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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Dod purchasing official subject of internal 5 d von Schamann Cut As nil teams trim rosters 21 d today Dollar buys Page 27 the Sims and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 125 August 1985 Doh and sunday d 8693 a Falwell Calls Bishop Tutu a phony new York up conservative american religious Leader Jerry fresh from a meeting with South african president Pieter tuesday said Nobel peace prize Winner Bishop Desmond Tutu was a phony As far As representing who Heads the conservative religious Organiza Tion moral returned to the United states pledging to begin a National Campaign to encourage continued investments in South Africa apartheid saying the racially segregated government needs americas he also charged that the Black religious Leader who has spoken out against the policies of his country White minority does not truly represent the Black people of South i think he is a phony As far As representing the Black Falwell conversation in Casablanca a photo Pope John Paul a guest at Casablanca Royal talks with moroccan King Hassan behind has sans chair Are Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed left and his younger Moulay the pontiff was on a Short Stopover in Morocco As he wound up his 12day visit to unlike Falwell the people of South Afri Ca do not want americans to divest or impose sanctions on the racially segregated he said he formed his Opin Ion of National sentiment by talking to dozens of South africans both government officials and people in the Falwell also said he had asked to meet with but see Falwell on Page 28 Lebanon bomb leaves 44 dead Beirut a Lebanon car bombers struck in Tripoli on apparently luring people into a main Square and then detonating a bomb that killed 44 people and wounded police Beirut was rocked by the fiercest artillery and rocket barrages in six police in the capital said 40 people were killed and 143 wounded in 24 hours of heavy fighting Between christians and the car bomb in Tripoli was the fifth in Lebanon in a a total of 143 people have been killed and More than 300 have been police said the bombers Drew people into an ambush by tossing a Small stick of dynamite from a speeding car into Sadden As people rushed to the scene of the police the car bomb an Anonymous caller representing the revolutionary christians of the Cedars telephoned a Western news Agency in Beirut to say it planted the the speaking in we want to assure the whole world that no moslem fundamentalists will continue to live on lebanese the bomb exploded near the Homes of Sheik Kenaan Leader of the fundamentalist sunni Jun Dullah Mili or soldiers of and his Sheik Abdelkarim police said Naji was wounded and but had no word on whether Badawi was the blast wrecked a seven Story and police said 15 of the bodies dragged from the rubble were burned beyond near Christian militias using Long Range Artil Lery and 120mm mortars shelled druse towns in the Shouf mountains Southeast of the capital where moslem forces have strategic police Beirut Airport was hit by 40 shells and several hit the but no casualties were it was the heaviest artillery and rocket barrages in and around Beirut for More than six world War Iii  follow the script a it r Washington up world War Iii ended and the Ukrain Ian City of Minsk Are now radioactive rub destroyed by a limited superpower nuclear Exchange that closed 16 Days of thousands of weary soldiers in the Fulda Gap the tense Border area where it All started Are looking Forward to their first hot meal in the Warsaw pact faced with becoming a nuclear Battleground in a War that was forced upon choose peace with Washington Over a continued partnership with a Palace coup re moves the surrounded by the litter of the combatants reassess and Are glad that they survived the most intense fighting the planet had Ever sir John a retired nato Gen is glad the War existed Only in his the third world War August 1985 which he and other nato experts wrote in 1978 because they looked at the world and did not like what they i saw before me the real probability that War could break out Between the Warsaw pact and the Hackett said in an interview his concern was not nuclear arsenals but the Warsaw pacts overwhelming Edge in planes and troop the state of conventional weapons at the time we wrote the Book was such that it was insufficient to hold the Warsaw and nato would then have to re sort to nuclear he the books realistic scenario which details what troops and Strate Gies would be deployed from 1985 made it a Best seller in the United states and it went 23 editions and was printed in 10 one of the 3 million copies went to president who kept it on his desk in the Oval in a Telephone interview from his Home in England an Ideal place to Ponder the end of the he laughing Hackett said he believes natos conventional forces now Are strengthened enough to keep the Warsaw pact at nato also has improved its ability to make military convoys to carry troops and and while still not a nato member is More closely integrated in All these things Are tremendous the United states has spent billions of dollars since the late 1970s to upgrade its All of Hackett reinforce nato the he Are less interested in War with the West because they Are shoring up their invasion of the War in my Book starts when the soviets invade he Afghanistan made it much less Likely for them to do that because they Are fighting in a mountainous Region against warlike that forcing them to remain geared on a War which is keeping them from producing the things their citizens want with the threat of world War the danger Hackett is regional conflicts where nations have nuclear see script on Page 28  
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