European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes salurday1. June 7, 1986 army adding howitzers to its european Arsenal world today him ill. staff writer usar Fiuk i Iii inf firepower la ils Field Artil Lery ars Crul As pan m .1 program tit it will increase inc number of Hon ii or in it Al b 25 percent Twenty Nini in Usatuk ill Nave 2-1 Miot 155mrn in mild a Inch run incr each instead of the 12 or in 1 now has a Iid maj. Ron my Tro. L Sart or Sam Riih car dilator for Field artillery. The Arm Idi inc rims in firepower Ocsan in usar cur in i Whf l jk5. Completion is planned for fiscal 1990, he said. The a for inc additional weapons and other equip ment needed in tie enl Reed units in Usa Fiur will average j2m a per , medrow said. It will Nisi Che i St info division in addition Al equipment to ibid inc Citra 155mm Huv ii cars to its newly arrived 2nd in. 5lh Liely arty said capt. Robert l. Rustik Furce integration officer for inc Tel of div fwd. Battalions will gain from 91 to 133 soldiers to Man and Puppori the new weapons depending upon their current organizational Structure and the number of How Tun they now have. Mudrow said. Increased Cannon firepower in Usa eur is the result of a study made in the mid-1970s, Mcdrew said it evolved into the army s current plan la reorganize Field artillery battalions into three firing batteries of eight to wipers each Meier a said. The plan also moves 8-Inch howitzers out of usar Hur s divisions and puts hem under control of v corps and i corps Headquarters medrow said. Divisions will get 155mm howitzers to replace the a Inch guns they lose he added. Each division also will have one multiple launch Rock Al system Mars tiring Battery Anu each corps will have a Mars battalion with three firing batteries. How Ever the addition of rocket artillery is not part of the up gunning program medrow said. The 1970s analysis indicated the army would reap a tremendous payoff for a Small investment the Cost of adding howitzers to firing batteries medrow said. Besides the obvious increase in firepower change in Battle tactics wiil allow Field artillery battalions la provide continual fire support because the eight gun firing Bat teries can be divided into two four gun firing platoons Mudrow said. The split Battery concept allows the firing Battery to Lay Down effective fire with one platoon while moving the other to a new location medrow said. Crash remains Pirl of the str Zelisse of the air India flight 182 that crushed into the Ocean off the co St of Ireland year go killing ill 329 people aboard wis photographed by submersible robot. The Polo taken in More than 6,600 feet by Law the surface shows the first off a s Seal right and a ple of Luggage ruling on the floor. Police hold Back jews As moslem end holy month Jerusalem a police guards fought Back a crowd of jews trying o enter the Temple mount compound in the old walled City Friday where More than 10,000 moslem held prayers 10 end the holy month of Ramadan. Hundreds of israeli police and infantry reinforce ments were on hand to prevent violence Between jews and moslem As they held Early morning Pray ers on either Side of the compound. But the Only confrontation occurred when sever Al do in jewish teen agers kicked and scratched Jerusalem police commander Chaim Albides. Leav ing him i h a bloodied hand. They slightly injured another policeman. Belgian Rural Developer shot killed in Nicaragua Brussels Belgium up a belgian devel pm Cal worker was shot and killed in Nicaragua wednesday a foreign ministry spokesman said thursday. Paul Sci scr 40, was one of seven assistants involved ire a 13.i million Rura development project sponsored by the european Community in Northern Nicaragua. Or. Pcs scr who shuttled regularly Between the project and Managua was apparently ambushed by somebody who wanted Hij jeep and who Wai Chol himself afterwards a Community official said. The sit remaining assistants have been advised to slay in Managua. Nicaragua for the Lime being the official added. German Jesuit imprisoned by nazis to be beatified Vatican City up Pope John Paul ii plans to beautify a German Jesuit repeatedly imprisoned by he nazis for preaching against Adolf hit Ler whom he once described n i pure bred Hiler in roman Catholic officials did thursday. The pontiff announced he planned to beautify three prelates including German Jesuit the Rev. Rupert Mayer and said he would declare four other people be Nerbak of the roman Catholic Church. No dates for any of the ceremonies were announced. Beatification is the jul step before sainthood although not All those beatified Are later canonized As a taint. Being declared a venerable is inc step before beatification. Australia begins probe to find nazi War criminals Sydney Australia a the government on thursday launched a formal investigation into charges that nazi War criminals settled i Australia after world War ii. Special minister of stale Mick Young appointed Andrew my Nejes to head the investigation which is expected to last three months. Menzies 67. Retired in 19u 33 Deputy Secretary of the attorney general s department. Anglicans reaffirm belief in Virgin birth resurrection London a anglican Bishops reaffirmed their belief in Jesus Virgin birth and resurrection in a statement that also leaves the door open to followers who hold different views. But critics say the clerics missed the Point. They have failed to resolve the question at Issue by refusing to say that these key Asp Ccu of Christian Faith Are historical facts said the Rev. David n. Samuel director of he Church solely. The senior body of conservative evangelicals within the Church of England. Samuel was responding to thursday i 39-Page statement the nature of Christian belief issued by All the diocesan Bishops of the Church of England the 43 prelates headed by archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie said they acknowledge and uphold belief in both the resurrection and the Virgin birth in expressing the Faith of the Church of England and of its historic but they stressed that any member of he Church was free to hold different views although Bishops must not present variant beliefs As if they were the Faith of the Church the statement was requested in february i98s by the general Synod the Church s policy making Council of 560 Bishops clergy and laity when it debated the views of Bishop of Durham David Jenkins. Jenkins said in 19b4 that he doubted whether the Bible was factual about the Virgin birth and he favored a Natu ral explanation far the empty lomb the disciples might have pinched the body Jenkins said the Bishops new statement Wil be debated by the Synod at its summer session in York next month. The statement asserted that belief in the challenged biblical stories can be held with full intellectual Interi in urged christians not to be afraid of controversy. In the past crucial insights have been won by those who had the courage to question in Faith it said. Jenkins a professor of theology and the fourth ranting Bishop in the Church is accused by his critics of undermining the Faith. He tool part in the yearlong closed door debate by he Bishops that produced the statement and said thursday night i regret it s not More but it was acceptable for two important reason is said. A makes Clear that the reality of Christ s resurrection and the truth of Christ s incarnation that Jesus was divine is of course at the basis of Faith and life in the Church of England Jenkins said. Tuncie the spiritual head of the Church and Leader of to million anglicans worldwide told a news conference thai the statement reminds us that the Church s task of helping the world to know and understand the Faith b a never ending process the Rev. David Holloway an evangelical clergymen who got the Synod to debate Jenkins views Lut year said. The statement should have resolved the Nutter but in has t. The real problem is that Many of us say we ought to be getting on with preaching the gospel understanding lie Christian Faith and living a Christian life. But the Church is being ambiguous in its fundamentals and that will weaken us in the end be did
