European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 stars and stripes tuesday March 26, 1986 Reagan says soviets deserve evil empire7 tag Washington up president Reagan says the soviet Union is the greatest threat to peace and he does not regret calling it an evil  Reagan made the remarks in response to questions in an interview with Barbara Walters taped for Abc to in Advance of the Academy awards program monday night. "1 have tactfully tried to quiet Down now because we Are trying to arrive at some agreements with the soviets Reagan said adding "1 do not regret at All saying those things because i came Here believing that it was necessary after the efforts that this country has made Back through the years to try and establish a detente with the soviet Union that too much of it was done on kind of Mirror image that we thought gee we re Nice people and if we could Only. If they can Only see that. And then they la be Nice when they see that we Don t mean them any harm. And i thought it was necessary to establish reality. To let them see that no we definitely saw what they were doing As evil. Shooting Down of a korean airlines plane with 269 passengers. Killing one of our officers in uniform in East Germany for no reason at  i wanted them to know that i saw them realistically he added. Asked if he still thinks they re the greatest threat to peace Reagan said yes until by deed not alone word they prove that they Are willing to get along in the world with countries that have other systems and other forms of government Reagan said that in the last five years since he has been president there has not been one Inch of territory additional territory taken Over in the world by comm  Navy jets from Page 1 mation showing . Casualties. Earlier Pentagon sources had said Libya fired two or three anti aircraft missiles at . Warplanes As the jets crossed Kheda by s line of death and extended their operations into the disputed Gulf of Sidra. Congressional leaders were called to the White House for a briefing Speakes said this was not an act de signed to provoke a response. From khad Afy. But he said it was in support of traditional maritime rights of Access in the disputed Gulf of Sidra area of the Mediterranean sea off Libya s coast. The spokesman said the . Naval exercises will continue in the area As Long As american officials deem it necessary. We Are there on a peaceful exercise he said adding if they Are attacked then they Are to defend  Speakes said we now consider All approaching libyan forces to have hostile in tent. We Reserve the right to take additional measures As events  he said the patrol boat was approach ing our Fleet and was deemed to have hos tile  Speakes said he could not Tell How close the libyan missiles came to american Craft. Speakes said the soviet Union was briefed at the beginning of the exercises. He said president Reagan was being kept 6th Fleet operating on Friendly basis but will defend its ships Admiral says by Robert Leonard Naples Bureau aboard the aircraft car Rier Saratoga the commander of the . 6th Fleet said monday the 30 warships under his command Are operating under a Friendly basis in International Waters but will defend themselves. The 6th Fleet is Here on a Friendly basis but we will exercise the right of self defense if necessary vice adm. Frank b. Kelso ii told seven news reporters and photographers at 1 . Aboard the Carrier. I m not sending khad Afy any messages and we re not going to operate any differently. The soviets operate Here normally As we do and they have every right to do  the Admiral made his comments at least nine hours before White House spokesman Larry Speakes said . Aircraft had shot and set afire a libyan patrol boat after libyans had fired six missiles at american planes. Speakes said no . Planes were dam aged by the libyan missiles. About 30 ships including the carriers Saratoga America and Coral sea have been on Maneu vers since saturday in inter National Waters in the Southern ionian sea. It Marks the first time since november 1984 that three aircraft carriers have been in the Mediterranean simultaneously. The exercise is scheduled to end april 1. The whole task Force is conducting nor Mal exercises Kelso said. We Are exercising our forces in International Waters and airspace. We re operating within an area which includes the Tripoli flight information Region and filed a notice of intent to Fly. The Tripoli flight area does t have any recognized boundaries. It is much like the rules of the Road. At sea we have the same kind of control for our planes Kelso said. There have been several intercepts while we be been Here the Admiral said. It happens All the time. It s not unusual for two military aircraft to take a look at each other. Pilots usually make their own decisions to turn around  Kelso said i m not precluding that we will or will not operate in the Gulf of Sidra what i am saying is we re going to operate in International Waters. We will be operating under a Normal set of rules. That is we have the right to protect ourselves. This exercise is no  Shultz from Page 1 rarely on condition they not be identified. Both accounts of the meeting monday Between Shultz and foreign minister Vahit Hal Foglu indicated the Secretary remained firm on what the turks have identified As a major cause of the impasse the request for More textile exports. Shultz has said bluntly while Here that major increases Are impossible Given the worldwide quota system. You can create openings you can talk about Best efforts but you cannot Promise performance the . Official said. Prime minister Turgut Ozal has focused on the textile Issue in an Effort to reduce Turkey s $700 million Trade deficit with the United states. The american official cited the continuing nature of the agreement in saying fail ure to reach agreement was no big  Washington is eager to reach a settlement however so Long