European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday december 20, 1985 i Bonn to negotiate with . Over sj3i role Bonn a Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Cabinet agreed to begin negotiations with the l a had so alas for a role in the Star wars  missile de sense research project a government statement said. \ the Cabinet in a of cling on wednes Day assigned economics Linister Martin bang Mann to Lead the no Foliations with Washington starting next Vith. The statement stressed the Luthc govern ment will not subsidize research on the strategic defense initiative or i. Instead the inv Crement would Only seek to protect the rights of Wisl Virman firms that participate in inc program by negotiating regulations governing patents technology transfers the sharing of Tessi find information and other matters he statement said. \. The government wants to improve la position of the German research Institute Sand firms that want to panic Ipac As con tractors in the ski research program the Cabinet said. Britain has already said it will join the program but the French have criticized it. The Cabinet decision also stressed the importance of discussing the strategic arms control and political consequences of ski research within the nato Alliance. Bonn government sources said West Ger Many would seek a formal discussion within nato next year about the pro Gram s implications. Kohl had announced tuesday even be fore the Cabinet decision that bang Mann would Lead the West German negotiating team. The government press office said Kohl made the appointment Early because he expected the Cabinet would make a Clear decision without major  the Cabinet meeting was scheduled after months of Public squabbling Over whether West Germany should take part in the Reagan administration s plan to develop space weapons to defend against incoming nuclear missiles. West Germany s opposition social % democrats and greens categorically reject ski on the grounds it could danger isly intensify the .-soviet arms race. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich gun a a Liberal free Democrat in Kohl s coalition government has voiced Strong doubts about the program. But he indicated in a newspaper interview earlier this month that his parly and Kohl s conserva Tive Christian democrats had reached a Compromise on the Issue. Bang Mann is chairman of the for democrats the Junior partner in the crying coalition. A. The Reagan administration hasp viled All its nato allies to take Panf fac $26 billion program but Only Bru Jbf has accepted so far. � Kohl s government has Cpd previously that West German come pics arc free to join Star wars  on an individual basis but to companies have done so. Jar successful nem Lapiotis with washing ton could  More attractive for  s private sector which bout several High technology compan Csir How pc in a radio interview following his Najr office s statement Kohl said Security policy and not technological grands will be the determining Factor in Man commitment to a Star pars role. He Jyh while the program carries in Portage technological implications that is just consider the . Government conceived ski because it was a mat r of  Genscher and other critics in Bonn have suggested that West Germany s carefully developed tics with East Ger Many and other soviet bloc countries could suffer if the government signs an agreement to take part in ski. Last week Genscher called on the nato Alliance to undertake a comprehensive study of the research program s potential Impact on fast West relations. West Germany militarily and economically the most important american ally in Europe has been under steady pressure from the soviet bloc not to enter the . Program. The Issue also has strained the usually warm relations Between West German and France which opposes ski. French defense minister Paul quilts was quoted tuesday in the newspaper be Monde As saying that the program is not credible and could upset current strategic concepts. Signal unit has ringing Praise for French Field Rhode network b Mike  staff writer Heilbronn Germany three weeks before inc army announced selection of a tactical communications system As its new Field phone network members of the 26lh signal in were convinced the French had a Good thing. The 42nd regt do transmissions from Jastatt Ger Many demonstrated its re Tau narc Grutch transmission Auto Malique Rita Telephone equipment for the americans oct. 14. Nearly november inc army announced its select of c French american team of contractors to Subj to multiple subscriber equipment use  to Rita. Thomson car the French partner of the development team makes the Rita system. Rita is like having your own Bell  by said 1st it. Rumi Johnson assistant operations officer at the 26th in. The system has push Button radiotelephone linked to Battlefield relay stations that can  from any number of callers Johnson said. Tuft Jay stations Send the Calls to other relay stations f to any place within a 37,500-Squarc Kilometre area. It s similar to the Mobile Lela Phot system generals use in their cars but it will be of tical said maj. Thomas o. Thulin 26th in operating officer. For their demonstration them2nd regt brought enough equipment to support a cons in Battle. You have to remember Thalf French corps is about the she of a . Divisions Dot. Col. Leonard Mal Donado. 