European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Q report casts doubt on Marcos War record Page 3 q doonesbury fans wonder if Duke is realty dead Page 5 q Dollar buys 2.41 Marks monday Page 27 vol. 44. No. 2b1 l1cati saturday january 25, 1986 Ahmed Phi Elcel d 8693 a Navy exercising off Libya to affirm . Rights in area by Norman Black Washington a two . Aircraft carriers steamed southward inward Libya Friday with their Jet fighters flying routine missions part of an Effort to demonstrate american resolve to operate in the area in Tripoli Libya libyan Leader col. Moat mar Kha Day denouncing the exercises As an aggressive Provo cation by president Reagan said he has placed his Navy and air Force in a slate of local the Navy confirmed thursday it had notified civilian air traffic control officials in the libyan capital of Tri poli thai Carrier flight operations would be conducted periodically off the coast in International airspace through Jan. 31. The notice to civilian officials stated the operations could begin As Early As Midnight get Friday. Late Friday morning Pentagon sources requesting anonymity confirmed that some flights had already been flown without incident off the carriers Coral sea and Sara Toga the sources refused to disclose the exact positions of the two carriers beyond saying both were in the Central , due North of Libya outside the Tripoli air flight control Region. That would place the carriers More than 70 Miles off the libyan coast. Another source said however some smaller combat snips holding Advance positions in front of the carriers had actually crossed into the flight control Region. The carriers. I he source added arc steaming parallel to each see Navy on Page 23 Ved from Cav worker Tuben to Scarino a oxygen Muk dear of fat after by if Ait la to it Raj Rexxie workers to no orc dirt from the Bottom of a 15-f Ihor Iod to safety after about Tiro Boon. Convoys take to the r ascertain sen tin Elands. Ii Ronemus f writer Herzo base go rms to More than 100 convoys with some �.000 military Vensks took to the Road Friday As certain Sentinel units pack cow and began the Jour Ney Home to saturday is expected to have the no Wist traffic said staff sgt Tom Doherty an exercise Sunj Tasman at the Allied press information Center a pieces of equipment such As tanks will equipment storage areas by rail he said. The Winter exercise ended a week Early j warm wet weather left the ground sat my vulnerable to damage by la rfcs and heavy it. Gen. Andrew p. Chambers Sajja Fety and the prevention of excessive Man Euver a we were the Pri Mary factors in his decision to or certain Sentinel ahead of schedule. Bavarian minister Preif of Franz Josef Strauss praised the decision and Forest own in feared for Large sgd a Neuvar damage had the a Nerisc continued Abi i m very Etc Faour your decision which certainly was not very was of Strauss said in a letter to Chambers. This demons Mej once again that the us. Armed forces Are Ulm risk willing and prepared to give the great est to the needs and concerns of the Auld Lajes received three reports of serious Man Euver maj. Ronald s. Fong a press Center spokesman. The damage involved two Petroleum spills trucks crushing Clay drainage pipes under soft found. Helicopter crashes during the reformer re turn of forces to Germany and certain Sentinel exercises claimed four Timpl Ong said. There were six serious injuries. Pm two were army Crew members who died Ventir a i cobra attack helicopter crashed Northeast of a Schaffenburg. Authorities have teased the identities of the two soldiers. The addition a German civilian died in a traffic Nucci ent with a military vehicle. Fong said 151 accidents involving at least s700 dam age occurred Between Jan. 10 and Friday. Thirty three of the accidents occurred during the command Field exercise which began monday. Convoys will Lake the . Active duty and Reserve soldiers to redeployment Assembly areas in Hohrn facts Bay Culb and kit Ingen. The As will be run by the 3rd in div. Ops in the Assembly areas will be housed in bar a arc German test tents Doc Ray said. The slip hers main Job will be to clean and repair equip Man it will be shipped Back to the United Stales or recur next Pom us preposition no of Materiel configured to umbels warehouses. . prohibit the return of any equipment with a Vance slightest amount of dirt on it said maj. Joe in charge of the military police customs inspectors Ial re Orger. All .-bused soldiers who Taik part in reformer and certain Sentinel arc expected setback in the Stales by feb. 26, Donerly said t life in the Assembly areas won t a cutwork however. Soldiers have not been allowed to of flak Beer while involved in reformer and certain Serula Effii German Beer tents May be allowed to open for bulk via after Normal duty hours if the site commander approves do see Sentinel on Page 28 Nidal group suspected m Frankfurt blast Abu Nidal s group Are suspected of _ that devastated the is. Military shopping Center in Frankfurt two months ago German investigators say. The key clue in the nov. 24 attack which wounded 35 people was u moroccan passport used by one of those who apparently set the car bomb false moroccan pass a also were believed used by Arab wailing passengers dec. 27 at Airport terminal Ina mjg Brenu people dead. The Rome bw4mfa7and a coordinated attack at the Vienna Austria Airport the same Day that took three lives have been blamed on the shadowy group led by " Gian renegade Abu Nidal italian authorities issued a thursday for Nis in Germany. Was raised Toon a Deputy travism police unit Hans Werner Kun ehnts out the parallel 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 top investigators Heinz Doehla said. We cannot say for sure now that the Abu Nidal group was the authorc1""-- 5 Wiesbaden said no new evidence had been devetor%3 in the Ami-. Attack or in another Frankfurt bombing an explosion last june 19 at the City s civilian Airport that i three people and injured 39. The Airport bombing also was definitely the work because German terrorists do not engage in an interview with Rin btb1magazinc Der Spiegel on Page 28
