European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 11, 1985 scandal won t affect ski Weinberger says we Aren t going to say that we can t Trust Europe by Norman Black Washington a the spy scandal unfolding in Wisl Germany will have no effect on . Willingness to work cooperatively with european allies on president Reagan s strategic defense initiative program defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said monday. Speaking to a group of reporters from member nations of the North Atlantic treaty organization Weinberger said the Reagan administration has made and will continue to make a significant Effort to prevent the soviet from stealing Western technology. But he added that the scandal in Germany will not prompt the Pentagon to withhold the results of Star wars research from nato allies. Espionage is a very unfortunate act wherever it occurs and Well do our Best to guard against it but Wearen t going to say that because there has been espionage in Europe that we therefore can t Trust Europe Wilh anything Weinberger said. There has sadly been espionage in the United states he continued. We be lost things that same Way,too." the Pentagon has recently been stunned by spy scan dals of its own including the breakup of a ring that was allegedly trying to sell sophisticated spare parts to Iran and a Navy ring that was allegedly peddling classified documents to Russia. The West German government has been rocked Over the past month by the defection to East Germany of Hans Joachim Tiedge a High ranking intelligence offi Cial in charge of tracking East German spies. Several other spy suspects Are also reported to have defected along with Tiedge to the East. The Impact of the defections was raised by reporters during a news conference devoted almost exclusively to the Star wars program a research Effort to design lasers and other exotic weapons that can be placed in space to automatically shoo Down soviet nuclear mis Siles. A West German delegation visited Washington last week for consultations on the program and the nato military committee arrived Here monday for a 10-Day tour of military facilities in the United states and Canada. As he has in the past Weinberger stressed the Penta gon did not need formal blessings or financial support from nato governments for the Star wart Effort but was hopeful the allies would at least allow their High technology companies to participate. The important thing. Is that we have working on this problem the very Best brains in the world Wein Berger said. Governmental participation in t in any sense required or demanded. Tiedge writes daughters hell see them in e. Germany paper says update Hamburg a Hans Joachi Tiedge the West German counter spin nage Leader who defected to East Ger Many has written his daughters a letter saying he will Sec them soon in that communist nation a daily newspaper reported monday. Tiedge s defection on aug. 19 embarrassed the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and led to the tiring of West Ger Many s spy chief. The mass circulation Bild newspaper saying it obtained a copy of the letter from West German government officials reported that Tiedge wrote i be made a Well considered step which will not Only radically alter my life but also Marks a decisive Point in your Young  s daughters Are Andrea in Clau Dia 17 and Martina 15. They live in co  to Bild the letter also said be assured that because of you this Deci Sion was hard for me. And that i m certain Iwon t regret it. Former colleagues will explain to you Why i can t Tell you where i m now staying. Some time in the not too Distant future we will see one another Here he added according to Bild. He added that communist authorities were taking care of him in every  Tiedge already bos sent a letter to West German officials stating he defected voluntarily. The Bild newspaper report will appear in tuesday edition. It Wai released in and Vance to the Newt Media. German party denies Only . Troop exit sought up wolfs of russians americans urged Bonn a the opposition social democrats on tuesday urged the joint withdrawal of . And soviet troops from Central Europe but denied that one of its Security experts advocated a unilateral american pullout. The social democrats were reacting to a storm of criticism that followed the week end leak of an internal defense strategy re port by party member Andreas von , both inside and outside the party said Buelow was calling for a unilateral withdrawal of is. Troops from West Ger Many. Hans Jochen Vogel the social demo cratic Leader in parliament called the allegations a whopping  " Buelow explained that if the soviet troops at the latest after the turn of the Century were to return Home then Ameri can troops in the Federal Republic of Ger Many West Germany could be reduced step by step to a symbolic presence Vogel said. There Are 250,000 american troops in wat Germany while diplomatic officials estimate there Are 350,000 soviet troops in soviet Allied East Germany. The social democrats who already Are jockeying to regain a majority in the 1987 elections were trying to limit the political damage from the storm Over Buelow s report. Buelow u the chairman of the social democrats Security policy commission. Party Leaden said they saw the obligation of a responsible peace policy to work on alternatives even if they can Only be realized Over a Long period of  whoever wants to overcome the Divi Sion of Europe and Germany must also think of the Security of Europe without the superpower armies the party Lead ers said. Then addressing the current political situation they added the presence of american Louien is a Central element of the political and military stability of eur  Buelow himself indicated to reporters monday that he would advocate linking a withdrawal of american troops to a pull Back by the soviet. He also defended a proposal to reduce the term of compulsory military service in West Germany. Libya-. Relations Tripoli a Libya a Fol not consider resuming Normal diplomatic relations with the United state As Long As president Reagan is in Power a High ranking libyan official Laid sunday night. As Long As Reagan is in office it normalization is not possible libyan Vii Ter of information Mohammed Sharfuddin said in an inter View. He termed Reagan an enemy of principles Libya supports including libyan sovereignty and the palestini an struggle for a Homeland and he accused the United states of prac timing terrorism against  terrorists claim Karlsruhe Germany up the left Wing red army faction said it was responsible for three bomb blasts at a . Base prosecutors said tuesday. A spokesman for the West Ger Man Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe said the terrorist organization formerly known As the Baader Meinhoff gang acknowledged responsibility for the bombing in a letter to the Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper. No one was Hurt in the Early morning blasts at an anti aircraft base Friday near Saa Bruecken but three radar dishes were damaged. The Raf has mounted a 10 month Long bombing Campaign in Germany. The terrorist group de mands prisoner of War status for its jailed members. French couple killed As monster strikes again san Casciano Italy up the monster of Florence a sex killer who has stalked the tuscan Countryside for 17 years killed a French couple camping beside a Wood and mutilated the woman police reported Mon Day. A mushroom Hunter discovered the bodies of Nadine Gisele Janine Lauriot Lanciotti 36, of Doubs and Jeanmichel Kravec Vili 25, of Oudi court in the Early afternoon. Police blamed their murders on the to called monster of Florence who reportedly has taken the lives of seven other couples in a string of sex killing that began on another lonely Road in Tuscany aug. 21,1968. As in each of the previous killings the gunman shot his victims with a .22-Caiiber pistol and then mutilated the woman s body. The couple had parked on via Degli scope i in a wooded area bout 10 Miles North of Florence and set up a Small tent beside the car police said. The spot was Only a Short distance from where Accord ing to police the monster killed two West German youths apparently thinking one of them was a woman two Yean ago. The killer struck either saturday night or sunday night police said. Investigator said he approached As the couple slept using his knife to Cut open the tent. He shot the woman inside the tent and Kravech Vili 50 feet away As be tried Toffee. Police said they were trying to Check a report that the woman who was married had arrived in Italy with two children last week. Authorities dosed off the area and began a search for clue to the identity of the killer who in the Post a left Only his grisly style of murder As a clue to his identity. Ai word of the new murders spread police stations in the area were flooded with Telephone Calls from angry and sometimes Panicky local residents. In the 17 Yean since the killing of the first couple Barbara Locci 33, and Antoniolo Bianco investigator have arrested four suspects but have never been Able to link any of them to the entire string of Mur Ders. Locci i sardinian born husband Stefano Mere was convicted of murdering her and her Lover and iced 12 Yean in prison before ballistic tests in june 1982 showed that the same Long nosed Beretta pistol that lulled the bad been used to loll four More couples. The weapon has never been found. The slaying of the French couple came just Over a year after Claudio Stefanacci 21, and Pia Zontini 18, were murdered. Friends found their bodies july 31, 1984, on a lovers Lane near the tuscan town of Vicchio i my Geo when they had parked