European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 18, 1985 the stars and stripes Pago 9 soviet naval Force Heads for Pacific linkup Over the East China sea up an advanced new task Force led by a nuclear powered Cruiser will join the soviet Pacific Fleet by mid week a significant expansion of soviet naval Power in Asia . Navy officials said sunday. The officials spoke during a 10-hour flight Over the three ship task Force in a . Navy p-3c reconnaissance plane. The flight carried intelligence officers and a group of journalists to take a close look at the new warships. The task Force led by the 28,000-Lon Frunze the soviets first nuclear powered Cruiser in the far East steamed through the Bashi Channel South of Taiwan during the weekend and was headed North through the East China sea. It was expected to Cross the Tsushima Straits into the sea of Japan by tuesday and link up with the soviet Pacific Fleet based at Vladivostok by mid week. Navy officials said. Intelligence officers said the Cruiser and two guided missile destroyers would significantly enhance soviet naval Power in the far East upgrading command and control capability and bringing an Arsenal of advanced weaponry into the Fleet. The Pacific Fleet w As once viewed by Moscow As for Mainland defense Only but it has been built from 200 major warships in i960 to More than 500 today a steady expansion in Blue water ability to project Power the officials said. This a not a backyard Navy anymore an Intelli gence officer said. It used to be they could t match us too far from Home. Now if we say meet me in Tahiti they can say be there Aloha " As the Navy plane burned just 400 feet above the soviets the gun Metal Gray Frunze was clearly visible with its sophisticated electronic gear and twin 130mm guns. Beneath rows of hatches on its Dull Orange decks the officials said Are More than 200 advanced missiles de signed to sink surface ships and Knock Down aircraft like the american p-3. All three ships carry anti submarine rockets. Officials said each of the three represented a new upgrade in its class. The franc. The second kirov class Cruiser could play a major role in any potential conflict its nuclear Power Plant allowing it Long sea duly and its weaponry a threat to american aircraft carriers and submarines the officials said. . Officials contend that the soviet Navy through its Pacific buildup and expanded use of the american built base at Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam is beefing up its threat to strategic sea lanes in Asia. Digging to begin in .-Vief search for b-52 Milestone project expected to verify villagers reports Hanoi Vietnam a eleven us. Army men and 10 vietnamese workers begin digging tuesday for the wreckage of an american b-52 bomber in a joint excavation that is called a Milestone in the 10-year search for the remains of America s War dead. The joint excavation in Farmland about nine Miles North of Hanoi will be the first in Vietnam since the 1975 communist Victory and will involve two countries that have had no diplomatic relations since then. The project comes As Hanoi has taken a series of Steps indicating that it is More willing than Ever before to account for americans missing in the Vietnam War. A four Man team from the . Joint casually Resolution Center in Honolulu Hawaii has conducted preliminary surveys of the site in yen Thuong Village of the Gia Lan District. They will be joined by seven other americans who were to arrive Mon Day with a tractor Metal detectors water pumps Metal cutting equipment and other tools. The United states is to pay All costs of the excavation expected to last 10-12 Days. Vietnamese officials say the bomber was downed in december 1972 during air raids that Thcn-. President Nixon ordered on the Hanoi Haiphong area to pressure North Vietnam into a peace agreement. During the two week Campaign. 27 american aircraft including 15 b-52s, were shot Down and 93 . Airmen killed captured or reported missing. . Officials say aircraft losses accounted for More than half of the 1,797 mias in Vietnam. . Officials say it is possible they will find no wreckage at All but an official of the Honolulu group said saturday that if villagers accounts of two of those on the b 52 being captured Are accurate the Story May match  records of a crash in that area. Two airmen were taken prisoner and were later returned to the United states while four other Crew members Are believed to have died in the crash said the official who asked not to be named. An official of the . Excavation team quoted the villagers As saying at least part of the wreckage is in the Yard of a woman whose husband and son were killed in the  Hoang head of the vietnamese foreign ministry s North american affairs division described the joint excavation As a Clear expression of Vietnam s plan to resolve the Issue within two years. He said it would help put an end to the things of the past and turn a new Page in .-vietnamese relations. It is our principle that the vietnamese will do most of the excavation work and when there arc difficulties we May resort to the technical ways and Means of experts from the american Side he said saturday. The . Teams will not be allowed into Security Siles he said. Diplomats say Vietnam wants such tics to end its isolation from the West and bring in badly needed economic Aid. Washington says it will not normalj7c relations until Vietnam withdraws its troops from cambo Dia. Hoang said Hanoi agreed to this week s search because the United states has reduced its hostility toward Vietnam. . Assistant Secretary of defense Richard Armitage said earlier this month in washing ton thai Vietnam was cooperating More on such searches because of . Government and Public pressure. Vietnam now believes the Issue won t go away with this administration he said. Since the Middle of this year Vietnam has proposed High level talks on . Troops missing in action and a plan to resolve the Issue within two years. On aug. 14, Hanoi returned 26 sets of remains its largest such turnover and it expects to release seven More sets after completion of the joint excavation. The Only previous excavation in Indochina with . Participation took place in february in Southern Laos where . And laotian soldiers dug up the wreckage of a c-130 gunship. That search turned up Many Bones and Persona effects. Laos is the Only Indochina so country with which Washington has diplomatic lies. Vientiane has agreed to joint work at a second crash site during the upcoming dry season roughly december to March. Hero s Welcome for Rajneesha in new Delhi guru Bhagwan show Rajneesha smiles broadly she is met by Indian disciples at the Airport in new Delhi. India. I Jimh was greeted with Rose petals and shouts of. Bhagwan we Low you after returning from is. Imprisonment. At a news con Ference he said the world must put the monster America in its