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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, January 25, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reagan picks service secretaries Washington up president Reagan Friday named secretaries for each of the armed for the defense Reagan picked Verne a close Reagan aide who held California government jobs and now teaches at the University of Southern Cali As Secretary of the air John a former Virginia congressman who worked As a White House lawyer in the Ford administration and once was an assistant defense to be Secretary of the John Lehman president of the Abingdon and a foreign policy expert who once was a senior aide to Henry Kissin Ger and the National Security to be Secretary of the other selections announced Friday were Murray a former Nixon administration to be chair Man of the Council of economic in a statement in the Oval Reagan called who served As assistant Treasury Secretary from 1969 to one of the country most distinguished economists with a Broad background in the academic world and chaired the campaigns task Force on government he is director of the Center for the study of american business at Washington univer sity in Richard once considered a top pick to become agriculture for the 2 Post in the former head of the american meat Lyng ran the farm campaigns for Reagan in 1980 and Gerald Ford in he headed the recent transition operation at the agriculture department and was an assistant Agri culture Secretary in the Nixon adm Nistra he once headed californian agriculture William an associate Justice on the California supreme As Deputy Secretary of since 1977 a vice president of beneficial Standard and before that executive director of the Federal Trade As Deputy Secretary of new York lawyer Edward a Treasury undersecretary in the Ford As Deputy attorney Linda former television pro Ducer from Dallas and Public relations offi Cial for Nieman to be assistant social Secretary to Nancy vengeance Many in Call for economic air strikes to atone for hostage treatment by United press International eve increasing reports of iranian cruelty toward the 52 american hostages have fanned the desire for vengeance among thousands of prompting Calls for everything from economic sanctions to air Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of one of the american clergymen who visited the hostages for Christmas in said he was not surprised by the reports of mistreatment but hoped americans  build up a sense of i want to emphasize strongly that we should work against the tendency to be angry and hostile to the roman Catholic prelate and i Pray that the hostages will be cleansed of any lingering hatred or that we All can take Steps leading to an aunt of one hostage said simply its hard to be but in the streets of the there was a deep and brooding cold spell raised insurance claims a the recent cold spell that froze water pipes and stopped Many automobiles in the East had an equally chilling effect on Many major insurance companies based in the Hartford Aetna life and Allstate insure travellers insurance and the Hart Ford insurance group All report that the number of claims from Homeowner and automobile policy holders jumped dramatically last and All blame the recent subnormal weather related claims in new new York and Pennsylvania resulted in a million loss to insurance companies in a five Day period Dan a 24yearold Manhattan construction said they should turn iran into a parking lot for what they did to the morale of this they j Adam an Iron worker in new picked up the Call for Send in the Lerie de iran smacked America in the Hub i uber Viau Vinci la in inc rubbed our face in they disgraced now every Little country will try to Luci and Lucille do the same unless we teach them a Les Stephanie of said the United states should renounce its agreement with iran if the hos tages were Stan a motor vehicles registry worker in said the United states should retaliate by Deport ing All iranian and Joan of wanted More i think they ought to hang the ones who did she Clem Grochowski of called for economic dont Trade with dont Supply them with military or screw he in millionaire Ross who engineered a Mission to free two of his electronic data systems employees from an iranian urged repudiation of the hostage its Ransom paid to he imagine your wife was you would pay the Ransom to get her but once you had her if you could get the Money you president Reagan should not Honor the the cries for revenge echoed through the Halls of Ronald has urged the president to adopt a policy of Swift and harsh military retaliation if Ameri cans Are Ever again taken Mary Rose said the United states should void its financial agreement with iran because of the Way the 52 hostages were actress Luci Arnaz who is Fea tured in the movie the jazz shares a laugh with her Lucille before their appearance in new York on the no ctr show tomorrow coast to a photo Battle Over mental condition fizzles of time Gar Woods trial comes Down of wire Camp a Mony in the court martial of Marine corps Robert Garwood concluded Friday after an expected Battle of the psychiatrists Over his mental condition fizzled As the 10weekold trial neared its psychiatric experts for the government and defense found they were More in agreement than disagreement about who is accused of deserting to the North Vietnam Ese communists and taking up their a fireman jury of Marine officers was ordered to return 2 to hear closing arguments in the landmark Case in which Gar Woods lawyers have characterized him As a Young Soldier coercive by persuaded by the vietnamese to obey their he was in Vietnam for 14 years before returning to the United states in March the government charges that Garwood deserted his unit in willingly carried a weapon of the communists and wore their interrogated fellow american pos and solicited others to the four charges could carry a sentence of life Gar Woods lawyers conceded the facts of some of his actions in Captivity As related by other the defense As articulated by Foren sic psychiatrist air Force James rested on the belief that torture and coercion drove Garwood into a form of insanity known As an atypical dissociative he lost his identity As an american Marine and could not understand the criminality of his Corcoran the government presented witnesses to buttress their View that the Marine knew exactly what he was doing in Vietnam and was not suffering from a mental disease serious enough to impair his he seems to have a Lucid memory for the events in Vietnam and does not display any serious manifestations of anxiety or proneness to suicide or indications of a memory testified Navy Michael defense lawyers concentrated on under mining the credibility of the governments defense psychiatrists insisted that they were 100 percent certain of their findings that Garwood had a serious mental illness in government witnesses assessed the prob ability of his appreciation of his criminal conduct As ranging anywhere from 50 per cent to 90 defense lawyers said they Are confident they have created reasonable doubt of Gar Woods mental in the stars and stripes 30 ago today 1951 reactivation of the 12th air with Headquarters in wies was announced today by Lauris new Safe commanding 20 years ago 1961 an Atlas d missile blazed Miles from Cape canaveral to a South Pacific target on the final test launching for this produced americas most powerful military rocket and space 10 years ago today 1971 the cambodian High command is bracing itself for an attack from communist forces massing on three sides of the capital of phenom military sources  
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