European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 24 the stars and stripes thursday. October 17, 1985 Reagan orders probe of unfair Trade claims Washington up president Rea Gan wednesday announced he has Oid Rcd investigations of alleged unfair Trade practices by South Korea and the  common Market and he said he was gratified that Taiwan has agreed to open its Market to american Beer wine and cigarettes. While House spokesman  up cakes said Reagan instructed . Trade representative Clayton Yeutter to begin proceed Ings under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade against wheat Export subsidies offered by the european Community and to begin an investigation which could Lead to direct retaliation by the presi Dent into South Korea s practices for protecting intellectual property  this is the beginning of the president s get Tough policy on Trade up cakes said. Under Gatt the International Trade com pact the United states must first try to re solve the wheat subsidies problem in direct negotiations with the common Market then go through a formal conciliation proceeding and finally submit the complaint to a dispute settlement panel if the first Steps fail. Up cakes said common Market countries have been overproducing wheat in recent years and offering their Farmers Export subsidies which have depressed world prices and Hurt american Farmers. He said the european share of the world wheat Market has increased from less than 8 percent in the Early 1970s to More than 16 percent now. He said korean Law docs not protect . Food products and chemicals from korean copiers and docs not Honor copyrights. De spite negotiations with Korea Over the past two years he said there has been no change in the  said the effect of the korean Law is to produce counterfeit products particularly books by american authors that arc not protected by copyright costing . Writers an estimated $170 million a year. Reagan acted against Korea under a pro vision of . Law first used sept. 7 when he announced retaliatory Steps against Korea for excluding . Life and fire insurance Sale and against Japan for keeping out . Tobacco products. Al that time Reagan also announced a dec. 1 deadline for action by the european Community to open its canned fruit Market and by Japan to open its markets for leather and footwear. Under the new agreement with Taiwan . Wine Beer and cigarettes will be sold in the 70,000 retail outlets where Domestic versions of those products Are available. Up cakes said wednesday s announce ment was the first fruit of the president s sept. 23 announcement of a free and fair Trade  report from Page 1 and May cause us to lose the  the report said such problems Are not unique to the  administration but have continued unchecked in every conflict since the Spanish american War. But it said they included problems of joint command like those experienced in the successful invasion of Grenada in i983. In that operation. Army officers on the Beach discovered they could not request artillery support from Navy ships offshore because the two services radios were incompatible. The staff report identified 34 separate problems it said arc robbing the . Mili tary of its strength. It also made 91 specific recommendations for change. The panel planned a series of hearings on those recommendations and was to consider possible Legisla Ion Early next year. The report singled out the joint chiefs of staff charging that it is unable Loade quaely fulfil its responsibility to provide useful and timely unified military advice to the president. National Security Council German youths attack 2 gis in Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany is two american soldiers were treated for in juries received after being Bealon by eight German youths wielding baseball bats and Iron pipes monday night. German police said about 20 German youths began taunting the americans asking if they wanted to fight. A police spokesman said the soldiers ran but were followed by eight of the youths who beat them with bats and pipes. The attackers fled when the soldiers screams brought residents into the Street. The soldiers were Lakin to a German clinic and later transferred to the army Hospital in Frankfurt and released. A police spokesman said is youths were arrested in connection with the attack. They admitted provoking the incident but insisted they did lot know the soldiers were americans the spokesman said. A Darmstadt military Community spokeswoman said the unidentified soldiers were Between 18 and 20 years old. And Secretary of  the primary cause of inc deficiencies can be traced to the conflict of interest created by the fact that four of the five members of the joint chiefs of staff responsible for Overall planning and operations also head their respective services it said. The costs of the present joint chiefs of staff system now outweigh the benefits of retaining it the report said. It said the uniformed chiefs of tic army. Navy Marine corps and air Force should dedicate All their time to the responsibilities of those posts. An advisory Council composed of a chair Man and a four Star officer from each of the services should replace the joint chiefs As the principal military advisory group to the president the report said. The report recommended giving the chairman of such a Council the authority to provide advice on his own. The report said under the present sys tem the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff now Navy adm. William Crowe is merely one officer among equals with no authority to give Independent military advice to the president. While open rivalry Between the uni formed services still hampers Overall Mili tary effectiveness the report said in even More damaging practice has emerged. It called this inc service log rolling the practice of papering Over differences through negotiations Between the services in order to present an apparently unified recommendation on a course of action to the Secretary of defense. The