As it does not require major Cost increases at a time of budget austerity. Turkey a member of the nato defense Alliance shares a 280-mile Border with the soviet Union and also is strategically located near the Middle East. It will get More than $700 million in . Military and economic Aid this year in re turn for military installations on its soil. The Reagan administration has asked con Gress for More than $900 million in the fiscal year starting oct. 1. Turkey wants its direct . Aid in creased to $1.2 billion. The foreign ministry has said the United states suggested that it might be Able to help Turkey by charging lower interest on Loans for the Purchase of . Military equipment. Instead of charging commercial rates for 30 percent of the Loans Washington would apply them to Only 20 percent of the Loans officials said. The United states also has offered to help turkish manufacturers win lucrative Pentagon contracts by teaching them How to satisfy the complicated bidding require ments. Shultz was to leave tuesday for Greece also a nato member for talks on . Bases there. He is on a 10-Day tour. The Secretary has said he wants to pin Down Andreas Papandreou the socialist prime minister of Greece on whether he intends to act on a threat to shut Down the four . Bases there when the current agreement ends in 1988. Leader alerts girl scouts As fire hits building by j. King Cruger . Bureau abbots Ripton England a wind fanned fire gutted a youth recreational facility immediately after a pregnant girl scout Leader alerted two other leaders and the 21 girls in their charge. The girl scouts and their leaders All americans from nearby Raf Alconbury were at Jubilee Lodge when fire broke out in the building Early saturday morning according to a base spokesman. The Lodge is a Brick walled Wood roofed facility owned by the girl guides Britain s equivalent to the . Scouting Organiza Tion. Carolyn Mcclendon 26, a staff sergeant at Raf Alconbury and one of the three scout leaders was awakened by excessive heat in her ground floor room at the facility the spokesman said monday. Mcclendon who is six months pregnant with twins spotted flames on the first floor awakened the other leaders and then dashed upstairs to Rouse the 21 sleeping youngsters. The campers Clad Only in their night clothes Slid Down an outside fire pole to safety. Firemen unsuccessfully attempted to extinguish the Blaze. A British fire official said the fire appeared to have been caused by a Blanket being placed too close to a space Heater in a first floor room. The fire then spread to curtains and quickly engulfed the facility he said. Informed and had met with his National Security adviser Weinberger and the chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff. In response to a question Speakes said i can t characterize it As War Between the United states and Libya. The soviet Union supplied the Sa-5 and Sa-2 missiles that Speakes said were fired before a . Jet aimed a Harpoon anti ship missile at the libyan patrol boat. He said the soviets had been notified when . Ships went into the Gulf of Sidra but declined to say whether there were soviets operating the missile Sites. That s for the libyans to answer Speakes added. It was not Clear whether president Rea Gan gave the order to open fire. The presi Dent was informed within a half hour after the first . Missile was fired. The president approved the Freedom of navigation exercise in its final form Friday the 14th," Speakes said. But beyond that he said i am not be Able to go into de tails. Speakes said commanders on the scene have discretion but he would not go into detail about their instructions. The latest Navy Maneu vers began off the libyan coast saturday night Eastern time. It was not until sunday night Eastern time however that the first jets began flying southward Over the Gulf Pentagon sources said. They described initial flights As uneventful. Temperatures March 23 l h 28 56 Albany 36 73 Albuquerque 24 39 Atlanta 32 48 Atlantic City 24 59 Baltimore 31 57 Billings 27 69 Birmingham 39 68 Boise 29 50 Boston 37 46 Buffalo 33 46 Burlington 37 58 Charleston . 23 65 Charleston w.va.32 60 Chicago 35 61 Cincinnati 35 56 Cleveland 48 74 Dallas fort Worth 32 68 Denver 32 59 Des Moines 38 61 Detroit -4 31 Fairbanks 25 31 Fargo 24 55 Hartford 70 85 Honolulu 50 70 Houston 37 61 Indianapolis 33 62 Jacksonville 36 63 Kansas City 49 82 Las vegas 40 74 Little Rock l h 61 86 los Angeles 37 64 Louisville 40 71 Memphis 48 70 Miami Beach 33 40  30 69 Nashville 34 65 new Orleans 33 51 new York 26 55 Norfolk 49 75 Oklahoma City 34 56 Omaha 42 67 Orlando 27 56 Philadelphia 60 84 Phoenix 28 57 Pittsburgh 22 42 Portland Maine 46 50 Portland Ore. 22 44 Providence 64 64 Raleigh 34 69 Reno 43 63 St. Louis 37 67 St. Petersburg 42 68 Salt Lake City 51 75 san Deigo 54 74 san Francisco 41 51 Seattle 27 53 Syracuse 49 87 Tucson 30 60 Washington 40 71 Wichita europ Ean weather forecast for tuesday mostly Cloudy skies scattered rain or rain and Snow mixed As Well As Gusty winds. Extreme Southeast will have isolated Thunder storms with decreasing cloudiness in Western areas by afternoon. High temperatures from the Mld-30s to Low 40s, lows from the Low to mid-30s. Sunset tuesday 6 46 Sunrise wednesday 6 16. Outlook for wednesday partly to mostly Cloudy skies with Iso lated rain or rain and Snow mixed. Temperatures nearly the same. Temperatures recorded monday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm Adana the Amsterdam r Athens f Aviano m Berlin r Bremerhaven r Brussels r 52 41 48 41 36 38 41 54 50 61 50 38 36 48 Copenhagen r Frankfurt r London p Madrid p Munich r Paris r Rome p 36 38 41 43 36 45 46 36 52 48 64 49 50 55 provided by det. 13, 7th weather so Graben Trarbach. Of far a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain the thunderstorm. Other worldwide temperatures were not available because of transmission difficulties