European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Q curtailed Man Euver disappoints guard troops Page 3 q funeral a held for civilian jeep Page 5 d magic Johnson tops voting in Aba Page 21 the stars and stripes authorised unofficial publication Fob the . Urm e d forces vol. 44, to. 283 monday. January 27, 1986 i Pom Ana in d 8693 a Kab defector giving top data . Sources say Washington not a High ranking officer of the Kab fled the soviet Union Las year and May lie the most valuable defector from the soviet bloc to the United Stales in recent years congressional sources said saturday. The defector is providing information thai is much More important than any provided by Vittaly s. Yurchenko the turn about soviet defector who returned to mos cow last year a congressional source said. Another described the defector As a senior soviet officer of the Kab the soviet intelligence and Security Agency who escaped by helicopter last Spring from East Germany. The source said the officer was questioned no an american military base in Germany before travelling to the United slates where he has assumed a new id Nti y the Cia would not confirm the reported defection. We Don l comment on defectors said Kathy Pherson an Agency spokesman. Two of the congressional sources said the Cia Hud gone to great lengths to keep in formation about the new defector from being disclosed largely because publicity might have upset the Summit meeting in november Between president Reagan and Mikhail s. Gorbachev the soviet Leader. The Summit was a concern one source said. He is belter than Yurchenko one of the sources said of the new defector. I Don t know his rank but he was a High Guy at the although it is what responsibilities the defector had in the Soviel Union the source said the United slates might now learn valuable information about the Kab s organization and manage ment. Details if the defection were disclosed in the Issue of the Magazine . News & world report that goes on Salt this week. American Law enforcement officials have said that Yurchenko provided lips thai could Lead to numerous arc Sis of soviet spies working in the United states. Ronald see Kab on Page 23 message from a Distant voyager this photo if Oberon uranus outermost Moon was the Best or the Superb Quality picture taken by voyager 2. The highest Quality photographs of the or Union month were transmitted saturday to Nasa s Jot propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Khad Afy returns from patrol boat trip Mistrata Libya a libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy returned to mis Urata Harbor the same Day he departed to confront to the death the . File Fleet libyan slate television reported sunday. A film showed khad Afy stepping ashore at Mistrata Harbor on saturday hours after he departed on a missile Laden patrol boat. Libyan sailors shouted cheers upon his return. A Western ambassador in Tripoli speak ing to reporters on condition of anonymity said As he often docs khad Afy probably intended his gesture of sailing out to con front the 6th of Kcal la be taken symbolically rather than literally to him the Symbol he exhibits to his people is More important than the reality of his khad Afy said in an interview published sunday in Athens Greece that Libya was ready to attack american bases throughout Europe if the United Stales look military action against his North african country. In in interview with ethos tis Kyriakis sunday National left Wing weekly Kheda by said terrorism is what the United suites is practising against us and he described president Reagan As crazy and we will attack american bases in All of Europe and naturally the american bases in the Mediterranean Region we will be supported by International right and the right of War id attack Ull american military and political targets Hadaf said. The interview lock place inside n tent at khad Afy s Headquarters ethos said khad Afy said Libya is ready to face an american invasion according to our strength and weaponry and with the sup port of inc Arab the Day after the 6th Fleet announced we Klong air exercises above what khad Afy regards As libyan Waters he had a group of foreign reporters flown inc 125 Miles to Hie naval base of Mistrata to Walcot his gesture of Defiance. Wearing a Gran and Blue ski outfit and an Admiral s cup he announced that he was sailing the 300 Miles to Benghazi at the Eastern Side of the Gulf of Sidra to prove to the americans that we arc the reporters followed behind on Kheda by s luxurious personal yacht. They last saw him steaming at full Speed Northeast into the Gulf on inc Bridge of a 350-tpn missile carry ing patrol Boa t escorted by n sister ship. Each of the patrol boats carried four French made Malra surface to surface mis Siles packed in Gray painted wooden crates. Earlier khad Afy had Laid the reporters that he was declaring a new conf Onla lion with the United states Over Libya s right to bar the 6th-Fleet from Libya s entire Continental shelf an area of some 250,000 Square Miles stretching across the Central Mediterranean from inc greek is land of Crete to the italian Island of icim pc Dusa. The United states and other Western Powers have rejected Aba Day s claim to exclusive territorial Waters inside the Gulf of Sidra and to a right too narc a navigation Over the libyan Continental shelf. Khad Afy declared that he put a ii his armed forces on total Alert in response to inc 6th Licet Maneu vers but thus far Little unusual activity has been seen in libyan military bases cd capt for some army vehicles moved around Tripoli in transport trucks. On the third Day of the 6th Fleet exercises no incident had been reported be tween libyan and american aircraft. In previous similar exercises in 1981, Ameri can fighters shot Down two libyan planes leading the two countries to break off diplomatic relations which had been maintained in a Low level for years army clubs to Back designated Driver program by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington All army clubs soon Wilt offer incentives to groups of patrons that choose one Mem Berlo refrain from alcohol for the evening and drive the others Home a spokesman for the army Community and family support Center said. The designated Driver program will be mandatory for All clubs beginning in March spokesman Fred Odom said. Mandatory Means All 2-10 clubs must offer the program not that patrons will be required to take part he said Friday. Many clubs have offered similar programs an their own especially during holidays Odam said. Now All clubs will be required to offer them. The requirement will Tufic effect in Early March when posters buttons and other program materials reach the clubs he said. Designated Drivers and club employees will Wear the hut tons. Ekhard Beltrano of the Center s management sup port group said inc program is patterned after a Navy Effort that started in december 1984. As part of the program clubs will offer the Driver it least one free non alcoholic specially drink and unlimited soft drinks while the group is at the club Odom said. Some clubs May offer the Driver a Coupon Rcd Cutna see clubs on Page 28
