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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, December 6, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday decembers 1985 an army guard checks a Driver s identification outside the . Military shopping Center in Frankfurt. Is photo by Dave Dudlo military Community Security to be increased by Chris Estes staff writer Frankfurt Security at . Military communities in Frankfurt and Lanau is being tightened in response to last month s terrorist bombing a Frank Furt City official said thursday. The Frankfurt military shopping Center was fenced after the nov. 24  bombing that injured 35 people. Alfred gulling the City s lop  for american military property said the Fence around the shop Ping area is temporary and the army plans to set up a permanent one. Gutting also said he expected construction to begin thursday afternoon on my fences around housing areas and schools near caverns in Frankfurt. After meeting thursday with Hanau Community commander Brig. Gen. Thom As Rhame gutting said Hanau also plans to increase Security at protected areas. Rhame acknowledged that Security would be increased. We Are interested in improving our installation Security Rhame said. It s a Security enhancement to provide deter rence to  v corps officials would not comment on the lightened Security. We just can t go into details on Security said maj. Cecil Green a v corps spokesman. People might try to breach  the shopping area Fence was set up nov. 27. And Only people with military identification cards or installation passes arc allowed to enter said  Eck of inc Frankfurt military Community Public affairs office. A subway exit beside the shopping area also has been closed since nov. 28 to those without proper identification. It. Gen. Sam Witzel v corps com Mander said the bombing has not dam aged relations Between americans and germans in Frankfurt. Naturally we Are concerned about pro Einberger stresses military family welfare Hodgson  Ramstein a a chem defense Secretary Caspar we incr to is cd the importance of the welfare of Milita bars and i hair families but a Knowle during an air Force dinner wednesday night thai during a War All family members could not be immediately evacuated. I think we always have to have in mind when accompanied Tours arc authorized Whai could be the Steps that might be required in inc event that hostilities flared very  he said. And there arc Contin gency plans to do Hal. 1 think it s unquestionably True that All dependents would not be immediately evacuated Weinberger said in response to a question from the audience. One of the recognitions that people have when they come on an accompanied tour is thai there is an added Clement of danger and an added Clement of risk " Weinberger also acknowledged the significance of the . Commitment to reinforce Europe and nato. La is an extremely important require ment because our ability to fulfil it will depend on the ability of the West to sus Tain any sort of first strike thai might come in against us he said. Of Are increasing our air and sea life. I said. That plus inc arrange ments we have with commercial air carriers for adding to thai capability would give us. I think the ability to move the six divisions and various tactical air wings others that Are called for in the  the uni cd slates is adding to tribe Nab Liiv by pc position ing equipment Apte Kisiliov that he said is not easy to sell to t it s expensive and it twi putting All he divisional equipment Over Raffl staying it available by definition keeping a a Lerud and available and nol using it said. In times of by decl Stringency that s not considered As High a priority by some. On the other hand it saves enormous amounts of air and sea lift and is clearly the Way to go. We re trying to do it As much As we can. We really i think have the ability to reinforce nato As we have planned and we Are increasing our ability to do that All the time he said. But we Nave to Bear in mind thai nato might nol be the Only area under attack. I m frequently Lold in various hearings and other forums that we Don t have a coherent strategy because we arc trying to secure the funds to defend and deter War in different parts of inc world at once he said. And we Are doing thai because i think we have to do that. I think that is a coherent strategy. I think it is essential that we have in mind while we could reinforce nato As we Are committed to do that would de Pend on inc circumstances not to require heavy reinforcements and allocations of troops elsewhere because All of the Divi Sions that arc committed to reinforce nato have other assignments  Weinberger said he was gratified by the a High Quality of people serving in the armed i today and attributed i hair presence to Oes in military compensation and Wel fare Pfell Unis directed to military families. Arto difficulty of attracting and retaining Quanfu individuals is critically dependent upon Comfort they feel about the Well being Muir families he said. We recruit India Impf but we re lain  Weinberger said the govern i a of nol As sensitive to the needs of Mil tap sonnet and i hair families Asil should by there is still too much of a feeling that these things arc  to acting our soldiers and i hair family Mem Bers from terrorist attacks bul All of us who live and work in the Frankfurt Community realize thai decent Law abiding German people arc not to blame for the attack he said in a statement released by the v corps Public affairs office. The car bomb exploded in an unsecured area Between the pickup Point and car Wash at inc shopping Center. Among the injured were 20 military members 12 . Civilian one German one filipino and one pole. The explosion damaged 42 cars blew out windows and forced some businesses to close temporarily. German authorities believe the suspects May be from the Middle East. Temperatures soviets from Page 1 the fire control radars on the Su-27 and the Mig-29 the soviets estimate Hal by using documentation on the . F-j8 fighter their aviation and radar industries saved some five years of development time and 35 Mil lion rubles the 1980 Dollar Cost would be $55 million in project manpower and other developmental  Taylor did nol give details of How inc soviets allegedly acquired the american in formation except for spy scandals and less than reliable friends. Bul he told the a that soviet espionage loads the Dice heavily against the  although the us. F-15 was for years said to be the world s Best air superiority fighter Jane s quotes . Assistant Secre tary of defense Donald Latham that another new soviet fighter the Mig-3i, is Supe rior to the f-15 and the soviets Are producing it like  As other examples of How the soviets have Cul the technology Gap Taylor cited the huge soviet transport plane the an-124 Condor which holds world records for Load carrying. The Mi-28 attack helicopter said to be equal to the . Army s Apache. The heavy lifting Mi-26 helicopter. O the air to air combat helicopter thai the nato Western Alliance has code named hokum and thai is believed to have started flight testing in 1984. Nato has no counterpart in sight to the hokum Taylor wrote. L in a at 17 31 5 24 36 27 36 24 35 29 55 29 34 22 35 19 32 1 26 31 is 21 40 24 34 25 34 24 34 45 59 31 46 16 30 25 32 -j6-i3 14 20 15 33 70 13 51 62 26 31 42 61 19 40 31 62 31 41 Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Allan la Colv Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bose Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston . Charleston . 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