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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes to vhf the stars authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 15 May 1985 is on d 8693 a in Europe 1985 f f i r r j i i reagans Are welcomed to Bonn at Start of six Day Germany visit by Mary Hladky ande Treavis staff writers Bonn amid Gray skies and a steady president Reagan and his arrived Here late wednesday morning for a six Day the reagans smiled and waved to 300 embassy employees and their families who cheered and waved Small american and German flags As the Rea Gans stepped out of air Force one at the Cologne Bonn wearing a Tan and his in Abright Blue were greeted by West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and ambassador Arthur a German Honor guard fired a 21gun Salute and four Jet fighters roared overhead to Greet the presi after smiling and waving to the crowd one More the reagans boarded the Marine one Heli copter for a Brief ride to Gimnich Castle where they will stay during their visit to reagans 10 minute Airport Stopover starts a 10day european tour that will include state visits to Spain and Portu Gal and an address to the european parliament in in along with leaders of six other industrialized will attend an economic Summit meeting that begins the trip has stirred controversy because of Rea Gans plans to visit a German military cemetery in Pitburg where 49 members of the nazi Waffen is Are in an Effort to appease outraged veterans and members of Reagan has added a trip to the former Bergen Belsen concentration Camp site in Northern How see reagans on Page 24 photo by Emmeh Lewis president Reagan and his wave to a crowd of Well wishers after arriving at the Cologne Bonn Brussels terrorist blast kills injures 72 Brussels up a car bomb plan Ted by communist terrorists in Central Brus Sels Early wednesday killed two spilling the first blood in an eight month wave of attacks on nato and big business police said 12 people were injured in the blast near the Central Railroad three of the injured were firemen hospitalized with severe Burns and the others were civilians Cut by flying responsibility for attack was in leaflets left at the by the communist fighting a group that has struck 13 times since october and which has become known by the letters now a household word in Belgium synonymous for euro ter i am convinced the terrorists have inter National prime minister Wilfried Martens to step up Security around nato and other potential police said the bomb exploded at 22 min utes after shattering windows in a radius of More than 100 police in where president Reagan and leaders of six other Industrial nations Are holding their annual economic told the stars and stripes that the Brussels attack would not affect their Security a but they said the bombing would make them even More instructions will be Given to increase to the maximum the number of people de tailed to guard potential targets in Bel Martens prior to wednesdays the biggest acc hit was on 11 when six valves of a strategic nato pipeline system were blown police identified the dead men As Marcel and Jacques Van fire chief Francis Boileau said his men were called by police to the scene of a smoking As they Drew up alongside the bomb packed he a policeman who found acc leaflets warning of the explosion told them to run for they  get away in they stood no Boileau police said witnesses told them they had seen three men around the Van running away from dropping leaflets As they shortly before the worded in French and the Leaf lets said danger car warn All your colleges and get away immediately As far As you above dont touch the Martens said Belgium would seek cooperation with other Western european police departments to catch the terrorists who reputedly have links with French and West German flemish socialist Leader Karel Van Miert said he was horrified at the this was a senseless murder of which two were the this was also an attack against democracy and a violation of International labor he army asks funds to safeguard Pershing ii missiles by Bill Keller Washington not the army has warned Congress that Pershing ii nuclear missiles in Germany Are extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks and need to be for the first time since delivery of the medium Range missiles began 17 months the in a letter april asked Congress for Money to begin a four stage project that would eventually secure the missiles in Concrete Sheds behind Camou Flage an army spokesman said tuesday that concern was prompted by a full scale Security review conducted after a fire in Jan uary that killed three soldiers in a per Shing ii training exercise at a base near without this Security at the four Pershing Sites in Germany will continue to be seriously impaired As the mis Siles will remain extremely vulnerable to terrorist action and demonstrator interest will remain the army said in a request for the first million install ment on the Security army and congressional sources stressed that the nuclear warheads to Arm the missiles Are stored separately in con Crete but they said the Pershing truck like launching the missiles themselves and their fuel were exposed and would in the words of the army a potentially lucrative target for in interviews Jim Sasser of the senior Democrat on the Senate appropriations subcommittee on see army on Page 24  
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