European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rest in peace till the next darn press release1 Robert Bollard chief of  team that found titanic last september. A photo by Carolyn Lumsden associated press l Etters deluding the researchers who found the sunken liner titanic Range from Plain congratulations to commemorative poems. A caller exhorted them to bring up the remains of loved ones who were aboard. Nearly six months after finding the ship the researchers still Are in the planning stages of a return expedition and still throughout the Woods Hole mass oceanographic institution there remains a sense of Awe at the Public reaction As Well As the find. All of a sudden we re experts on the titanic said Catherine Scheer a Woods Hole navigator on the . French expedition that found the titanic. I m really touched by How proud people around Here  Many of the hundreds of letters received Are addressed to Robert Ballard chief of the expedition that found the watery grave of 1,513 people who died in the 1912 sinking. Ballard is planning to head a return to the site this summer for a closer look with an underwater robot Trull his Laboratory developed. But the 41-year-old Marine geologist says he s wary of another news Media barrage. If this was a Happy Story i sure did t have much j fun he said complaining that reporters trailed him i and his family harassed his staff at Woods Hole even eavesdropped on his conversations at his son s hockey games after the titanic find. All the attention soured him he says on pursuing rethinking diplomatic Security turning . Outposts into m Charles j. Hanley associated press a t one time practically anyone could Walkin off the Street unchecked to visit most of the . Embassies or consulates , in the age of terrorism they Are becoming fortresses. Lost behind barriers checkpoints guards and electronic devices is the original idea of having the High visibility and easy Access of . Missions portray an open american society. But the recent terrorist car bomb explosion inside the . Embassy compound in Lisbon Portugal underlined a continued vulnerability. Officials said the bomb had been placed in the trunk of an embassy employee s car while it was outside the compound. In Rome a Graceful but sturdy nine foot Fence has been erected around the 19th Century Villa that is the . Embassy. At the push of a Button barriers Rise up to Stop attackers. Other equipment and procedures also have been improved As part of a $3-million Security program. The hardening of the embassy in Rome is just one Small part of a monumental state department plan to replace or renovate diplomatic missions worldwide to guard against terrorist and other threats by turning these american outposts into mini bastions. If approved by Congress a proposed five year reconstruction program will Cost More than $3 billion. It Calls for major projects at 126 of the 262 diplomatic missions 62 of them to be new buildings. An additional $1 billion will be spent on armoured vehicles expanded guard forces and other Security needs. That eth a 0t Toerag Blotty in our buildings Andt Nat s the urgency of the Security construction 14 the stars and stripes program said Robert e. Lamb director of the state department s new office for diplomatic Security. The rethinking on diplomatic Security was first spurred by the 1979 seizure of the . Embassy and the taking of american hostages in Iran. But it assumed near emergency status after the deadly car bombings of . Embassy buildings in Beirut and Kuwait in 1983-84. Around the world . Embassies Are taking on a new look an associated press Survey indicates. Perimeter Walls have been made stronger and higher. Bulletproof Glass has been installed in Many windows. Ambassadors Are shuttled around town in new armoured cars. And Flowers Are Blooming everywhere huge Concrete barriers disguised As tub planters have been placed in the path of any would be suicide bomb vehicle. The toughest measures have been taken in some of hottest spots. In Al Salvador where the . Embassy plays a key role in the salvadoran government s War against leftist guerrillas the entire building has been wrapped in sheets of fencing designed to shield the windows from a direct rocket hit. In the Philippines scene of frequent anti american. Demonstrations the Manila embassy has become almost As heavily guarded As Ferdinand. E. Marcos presidential Palace once was. A new inner Fence has been built on the embassy grounds and scores of shield bearing officers Blockle Gates whenever rumours spread of an impending protest. At the us. Embassy in Kuwait a Tough three stage Security Gauntlet has been Laid Down typical of Many american diplomatic compounds these Days. At the single Street Entrance to the walled grounds a visitor must show identification to a kuwaiti guard. Inside the compound the visitor then undergoes a Metal Detector Check at an inner Fence. Reaching the embassy building he is buzzed through an electronically locked door by a Marine corps guard. Naturally some of the precautions Are not openly discussed. Said Arthur Berger . Embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv Israel we have instituted a number of Security measures some of which Are visible and others which Aren  Kuwait and Israel lie in a Region exploding with Arab and iranian anti americanism. But even in quieter Corners of the world embassies Are on guard. In sleepy Asuncion Paraguay for example embassy visitors carrying pocket knives must leave them at the Street Entrance. In relatively a threatening Tokyo marines will soon take Over guard duty at the front Gate of the 10-Story, Glass walled embassy which has been the most accessible in Asia. But the Middle East has gotten immediate priority in the state department Security program. An emergency 1985 appropriation finances construction of 11 new embassies and consulates mostly in Middle Eastern countries such As Jordan i Oman North Yemen and Bahrain. The . National Academy of sciences meanwhile has drawn up recommendations for a prototype embassy designed with Security uppermost in mind. Foi one thing it will mean fewer windows less Glass in the b2 buildings to be constructed under the proposed five year program. The embassies we have were built during the years when we had almost no threat Lamb said. We have embassies in Busy downtown