European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday june 18, 1980 pcs chairman gets committee s of Jones says he d quit if chief asked Washington up Gen. David c. Jones endorsed by a Senate committee Tor another term As chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Us s he would be a Good Soldier and quit the Post if asked by the president whoever that May be next ear. Jones received a i ft-1 Vole of Confidence monday after four hours of testimony be fore the Senate armed services committee during which he said budget cuts have weakened the nation s military capabilities. Lie also said u few . Warplanes could just devastate any soviet attempt to take Over Iran s Oil Fields with airborne troops. Because the soviet troop planes would have to travel 1,000 Miles to gel to the Oil Fields. The Only Vole against Jones was cast by sen. Gordon j. Humphrey. R-n.ii., who is concerned that a second term for Jones would extend Well into the next administration which the gop Hopes will be headed by Ronald Reagan. In the past chairmen have not resigned when administrations changed. Jones denied a report this month by sen. Jesse Helms. . That he had agreed to step Down if Reagan becomes president in Exchange for u Chance to continue serving under president Carter. I categorically deny any arrangement was made or any so called Jones testified. All i said was i serve at the pleasure of the president and if he were to execute that preference i would step aside. It would be up to the initiative of the president whoever he May be and under terms of the existing Law Jones said. Under present Law the chairman serves at the pleasure of the president Jones said. If the president asks him to step aside. Jones said i would be a Good Soldier and comply with the Law. I m not going to kick and scream and go to Aslo accusations that Jones has second Bani Sadr s ran guard Leader ques reportedly under Khomeini pressure by the associated press commander Abu Sharif of Iran s revolutionary guards resigned tuesday apparently under pressure from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Sharif was appointed recently by president Abolhassan Bani Sadr and the resignation was seen As an other setback for the president who has been struggling to assert his authority Ever since his election less than five months ago. The resignation letter quoted by Iran s official pars news Agency said Sharif wanted the revolutionary guards corps to be an Arm to the deprived of the world in furthering the islamic revolution of Iran. Unfortunately monopolist of Power and sectarianism and existing tendencies pre vented us from this goal. Any possibility of continuing the work was curtailed. I had no Choice but to the resignation came the Day after Khomeini told revolutionary guards who marched on the . Embassy in Tehran where some of the 53 american hos tages have been held that there might be traitors among the corps. Picture page8. Khomeini said he would appoint a representative to inform him of developments within the guard s ranks. The guards have been criticized for not cooperating with the armed forces and not obeying the or Ders of the courts. Registration not prelude to draft Claytor says continued from Page i soldiers and airmen covered a number of topics including retention recruits new weaponry and glitches in our nuclear at tack warning system during an interview that will be aired on an to Friday at 6 55 . Claytor said the false warnings at the North american defense command he in Colorado Springs colo., do not indicate a serious problem. I think the fail Safe system works extremely Well and worked each time we be had these incidents he said. Computer failures occur in every walk of life. Our system is designed to prevent that from causing any real while on air defense Caylor said the my and cruise missiles Are of major importance to East West parity. The my program was approved by the Senate armed services committee last week. And i think it will go Forward pretty much on schedule he said. And the air launch cruise missile program is going for Ward. If we keep Forward with the pro Grams we now have under Way i think we will maintain our nuclear deterrence and that s the important turning to manpower Claytor called retention of highly trained personnel a far More serious problem for the military than recruitment of qualified people. It s the most difficult problem that All the armed forces face he said. It has absolutely nothing to do with the All Volunteer Force. You Don t draft senior qualified Petty the problem exists because the military does t offer competitive Quality of life and compensations he said. Ill one of our main problems. It s been recognized As such for several years and i think we re on the Way to fixing Claytor said he hoped Congress would vote against a Senate armed services committee plan to Cut 25,000 men As a lever to get the army to improve the qual Ity of its recruits. I m very hopeful that the whole con Gress will vote not to do that he said. The committee has voted for it apparently because there is some feeling among its members that this is the Way to improve Quality. I happen to disagree with thai. The administration and the defense department generally disagree with it. We do want to recruit people at a higher education level. One Way to do that is to improve the package including the compensation benefits and general qua Ity of life package for the younger peo Caylor said he thought comments made a week ago in Germany by or. Edward Teller that the West is far behind the soviets and would lose in a nuclear War Are incorrect. I think