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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday january 20, 1986 judge halts ouster of 11 sailors with aids. I .1. I i tit. Iii Chinn Nulu be Civ Cal ton off Washington a a Federal judge an saturday temporarily barred the Navy from discharging ii recruits whose blood shows exposure to the aids virus gilding review of the Case by the . Court of Appeal in Wash . District judge Louis f. Oberdorfer said he doubled the recruits would win their , he told he Navy it can t discharge the seamen for at least 10 Days while they bring their suit before the appeals  seems quite Likely thai unless restrained plaintiffs will be discharged within minutes of the saturday expiration of an earlier order that had temporarily prevented the discharges he , there is an enhanced risk that if the court of appeals views the matter differently Swift action by the Navy would deprive the court of appeals of an Opportunity to review this court s action the judge wrote. In his 11-Page opinion Oberdorfer said la is unlikely that plaintiffs would prevail on the merits of their claim that the honorable discharge of these plaintiffs would be arbitrary and capricious or in violation of constitutional  he said that Iho Pentagon s new system of testing the blood of recruits for exposure to the deadly aids virus and refusing to accept those who test positive does not appear on the record to Date to be  blood test Doe not indicate if a person has aids or will get it but reveals the presence of antibodies that show the person Hai been exposed to the killer virus. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome which attacks the body immune system so fat has afflicted primarily homosexuals intravenous drug abusers and recipients of contaminated  Oral arguments on Friday the government announced that Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Had agreed the 11 recruits in question would be go " of ble discharges instead of merely being  separated trom the service As originally planned. Deputy us attorney Michael j. Ryan Sards Turda that Lve government would have no comment until it had is not Challenge the Mil Tarys Wood screening policies on aids. It applies Only Toa Small a number of 3avy recruits with positive tests who joined the service just before or during the Start of mass blood screenings for All military recruits last fall. The 11 involved had already begun Basic rating when the Navy began implement the umd1 lest policy that defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had signed in octo Ber. Their situation is different from thai mater recruits since the new recruits would never be accepted if the tested positive and thus the Issue of discharge would not arise. . Woman soviet husband reunited 45 horses die in barn Blaze at . Track Frankfurt a a Massachusetts woman was reunited with her soviet husband for the first time in More hit three years sunday while to other soviet men prepared to join their american wives in the United slates. Edith Luthi of hot Liston mass., hugged her soviet husband Michael loss after be arrived at Frankfurt International Airport from Leningrad. Pm sorry but you have o understand we Don l want to talk to the press now said the smiling Luthi As she helped he husband with his suitcases. The two said they would spend the night in Frankfurt then travel to Lluhi s Home outside Boston on monday. We will hold a press conference whence arrive Back in the United states on monday evening in Newark the 31-year old Luthi  and Lossel were married in August 1981, while be was studying russian in he soviet Union. She left for Home in 1932 and had not seen her husband  was accompanied by Leonid a in sky who is also to Fly to the unite states on monday. Ablavi secy. Who dec find to speak with re porters in Frankfurt was scheduled to be reunited with his american wife Robin Rubendunst of Brooklyn ., on monday. A third soviet citizen Al Xci Lodisca arrived in Frankfurt earlier sunday from Mas cow. Lots eve was slaying Al a hold near l the Airport but he did not want to speak with reporters according to hotel stuff members. The three men Are the la isl soviet citizen who have been allowed to rejoin family Mem Bers in the West following the .-sovietsummit meeting in Geneva last november. Luthi said she her husband and Aboav sky were lofty to Newark n.j., from Frankfurt on monday. Weather from Page 1 Only unit commanders from company Liv Olup will conduct the tactical play. Alternate training will be Given soldiers not involve Din the tactical Maneu vers. Aggressor and defending Force com Manders will follow the original tactical plans of certain Sentinel Vii corps officials said. Also  and air Force hell copters and air planes will take part weather permitting. The downgrade also Means the number of vehicles on the roads will be reduced Baboul iwo thirds. It also will greatly limit he number of tracked vehicles such Astana and armoured personnel carriers permitted to Lake  though two thirds of the vehicles will not be mane vering because the Cir Cise Lias been downgraded there Are still potential safely hazards because of military traffic on the roads and because of the bad weather. Chambers said he urged soldiers and civilians to drive with extreme Camion while Sheea Erciso is  Man Euver condition would allow Only one other option for limiting Maneule property damage a Vii corps spokesman said. Thai option would have restricted All 21,000 vehicles of certain Sentinel to travel on Public roads a terrain analysis official said wet ground conditions will make streams in the area