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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 14, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 14, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 is photos by Tony Nauroth my tanks from Gellhausen s cob 3rd in 33rd Armor line up near a crumbling Bunker at the Grafe Woehr training area for the Blessing of the  tankers get spiritual maintenance before platoon Battle runs at Range by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Grafe Woehr Germany a prewar Concrete Bunker Lay in chunks with one great slab suspended Over chief warrant officer Kevin Clark s head As he read from the Story of Jericho and How the Walls came Tum bling  his audience mud caked and training worn my Abrams tank Drivers was made up of fellow soldiers from Gellhausen s cob 3rd in 33rd Armor. They Call Clark s ritual the Blessing of the tubes the main gun barrels. Clark is the top maintenance expert in the company. He is also a non denominational Lay Leader. He Calls his read Ings just another kind of maintenance spiritual main  Clark pulled his Large Bible from under his Muddy Arm and opened it to the Book of Joshua. He recited the Story of the Walls that came tumbling Down after the jewish army marched for seven Days around the walled City blowing their horns. The tankers listened with Heads bowed and hands folded. It was a still moment in an explosive training Cycle. It helps get rid of the jitters before they hit the course Clark said of the readings. We re All profession als but we re human so we have our doubts about our machinery about  while the Reading is open to All some soldiers choose not to participate. The tankers were getting ready for live fire night Pla Toon Battle runs on Range 301 As part of their gunnery tables. The platoon Battle run tank table 12 trains them How to fight As a unit. All other tables said 1st sgt. Gary Fravel train the individual tank How to fight individually. This one teaches them How to fight together As a platoon. That s How they la fight in a War. They won t be  co b heard the Story of individual jewish soldiers com Bining the forces of their individual Horn blasts to crumble the Walls of Jericho. The tankers then crawled in and headed downrange to face their own Walls and to crumble them with the noise of their big guns. When the smoke cleared two out of the three platoons of co b turned in second and third place scores for the entire 2nd brigade 3rd army div. Clark Calls it Good maintenance. Chief warrant officer Kevin Clark reads from the Story of the fall of Jericho. Bonn officials Call Book propaganda sex nazi spy exposes postwar intelligence in Book Berlin a a former nazi who spied for the soviets in West German intelligence until his exposure 25 years ago said wednesday the Agency was full of sex nazis just after the War and the Cia used it As an anti communist tool. Heinz Felfe now 67 and a retired professor made the charges in a Book he presented at a news conference in communist East Berlin. West German officials said the 384-Page volume which accuses the United states of everything from cultural barbarism to starting the cold War was part of a soviet propaganda Campaign. Felfe s arrest in 1961 shattered the West German intelligence organization. He was in charge of counter espionage against agents of the soviet bloc. The former nazi is intelligence officer denied the soviet spy Agency instructed him to write the Book called in the enemy s service and helped him do so. It was my decision to remain silent this Long and it was my decision to speak now he said. No one talked me into it and it was not directed by  he alleges that under postwar Chan cellar Konrad Adenauer West German intelligence illegally kept dossiers on the country s politicians. Felfe blames the United states for the division of Germany and the cold War and says it corrupted West Germany with the cultural barbarism of coca cola and chewing gum. Felfe had worked for the Kab As a mole in the West German Agency since 1949. He was sentenced to 15 years in Pris on in 1963, but handed Back to the East in a 1969 spy Swap. Hans Guenther Kowalski an Interior ministry spokesman said it s Clear this Book must be seen As a propaganda Initia Tive against Western Europe and the United states. He could not have written this without the agreement of the East bloc a  West German Security agents said Felfe a Book was a piece of  an assistant in the office of Waldemar sch Reckenberger an aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the Book was doubtless steered by someone and one can suspect the  it is the first Book published by a former soviet mole in West Germany about his experiences. It was issued by a Hamburg publisher and will not be sold in East Ger Many although Felfe said he May seek to have it published there. Felfe now a retired professor of criminal studies at East Berlin s Humboldt univer sity said he still receives a Kab pension. He is married with two grown children and lives in East Berlin. He said the saturation attack by Allied bombers in february 1945 on Dresden where he was born was a Factor in his Deci Sion to join soviet intelligence. Marcos has $800 million Swiss account panel says Manila Philippines a a government commission created to recover wealth allegedly plundered from the Philippines by Ferdinand e. Marcos has discovered a $800 million Swiss Bank account held by the ousted ruler a commission offi Cial said thursday. The holding is just a fraction of the Esti mated $5 billion to $10 billion Marcos is believed to have sent abroad before he quit Mai a Anang Palace for exile in Hawaii two weeks ago according to Ramon Diaz an official with the commission on Good government. Diaz declined to provide further details on the Swiss Bank account or say How the commission Learned of its existence. However the Manila times quoted an unidentified source on the commission As saying that among documents found in the Palace abandoned by Marcos was correspondence Between Marcos and unidentified Swiss Banks including code names and account numbers of deposits totalling be tween $2.5 billion and $3 billion. The newspaper quoted the sources As saying Marcos opened his first account in 1967 with a Deposit of More than $1 million. On wednesday president Corazon Aqui no ordered philippine Banks to freeze the assets of members of the ousted government on the recommendation of the commission s chairman Jovito Salonga. Under the directive executive order no. 2, Aquino s government outlawed any at tempts to conceal or Transfer the funds of Marcos his wife Imelda and 31 relatives and associates. The order handed Down after the first Cabinet meeting of the 16-Day-pld govern ment made handling the assets illegal until the commission determines whether the members of the ousted government acquired the funds legitimately. The directive did not say How much the assets amounted to and Diaz declined to estimate the size of Marcos Bank holdings. It is our impression that the majority of their assets Are overseas Diaz said. They must have seen that their regime was going to the dogs and gotten the Money out of the country he said. The directive also empowered Salonga to Appeal to foreign governments to freeze the hidden  Salonga arrived in san Francisco late wednesday and during a stay in the United states plans to meet with state department officials and lawyers of a new York based organization hired to investigate real estate holdings allegedly held by Marcos  
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