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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday june 5, 1980 pcs Boss in deaf to avoid fight Jones to fade out if Reagan wins Washington is Gen. David Jones chairman of the joint chiefs of staff privately has agreed to resign if Ron Ald Reagan is elected president in return for a pledge from key conservatives not to. Wage a protracted fight against his renomination congressional sources say. Jones whom some critics have called Patsy for Jimmy Carter recently was nominated by the president for a second two year term As the nation s Premier Mili tary official. A bipartisan cadre of the Pentagon s staunches Senate allies had threatened a bloody political fight to defeat Jones confirmation or to prevent it before Congress adjourns for the year. Under an extraordinary Deal brokered by sen. John Warner r-va., Jones would be confirmed. But he would serve Only six months of his two year term unless Carteris re elected. Gen. Jones has agreed to tender his res ignation in january if gov. Reagan is elected sen. Jesse Helms. R-n.c., a Leader of the dump Jones movement said. With that i m not going to raise any ruckus about the  chairmen of the joint chiefs going Back at least As far As Gen. Omar Bradley who was appointed by president Truman traditionally have stayed in office after their mentors left. Although a president always can fire the top general it is not usually done. When Carter was elected he inherited Gen. George s. Brown who served until june i978. Thus Jones agreement to quietly step Down if Reagan is elected would be a Sharp departure from precedent. It was hailed As a major Victory by the general s detractors in that it Means Reagan unlike his predecessors would be Abic to name immediately his own chairman rather than retaining a Carter appointee for 18 months. This serves our purpose just Fine Helms said. The Deal characterized As a gentlemen s agreement also is known to be satisfactory to certain democrats who View Jones As a political general and who have reservations about his renomination. The agreement began to Lake shape Mon Day afternoon when Warner saying he also was acting on behalf of Republican Sens. John Tower of Texas and Barry Gold water of Arizona approached Helms on statue of Liberty artefacts damaged in bombing of building at its base Mew nov am a i new York a a bomb blast at the statue of Liberty the first in the Monu ment s 94-year history caused an estimated $6,000 damage to artefacts but did not damage the Structure of the giant National landmark officials said. There were no injuries tuesday when the blast occurred More than an hour Afler the last tourists left Liberty Island in new York Harbor. The bomb went off in the Story room on the second floor of the three Story building at the base of the 305 foot Monument. The room contains artefacts of the statue s history and the brass plaque bearing the Emma Lazarus poem that begins give me your tired your  Park superintendent David Offill said the plaque was not damaged. I think everything can be restored but 2,000 anti N.C. protesters routed from German town Gor Leben Germany up about 3,000 police wednesday removed 2,000 anti nuclear demonstrators from the site of a planned nuclear waste storage Plant Bull dozing the makeshift Village the protesters built during a 33-Day occupation. Police said there was no violence during the Day Long operation at go Rleban. A piece of waste land bordering the River Elbe 40 Miles East of the North German town of Luneburg. The police operation began at Dawn with helicopters cruising Over the site and offi cers with megaphones clustered at the barricades of the occupiers Village asking the protesters to leave the site by Early morn italian to guide did not run ads for Belcher management in a recent article on Belcher manage ment consultants Bica former employee of the firm was quoted As saying Bic advertised in the italian edition of the to guide. This information was incorrect. W. I. Norton advertising marketing director of the Magazine pointed out that the italian edition of to guide does not carry nor has it Ever carried advertising on behalf of Belcher management consultants or any of the Bic subsidiaries. This Adver Tising is currently being published in the r. & r. In the  he stated which is  Norton did he further wished it known that the to Gulde staff makes every Effort to Monitor the advertisers "10 that our Mili tary Readon Are provided with the Best pos sible products and  he pointed out that to guide is a registered trademark of International publications a Mph and should not be confused with any of the other publications for in american military overseas. Ing. The 2,000 protesters refused to go Gath ering instead in groups in the streets that criss crossed the makeshift settlement of some 110 tents and wooden huts built since they caught authorities off guard and seize the site May 3. The protest was called to Block geological exploration on the site due to be drilled in tests to find