European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 24,1936 budget cuts forcing Voa Europe to close by Charlie Bowde Munich Bureau " a top a a  air opera lion Voa eur pc new fwd less than a year after it began broadcast Library music to Western Europe we arc gradually phasing out our programming and will cease broadcasting dec. 31," said Frank Scott director of the Munich based operation. We re i crib by disappointed because it looked like Voa Europe was a big  a spokeswoman for the Voa in Washington monday that Money was the Only Consorti morn in shilling Down the operation. She said a Reginal one year Pilot program . Has been broadcasting 24 hours jowl English and is consid ered a Success. Hoai it with everyone combing Bud gets for think Diffut the decision was made Reluct of director Richard w. Carlson and is Wick director of the United Stales information Agency to close Voa Europe she said. Ambitious expansion plans for Voa Europe had included broadcasts in German italian French and Spanish the spokeswoman said. T each of those language programs Hasaj thauland there is no was Jim real budget in wow  she said. Scott or my bib a a  close Voa  to terminate Voa Europe broadcasts at the end of 1986 has been a difficult one to make Wick s statement said. We had made a Good begin Ning in our efforts to reach younger audiences in West Ern Europe where information about the United slate Sand its role in preserving Freedom on its own continent and around the world is sadly lacking. The stringent budgetary options however require difficult decisions and Strong immediate  the savings in fiscal 1987 from cancelling via Europe will be Between $1 million and sl5 million excluding salaries Scott  1987 Wai about 13.3 muiuimpmifadout$900,000 in Sala Ami , went on the air in culminated  dating to 1977 to once again broadcast to Friendly nations alter a Gap of nearly 25  approved the idea during the Carter administration but did not fund it until fiscal 1984.using a top-40 contemporary format Voa Europe of estimated the station was reaching a potential Ihan 20 million Young people in Imit a network of affiliate Slation and on Cable Rao off pfc Scott said Voa Europe Holb Aej a full time staff of about 20 in other Sposili organization. The spokeswoman said Voa Hope to continue of Fering information to Young people in Western Europe but no decisions have been made on How that will Bedone. Su1i mar  to Ihui port i soviets say six killed in aborted hijacking by the los Angeles times Moscow sin persons were killed in an abortive attempt to Hijack a soviet Airliner in the provincial City of Ufa Las saturday the soviet news Agency Tass said monday. The incident which was not mad Public until 48 hours after it occurred ended with the deaths of the two would be hijackers and two of the passengers aboard the plane Tass said. Also killed were two policemen seized by the two men on their Way to the Airport in a commandeered taxi the news Agency said. Policemen and Kab officers stormed the plane on the Tarmac the Tass account said killing the hijackers. It was one of the rare episodes of hijacking reported in recent years in the soviet Union where pilots carry Side arms and heavy Security measures Are taken routinely at airports. Ufa a City about 720 Miles East of Moscow in the Volga River Region is a Center of the petrochemical  plane a Tu-134 carrying 76 Passen Gers and Crew members was on a Stopover Between Kiev and the Western siberian City of . In seizing the plane the criminals opened fire and killed two  said. The criminals were later found to be drug addicts. They were killed As a result of Resolute measures taken by state Security and militia police personnel who displayed great per Sonal valor and High professional Stan Dards during the  Tass identified the two men who at tempted the hijacking As . Matsev and . Yag Murthi but gave no Ages occupations or Home cities. 11 said hey killed a police sergeant and his Deputy while trying to shake off pursuers in route to the Airport. There was no indication in the sparse voyager has final Globe circling have Calif. Dpi the exp Nohema voyager air plane took off on its final Tel flight Early monday the last before attempt an in priced wed around Lac world flight up Trout re Mcling the Yager took off at 6 54  7.500pounds Kiel. Spokeswoman wan Wolf said. They be very Happy with tha Falcoff. The Hope to Hayla full Day flight con Fig Back Down Here at Moja this afternoon Wolf said they feel is will be the Lait Tesi night prior to the world Flint she said m the two nil had plan a 48-hour test flight but Iney winged Uhr minds because they Don t feel me 48-ho.t lest is necessary Wolf said. % i the two pilots Blue Tok Llemit the unprecedented around inc Dkl Hughl later this week. Blacks disrupt service for dead miners Farfel 2 Molesso Izeall of Johannesburg 172 Blacken a five White miners