European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strip Sis " d Reagan Calls Beirut deaths glaring error. Page 5 d Connors Becker Evert Advance in . Open sports Page 21 g today s Dollar buys 2.03 Marks rates Page 27 unofficial Fui cation Foi the o.�. Armed forc Lavol. 45, no. 133 Friday. August 29, 1986 0 8693 a huge military cuts projected discharges would affect Active duty reserves by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the Pentagon would have to discharge almost 600,000 Active duty and Reserve personnel starting in october if automatic budget cuts called Tor by the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law arc triggered the defense department said . Col. Pete Wyro a Pentagon spokesman said the department s office of the comptroller had completed an analysis that shows roughly 310,000 Active duty Servic members and 280,000 reservists and National guard personnel would have to be discharged to satisfy the spending reductions. Those projections arc markedly higher than the Ini tial estimates provided by Pentagon and congressional budget office officials last week when the latest projections for the National budget deficit for fiscal 1987 were released. At the time officials had predicted the cuts required under the Law to lower the deficit would see military on Page 28 Benghazi marked on Forrestal map a airy f-14 lands on the Carrier Forrestal during .-egyptian military exercises in the Mediterranean. A photo soviets pledge support for Libya against . Editor s note the following is based on Pool material by reporters from the Washington Post anytime Ine aboard the Forrestal two american correspondents who went aboard the Carrier Forres Tal said they saw in the Squadron briefing room map of the Southern coast of the Mediterranean on which the libyan City of Benghazi was marked prominently by concentric circles. Correspondents Jeff Bartholt of the Washington Post and Scott Mac cod of time Magazine said they were told by a . Naval commander the map was not related to the .-egyptian sea wind exercise which entered its final Day thursday. The correspondents spent about seven hours aboard the Forrestal wednesday and watched an air display that featured f-14 tomcats accelerating from Zero to Iso Miles per hour in 2.1 seconds and a-6 bomber dropping a 16 i ton payload of bombs into the sea. The correspondents said they asked cmdr. John Heufelder surface operations officer for Carrie group 6, Why Benghazi was marked on the map. Heufelder said the map did t concern the exercise and then turned around and Slid the map out of View. Another commander rear adm. Raymond p. Log commander of Carrier group 6, confirmed that visit to the israeli port of Haifa by the Forrestal had been cancelled but said it was not related to the confrontation. That kind of disappointed us All log Are a number of reasons. Libya is not really in see Benghazi on Page 28 Moscow up the soviet Union thursday pledged its support for Libya in the face of increasing threat from the United states and accused the United states of preparing another Mili tary strike against Libya. Foreign ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said a High level soviet delegation headed by vice president of the presidium of the supreme soviet Pyotr a Michev would travel to Tripoli Libya saturday to attend the 17th anniversary celebrations of the libyan Revo Lution on sept. I. Gerasimov said the sending of a soviet delegation showed libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi he still had the sup port of the Kremlin. He said besides attending the celebrations the delegation would conduct some mov did not accused the United states of using Libya As a Scapegoat in the War against terrorism and said the United states had no hard facts linking Libya to any Crimi Nal acts. The communist party newspaper pravda thursday accused the United states of hatching another Pilatic Sally against Libya and said Libya was not involved in International said Libya was not a perpetrator of terrorism but rather a present reminds us of the Situa Tion in april. The americans have no produced any hard proof of terrorist american administration has turned the libyan government into a see support on Page 28 Whitworth gets 365 years for role in espionage ring san Francisco a convicted spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000 thursday for his role in a spy ring that peddled the Navy most sensitive communications secrets to the soviet , convicted on seven counts of espionage must serve a least 60 years before he will be eligible for former Navy radioman called by the government the Central figure in the most damaging spy ring in . Military history said just one line Ashe was sentenced by . District judge John just want to say i m very very sorry Whitworth was one of the most spectacular spies of this Century who gave the soviet Union the very blueprint of our most coveted an guarded communications the judge , 47, of Davis was convicted july 24 of Selling to the walked family spy ring the secrets of Navy decoding equipment code keys an communications systems he gathered and photographed for nearly a decades a radio operator at ship and Shore also was convicted of tax evasion on the $332,000 he was see Whitworth on Pago 28 searching out bargain outlets doily Magazine
