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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o take a Gander at these guards Page 3 g Texas mouse votes taxes spending cuts Page 9 re Miami beats Oklahoma in College football Page 21 the stirs  �ul1ct10n f0 the  Abco of Floc vol. 45, no. 164 monday september 29, 1986 0 6693 a military provision withdrawn from Senate anti drug Bill Washington a the Senate is nearing passage of a si.4 billion Mea sure to combat drug abuse after backing off from he stiffest features of a counterpart Bill passed by the House or Dering inc military to Seal . Borders against smugglers and establishing inc a cold penalty in major drug cases. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said sunday that the House s demand that the military intercept All drug ship ments front abroad was  interviewed on the Abc program meet the press Weinberger said the military is already doing a very great Deal to tight drugs including sharing intelligence data with Law enforcement agencies and providing logistical help to other nations for drug raids As was the Case recently in Bolivia. But he noted that 76,000 air planes Cross the . Borders every Day and we Haven t yet discovered the Means to know what s inside each one of  to meet the mandate of the House Bill we d have to Start shooting planes  he added "1 Don l think you want your military out acting like local police. I Don  the Senate slowed through a series of amendments to its Bill by Early sunday before ending a Marathon Day that also saw the Republican controlled chamber pass a landmark tax overhaul Bill. The rare weekend session was necessitated by a heavy Agenda of major legislation As the Congress tries to finish its work and adjourn for the year by next weekend. The Senate did everything but vote see drug Bill on Page 28 inflated record apply Jirji More than 1.5 million balloons Rise from Cleveland s Public Square sat urday of tick off the Ohio dry s United Way Campaign. The promotion set a world record far helium balloons re leased Al one Lime. Story Page 5. Arms talks hinge on Daniloff Case Weinberger says Washington up defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Sun Day the soviet Union and United slates could agree on reducing medium Range missiles this year but arms talks would hinge on the release of Nicholas Dani Loff Weinberger in an interview on abcs meet the press also said he would in Sist that any reduction agreement could be verified but not by soviet planes with soviet  you have to have the ability to go on each other s soil and you have to have the ability to look at factories and gun Sites. If you want to be assured he said. Asked about recent optimistic administration statements hat nuclear arms reduction talks were going Well Weinberg or said i really Hope we can gel the kind of reduction agreements we want this year and i Don t see any reason Why we can t get them his year because the Sovi ets have talked about it. But it May Well be we Don t get lot Alk about in if they persist in holding or Daniloff an innocent american on these outrageous charges he added. Weinberger also used he detention of Daniloff he . News & world report correspondent held in Moscow on espionage charges As an example of soviet unreliability. Daniloff is not n free Man and this i another reason to insist on verification he said. I Don t think this is a Surprise but it s a constant  Weinberger said arms control negotiators were talking about some very Good reductions in medium Range intermediate Range and Long Range missiles and he said the soviets were making serious overtures in the talks because of us greatly increased military  he said the administration wants the number of medium Range missiles reduced to Zero All Over the world hut verification is  i Don t think we should do what we be always done and that is to simply search for what lie soviets want and put in on a piece of paper and sign it and Tell the world we be accomplished some thing he said. Weinberger repeated his desire for approval of president Reagan s strategic defense initiative arguing that if Sta wars was implemented he would agree to a test ban. As Long As you have to rely on nuclear weapons you have to be Able to know that they work and know what the Sovi ets arc doing with theirs he said. Weinberger also made a plug for More defense Money. New Moscow embassy reported full of bugs Washington a the . Embassy under construction in Moscow is so riddled with electronic eavesdropping devices implanted by so Viets that some officials want it turndown  news 4 world report said  about the report the stau depart ment spokesman on duty Pete Martinez said i have nothing on  tie Magazine quoted Ronald Spiers undersecretary of state for management As saying we Are very aware of the problems and we have plans to Deal with  the Magazine also cited construction problems including the use of too Little Lime in some mortar raising the possibility that the Brick facade could crumble from its Frame from the stresses induced by freezing. For More than a year soviet construction workers have not been allowed in the offices of the new building which i five years behind schedule. Similarly Moscow has sent its own soviet construction workers to Washington to work on the new soviet  Magazine in its oct. 6 edition said an inspection of the unfinished building in Moscow this month revealed thai sophisticated listening device shave been implanted in everything from pre cast floors and prefabricated con Crete columns to steel  sen. Lawton Chiles d-fla., a member of the Senate appropriations commit tee s  dealing with slate department funds is seeking to suspend work on the project pending a completer View the Magazine said. Chiles spokesman Jack Pridgen did not immediately return a reporter s Calls  Magazine said unidentified experts in the Cia and on Capitol Hill Are lobbying for demolition of the building which is not scheduled for completion until 19s9  
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