European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1985 West Germany plan to hold joint Maneu vers in 86 Bonn up French defense min ister Charles a Cru said in a radio inter View broadcast sunday that France and West Germany will hold joint Maneu vers next he said the most important joint fran co German Maneu vers Ever held will take and they will have an extraordinary we also Are drawing up plans for a Nevers in 1987 of an entirely new Herne everything is running very smoothly on the level of military cooperation Between France and the Federal re Public of her Nus interview reflected changes in French military France is said to be abandoning the View held by former Leader Charles de Gaulle that which docs not belong to the military Struc Ture of could defend itself alone in a european War and let West Germany be a Buffer Between France and the question of French nuclear Aid for West Germany also has been Herne said a debate now is going on in France Over whether the defense of France should begin on the Rhine the French German Border or on the Elbe the River on the Border Between East and West he said that former president Valery Giscard Destain and socialist Leader Jac ques Huntzinger advocate defending West Germany on the Elbe and aiding it if the soviet Union invades he said France today cannot take a stand on this but he added per haps it will be possible in a few years France will have More than 500 atomic the warheads at our disposal Are adequate for France and what we Call our vital Herne said it is an advantage not to Dis close whether France would use nuclear weapons to defend West Germany because it keeps a potential invader guessing what France would Herne said a poll of men and women 17 and older has shown that 57 percent of the French support helping West Germany if it is and 50 percent believe West Germany would Aid this shows the immense change in the mentality in France i in Ger he general dynamics bribed turkish officials to get former executive says Louis up the government of Turkey is investigating allegations that general dynamics bribed turkish officials in its successful bid to sell 160 f 16 Falcon fighter planes to Turkey in a copyright Story spokesmen for general dynamics said the bribery allegations were based on ridiculous and malicious statements by Takis a former company executive who has been indicted on Kickback company spokesmen confirmed that the allegations were being investigated by the securities and Exchange commission and by the House Energy and Commerce committees subcommittee on oversight and in the Louis pos dispatch said in sunday a company source told the newspaper the Sec had subpoenaed documents re lated to general dynamics foreign he said the company had Given the sub committee similar documents during a two Day briefing on foreign sales earlier this a spokesman for the turkish embassy in Washington confirmed Friday that the government of president Kenan Evren had begun looking into the allegations of mis handling and improprieties on the fal con turkeys military government signed the contract with general dynamics in sep tember at a Price of Varol the embassy press spokes said if the governments inquiry determined there was evidence supporting the the Case would be pros the turkish government announced its inquiry 10 Days after the first newspaper accounts appeared in Turkey detailing bribery allegations by in the newspaper Veliotis is quoted As naming two general dynamics officials who he says were responsible for the payment of an estimated million in bribes to turkish Veliotis now lives in where he is a fugitive from he re tired from general dynamics in May general dynamics denounced Veliotis accusing him of smearing the company in a said the bribery allegations were part of a vendetta Veliotis began after the company got court orders freezing about Mil lion of his news update colonel leaves Hospital Berlin a Roland injured last week when a so Viet truck rammed a military jeep in East has been re leased from a West Berlin military officials said the chief of the military Liaison Mission at East Ger had been hospitalized since sat urday for face he was released said Bob a spokesman at the army european Headquarters in Lajoie was Hurt Early saturday when the military car in which he was Riding was rammed from be Hind As it was pulling off an East German Highway after monitoring a soviet troop Pentagon officials in Washington Lajoie fractured the lower portion of one of his Eye but he did not require Dittmer he had been taken first to an american military then was hospitalized in a West Berlin where Bone specialists examined he had rays and a cat the colonel was resting at Home until a doctors appointment on Mon when it will be determined when he should return to Dittmer Beirut University vote Washington up the Board of directors of the american University of Beirut has voted to keep the school open despite the kidnappings of three faculty members in the last in a regular business 25 Board members voted to continue the University said Robert the schools manager of Public the trustees reaffirmed their pledge to continue the Beirut univer sity and to work urgently with All appropriate authorities for the re lease of a number of the University family currently held As Berry boy awarded for error by Navy surgeon new a a 4 year old boy made sterile after a Navy Doc Tor mistakenly performed a Vasectomy while removing hernias during two separate operations will receive in an out of court settlement with the its very hard to put a Dollar figure on this and its hard to predict if there will be a permanent said attorney Robert who represented Adam Lesso in the which was settled Fri the suit stemmed from operations in 1982 at the naval regional medical Cen Ter at the naval base in doctors for the defense and the govern ment disagreed on whether future surgery could reverse the but agreed that any such surgery should be performed when Adam reaches Reardon the boys suit said he was diagnosed by Navy James Roberts As suffering from two hernias on the right and left sides of his scrotum in Reardon said that Roberts removed both but unknowingly also removed a segment of the left Vas the slim muscular tube that transports sperm from the the error was discovered by a Hospital in Adam was operated on again for a hernia on the right Side during the Reardon said Roberts removed a Section of the right Vas because it is Uncertain just How much of the Vas deferent was removed and what changes will occur As Adam the chances for successful reattachment of at least one of the sperm channels appear to be less than in a Standard Vasectomy Reardon who is currently on the surgical staff of the naval Hospital at the Marine base at Camp declined Reardon said Adams parents were not notified of the damage until Roberts told Steven a Navy Petty what had happened during the second the doctor claims he notified the Mary of the first but she said she would not have taken her son Back for a second operation if she had been the suit was filed after the Navy failed to respond to the family claim for administrative settlement with the naval Region Al medical they had sought doctor says israelis tortured some shiite prisoners Beirut a a doctor who exam ined some 100 lebanese recently freed from an israeli prison Camp said saturday that medical checkups indicated they had been physically and mentally tortured by their in Tel the israeli military com Mand said it flatly and categorically de Nied the an israeli speaking on Condi Tion that he not be identified in line with military said the Atli Camp from which the prisoners were released was under constant surveillance by the International red it is strange that such if they had were not reported immediately to the International red he the army always gives the International red Cross opportunities to meet prisoners on a regular Maarouf Amin the physician who supervised the examinations of the a prisoners at the Hospital at the american University in told the associated press that he found cases of broken lung and genital Organ in fungus psychological disturbances As Well As one Case of but another doctor at the a specialist in infectious diseases who requested anonymity on professional said it was unlikely a Case of leprosy could have been contracted while the lebanese were held regularly the incubation of this disease is three to five although it could be As shorts six months and As Long As 10 he a full time staff member at the spoke to a in the presence of Laboratory technicians and nurses who were conducting tests on samples taken from the former he said most of those examined showed evidence of psychological which he claimed were caused by and that 30 men had broken Bones that were the result of at least 30 percent of those examined were physically he Many of the mostly shiite were captured in Southern Leb anon in the last months of israels three year occupation that ended in some 300 detainees were released from the at it military prison on july three Days after 39 americans held hostage by shiite moslem following the hijacking of a Twa jetliner were freed in More than 400 lebanese prisoners remain at although the hijackers demanded the re lease of All the Atli prisoners in Exchange for the both the United states and Israel denied the releases were part of any the medical examinations of the former prisoners were financed by the South Leb anon a Charity established by the ministry of housing and construction to provide financial and technical assistance to victims of the israeli the former detainees gathered at the Hospi tals xray rooms or other lounges said they responded to a radio broadcast by the South Lebanon fund urging them to seek free medical checks at the they said that during detention they were whipped and forced to stand in the nude in the open air 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