European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q using old planes contributes to Accident rate report says Page 5 d aboard the Mississippi Queen pages 14 and 15 q Chicago defeat Dallas 44-0 in pro football Page 21 the its and stripes vol. 44, no. 215 tuesday november 19, 1985 Don Ond Ondoy d 8693 a soviets offer to Cut euro missiles. Or read to won t fire a Ioerger by de Reavis and Betty Luman stiff writers Geneva Switzerland soviet officials sunday offered to sign an agreement with the United slates on reducing the number of intermediate Range missiles in Europe even if the two superpowers could not agree on the . Strategic defense initiative. But Robert Mcfarland president Rea Gan s National Security adviser said the soviet proposal offers the United states a Choice of defending its allies or maintain ing a strategic balance. He said the United states could not choose Between the two options. However Mcfarland said the United slates could adopt the soviet concept of a 50 percent reduction in nuclear weapons. Additional staff coverage of the Summit is on Page 2. Meanwhile the leak of a letter to re can written by defense Secretary Ca Weinberger was a hot topic on t the first Summit in six years. Urged Reagan to avoid any a a Kent that would pledge . Adhere to the strategic arms limitation Evgeny Abalov Jibb of  Sti Tut on Canad id american studies said the  the letter is an attempt by or military Industrial com the Reagan Gorbachev 8uq s Secretary Larry Scakes said Enberger s views arc Well known and wearing an overcoat. President Reagan walks with from left his National Security to George Shutlz and White House chief of staff Donald Regan in the Garden of Reagan s Sumret will have no effect on the talks. Reagan during a stroll of the grounds of the 18th-Century Lakeside mansion where he Lias been staying since his arrival saturday night said he would not fire Weinberger Over the leak. Mcfarland said Weinberger is attempting to discover who leaked the letter to the press. The president walking from his Resi Dence to an adjacent building to meet with top advisers was asked by reporters if he thought someone was trying to sabotage the Summit by leaking the warning letter Weinberger sent him the associated press reported. No Reagan replied. As to whether he would fire Weinberger Reagan responded you want a two word answer or one when a reporter said two the president paused and responded firmly and a Woholo Robert Mcfarlane Secretary of stale silence. I a few Llull. No the a said although is uan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorban do not begin their Summit talks Ujj tuesday their spokesmen revealed in tsp talc news conferences How far apart inc flu non arc on a variety of issues. Col. Gen. Nikolai Chc Lvov soviet proposal on intermediate rang see soviets on Page 2 Weinberger May be Reading old Reagan script analysis by Richard c. Gross Washington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger called an innocent bystander by one aide finds himself the focus of controversy despite being the Odd Man out at the Reagan Gorbachev Summit. Weinberger portrayed by moderates in the White House and the state department As a loser in the never ending struggle to influence president Reagan was not invited to Geneva. He was told not to give interviews or make speeches lest he deliver an untimely Volley of anti soviet rhetoric the kind that makes political conserva Tives cheer and the moderates around Reagan cringe. The muzzle was thwarted by a leak specifically the revelation of a Weinberger letter to the president delivered privately last week that urged hard line positions on two key arms control issues. The letter printed in full in the new York times and also detailed in a Washington Post Story recommended Reagan avoid agreeing to continue abiding by the in ratified Salt ii treaty and also resist endorsing a restrictive interpretation of the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty a position that could hamper the Star wars program. While a Weinberger spokesman was Adamant that see Weinberger on Page 28 exiled cambodian Leader Lon nol Dies Fullerton Cali the .-backed general who overt Fel cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 and was ousted five Yean later by the communist Khmer Rouge died in exile sunday. He was 72. Lon whose ouster ushered in the Era of the killing Fields recounted in last year Oscar winning film of the same name died about 10 . At St. Judy s hos Pital where he had been admitted that morning mining supervisor Mary Foley  said the did not know the cause of death but Hii son Lon Rith said his had a Long history of heart  was believed to have Caput feb  fled to Haw this regime was toppled in a find lived there until 1979. Since then he his wife and nine children have lived in Orange county. Lon once said he saw no difference be tween the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnam no units who eventually took con  Are All the same band he Saidt Lon Hild various army Ling toads and was a provincial governor before defense minister and army chief of staff of the asian country in 1955. He held positions until 1966, when Mier in Sihanouk s Goveny he became a  Cut in 1967 and the Gnu a he led a coup that Ovici _ Zanouk and assumed control of the government. He unsuccessfully attempted to suppress communist guerrillas and his efforts sparked civil War. Lon temporarily stepped aside in 1971 after suffering a stroke but a year later he grabbed control took the title of president and suspended the Constitution. His regime was strongly backed in its fight against the Khmer Rouge by t United states which was at War Boring Vietnam against gents and North Jrolf Power the Nixon what it called an into Cambodia to strike comm it  United Stales also conducted  bombings on cambodian  after the War former said the bombing strikes were car on behalf of the Lon nol regime and Hao helped delay a virtual extermination of a people a reference to the brutalities under the Khmer Rouge portrayed in the the killing Fields a film about a new York times reporter and his cambodian assistant. The bombings were held by some to have destabilized Lon nol s government and to see Lon nol on Page 28 ,./ Lon nol