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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday May 30, 1sb6 Frost next no report says by Richard c. Cross Washington up president Reagan will nominate adm. Carlisle Trost a former submariner who has commanded the Atlantic Fleet for six months to be the new chief of naval operations Pentagon sources said wednesday. Troll 56, will replace adm. James wat Kins another submariner who is retiring after four years As the top naval officer. The Senate Masl confirm his nomination As inc 23rd chief of naval operations. The White mouse was expected to announce troll s nomination wednesday but decided o make the announcement thurs Day morning instead the sources said. No reason for the delay was Given. Nominations Tor chiefs of naval operations historically have been announced in March or april. Navy Secretary John Lehman favored vice adm. Frank Kelso ii the commander of the us. Glt Fleet in the Mediterranean As the successor to Watkins sources snid Kelso commanded the successful . Air strike against Libya april 15. There was no objection to Trost one source snid. Id a Case of who you  1 Kelso also a submariner worked far Lehman Between july 983 and february 198s As director of the office of program appraisal a significant Post that oversees. All Navy programs and twin financing. Bui As a vice Admiral Kelso is Junior to Trost and would have jumped 24 officers with senior rank to Lake Over watkins1 Post the sources said. Troll pronounced like Post has a reputation of being a magnificent  born april 24, 1930, in Valmeyer Iii. Trost graduated at the top of his naval Academy class of 924 in 1953 and was selected for hag rank to years later. He first served aboard a destroyer but went o submarine school in new London Conn. His first sub was the i Csc powered Sirago for 18 months until december 1956. He then was trained in nuclear pow ered submarines and afterwards was based aboard the attack sub swordfish for nearly two years until december 1959, by March 1973, troll was promoted to rear Admiral and Given command of sub Marine flotilla one in san Diego Calif. A year later he was in staff jobs at the Penta gon and in is was boosted to vice Admi ral and became the Deputy commander of he Pacific Elcel in Pearl Harbor. He look aver command of the 7lh Fleet in the Pacific in 1980. A year later he was made director of Navy program planning. In october he made full Admiral and was appointed commander of the Atlantic Fleet. Graduates hear Bush Weinberger by the associated press the air Force. Academy and West Point have turned out another crop of new offi cers and vice president George Bush and defense Secretary Caspar a Weinberger showed up to pay them tribute. In West Point n.y., Weinberger told West Point s new graduates wednesday to approach their careers with dedication and enthusiasm but added his wish that their skills will never be required. I Hope none of you Ever faces the Terri ble test of War that you will prepare your entire career to meet Weinberger old the 973 cadets in the Isble graduating class. And because you and All our military Are vastly belter prepared we think he chances that you will be tested by combat arc greatly lessened this year s class joins what has tradition ally been known As the Lang Gray line which has included a Alghi Eisenhower Douglas Macarthur John j. Pershing Robert e. Lee Ulysses s. Grant and Astro nauts Frank Borman Mike Collins and Edwin Aldrin. The class of 1986 includes 92 women so Blacks 29 hispanics 26 asian americans three american indians one Cadet from the Philippines and one from Costa Rica. Lissa Young 23, of Laurel fla., was graduating As Deputy brigade commander the highest rank achieved by a woman since they began entering the Academy a decade ago. In Colorado Springs colo., Bush addressed the 948 graduates of the air Force Academy in blustery Chilly weather in fal con stadium. He urged hem not to be seduced by technology for the Low intensity conflicts of the future you must not let the highly sophisticated technology become your master. The , military s most important technology is the electrical activity in your own brain. Before issuing Bachelor of science Diplo Mas to the graduates Bush accepted the class of 86 Salute from Terrie a. Mclaughlin the first woman in the Academy s 32-year history to be designated the out standing Cadet. Mclaughlin 21, of Naperville ml., who was also named the outstanding Cadet in engineering and electrical engineering will attend Stanford University on a National science foundation Fellowship working to Ward a master s degree in electrical Engi Neering. There were 106 women in this year s class. I Hope that in the future women can say we do really belong at the Academy and we can do As much As anyone else she told reporters. Another of the new air Force second lieutenants is Richard sconce 21, whose father Francis sconce was commander of the challenger space shuttle Mission Jan. 28 hat ended in an explosion killing All seven Crew members. After Bush handed out the diplomas the  the air Force