European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 22,1686 soviets offer arms limit Compromise Washington a soviet for eign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze said saturday that his government is pre pared to work out an agreement with the United Stales on equal nuclear missile Levels in Europe that exempts French and British forces. This was not a simple step to take Shevardnadze said at a news conference Al the soviet embassy. But he said mos cow was taking it in order to help rid Europe of nuclear  the new York times reported Sun Day hat the United states has proposed hat each Side limit its Arsenal of medium Range weapon to 200 warheads. The proposal was made thursday Al the Geneva talks but was not disclosed until saturday it said. The paper quoted unidentified Rea news briefs Carter criticizes drug test plans Kansas City to. Up former president Carter said presi Dent Reagan s plan to test Federal employees for drugs would be expensive and ineffective and he accused Reagan of culling programs thai effectively combat drug abuse. Carter attending the Toth anniversary Celebration and convention of habitat for humanity inc., an International organization thai build slow Cost housing said Friday i Don t think the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to give drug tests 10 Federal employees is going to have any effect at All. He also criticized Reagan for Cul Ling 90 percent of the funding to pro Grams that Carter said Are effective m dealing with drug abuse. Nicaragua gets million in Aid$40 Managua Nicaragua a president Daniel Ortega re turned Home saturday after a 25 Day three continent trip that he said earned the leftist sandinista government j40 million in Loans. Onega s travel look him to Yugo Slavia East Germany Turkina faso Ghana the Congo Zimbabwe China India and North Korea. I Zimbabwe he participated in the conference of non aligned nations. The president told reporters that Nicaragua signed an agreement with India Lor s20 million to Aid and for the same amount with China. Israel from Page 1 Lebanon attacks because it refused to withdraw its troops from the area. Rabin said the attacks on the nine nation. 5,800-member uni Fil were the result of a Power struggle Between themore moderate amal militia and Hezbollah for control of the predominantly shiite population in South  de Cuellar softened his accusations in a new York interview on Israel radio broadcast sunday. He said i am not blaming Israel for what is  sunday s pro football. _  33. Phoide lpns 7 Minna la 31. Pitted Burgh 7la rata h. Indianapolis 7 Tampa Gay 24. Del Oil 20 be Louisg. New Enand 1 1 Atlanta 37. Oplla 35 Kotjan is. Miami 4s overtime Gan administration officials who said the . Proposal includes a suggestion that both countries deploy Only Token medium Range missile forces in Europe. The proposal also Calls for limiting the num Ber of warheads in Asia the times said on the French and British forces Issue the Reagan administration in negotiations with the soviets in Geneva had insisted that the French and British missiles were Independent of the Ameri can Pershing ii and cruise missiles nato has in Western Europe. The . Position was that equal Levels should be set Between the . Missiles and the Mobile ss-20 missiles the Sovi ets have targeted on the West the soviets had countered that the French and British missiles were aimed at soviet territory and should be counted Logi Lucr with the american pcs hugs and cruise missiles against the equal lev Els sought in the Geneva talks. Shevardnadze said it was perhaps difficult for some to believe thai the so Viet Union will take this kind of  but he said Moscow was seeking accommodation and  the soviet official said the ., Brit ish and French governments were Allaward of the move. The French have a nuclear Force of missile carrying nuclear submarines bomber aircraft and ground based mis Siles that Are based in Southern France. The British Force is made tip of four submarines each carrying 16 Polaris missiles. Both nato countries plan to expand their nuclear strength. The soviet Concession could improve chances for an Accord with the United states. The two sides already had moved closer to each other s position. President Reagan task week instructed ambassador Mai m. Kampelman to Lake up with the soviets their proposal to reduce to Token Levels in Europe. However soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a message Shevardnadze delivered to Reagan on Friday is under stood to be calling for the total elimination of the . And soviet mis Siles. A total of 140 perching and cruise launchers Are deployed in West Germany Britain. Italy and Belgium while the Soyi Els have 241 Mobile ss-20 missiles in stalled in their european territories. Ran an group threatens hostages claiming treacherous French methods Beirut Lebanon up an Irani an backed underground group sunday said the French government s devious and treacherous methods will bring harm to the French hostages held in Leb anon. In a statement 10 a Western news Agency in Beirut the islamic Al Kaawa party also accused the French govern ment of breaking its Promise to return to Paris two iraqi dissidents extradited 10 Iraq in february. Yesterday saturday the Date by which the French government claimed he two iraqi students it extradited to Iraq will return to Paris expired without the fulfilment of this Promise the statement said. It quoted a French