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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 san Francisco picked As Home for battleship san Francisco a the battleship Missou site of the japanese surrender in world War ii and now refurbished with nuclear will make its Home port officials said Friday As opponents vowed to Stop the move with a a guide missile two minesweepers and four naval Reserve frigates will Ojiri the 41yearold Battle defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said in a statement in mayor Dianne who campaigned hard to get the Missouri and vetoed a Board of supervisors measure opposing the welcomed the news just before kick ing off the cites 209th birthday but pebbles spokeswoman for a group called ant Missouri forces have collected of voter j san Francis or can you imagine a City vote supporting this initiative and the Navy overriding the cites vote she at a news conference with Pete Wil said she was convinced the Missouri would have enough safety measures to prevent Acci dental triggering of nuclear the ship will bring military and 250 civilian jobs to the san Francisco Bay Wilson Feinstein has estimated the City could realize Mil lion a year in economic but the two other cities competing for the Missouri were not left one guide missile Cruiser and three destroyers will be based at Pearl Harbor in and four fast frigates and a Marine aviation support ship will be based in Long Weinberger the selection of treasure Island for the Missouri and the guide missile Cruiser is contingent upon the signatures required to put a measure opposing s co As the ship s Home port on the november Balli a photo san Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein City of san Francisco providing All necessary Access to housing and adequate measures to relieve in creased traffic problems on the Bay or alternate provide ferry service from treasure his statement in Hawaii George Ariyoshi said he is convinced from a strategic Point of Pearl Harbor would have been the Best location for the it was a political no question about he we gave it our Best he we didst get what we but we got Navy Frederick Gorrell declined to speculate when the now in Long would congressional funding environmental re View and Public hearings Are still he the where the japanese formally surrendered to the allies to end world War was refurbished in a million project to enable it to carry Tomahawk cruise nuclear or conventional the navys review of potential Homes for the Missouri sparked a split in san Francisco Between antinuclear factions and those favouring the military presence and the addition of an estimated direct and indirect a recent Survey by the san Francisco chamber of Commerce showed 53 percent of residents supported stationing the 888foot battleship with 43 percent opposed and the rest nazis spied on soviets for report claims Washington a officials recruited nazi War criminals to spy on the soviet Union after world War ii and helped some immigrate illegally to the United according to a general accounting office the postwar practices were detailed Fri Day by congressional investigators in a re port requested by House judiciary com Mittee chairman Peter the Gao makes it painfully Clear that some of our intelligence agents allowed their preoccupation with the soviet Union to Cloud their judgment and that the anti communist frenzy of the times led to some highly questionable decisions about the use of nazi War Rodino the the investigative Arm of con said the United states helped some of Goez int surprised the nazi War criminals immigrate illegally to the United it also said the government employed Klaus the Gestapo chief in protected him from extradition and organized his escape to South Barbie is currently awaiting trial in Lyons on War crimes the Gao report said the spy recruit ment occurred in 1946 when an unprepared intelligence system was ordered to produce the highest possible Quality of intelligence on the in the shortest time Possi the order came when forces were the office of strategic serv ices the wartime intelligence Agency Dis mantled and Many experienced agents were already Home and pursuing private the Gao their besides being Inex were believed by some former intelligence officers we interviewed to be philosophically and politically naive about the beginning of the cold the report the Gao studied cases of 114 aliens including nazis and Axis collaborators and identified five with undesirable or questionable backgrounds who were employed by intelligence agencies and received some form of assistance to seven other aliens with similar Back grounds immigrated without identifiable among the five assisted aliens were two alleged War a former nazi is a convicted conspirator in an and a the report the recruited nazis included members of the is and East european fascist they were not one former intelligence agent told the Gao that their use was a question of weighing their value against their he told us that if a person was a War the decision of whether or not to use him depended on what he could do for the report under Laws and policies at the when thousands of displaced persons sought entry to the United visas were sup posed to be prohibited to anyone who advocated or assisted in the persecution of any person because of religion or National subway vigilante victim held in rape new York a James Ramseur one of four teenagers shot by Bernhard Goetz on a subway was arrested Fri Day on charges of raping and robbing a Young woman at gunpoint last authorities police arrested after the victim who was hospitalized for four Days after the attack identified him in a police Law enforcement sources told the associated Ramseur was wounded by Goetz in a widely publicized shooting said he fired in Sel defense As the four youths menaced but the four said they were Only Goetz is not surprised by the fact that one of those that accosted him in the subway and put him in fear of his life is alleged to have continued his brutality against said Getzs Barry an initial grand jury refused to indict Goetz for shooting the but a second grand jury Impan eled on the basis of new evidence indicted him on charges including attempted murder and an appeals court refused to dismiss that indictment Ramseur Ronald said be had not spoken with Ramseur about the rape charge so he could not comment on the Bronx District attorney Mario who announced Ramseur said in a statement that Ramseur allegedly accosted the 18yearold victim in an elevator in her building at the Claremont a Bronx housing who lives in another building in the same allegedly forced the Young woman to a Landing leading to the roof of the raped took her earrings and three and Merola police said Ramseur was arrested on charges of assault and criminal Possession of a a source close to the investigation said police were seeking a second Man said to have participated in the Ramseur was held in lieu of bail following his arraignment Friday night in Bronx criminal according to senior court clerk Coleman the most serious rape and carry Pris on terms up to 25 Yean upon Ramseur had served a 60day jail sen tence for shoplifting before the subway and was charged in Marc with falsely reporting to the police that he had been he pleaded innocent in that which is one of Getzs shots hit Ramseur in the Kliegerman the lawyer said Ramseur has been hospitalized three times and operated on twice for the Kliegerman said he understood that his client was arrested before the not after vigilante victim James Ramseur ecological Effort destroys Forest up a 450acre fire in the Wenatchee National Forest was caused by a group of hikers who thought it would be More ecologically sound to Burn their used toilet paper rather than Bury a spokeswoman said the four hikers doctors who recently graduated from the Harvard school of Medicine told a fire investigator thursday they were to blame for the Blaze North of Lake spokeswoman Marti Ames of the we Natchee National Forest they wanted to do the right thing they thought they she i bet they were really the fire was unintentional because the hikers were following the guidelines of a Book that recommended burning toilet she flames from the burning toilet set ablaze in dry spread quickly out of control and swept through the area about 35 Miles North of Ames Ames said the hikers might be issued a citation and forced to pay the Cost of fighting the she would not re lease their the group was on the Lake Shore a Low Elevation path that runs along the Edge of Lake when the fire started at about noon thurs  
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