European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page a the stars and stripes monday. June 2, 1986 soviets agree to strengthen libyan defense reports say Nicosia. Cyprus at the soviet Union has Day might on a soviet libyan communique mention agreed to strengthen Libya s defense capabilities i neither o tic we matters. According to the Tass repo world today a l s defens Bya s official news Agency Jana reported saturday. A Moscow report pave no indication of such a pact. In Rome meanwhile a defense ministry official said Italy s military has attn aver responsibility far a . Coast guard station on an italian Island thai was the target of a failed libyan missile attack and prime min ister Ballina Praxi vowed to defend All of Italy with every Means at our the Jan a report monitored in Nicosia carried the arabic lest of w a i it said was a joint communique issued in Tripoli and Moscow on meetings last week Between soviet officials and maj. Add Salam Jalloul Libya s no. 2 Leader. Jalloul left Moscow Friday after four Days of talks including a meeting Wilh soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the defense minister. Marshal Sergei l. Sokolov. Jana s report on the communique said the soviet Union agrees to strengthen the defense capabilities of Libya to enable it to face and Ducler threats of Daggres it also said a High level soviet delegation was expected in Tripoli during the first half of june to study hecountry1 defense needs. The official soviet news Agency Tsi in its report Fri a nigh mentioned neither f How report Libya praised soviet peace initiatives. Jana said the communique condemned us. Interference in the internal affairs of Sovereign countries under the Prycl Tel of fighting International that referred to the april 15 . Air raids on the libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. Die Reagan administration said the Atia rfcs were in retaliation for Libya s support of International terrorists. The italian defense ministry official in Rome said Lite italian air Force has taken Over responsibility for the us coast guard s navigation station on the Island of Lampedusa. About Halfway Between Sicily and Libya. Jut the Glairan will continue to be manned by coast guard personnel said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Under Ait agreement the switch was scheduled to occur in 1988. But. After the failed missile attempt the defense ministry decided to move up the Transfer the official said. He said he did not know when the changeover had taken effect. Two soviet built libyan missiles were fired at Lampe Dusa hours after the . Bombing raids but fell harm Lessly into the sea. Last weekend Libya threatened to at tack the base again. Khomeini orders All out try to achieve Victory Over Iraq Nicosia. Cyprus a Iran s Leader Ayatollah rubella h Khomeini has ordered an All out Effort for a Quick Victory to end the so year old War Wilh Iraq an iranian military commander was quoted As saying sat urday. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency quoted just for fun a Maber of he bavarian Boi Muir its Tut Leui Cwi strata a thu i by liking 6 rear Oli meal to Taftt m a Pia Laek rid Dow the of of a itary Bdil Diac 9 downtown Munich. Tic Guys father is doctor 10 b member of thereat team. Muhsin Rezai. Commander of the islamic revolutionary guard corps As saying thai All iranian resources will be utilized to act on these orders and to deliver a fatal blow to i rat that will end the War before the end of the year. The Agency report monitored in Nicosia said Rezai was addressing iranian journalists in Tehran the capital of Iran. It quoted him As saying thai until now Iran has been fighting a defensive War i pecking that the world would have identified Iraq As the Sal the superpowers and their allies have shown they will not accept any reasoning but Force Rezai was quoted As laying. Iran has no alternative but to employ ill its manpower and economic potential for the War Effort in order to Deal such a fatal blow to the enemy thai nobody will dare to stand before Irna also reported thai Rezai said Only 2 percent of Iran s manpower and 12 percent of its economic resources have been utilized in the War Effort. We a not need advanced planes and tanks for Victory. Infantry forces Wilh Light weapons four times More numerous than the iraqi troops will be enough to overcome the enemy Rezai was quoted As saying referring to Iran s acknowledged superiority in manpower. In fighting saturday in the persian Gulf an iraqi Mili tary spokesman said that iraqi naval units and planes attacked two Large maritime targets near Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal and then attacked the terminal. The claim vis made Over Baghdad radio. No comment came from Iran on the claimed attack bul Marine Salvage executives in the Gulf confirmed that at least one vessel was damaged Large maritime targets i used in iraqi military parlance to indicate