European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 5, 1985 Reagan refuses to discard Star wars Parsippany. . Dpi president Reagan say ing his Star wars missile defense program could be come a great protector of our people and the people of inc world refused Friday to bargain away its potential in arms control negotiations with the soviet Union. Demands to abandon a program with real potential for strengthening and enhancing Western Security do not Deal with the real Issue of peace Reagan said in remarks prepared for a Republican party fund raising luncheon. What we need arc Good Faith discussions the presi Dent said and we arc seeking to discuss even now with the soviets in Geneva the vital relationship Between Strate Gic offence and his hard line remarks at the s250-a-Patc event apparently were intended to Blunt the Public relations push in Paris by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev stepped up the pc Summit posturing thurs Day by publicizing a soviet arms control offer that included a 50 percent Cut in nuclear arsenals a ban on space strike weapons such As the Star wars system and Cut backs in the deployment of medium Range nuclear mis thursday Reagan offered a mixed reaction tinged with scepticism to talk of a pullback of soviet mass ills in Europe. It would be a simple matter he said to move the missiles farther Back into Eastern Europe but later return them secretly to their original positions. On Friday he underscored Nis opposition to the Central demand the soviets have put Forth in Geneva the abandonment of stars wars formally known As the Strate Gic defense initiative. It is the Republican party that has stood up with the help of Many democrats for ski the strategic space shield the president said. We will go Forward with see ing if it cannot be made into a great protector of our people and the people of the taking note of Gorbachev s proposals during a ques Tion and answer session thursday with reporters Reagan said it would be Nice to Hope that they May have gotten he said he could understand Gorbachev s prediction that hard times would follow the . Deployment of a space defense system. He could probably feel that Way because the soviet Union is about 10 years ahead of us in developing a defensive system themselves he said. We Are working to that we too can have a defensive shield that kills weapons not people and i m sure that is upsetting him. But we re not going to Retreat from the research that could deliver to the world a defense against these nuclear weapons and finally bring us to the realization that we should eliminate nuclear weapons entirely he said. Mitterrand rejects soviet offer of separate arms talks Paris a French president fran Cois Mitterrand Friday rejected soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s offer of separate negotiations on nuclear disarmament but appeared to Back Gorbachev s Call for a superpower ban on space weapons. Mitterrand speaking at a joint news con Ference with Gro Bachch said there could be no substantial nuclear weapons reductions by the superpowers unless the militarization of space was halted. This substantial reduction in Arma ments can Only be achieved if this proposal of principle is linked to the impossibility of transferring the arms race from Earth to space Mitterrand said. It is up to the nations directly concerned the United states and the soviet Union to discuss it he said. They have the Means the experts to compare what is comparable and contest which is Mitterrand and Gorbachev sat at a table in an ornate room in Elysee Palace. The French president opened the news Confer ence by saying France s problem is to re main above the thrash hold of credibility with its Independent nuclear deterrent. We hardly have an intermediate nuclear Force he said. France docs not refuse an Exchange of views with the soviet Union but i do not think that it would be reasonable to think that there could be a negotiation Mitterrand said. Gorbachev in a nuclear disarmament pack age announced thursday for the first time suggested separate talks with France and Brit Ain on cutting their nuclear forces in a euro Pean framework. The soviets previously had wanted to count the French and British mis 600-ship Navy essential Lehman says Washington a the United states can and must afford the Cost of building and maintaining a 00-ship Navy because without it the West could never prevail in a War with the soviet Union Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Said thursday. Maritime superiority alone May not assure Victory but the loss of it will certainly assure defeat sooner or later Lehman told the Northern Virginia Council of the Nav league. And like it or not America s treaty obligations around the world and the Sovi ets expansion of their Navel forces dictate a . Navy of sufficient size to maintain constant Forward deployment to protect vital sea lanes he said. America s increasing Trade with Asia for example has forced an end to the so called swing strategy that held the . Atlantic Fleet could always be reinforced by ships from the Pacific