European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4.the stars and stripes Friday May 6,1986 5 bombs hit libyan civilian areas pod says Fly Norman Blackcap military Roll w As 111ngton the Pentagon in anew assessment of the april is Nir raids on Libya acknowledged thursday shut "110 2 percent of i bombs dropped impacted in civilian the Pentagon said three errant bombs Hal Tell in the Vici Nhy of the French embassy in Tripoli Libya s capital were probably dropped by the one f-111 bomber Hal did not return from the raids. Of said two other errant bombs missed Larfis at n terrorist Barracks compound in the libyan cily of Benghazi. Any other damage claimed by the i Bynns if actually True most Likely resulted from libyan ordnance falling Back to Earth it said. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman also disclosed thursday the United suites working through the belgian government had requested More info Mia lion from Libya on its claim u have recovered the body of one of the two airmen missing from the raid. Sims said no reply had been received Asyet. Rut he said the Ifni cd stares was pre pared 10 request the return of inc body on humanitarian grounds if in fact inc re Mains were those of an american the defense department has never provided a detailed breakdown on inc number of bombs dropped during the Surprise night time raids. Pentagon sources have disclosed however thai More than 225 bombs of Var ious types 900-Pound, 750-Pound and 300 Miles y 1"1"11 7- Benghazi Libya Egypt Chicago Artoune map source Chicago to Bune new reports . Attack against Libya o 18 . F-111 Long Range attack bombers launched from air bases in Britain f11 is travel 2,800 mites to v targets planes refuel several times in air. ,. It 15 a-6s and a-7s launched from i . Carriers in Mediterranean o planes strike libyan military targets at 2 . Local time with 500-Pound and 2,000-Pound, laser guided weapons and precision guided bombs a khad Afy s Headquarters and v major Airfield near Tripoli Are among targets hit As Well As military installations near Benghazi and various terrorist training Camps 2,000-Pound were used totalling about 100 ions Worth of ordnance. The five known bombing misses disclosed thursday would thus appear to reflect about 2 percent of inc total dropped during the raids. Sims defense Secretary Caspar and other lop officials have previously described the Aerial raids which were carried out Force and Navy bombers As an unqualified Success. Sims has said All five targets selected three near Tripoli and two near Benghazi were struck and damaged. The three Page written assessment re leased thursday concludes the results of inc strike met the established Complete destruction of each of inc five targeted installations was never envisioned All targets were hit and All target received very appreciable damage. At the same Lime collateral damage held to a minimum. Only 1 to 2 percent of the bombs impacted in civilian areas. Of those bombs which did not Impact in the target area three were probably from one a 11 and it seems Likely they impacted in the Vicinity of the French embassy. Two other bombs were near misses from the attack on the Benghazi Barrack. They fell some too Yards off target and damaged to civilian houses plus some adjacent Walls and Taylor asks senators for More aids Money Washington a actress Eliza Beth Taylor thursday urged a Senate sub committee to expand greatly inc amount of Money the government spends to find a cure for the deadly aids disease since my Friend Rock Hudson died of. Aids last year i have worked Wilh the american foundation for aids research. I have became familiar with the tragedy of aids and 1 am acutely aware of re search funding needs she told he Senate appropriations labor and health subcommittee. A comprehensive sustained Basic re search Effort will pay off in Many ways she said. It will greatly increase durability to understand prevent and treat not Only cancer and aids but Many other intractable chronic diseases such As arthritis and multiple sclerosis which like aids involve virus induced malfunctions of inc immune Taylor photographed repeatedly by some25 news photographers who crowded into the Small hearing room exchanged nods with sen. John Warner r-va., her former husband when he Sal Down at the Confer ence table toward the end of her testimony. The aids virus is now spreading among heterosexuals particularly among actress Elizabeth Taylor testifies before a Senate subcommittee thursday women. Aids is a women s health Issue of increasing importance und therefore also a growing threat to she said. Aids is crossing Over inevitably from groups at High risk to lower risk the disease also known As acquired immune deficiency syndrome is no longer just a Small Community disease Hal it was once thought to be she said. Sen. Lowell Wicker r-conn., the panel s chairman noted the crush of photographers standing behind him to take pictures of Taylor. I Haven t seen anything like this in lie to Days we have had hearing Weicker said. Given the option Between Beauty and Power i d rather Nave Beauty. Your a Cutty represents the Best use of Power in the sense of you being Well loved and Well known in this country using thai for the Benefit of others Wicker said. He decried budgetary pressures thai he said forced him and other members of the subcommittee to Grovel to maintain cur rom spending in Velj for the National institutes of health in the i budget while defense received an extra. 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While the letter notes in its third paragraph that the Federal record service is a non government Agency he said the description has been missed by Many who have complained to social Security. Other shave complained to Congress he said. Brown said the social Security administration has asked the company to remove the reference to Federal legislation possibly requiring infants to have social Security numbers. There in t any he said. He said the Agency also has asked the company a remove a reference suggesting hat the Federal Agency notified county authorities of the need for infants car. The company has not responded to the letter he said. The Agency also has risked the . Postal service to examine the company s direct mail solicitations which pal vat 1-Dlsl i a. To determine if an postal service action is warranted efforts to reach the Federal record service for com men were unsuccessful. 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