European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strip sen. Pete Wilson urges drug War Page 7 q Liberty s party brings out 4 n 15,000 on strike against Alcoa Page 5 q soviets to build up libyan defense Page 8 q rockets win Aba playoff game 3 Page 21 stripes vol. 45, no. 47 tuesday. June 3. 1986 0 8693 a Weinberger May oppose abm treaty Extension Washington a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said sunday he would oppose extending the 1972 anti bal Listic missile treaty if it interfered with the development of president Reagan s Star wars defense. Weinberger said extending the abm treaty or doing anything that would prevent our doing All the things we need to do to develop a strategic defense initiative is something obviously we would be very much opposed he stopped Short of calling for abrogation of the abm treaty which is due for review next year but his remark appeared hostile to a reported soviet offer to begin reducing strategic nuclear forces if the United states agreed to abide by the abm treaty for 15 to 20 years. Reagan and Secretary of stale George Shutlz declined to comment on the reported soviet offer carried in sunday s editions of the new York times and Weinberger said that he had not read the proposal. Reagan returning from his weekend re treat at Camp David md., refused to answer questions about the reported offer telling reporters. Not White House assistant press Secretary Dale pc Trosky said our position is that the negotiations should remain confident s remarks made on the lbs program a acc the came five Days after Reagan said the United states by the end of the year might exceed the limits set by the i979 Salt ii treaty in response to see abm on Page 28 polish police storm Church rout protesters Warsaw. Poland us l police used tear Gas and truncheons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators protesting the arrest of Poland s most wanted dissident Leader captured after nearly five years underground a dissident source said. The arrest of Zbigniew Bujak 31, was announced sat urday. He had been on the run for nearly five years As head of the outlawed Solidarity labor Union s temporary coordinating committee its underground leadership. The clash Between police and demonstrators in Wro claw in Southwest Poland was the most serious incident during a Day of protests in at least four other polish cities. About 200 factory workers began chanting for Bujak s release after mass at a Church in wroclaw and police using tear Gas grenades and truncheons stormed through the Gates into the Church grounds. A dissident source said at least three people were severely beaten and about nine detained. They were in the Church grounds and began chanting Solidarity slogans and called for Bujak s release the source said. After about 20 minutes scores of riot police came in through the Church Gates and began throwing tear Gas grenades and beating people with Batons. The Plain cloth Smen with them were brutal. It was All Over in about half an hour the source said. In the Baltic port of Gdansk the Birthplace of Solidarity founder Lech Walesa told supporters outside St. Brigida s Church we have to do everything so that lawlessness does not imprison people like in Krakow sources said a crowd of about 2,000 protesting against the chernobyl nuclear disaster chanted Bujak s name. Risk predictions disregarded world cup defense mexican military armoured cars with 90mm anti tank guns Are guarding Aztec stadium in Mexico City during the 13th world cup soccer tournament. See Story on Page 23. Nasa reportedly rejected warnings Washington a during the five years before the space shuttle exploded Nasa ref let i Tecc truth firm Raj Law a shuttle Booster rocket was almost certain to explode and instead declared the boost ers virtually risk free according to a published report sunday. Faced with expert conclusions that could have grounded the shuttle Fleet for costly reworking during an ambitious shuttle schedule Nasa was reported to have pressured one consultant to produce amour optimistic estimate and Dis Motr snore pessimistic predictions in two subsequent studies. Bidder newspapers said their six week that officials at nasal Center who developed the rocket eventually wrote their own risk which was formally predicted Tea la Webster rockets were 99jbftmrrcertai i to function newspapers gave this account of their findings despite the earlier warnings by Independent experts the Agency concluded that the Chance of a rocket Booster failure is so unlikely it can be assumed la will not be exp Riem do Wal pm a Menin 1981, said the tre Rale of solid fuel boosters was oneine1llmuunks.but, under pres sure from Nasa re Bijj he author James b. Backer altered therm men from a Range of 1 in 1,000 to 10,000. The second study written for the air Force in 1983 by Robert k. Weather a. Said the Chance of z Fludy commissioned by the air Force to resolve the discrepancies Between the first two assessments estimated a boost or failure Rale of i in 210. But the Nasa estimate prepared by Marshall space flight Center in 1983 and published by Nasa on feb. 15, 1985, pro 1 the optimistic prediction that a snut ii had Only one Chance in 100,000 be Nasa on Page 28
