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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, January 8, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 8. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 in cold weather greets maps from Florida Reserve troops Start drawing equipment or re Orger exercise by the stars and so Ripe military policemen from Florida were the first soldiers to draw unit  in Germany during this year s a forger exercise and icy did it in Snow and free ing temperatures. The 4491 h military police co . Army Reserve left sunny 70-Dcgrcc weather in Jacksonville. Fia. Saturday la Lake Purl in the 18th re former re turn of forces 10 Germany. The 100 maps were greeted by a fresh Blanket of Snow sunday in Ter Apcel Netherlands. While a few Advance parties and Small units already have arrived in Belgium and Germany As part of the exercise most of the nearly 21,000 Active duty and Reserve component soldiers bound for Europe arc scheduled to arrive next week according to George Grimes 21st support come spokesman. The  soldiers will join about 52,000 members of the . A and v corps Canada s 4 mechanized brigade croup and Germany s 12th Panzer div Border police and territorial army forces for a Field training exercise dubbed certain Sentinel 86. The cd cruise is planned for Jan. 20-30. Maneu vers Wilt be in an urea bordered roughly by Schweinfurt in the Northwest Hof in the Northeast Hagen Surg in the Southeast and Dinkel Buchl in the South West. After tinning equipment from Ware houses storing pro positioned material configured to unit sets Pom us. Units will move to Marshalin Garcias oper ated by the 21st support come. Final Checki of equipment and Ismie of Oiler supplies will be made there before units Start to the exercise area in vehicle con Voys. This year s Issue of vehicles is about the slime As it was Tor refer Ger us said col. Fred r. Pocock commander of the combat equipment group Europe Cage which operates the storage Sites. Cage is planning to Issue 3,000 jeeps and trucks 900 Light tracked and 350 heavy tracked vehicles. 70 heavy Engineer vehicles and 1,200 trailers he said. Convoy routes taken by these vehicles will include autobahn 3 East of Frank fun toward Nuernberg and autobahn 6 cast of Karlsruhe toward re Ginsburg main arteries leading into these Auto banns and route 14 cast of Nuernberg also will be congested according to Msj. John m. Wag Slaff a Vii corps spokes Man. Henri Cost traffic will occur Jan. 15 17, he said. Besides equipment issued to refer Ger units at Pom us Sites about 300,000 tons of equipment from the states will arrive this week and next in Belgium and Luxembourg said maj. Frederick j. Chian venture a . European come spokesman. Three Nuvy cargo ships the William m. Callaghan Algol and an Lars arc scheduled to unload refer Ger cargo in Antwerp Belgium monday and tues Day. Helicopters aboard c-5 Galaxy air Craft Are scheduled for arrival in Luxem Bourg saturday through monday. Most of the equipment arriving by sea will be moved into Germany by read convoys but some will be transported by rail according to l. Col. Larry Furrow 2lsl support come Public affairs offi cer still other equipment and supplies will be taken from the ships and loaded onto c-130 Hercules aircraft of the Mili tary Airlift come and c-160 planes of the German air Force he mid. Convoys leaving Antwerp will travel into Germany along autobahn 13 and minor routes until they Carh Aachen. They then will travel along autobahn e5 South of Frankfurt and East toward Nuernberg. No convoys arc planned from Luxembourg or the Netherlands said Cut. Randy Hayden of the usar eur movements control Center in Obj Russel Germany. Helicopters scheduled for delivery to Luxembourg will be unloaded there and flown into the Man Euver area. Eur com s . Reformer is jointly planned and executed by the . Readiness come and . European come to test and Eval uate plans and support agreements relat ing to . Commitments to deploy troops for nato military emergencies. Certain Sentinel 86, conducted in conjunction with refer Ger is aimed at increasing the flexibility of . And other nato forces and their ability to operate with eath other. Vietnam tells . Of new reports on Mas Hanoi Vietnam a the govern ment announced tuesday it has collected about so new reports on . Servicemen killed in the Indochina War and told visiting . Officials that it Hopes to resolve the Issue of about 1,800 american my As before the end of 1987. . Assistant Secretary of defense Richard Armitage said after two Days of Laski with vietnamese officials that the new reports would be turned Over to the United stale in late february at a meeting of . And vietnamese officials. The two sides also discussed future excava Toni of air trash Sites in Vietnam and agreed that at present there is no need to set up a Liaison office in Hanoi Ann Ilage said. Last month is. And vietnamese teams for the finl Lime excavated a. Crash site together. They found the wreckage of a . B-52 bomber and Tome pieces of human Bone. With the cooperation of the United state the Issue can be resolved in two Yean and maybe earlier than two years Laid Vietnam i Deputy foreign minister Hoang Bich son. We have enough determination and Effort to resolve the Mia Issue Bat the re sults of the search also depend on the cooperation of the United Stales one sided efforts cannot bring about the highest re sults son said. He said Vietnam made major efforts in 1985 and launched on Jan. 1 in promised two year plan to finally resolve the Issue of Ameri cans missing since the our ended in 