Oil taken. The Reni gives who spoke on condition they not be identified said they believed the stricken ship was one of the Anker Fleet commissioned by Iran to shuttle crude 10 a makeshift Oil terminal out of the Range of iraqi aircraft. In London. The insurance company Lloyd s of London said that the liberian Tanker Hellespont Enterprise was hit by a missile in the Eulf and that Lite vessel was on fire and the Crew had abandoned ship. Lloyd s said the Vestal a. Owned by London based Papach Tidis . Ltd. Shortly after midday iraqi jets attacked Harg strik ing at its targets and setting them ablaze Laid the iraqi military spokesman who under military procedure vat not identified. Neither Iran nor Iraq allows foreign observers near the fighting 10 Independent confirmation of to ticks cannot be made. Iraq has been attacking ship tailing to and from Harg Eutice Iraq imposed an sir and sea blockade around the terminal in february 1984, aiming to Cul off Iran s Oil Revenue and Force Tehran to accept a negotiated settlement. 77% of japanese polled say they Are in Middle class Tokyo a nearly four in five japanese consider themselves members of the Middle class according to a Survey released saturday. Of 6,100 respondents 77 percent said they Are Middle class. 19 percent said they Are working class and 4 percent said they Are upper class said the general Council of Trade unions Japan s largest labor federation. It did not i provide a margin of error. I in a Survey conducted by the economic planning Agency last year 87 percent of 4,000 respondents said they Are Middle class. 8.5 Pyrc Cal said they arc lower class and 4.5 i percent said they Are upper class. I the labor Union Survey also indicated that Only 20 per i cent of the respondents belong to unions. Unionization has fallen steadily As employment shifted to service jobs. 2 brands of French cheese possibly tainted with bacteria Bonn a the German health ministry warned Consumers sunday not to tit the Bonibel and Gracile Brand of French cheese because they contain potentially dangerous bacteria. Tie ministry said austrian officials who recently inspected the cheeses had come across bacteria thai could cause inflammation of the liver and brain tissues to Well As miscarriages in pregnant women. The Bonn ministry said the brands were made by the froma enc Bel company in Paris. The ministry said the Bonibel Brand was a butter cheese11 with 50 percent fat Content. Crackle is of the Semi Creasy variety with 25 percent fat Content it said. No illness from consumption of the cheese has been reported in Germany. Series of separatist bombings prompts sri Lanka to take action Colombo. Sri Lanka a authorities said Sun Day they Are Banning truck traffic from the tamil dominated Jaffna Peninsula and reinforcing the capital s police Force in the Wake of a series of bombings blamed on tamil separatist. Forty five people have died in the past few weeks in Thiee major terrorist attacks in Colombo including one involving a bomb planted in a truck from the Jaffna pen insula. Police said sunday that a bomb that went off on a Colombo bound train saturday killing is people was meant 10 explode in the capital s crowded Central railway elation they said the bomb went off in Lead near the Venango a railway station about 25 Miles Northeast of Colombo because the train was delayed 25 minutes new German nuclear reactor had unreported radioactive leak Dusseldorf Germany up a new German atomic reactor where a radioactive teak went in rezoned during the chernobyl fallout scare has been shut Down officials said sunday. The Industry consortium operating the 300-Megawall thorium High temperature reactor which began 111 partial Power testing phase on april 10, said the unit Wai routinely turned off on a turd by a five member stale oversight commission began an on one investigation of a radiation leak Nord Bein West Felon state official said a never properly re ported. Snow forces polish team to halt attempt to climb it. Everest Katmandu Nepal a heavy mow forced pol us climbers la abandon their attempt to scale mount Everest and a yugoslav team also aborted Iti climb on lie Himalayan Peak of Annapurna the Nepal new tourism ministry said sunday. The four member polish team Wai climbing the 29j02s fool Mountain via the Steep Vest Ridge route. Quoting a base Camp message the ministry Laid one of the members spent three night at the height of 21,976 feel in an attempt to climb further. He a not identified. However the weather deteriorated and about two feet or snowfall prevented the climbers from making any Prog Ress on he Peak. High winds and snowfall also prevented a japanese learn from reaching the top of Everett during Che March May Spring climbing season in the Nepal Csc Himalaya. Which was formally closed to a Timber saturday. The poles and he japanese were the Only two expeditions Given permission by the nepalese government to climb Everest from the nepalese Side
