European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q identification of Gander crash victims Complete Page 5 q Dollar threatens to dive out of control Page 8 d Duke ranked no. 1 in College basketball Page 21 the Simand stripes authorized unofficial publication Fqy vol. 44, no. 313 wednesday february 26, 1986 . Armed Force blk do and 0 8693 a Aquino Marcos both take oath of office As philippine president a photo Conzon Aquino lakes the presidential oath monday her daughters. Pinky left and buy and her Mother in Law listen. Manila Philippines a Corazon Aquino took the oath of office tuesday As president of a provisional government declared by military rebels battling to end the 20-year Rule of Ferdinand e. Marcos who was sworn in later in his guarded Palace. Related stories. Page 13. Marcos took the oath for a new six year term at noon from the supreme court s chief Justice Ramon Aquino but his vice presidential running mate Arthur told Lino and the prime minister were not present and there was no explanation. Just before the ceremony the Small private television station Marcos had used since rebels seized the main station went off the air and an aide said rebels had sabotaged it. Instead of the inauguration the station showed u John Wayne movie. Earlier mrs. Aquino had taken nearly the same oath and addressed thousands of cheering supporters at a country club ringed by troops who had followed the defense minister and the acting armed forces commander into rebellion on sunday. I and Salvador i. Laurel arc taking Power. In the name of the filipino people she said. Mrs. Aquino s3, said Laurel her vice presidential running mate in the feb. 7 election she says Marcos stole from her in fraud and violence will be prime minister in her new government. In Washington president Reagan in a dramatic re Versal urged Marcos monday to surrender Power and told him it would be futile to try to prolong his 20-year Rule through violence. While calling Marcos an old Friend and ally the administration All but offered a . Plane to whisk him to Safe Haven in the United states. Asked if the administration wanted Marcos to step Down before his inauguration while House spokesman Larry Speaks said we re trying to precipitate it As quickly As we asked at an afternoon briefing if Reagan wanted Marcos to cancel the inaugural Speaks said i Don t think it s for us to say. We would certainly like a peace Ful transition. Given the situation if it could be see president on Page 28 . Serv remembers keep Low philippine profile Manila Philippines not com Manders at two Large . Military installations in the Philippines advised service members monday to stay on the bases during the country s political crisis. Spokesmen said the naval and air bases have not been put on Alert and that there is no sense of danger. They said military personnel May leave base if they insist but have been strongly advised not to do so. I Don t see americans As being threat ened said maj. Thomas j. Boyd a Public affairs officer at Clark a so Miles North West of Manila. Nevertheless several Large american corporations were sufficiently concerned to order senior executives and their families to leave the country. According to a knowledgeable american businessman the evacuations Are intended to be temporary and Cre made Over the executives insistence that they were Safe Here. A spokesman at the . Embassy Allan Croghan said americans Are being advised not to travel in the Philippines. But he also said the precaution docs not reflect a fear of immediate danger. Croghan estimated that 700,000 Ameri cans Are in the country including 15,500 members of the military at Clark a and nearby at Subic Bay naval base. The two bases Are the largest american military installations of their kind outside the United states and their Protection has figured prominently in the Reagan administration s reactions to the turmoil Here. Officers aligned with the anti Marcos re Bels asserted that they now have free a Cess to Clark a because of the defection to their Side monday by the commander of philippine forces at the base. Technically both bases Are philippine territory and 700 philippine officers and enlisted men Are As signed to base Security. But Boyd insisted that the philippine role is limited to patrolling the base. The switch of allegiance by the local commander col. See . On Page 28 Reagan proposes to rid Europe Asia of missiles Washington a president Reagan called monday for eliminating . And soviet medium Range nuclear missiles in both Europe and Asia by the end of this but Reagan said the United states is not ready to con Sider soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s proposal for elimination of All nuclear weapons within is years. In formal response to Gorbachev s most recent arms control plan Reagan said his negotiators in Geneva on monday put Forward a Concrete plan calling for the elimination of is. Penning ii ground launched cruise mis Siles and soviet ss-20 missiles not Only in Europe but in Asia As a Reagan administration official speaking on condition he not be identified said the plan would require destruction of All the missiles at the end of three years preventing either Side from redeploying them to threaten other targets. The proposal is similar to Reagan s Zero option plan put Forward in 1982, before the United states began deploying its modern intermediate Range Pershing and cruise missiles in Western Europe. But since then the United states has installed half of the 572 missiles it plans to deploy in the nato Arsenal. After Reagan s letter was delivered in Moscow but before the proposal was made Public in Washington a television commentator Boris Kalagin said a cursory glance at the latest . Counter proposals reveals that they contain practically nothing of a constructive charac Ter but hide an attempt to create a semblance of a positive both sides have agreed to try to reach a separate Accord on intermediate Range forces while they continue to search for ways to break their stalemate on the larger questions of Long Range missiles and space weapons. But in a written statement outlining his private response see missiles on Page 28
