European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n what s in a name ask Faasu unit troopers Page 3 q Dod says it saved $2.2 billion in 86 Page 5 e animal experiments research or torture up. 6,14-15 the stars and stripes vol. 45, no. 9 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces saturday april 26, 1986 it tsp laity and sunday d 8693 a gis May get German Auto plates by the stars and stripes the German government is considering letting . Service members and civilians issued licenses by Usa eur use civilian License plates at the request of the . European come. Neucom raised the Issue with the Ger mans Neucom spokesman Navy cmdr. Tom Connor said Friday. Connor said he did not know Why the request was made. He said the request Fol Lowed a recent meeting Between . Secu Rity officials and German officials. A Navy spokesman in Italy said service members in that country will begin receiving civilian plates thursday. The naval support activity As the coordinating Agency for All of Italy has a target Date of May 1 to begin the conver Sion from Allied forces Italy to National plates it. Cmdr. John Marchi Public affairs spokesman for naval support activities Naples said Friday. It May take two to three months to make the conversion a  some americans stationed in Europe have expressed concern during the current terrorist threat that their cars Are easily identifiable by their License plates. Service members and defense department civilians in Germany have License plates that say Usa on them and that Are the same size and shape As License plates in the United states. Most German civilian plates Are longer and narrower. Connor was unable to say what will Hap pen if the German government is willing to Issue regular plates. Usa eur spokesman Rex Gribble said Usa eur had nothing to add to eur com s statement. Neucom s request follows a european tour by rep. Patricia Schroeder in which she said she favored issuing service members in Europe License plates of their Host coun try. Schroeder d-colo., a seven term congresswoman serving on the House armed services committe made her remarks in Early april before the United states attack on Libya and before severe Security Mea sures were put into effect. Wednesday the German Cabinet authorized a feasibility study on the Issue. Siegfried Vogt a spokesman for the Ger see plates on Page 28 in her Mother s memory a photo six year old Caroline Mcauliffe daughter of the late shuttle astronaut Christa Mcauliffe watches thurs Day As elementary school children Plant Trees in Honor of the seven fallen astronauts. More than 100 Stu dents teachers and friends attended the ceremony in Christa s Hometown of Concord . Spain Britain impose sanctions against libyans. By the associated press the Spanish and British governments took further action Friday against libyans As part of the continuing european drive against terrorism. Spain ordered the expulsion of three libyan embassy employees and eight other libyan residents As Spain took its first step in implementing european economic Community approved sanctions against Libya the foreign ministry said. The foreign ministry statement said the orders were the result of the application of sanctions against Libya agreed upon by dec ministers at meetings this week in Luxembourg and the Hague Netherlands. Britain Friday barred More than 300 libyan aviation Stu dents from working on aircraft for Security reasons and said they would be expected to leave the country when their Stu Dent visas expire. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher told parliament in a written statement that the libyan aviation students would not be allowed to Complete their courses. Twenty two other libyan students were rounded up earlier this week As suspected subversives and expelled. The Independent news Agency Europa press said the Spanish government had informed the libyan embassy in Madrid of its decision to order the expulsions and of an other decision to ban libyan diplomats from travelling outside of the Spanish capital without previous govern ment authorization. A statement said three employees of Libya s embassy in Madrid were being told to leave the country for taking part in activities incompatible with their duties and fun  the foreign ministry statement also said the govern continued on Page 28 car bomb Kis 5 c/v/7 guards in Madrid Madrid Spain a a car bomb exploded in a fashionable District of Central Madrid Early Friday killing five paramilitary soldiers in a passing vehicle police said. Joaquin Leguina president of the Madrid regional government told Spanish Tele vision the blast appeared to be the work of the Basque separatist organization Eta. Four other paramilitary civil guards and two civilians also were Hurt by the blast police said. The explosion occurred at 7 25 . On Juan Bravo Street in the Salamanca District As a land Rover with the civil guards drove by. Police said it appeared that the bomb had been planted in a car parked along Juan Bravo Street and that the blast seemed timed to the daily approach of the vehicle carrying the civil guards. Madrid civil governor s office spokesman Antonio Molina said the vehicle had picked up guards coming off the night watch at the italian embassy and was taking other guards to the Day shift at the soviet embassy and the ministry of Public health. Three of the paramilitary soldiers died instantly and two others died an hour later in a Hospital. Shortly after the blast the american school in suburban Arivaca Northwest of the City received a bomb threat school Secretary ariane Doorenbos told the associated press. A dozen policemen rushed to the school and found no bomb but the 700 primary and secondary pupils were sent Home for the Day she said. Witnesses said the bomb blast also heavily damaged two floors of the san Antonio de Rosario maternity clinic located near the Corner of the intersection of Juan Bravo and Principe de Vergara streets. Clinic personnel said Newborn babies had been moved from a lower floor less than 20 minutes before the blast. The explosion blew apart the land Rover threw bodies onto the sidewalk destroyed several other cars and a Telephone Booth and showered the nearby intersection at Principe de Vergara Street with broken Glass. Witnesses said that a car just ahead of the land Rover also was destroyed by the blast but that a following vehicle also carrying paramilitary soldiers was not dam aged. Police and firemen rushed to the scene and immediately blocked off the area As relatives struggled to get near the bodies of the civil guards that Lay covered by blankets. Onlookers screamed against Eta calling the Basque separatists murderers and Assas sins. There have been seven other car bomb attacks in Spain since 1982, causing seven deaths. Most of those attacks have been attributed to Eta. In 1973, Eta planted a bomb where Fri Day s blast occurred. It exploded under the car of . Luis Carrero Blanco killing the Man whom Spanish ruler Gen. Francis co Franco had picked to succeed him. Since 1968, Eta has claimed responsibility for the deaths of More than 500 police and military officers