Rock suitable to House a nuclear waste storage Plant. Authorities in charge of the exploration received permission last week for Access to the site prompting appeals from police and local and National politicians for the protes ters to leave the area. They refused but promised Only peaceful resistance to police. I won t know for sure until the curator takes a look at it he said. Fri of cent Thomas Locke said a checkoff bomb fragments had not revealed who planted the bomb. He said the bomb was possibly made of dynamite and May have used a timing device. Several political groups claimed responsibility for the blast in Calls to reporter Sand police. The Fri said the callers claimed to speak for the jewish defense league the fall a puerto rican nationalist group Omega 7, an anti Castro group and the National socialist movement party. A female caller to the associated press said the Palestine liberation organization bombed the Monument. We will no longer stand by while the United slates gives ammunition and Money to Israel to kill palestinian women and children she said. A plan threatened in by to said a Man claiming to rep resent the fall said Indian Point a a sle of reactor just North of new York cily will be the next thing thai will be bombed. Sliu Iii ilium u Ana to acre Federal Park which surrounds it. Park Ranger Allen Glynn said the Story si.1 cd Casu about 30 feet by175 feet is easily accessible to the Public and provides Access loan elevator that leads to upper Levels in the Copper Laluc Brown arrives in Bonn Tor talks with Schmidt Bonn up defense Secretary Harold Brown met wednesday with West Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for talks on defense planning. Brow a arrived in Bonn late wednesday after winding up two Days of talks with the North Atlantic treaty organization s nuclear planning group in Bodoc Norway. Officials did he and Schmidt would Dis cuss nato planning. Brown held similar elks in London with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher before going to the Norway meeting. The planning group ended its two Day talks with an urgent Appeal to the soviets to accept nato s offers of discussions to Lim in the nuclear arms race in Europe. After his meeting with the Chancellor Broun was to return to Washington. The lop la vol nato meeting in nor confirmed plans wednesday to deploy can nuclear missiles in Europe Butwid at the deployment might be at least parti ill halted if the soviet Union was Aftina o join the Wes. In talks aimed a Stopp spread of nuclear miss ills. The Alliance s nuclear planning group is sued i communique after its nicotine greying thai the soviets had been be the to to offer. Of negotiation fro thl in a the scale floor. Helms was asked if he would agree not to fight the Jones Nomi nation if the general would agree to step Down after six months if Reagan is elected. Helms said he would be amenable if warn or who As a former Secretary of the Navy had worked with Jones got a firm commit ment from the four Star air Force general. Warner reported to Helms Over the lunch table tuesday that Jones had agreed to such a scenario. When asked about the Deal Warner said through his press spokesman William Kling that he had talked at length with Jones about the fact that the joint chiefs chairman serves at the pleasure of the  Warner said his primary con Cern is that the joint chiefs not be left in limbo during a  confirmation process. Both sides Benefit the Deal works to the advantage of both the Carter administration and Jones critics. The president gels his chairman of the joint chiefs and is spared what conservatives threatened would be an unrelenting daily assault on his defense and foreign policies including alleged errors in the planning and execution of the ill starred raid to Rescue. American hostages in Iran. Under opposition strategy this protracted warfare would have been conducted into the highly sensitive political months in the fall unless the Jones nomination was abandoned. Jones critics arc spared a fight that they really Don t want to make and probably Don t have the votes to win. Despite Strong misgivings about Jones few defense minded senators relish the thought of impugning the joint chiefs. Jones still is Likely to face Tough question ing when he appears before the Senate armed services committee and encounter some opposition on the Senate floor. Some senators such As Henry Jackson a Wash. Didst like his nomination i the first Tim around and arc even More Adamant now. Needs support no Effort to derail Jones however has Filc la "._?  in in  contend that Jones repeatedly has subjugated the Best interests of the nation s a diary to the  Cal desires of the while t4hc comp i Hal in a presi a wry. Dec Slon Sims against the join chiefs Jones Rolls Over and Mouths the administration line rather than pressing the fight Congress  As example Are Jones support of Carter on the Panama Dav Nih for Hal of Dion on Sites for the new i Milci in the next two months. 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