European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q report casts doubt on Marcos War record Page 3 q Doune Abury tans wonder if Duke is really dead Page 5 d is contest Winner picks new England Page 21 the a frs and Sre ipes author Lite a Homicki a re Lic ton pod the . Mt6 kit Cut vol. 44, no 281 saturday january �5, 1986 in 011, d 8693 a fighters from . Carriers exercise off libyan coast by Norman Black Washington apr fighters from two Ameri can aircraft carriers conducted night operations off the libyan coast Friday in what . Officials described As a quiet but tense Navy exercise. Libya branded it an aggressive  Pentagon sources discussing the matter Only on Condi Tion they not be identified by name said the first nights off the carriers Saratoga and Coral sea had been con ducted thursday night and Friday without  the sources declined to specify what routes the fighters flew beyond saying they did not Fly Over the Gulf of Silra a Large contested body of water that cuts into the coast line. Libya claims the Gulf Purl of its territorial Waters. Out in a confusing turn of events the Pentagon appeared to reverse itself on whether future flights might extend Over the Gulf. On thursday the Pentagon said publicly that no such flights were planned. In a prepared response to the same question on Friday though the Pentagon was not so Adamant. The United slates will be conducting operations in the Tripoli might information Region Firin International airspace Over International Waters the Pentagon said. The Gulf of Sidra is in the Tripoli fir but we Are not discussing specifics of our opera Lions including locations within the  the United slates refuses to heed Libya s claim to the Gulf applying a Standard 12-mile limit on coastal Waters. The last Lime the United states and Libya engaged in see fighters on Page 26 saved from Cave in construction worker Estaben tic Dino crinum and bold u oxygen rank nor he fico Filer being tripped by � cure in in of Diu. Room Morten using their Hudi la remove dirt from the Bottom Oft i5-Fsol pit puled to Buruato to Fety liter thou iwo hours. Convoys take to the Road As certain Sentinel ends by Mike  staff writer Herzo base Germany More than 100 convoys with some 5,000 military vehicles look to the Road Friday As certain Sentinel Unis packed up and began the Jour Ney Home. Saturday is expected to have the heaviest traffic said staff sol. Tom Doc Ray. An exercise spokesman at the Allied press information Center. About 600 heavy pieces of equipment such As tanks will be moved to equipment storage areas by Mil he said. The Winter exercise ended a week Early because the warm wet weather left the ground saturated and highly vulnerable to damage by tanks and heavy trucks. It. Gen. Andrew p. Chambers said safety and the prevention of excessive Man Euver damage were the Pri Mary factors in his decision to end certain Sentinel ahead of schedule. Bavarian minister president Franz Josef Strauss praised the decision saying Farmland and Forest own ers feared for Large scale Man Euver damage had the exercise continued As planned. I m very grateful for your decision which certainly was not very easy Strauss said in a letter to Chambers. This demonstrates once again that the . Armed forces Are always willing Ana prepared to give the great est possible consideration to the needs and concerns of the German  authorities received three reports of serious Man Euver damage said maj Ronald s. Fong a press Center spokesman. The damage involved two Petroleum spills and trucks crushing Clay drainage pipes under soft ground. Helicopter crashes during the refer Ger return of farces to Germany and certain Sentinel exercises claimed four lives Fong said. There were six serious injuries. Two of the fatalities were army Crew members who died when their ah-1 cobra attack helicopter crashed thursday Northeast of Aschaffenbur. Authorities have not released the identities of the two soldiers in addition a German civilian died in a traffic Acci Dent with a military vehicle. Fang said 151 accidents involving at least 1700 dam age occurred Between Jan. 10 and Friday. Thirty three of the accidents occurred during the command held exercise which began monday. Convoys will Lake the . Active duty and Reserve soldiers to redeployment Assembly areas in Hohrn facts Grafen Wocher Bayreuth Giebl slant and Kitzinger. The areas will be run by the 3rd inf div. Troops in tic Assembly areas will be housed in bar Racks or Large German fest tents Donerly said. The soldiers main Jab will be to clean and repair equipment that will be shipped Back to the United Stales or returned to Pom us Preposti Loning of Materiel configured to unit sets warehouses. . Agricultural Laws prohibit the return of any equipment with even the slightest amount of dirt on it said maj. Joe i Cylka officer in charge of the military police customs inspectors for refer Ger. All .-based soldiers who took part in refer Ger and certain Sentinel Are expected to be Back in the states by feb. 26, Donerly said. Life in the Assembly areas won t be All work however. Soldiers have not been allowed to drink Beer while involved in a forger and certain Sentinel but German Beer tents May be allowed to open for business after Normal duty hours if the site commander approves do see Sentinel on Page 28 Nidal group suspected in Frankfurt blast f Wiesbaden Frankfurt two months ago German investigators say. A the key clue in the nov. 24 attack which wounded 35 people was. A moroccan passport used by one of those who 3 apparently set the car bomb. False moroccan passports \ also were believed used by Arab terrorists who attacked waiting passengers dec. 27 at Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport terminal in a massacre that left 16 people Stead. The Rome bloodshed and a coordinated attack at the Vienna Austria Airport the same Day that look three lives have been blamed on the shadowy group led by palestinian renegade Abu Nidal italian authorities issued an International warrant thursday for his arrest in Germany the possibility of palestinian involvement was raised soon after the november explosion. In an interview thursday the Deputy chief of the Feder Al anti terrorism police unit Hans Werner Kuehn. Pointed out the Paradic to the Rome attack. So far we can justify the statement that palestinian groups Are suspected of having committed that attack he said. One of the unit s lop investigators Heinz Doehla said we cannot say for sure now that the Abu Nidal group was the author of that crime. It is  Kuehn interviewed at Federal police Headquarters in Wiesbaden said no new evidence Nad been developed in he anti-. Attack or in another Frankfurt bombing an explosion last june 19 at the City s civilian Airport that killed three people and injured 39. But he said the Airport bombing also was definitely the work of a non German group because German terrorists do not engage in such random attacks. In an interview with the German Magazine Der Spiegel see blast in Page 28