report said this approach robs he Secretary of the Opportunity to choose among several legitimate options. To counter that the staff report would direct the chairman of the proposed advis Ory group to inform higher authority of All legitimate alternatives. The report docs not Call for any further reductions in defense spending. Other recommendations include creating three new under secretaries of defense. They would be charged with nuclear deterrence the defense of nato and regional defense. Altering the military Chain of com Mand to reinforce the authority of com Manders of joint operations and activities. Creating a new assistant Secretary of defense for Overall strategic planning. Fully integrating the secretariats and military Headquarters staffs within the army and air Force to eliminate confusion and duplication of Effort. Up reported Goldwater said before the report was presented the reorganization of the department of defense May be the most important thing Congress docs in our lifetime. Nunn said it is up to Congress to move because if we leave it up to the Pentagon there will be no  at the Pentagon where officials have yet to see the full report spokesman Robert Sims said the general conclusions that re forms arc needed Don t match with our recent experience up reported. Speaking of the report Sims told report ers there has t been any input to it from this  defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger got a 40-Minutc briefing on the study last week Sims said according to up. To the Best of my knowledge the re port this lengthy study is. A staff study by a Small group within the Senate armed services committee that has been presented to us Only in a 40-Minutc briefing by its principal author who is a staff Mem Ber Sims said. Sims said Weinberger asked for backup data to support the study s conclusions but has yet to get it. 2 army officers cars firebombed in Greece Athens is two cars belonging to . Army officers stationed near Here were firebomb cd Early wednesday. The incidents the latest in a series of fir bombings that started last Spring occurred outside the coastal suburban Homes of the owners in Argyro Polis about one mile from hell Nikon a according to a base spokesperson. A Chevrolet Camaro belonging to John Schultz and an opel belonging to Geoffrey Parisson were parked next to each other. One car was destroyed and the other was badly burned. A fire engine from hell Nikon was called out to extinguish the Blaze. No explosive devices were discovered and police do not know who firebomb cd the vehicles. The two officers work with the 558th . Army arty group. Body from Page 1 of ship to Shore conversations Between the Achille Lauriand Abbas. The official said the United states had other evidence against Abbas As Well including references to Abbas being known personally by the four palestinians and in formation showing they accepted instructions from him. Mcnese told a news conference the United Stales was making As much headway As we possibly can in efforts to apprehend Abbas who remains at Large. In Rome defense minister Giovanni Spadolini s Republican party decided to withdraw from the government in Dis agreement Over Premier Buttino Praxi s handling of the affair a party spokesman said. Withdrawal of the republicans appeared certain to Lead to the fall of the 26 month old coalition of five parties. Investigators in Genoa Italy issued arrest warrants for two More palestinians bringing to seven the number of people charged in the oct. 7 hijacking. The Achille Lauro which was expected to return to Genoa later wednesday sailed from the italian port oct. 3 and was hijacked oct. 7. Klinghoffer Wau reported killed and his body thrown overboard oct. 8 these kinds of conclusions without the data Loback them up Don t match up with our recent experience where last thursday we had a military Mission assigned by the president on very Short notice to our Mili Lary forces which was carried out with skill excellence  a reporter suggested that the interception of an egyptian Airliner carrying Hijack ers seemed a relatively Small event to justify the Reagan administration s $1 trillion de sense buildup up reported. I m not trying to do that Sims re plied. I just said this was a snapshot that gives you an idea what our military is pre pared to do in the present Day environment. It was a difficult Mission involving the entire Chain of command Down to the operational level and it worked. Sims said the report May go Down As a 600-Page mystery report which does t live up to its Advance Billing up said. So we would like to know More about this report. It seems to have been done by a very Small group of people not necessarily representative of the committee s views or even the entire staffs views up quoted Sims As saying temperatures october is 56 40 79 67 68 67 52 65 35 56a 51 71 6645 59 59 51 30 37 55 25r 59 69 64 56 67 39 46 43 70 67 Fly 76a 7 83 69 76 63 65 w 75 70 70 63 75 71 71 6s m 43 74 90 76 m 89 71 79 69 a Albany ainu in Cirque Anchorage Aii Anta Ottamie cite Baltimore by Illus Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston so. Charleston . 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The body was expected to be vital Evi Dence for italian authorities. The hijackers were taken into custody Friday in Siracusa Sicily after . Navy Jet fighters intercepted the egyptian jetliner that flew them out of Egypt. They have been transferred from a City jail in Sicily to a maximum Security prison in Spolito North of Rome. Forecast for thursday dense morning fog giving was to partly Cloudy and occasionally mostly it oud skies  Haie High temperatures will rang from mid 40s to Tow 50i. Lows will be in the Low 30s, rising Lolow 40 in Cental it Fiorit Sunset thursday 5.m, sunny Friday 6 54. Outlook for Friday Little change in weather or temperatures temperatures recorded wednesday 4am 4pm Adana m at 66 Amsterdam r 54 s5 Athens m m 55 London m " a 55 Aviano. 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