European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The mid forces vol.45, no. 135 sunday august31, 1986 a o.�, d 8693 a inside stripes d Morocco Breaks off treaty with Libya Page 2 d copter company seeks trial costs from widows Page 5 d Evert Becker Connors win in . Open Page 21 of polish heptathlon athlete Ala Nowak although Dos in strenuous Effort is a Smil saturday As she lands in a a photo Sand ditch. She s at the end of her Lon jump in the heptathlon event at the european track and Field championships in Stuttgart. 2 marines die 6 others missing in copter crash Oslo Norway a two Marine died and six Are reported missing after a . Marine corps helicopter carrying21 people crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Norway an officer reported saturday. Reports from Allied officials in Oslo and . Military officials in Norfolk va., said 13 people were plucked fro the Ocean by other helicopters and Rescue boats following Friday s crash. The twin Rotor ch-46 sea Knight As signed to the Norfolk based assault ship Saipan crashed about 60 Miles West Ogbodo during nato exercises said chief Petty officer Joseph Mowery a spokes Man for the . Atlantic Fleet in nor Folk. The names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of rela Tives . Officials col. Yngvar Norlemann Heads an Allied information Center set up for nato s three week maritime fall exercise known As Northern wedding 86. Norlemann said he could not con firm an unattributed report by the norwegian news Agency nth saturday that the ch-46, while taking off from the Saipan had collided with another chop per parked on helicopter was assigned to Marine medium so 162, based at new River corps spokesman capt. Scott Campbell told the associated press in Telephone interview from Norfolk that two marines were killed in the crash and six others were missing and presumed dead. Ten arc in Good condition and two see crash on Page 28 Navy wants to hire Fate an cargo so tips Washington he the Navy saying american com racial ships charge too much wants to Pate Multi million Dollar International foreign vessels. Domestic shippers Are in move As one that could sink the Pider ing . Merchant Fleet. Pentagon officials Haj opposed easing the restrictions_cjprl904 Law that gives american Myers first crack a carrying All goods. The lines already Hurt by for cig Obrn petition and an Industry wide a prison say their demise would be a Jawed by losing what they claim is be source of cargo in the year the Navy s sea life Comus . Lines si.8 billion. The . Shippers also warn that Marine s demise could weaken itself which turns to Mer times of War. The uni dispute Between the Navy and its urm Ted merchant counterpart was prompt new Fiat by the tin nation of Iceland. Citizens hat North Atlantic Island nation have Tyrl thened to shut Down a crucial . Base if icelandic merchant ships Don t get a share of the see Navy on Page 28 soviets offer to let . Inspect test Sites Washington a the soviet Union stepping up its or Summit Campaign offered thursday to open its nuclear test Sites to american inspectors and accused the Reagan administration of conducting secret Star wars expo a rare embassy news conference Deputy ambassador Oleg m. Socolo dismissed As cynical the Reagan administration s refusal to join the moratorium that general Secretary Mikhail s. Gorbachev has imposed on soviet tests until said Moscow is ready to accept every conceivable form of agreement to Monitor a test ban once the United states joined in the , we do not see a problem of inspections As an obstacle toward reach ing an Accord on the cessation of nuclear tests Sokolov said. Gorbachev imposed the moratorium last August and has extended it three times. The United states has refused to join arguing that . Weapons must be tested for reliability and safety and that there were no assurances the soviets would observe a said there is no rationale for the United slates not joining our moratorium except maybe for the cynical argument that nuclear tests Are needed to continue the nuclear arms on the Issue of verifying a test ban he said As far As the soviet Union is concerned the problem of verification of halting All nuclear tests does not exist. We have put Forward practically Ever conceivable form of verification. Col. Vitaly a Luzhansky appearing with Sokolov said underground blasts could be detected even below the single Kiloton level with seismic measurements and satellite observation from , described As a verification expert said the United states has conducted three tests probably related to the Star wars program since Gorbachev announced the soviet moratorium last colonel said one was set off last August another in the fall and the third last april. To Luzhansky said these were in addition to the is nuclear tests announced by the . Government. They Are probably oriented to the Star wars program and it is one of the dangerous aspects of that program he 1980 to 1984, to Luzhansky said the United slates set off 12 to 19nuclear weapons explosions without publicizing Pentagon spokesman maj. Randy Morecr said we do not discuss the objectives of the nuclear tests that otherwise he declined to respond to the soviet state department spokesman Charles e. Redman rejected Sokolov statements on verification As facile. This is a much More Complex Situa Tion the Redman said. President Reagan has invited soviet inspectors to the Nevada test site to show that the . Tests were within the 150-Kilolori Range permitted in 1974 and 1976 treaties. Sokolov dismissed the offer. We think this is unnecessary and per haps even More harmful because this will legitimize the testing itself he preparations for a 1986 Reagan Gorbachev Summit lagging the two Side shave cockeyed Over the reasons for delay and what they want to accomplish if Asee soviets on Page 28
