European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. July 31.1986 missile hits Tanker not Folk a. A a . Navy missile struck banker carrying 26,000 barrels of Oil on tuesday causing a Small fire but no injuries the Navy said to the  air to air missile fired from an f-14 Jet As  of Navy exercises left a 2 a foot Hole in the sunni rupture of the Western Sun in the Atlantic own 60 Miles East of nor Folk according lot. Cir. Bill Sonntog. The 30,000-Lon Sun of Bop. Tanker which left Marcus Hook pa., Early tvs Day resumed its trip to Nederland Texas afterpe fire was extinguished with the help of two Twy ships. None of he cargo was reported to balk leaked. The Navy provided no Mote information about the Tanker a coast guard aircraft scanned the via for pollution but did not find any debris or Noills said coast guard it. Peter Virok. The missile did not carry a warhead spokesman said. Fire Breaks out on ship Miami a fire broke out wednesday aboard the cruise ship Emerald sea injuring Al least four people and passengers were being evacuated Over the tide in lifeboats As a precaution the coast guard reported the ship was in he Berry Island about 50 mild North of Nassau in the Bahamas said coast guard spokesman Jim Simpson three coast guard helicopter and a Jet Whereon the scene and two More choppers were Dis patched to evacuate people needing medical at Tention Simpson said. He said one person had been burned and an other suffered smoke inhalation but he did not have additional information they were to be taken to hospitals in Nassau or Florida depend ing on their injuries mexican protest ends Elpaso Texas not Mexico s opposition party tuesday peacefully ended its sax Day blockade of an important Bridge across the Rio Grande Between Here and Ciudad Juarez mexi co. Several thousand supporter of the National action party first blockaded the eight Lane Ridge of the americas last thursday. They said they were engaging in civil disobedience to pro ten what they said were fraudulent stale an mayoral elections. Tuesday afternoon Francisco Barrio Tenuas the Farmer Juarez mayor who was the unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in the disputed july6 election called on the 200 remaining proles ten to go Home saying they had achieved their purpose. Lace Mission fails Surg South Africa up1botha tuesday refused a plea by British reign Secretary Geoffrey Howe to free jailed Bolt Leader Nelson Mandela and vowed sanctions Hui not Force South africans to commit  the death toll  Rule climbed past 200. Ill Howe who was sent by to 12-nation euro Pean economic Community Ottave off sanctions to Force a change in South not Goa admitted after his second meeting with by a that his seven Day peace Mission had ended in the responses i got have not yet Canad me to proclaim that i made the Progress i wave liked said Howe referring to his pie have Mandela freed from a life lend on a son charge. Product recall the defense subsistence Region Europe has announced the recall of nettle sugar free iced Tea mix from commissary shelves because of possible contamination by Glass fragments. The recall is of 3.3-ounce jars of sugar free iced Tea marked with Label codes Tai 141a and i6l41b, aafe5 Europe retail facilities do not carry the product Aad an not affected by the recall said Cape Mark Busich cafes Europe spokesman. Commissary Cut Omen who have this product should return it to the place of Purchase. Jenco s silence shout of fear for hostages still in Lebanon Vatican City up the Rev. Lawrence Jenco gave Pope John Paul ii a confidential message from his moslem captors wednesday and said his silence on the subject is a shout of fear for the remain ing hostages in Beirut. Junco released saturday after 18 months in Captivity had a private audience with John Paul but neither he nor the Vatican would release details of their conversation. Then he left for London where he was scheduled to meet Wilh Robert Runcie the archbishop of Canterbury. Perhaps sometime 1 can l answer your questions because 1 have fear that what i might Lay might be detrimental to my Brothers who Are still held hostage in Lebanon Jenco told reporters moments after the audience. My silence really is a shout of fear and concern for those others who Are still held,11 he said. When he arrived in Rome tuesday Jenco said he planned to ask John Paul to help win the release of the hostages including three americans and about a dozen other foreigners. But he made no mention of the request when he briefed reporters about his meeting with John Paul. Jenco looked worn but he smiled broadly when asked How the audience went. He hugged me the Joliet iii., native said. Dressed in a Navy Blue clerical suit and wearing a scrap of yellow ribbon and a Gold bar pin Reading free the hostages Over his heart Jenco read a brie statement As he stood just outside St. Peter s Square. Jenco said he had a personal discussion with the Pope and with unnamed Vatican officials. To keep my Promise i have Given a confidential message from my captors to the holy father he said the religious Factor is of great importance