that the plans we have for the decade if the 80s should enable us to maintain a parity in strategic deterrents he said. Both sides would lose in a nuclear War. There is no possible doubt about that he said. Thai s Why i Don t think that there will be one. That s the object of deter fences. If you look at the Allied strength is. The soviet Allied strength i think we Are ahead in some things and we re behind in some things but on the whole we Are not doing badly right now. If we do not continue to show real growth we will be behind. I think the danger it not where we ire now. The danger is where we will be in six or eight Yean unless we and the allies continue to show steady real growth. We Don t have to do anything drastic immediately. But we do have to have a steady growth every in a message read at the rally by his son Ahmad Khomeini said is it possible that there Are some traitors who made their Way amongst you they Are instigating disorder and arrest the people illegally. You should identify those causing chaos. You should hand them Over to the revolutionary within the past week Khomeini has announced a cultural revolution to eliminate All remnants of the regime of the deposed Shah and has demanded that non moslem be purged from the state run radio and television networks the primary voices of his regime. In London the financial times reported that Iran has transferred All its Gold stocks 14 tons valued at $300 million from Western countries Back to Teh ran. The Gold was taken Back from Britain France West Germany and possibly other Western countries the paper reported. It is thought in London that Iran has taken these Steps to protect itself against the possibility of a further freeze on Over seas assets As part of Western action Over the . Hostages held in Iran since nov. 4, the paper added. Commemoration of Soweto riot turns bloody Johannesburg. South Africa up a number of coloured mulatto demonstrators commemorating the fourth anniversary of the bloody Soweto riots were killed tuesday in clashes with police near Cape town a police spokesman said. Initial reports said at least two coloured youths were shot by riot police and several others injured As they defied a government ban on gatherings of More than 10 people which police said would be strictly enforced. The divisional police commissioner for Cape town Brig. . Rossow said a number of people have been killed and a number hurl. I have no numbers or further residents of several townships said the area was virtually under siege As police sealed off Large areas As camouflaged reinforcements poured in. The deaths were the first directly connected with the unrest in non while areas triggered by inc Observance of the fourth anniversary of the bloodiest rioting in South Africa s history. Soweto police commissioner Brig. Kobus Hamman said the mixed race youths in Noordt Sig where most of the victims were wounded in rioting monday night ran sacked the Small shopping Complex because it did not heed demands to close Down in commemoration of More than 600 people who died in inc 1976 unrest. Cd Carter s defense policies instead of standing up for the military s interests the four Star general said he sought the Best positions he could gel and then obeyed or Ders. Jones expressed disagreement with car Ter s policies although he said he would not publicly criticize his commander in chief. Sen. John Tower. A Texas asked his View of delays in developing the my missile launching Range and the Trident nuclear submarine and ditching the proposed by bomber during Carter s term in office. These things happened during your ten Tower said. He asked would we be belter off today or worse off without the delays and cutbacks i Don t think there is any question we arc worse off today than if we had those programs Jones said. We arc not As Well off As we were in 1977. I would say we need an increase in the defense sen. Roger w. Jap san a Lowa wanted to know what Jones accomplished the last two years. We had no military budget growth then got 3 percent then got 5 percent and arc trying to get real growth Jones said. And he said we reversed the korean withdrawal of . Troops in South to a Jon Jones also listed Carter s decision to cull for draft registration. I think we had influence in inc administration Jones said. We reversed a Sites. Continued from Page i for the 1,350-mile Range Pilot less flying bombs capable of hitting any soviet tar get. The nuclear weapons modernization program is nato s response to the soviet buildup of ss-20 Mobile missiles aimed primarily at Western Europe. The bulk of the remainder of the 464 cruise missiles Are due to be stationed in West Germany which will also have 108 penning ii rockets and Italy. Nato also wants Belgium and Holland to take 48 cruise missiles each. Belgium agreed in principle but postponed a final decision until the end of this year. Holland says it will decide Only at the end of i98i after a National election in which the cruise deployment could be a major Issue. Britain whose prime minister Marga ret Thatcher the soviets dub the Iron lady agreed swiftly at a nato meeting last december to take the nuclear weapons. To save costs Washington which is paying for the bulk of the costly modernization program wanted the 160 missiles concentrated at one site in Britain but in months of Negola Lions evidently bowed to British demands that they be More wide spread. It was widely expected that the missiles would be sited near two major u5. Air Force installations in Britain. Lakenheath and upper Scyford which has bases for . 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