European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q vets urged to protest cuts in benefits Page 5 q Voa broadcasts America to Europe Page 9 d 5th Dodds Winter special olympics pages 14,15 the stars and tripes Trutho Piteo unofficial publication for the . Arufo forces vol. 44, no. 311 monday february 24, 1986 in Oon Ond sow d 8693 a Marcos threatens military action Manila Philippines a an enraged president Ferdinand e. Marcos accused two top military officials on sunday of trying to take Over the government and warned that if they continue to say that he cannot Deal with the crisis i will sic the tanks and the artillery on  in a television appearance Marcos declared that he would not relinquish Power to presidential claimant Corazon Aquino As demanded by the breakaway officials de sense minister Juan Ponce Enrile and it. Gen. Fidel v. Ramos commander of the National police and Deputy military chief. It is now quite Clear that they have raised the Flag of insurrection the Flag of rebellion hid we will Deal with them As such Marcos said. Marcos also accused Cardinal Jaime sin the archbishop of Manila and the country s most powerful Churchman of inciting to rebellion and sedition and added i will attend to that  he accused Enrile and Ramos both for Mer close associates of planning to assassinate him and carry out a coup d eat Over the weekend and said that if it had succeeded Enrile would have emerged As the Leader of a Junta that would exclude Aquino s forces. This is a new Power group trying to draw Power from both the dbl Marcos party and the opposition. I am surprised that the opposition has not Small cd this he said. Meanwhile pro government troops with Drew sunday from positions near the heavily armed military Camp where the two top at left philippine president Ferdinand Marcos appears on Manila television sat urday to say be has uncovered an Assassin defense officials were calling on Marcos to resign. An estimated 25,000 anti Marcos demonstrators had jammed an intersection to Block the government troops from reaching the rebels Camp. Enrile said he talked with Marcos by Telephone sunday and planned to talk with him again to convince him that the matter standoff continues nation plot against him. At right philippine defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile Center joins bands with other members of has reached a Point where the Bottom line is for him to step  Enrile told reporters he rejected an offer by Marcos not to prosecute people who the president says planned to assassinate him. Spectators cheered wildly As they watched pro Marcos troops and eight a Mored vehicles pull Back from positions near the military Camp in suburban Manila the Marcos opposition during a mass that was held sunday at his Camp outside Manila. More pictures on Page 3. Where Enrile and Ramos were holed up. Thousands of supporters of Aquino had commandeered about two dozen Public transit buses to help in blocking the troops from reaching the Camp. The crowd clogged the intersection of Ortigas Avenue and Epifano Duclo Santos Highway less than two Miles from the see Marcos on Page 28 Gorbachev of get Reagan arms letter Washington a president Reagan in a letter to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is calling for elimination of medium Range missiles in Europe As a constructive first step toward a worldwide curb of the nuclear arms race a . Offi Cial said saturday night. The letter was to be signed Over the weekend and sent to Moscow this week the official said. A presidential statement to the nation is also planned he said. Reagan s decision was based on the advice of most of his senior arms control specialists who Sec an agreement on . And soviet medium Range missiles As the most Likely Way to break the deadlock at the negotiating table at Geneva he said. It holds out the Hope of earliest pro Gress the official said. He said the letter would also touch on Long Range nuclear weapons space based defense systems and other aspects of the arms race. He added that revised instructions would be sent to the . Team at the Geneva arms control talks headed by Max Kam Pelman. Reflecting the concern of China and . Allies in Asia Reagan also proposed that the More than 100 Mobile ss-20 missiles the soviets have deployed in their asian territories be reduced to very Low numbers. Those missiles Are targeted on China and Japan and were not included in the disarmament proposal Gorbachev made in mid january. The United states has deployed 236 per Shing ii and cruise missiles in Germany Britain and Italy All aimed at soviet Terri tory. Eventual installation of 572 missiles is planned. The soviets have about 300 is 20s targeted at Western Europe. The Pentagon has found nothing substantially new in the 15-year plan Gorba Chev offered Jan. Is but most . Strategists urged Reagan to make a positive reply. Gorbachev proposed to eliminate nuclear weapons by the end of the Century with both sides scrapping their medium Range nuclear missiles that Are within striking Dis Tance of Europe As a first step. The response is to encourage Progress wherever possible said the . Official in describing Reagan s letter. It s a constructive answer aimed at working out Early see letter on Page 28 pm Plant makes anti apartheid gesture Johannesburg South Africa a in an anti apartheid move by . Businessmen a general motors Plant in port Elizabeth said sunday it would give non White employees Legal Aid if they were prosecuted for swimming at their City s Whites Only beaches. Bob White manager of general motors Plant in the Southern City of port Elizabeth said that the company would give Legal and financial assistance to any of its 1,800 non White employees prosecuted for using the beaches. I am trying to take some action hopefully get the local authorities to get rid of some of the apartheid regulations they apply in port Elizabeth he said in a Telephone interview. Segregated beaches Are Basic to local government apartheid and a port Elizabeth City subcommittee has recommended that municipal inspectors be empowered to press charges against any non White found on a Whites Only Beach. The move followed a new year protest swim by so called coloureds As mixed race South africans Are called Here at King s Beach the most popular of port Elizabeth s four Whites Only beaches. Two other beaches Are for coloureds Only and one is reserved for Blacks. Cape town and Durban the country s other big coastal cities have desegregated their beaches in recent years. Port Elizabeth s City Council is to discuss the commit tee recommendation thursday and according to local newspapers it is split so so. Chris Meyer an  councilor claimed general motors move is Bede Iling race  what will happen if people like me and there Are lots of them decide to Boycott general motors cars Meyer was quoted As saying in port Elizabeth s newspaper the Eastern province Herald. The sunday Star a Johannesburg newspaper said it was the first time a foreign based company operating in South Africa had gone beyond verbal denunciation of apartheid and taken affirmative action against it. White said general motors paid taxes which went to maintaining beaches yet 60 percent of our employees can t use  i sometimes question whether the authorities pay Atten Tion to the Impact that they re not changing the apartheid Laws has on people outside South Africa he said. Referring to pressure on . Companies to pull out of South Africa in protest of apartheid. White said i ques Tion whether they the South african government can see the connection Between the companies that have already invested Here or will provide the additional investment needed and what is being done in the Field of