foreign ministry source As having announced sept. 5 that dissidents Fawzy Hamza and Hassan Khaireddine will be Able to return to Paris within 10 to is Days the Al Daw a party said the failure of Hamza and Khaireddine to return to Paris reaffirmed that the French govern ment did not tackle this sensitive Issue truthfully and deliberately stalled to divert iraqi moslem and world Public opinion. In an apparent link to the pro iranian islamic jihad organization that hold three american and three French hos tages in Lebanon the statement addressed the parents of the French hos tages we would like Here to draw he Atten Tion of the parents of the French Kidnap Ped that the French government bears full responsibility for any harm that May afflict their sons because of their govern ment s devious and treacherous meth ods the Staie Meni said. Earlier this month the fundamentalist islamic jihad holy War accused the French government of deliberately ignoring the Fate of the two dissidents and warned that any further stalling will harm the hostages. In March the shadowy organization produced photographs that it said showed hostage Michel Seurat 37, a re searcher Al Beirut s Institute of Middle East affairs had been executed in re Venge for France extraditing the two iraqis. Islamic jihad holds frenchmen Jean Paul Kaufmann 48, a journalist Marcel Fontaine 45, vice Consul at the French embassy and Marcel Carton 62, chief of protocol Al the embassy. I also has taken responsibility for the abduction of americans Terry Anderson 38, the associated press Middle East correspondent David Jacobsen 54, the american University Hospital director and Thomas Sutherland 55, Dean of agriculture at the american University of Beirut. The group said it executed hostage William Buckley 36, . Embassy political officer in october last year to avenge the israeli air raid on Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in Tunisia. His Oody and that of Seura were never found. Sunday s statement by at Dawa awarded the French government anew that the group holds it responsible for the Fate of the iraqi dissidents and we strongly ask the government to Lei them out free and Safe from the big iraqi Pris  the same group had issued a statement sept. 3 calling on France to pressure Iraq into allowing the iwo iraqis to leave Iraq if France wants to prov its  Britain offers France anti terror Aid London up Britain has of of Rcd France the help of its elite Sas anti terror squad to fight a wave of terrorist bombings in Paris by suspected Arab guerrillas that have kilted eight people newspapers reported sunday. Three sunday newspapers said members of the Sas Short for the Royal air Force s special air services squad were on standby for joint operations with French Security forces to Battle the bomb ers. Five bombs exploded in a 10-Day period in Paris beginning sept. Skilling eight people and wounding 164, and French authorities suspect followers of a lebanese guerrilla Leader jailed in France. The sunday times said the unprecedented offer of Sas assistance by the British government was cleared in High level talks Between Paris and London last week there was no comment from the Brit ish ministry of defense which does not discuss the activities of the elite anti terrorist squad. The Sas which has the motto who dares wins won widespread publicity in 1980 when its Hood shrouded troops ended a takeover of the iranian embassy in London with a surgical strike that freed hostages. Sas officers have assisted foreign governments in the past but this is believed to be the first Lime a full unit has Bee made available the sunday times Laid. The mail on sunday also reported that the Sas and West Germany s elite o9 anti terrorist unit were poised to help the French. Pact from Page 1 and on site inspections of each other s military forces. Agreement was reached after intense discussions in Small groups of military experts from nato and the Warsaw pact and reportedly private talks Between the . And soviet delegation Heads. Nato had sought Mutual notification for Maneu vers involving As few As 6,000 troops. The Warsaw pact initially wanted the figure set Al 20,000. At the initial East West Security conference in 1975, the level for notification was set at Maneu vers involving 25,000 troops. The two sides compromised by setting two separate ceilings for notification an sending observers. If one nation suspects another is con ducting sizable military Maneu vers with out notifying the other Side it can de Mand an on site inspection using aircraft or land vehicles. The request must be made within 24 hours of the reported violation. The two sides compromised on the number of on site inspections a nation would have to allow settling for Al least three annually. However each would be allowed to request Only one inspection of another country s forces each year. Each nov. Is participating nation roust provide each other with a schedule of All planned military activities involving 40,000 or More troops for the next two year period. The soviets Long had resisted allowing on site inspections to verify compliance with such an Accord. It was seen at a major Concession when the soviet Dep Uty defense minister. Marshal Nastro a Negev came to Stockholm during the conference s final session to announce that the soviets would allow of Sile inspection in some areas. He indicated that Lane areas deemed militarily sensitive would be exempted