European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 30, 1985 official denies mishandling West German spy scandal world today Hamburg a Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann under pressure from opposition parties to. Resign Over the West German spy scandal denied Sun Day he had made mistakes in handling the affair. No one has demonstrated 1 made mistakes Zim Mermann was quoted As saying in an interview with the Magazine Der Spiegel. He said the still unfolding scandal had not seriously endangered West Germany s Security. Undercover spies have defected in the past As Well and our Republic has not fallen because of it he told Der Spiegel. Last week the social democrats West Germany s largest opposition party formed a special parliamentary commission to investigate Zimmermann s handling of the  social democrats have repeatedly called for Zimmermann s resignation since the affair began aug. 6. Zimmermann is a member of the conservative Chris Tian social Union the sister party of Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl s Christian democratic party. So far 11 suspected says have either fled the country or been arrested according to Federal prosecutors. Among those that fled was Hans Joachim Tiedge ranking West German counter espionage official who asked for Asylum in East Germany. Tiedge s defection forced West German Security officials to acknowledge they would have to reorganize the country s counter espionage Agency. Pentagon accused of a discourtesy in cancel no inv Safion of Gen. Ver Manila Philippines a a filipino military commander accused the . Defense department of Dis Courtesy to a fellow officer who is accused in connection with the slaying of opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. Brig. Gen. Pedro bal Bancro. Military police commander said the Pentagon had been discourteous to Gen. Fabi an c. Var by inviting him to a military ceremony the withdrawing the invitation a Manila newspaper reported sunday. If they were on the receiving end i wonder How the american people would have reacted bal Bancro said in a statement published by the bulletin. Bal Bancro called the . Action the height of discourtesy to an ally and  ver on leave As philippine armed forces chief is one of 26 men on trial on murder charges in the 1983 assassination of Aquino. He originally was invited to a retirement ceremony for Gen. John w. Vessey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff but the defense department said an error had been made and that the invitation should have gone to it. Gen. Fidel v. Ramos the acting philippine military chief. Ramos declined the invitation to monday s ceremony at Andrews fab near Washington. The bulletin said ver received a letter of apology signed by an assistant to Vessey. The newspaper quoted an unnamed military source As saying ver was considered a major Roadblock to a plot to overthrow president Ferdinand e. Marcos and a there fore the target of a vilification  the newspaper said a Washington Bawd publication called executive intelligence review recently wrote that a plot to oust Marcos had been hatched by the . State and defense . Military civilian arrests reported in Wake of Sudan coup attempt Khartoum Sudan a authorities arrested 163 military men and civilians in connection with a foiled coup believed to have involved Southern rebels a newspaper reported sunday. The government daily newspaper cd Sahara also said Philip Abbas Kaboush a Vei Cran politician from the chinese submarine test fires missile Hong Kong a China has successfully test fired a missile from a submarine in the Pacific Ocean a Hong Kong chinese newspaper reported. Quoting a Brief broadcast from Canton radio in the Southern chinese province of Huangdong the Independent sing Tao daily gave no further details of the launch. Peking had announced earlier that it would be launch ing a Carrier rocket Between sept. 28 and oct. 18 to a target zone 250 Miles Northeast of Taiwan and 100 Miles East of Mainland China. The 40-mile radius target zone is identical to that of the previous lest of a submarine launched missile in october 1982, China s news service reported. China s first rocket was launched in May 1980 from chinese soil to a 70-mile radius target zone in the South Pacific it said. China had warned foreign ships and aircraft to avoid the target area during the lest. Amino acids discoverer Dies Champaign Iii. A William c. Rose a former professor at the University of Illinois who Laid the foundation for modern nutritional research by discovering amino acids has died at 98. Rose a 1966 National medal of science Winner died in Urbana. Southwestern sudanese Nuba tribe had surrendered. Defense minister Mai. Gen. Osman Abdallah told the egyptian Middle East news Agency on Friday that 50 people had been arrested and two remained at Large after shooting incidents in the capital Region on thursday. The abortive coup had been masterminded by a politician known for his ethnic and regional  Abdallah said. Government sources said he referred to Kaboush a Long time foe of former president