European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 Reagan May abandon annual increases nato favors dropping defense hikes Brussels a european nato members reacted enthusiastically Friday to indications the government under Ronald Reagan will Stop badgering them to raise defense spending by at least 3 percent a year beyond weve said All along that there Are bet Ter ways of measuring a West German official at nato Headquarters the idea of a fixed percent age has never delighted a British official said Reagan will win a lot of friends in Europe by doing away with what is viewed As a simplistic spending aim that was one of the mainstays of the out going Carter administrations nato poli the 3 percent figure has become a focus hundreds of Fefe Grams for argumentative Ness that does not help the the British official both diplomats asked that they not be Secretary of defens designate Cas Par Weinberger said during the week that although a greater Allied commitment to defense is i dont think its an effective measure simply to look at How much or what outgoing Secretary of defense Harold Brown was in Brussels twice after the no vember elections to warn the allies that without a Strong commitment to their own the american Public would resent Large increases in defense he said the 3 percent increase was the key verifiable Way of measuring the commit the european officials As Wein Berger that objection to the 3 percent figure did not mean a slackening desire to increase defense which they said is still a vital Western Alliance Heads of government agreed in Washington in 1978 to use the 3 percent Over and above As a target for defense the extra Money was to pay for a Lon term defense program designed to meet perceived growth in soviet forces facing the faced with growing economic few nato countries were Able to increase their budgets to meet the even nato stalwarts like Britain and West Germany barely reached it in 1980 and both countries expect to make cuts that poles Back say saturday is a Holiday Warsaw up support spread across the country Friday for the Solidarity unions unilateral declaration that saturdays Are holidays and despite government millions of poles planned to stay Home from at the same a Rural Solidarity Farmers Union source said protesting farm ers in a Stryzinski in Southeast to were expected to sign an agreement with a government commission saturday and end their More than 10day occupation of a local government in a letter published in the current Issue of the communist party theoretical Magazine now deposed party Leader Edward Gierek made his first Public response to the criticism levelled against him and his 10year defending his policy and saying he Only wanted the Best for to Solidarity National Headquarters in Gdansk said hundreds of telegrams from All Over the country had flooded in express ing support for the Solidarity declaration of a five Day work week and Call to workers to stay off the Job starting Solidarity chapters said their members would stay saturday is free and we wont go to said a Solidarity spokesman in cues he scoffed at labor and wage minister Janusz Obodo skis warning that saturday was a Normal work Day and people not showing up for work would not be we Are not interested in the Soli Darity Man in the Sale of liquor was banned for but the ban was not in effect will put the hike in jeopardy in the United states met the target in 1980 and Reagan has called for an even greater in perhaps As High As six West Germany has led the fight against the asserting that despite american spending the United states is no better prepared to fight a War than the West germans have also complained that governments can increase spending by raising salaries the United states did to Spur enlistments without increasing weapons efficiency or troop the main thing is to get commitment to specific projects that increase an official Weinberger was quoted on tuesday As making the same he said what i would like to look at is the end product Are we getting the strength we need theres no doubt that requires in creased percentages but by the same Token think we will get a far More effective result if we look at what we Are getting for temperatures allegiance shift Victor soviet interpreter at the Vienna East West troop Cut is being questioned at an Undis closed location in Germany after defect ing to the Koroluk took with him a bundle of secret a photo Angeles Beach Paul Orleans York City Louis Petersburg Lake City Diego Francisco news update Grasso condition worse a the condition of former Connecticut Ella who is battling has taken a turn for the a Hartford Hospital spokesman grasses condition was lowered from guarded to Hospital spokesman James Battaglio because she had developed stomach ulcers and a Low the former who recently underwent surgery to bypass a cancer Ous intestinal had been reported to be doctors said that chemotherapy treatments were responsible for the slight improvements in her health so that she could consume some semisolid foods each warning on plane tires Washington a a Federal safety Board has urged airlines to Check the wheels of their wide bodied lock heed l10ii aircraft to ensure against a potential Blowout Hazard that resulted in the recent death of two the National transportation safety Board warning was prompted by an Accident 23 in which a tire exploded As a saudi arabian airlines l1011 flew at feet Between saudi Arabia and the safety Board said its investigation traced the cause of the Accident to a Flange of the damaged saying the Flange was thinner than safety standards the explosion ripped through the floor of the planes passenger area and the sudden decompression sucked two children from the safety authorities the plane was diverted and later landed safety at Marcos foe loses plea Philippines up the supreme court thursday dismissed a Long pending petition by opposition Leader Benigno Aquino to declare his imprisonment the High court said Aquinas petition has become moot and academic since the Excenator has refused to return principal political opponent of president Ferdinand is in the United he was freed last May after Ivi years in while he was in prison and under going trial for murder and illegal Possession of Aquinas Mother filed the petition for a writ of go ill Hareas Corpus to secure the release of her Aquino subsequently was convicted of the charges and sentenced to death by firing but after Adverse criticism of the decision in the United Marcos ordered the Case reopened and freed new cloning Advance new York not the Success Ful cloning of reported earlier by scientists in Switzerland and the has been carried one step an researcher has multiple genetically identical mice have been produced by transplanting cell nuclei from a single he Saidt reached by Telephone at his Laboratory at the University of Karl who had conducted the Experiment there with Peter Hoppe of the Jackson Laboratory in bar defended the use of the term cloning to describe the earlier production of single mice by such a each of the three mice produced in the previous he was a True clone in that it was genetically Iden tical with the organism from which it was Rig May be up righted Norway up the Alexander Kielland platform May still be turned upright in spite of Deci Sion by the insurers to declare the Rig a a spokesman for the insurance companies the platform capsized in the North sea during a storm on March 27 of last year killing 123 Oil More than 30 bodies Are still missing from the disaster and according to the police Many of them Are still inside the upturned efforts were made last fall to turn the Rig 180 degrees Back into an upright position but the attempt was halted when the authorities said the method used was too the insurance Pool responsible for the Rig said that the Alexander Kielland would be declared a wreck and the own the Stavanger drilling would be paid million for the loss of the salvadorans seek time a two Salva Dorans who survived the july desert trek that killed 13 of their compatriots have won More time to seek political Asylum in the United Jose Samuel Moran Marroquin and Guillermo Salazar were granted 45 Days by a immigration and naturalization service official to file formal apply Nancy lawyers for the two men told George a special inquiry officer for the that deportation of their clients to strife torn Al Salvador might result in interrogation and possible torture or even death for