European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes different View of Madrid s scenes Page 3 n Connors defaults in Fla. Tennis tourney Page 21 � Dow Jones hits another new High Page 27 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 310 sunday february 23, 1986 in , of Simov d 8693 a soldiers seize defense ministry 2 officials demand Marcos resign defectors from Marcos Camp the philippine Deputy armed forces chief of stiff Fidel c. Ramos left and de sense minister Juan Ponce Enrile present their views at a televised news conference saturday in Manila. The two defense officials called the conference to announce that they Are now in opposition to the government of president Ferdinand mar cos and calling on him to resign his Post. Manila Philippines up soldiers led by the philippine defense minister and the Deputy armed forces chief seized control of the nation s military Headquarters sat urday and demanded thai president Ferdi nand Marcos resign. Defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile and it. Gen. Fidel Ramos the military vice chief of staff said they no longer recognize the Marcos government and demanded the 20-year ruler step Down because of wide spread cheating in the fraud tainted feb. 7 presidential election against Corazon Aqui no. The two leaders announced they had taken Over the defense ministry building and an adjacent military Camp a few Miles from the presidential Palace. They refused to say How Many troops they had deployed. I cannot in Good conscience recognize Marcos As  said in rile who called on All decent elements in the Cabinet. To Wake up and support this  Enrile said Marcos should resign while there s still  but the president insisted his government was in Complete control and called on Ramos and Enrile to surrender to Avert bloodshed. He said they could be easily wiped out with simple artillery and tank  the president called the revolt the height of treason and  if they arc going to hit us this country will explode into a bloody confrontation Enrile told a reporter. I Hope he Marcos realizes he cannot cow us anymore. Enough is enough. Your time is  the roman Catholic archbishop of a see Marcos on Page 28 panel endorses pcs changes Washington a the Senate armed services committee has tentatively approved a legislative package to revamp the joint chiefs of staff vesting More authority in the chairman of the pcs con Gressional sources said Friday. For two weeks the panel has been meet ing behind closed doors to try to come up with a package to Reform the Pentagon management the sources who would speak Only on condition they not be named said. The panel s recommendations will make major changes in the pcs which sits atop the Power Structure that controls America s 2.1 million uniformed military personnel the sources said. But the panel won t propose any Large scale overhaul in the office of the Secretary of defense which oversees the million civil ians who work for the department of de sense they said. The reorganization plan would Lead to the most sweeping changes in the pcs since its formation in 1947, the Washington Post said saturday. The sources said that the legislation would allow the chairman to make his own suggestions to the president and give him Central authority on policy mailers. The current system consists of a Mili tary chief representing each of the four services the army Navy air Force and Marine corps plus a chairman who try to reach a consensus among All members on major military questions. The new measure would do away with the current system of a rotating Leader when the chairman is unavailable Transfer ring the Power instead to a new position of see changes on Page 28 perfect ariane launch orbits 2 satellites Kourou French Guiana a the european space Agency Esa reported saturday that two satellites launched by the ariane Booster were in perfect North South orbit and were functioning normally. With the . Space shuttle program in temporary suspension following the Jan. 28 explosion of challenger ariane s Success can Only increase its share of the Multi Bil lion Dollar satellite launch Market. Ariane is a conventional three stage unmanned rocket. Friday s flawless launch from its Jungle base in French Guiana was the program s 13th Success in 16 attempts. The Lona Ion consortium that makes up Esa has always maintained that conventional launchers while less spectacular than the reusable shuttle remain the most efficient Means of placing satellites in orbit. And while the Early conventional Amer ican boosters like the Redstone rocket were Little More than refitted military missiles ariane was designed from the ground up with the latest technology Esa says. Arian Espach Esa s commercial Arm has carried out 10 commercial missions since the Early development phase and says it has 26 More firm launch contracts Worth 7.5 billion francs  billion on its order books. Friday s launch was not without risk. Ariane s 15th scheduled launch on sept. 18 ended in explosive failure when the final stage malfunctioned and sent the rocket veering off course. Engineers destroyed the Booster by re Mote control and two satellites Wanh a total of is 45 million were lost. A second successive failure would have damaged ariane s credibility and probably pushed satellite insurance rates even higher. Insurance premiums now can add up to 30 percent to the total Cost of building and launching a satellite. An added Clement of risk was that Fri Day s launch sent the satellites into Polar North South orbits instead of the More see ariane on Page 28