European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 18, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Navy says soviets threaten sea lanes 16 choke Points control Access to vital routes Washington a Navy planners say a soviet of aircraft Battle groups from 12 to 15 and add More   world sea lanes and Percsi battleships attack submarines and transport Craft. In a acc Cal report maritime strategy Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Said soviet surface units Are now Mak ing regular deployments to the contentious and vulnerable choke Points of the Caribbean sea and Gulf of Mexico. Worldwide we find the soviet Navy astride the vital sealants and navigational choke Points through which most of the Western world s International Trade must pass he said. The chronicles of warfare from the classical Era Forward Are a consistent testament to the influence of sea Power upon -.-.f, Iii a Viia Nib Wuriu 5 Dent Reagan appears to be listening. In response to a news conference question last week of Lan old am ican bases in the Philippines Are part of a . Effort to control the 16 vital choke Points through heavily travelled sea passageways. Soviet naval forces at these Points could interrupt the mow of Oil food and raw materials in Lime of War Reagan suggested. Navy Public affairs officers subsequently issued a list of the 16 choke Points and said they were in a report Avail Able to the White House. The Waterways Range from the Panama canal less than 200 feel wide at Points to the open seas South of Africa and North of Britain. They Are As close to Home As the Strait Between Florida and Cuba and As Distant As the Makassar Strait Between Borneo and celebes in Indonesia. They also include routes through which the soviet Navy must pass from its Home ports to the Atlantic Ocean. At his news conference Reagan said the soviet Navy is bigger than ours and they have placed them slaves to be Able to intercept inc 16 choke Points in the world. And obviously the plan in Case of any kind of hostilities Calls for intercepting and closing those 16 choke  we have to have bases so that we can Send forces to reopen those channels Reagan said. Although his statement focused on the importance of facilities in the Philippines near several choke Points it echoed arguments the Navy is making in its quest for a total Force of 600 ships. That would increase the number history in which great Continental Powers do not Long prevail against an opponent with Mastery of the  in recent years As dependence on Middle East Oil has diminished and Pacific Trade has surpassed . Com Merce with Western Europe sea lanes in the Caribbean and Pacific have grown increasingly important Lehman said. Some military experts however question the need to spend billions of dollars to improve capability to keep choke Points open in an age of nuclear missiles and fast striking ground forces. They also note that choke Points Are As much of a problem for the soviet Union As for the United Stales. If soviet naval forces want to reach the North Atlantic they must pass through several narrow lanes the Green land Iceland United kingdom Gap from the Barents and Katt Baltic sea. Norwegian seas or the Kattegat and Skagerrak from the to reach the Atlantic through the Mediterranean the soviet Black sea Fleet would have to pass the Dardanelles of Turkey and then through the Strall of Gibraltar be tween Spain and North Africa. Look at the map and you see that the soviet Union has to worry about choke Points too said Michael a Mac Gwirc a Brookings institution expert on naval strategy. William w. Kaufmann a longtime Pentagon Consul Tant said in his recent study a reasonable defense thai in a Short War sea control would not serve much purpose because supplies in hand would last at least a month and the conflict would probably be Over before convoys arrived. In a longer War however the United states would have to attack soviet forces overseas to keep them from inter Fering with control of the oceans Kaufmann said. Citing the Cost he opposed the request for additional forces the Navy says it needs to do the Job. Moreover like Many military thinkers including strategists in the army and air Force Kaufmann said the decisive Battle in any War with the soviets would be fought on land in Europe or with missiles. Here is the Navy s list of Reagan s 16 choke Points. The Gulf of Alaska Korea Strait the Straits of Makas Sar Sunda and Malacca in Southeast Asia Babel Man Deb at the South end of the red sea and the Suez canal at the North end the Strait of Gibraltar Skagerak and Kattegat two passages leading from the Baltic to the North sea the Greenland Iceland United kingdom Gap the passages South of Africa and South America the Strait of Hormuz. Between the persian Gulf and the Indi an Ocean the Panama