Way through a Thicket of Legal and diplomatic but officials of he Carter administration maintain that the inquiry did not really get going until they took office a year the sequence that led to Ford began in the Spring of according to former offi when the assistant Secretary of state for East Philip received intelligence reports naming four or five con Gressmen As having taken korean who the congressmen were and other details of the reported 1375 allegations could not be who is now the undersecretary of was preoccupied with the situation in Vietnam and is said to have waited until the summer to inform by then the Secretary of about the reported Ira activists Are married in Irish prison Ireland up two Irish Republican army activists who during Border raids on Northern Ireland were married tuesday at Limerick a Fleet of armoured cars escorted year old Eddie Gallagher wedding Lousine a prison Van on the journey from Portal Oise prison to l where he saw Rose dug Date and l for the first time in 3tt a provisional Ira men who was once one of the most wanted i in the is serving a 20year tee at Portal Oise for the kidnapping of i industrialist Tiede Gallagher kidnapped Here a after l a wealthy British we for a million Art he handed her release from prison and Ransom in Exchange for the Lurt based dutchman at times the snort noon ceremony la More like a Security exercise than a i heavy Gates clanged shut after i lager he entered the Smerick pro armed police and troops t fortress and a prison chaplain perform the Gallagher the 1 Man and Betty guardian to year old was Matron of  
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