areas on Street Corners with no setback no control Over who our neighbors Are. Many were built out of Glass in the 1950s, to other famous undersea Quarry including a roman Fleet that went Down with 600 men in a storm off Sicily about 2,000 years ago. There Are countless pieces of human history Down there Ballard said in a recent interview. But. We prefer just to do the science and say leave us alone " Ballard however had done much to publicize his discovery. He wrote an article about the expedition for National geographic. He spoke to the House of representatives about leaving the ship in its 21/2-mile deep grave As a memorial. He has lectured to groups across the country at least once a week in Between such scientific work As a december trip to map underwater volcanoes. And the experience has t been All bad. My wife and i were just looking  mrs. Reagan sent us of our dinner with the Prince and Princess of Wales Ballard said. That s Worth a lot of  , head of Woods Hole s Ocean engineering department said of Ballard not everybody has a Chance to see his dream come True and Here is a Man who  most of the letters to the Institute have been congratulatory Many have been from schoolchildren requesting photographs of the wreck. In addition an Illinois artist sent a picture of a modern sculpture of the wreck he made out of Neon tubes. A California Man sent a snapshot of his Metal Model of the ship. A Canadian Painter sent a photo of the sinking titanic mural he painted on the Walls surrounding a client s swimming Pool. One communication was particularly poignant. Paul i bastions project the image of the . As an open  under the five year program intended also to bolster Security against espionage some embassies will be outfitted with emergency satellite communications gear. The number of armoured vehicles assigned to diplomats will be More than doubled. Marine embassy units will be expanded and Lamb s state department Security staff worldwide will be doubled to about 2,000. The changes in Rome largely completed two titanic enterprises inc entrepreneurial jews View Boris vow we on car them tins up and Stu it in 3-inc3h sqiw8s of k Hunch Bucks a we hot shirts wow Dudley Hart Woods Hole development director said a wealthy Man from Mexico called with an offer to foot the Bill for bringing Back his ancestors remains from the titanic for Christian burial. Hart said the offer was politely declined. Obviously he had t the vaguest idea what was involved in something like that he said. The titanic was found sept. 1 by Argo a submersible designed to map the Ocean with floodlights and sensitive television cameras. The Date of next summer s expedition has yet to be set but its purpose will be to test parts of Jason a deep sea robot that will explore nooks and crannies that the larger Argo cannot reach. Despite the Fame his discovery brought him Ballard says he never profited from it. I Haven t made a dime. If anything i lost Money he said. All the funds i raised have gone into the financing of the  neither has the Institute gained from the find Spindel said. The Institute was embroiled in an embarrassing fight months ago typify the transformations under Way. The eight driveway entrances to the embassy compound have been equipped with wedge like barriers that flip up instantly from the ground. Guards closely inspect each vehicle entering the grounds using mirrors to Check under the Chassis for bombs. Old roman sewers crisscrossing beneath the embassy have been fenced off. A . Information service Library previously housed in a building across last summer when it gave away photographs and videotapes of the wreck unaware that the French Institute that worked with Ballard on the find had sold rights to those materials. Woods Hole directors Are considering How to avoid another squabble when the two institutes team up this summer for the next titanic look said Derrick Spenser associate director for research. We be got to make sure France s aspirations and the Navy s and our own Are not in conflict Spenser said. One of the Many verse acknowledgements of the titanic discovery was a song by Falmouth England schoolteacher Tom Goux that did not Overlook the troubles following the find. Said one verse the discovery s actually factual but the problems Are contractual if we can Bear the traffic till we hit the geographic. So titanic rest in peace till the next dam press release. It was mad when that great ship was found. Hulk of a ear shattered by a bomb at . Embassy parking lot in Lisbon in february no one was Hurt saturday March 8, 1986 a photo the Street has been moved onto the grounds and shielded behind Bullet resistant Glass. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb already rides in an armoured car. By mid year All seven . Consuls general in Italy will have fully armoured opels said the Security officer who spoke with a reporter on the condition he not be identified. Upgraded alarm systems closed circuit televisions better lighting around offices and residences the improvements make me confident the Security Man said. But in Rome and elsewhere diplomacy has become a More dangerous profession. More than half the International terrorist incidents reported in recent years have been directed at diplomats and americans Are the leading targets. The attacks occur not Only in such Well known combat zones As Beirut and san Salvador but also in Bogota in Colombia Lisbon in Portugal and Lima in Peru. In the past 16 months in Lima leftist guerrillas have raked the . Embassy with machine gun fire twice and tossed dynamite at the ambassador s residence. It landed harmlessly in the swimming Pool. In Rome new embassy arrivals Are told to avoid renting exposed first floor apartments and to have a garage for their automobile so a bomb cannot be rigged to it when parked on the Street. Diplomats everywhere Are instructed to vary their schedules and routes of travel to and from work. In one european capital . Diplomats were advised not to Fly the american Flag at their Homes last fourth of july it would Mark them As a target. As the Rome Security official met with this reporter one recent morning his men were scrambling around the embassy perimeter checking out a telephoned bomb threat. It s worse than a War the american said. I Don t know where it s going to  the stars and stripes Page 15