European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes april military issues will share Bonn spotlight by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief although president Reagan and leaders of six other industrialized Western nations will focus on economic issues during this weeks Summit meeting in military issues wont be chief among them will be reagans strategic defense or Star wars european leaders will consider whether to take part in research on the Reagan will tie the issues together using the theme that politics and de sense Are indivisible in creating and main Taining Strong presidential spokesman Larry Speakes told the travel ing White House press a senior defense department staff member who supervises the area desks of the countries Reagan will visit Ger Spain and Portugal summed up the military issues behind the trip in two words Star he noted that German Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl has offered to take part in Star wars research presumably with while the French will be interested be cause they fear reagans program could reduce the value of their own nuclear military issues in Spain and Portugal Are less he in the question is whether the nation will stay in nato or in what socialist prime minister Felipe gon Zalez Marquez has promised a National vote on the Issue within Little More than a year and has halted integration into the Spain position in nato now is like Frances the country is represented on the military but its forces Are not part of the nato Force last Gonzalez also said he would like to see progressively less pres ence in his the largest presences Are troops at the strategically important naval base at about at the air base at Torrejon and about at the air base at Rota is near which soviet ships must pass on their Way out of their War water Black sea a founding member of the Al has been quieter since approval of use of the Lajes base in the azores was extended for eight years in As defense department staff members see issues come in two types defense department level and meaning state National Security Council or White House Star wars is one of the and that Why defense department experts believe it will be the Shadow Agenda even on a basically economic oriented the arms talks a subject of intense inter est to europeans combined with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev offer to freeze Levels of ss20 missiles create a pretty Good Case for a topic that is Likely to come up in High level european feelings about Star wars Are mixed at the space system essentially would at tack enemy missiles in critics have pointed out that such a system probably would be less effective against the inter mediate Range missiles threatening Europe than against the strategic weapons the that thinking if Ameri can leaders believed the system might shield them from anything but an fallout they might be less willing to risk the nation in defense of the possibility of the decoupling of the american strategic deterrent from the de sense of Europe has been one of the most volatile political issues on the governments have risen and fallen Over europeans worry most about the ss20s the soviets have targeted on if the arms talks led to a reduction of it would be a great Victory for the leaders who held out against heavy Public pres sure and installed the american Pershing ii and cruise those leaders generally concede that Star wars especially the army Experiment that demonstrated that a nonnuclear missile could intercept a warhead in space helped bring the soviets Back to the negotiating table at but they also Are concerned that Star wars could put a tear in the nuclear umbrella that has shielded Europe for Christopher an editor of the Liberal German political weekly die Zeit and a former director of London prestigious International Institute for strategic has said the Lon term effect of Star wars would be the decoupling of the Atlantic last at a meeting of european members of the the press reported that French defense minister Charles Herne tried but failed to push through a common position against Star the most frequently seen estimate is that Star wars would Cost trillion before it could be operational Early in the next for that kind of spending implies Kohl has offered to take part in Star wars presumably with Cash although the first exploratory Cabinet vote on it reported in the German papers april 17 apparently was but some Alliance including nato Secretary general lord fear that the attention being Given to Star wars could dilute efforts to improve natos conventional because of Low ammunition stocks and weak support for Jet tanks and the official estimate of natos ability to hold off a Warsaw pact attack is about two Ber Nard supreme Allied commander in has said he might have to make a decision within a few Days whether to ask for permission to use nuclear last for the first time and despite significant variations among the the Alliance achieved an average of a 3 percent increase in defense nato leaders had sought that elusive goal since at the Weh Kunde defense conference in Munich in the Wall Street journal reported that lord Carrington re turned participants attention to the conventional saying so much for the one of my concerns is with the relative strength of our conventional the question of whether nato Mem Bers Are paying enough for the common defense is never far from the surface at meetings of Allied neither is the Issue of whether there is enough reciprocal buying among the nations to help even out Trade a High tech weapons system such As Star wars also holds out the Specter of Trade advantages for the United states and increased european dependency on Summit chef serves Bonn appetites by de Reavis staff writer Bonn when president Reagan arrives Here wednes hell come face to Fork with the Art of Bernd when it comes to visits by Raths knows whats As the chief Cook at the Steigenberge which caters official Raths is the Man who prepares the i dont do it but have 20 assistant Cooks who Are masters at their Raths although Raths has prepared banquets and meals for 60 or 70 Kings and Heads of he said the task still challenges its a Challenge because professional Pride makes you want to do it better than the last he Raths has received several awards for his culinary including one from Germany past Walter who has a reputation As a on Raths will prepare the meal for a banquet honouring japanese prime minister Yasuhiro it will be held at the Villa the German presidents on hell Cook for the guests attending Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Kohls official reception at the Falke lust Castle for the eight Heads of state attending the economic As Well As their foreign ministers and state the three groups will be fed in separate dining which also Means three different Raths on Raths will feed the group in similar Fash Ion at the palais it will be a ver Itable feeding of the masses when he Cooks for 350 guests attending the banquet held in the Honor of president Reagan at Schloss hotel manager Dieter Struzyna said 100 waiters will the meals Arent the extravaganzas one might said a former the meals include four courses of the Best products the season offers above Garden fresh Struzyna behind the we even grow our own Raths composes the menus like Debussy composed music appetizing and with no obvious he cant reveal the menus in but Raths said they would include asparagus and Light German White and red wines and sekt will be the meals must be Light on the digestive system because these people have to sit in conferences and Struzyna Heads of state have their likes and allergies and just As regular citizens Struzyna knows from past state visits that president Rea Gan does not like fresh tomatoes and French president fran Cois Mitterrand does not drink sparkling former soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev brought Vodka from his private Stock with former egyptian presi Dent Anwar Sadat preferred special foods that he brought with and chinese officials bring 20 Cooks with them and feed their German Struzyna Heads of state from the Pacific and other tropical climes often bring their accustomed food with you cant compare their Sun ripened fruit with the fruit that sent Here Green and ripened in theres a world of Struzyna a lot of Forks and spoons Are dipped into Raths dishes before the honoured guests get a but that Doest bother the As soon As Raths and his Cooks finish tasting the a special staff from the hotel does the specialists from the German Federal criminal office taste and take and the secret service also checks it All Kitchen staff or anyone who is required to enter the Kitchen area must undergo Security checks by Ger Man authorities and Are issued new passes this Doest faze the redheaded High risk personalities have always had their Raths photo by Gus Schuettler Bernd Raths in the Steigenberge hotel