1975. Son said the. 50 reports were very new and needed verification. He did not specify How Many of these might be among approximately 2,400 people that the United states officially lists As missing in Indochina 1,797 in Vietnam and the my in Laos and cambo Dia the american delegation headed by Armi Tage and including is. Assistant Secretary of state Paul Wou wit arrived in Hanoi on Mon div and spent 4 a hours in closed door discussions with the vietnamese including a 50-Minule session tuesday with foreign min ister Nguyen co Thach they departed for Bangkok Thailand later in the Day i am pleased and they the americans Are very pleased Loo Thach said after the meeting. Both aides have asked to Speed up the search for mias he said. Armitage described Progress on the Mia Issue As Gratifying and snid the february meeting also to be held in Hanoi would bring together technical experts from both sides. The Armitage Wolfowitz Mission was the highest level . Government delegation to visit Vietnam since the .-Backcd South vietnamese regime in Saigon fell to the North vietnamese communists in 1975. Thach said that As in All previous meet Ings the americans asked about reports that . Prisoners of War were still alive in Vietnam. "1 have assured them there arc none alive in our hands he said. Armitage said the vietnamese promised however that they would accent reports from the United slates on alleged live pos and investigate them. Later in Bangkok Armitage said reports by some private americans that pos re main alive in Vietnam and charges that the government has covered up witness accounts arc harmful to official efforts to. E solve the Issue. We have people who work with this Issue Day in and Day out the people who themselves were the prisoners of War Armitage told a Bangkok news conference tuesday. I find it absolutely unbelievable that those should be accused of not having the highest possible regard of their com rades. Six americans some of wham said they personally saw pos As recently As four months ago in Vietnam and Laos filed a lawsuit monday in  District court in fact Neville n.c., charging the administration with quashing witness accounts. I can question their motives their anal Ysis and their conclusion Armitage said. However Ann Mills Griffith executive director of the National league of pow Mia families said the organization received information indicating there Are live pos in Vietnam and Laos. In Hanoi both sides said talks did not include other bilateral problems such As forging diplomatic relations and the pres ence of vietnamese forces in Cambodia. Vietnam has expressed eagerness for ties with the United Stales but the United states insists that Vietnam first must pull its soldiers out of Cambodia. Mia s americans unaccounted or in Indochina . Anny . Navy . Air Force 3490 j916 . Marine corps do 290 , coast guard civilians q42 total induces Vietnam. Cambodia Laos Peoples Republic of China and All coastal Waterways Crago Tribune Chart source Dep Nittert Al Detent grenade bomb found in Boston sports Arena Boston a the Fri and police tuesday searched for the person who placed a live grenade bomb in a parts Arena shortly before an exhibition hockey game Between the Boston Bruins and a sonet team. The bomb was placed at the Boston Garden which was packed with 11 ,8 fans said police officer John Mclean. Police acting on a telephoned bomb threat removed the or enact monday from a Nuh barrel Ini ids Hie Arena s Mam Entrance 20 minutes before members of the soviet dynamos learn arrived said police superintendent Martin m Mulkern. No injuries were reported. The Fri was called into the Case Mulkern said. Police it. Joseph Ferrullo described the device As a live grenade taped to an farm clock. It was taken to a bomb disposal site on a Boston Harbor Island where police destroyed it with a Small charge said sol. Robert Mollay of the bomb squad. The threat was phoned la the associated press office Here monday afternoon by a male who said dynamos Musl die. Bomb. Trash can. Public Garden. Call  i have no idea who did it. I condemn it said Kenneth Sidman head of the Boston chapter of the jewish defense league when he arrived at the Arena for a planned demonstration before the game. More than 100 pickets carried signs and chanted Kab go i tic As the first fans arrived. Inside the soviets received a few Boas when they skated out and red Dye was thrown onto the ice. When the soviet National Anthem was Sung two men moved into the first Balcony and started Yelling. They were quickly ejected. But after the game won 6-4 by the Moscow squad fans cheered As players lined up on the ice and exchanged hand shakes Sidman entered the Arena about a half hour after the game began. Police ejected him and he was refunded the Cost of his ticket he tried several times to re enter but was turned away. Earlier Sidman had asked the management of t he National hockey league team to cancel the Mutch because he said the Moscow squad consisted of soviet police officers. The jewish defense league Lite Many jewish groups opposes the soviet Union s policies that restrict emigration by jews. He said he told Bruins officials in a dec. 15 letter that the match could spark violence. The soviet use sports not because they re fair minded people but As poll Lien propaganda to convince us they arc no different from americans and we want the same things he said monday. As Long As we Are part of the nil we have to do our Purl said Bruins general manager Harry Sinden whose team lust played the soviets in 1979  
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