European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes wednesday january 15.19b8page 28 of a trucks tanks copters arrive for exercise by Chris Estes stiff writer Antwerp Belgium trucks tanks and Hel Icopin bound for certain so mine 86 Maneu vers in Germany were unloaded from ships monday in exercises described As impressive by inc chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. I can t Tell you How impressed i was by what i saw said adm. William j. Crowe jr., who also visited equipment drawing sics of the 1st inf div in Germany Mon Day. Crowe said the current crier discs Demon Strole Itie concepts we Are using la reinforce Europe n re viable. They will National guard and army Reserve sol Diers drove More than 2,400 wheeled vehicles ranging in site from jeeps to five Ion trucks off Itrice Navy Shif. Many of i trucks towed bridging equipmi"1 a or fuel Taifita also unloaded Wewt Tanosi 400 racked vehicles my Abrams tank and 20 helicopters. The Algol and Antares landed in ant Werp and the third Navy ship the William " a or Iowa. Belgium. Radii Public affairs officials Tram the military traffic management come said most of the cargo is destined for the 32nd inf Bri Gade Mech of the Wisconsin National guard although More than 60 other units had cargo on Board. For the first time we have drawn heavily or our Reserve unit and deployed them Crowe said. I think it will set the Pic Rah exercises he said. We consid taquan Tum leap a Crowe said Ntxo percent of the 20,000 a reformer Are from guard and reserves Init forger provides ail components the Chance to exercise not Only plans but the equipment int would be used in w actual said rear aim. Walter Piol the military sea life come. It s a massive Effort that lakes Alt of us playing As a learn to puh off he said. Maj. Gen. Harold Small military traffic management come commander said new system for keeping of what Isu saved on and off ships have Cut them ill matk ships can unload in less infant Miil a cure previously took iwo thecmpulerizedqitwymentsystei., called codes is Iol the most efficient loading sri for ships increasing the a mapped by about 10 percent. Algol and Andres. Both fast sea lift snips Hare a lop Speed of 33 knots but their cruising Speed from the United states o Europe is about 27 knots. An a tic spokesman said this is the first re Torger in which the fast sea lift ships Hove been used. The equipment is being taken to Ger Many by air Highway Snder dirt. After the exercises it Willic returned to the United Stales on the same ships. In a press conference Crowe responded to questions about changes in the exercise because of possible acts of terrorism. We have done a great Deal to improve oar physical Security he said. In the is. Military we Are waging a heavy Edu cation Campaign on terrorism to make peo ple sensitive to the things they can do to protect themselves their equipment and Ujj Lilii i Iii All those procedures arc in effect in refer Ger. We never Munct an exercise such a i without talking into account the Post he said. thought Warsaw pad countries arc Jun Bizup to nato in High technology Crowe a have always argued that our Way we could counter the discrepancy bars. The sophistication 8�p Saratoga from Page 1 shuttle s photos of Comet May be flawed space Center Houston a co Lumbia s Nasik maidu tried to Lake unprecedented close up photographs of Halley s Comet monday but their pictures May be no better than those taken from Earth by amateurs because a special tight intensifier refused 10 work. The seven Man Columbia Crew which includes a Florida congressman spent much of in first full Day in orbit trying to repair mechanical malfunctions a medical device another astronomy instrument and a materials processing Experiment also were on the blink. Astronaut George d. Nelwyn an astronomer tried to snap pictures of he Comet using a Light image intensifier but discovered that the intensifier was not working. Instead he look the tight device off the camera and shot a series of 30-second expo sures. Nelson said that he and astronaut Steve hav Frey who also i an astronomer searched the heavens for the Cornel but were Uncertain that they found it because it was obscured by Light from the Moon. Nelson was to attempt to repair the in Lerui Fier tuesday and then photograph the Comet again thursday. Alan Stern a University of Colorado scientist said pictures without the intensifier would be Only about what a Good Amateur could do from Earth meanwhile night director Jay Greene said monday that the National aeronautics and space administration May Call an Early end to the Columbia flight. If the Mission is shortened by a Day co Lumbia would land thursday instead of Friday at the Kennedy space Center at Cape canaveral fat. Soviets from Pago 1 with , in a local television interview in Cleveland last wednesday said maybe we re at that Point in the world where or. Khad Afy hoi to be asked by an interviewer if he meant his remark literally the senator Laid thai be did. Weinberger meeting with reporters was his first since the Rome and Vienna error is attacks and the american decision to respond with new economic unctions against Libya for its purported role. The