European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday May 12,19b6 Eer Emory return san Francisco Al the battleship Missouri Modernised with nuclear missile capability and advanced computer Iccino Litfiy returned to service saturday nearly j i years after it was the scene of the japanese surrender. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Ca lied. The re  i Day id celebrate he rebirth of Ameri can sea Power after years of dangerous neglect and said in Marks one of the  tenure 1. The ship. Which last saw action in the korean War is a icy pan of president Reagan s plan to bring the Navy s . About 12,000 guests joined the 1,654 officers and in listed1 men in dress blues for lie festivities Abo ird the 887 red. While Iliad Blue Bunting flapped from Bow to Stern a ii Light Bree a under Clear skies. Security was heavy at the Entrance to the ship docked in san Francisco Bay. Abouhov sign carrying protesters on Shore were joined by demonstrators aboard some 20 boats in a peace Navy which sailed 50 to 200 Yards in rant of inc mis Souri with banners demanding no gunboat diplomacy and an end in the militarization of the Bay. Navy Secretary John Lchman dismissed criticism Fiat mighty to was an outdated relic that would be a float ing larget despite its new weaponry it certainly u from another Era Lehman said but it hits i lie mad modern computerized weapon system that exists in anyone s  lie mid Ilic Missouri s guns can fire  rounds a minute and its 17,000 ions of stressed Armor plating in Clu Desan 11-Inch-thick Bell around the entire ship. The French in oct missile used by Argentina to sink a British ship during the Falkland islands fighting would Bounce off the Missouri he  for peace was the Navy s motto for the ceremony held in the Shadow of the san Francisco Oak land Day lurid in and a mile from the ship s permanent future berth at treasure Island naval base in san fran Cisco Bay. Joining Weinberger Lehman sen. Pete Wilson mayor Ali inn . Missouri gov. John Ashcroft and other officials Art the dais was Margaret Truman Daniel who the battleship Missouri fires Salvo from its huge guns in action off the coast of Korea in 953. 2 universities Cut South african link news update  this spot on ?. September i by till 1.  of foil Mal  of Japan  Allied  was sione1 thus Bali Krasn to a close. The  Worpul we christened the ship on Jan. 25,1944. The daughter of the Laic president Truman recalled her father s comment thai it would sail into Tokyo Bay wild its guns Bla ing. It did sail into Tokyo Bay but with pens ready she said. I rejoice to Sec her reactivated today reconditioned pub had and shined and with modern  Weinberger gave a Brief speech marking the return of the i8,000-tort Missouri after 30 years in Mothballs and two years of n s475 million renovation in the naval ship Yard at Long Beach Calif. This ship and this port which it will now Cal Home bring to mind great events and men who were giants in their Day said Weinberger. He stood on a Small  Patch of deck above the Missouri s main deck starboard where Gen. Dougoud Mac Arthur received Japan s unconditional surrender on sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay marking the formal end of world War ii. Quoting Macarthur he said it is my Earnest Hope Hal from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge a world dedicated to the dignity of Man. Let us Pray that peace be now restored to the  the defense Secretary said the world has not lived up to his Hopes nor to the prayers and expectations or those proud seamen who worked Missouri s turrets and tended their boilers so that heir sons might never know of  the Missouri will return to Long Beach on monday for completion of the refit and will return to its Home port in san Francisco in late 1988 or 1984. The Missouri is the latest in a series of retired Battle ships to be brought Back on the line. The new Jersey came out of Mothballs at a Cost of 1326 million and another Al .34 billion were authorized to bring the Iowa Missouri and Wisconsin Back to life. The Wisconsin will be the lost to return to duly Idaho Bank taken Over Malad City Idaho a first Bank and Trust of Idaho the first Bank in Idaho to fail in at least 15 years has been closed by the slate and taken Over by the Federal de posit insurance corporation. Bad Loans blamed on an Adverse agricultural climate and faltering state Economy caused the failure of the Malad City based Bank said Odic spokesman Tom Ruth. The Bank s sin offices will reopen monday As branches of Idaho first National Bank subject to approval by a state judge Ruth said. The. Depositors of the tailed Bank automatically become depositors of Idaho first National said Julie am Burson Odic corporate communications officer. First Bank and Trust which had total assets of ss9.i million Woi closed by Tom Mceldowney director of the Idaho department of finance Amberson said. First Bank and Trust of Idaho had offices in Malad City Bancroft Grace lava hot Springs Preston and soda Springs he said. Tutu applauds anti apartheid gesture by the associated press while South african Bishop Desmond Tutu praised two North Carolina universities for cutting their economic lies with his Homeland Crews in new Haven conn., put up signs naming part of a Street after him to support Vale students protests against apartheid. Tutu an anglican whose leadership in non violent resistance to apartheid won him the Nobel peace prize hailed the actions of North Carolina Central University and Duke University. He said economic pres sure was the quickest Way to Knock some sense into South Africa s while rulers. I Don t honestly believe that you can persuade these people unless you have something that you hold Over them he said at Mccu where he delivered the commencement address saturday. North Carolina Central a predominantly Black stale school in Durham ended its investments in businesses with tics to South Africa three months ago said Chancellor Leroy. Walker. On May 3, trustees of Duke a private mostly White a Choc voted to sell its hold Ings in such companies by january 1988 unless South Africa lakes significant Steps toward dismantling apartheid by Jan. I 1987, tulu while acknowledging that divest ment s effects would be in Large part psychological called in the one non violent strategy left in our  in new Haven a Block Long Section of a City Street running through Vale University was temporarily renamed Bishop Tutu s was by the Board of aldermen in support of the student anti apartheid movement. Along Bishop Tutu s Way is the office of Yale president a. Bartlelt Giamatti and a Shantytown built to protest Vale s $350 million to �400 million in stocks in Compa Nies doing business in South Africa. The Board of aldermen approved the renaming monday. Municipal workers have put up the new Street signs every time they College administrators walk past this sign in will be a re minder to them that the City of new Haven wants Yale to  said Alderman mar tin Dunleavy adding it is effective until earlier about 50 students attended what they called their last divestment rally of he academic year.  in april Jed to 322 arrests of students and Community members. In South Bend nd., trustees of the University of notre Dame voted to sell the schools entire investment of  million in 30 companies doing business in South Africa if racial conditions there continue to deteriorate said school spokesman Richard Conklin. For the first time the words Lill disinvestment Are in the University s policy spokesman Michael Harvcy said. He said the Board also approved disinvestment in individual companies that fait to help dismantle apartheid he said. University president Theodore m. Hes Burgh has said immediate full divestment would strip the school of any leverage to improve the lives of Black South africans working for american companies. The Rev Basil Van Rensburg a South african priest on sabbatical at notre Dame who fasted 29 Days in a Pica for fall divest ment said saturday he was disappointed by it Finburgh s stand and the action of tie trus tees. They say they will divest if the situation in South Africa deteriorates said Van Rensburg who ended his fast earlier in the week. What do icy mean by deteriorate they do not say. Has the situation not deteriorated enough already does divestment come Only when there is a Bloodbath