s precision Fly ing team roared Over the stadium and put on an Aerial demonstration As the Cid cts Flung their Caps into the air. Bush spoke for 20 minutes and was interrupted by applause five times the loudest when he granted the traditional amnesty o the graduates wiping their records clean of demerits. Hostages from Page 1 name was withheld refused comment on the statements by class saying the Situa Tion was " of delicate.". In Washington White House Deputy press Secretary Edward do Crellan respond ing to class comment about possibly using Force to free the hostages said the syrians obviously can assert heir will on the Situa Tion. How they do that is another matter and that is basically their  the syrian minister s remarks followed. Reports in the French and lebanese press of Progress Early last week of backstage contacts in Syria Lebanon and Iran to free the hostages. A French negotiator was in dam ascus last weekend and there were reports of an imminent release. Foreign minister Jean bar Nard Rai mond said tuesday that government efforts appear to be progressing in particular since contacts last week with iranian officials. Raimond told the foreign affairs commit tee of he French Senate that after the visit of an iranian delegation led by Deputy pre Mier All Racza Moayeri last week France expected the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to help us Settle problems for which it is not directly responsible but to whose solution it con contribute tanks to its  lbs news reported wednesday night its sources say the French government has agreed to pay $1 billion to Iran for release of the hostages and a much lesser sum directly to the terrorists. An iranian official said last week that Iran might be Able to help with the hostages if France paid Money the iranian regime says was owed during the Rule of he deposed Shah the four frenchmen islamic holy War claims to hold arc Michel Seurat 17, a research analyst Marcel Fontaine 45, vice Consul at the French embassy embassy protocol officer Marcel Carton 62 and journalist Jean Paul Kauffmann 42. Its american captives Are Terry a. An Derson 38, chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press William Buckley 53, a . Embassy political offi cer the Rev. Lawrence Jenco 50, a roman Catholic priest David Jacobsen 54, director of the american University Hospital in Beirut and Thomas Sutherland 54, acting Dean of agriculture at the University. Islamic holy War claims to have killed Seurat and Buckley but their bodies have not been found. Sal from Page 1 somewhere around about 1 think it s a gust or september somewhere in there when the 131st b-52 is equipped to carry. Air launched cruise missiles. We will equip it i Jujj Tiff because that s very  to do so.  imposed by the treaty hew never been observed in full by the soviets they continue to violate it by deploying new missiles that Are not within the permission of he Salt u limits. The president has travelled that last mile and we Are no longer bound by that flawed agreement. It s very very  Isalt ii Accord limits Iol Tatj Nal that  mini Els a ceiling or Malion of bombers carrying Ai launched cruise missiles and missiles with Muhi ple warheads. The United states is close to that limit now and due to exceed it by the end of the year. By retiring the two Poseidon subs the United states will have 1,190 missiles with multiple warheads. Thus the equipping of the 131st b-52 bomber with cruise missiles would push the United states Over the 1,320 limit. Indicated _ o Abe by the treaty if soviet cheating stopped Weinberger replied he said if the soviets took various corrective actions he would take that into consider reag3ntomquncemcnl marked the first time the  read iness to break out of inf Sua Egic arms limitation treaty signed by Presto a car Ter and the late soviet Leader Leonid 1. Brezhnev at their Vienna Summit in 1979. The pact was never ratified by the Senate Shultz Calls controls intolerable Halifax Nova Scotia not Secretary of state George p. Shultz said wednesday that the nato allies cannot tolerate East Germany s apparent Effort to impose passport controls on diplomats seek ing to Ravel from East to West Ber Lin. The Secretary spoke on the third Day of a confrontation Over the status of Berlin. East German Border guards allowed diplomats cram the United states. Britain and France to Cross to West Berlin wednesday without demanding that they show heir passports but hey turned Back diplomats of other nato noltion who refused o do so. Shultz. Speaking to it porters aboard his air Force plane As he flew Here for the Spring meeting of he foreign ministers of he North Atlan tic treaty organization said he would discuss the Berlin situation with his counterparts from Britain France and West Germany the new tensions aver Berlin have also complicated .-sovict relations. But at the same time the soviet Union told the United Stales it would resolve 36 cases of divided so Viet american families and allow t n soviet citizens to emigrate to he United Stales. 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