European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday april 19, 1986 Weinberger says raid was last resort7 a Ashington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Friday the United states launched its attack against Libya very reluctantly As a last resort and expressed Hope further military action will not be Nec Essary. Weinberger said he was sorry the United states had to carry out tuesday s air strike and indicated the retaliatory attack would not have been necessary if the nato allies had heeded president Reagan s Call to impose economic unctions on Libya in response to its alleged sponsorship of terrorism. If All nations would join in a Strong effective economic Boycott of Libya it would be very effective Weinberger said. The president would rather have had that than a military response. We re All in this together he said. No country can do it  Allied criticism of the . Air strike created strains on the Alliance that Are regrettable Weinberger said. But he added there were differences Between what european leaders were saying publicly and what they were telling Reagan administration officials privately indicating they supported the . Action. The Pentagon chief made the comments in response to questions from reporters in London Bonn Rome Copen Hagen Denmark and Brussels Belgium Over a television satellite Hookup provided by the . Information Agency. It was Weinberger s first direct appearance before a european audience since the . Attack in which 25 Brit ish based air Force f-i11f fighter bombers and aircraft Carrier launched a-6e Light bombers struck five primary targets in Tripoli and Benghazi Libya. He denied that libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy was a direct target of the attack. No one has said that he must be killed Weinberger said. We weren t trying to run khad Afy out of Libya he said later. In keeping with Weinberger s known reluctance to apply military Force As chief of a Pentagon still wary of . Revulsion with the Vietnam War the overriding theme of his response to questions about the air strike was that the United states would have preferred not to launch military action against Libya. We re sorry that we had to do this attack Weinberg or said. It would have been much better to deter khad Afy through other Means. The military attack was the final action that was open to us. We came to military action very reluctantly As a last resort and we very much Hope it will not happen again. I very much Hope that another attack would not be Nec Essary Weinberger said. I had hoped this attack would not have been necessary. As for future action. I would Hope there would not be any. We very much Hope that military action will not be required in the future he said. The Secretary said he did not know whether the attack will deter khad Afy from his alleged role As a sponsor of terrorism. American from Page 1 and injuring four passers by with flying Glass. Police said four people including a nicaraguan were detained in connection with the explosion. They were not identified. The nearby . Embassy was not dam aged. . Ambassador Lewis a. Tambs who appeared at the site of the explosion called it a terrorist act. In Athens Greece thousands of greeks staged a 60-minute work stoppage to protest the action of the american and  in the Netherlands riot police dispersed protesters who threw stones at the . Consulate after a March through downtown Amsterdam in which several Hundred leftist led demonstrators chanted Reagan terrorist about 300 protesters rallied outside the . Embassy in Lisbon Portugal and several thousand marched through Down town Madrid Spain. In Washington the White House the Capitol and the state department got bomb threats As did the Washington Monu ment the main Justice department build ing the Washington Post and a downtown building that houses the . Passport of fice according to District of Columbia police. Nothing was found at any of the locations the police said. Describing tuesday s attack by air Force and Navy planes on libyan targets Shultz said khad Afy s praetorian guards had been targeted in Hopes of capitalizing on apparent dissension within the libyan military. He also said there is considerable dissidence in the armed forces of Libya with khad Afy and what he s  a . Official in Washington speaking on condition he not be identified said sever Al libyan army units rebelled after the . Bombardment of the libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi on monday. The official said soldiers marched on the capital but air Force units Loyal to khad Afy dispersed them. Meanwhile in Tripoli thousands of libyans some chanting we will destroy America jammed the streets around a Small mosque Friday for the funeral of 19 victims of the . Bombing raid. Khad Afy who was shown on libyan television thursday night visiting wounded people in the Hospital was not seen at the funeral which was shown live on the state television and radio networks for More than two hours. After prayers at the Molay Mohammed mosque the procession wound slowly through a dense crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people. Titan rocket explodes at Vandenberg fab Vandenberg fab Calif. A a Titan space rocket exploded in a huge Orange Cloud seconds after launch Friday at the South end of this sprawling missile test Center authorities said. The Titan 34d exploded at launch com plex 4 at 10 45 . Post said air Force sgt. Virgil Short. No injuries were reported but initial re ports indicate the launch Complex on a bar Ren Oceanside Plain was damaged Short said. The National weather service in Santa Maria issued a statement saying there was no threat to civilians because the Cloud was being blown out to sea. All the schools in the District have been notified to hold the children inside said Lompoc unified school District superin Pendant James r. Brown. That s the safest thing to do for  the air Force issued a statement in Washington saying the payload on the space Booster was classified. An i Vestiga class i from Page 1 were $4.9 million and we lost $900,000. Failing to curb programs no longer in de Mand As evidenced by Low usage and pric ing not abreast of rising costs Are other reasons for needed  other ways of generating additional mar Money Are being