European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D Manila to seek return of Marcos assets Page 2 d possible midget Man Sites Are slashed to 24 Page 5 d terrorist threat Likely to grow Page 9 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 317 sunday March 2, 1986 is Dolly and sunday q 8693 a swedish prime minister slain Stockholm Sweden a Sweden s entire police Force hunted saturday for the Assassin of prime min ister Olof palme who was shot to death Friday night As he walked unguarded with his wife on a downtown Stockholm Street officials said. An Anonymous caller to an International news Agency in London claimed responsibility for the assassination in the name of the Holger Meins commando a group linked to left Wing German terrorist organizations. Two people were questioned and later released without further suspicions criminal inspector Solveig Haerlin said. We have no hot clues at the moment Stockholm police commissioner Hans Holmer said shortly before the Call was made. We cannot exclude any form of motive and that includes political  palme s widow told police she thought the Assassin resembled a Man she had met somewhere but she could not place his face the swedish news Agency Tidoni Garnas Olof palme a photo Telegram Byra reported. The Agency said the Issue was unresolved when mrs. Palme was excused from further questioning for the Day. A group calling itself the Holger Meins commando occupied the German embassy in Stockholm in 1975. The terrorists demanding the release of 26 Baader Meinhoff gang Mem Bers in Germany shot two hostages to death and later set fire to the embassy. A dozen hostages were saved five terrorists were arrested and one terrorist was killed. Holger Meins was one of the original members of the Baader Meinhoff gang the leftist terrorist group that later became known As the red army faction. He died in a prison at Wittlich Germany on nov. 9, 1974, after a nearly two month hunger strike. The caller refused to give any reason Why palme might have been attacked. You can Check the history books for Why this was carried out. I am not prepared to Tell you Over the phone the Man said before ending the Call. A revised description of palme s killer was sent to All swedish police and Border authorities and broadcast on Sweden s National television. It said police were looking for a Man 30 to 45 years old 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall wearing a Cap and a Blue insulated jacket. The description was slightly modified from earlier accounts they said. Nothing Points to there being More than one assail ant Holmer said adding the Only hard evidence they had was the Bullet that killed palme. King Carl Xvi Gustaf who broke off a skiing trip in Northern Sweden and returned to Stockholm said palme death was a difficult Shock for me and my  he was very close to us and his death is a great personal loss for us he told a news conference at Stock Holm s snowy Arlanda Airport. Holmer said police were combing through massive files of people who had written Anonymous letters to palme made threats or otherwise made themselves possible suspects. Sweden s Blue Flag with its yellow Cross flew at half staff throughout the country and Church Bells pealed for 15 minutes in Stockholm saturday morning. Ingvar Carlsson Deputy prime minister in palme s cab inet automatically assumed control of a caretaker govern ment until the swedish parliament the Riksdag recon Venes this week. A person who More than anybody else has fought Vio see palme on Page 28 taking Over a photo Ingvar Carlsson acting swedish prime minister after the assassination of Olof palme walks past a guard As he arrives at the government Headquarters in Stock Holm saturday. Behind Carlsson and an unidentified official Are finance minister Kjell Olof Feldt and immigration minister Anita Gradin. 1st budget cuts forcing big Dod slashes Washington a the first round of spending cuts under the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law is forc ing the Pentagon to face the discharge of thousands from duty ahead of schedule reduce flight time for pilots and postpone for months some transfers to new duty stations. The cuts will also Lead to a Cut in operating hours for air Force commissaries prevent almost 12,000 National guard and army Reserve members from attending train ing schools and reduce the amount of military family housing to be constructed. Those and other changes were disclosed As the Pentagon began saturday to put in effect $5.1 billion in cuts forced by the new balanced budget Law for fiscal 1986. The reduction is being carved out of a fiscal 1986 Bud get calling for outlays of $263.6 billion. President Rea Gan s decision to protect military salaries and his Star wars research program Means the reductions will aver age 4.9 percent in All other areas. The army Navy air Force and Marine corps declined to release details on Many specific programs particularly weapons buying plans. They said negotiations were still under Way with dozens of contractors. Outside the area of weapons procurement however the continued on Page 28 Nasa aides dispute panel s finding decision making process is hawed space Center Houston up Nasa s top shuttle launch manager insists the Agency s decision Mak ing process is excellent and his second in command said saturday it is too Early to reach any firm conclusions about what changes May be needed before space shuttle resume flying. A month after the worst disaster in space history the National aeronautics and space administration has ral lied to defend itself amid charges by the presidential disaster commission that the Agency s decision making process was clearly  Arnold Awrich manager of the shuttle program at the Johnson space Center and the second in command for launch decisions said it was too soon to come to an conclusions. His comments saturday followed those of other top officials Friday including William Lucas director of the Marshall space Center in Huntsville ala., where the shuttle rocket Booster program is managed. Lucas said in see Nasa on Page 28 child advocacy take time out. Don t take it out on your  s the message from the National committee for prevention of child abuse. And it s part of the staff prepared package on the tragedy of child abuse that Well be presenting to you starting tues Day in the daily Magazine