United slates accuses Libya of providing training Camps economic support and a Headquarters for Abu Nidal the palestini an accused of masterminding the Airport the Days following the attacks Wein Berger was reported by Pentagon and while House officials to have expressed deep misgivings about the use of military Force in reprisal worrying that it would turn world opinion against the United states. On monday he declined to discuss the advice he had Given president Reagan but he appeared to emphasize the value of eco nomic sanctions and intensified intelligence gathering and to minimize the Virtues of military action. He said he believed hat the american Boycott of libyan Oil and other economic sanctions had been valuable in convincing the libyans of the Price of sponsoring terrorism. He said the most effective Way to fight terrorism was to infiltrate terrorist bands and thwart their plans our policy is to do whatever we think is appropriate and effective in deterring and future instance he said. We Are not interested in revenge for re Venge on the soviet Rale in the affair Wein Berger said the soviets arc helping the libyans i think in every Way they can by furnishing intelligence and keeping perhaps on even closer eve on our naval movements than they normally do. And 1 Silok they re passing All that on to he another Pentagon official said on Mon Day that us. Warships in the Mediterranean had observed an unusual concentration of soviet ships patrolling off North Africa after the terrorist attacks. We have pretty Good reason to believe thai the ships served a sentries for the libyans the official said. He said he did not know whether it soviet Union bad Al passed along satellite data which would include photographs of american ship traffic. The official said that the Pentagon was convinced the soviet assistance would not have extended to actual military involve ment in the event of an american military raid taut that the presence of soviet listen ing ships would have influenced the plan Ning of an american action. Would it have grossly inhibited our ability to act lie official said. No. You d have to take la into consideration. You might put additional Force in or Lake a different route. You just assume the fellow had a Little More warning than he might otherwise have administration official estimate that about 2,000 soviet technicians and military advisers Are in Libya. Some officials cited the risk of killing russians and drawing the soviet Union into the conflict As one reason for caution in deciding whether to under take a military raid. Crash from Page 1 a Frozen packet of partially burned papers apparently army medical and dental records was discovered during a preliminary inspection Over the weekend Johnston said. Officials said last week that part of the difficulty in establishing identifications stemmed from the loss of some soldiers records which had been on the same plane contrary to Pentagon regulations. Investigators from the Canadian aviation safely Board say their investigation has not yet determined Why the 0c-8 veered to the right lost Speed and crashed into the Woods moments after taking off after a fuel Stop at Gander. The plane bound from Cairo to fort Campbell ky., had made an earlier Stop in Germany to refuel and change flight Crews. David Owen the Canadian aviation safety Board s Deputy chief investigator for the crash said monday that his staff was observing the army search and setting aside any debris from the plane dial might need closer examination in the Board s Laboratory. He said he expects the work to continue for at least two Mont followed by another sweep after the Spring thaw. To develop in maintaining a Carrier in the Indian Ocean but hey acknowledged that the orders to the Saratoga represented a change in plans the now York times reported thai the Reagan administration acknowledged Mon Day that Iran might have Brett within in rights in forcing the president Taylor to submit to a search. Iran s practice of stopping Neutral Shin Ping in the Gulf has now been carried out for approximately five months and has involved stopping vessels from Kuwait Italy wot Germany Denmark Yugoslavia Pound and Japan among others a state depart Ait spokesman said. The Ruta of naval warfare have traditionally accorded a belligerent cer Tain rights to ascertain whether Neutral my Ping is bans used to provide contraband to an opposing belligerent the times quoted the spokesman u saying the United states is studying Loo incident to determine whether Che Stop and search was the United slates has intercepted ship on the High seas on suspicion or Cany log illegal drugs to this country the Rimes re ported. And during the cuban a Mettle erf Sis in 1962, the United suits declared the right to sep and search ships it might a carrying missiles to Cuba temperatures when the plane smashed to Earth and exploded pieces were scattered across an area about half a mile Long and 100 Yards wide. Investigators stretched ropes on the ground to make a Grid of 33-foot squares so All finds could be mapped precisely. About a dozen plastic shelter were erected monday for la army March. 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