Gaafar in Meiri. Nim Eiri ousted in a bloodless coup on april 6, charged Kaboush and 208 others last december with plotting against his government but pardoned them. Al Sahara said confessions by those arrested showed that if their coup had succeeded air planes and other Mili tary equipment from an unspecified foreign capital were to have arrived in Khartoum. It also said the confessions showed a link Between those arrested and the Sudan people s liberation movement the main rebel group in the South led by col. John a rang. The newspaper gave no details or sources for its report. Garang has been warring against the mainly Arab mos Lem Khartoum government since 1983, seeking autonomy and political and economic reforms for the predominantly Black and non moslem Southern Sudan. On saturday prime minister Al Ghazouly Dafalla said armed men infiltrated into the capital s three parts Khartoum Khartoum North and Omdurman before being caught on thursday and Friday. Al Sahara said the plotters aim was to capture All Mili tary areas in the capital and then broadcast a communique Over radio Omdurman the government station by the previously unknown african organization for the liberation of  the paper quoted Abdallah As saying the plotters assassination targets included sack Elmahdy Bead of the nationalist umma party Hassan Turabi head of the fundamentalist moslem brotherhood and Al Sherif Zein cd Abidin head of the rightist democratic unionists. Dafa Allah said saturday that members of the ruling military transitional Council and his Cabinet had also been targeted for assassination. Briton s Book on future wars hailed As major contribution London a a new Book by a British army officer on War in the future is being praised in London As a major contribution to military thought. The author brigadier Richard Simpkin predict that european armies of the mid-21st Century will be based on elite special forces units and that the helicopter will have a More profound effect on land battled than tanks or fixed Wing aircraft. The Ever present and growing reality is of revolutionary warfare from the third world and from islamic militants in particular Simpkin writes. The great Powers should learn to use the rapier rather than the bludgeon he told a reception in Lon Don to launch his Book race to the Swift thought on 21st-Century  it is the most penetrating and comprehensive Analy Sis of warfare in our time that has yet appeared said Gen. Sir John Hackett whose 1978 novel the third world War has been a Best Selling Book in Many countries. Soviets launch National society of volunteers against alcoholism Moscow a the soviet Union has launched a nationwide society of volunteers to combat alcohol ism with the goal of encouraging moderation among this nation s legendary drinkers. Called the All Union voluntary society of straggle for sobriety the organization was launched at t meeting of communist party officials workers representatives doctors and others newspapers reported. The nationwide Effort is a follow up to what soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev has promised will be an unrelenting crackdown on alcohol abuse. On May 16, Laws were announced raising the drinking age from 18 to 21, reducing the hours liquor is sold and Banning drinking from Public places. Police arrest gang tunnelling under the streets of Rome Rome a twelve would be thieves who spent 20 nights tunnelling through the sewer system of Rome saw their Hopes for riches go Down the Drain when police uncovered the plot and arrested them As they emerged from manholes. Police alerted by a resident who thought the nocturnal excavations a Little unusual staked out the area for four Days before moving in and arresting the men authorities said. The Clandestine digging in the Piazza fiume Section of Central Rome broke a water main and caused head aches for roman motorists who were diverted for hours from a main Tunnel thoroughfare that filled up wit water. Police who said they Are still trying to determine the object of the tunnelling said they believe it was a banker a jewelry store. Fire destroys historic films in French Cinema Archive Paris a a fire apparently caused by a Short circuit destroyed 1,500 historic films dating Between 1890 and 1920, in the French National Cinema a chive at suburban Bois d Arcy police said. The fire was confined to one unit of the Archive building which is divided into cells protected by fire proof Walls. Officials refused to give any details of the films los because the curator is abroad. Britain s ruling party reveals it is $1.1 million in the red London a Britain s ruling conservative party has opened its books for the first time in it history and revealed that it is $1.1 million in the red. Expenditure by prime minister Margaret Thatcher s tories in fiscal 1984-85 was $15.5 million while income was Only $14.4 million the party said. The figures were handed to the press together with a letter to party organizers from chairman Norman teb bit who said they underline the need for us to be constantly striving to increase our income at All