26th in command cry it took inc French Abom 45 minutes to set up to receive the first Call. Army standards for Hij Turrant switching system used by the 26th in  corps units Call for set up within four hours. But Felt. Richard a.  durations officer said it might Lake two hours be Tri tac system during Battle. F use comes to 26th in and no one yet knows lat will be it won t Send Tri tac to the scrap Mldonado said Tri tac will be moved to rear i for support of Headquarters elements needing the Tensive switching capability the system offers but not tally concoct cd with mobility. Mobility Isu big advantage of the use system which is designed tote carried in shelters on Ivi ton trucks. Tri tac is he Ulm on 5-ton trucks. Five tons Arezoo big to move to the front said sgt. Thomas g. Browka switching system repairman. Johnson also Sai the Rita system is More compact lakes less people to Pityn is sophisticated but not Complex to run Ana can have wore people on the network than the current system of no 26lh in. The French system Etui be operational so much faster than Tri tac in part Bob Ause the French use machines resembling air hammers v put in ground rods and Hydraulic antennas instead of manually erecting towers. Thulin said the use Holcepl will allow the battalion to spread More Communia Alcuis nodes throughout the Battlefield to handle Calls. A fighting elements move from place to place they a Ujj be Able to tie into the closest switching Node instead a cations relay team to catch operations be said. The greatest thing about i Chase the shooters around the Bat or said. That meant fast moving fighting la mints will have constant communications to any Loc Assan Sokhon Berger said. R Calls can go from a subscriber to a Witch to another subscriber or to another switch with Autan Atic rerouting and no break in communications Job nov said. F waiting for a comm with them and set up u we won t have to Rekso Lobenberg Ramst in begins conversion to f-6s \ Dick Hodgson Kilmr Slauter Bureau Ramstein a the 86th tac fighter Wing be gins its conver on from 1-4 phantoms to f-16 fighting Falcon air Ralf saturday base officials said. The first acting Cut of the c and d Model f-16s will be  into the Wing in ceremonies begin Ning at 2 do. On Ramstein s flight line base spokesman maj. James Dilda said. The Wing is expected to be completely equipped with the new fighter aircraft by late next Yew he said. It. Col. Tom Fleming will assume command of the 5l2th/rac fighter so the unit receiving the first of the new Prcraft during the ceremonies Dilda said. Amstein ii the first base to get the c and o models which feature improved electronic guidance and weapons delivery systems Dilda said. Hahn Abaid Torrejon a Spain have a and b Model f-16. F Brig. Gen. Cecil w. Powell. 316th air diver said the official beginning of the convert to. With the return of the first of id qualified maintenance workers from stateside training saturday Marks the official beginning but we be been working this project for a Long we re in the process of building a new avionics r and refurbishing the engine shop to handle the Neil  in addition to toe tactical advantages of the new sir oven temperature Craft the f-16 is much quieter than the f-4, office Cluj read place in a said. They anticipate a substantial decrease in Nobe should be set to complaints As the conversion progresses. Temperature is news update newscaster Craft hired Sacramento Calif. A Christine Craft who sued a broadcast company contending she was demoted from a news Anchor spot in mis Souri because of her age and appearance has been hired by a Sacramento station As a co Anchor for a nightly news program. At a news conference. Craft said she was approached last summer by Krak to. The Independent station which carries mostly movies and syndicated shows begins its half hour 10 . Newscast in january said news director John Schutte. Craft s co Anchor will be Tim Klein who was most recently on who to in pcs Moines Iowa. Rev. Moon in Seoul Seoul South Korea a the Rev. San Myung Moon Home for the first time since serving a . Jail term held a mass rally to denounce communism u evil and Call for uniting the korean Peninsula. The head of the unification Church spoke before what sponsors said was a crowd of about 30,000 at Chamil gymnasium one of the Sites of the 1988 olympic in Southern Seoul. Moon returned to Seoul after being released from a is. Reha Fifita Tion Center. He was convicted in May 1982 of fall ure to report $162,000 in income on his Federal tax returns and served 13 months of an 18-month sen tence in Federal prison. The meeting called the International rally for Freedom was sponsored by the International federation for Victory Over communism. Channel project Paris a society Chi Mikuc routine it d Enterprise generate screw has announced it is throwing in weight behind Channel expressway one of the projects competing for a contract to build a fixed link acre the English Channel. If Channel expressway is selected when the French and British governments choose the acres Ful solution at the end of january screw wid be project manager for the French half of the link. The Channel expressway project consists of two bored Road tunnels running alongside two smaller rail tunnels. It was put Forward by sea containers a Bermuda based shipping group that owns pan of the Anglo French sealing ferries group. 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