Lehman said. Today the United states has an asian vocation at least equal to its historic engagement in Europe he said. While it is True the Cost of maintaining a Fleet of 600 warships will require budgets that increase by at least 3 percent a year above inflation compared with this year s Zero growth budget that is less than half the budget increases approved during the Early years of the Reagan administration he said. There must be no doubt in the minds of the soviet leadership that America and her allies arc capable of settling accounts on both land and sea if challenged Lehman said. The 600-ship Navy is an essential Clement in this Lehman s speech was described by aides As his comprehensive response to a recent congressional budget office study that questioned whether the country could afford such a Large Fleet. The Navy s budget grew from $69.9 billion in 1980 to $100.3 billion in fiscal year 1985, and the congressional Agency warned it would be unprecedented in peacetime to expect even a 3 percent annual growth rate. Silas in with the is. Arsenal in arms talks in Geneva Switzerland. British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe said Britain would carefully consider the soviet proposition. There is agreement in France on the need to maintain and improve the Independent nuclear deterrent started by a socialist government in the Early 1930s. The French currently have six missile carrying submarines 34 Mirage bombers and 18 intermediate Range missiles in hardened silos. Mitterrand also told the news conference that he would visit Moscow next year it Gorbachev s invitation. Gorbachev s new arms reduction proposal which he disclosed thursday Alto called for a 50-percent reduction in the . And soviet missile arsenals. He said the soviet Union was unilaterally cutting Back on its ss-20 missiles aimed at West Ern Europe. Temperatures aids from Page 1 Pete Wyro said 35,000 to 40,000 applicants a month will be tested. He said the reject rate should be about 100 a month based on the frequency of positive tests from blood donor samples. Applicants whose blood shows the pres ence of an antibody to the virus on two tests would be referred to their physicians Taft t directive said. If the resulting More thorough examination shows no damage to i lie body s immune sys tem and no evidence of the disease the applicant could be processed for entry it said. Or. William Mayer assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs said the testing is needed because recruits with a Wra Mcnea immune system could be seriously injured by even routine vaccinations such As for smallpox. The armed forces epidemiological Board has recommended testing service members being deployed overseas where strains of certain diseases could be fatal to people whose disease fighting blood cells have been attacked by the virus. Pentagon spokesmen have said a decision on a military wide aids testing policy Issue about mid october. Aids acquired immune deficiency syn drome leaves the body unable to fight Dis ease. The tests show Only exposure to inc Sims. They do not show the presence of the Dis ease. Mayer also is concerned that infected service members could spread the disease through blood transfusions on the Battle Field. The disease mainly has been spread through sexual Contact blood transfusions and hypodermic Needles such As those used by intravenous drug users research shows. Members of homosexual groups have been particularly loud in their protests saying the testing could be used to find homosexuals in the ranks. Mayer has said that the goal of the tests is the safety of service members and that results will be confined to the medical Community As much As is possible in a military environment. Buckley from Page 1 the blood of our martyrs in tuesday s israeli air strike on a palestinian guerrilla Headquarters near Tunis. The Palestine liberation organization said 45 palestinians and 20 tunisians were killed in the raid. The israeli action Al Lowed the slaying of three israelis at id a yacht in Warnaca Cyprus. The two dailies the an Nahar and the leftist ass in said the statements were delivered to their Beirut news offices after Midnight along with Polaroid photographs of Buckley. There was no indication when or where the photos were taken. Buckley appeared Pale and Haggard. The other american hostages Are Peter Kilburn 60, a librarian at the american University of Beirut the Rev. Lawrence Junco so a roman Catholic priest Terry Anderson 37, a Middle East correspondent for the associated press David Jacobsen 54, the director of the american University Hospital in Beirut and Thomas Suther land 53, the Dean of the University s Agri culture faculty. The soviet evacuees mainly women and children were driven away in a Convoy of four buses and several trucks. They were taken to Damascus Syria s capital for later flight to Moscow. The Convoy was escorted by druse Mili Tiamen and lebanese police. Soviet charge d affaires Yuri Gouslikov stayed in the heavily guarded embassy with about 30 diplomats. 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