European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n felony charges filed in night stalker Case Page 6 n Gulf coast cleans up in Hurricane Elena s Wake Page 7 q shipping a vehicle make sure it s clean Page 9 the Sims and 5tripessssb-isss authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 140 thursday septembers 1985 Oon on a d 8693 a ready to Deal Gorbachev says Moscow a . Senators who met with soviet communist party chief Mikhail s. Gorbachev quoted the soviet Leader As saying he is ready to make Radical offers to reduce nuclear arms if the United states slops toting space weapons. Gorbachev also May be willing to accept some Risca cd on space weapons they said tuesday. The eight senators left Moscow wednesday aboard an air Force plane bound for Edinburgh Scotland where they will stay two Days before returning to Washington. The Reagan administration said Gorbachev s Promise of new offers has been made before and it challenged the soviets to present their suggestions at the arms control talks in Geneva Switzerland in Washington presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan is prepared to meet the soviets Halfway in an Effort to solve  sen. Robert Byrd d-w.va., the Senate minority Leader said after a 3v4-hour meeting at the Kremlin that Gorbachev indicated that if the us. Were prepared to discuss the ques Tion of preventing the militarization of space it would then hear from the soviet Side the most Radical proposals on Strate Gic arms and intermediate Range weapons. The senators said that although Gorbachev might be willing to accept some research on space weapons his definition of research is very narrow. He defines it essentially As being what you do in a Laboratory and under the narrowest interpretation of the remarks he is saying we will allow you to think about space weapons but not much More said sen. Sam Nunn a a. Nunn said that Gorbachev s statements were constructive but that he told the soviet Leader he should put proposals on the table at .-sovict arms talks in Geneva where negotiators Are discussing Long Range and medium Range nuclear weapons As Well As space weapons. Byrd said Gorbachev s approach to arms control differed from that of soviet defense officials the senators met monday. Gorbachev hinted at flexibility and said he will be positive in his approach at the Summit with president Reagan in november Byrd said. Byrd described Gorbachev As articulate Tough Able  he said he handed Gorbachev a letter from Reagan at see soviets on Page 24 the zoos of Europe see stripes Magazine new air Force Jet Trainer May be cancelled by Dod Washington not the defense department has proposed cancelling a new air Force trailing plane that is the mainstay of the Fairchild Republic co s air Craft Plant on Long Island Pentagon and Industry sources said tuesday. The sources said the air Force proposed the Caus i Tion of the j3.5 billion program in Pentagon budget documents As part of a budget trimming exercise and the move had been approved by Deputy Secretary of defense William h. Taft in. His endorsement came two weeks ago in a classified program decision memorandum the sources added. Officials said management deficiencies at the farming Dale Plant which the air Force had previously made pub Lic figured in the decision to eliminate the plane the t 46a. Aerospace Industry analysts said its cancellation could be fatal to the Republic Plant in Farmingdale which employs 3,600 people. But officials said there was still a Prospect that the program could be revived either by a reversal within the Pentagon or in the House. The chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee on defense is rep. Joseph p. Addabbo d-n.y., who has traditionally been protective of military projects in new York. Tom Turner a vice president of both Fairchild Republic and its Parent Fairchild industries said tuesday that company executives were aware of the decision but were optimistic that the air Force would change its mind about cancelling the program. The decision came at a key step in the process of Assem bling a Pentagon budget president Reagan will Send to Congress Early next year for the fiscal year beginning the following october. The Pentagon has been trying to Cut about $30 billion from its earlier Long Range budget plans to conform with guidelines set by Congress. Air Force officials said the Trainer program was Cut in part in order to avoid cuts in vital combat aircraft pro Grams. One air Force official familiar with the program said air Force budget makers May have Cut the program from the budget with the hopeful expectation that con Gress would restore it. But the air Force official who spoke on the condition he not be identified said the Choice of the t-46a As a budget casualty was also influenced by a recent history of management problems at the Farmingdale Plant. The air Force announced last week that a june inspection had uncovered new management and production deficiencies at the Plant and said it was suspending $4 million a month see Jet on Page 24 Bonn Secretary admits spying for e. Germany Bonn a a Secretary in president Richard von Weizsaecker s office has admitted that she was a spy and that an East German agent gave her Money a prosecutor s spokesman said wednesday. Margarete Hoeke was arrested in Bonn on aug. 24 on suspicion of spying for East Germany. Earlier in August a top counterspy defected to East Germany and the government said three people who vanished May have also been spies for East Germany. Alexander Prechtel a spokesman for the chief Federal prosecutor said Hoeke s admissions came during questioning by police. Prechtel said Hoeke told police she went to Copenhagen Early last month and received 4,100 Marks j1.470 from a Man identified by West German officials As an East German agent. She has made statements about her work As a spy Prechtel told the associated press in a Telephone interview. But whether she s telling us everything we still Don t know  Hoeke 49, had Access to secret govern ment cables and her division planned the president s trips abroad and the Bonn visits of foreign leaders. The West German presidency is largely a ceremonial Post but Wiz Sacker is kept informed of sensitive government inform  also confirmed that Rinhard lib Elan a High ranking Security official was still under investigation. Lie Betanz was arrested last week in connection with the espionage scandal then released. Chancellor Helmut Kohl on tuesday firmly rejected demands for the ouster of his Interior minister despite opposition claim that the spy scandal has been Bun see spy on Page 24 Nixon optimistic on future of u  relationship peking a former pro meat Rykkard whoa m it fifth ibo to cum Aali wed Day Tkal peace a dram Takt hit eem turn depend my Tantim Ker Tea a Kim Aad Ike imm Stela. To Speeck Ike imm N.Y.of.  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