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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d new Torrejon facility gets the message out Page 3 d 3 marines arrested in series of California train robberies Page 7 d College football results sports the stars.  unofficial publication vol.45, no. 171 monday. October 6, 1986 d 8693 a Caney River overflow name Story Page 28. Burble Tville. Okla., Conlin co ids his Sun John on Friday As the Aid their . Adm co Foci of h 25  ind Siva 3 killed in fire on soviet sub off East coast by it los Angeles time Washington a soviet missile firing nuclear submarine in inc Atlantic sustained a fire that killed three Crew men and the soviet government promptly assured the United states that there was no danger of a nuclear explosion or con lamination inc White House disclosed  after the announcement in Washington and the release of a similar statement in Moscow a . Navy p-3 Orion Ami submarine patrol plan spotted the vessel on the surface of the Ocean. It was about 480 nautical mile cast of Bermuda and 1,080 Miles West of Cape Hall Cras . Pentagon spokeswoman it. Col. Edwina Palmer said the plane monitoring he soviet sub reported smoke still com ing from the vessel at dusk. She said the plane detected glowing spots indicating that the fire was not out the Agio rated press reported Pentagon sources said Al least four so Viet merchant ships Are in the area. President Reagan spending the week end at Camp David immediately offered . Assistance but there was no request for help from the soviets. In the soviet Union the official new Agency Tass said after analysing the situation an expert commission in mos cow reached the conclusion that there is no danger of any unauthorized action accidental launching of weapons a nuclear explosion or radioactive contamination of the  the submarine s Crew and other so Viet ships which sailed up to help arc dealing with the consequences of the fire Tass reported. There Are casualties aboard the sub Marine. Three persons died it added. The announcement of the Accident came about 24 hours after the fact. That promptness and the accompanying Assur ances were taken by administration officials in Washington As evidence Hal the soviet government is anxious that the incident not be allowed to complicate planning for the meeting Between Rea Gan and soviet Leader Mikhail a Gorba Chev next weekend in Iceland. Defense department spokesman Rob Ert Sims travelling with defense Secre tary Caspar w. Weinberger betwee Washington and Anchorage Alaska on the first leg of a round the world Survey trip told reporters that Dou officials first Learned of the Accident at about 5a.m. Saturday about four hours before Gorbachev informed Reagan through diplomatic channels. Ai the Pentagon col. Marvin  identified the stricken vessel As a Yankee class submarine. The soviet Yankee i class can carry 16 ssn-6 mis Siles each with the capability of delivering two nuclear warheads Over a Range of 1,800 Miles. Missiles aboard the More see sub on Page 28 Lehman opposes use of military in drug War by the los Angeles times san Diego blasting legislation that would re quire the military to Block the . Border As absurd and childish Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Said he strongly opposes using the armed forces tomake arrests or Lead the nation in a War against drugs. That is what always has made the United slates very different from any police state Lehman said. We never should cede police Powers to the  the expedient Issue of he Day it is easy to rationalize it away but it is a fundamental threshold that should never be  Lehman said military readiness will suffer if troops neglect warfare training to mount a blockade across the Border thai s not what the military is for he said. Mili tary readiness Lias been hard won these last five years. The Navy and All of the services were Basket cases in1979. 1980, and we could not act the Job done. Morale was Rotten because nobody believed they could do what they were supposed to be doing. Everybody believed they were going to lose if the fighting started it s taken us five years and a lot of Money to re store  an interview at North Island Nas Lehman also said he sees no contradiction Between the Navy allow ing Ensign Napoleon Mccallum to play professional football for the los Angeles raiders and the Marine corps decision last week to turn Down a Transfer that would have allowed 1st la. Eddie Meyers a Chance to join the Atlanta  measure requiring the military to Block any unauthorized ships or aircraft from crossing the nation s Border or entering any of its ports passed by the House on a 237-177 vote would vastly expand the us of the military in the administration s War on  it directs the president to deploy the armed services to halt All narcotics traffic within 4s Days by utilizing see drugs on Page 28 Fri asked to probe disinformation reports 1tqn a the Whitehouse hat my Bolo determine the sources of news. Iced government plan to Misle a lists covering . Relations with Libya. Related Story Page 5. An administration official said sat urday the Fri has been asked to identify the sources of stories published Wall Street journal a Post a Boull Repoff flub Woodward who wrote the Post s Story and Albert r. Hunt the Washington Bureau chief of the Wal Street journal said they had not been a acted by the Fri and knew of no one Bisig diapers who had been.  know whether Fri lacked eilherrjaacfa0 reporting that sited states and Libya were on collision course and described renewed libyan backing for terrorism. Otherness organizations picked up the stories. However the official said any Lime there is a leak of documents or correspondence it is just a matter of routine that the Fri is called in to try to run Al Down. And the for St i had Access to the Doc la the four Man unit Al its Washer fico to investigate unauthorized disclosures of government info ration to the news  Post thursday reported an elaborate while House Campaign included a disinformation program with the Doris a High degree of internal opposition against him within Libya that his key trusted aides Are disloyal Hal the . I about to move against him  the plan was described in a  sent to president Reagan by Jonm ctr National Security adviser Ano we biplane was 28  
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