European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday february 26, 1986 . Official to fight hard for turkish military Aid Ankara Turkey up . As Sis ant defense Secretary Richard pc rec ended a Sivc nah round of talks with Turkey on a new five year defense and economic agreement tuesday vowing to fight hard in Congress for a $974 million military Aid package for Turkey. A Strong Turkey is in the interest of the United Stales the nato Alliance and the free world with or without a new agreement pc rec said at a news Confer ence at the . Embassy. Calling Turkey a splendid ally pc rec stressed the defense department wanted Congress to approve the full s974 million re quest for Security related Aid to Turkey. Me said he would fight and fight hard for it. But he cautioned that due to the . Budget deficit and other legislation cuts in other areas of the defense and economic cooperation agreement might occur. The last agreement expired last Decem Ber but it remains in Force until another Deal is worked out. The expired agreement provided $724 million in Grants and soft Loans to Turkey in return for use of various Forward bases and listening posts in Turkey. Although pc rec said the United states had upheld both the spirit and the letter of the old pact Turkey served notice last fall it wanted to renegotiate the agreement be cause of changing circumstances. Perl stressed that the United states is interested in expanding Trade relations with Turkey As part of a general Effort to strengthen nato s Southeastern flank. Calling fryc Maricl minded turkish prime minister Turgut Ozal s Radical eco nomic changes courageous pc rec said turkish Industry was now moving into a position of being Able to compete internationally a development that could include joint ventures with . Defense contract  pc rec cautioned such economic Coop ration was outside the so mint to govern mint action. Slates could in Touraj the of Lei fighter aircraft ratio scope of govern action. The United encourage such projects Abaft Assembly Plant initiated in 1984 in Turkey and provide licenses and technical assistance but he said the critical Factor in the expansion of . Turkish economic tics remained the ability of turkish Industry to compete. Pc rec also played Down suggestions in the turkish press that the United states was pressuring Turkey to accept radio relay towers to transmit broadcasts by radio free Europe radio Liberty and the voice of America into the East bloc. We made the suggestion at one time but during monday s discussions the subject never came up Perl said. Pyrle was scheduled to return to Washington later tuesday. Elementary hospitality to Royalty shyly smiling pupils at the Bonn Friesdorf Elemen tary school in Bonn tuesday Welcome Spanish Queen Sofia Center and Marianne ton Weizsaecker the wife of Germany s president Richard ton Weizsaecker. Queen Sofia is on an official five Day visit to Germany with her husband King Juan Carlos. Iran launches new assault in Iraq claims 25 villages in North liberated by United press International iranian forces launched a new offensive in Northern Iraq overnight capturing High ground near Sulaim Aniya and liberating 25 villages Tenran radio said tuesday. The bodies of hundreds of iraqi troops arc scattered Over the Battlefield after a Surprise assault launched at 11.45 p.m., the radio said. In less than two hours the iranians had completely smashed one iraqi battalion and overrun their Posi  Tehran said. There was no immediate word from Baghdad on the new i Ranian assault unleashed 16 Days after an offensive in the strategic Fao Peninsula sent shockwave through several Gulf states. Tehran said the new action began after the , Security Council adopted a Resolution urging both sides to halt hostilities immediately and withdraw to internationally recognized  the speaker of the iranian parliament Hojatola islam Akbar Hashmi a Sfanjani described the . Resolution As ineffective and  addressing parliament he said the iranian forces dealt another crushing blow against the iraqis near Sulaimani Yma after Iran was disappointed by these purity Council  Iran has taken revenge for the martyrs of the iranian passenger plane shot Down by Iraq last week the speaker said. A Sfanjani was referring to the shooting Down of an iranian Fokker Friendship passenger plane on thursday. A senior aide to Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and More than 40 others including eight parliamentary deputies died in the crash. We have to regain our rights through our might and Force the iranian speaker said. The capture of High ground near Sulaim Aniya brought the iraqi town of Cna Urla within artillery Range of the iranian forces a military communique in Tehran said. Charta is about 16 Miles Northeast of Sulaim Aniya but separated from it by two Mountain ridges. Analysts believed Tehran launched the offensive to relieve pressure on 30,000 iranians occupying a pocket of iraqi soil near Faw on the West Bank of the shall Al Arab waterway. The iranian military communique said the islamic combatants have reached their objectives and arc now consolidating their  reports from Baghdad last week indicated that Iraq expected a new iranian offensive in the Central sector across the marshes near Amara. Western newsmen in Baghdad quoted diplomats As saying . Satellite pictures showed Iran had concentrated new forces near Susan Gard after Iraq s military put heavy pressure on its forces near Fao. On monday a flamboyant iraqi commander backed off earlier predictions of a Quick iraqi Victory in Southern Iraq. It. Gen. Maher Abdul Rashid commander of the iraqi 3rd army predicted Victory perhaps in a few Days and ruled out a direct assault on Fao City. He said his forces would use artillery to Pound the invaders and Force them to Retreat. We will not fight on the ground for Fao Rashid said. World today engineers from . Arrive to Aid in Costa Rica projects san Jose Costa Rica a fifty two . Army engineers who will build Bridges and other Public works projects have flown into Costa Rica foreign minister Carlos Jose Gutierrez said. They were the first of 180 american army engineers scheduled to work on the projects Here. The others Are expected to arrive next week. The 52 left immediately for the Southern town of Dominical 104 Miles from the capital to set up an operations Center Gutierrez said. Among the projects in the two month program Are the construction of two Bridges including a Large one Over the Hatillo Viejo River on the que pos Domincal san Isidro Del general Highway and the reconstruction of other Bridges and Road improvements. Chinese National airline to buy another 30 jets Agency says peking a China s National airline canc plans to add another 30 jets to its Fleet this year bringing its total Fleet to 490 aircraft the official Xinhua news Agency has said. The report quoted canc director he Yizhou As Tell Ling an aviation conference in peking that Over the past five years canc has acquired nearly 100 imported jetliners. The new air planes Are to include Boeing 747s and 737s, according to Xinhua. Canc which stands for civil aviation administration of China is also the nation s civil aeronautics ministry. 21 trampled to death 9 Hurt at lantern festival in China peking a Twenty one people were trampled to death at a lantern festival in the Eastern province of Jiang Suas a crowd was pressing Forward to see the lanterns a newspaper reported. Nine other people were injured in the Accident said the Shanghai evening news some 100,000 people were at the festival when the Accident occurred the newspaper said. It blamed the Acci Dent on poor organization and poor crowd control. The chinese traditionally hold festivals with elaborate brightly coloured lanterns on the 15th Day of the first month of the lunar new year. Poll shows Swiss oppose membership in United nations Geneva Switzerland up a new opinion poll showed sunday 48 percent of Swiss voters opposing membership in the United nations with Only 34 percent in favor and 18 percent undecided. Switzerland holds a referendum March 16 on a govern ment proposal to join the world organization. Opponents maintain that membership would violate the country s centuries old policy of Parma mint armed neutrality. The new poll was conducted for the Geneva newspaper la suisse which published the results in its sunday Edi Tion. In the majority German speaking part of Switzerland the poll showed 50 percent of those questioned oppose joining the United nations with just 32 percent in favor. Opposition was weaker in the French speaking Region with 43 percent against and 38 percent in favor. Men and women were almost even in their opinions although women were Slighly More in favor of . Membership