Rise during the next 10 to 12 hours. Capt. Joe Kroesch said conditions Are expected to remain the same Over the next iwo Days. Vii corps terrain analysis teams Are Tak ing soil surveys at 39 Sites through oui he Man Euver area. The cams Are using Sis experimental sensors Kroesch said. They in clude digital readout probes thermometers to measure ground temperatures and Cone Penel Romeless o test the Load bearing strength of the soil. Waves from Page 1 sea Stales As a weapon is hat he enemy would not have to Pene Rale a Carrier group s formidable defensive system 10 employ it. Brown suggested that the warheads could be launched from land and made to appear to it erratically toward the target before dropping into the sea. The size of the Waves produced would depend on the configuration of the sea floor the currents Ana the depth at which the warheads were detonated. Brown Esti mated that devices in the 50 to 100-Kilotonrange would produce Waves 100 feel High Over a Large led area As much As 100 Miles away. The largest wave Ever accurately recorded was spotted in the mid Pacific on feb. 7, 1938, by deck officers of the . Navy Tanker ram Apo. While the ship was run Ning from a lorm an officer sighted in Crest of a following wave and calculated its height to be 112 feel. By comparison five Story tall building stands less than go feel High obviously it would not be Good far a Battle group commander to be faced Withan Ava Tanne of ongoing dialogues about incoming missiles and the status of his own defences o suddenly look up and see a Mountain of water headed in his direction Brown  addition to turbulent seas scientists believe the explosions would also result in to additional Phenomena Bue out end Green out Blue out is a term used id describe the deadening effect the sound such an explosion would have on the passive sonar sys tems aboard  explosions could cripple the attack submarines assigned to protect the Carrieri Well a temporarily Pul out of action submarines standing guard Over vital water ways the United Stales would want to deny the soviets Access to in the event of  out applies to the effect that falling sea water and steam would hive on the Battle group s collective radar systems. Some analysts predict that he falling water would acl As a Vatt Green screen and allow Low flying cruise missiles or attack aircraft 10 sneak past the normally Superior defences found aboard . Cruiser equipped with Aegis radar systems. Strategic planning would also seem Lefavor the Soviel use of such tactics in the opening hours of  the Soviel Navy has undergone a tremendous buildup in recent years an shed its image As a coastal oriented Force it still lags behind the Globe spanning .fleets, which operate under a Forward aggressive Bailie  analysis believe i Cal generating High sea Stales followed by a powerful first Salvo might be the Only Way to Stop the us. Maritime strategy recently made Public by chief of naval operations Adro. James d. Watkins if War conies. The Navy will seize the initiative As far Forward As possible. Naval forces will destroy soviet forces in he Mediterranean Indian Ocean and other for Ward circus neutralize soviet clients if required and fight our Way toward soviet Home Waters Walkins said in january a High sea states nuclear explosion would not necessarily Lead to a strategic nuclear War. Brown believes. Using undersea nuclear weapons rep resents the least objectionable course of action Brown whole. Nol Only Are civilian population centers and other sensitive tar get zones spared but triggering of satellite based sensors. Is  this is not the first Lime Hal the theory of massive nuclear Waves has affected strategic thinking in the United states during 1980 congressional debates nowhere to House the new my missile one study group favored placing them aboard Smau submarines thai would hug the Shore lines of America while staying hidden fro Soviel forces. The Pentagon opposed the idea. In closed door hearing and later in Public de sense officials said their studies showed that the soviets could target a nuclear explosion in shallow Waters to Ricochet off America Scontine to shelf with disastrous results. Called the Van Dorn effect for in defense scientist credited with its discovery the explosion would crush the Small submarines and also generate a giant tidal wave hat would swamp portions of the Eastern Seaboard defense officials said. The Small submarine Basing plan Van subsequently dropped. Ine new Yort times Newt str la Elmont . A a Smoky fire Al Belmont Park race track on sunday killed 45 thoroughbred horses Worth Stout 110 Mil lion in a wooden barn with a sprinkler system that broke Days ago authorities  shot 50 feel into the air and caused a Large Section of the 400-foot-Longbarn to Cave in Aid eur non fire chief James Snadecky. The Blaze was reported Ati 9 a.m., and in look 100 firefighter Raore than an hour to contain it Snadecky  of the horses suffocated and were found in their 12-foot-Square stalls where they had been lied up for the night Caid assistant fire chief John  looked like a fireball in the Middle of the barn loser said. It was Lough tomake a decision not to charge in there and try to get the horses out two horses rescued two horses were rescued. One of the was plea san sea an offspring of pleasant Colony who won the Kentucky Derby . Thu fire broke out in barn 4$ on the grounds of Bolmant the largest rack in the United  horses were among More than 2,000 kept in 64 barns on the grounds of the Complex on Long Island the track is the annual Home of the Belmont stakes. 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