European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes monday March 3, 1986 official urges West to guard superiority Munich a nato Alliance nations should strive to preserve their economic and technological superiority Over the soviet led East bloc a High ranking defense department official said sunday. The stronger the soviet Economy is relative to ours the easier it will become for the soviet leaders to overtake us militarily Fred Ikle assistant . Secretary of defens for policy said at a nato seminar in Munich. I disagree therefore with the View sometimes expressed by european officials that we should help the East to modernize its Economy and that our help toward improving the economic development of the soviet bloc contributes to european stability. Such help will do the opposite he said. About 150 top nato officials and experts including several european defense ministers and two . Arms control negotiators attended the 23rd annual Weh Kunde sem Inar which ended sunday. The seminar on defense issues is not an official Nat meeting. Ikle contradicted the View popular among Many euro peans that deepened Trade and technology contacts with the soviets could ease East West tension and bolster stability in Europe. Our Security demands that we maintain Overall economic superiority Ikle said. To recognize this imperative snot to advocate economic warfare. But what should be adhered to is the West s technological and economic  he said the West needs to remember that it is in Competition with Moscow and that staying ahead of the soviets not stability must be the Alliance s goal. Nato must also maintain its Lead in technology he said. We cannot have both East West stability in military technology and a continuing nato advantage in  Ikle was challenged from the floor of the seminar by Christopher Mallaby an aide to the British Cabinet. When we Trade with the soviets they see that things from our so called bankrupt societies Are actually things they can t produce and it discredits their propaganda about us Mallaby said. Increased contacts Are the Best Way to encourage change in the soviet ideology Mallaby said. Ikle also charged that the soviets would never Settle for parity in weapons arsenals. He said the soviets had pursued military superiority while negotiating arms control pacts with the West during the past 25 years. Since 1969, he said the soviets have added 8,000 Strate Gic missile warheads to its Arsenal a 500 percent increase and launched a huge construction Effort for underground command posts. Our Bourgeois goal of stability invited the soviet Mili tary planners to surpass us he said. The soviets Are building a system to shield the soviet leadership from nuclear fallout and a Broad program to bolster air and missile defences Ikle said. The soviets Are doing this despite the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty which generally ruled out strategic missile defences he said. Ikle also said he thought nato could expect some East european citizens uprisings should Moscow Ever try to launch a Warsaw pact attack on Western Europe. If Moscow sought to expand its Empire by unleashing a War in Europe Why should the people in Eastern Europe support the conquerors whom they despise Ikle said. The Eastern europeans have shown repeatedly they do not support Moscow s Imperial ambitions he said. The United states for its part has always recognized Europe s cultural Unity and has never accepted its imposed partition into Western and soviet spheres he said. . Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt called on the europeans to play a greater International role along with the United states. The United states should not Bear All the burdens and risks in the third world. While the europeans persisting provincialism Burt said. Conservative bavarian gov. Franz Josef Strauss indicated he agreed with Burt. He appealed to the europeans to support the United states in All of its responsibilities inthe  on saturday West German defense minister Manfred Woerner proposed a West european counterpart to the . Star wars program As a deterrent to soviet Short Range missiles aimed at Western Europe. Germany teachers stage quiet protest against increase in Dodds course loads by Mary Hladky education writer Hanau Germany charging that plans to increase student course loads next school year will harm the duality of education teachers from five american High schools in Germany and a smattering of students staged a quiet protest Here saturday and sunday. About 45 teachers and a half dozen Stu dents manned stations outside the Post Exchange and commissary and handed out leaflets that warned parents of what they say is the danger of increasing the number of subjects students take from six to seven. We have students who right now can t handle six periods said Karen Muller Hanau High school English and drama teacher who also serves As faculty representative for the overseas education association. There was no study done. No one has asked the teachers or students she said. The leafleting is to show Dodds teachers throughout Germany Are not Happy with what is being jammed Down our  Hanau High teachers were joined by teach ers from Wiesbaden Frankfurt Giessen and Kaiserslautern High schools. Hanau High educators said they plan to return the favor to the other High schools later this Spring. Plans to increase the student course Load has caused controversy within the department of defense dependents schools since director Beth Stephens ordered the change 15 month Sago. Most Dodds schools already have in creased the number of courses students must take. All 14 Mediterranean Region High schools and 11 of the 12 Atlantic Region schools implemented the change for this school year. But 18 out of 28 High schools in the Ger Many Region were granted a one year waiver this school year. Officials told principals last month that no More delays will be allowed and that they must expand course schedules next school year. Schools Are free to implement the new schedule any Way they want. Some Are in creasing the number of class periods each Day to seven. Others Are experimenting with a variety of schedules including one that rotates daily schedules so that a Stu Dent takes seven classes each week while attending Only six classes each Day. The expanded course Load was designed to improve the Quality of education by Al lowing students to take More courses. But Many teachers oppose the change say ing it forces them to do More work without alerting a parents a photo by Mary Hladky Karen Muller Lefta Hanau High school raise the number of courses students take English and drama teacher hands out a from six to seven next school year. Muller Parent  the leaflet claims the was among teachers staging the protest Quality of education will drop if schools outside the Hanau Post Exchange. Any extra pay. Teachers and some principals also worry about students not being Able to keep up with the tougher schedule and teach ers falling behind because class periods Are too Short to cover All the material. The directive from Stephens said the Opportunity had to be offered. It did not say every child had to take it Muller said. They Are taking what should be an optional program and making it mandatory Fornall  reducing class periods from 55 to 45 minutes at Hanau High school next year will be especially difficult for physical Edu cation classes said Helen Mckenna a physical education teacher. They Are just not getting what they should she said. That also is True for lab classes shop an Home  few students turned out to help their teachers protest because most Don t under stand what is planned or How it will affect them said Allison Nicolls a 17-year-old Junior who experienced a seven period a Day schedule when she attended an International school in Sumatra. I was so tired by the end of the Day she said. It was very stressful. I feel it should be Quality not Quantity. I Don t think anyone has talked to the students about  news update prejudice denied Bonn a Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl speaking in a parliamentary debate about anti semitism has denied prejudice against jews is growing in Germany. The Chancellor said there was no need for a debate on anti semitic tendencies and How to combat them. However he added the German peo ple must continue to learn fro their  the unusual parliamentary debate was called by 45 delegates from the opposition social democratic and Green parties and the free democrats the Junior party in Kohl s coalition government. The move followed a controversy Over anti semitic remarks made recently by two conservative party politicians and a continuing Public de Bate Over an allegedly anti semitic stage play. Killers sentenced san Salvador Al Salvador up two former National guardsmen found guilty of Mur Dering a salvadoran land Reform official and two american advisers have been sentenced to 30 years in prison a court official said. Jose Dimas Valle and Santiago Gomez Gonzalez were convicted of aggravated homicide for the slayings of americans Michael Peter Hammer and Mark David Pearlman and Jose Rodolfo Viera director of the land Reform Institute. The three men were gunned Down Jan. 3, 1981. Shuttle aftermath Paris a the european space Agency could realize an additional profit of up to $300 million Over the next few years because of the explosion of the space shuttle challenger an official with the Agency has said. Frederick d tallest head of the Agency s commercial operations told a news conference the Windfall could come from launches by the Agency s ariane rocket of eight satellites that had been booked aboard the shuttle