in this matter. Tomorrow i will give the same message to another mat Christian person the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop s special envoy Terry wait who has been negotiating for the hostages release also at tended the audience along Wilh several members of Jenco s family said Vatican spokesman the Rev Giu ii Nicolini. Soviets reject plan to replace Salt ii with interim arms pact Geneva Switzerland up the soviet wednesday rejected president Reagan s Call to replace the Salt ii pact Wilh a system of Mutual restraint on arms deployment pending a new Accord on deep cuts in nuclear weapons. But the president s proposal still remains open a . Statement said after an eight Day meeting of the joint standing consultative commission which monitors arms control agreements Reagan announced May 27 that the United slates no longer Tell bound by Salt ii because of soviet violations. Soviet sources close to the commission meeting said the soviet Union demanded that the treaty signed in 1979 but never ratified by Congress remain in Force until a new agreement is achieved. The soviets requested the special commission ses Sion to seek clarification of the . Position. The terse two paragraph . Statement noted that the commission had ended its session and would meet again in the fall. The statement then added at this session the soviet Union rejected president Reagan s May 27, 1986, Call for the soviet Union to join the United slates in establishing an interim framework of truly Mutual restraint pending conclusion of a verifiable agreement on deep and equitable reductions in offensive nuclear arms. The soviet Union was informed that the Call remains  the United states will exceed the treaty s limits if i proceeds As planned this fall with deployment of Long Range cruise missiles on heavy bombers the United Stales charge thai the soviet Union violated the agreement by deploying its new ss-2s missile and by encrypting or encoding test flight data to Block monitoring of missile tests. Salt 11 restricted each Side to 2,250 intercontinental nuclear missiles and heavy Bombera Wilh a sub limit of 1,120 on missile armed with multiple inde pendent warheads. American and soviet officials said separate talk continued Between different groups in Geneva on tech Nical problems involved in detecting underground nuclear tests. The United slates sought the talks to clarify verification of 1974 and 1973 agreements also never ratified by Congress which placed a limit or thresh old on the size of nuclear explosions. Rehnquist from Page 1 court Well  the report delivered to the committee by Gene Lafitte and John Lane member of the bar association s committee on the Federal judiciary was expected to be followed by testimony from Rehnquist democrats who charge be is too extreme to be chief Justice planned to Grill Rehnquist about charges he harassed Hack voters id Phoenix ariz., during the Early 1960s and about memo he wrote 34 years ago As a supreme court clerk favouring racial segregation. A spokesman for judiciary committee chairman Strom Thurmond . Said an Fri investigation of Rehnquist has been completed and undercuts allegations that Rehnquist tried to keep minorities from Vot ing in a Republican ballot Security program in Arizona in 1962 and 1964, the harassment charges first were aired in 1971,when Rehnquist was nominated to the supreme court by president Nixon but opponents say the judiciary committee never fully explored them. Witnesses con tend that they saw Rehnquist approach Black and his panic voices at the polls challenged them to read card and questioned their qualifications to vote. Trade from pegs i percent Over the past 12 months while wage bikes for non Union workers averaged 4.1 percent in his testimony. Voided said the Domestic debt held by foreigners had rapidly increased As the Trade deficit grew because dollars used to  for foreign goods flowed to foreign investors. Foreign capital has helped finance the huge Federal budget deficit but the flow cannot be sustained forever he said. The longer that persists the More difficult and dangerous situation we Are in he said. Our financial Market becomes More and More hostage to the continuing flow of capital from abroad Volcker again called on America s major trading partners to further stimulate their economies to help expand markets for . Goods and therefore help narrow the Trade deficit. In the past several months the United states Japan. Germany and other major trading partners had joined in culling key interest rates and taking other measure intended to stimulate their economies. The Federal Reserve Cut the discount note its interest on Loans Lofin Ancial institutions by one half Point to 6 percent on july 10, but several key trading partners did no follow the move. The wage report noted that although raises for non Union workers outpaced those of Union workers from june 1985 to june of this year Union members still generally enjoy much higher Overall wages and Benefit than non Union counterparts in the same jobs. But the government s figures indicate the wage Gap has been narrowing