European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday october 29, 1985 . Says soviets stockpiling chemical weapons in Europe Washington a the defense  old monday the soviet Union is building stick piles of modern chemical weapons including nerve ind he mar imm s. In $2 i Asl l european Forward  areas near the boundaries of n i in i he Warsaw. Fact countries of Poland. I Ait Germany. C Cohn Slovakia i Timpan. To Viania and a Uljana. Hacking up Thucie deployment areas Are 10 chemical arms production plants and nine major depots in the so Iel i Mon according to a report prepared a the Welense intelligence a enc the Survey which appeared aum a a mustering  support Tor the production of is dump Al weapons charged that the soviet a Nion Lias been increasing its chemical stockpile and is actively searching for new alien is thai could penetrate protective masks and suits. Or. Thomas j. Welch Deputy assistant to the Secretary of defense for chemical mat ters also said the soviets Are prepared to strike deep Bell ind the front lines with chemical rockets and bombs in the event of a War. While . And a to forces can do no More than loft outdated a raillery shells j Short distance. There is a fundamental problem. The american Soldier the airman tote Sailor re main at risk to told reporters. There is u soviet in real that continues to  Welch appeared monday at a special Pentagon briefing arranged on Short notice to rescind to a vote last week by the mouse appropriations committee the panel despite an earlier House Deci Sion to authorize the production of new chemical weapons voted i to 24 to eliminate the Ron he $1m million that would be  for actually Martin production. Administration critics maintain the cur rent i s stockpile remains adequate to deter a soviet attack using chemical weapons if the mouse panel s vote is not re versed the administration will face a defeat on the Issue for the fourth time in As Many ear. Welch released an unclassified version of the new Dia assessment saving that the Mic t chemical Arsenal includes nerve agents Blister agents such As Mustard Gas. Blood agents such As Hydrogen cyanide and i Komg agents such As phosgene. It Ilso Stales that the soviets have used sonic Type of incapacitating agent in Afghanistan which causes unconsciousness for an hour or  Welch refused to divulge the sources for the Dia s assessment but he said the Pentagon is convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that the soviets Are engaged in a massive program to Nicodemi a and increase their chemical weapons capability. The findings in this document include a 26 percent increase in the area of soviet chemical warfare depots Over the last five years Welch said. In addition we have evidence now. Of new chemical agent weapon  re my have been constructed to test new soviet munitions. And we continue to receive information intelligence that convinces me the soviets have a major Effort to Field new chemical and biological agents july sept productivity gained 1.2%, . Says Washington a the productivity of . Businesses climbed at an an Nual rate of 1.2 percent during the period from july through september the govern ment reported monday. The news follows other government statistics which have shown that the Pace of american economic activity is accelerating. The Overall Economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the july september Quarter three times the Pace of the first six months of the year. The labor department said monday that the third Quarter gain in non farm business productivity included an increase in output of 3.2 percent while hours worked by employees Rose 2 percent. The third Quarter gain in productivity the measure of output per hours worked matched a 1.2 percent april june increase with both quarters sharply higher than the first three months of the year when productivity plunged at an annual rate of 3.1 percent. Honnie Dunbar is helped from a Trainer Jet by Hcrman  Mew Schmid. Shuttle challenger ready for launch on wednesday Cape canaveral Fla. A the countdown began monday for wednesday s launching of space shuttle challenger on an International science Mission with a record Crew that includes two germans a dutch Man and five americans. Liftoff is scheduled for noon on a flight on which the astronauts will conduct no experiments in the pressurized spa Clab workshop in the shuttle s cargo Bay. U will be the 22nd shuttle Mission the ninth for challenger. Most of the experiments Are German. The Federal German aerospace establish ment is paying the National aeronautics and space administration s64 million to ferry them into space. The experiments Deal with materials processing Medicine biology navigation and technology. The control Center for the experiments will be  near Munich marking the first time that a foreign coun try w ill control a shuttle payload during flight. The astronauts flew Here sunday from their training base in Houston. One of the germans ruin hard a or scr told reporters i am deeply convinced that doing major science in space is very worthwhile and we re among the first so we have to push very  hopefully Well come Back with very interesting results added the other Ger Man Ernst . Wubbo Ockels of the Netherlands named to the flight by the european space Agency thanked Nasa for making it possible for us to  Esa built the space lab module and will have several experiments on Board. The american Crew members Are com Mander Henry Hartsfield. Steven Nagel Bonnie Dunbar Guion Bluford and James Buchli. Challenger is scheduled to return to Earth on nov. 6. Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Singhoffer s widow appeals for War on terrorism new York a the widow of  Klinghoffer the crippled american who was slain during the terrorist hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship monday urged people to become soldiers in a War against terrorism. For the first Lime we All Realise that this can happen to anyone anywhere at any time Marilyn Klinghoffer 55, said at a news conference her first Public com ments since the killing. My husband was every Man and my family is every family said Klinghoffer. All must close ranks and eliminate the Scourge of terrorism from our lives she said. She said americans should demand that their elected representatives support More action against terrorists to show the presi Dent that we want it we need it we must have  she said she would be willing to help rally support for the cause. I would like very much to go Back to my private life. I _ Marilyn Klinghoffer. This can happen to anyone Don t know whether that s possible now she said. Her 69-year-old husband who was con fined to a wheelchair because of two strokes was shot during the hijacking and his body was thrown into the Mediterranean. It washed ashore in Syria. Four men Are being held in the hijacking and slaying in Luly after american Mili tary planes forced a plane taking them to Tunisia to land in Italy. In a statement Klinghoffer recalled the hijacking from the moment on oct. 7 when four men carrying sub machine guns burst into the ship s dining room. For the next 52 hours she said the Crew and passengers were brutalized and threatened with death. The 11 americans and six British entertainers on Board were separated from the others and told to climb a narrow staircase to an exposed area on the deck. When she tried to push her husband s wheelchair up the stairs she was told to leave him when she pleaded that she be allowed to stay with him a sub machine gun was put to her head she said. She left him. That was the last time 1 saw my Hus band she said. She said she heard two gunshots that afternoon but never thought that her Hus band had been shot. She was told that her husband had been taken to the ship s Hospi Tal after the hijacking was Over the Captain told her the truth. She was angered she said when some Crew members and non american Passen Gers embraced the hijackers As they left. She confirmed that when she identified the hijackers in Sicily she spit at them. Klinghoffer said she was convinced of the truth of reports that her husband bit the Arm of one of the hijackers As he was being held. It was All he could do she said. She said she would be willing logo to Italy to testify against the four. They can t really be let go. The be done dastardly things and they arc people who Don t really belong in this world she said