European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 24 the stars and stripes sunday. June 15. 1980 panel oks 100 More icbms Washington the sen Ilc armed service committee has a Ihori cd pm multiple warhead missiles in addition to the 550 already deployed to move supporters Oil an accelerated reversal of the Long decline in  i  ". Deployment of 100 extra icbms is an important signal to the soviets. America is finally beginning to Reiers its strategic  sen. Gor Don Humphrey. . And sen. Har Rison Schmill. R-n.m., said in a joint news release issued late Friday. Critics contend the move could Joop Ardic  strategic arms limitation talks by pushing the United slates beyond the ceiling for such weapons. The action cannot take effect unless it is approved by the full Senate and the House. The amendment was approved by the committee during a Clos up door session last week on the $59.1 billion weapons procurement Bill for the 1981 fiscal year. The authorization was not included in he panel s detailed report of major com Mittee decisions released thursday an omission described by one staff member As an oversight the Washington Post reported in saturday s editions. Humphrey and Schmitt said in their release that the deployment of the 100 extra icbms in place of single warhead minuteman ii s will increase our survivable warheads by about 10 percent and will increase our hard target capability against soviet missile silos by about 14 percent since each missile carries three multiple independently retard table warheads which Are highly  the release said the soviets have been deploying an average of More than 1.000 new strategic warheads each year since 1974 and that this soviet deploy ment rate will continue through 1985 with or without the Salt ii  antitrust jury s decision guilty at to told to pay firm $1.8 billion Chicago up a Federal court jury Friday night found american Tele phone and Telegraph co. Guilty of antitrust charges and ordered the communications giant to pay Sci communications corp. $1.8 billion in treble damages. This is by several factors the largest settlement of its kind  Sci attorney Chat Kamin said after the verdict. The verdict returned shortly before mid night called for $600 million in damages Kamin said but . District judge John f. Grady would automatically treble theaward. An attorney for at to Michael Yauch new hostage actions out Carter says Washington a president car Ter says no military actions Are being considered to free the american hostages in Tehran but the president s chief spokesman says that does t mean another raid won t be tried. Carter in an interview with an italian television station was asked if military actions might be tried to free the 53 Ameri cans who have been held hostages since last nov. 4. Military measures Are not being  Carter replied. Last april eight american servicemen died during the crash of two aircraft aft9r a commando raid o free the hostages was aborted in the iranian desert. But Carter s press Secretary. Jody Powell said the president is not i can assure  absolutely ruling out la use of military action. Carter also said he. Does t think soviet citizens support their government s military intervention in Afghanistan. I am convinced that the soviet people do not support the War like activities which the soviets have demonstrated in their inva Sion of  lie said it s up to the soviet Union not the United states to act to reduce recent tensions Between the two nations. Carter who will attend a seven nation  meeting to Italy said he does t think America s european allies have betrayed the United slates although he did say sometimes they Don t support us strongly  he said some of the allies in Europe have not been quite so forceful As we in imposing sanctions against the soviet Union and in moving to Boycott the olym Panama olympic panel votes to skip Moscow Panama City. Panama a the nation s olympic committee voted 8-5 not to Send a team to the Moscow olympics thereby adding More support to president Carter s Call for a Boycott of the summer games. There were two abstentions. The committee by the same vote Al Lowed the nation s seven member team to attend the games but said the participants could not Wear the National colors or Emblem meaning their presence there would be unofficial. Iraq deports 2 iranians Baghdad up raq has deported two employees of the iranian embassy in Baghdad in retaliation for the recent arrest and expulsion of Jwo iraqi diplomats from pics and so Forth but we recognize that there Are reasons for them not to pattern their actions specifically after  however use of the word betrayal is completely erroneous in describing the Al lied reactions. Carter said. Meanwhile in Moscow soviet officials deny having increased military strength along their Border with Iran but Western travellers recently returned from the area report seeing a new Airstrip and hundreds of red army trucks not More about 75 Miles North of the Frontier. The newly constructed military facility is a 30-Rmnute drive West of Baku the capital of soviet Azerbaijan. The Republic Borders Northwestern Iran along the West coast of the Caspian sea. Western military specialists who an Al Zed the report from the witnesses said All descriptions of the Airfield the truck the tents and the military communications equipment indicates the soviets have constructed a new and major troop staging area. The military analysts said Western intelligence so far had not detected the facility. The military sources said however that routine Western electronic intelligence sweeps of the soviet Border normally do not penetrate deeply into soviet territory and Are normally concentrated on areas where the soviets Are known to operate Milita Ryou . Meyer cites Congress proposed army Cut paring of Europe go Force feared tit Ittis in Fruto Page i state appealing or help in getting army recruiters admitted to All High schools. Army officials have complained in the past that recruiters have been barred by Many High school principals. Many Pentagon manpower officials and members of Congress believe that a High percentage of the enlisted Force should be nigh school graduates because they arc considered inure reliable less Likely to be disciplinary problems and More stable than school drop urls. About 70 percent of the army s enlisted men and women arc High school graduates but the percentage among new recruits has slipped dramatically. In the first half o f this fiscal year Only 43 percent of the army s recruits held High school diplomas compared with 79 percent in the air Force. 65 percent in the marines and 64 percent in the Navy. Meyer indicated that he expects the ceo. Nomic recession will help the army increase total recruiting but that he docs not know How much this will help close the Gap in High school graduates. Kishi s wife Dies at 79 Tokyo up Yoshiko Kishi wife of former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi has died of a heart attack. She was 79. She is survived by her 84-j car old Hus band who was prime minister Between 1957 and i960 and the head of the Liberal democratic parly. He retired from Active politics last year. As for the strength of the army he said that divisions based in the us. Are As Low As 80 percent of full strength and that some squads and platoons arc zeroed out. In order to staff Kurop based divisions with a full complement of non commissioned officers. Meyer said it has been Nec Essary to reduce the number on duty wit units based in the . Since -based units would be assigned to the new rapid deployment Force ref for crises in the persian Gulf and other Remote areas. Meyer said that our contribution to the ref will come out of a Force that is not up to  As of the end of this fiscal year sept. 30 Mever said he Hopes to raise the strength of .-Bascd unit to 95 Percy no of require strength. Said the verdict was very  it s very difficult to understand How tie jury arrived at that figure he said. " Yauch said the jury found at to guilty of eight antitrust Law violations. The  Pany had been charged with 12 violations the jury of seven women and five Jetam mostly from Blue Collar backgrounds i deliberated since wednesday after of for months of testimony. Grady spent More than an hour instructing the jurors. Sci a provider of Long distance Tele phone service through a microwave network spanning 60 cities filed the antitrust Law a suit against at to in 1974. The suit charged at to unfairly tried to. Block its attempt to break into the private line Long distance Telephone Market. A Sci needed connections from at to to 1 operate its system. The lawsuit charged ,-1 at to refused to provide the service from a 1971 until 1974, costing Sci millions