examined including the expansion of wine selections in class i stores he said. The key to successful mar and family support programs is commander involve ment and sound management at the local level Kinnaman said. Commanders must ensure prices and fees Are sufficient to cover operating costs especially personnel costs. Further com Manders and managers must Monitor pro Grams to ensure that activities and services Are meeting the demands of today s Patron. While profitability is emphasized our objective is to provide the Best possible programs and services at reasonable prices. Profits Are Only a Means to this end. We do however have to be profitable in order to achieve this objective of service to . Forces service members civilians and their  Tion was under Way the air Force said. Vandenberg 130 Miles Northwest of los Angeles is where the air Force tests new missiles such As the my and periodically launches ballistic missiles already in serv ice such As the Titan and minuteman Iii to test their reliability. Military and civilian satellites also Are launched there. Last aug. 28, a Titan rocket blew up after launch from Vandenberg. The rocket had carried a Kh-11 photographic recon Naissance satellite which was destroyed in the blast. John Pike a space analyst for the federation of american scientists in washing ton said earlier this year that he believed the August explosion left Only one of the super secret Kh-1 is in orbit while the Pentagon prefers to have two passing Over the soviet Union. Vandenberg covers 98,400 acres and is the third largest . Air Force installation. The first missile was launched there in 1958, and More than 1,500 have been launched since then. The 154-Square-mile base covers nearly the entire Western coast of Santa Barbara county. The launch Sites Are on a Bluff above the Pacific Ocean far from most base buildings including More than 2,000 family housing units. Army Cook gets 20 years for robberies Kaiserslautern an army Cook received 20 years at fort Leavenworth kan., for committing five robberies in which he took More than $100,000, a 21st support come spokeswoman said Friday. Spec. 4 Davil l. Lewis 27, of the 108th air def arty brigade in Kaiserslautern committed the robberies Between october. 1985 and january 1986, spokeswoman bar Bara Filbert said. On Jan. 31, Lewis of Richmond va., used a Pellet gun to Rob a pay officer in Hanau. Lewis got no Money but he took the officer s revolver. He then used the re Volver to Rob a finance Center on Funari Barracks in Mannheim later that Day. He took $111,000 in the armed robbery Fil Bert said. Lewis was apprehended the same Day at Funari Barracks by military police. All but $1,000 of the Money was recovered Filbert said. Lewis used the Pellet gun to Rob the Hanau Woodland of $2,000, the Worms Woodland of $1,400 and the Erle see food land of $2,200 Between october and Jan uary Filbert said. Lewis was tried before a panel of five officers and five enlisted members in a three Day general court martial. He was reduced in rank to Al was ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances and was Given a dishonourable discharge. He could have been sentenced to 55 years in prison Filbert said. Lewis is married and the father of two children. The three minute film televised thurs Day night showed khad Afy visiting Tripoli s Central Hospital his first Public appear Ance in the capital since the attack. Doctors have said the libyan Leader s 15 month old adopted daughter Hana was among those killed in the attack and that his two youngest sons were severely injured. The first passengers to Fly to Germany from Libya since the . Bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi four Days ago arrived in Frankfurt aboard a libyan plane Friday. Airport officials said some 60 people got off the libyan Arab airlines plane in Frankfurt. About 60 other passengers disembarked in London where the Boeing 272 made its first Stop on the round trip from Tripoli. Most of the passengers who got off in Frankfurt were West German italian and Spanish nationals. There were no americans according to Airport and libyan airline officials. Temperatures april 17 l 63 46 32 38 44 42 38 33 36 44 44 32 45 39 35 41 40 54 35 43 42 28 42 44 74 58 40 43 45 45 46 h 87 61 45 55 51 48 53 64 55 57 60 69 65 49 57 56 54 74 55 54 63 46 53 63 82 75 58 72 63 71 67 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic cite Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston . Charleston . Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas fort Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas cite Las vegas Little Rock l 52 44 62 58 39 39 53 42 41 55 45 54 45 34 32 44 45 37 31 58 52 24 57 50 73 44 44 44 50 42 51 h 71 55 82 79 59 56 75 54 51 73 56 75 49 56 64 54 61 52 51 65 71 34 66 64 86 57 57 67 74 50 69 los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach mils St. Paul Nashville new Orleans new York cite Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis is. Petersburg Salt Lake cite san Diego san Francisco san Juan Seattle Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita it Irolean weather forecast for saturday mostly Cloudy skies with morning drizzle and fog along the coast and in the Benelux. Rain showers will Start in the late morning and there will be isolated afternoon thunderstorms. High temperatures in the 50s, lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Sunset saturday 8 25, Sunrise sunday6 22. Outlook for sunday mostly Cloudy skies with Patchy morning fog. There will be afternoon rain showers in Eastern areas. Temperatures nearly the same. Temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm Adana p Amsterdam p Athens p Aviano in Berlin m Bremerhaven m Brussels r 55 41 55 52 47 38 39 79 46 67 57 54 50 48 Copenhagen Fig Frankfurt p London cd Madrid Fri Munich r Paris m 32 41 43 38 41 38 46 52 48 46 40 48 Rome r 54 54 provided by Del. 13, 7th weather so Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures High Low High Low Cairo f 90 64 Montreal cd 64 41 Dublin f 46 37 Moscow f 41 23 Helsinki cd. 37 32 Oslo cd 40 30 Jerusalem r 70 54 Toronto cd 63 43 Lisbon r 55 45 Vancouver r 57 43 supplied by the associated press of fair cd Clouds a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain Fig fog the thunderstorm