were killed and a total of 135 were injured. Ski from Paga 1 Gan s letter was received at the White House Friday during a hastily arranged meeting with Shevardnadze that focused on Daniloff. Reagan did not disclose the contents of the letter saying Only that he was giving it serious and careful  Reagan proposed a 50 percent reduction in War Heads on both sides but he said in his speech he would consider a lesser reduction As an interim measure i that was what the soviets wanted. Administration officials who briefed reporters confirmed that Reagan is ready 10 accept it soviet counteroffer to Cut offensive weapons by 30 percent As a first step toward greater reductions. Reagan also said thai he was prepared to conclude an interim agreement that would leave Only a Token number of . And soviet medium Range nuclear mis Siles in Europe. Officials called that a promising area in which an Accord May be near. But the Daniloff matter remains a eliciting  called Daniloff who was arrested in Moscow israeli troops mass on Border editor s note the following copy was submitted to the Hraet military censor who made significant , Israel a israeli troops by the hundreds massed along the Border monday and an official said they were ready to push into Southern Lebanon to crush an offensive by shiite moslem  israeli preparations were aimed at bolstering the South Lebanon army a Force of 1,000 lebanese militiamen who Patro an israeli designated Buffer zone in Southern Lebanon stitching six to 10 mile North of the Frontier. The militia israeli trained and israeli financed has lost 16 men in recent weeks to attacks by pro iranian shiites of the Radical Hezbollah faction which seeks 10 dislodge the remaining israeli pres ence in  the United nations monday israeli ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu told the Security Council his country would not dismantle the Buffer zone As demanded by the United nations because abandonment would cause inc entire area along Israel s Border to til up with moslem and palestinian sex Taunuu a terrible violence would once again be unleashed Netanyahu warned. Israel will not lend its hand to shh calamity. We will continue to do what is necessary to protect the lives and safely  Israel says the South Lebanon army is needed to help thwart attacks on Northern israeli towns. An israeli operation would be aimed at showing the shiites on the fringes of the Security Belt that in does t pay to give shelter and support to Hezbollah the israeli official told the associated press. He spoke on condition of  spiritual Leader sheikh Mohammed Hus Sein Fadlallah told a mass rally in Beirut on sunday the guerrilla offensive was meant to destroy the theory be Hind the establishment of Israel s Security  in Southern Lebanon said the israeli army moved columns of tanks and armoured person Nel carriers up to the Border and into the Section of South Lebanon patrolled by the Irish battalion of lha United nations peacekeeping Force. Israel closed All the Gates to the Buffer zone Mon Day Balling Access to the area both from Israel Tass account of whether the two hereunder the influence of drugs at the Lime of the attempted  the last previous Public report of hijacked plane Here a Copilot Lew Anatro Flot plane to China. The Man wat tried in a chinese court and sentenced tonight years in prison nearly three years ago. A group of seven georgians Sei cd an Aeroflot plane bound from Tbilisi to Leningrad and or dered the Pilot to a to Turkey. But the Pilot using a ruse landed the plane a Tbilisi and policemen stormed the air Craft killing three hijackers and three members of he Crew. The other four hijackers were sentenced to death. Aug. 30 and accused of espionage an innocent hos Tage who should be  by Contrail a said that Dan lofts soviet counterpart Gennady Zakharov ii an accused spy who should stand trial. Unlike Many of his previous speeches on East West relations Reagan s . Address was unusually conciliatory toward the soviet Union he did however take Jab Al the soviets for human rights violations. Noting that the image conscious Gorbachev includes a Section on humanitarian concerns in his speeches Reagan said that human rights do not belong in the realm orc Harily. Respect for human rights is not social work in is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of it  except for those flashes of frustration Reagan presented an encouraging picture of .-soviet relations at a critical juncture. We Are moving toward a future of greater Reliance upon strategic defense he said outlining his proposal for a new anti ballistic missile treaty that would prevent deployment of any Star wars system until 1991. After Bat either Side wish Nito deploy would be required Over a two year period to negotiate a possible sharing with the other. Only after that could either Side unilaterally deploy after giving six months notice