European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns Tom Wicker grim aspects regional nuclear nuclear terrorism when the use of nuclear weapons was described As suicidal last week during an International colloquium on nuclear War and a journalist inquired do you mean to suggest that if Iran or Iraq had a nuclear they would not use it against the other this question produced an unclear answer but a sobering realization for one listener that the widespread belief in the West and probably in the soviet Union that nuclear weapons that have no military Utility May not be applicable to a regional it would be suicidal for either superpower to attack the other with these owing to the certainty of retaliation in that Why it probably wont unless by but such retaliation might be less or less in other at the three Day conference sponsored by the private Groupe do for it was commonly and openly that Pakistan soon will have nuclear weapons prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of some of those at tending is convinced Pakistan Al ready has India conducted a peaceful nuclear test in 1974 and presumably could soon counter with its own nuclear but As one scenario that Gandhi ordered a pre nonnuclear strike on Pakistan nuclear facility at just South of if the strike was not totally successful and air strikes Seldom Are Pakistan president Zia might Well order retaliation with a surviving nuclear in the belief that India did not yet have such lie might be proved but he could rationally make that even if India launched a nuclear the two nations might destroy each other with their limited whether such a conflict on the Indian subcontinent would Lead to global nuclear holocaust is another matter but any situation producing a first use of a nuclear weapon raises that terrifying if either Iraq or in their desperate and exceptionally bloody were some How to obtain a nuclear there James Kilpatrick seems no reason to doubt that it would be on the Assumption that the other Side could not retaliate in Given the importance of persian Gulf the likelihood of triggering global nuclear War might be even greater than in the India Pakistan in a notably candid Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan out lined two plausible possibilities for the use of nuclear weapons in the Middle where no balance of terror exists but where Israel is commonly assumed to have such weapons or the ability to As semble them quickly although there would be no advantage to Israel in a nuclear attack on its neigh another conventional Ara israeli War might so Drain and threaten Israel that it would have to consider cutting Short the conflict by nuclear the deployment and use of increasingly sophisticated missiles of mass destruction presumably by Arab states might invite nuclear retaliation under intense internal political pressure presumably by in either the danger of igniting a global conflagration would be with the russians probably moving to support the Arab Side and the United states forced to Back Prince like numerous other also raised the Specter of nuclear terrorism what vice president in a Brief called the ultimate act of owing to the hostage drama in much of the discussion entered on the possibility that terrorists might some Day gain Possession of miniaturized Backpack or suitcase nuclear the most sophisticated defense system is no Protection against such a weapon smuggled into any City in the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan of the Groupe de Bellerive pointed and this prime minister Olof palme of Sweden said in the keynote in creases the need to prevent nuclear prolix ratio among states he and others saw the spread of nuclear weapons and mate rials As making it easier for terrorists to buy or steal both grim prospects Region Al nuclear conflict and nuclear terrorism were discussed More As probabilities than and both undermined the complacency of those in concentrating on superpower Competition and have comforted themselves with the belief that nuclear weapons Are Sui have no military purpose and therefore will never be c new York times scientology judgment tramples on Constitution a mul Tomah county jury in Oregon on May 17 delivered itself of what can Best be described As a travesty of the jury returned a verdict of million in punitive damages against the Church of this was a bum the judgment surely will be and eventually it will be set for the record i am not a scientology to the Best of my knowledge 1 never have even met a though there Are said to be 6 million of them in the of whom 3 million Are in the United i am an Prayerbook Episco have spent 40odd years Cov ering courts and worrying about the con and i know prejudice and the first amendment when i find them doing Battle in this judgment was the product of pure and it Tram pled upon the the Case involved a Young woman named Julie in the summer of a few weeks before her 18th with her mothers writ ten she became a member of the Church of scientology in As the Oregon court of appeals later would no one forced her into this de during her time in the Church she visited with relatives in the Portland area she twice returned to her Home in Montana for parental she became involved and maintained her involvement because she desired to do court documents As part of her Christof Ferson took a Basic course in the scientologists doctrine of she returned Day after Day to participate in the although she had daily Contact with no scientologists in her Job and at her apartment with her no scientologist the drills that accompanied the course were not in themselves Outra Here the stories the Church says that in april at her mothers the Young woman was Kidnap Ped by a fanatical band of reprogram mers who forcibly detained her until she recanted her religious maybe maybe in any Christofferson renounced the took sides with the and in 1977 filed suit against the she sought damages on two main grounds that the Church instructors intentionally had inflicted emotional distress by their outrageous that the course was a she had been for exam that her eyesight and her in would and nothing of the sort had re at the first trial in a jury awarded her the Church in May the Oregon court of appeals found that there was not sufficient evidence to sup port a verdict for outrageous the court ordered a new trial on the sole Issue of civil fraud were the services offered the Young woman on a wholly non religious basis was the purpose wholly secular was the intention solely to obtain Money from the plaintiff after a prolonged the suit came on for retrial this the Case got out of instead of concentrating on Christofferson specific allegations of the eight week trial turned into a trial of scientology at one Point the Church counsel complained to judge Donald Lender that the plaintiffs wit Nesses had not even mentioned Christof Ferson in three said the it had been five then came the verdict an award of in general damages against each of three defendants and million in punitive damages against the Church and its principal Fig Ron the judgment is i dont or whether scientologists still rely upon Hubbards kid stuff meters to Register encamp of Interior in fact and in the Church of scientology is a the courts repeatedly have held its tenets Are at least As plausible As the tenets of South Ern roman devout mormons and Prayerbook As the court of appeals observed four years whatever this immature Young woman she experienced it As a member of the she could not have taken the course her participation was entirely and if she paid for the All churches Are financed by their All churches Promise something red Emp salvation or peace of All in the View of atheistic Are engaged in perpetrating the free exercise of religion is specifically protected by one of the most cherished provisions of our that Freedom took an inexcusable beating in Portland in let us Pray that the court of appeals once again will have the common sense to set the verdict c Universal press Syndicate