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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d language skills helping soldiers work together Page 3 d Reagan vows to veto House Money Bills Page 5 d Houston astros Pitcher sets strikeout record Page 21 act stripes Lutho Iitto undo Mill publication vol. 45, no. 160 thursday september 25, 1986 ,1. Armsto kit Cut Deil Ond Muy 0 6693 a soviets get their turn to Deal atm Atu United nations up soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said tuesday president Reagan s in address was full of misconceptions and prejudices and inc foreign minister urged the United slates to Slop. Deadly nuclear  Shevardnadze. 5neajihgto inc , general as5gawt4 hours after Rea Gan  Union is prepared 10 Sib it Raj a with Washington that would ban All nut he also ridiculed stirring  stories in tilt Merican strategic do Iai Ive inc space based anti bal Stic missile program known As Star  there is Only one Way Oul while there is still Lime before it 13 too late to Slop playing for insane stakes with no Prospect of winning for anybody to end Nee and for All this fateful deadly Nuclo bling Shevardnadze said in his Libut cd in Advance of his spec Cut before his speech Sheva for about 20 minutes with Secretary by stale George Shultz in the office of the president of the Security Council soviet ambassador Alexander bal Onosov. There was no immediate word As to what was discussed. In his speech Shevardnadze did not mention the Daniloff Case which he has said can be resolved. Reagan in his address to inc Assembly monday said recent  contacts Netrol might represent " he by pc negotiation on arrnsthmjhiiij_5ad, All this gives me hope.1 Bui Reagan outlined a plan Tai see soviets on Paga 28 israeli jets Pound guerrilla positions Beirut Lebanon not israeli acis bombed palestinian positions in the mountains overlooking Beirut on tuesday. Guerrillas from hard line palestinian groups Are known to have been living in the District of Akin where inc positions that were bombed arc situated. The air strike came 24 hours after the israeli army was reported to have massed troops and Armor along Lebanon s Southern Border. There was also a new alack tuesday on the United nations peacekeeping Force in Southern Lebanon. Four soviet made Katusha rockets struck the Headquarters of Llie French battalion in the shiite Village of mar Akah cast of the Mediterranean port of Tyre but no one was reported wounded. The israeli air Force planes that carried out the attacks near Beirut tuesday arrived at dusk and dropped their bombs and rockets Al targets in Laisur Shevlan Al Amaru file and ail at All mainly druse villages about 10 Miles Southeast of the capital. The police said eight acis carried out four bombing runs causing a number of fires and that druse Mili Tiamen of the progressive socialist party had fired anti aircraft guns at the raiders. Local radio stations said Al least five people were wounded and several buildings damaged. A military spokesman quoted by the israeli radio said inc raid was aimed at Headquarters of inc demo cratic front for the liberation of Palestine a marxist group and Al a dissident faction of a Fatah Ted by col. Saed Musa who is also known As Abu Musa. All israeli planes resumed safely o their bases and the pilots reported accurate hits the spokesman said. Stale controlled Beirut radio said enemy aircraft had attacked a mental Asylum perched in those Hills but in gave no explanation Why the sanitarium would have been targeted. Reports from the area meanwhile said hundreds of israeli soldiers backed by tanks and helicopter gunships had fanned out along the israeli Border with Lebanon. Radio stations Here said several israeli armoured col a syrian backed palestinian guerrilla base to the mountains near Beirut is left in nibble by israeli air strikes. A a told urns Hud crossed into the Security zone and taken up two main positions one overlooking the shiite Lown of Nab Atiye in inc Central sector and one farther Southeast overlooking syrian positions in the Bekaan. Israeli officials have said their Christian allies in the South Lebanon army have lost 16 men in four attacks by shiite fundamentalist guerrillas in the last 10 Days. The 2,000-member South Lebanon army helps the israelis patrol the Security zone which the israeli army established after withdrawing the bulk of the forces it had sent into Lebanon when it invaded four years ago. Two thirds of the 30,000 syrian soldiers in Lebanon arc deployed in the Bekaan Region in Eastern Lebanon. Syrian soldiers patrol the Village of Mashihara which is Only five Miles North of the Security  a newspaper in West Beirut Al hakka quoted president Hafez Assad of Syria As saying there would be a stunning retaliation if Israel invaded Lebanon. The daily reported that Assad told lebanese visitors if in attempts a new invasion the retaliation will be stun Ning. In will be a Surprise to  sex official says officers in Beirut ignored warnings Washington a . Mili tary commanders ignored warnings which could have spared the lives of Many killed in the 1983 attack on Marine Headquarters in Beirut he Penta gon s former top counter terrorism offi Cial has charged. Instead of paying attention 10 the warnings of a five member special forces team which recommended ways to make the marines safer the report was swept under the Rug wrote Noel Koch. The commanders were More worried about bureaucratic infighting said Koch who resigned earlier this year us Princi pal Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for International Security affairs. In that position he oversaw the Pentagon s counter terrorism efforts. Koch s charges Are contained in a let Ter sent to several members of Congress in support of proposals to unify the Pentagon s special forces within a single Mil itary Structure rather than keeping them scattered throughout the services. The letter was made available tuesday to the associated press. Sen. William Cohen a Maine a member of the armed services commit tee and one of the co sponsors of the legislation said Koch s letter is another indication thai american military forces Aren t prepared 0 Deal with terrorism. There s growing concern that we Are least Able to Deal with the most Likely form of co tubal Cohen told a news conference at the Capitol. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman said tuesday he was sure Koch s allegations would be reviewed by the defense department and the joint chiefs of staff but said the former offi Cial seemed primarily interested in influencing legislation on Capitol  Noel Koch s advocacy for the special operations forces is Well known said Sims. I suspect whatever he has written is aimed at gaining support for legis  Koch wrote that he had never before spoken about the Beirut bombing be cause in would Only cause More pain to people already suffering the unbearable pain of the loss of people they  internally i made my views known wrote Koch. But who would wish to say 10 someone that their loved ones died because those to whom their lives were entrusted placed a higher priority on other interests. Personal interests Ca reer interests higher priority on other see Beirut on Page 28  
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