European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 8, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 nato Convoy exercise on schedule by j. Kim Cut car . Bureau Northwood safari s5. Described As the nato Convoy exercise Ever conducted is proceeding on schedule and without sur said one of nato s highest rank ing naval officers. British adm. Sir Nicholas hum. Nato s commander for the Channel and was icon Atlantic said Friday at a news briefing at his Northwood had quarters that no ships have been forced to drop out of the exercise and there has been no problem keeping convoys in incl As they Cross inc Atlantic. He did say however that Adverse weather had Given the convoys some prob lems the northernmost Convoy in thurs Day encountered icebergs South of Iceland he said. I Terc pcs in the Ocean safari series Are held every two ears to practice plans to protect merchant shipping in Atlantic Waters. In the past they have taken place mainly in the Eastern half of the Atlantic. This i he exercise will extend from the Eastern Seaboard of the United states through the Greenland Iceland United kingdom gaps and into the norwegian sea As Well As the Bay of Biscay and portuguese Waters to Lisbon. The exercise began aug. 2h. When . Ships and nato vessels sailed from the . coast. A Large Force including three Carrier Battle groups a battleship Battle group a British anti submarine car Deng informs Nixon China is against any outer space arms race peking a communist party Leader Deng Xiaoping told former . President Nixon thai China opposes Esca lating the arms race into outer space the official Xinhua news Agency said. Deng listened Friday to Nixon s explanation of the Reagan administration s decision to adopt the Star wars space defense system and said we Are against whoever goes in for the development. Of outer space weapons said Xinhua. A tort in turn was briefed on the seven years of economic reforms in effect since Deng became the chinese communist party s dominant figure. Deng said that if the changes prove successful they will Lay a solid foundation for sustained development info he next Century Xinhua reported. After the luncheon meeting in the circa Hall of inc people Nixon said i come away convinced one thai the re forms arc successful and. Two that they will continue. There will be no turning As Nixon left peking s Airport for the ancient capital of Xian and a glimpse of the 2,200-year-old Terra Cotla army of China s first emperor he said. Chinese hospitality is world famous and i was exposed to a great Deal of Nixon who is on his fifth visit to China As u government guest has been greeted warmly throughout this nation hat never has been critical of watergate. But Nixon has disclosed Little of his meetings with Deng communist party Leader he Yanbang and vice Premier i Peng. His easy entree to the communist Hierarchy is almost unprecedented among the Stream of official visitors to peking. Nixon s Friendship with China which reached its Peak in 1972, when he be came the first american president to visit the communist nation has been celebrated this week with adulation. Throughout Nixon s troubles in the White House the official chinese press never carried a word about the water Gate scandal that drove him from the presidency. The rapt reception he received from 3,500 students and faculty at the univer sity of International business and economics said even More about the esteem in which he is held 3 years after he revived .-China relations. The University audience applauded him 10 Tim i before he began speaking give him a standing ovation and thrust out copies of Nixon s books for his allo graph. Mao tse Tung opened the door to Nixon because of his concern about the soviet military threat. He told writer Edgar Snow in 1970 that he preferred men like Nixon to social democrats and revisionists. Nixon might be deceitful but perhaps a Lillic bit less so than some others Snow quoted Mao As saying. When Nixon arrived in 1972, Premier Chou told him your handshake came Over the fastest Ocean in the world 25 years of no Deng China s Paramount Leader was purged by leftists when Nixon first came to China and was still out of favor during the president s Post watergate visit in 1976. Bui the two men met in 1979 and in 1982 when Nixon returned. Nixon travels next to Hong Kong on his 10-Nalion tour. Rich group and other escort groups from five nato nations arc taking part in the exercise nato s multinational airborne warn ing and control system Force of Sentinel aircraft arc also taking part. Ships of the standing naval Force Channel Are in the southwestern approaches to the English Channel. Among . Air assets in the exercise Are b-52 bombers armed with air to sur face Harpoon missiles operating from Raf fair Ford England. This year s exercise is said to embody an important switch in nato tactics 10 Ward an offensive posture designed to con lain the growth of Sovic. Sea Power. The new strategy implies having the ability in War to deploy naval forces into the norwegian be i to contain soviet ships am sub marines emerging from their bases in the Kola Peninsula and if necessary to attack the bases. N the culmination of he Ocean safari exercise a Battle group led by the . Carrier America will sail deep into the norwegian sea to signal the implementation of this approach and to practice work ing in an environment it could be called upon to enter in War. The exercise according to nato Brief ers is being closely monitored by the Sovi ets who arc employing both ships and air Craft to gather Imell Igancy. On thursday they said soviet Bear bombers flew Uvea nato surface forces operating in the North Atlantic and in the Bay of Biscay. Mayor Washington at the Wall wearing a Chintz army Cap Chicago mayor Harold Washington strikes a pose thai b reminiscent of the late chinese Leader Mao tse lung while he Isis peking s great Wall. The mayor is on a tour of China. Briton claims soviets tried to recruit him London a a British labor party official has claimed soviet Intelli gence tried to recruit him during a visit to Moscow when he was a candidate for a senior party Post. The disclosure Drew a warning from Brit Ain s attorney general Friday about inc dangers of travel in the soviet Union but some Trade Union officials expressed Skepi cism or made fun of the affair. Sam Mccluskie labor parly treasurer and Leader of the seamen s Union told re porters thursday night that he was attend ing an International seamen s meeting in Moscow two years ago when he was approached by a Man from a Trade Union front organization who claimed to have been expelled from the soviet embassy in London. Lie said he did not know he Man s name but it was Clear he knew the general Secre tar ship of the labor party was up for grabs and he knew 1 had thrown my hat Inlo the ring. He suggested that if i won the election for the parly Secretary ship i should work for him. Me said it would improve relations Between the labor party and the the socialist labor parly then As now was not in Power. Mccluskie a 52-year-old Scot with moderately leftist views said he Lold the Man to gel the russian was then joined by the Leader of the Moscow transport workers Union who also tried to recruit him. Mccluskie said. I Lold them All Logut loss but it was a very frightening Mccluskie who failed to win the party Post said he reported the Mailer to British intelligence and was told the russian who first approached him had been expelled from Britain 10 years earlier for spying. Attorney general sir Michael Havers praised Mccluskie saying i think he be have he said in an inner View with Independent radio news that it should be a warning to All businessmen diplomats and politicians travelling to communist countries to beware of Kab recruiters. Some Union officials attending inc an Nual conference of the trades Union con Gress where Mccluskie made his disclosure expressed Surprise thai he had nol mentioned it before. Technicians Union Leader Clive Jenkins said inc Kab had never tried to recruit him when he visited Moscow. I was busier try. Ing to get information out of them he joked. Arthur Scargill marxist Leader of the National Union of Minc workers and a fre quent visitor to the soviet Union said the Only connection i have Ever had with the secret service is the British secret serv ice who constantly tapped my Telephone and placed me under surveillance. And i deplore that in this or any other