canal and the Florida Straits. Down and out steam rising from � Street rent in Phu Adelhia wraps homeless nun in warmth Walt Epolite officer Elizabeth Esco tries to gel him to go to belter. Philadelphia s Street people nude Bead lines when about 200 of them were ousted from a hotel Friday where a National Parley about the plight of the homeless was being held. The protest ended without incident expert claims tests show images on shroud painted Elizabethtown a. A tests show the images on the mysterious shroud of Turin came not from Jesus Christ s body and spirit bul from an artist s paint Brush a researcher says. I believe the shroud was painted twice once with Iron Earth tones and then with Vermillion where the artist wanted a More in tense color said Waller c. Mccrone head of Mccrone research Institute in Chicago. Speaking sunday during a two Day con Ference on the shroud at Elizabethtown College Mccrone said he based his conclusion on an extensive analysis of fibres he collected by pressing tape on the cloth in 1978 and the color of parts of the image. The cloth preserved in a Turin Monas Tery bears the front and Back images of a crucified Man. Some christians believe the shroud was Christ s burial cloth and the image was made by a burst of Energy Dur ing his resurrection. Using slides Mccrone showed thai blood on a similar cloth turned Brown As it dried while the blood spots on the shroud looked red. He said his analysis found Iron oxide and Vermillion on the red fibres and evidence of gel possibly used to bind paint. Mccrone started Mccrone research Institute in 1936, after working for 12 years at Illinois Institute of technology. At the same time he founded Mccrone associates a contract research and development lab and Mccrone research associated Ltd. In London. Mccrone was one of a team of scientists who examined and tested the shroud in 1978. His findings dispute those of others on the team who said there was no evidence the image had been painted on the cloth. Another researcher. Paul c. Malone of the association of scientists and scholars inter National for the shroud of Turin also attended the conference and said saturday he will seek permission in the next few weeks to conduct a Carbon-14 dating test on the shroud. Previous requests for the lest which can precisely Dale material thousands of years old were denied by the archbishop of Turin be cause part of the cloth was needed. Now Maloney said refinements make the test possible with Little More than a thread. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago . 18, 1946 led by the nether lands 10 War ravaged nations have filed 600 formal claims against Germany for the restitution of looted property valued at Sev eral billion dollars the office of the . Military government in Berlin announced. 30 years ago today. Feb. 18, 1956 blizzards snarled Lon Don traffic Coal Short factories in France closed and an Austro German emergency commission called for napalm and artillery to break ice jams As Europe shivered through the 17th Day of the worst cold wave of the  _ i m  found in 4 More brie cheese brands 20 years a go today Brun to the to j a Washington a the food and drug administration warned sunday that bacterial Conta Malion has been found in four More brands of brie cheese saying it could cause flu like symptoms. However no illness has yet been positive in linked to the Conla maled cheese said Agency spokesman William  year 39 deaths were blamed on last week the Fra warned against con sumption of brie with the Brand names Esprit Nouveau code number 351, and Joan of arc code number 323. Grigg said the Agency is also warning against the consumption of brie packaged under the Brand names Rue Lepic distributed by Atlantic cheese Renex of new Jersey Louis Xiv distributed by Safeway stores of san Francisco prestige distributed by Anco foods of new Jersey and j. Linsel distributed by gastronomic fran cais of new Jersey. The bacterial Type which is killed by proper pasteurization is listeria Monocyte genes which can cause a two Day flu like illness in healthy individuals the Fra said. However in can cause death in the fetuses of pregnant women who Are exposed to it or for immunocompromised individuals including people undergoing cancer therapy or suffering from aids. All the distributors Are withholding the cheese from retailers Grigg said. Feb. 18, 1966 the draft status of heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay was changed from 1-y to 1-a, making him Eli Gible for military service immediately. 10 years ago today. Feb. 18, 1976 in san Francisco. Pat Ricia Hearst resuming her Day by Day description of life As a captive of the Cymbio nose liberation army testified that her kidnappers were furious because her father put up Only $2 million for a free food pro Gram