European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d dissidents get tickets to  Page 2 d of Mot Balling California facility Page 5 d air Force beats Utah 45-35 Page 21 the srs.amljirllpesv5�ut�As auth Orilin Uno Ocial Pui Littlon i vol. 45, no. 170 sunday october 5, 1986 . Ahmed places us Doi he Sunda 0 6693 a soviets report 3 killed in fire on nuclear sub Moscow a fire broke Oul in a soviet nuclear powered submarine carry ing ballistic missiles Northeast of Bermuda killing three people but posing no danger of nuclear explosion or contamination Tass said saturday. The official soviet news Agency in a three paragraph report said the fire broke Oul Friday morning As the ship was about 620 Miles Northeast of the is land which is about 800 Miles Oil the mid Atlantic . Coast. In Washington White House spokes Man roman Popaduik said we believe nuclear weapons Are on Board the ship. Popaduik said the soviets informed the United states of the Accident very promptly and the Reagan administration has offered assistance to the Sovi ets and stands ready to assist As required Tass said the Crews of the submarine and other soviet ships in the area Are dealing with the consequences of the  it did not say specifically whether the fire was  commission of experts in Moscow concluded that there was no danger of any unauthorized action of weapons a nuclear explosion or a radioactive contamination of the environment Tass  said the fire broke out in a Compart ment of the submarine but did not spec Ify where the fire was or its cause. The Tass report did not say How the three people died. It said there were casualties aboard the ship but it was not Clear whether they were in addition to the deaths. It is unusual for the soviet Union to report an Accident involving any military  Speed of the Tass announcement appeared to be in keeping with a new Kremlin policy of being More open on Domestic disasters but in is the first time the policy has been applied to a military incident. The soviets were equally Swift in re porting the sinking of a soviet passenger ship in the Black sea on aug. 31 and the attempted hijacking of an Aeroflot Jet earlier this month. The soviets Are believed to have deployed missile carrying submarines in the North Atlantic off he . Coast Formant years. In 1984, than Jefe so min ister Dmitri f. Ustinov said the soviet Union would increase the number of submarines with nuclear missiles off both american coasts. They do patrol in the Atlantic within missile Range of the United states Saida Western military expert who insisted of anonymity. That s  when told of the Tass report he said a fire should not cause any danger greater than a fire on any other ship. The fact that they Are reporting in would Lea me to speculate hat the whole world Al ready knows about  water watch in Bart Taville olda., Conlen Cox bold his son John on Friday As the Caney re a of flows toward their Home. Other photo pm Story p.28. Pope urges worldwide Daylong truce Lyon France a Pope John Paul ii saturday called on All groups at War anywhere inthe world and on All terrorists to halt hostile action for one Day and reflect on Why they Are resorting of violence. Vatican officials said roman Catholic Church officials Are making intense efforts in countries when there is fighting to achieve the Daylong truce called for oct. 27. They said the Church i seeking truces both in conflicts Between states and guerrilla wars. On oct. 27, the Pope will visit Assisi Italy to Pray for world peace along with leaders of Var ious faiths from around the world. The pontiff made his plea at the first Stop of his four Day trip to France an ecumenical prayer gathering at the roman Amphitheater of the three gauls where the first French Christian martyrs died Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the truce idea came to the Pope Friday night and Hesse Pope on Page 28 White House asks Fri probe of disinformation data leak Washington a the while House has asked the Fri to determine the sources of a news re port about an alleged government plan to mislead american journalists covering . Relations with Libya an administration official said saturday. The official who spoke on condition he not be identified said the Fri also has been asked to identify the sources of stories published by la Wall Street journal and the Washington Post about the alleged plan. Reporter Bob Woodward who wrote the Post s Story and Albert r. Hunt Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street journal said they had not been contacted by the Fri and knew of no one on the staffs of the papers who had been. The administration official said he did not know whether Fri agents had contacted either paper which had published stories in August reporting thai i reunited Stales and Libya were on a collision course and described renewed libyan backing for terrorism. Other news organizations picked up the stories. However the official said any time Here is a Lea of documents or correspondence in is just a Mailer of routine that the Fri is called in to Ity to run it  the first thing they do is talk to everybody who was present in the meeting or who had Access to the  the Fri earlier this year started a four Man unit tits Washington Field office to investigate unauthorized disclosures of government information to the news Media. The Post thursday reported an elaborate Whitehouse Campaign included a disinformation program with the Basic goal of making libyan Leader foam mar Qadhafi think that Here is a High degree of inter Nal opposition against him within Libya that his key trusted aides Are disloyal that the . Is about to move against him  the plan was described in a three Page memorandum sent to president Reagan by John m. Poindexter the National Security adviser and the Basic plan was adopted at a White House meeting aug. 14, the Posi said. Administration officials acknowledged that the White House plotted to deceive Qadhafi into thinking he faced a new round of . Bombing and a possible coup but president Reagan insisted there was not any plan of aim to mislead the american people and the press. White House spokesman Larry Speakes quoted John Poindexter the president s National Security adviser As saying thai the disclosure to the Wall Street Jour Nal was not authorized by the .  Speakes also quoted Poindexter As saving that see Fri on Page 23