European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday. October 17,1986 . May give Pakistan Early warning systems Islamabad. Pakistan Hupfl the Reagan administration is considering providing Pakistan with .-operated sophisticated airborne surveil Lance systems to give advanced warnings of incur Sions by soviet and afghan warplanes. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said thursday Weinberger said the plan was among several being discussed to address urgently needed improvements in Pakistan s air defences until it could acquire and operate its own airborne Early warn ing platforms. The Pentagon chief spoke at a news Confer ence after Alks with prime minister Moham mad Khan Junejo who also is defense min ister and the commander of Pakistan s . Supplied military on new sales of . Arms that the United states says in chief South asian ally needs because of me threat posed by soviet forces occupying neighbouring Afghanistan. Nuke arms test delayed 25 minutes by protester Las vegas nov. A a Large nuclear weapon was exploded thursday deep beneath the desert floor after a delay caused by an anti nuclear protester who got close to ground Micro officials said. Scientists were within five to 10 minutes of detonating the weapon at the Nevada Tesi site when the protester the last of sin who infiltrated the site was spotted by a helicopter Crew within a mile of ground Zero department of Energy spokesman Dave Miller said. He got close enough that we were concerned that if we fired he might gel injured Milter said. The lest previously delayed by weather was pushed Back another 25 minutes while the Man was evacuated by helicopter it was finally detonated without apparent incident at 12 2 . Soldier shoots self after police Chase Sydney. Australia a a Soldier who stole an 11-ton troop Carrier and led police on an hour Long Chase before shooting himself on the Sydney Harbor Bridge died thursday police said. The Soldier identified by police As 30-year old Lance Cpl. Ross Edwards stole the armoured vehicle from the Holsworthy army base outside Sydney on tuesday night. Using a Periscope to see his Way he drove the personnel Carrier across Sydney As police Fol Lowed. When the tank like vehicle stopped on the Bridge a police officer climbed inside. Police said there was a struggle and two shot were fired. They said Edwards was wounded by a member of the tactical team who entered the troop Carrier and that Edwards then turned his gun on himself. He was taken in a Hospital where his Condi Tion steadily deteriorated. 100 palestinians questioned about wailing Wall bombing Jerusalem a police starched Homes in the old City and questioned More than 100 palestinians on thursday Hunting for the Terroni who tossed grenades into a crowd near the wailing Wall killing one person and injuring 69. In apparent retaliation israeli warplanes bombed palestinian guerrilla bases near the port City of Sidon in Southern Lebanon on thursday. Police and wit Nesses in Lebanon said an israeli plane was shot Down. Right Wing israeli legislators called for harsh anti Arab measures such As deporting All arabs from israeli occupied territories or restricting the movement of arabs in the old City. Five rival palestinian guerrilla groups including the Palestine liberation organization and three pro Syri an groups claimed responsibility for the grenade at tack. Security official said at least two guerrillas on wednesday threw two or three grenades into a group of about 300 recruits of an elite army infantry Force and their families after a swearing in ceremony at the wailing Wall the remnant of the biblical jewish Temple. Officials at hadash Hospital said the blast killed one Man the father of a Soldier. Police said 42 soldiers and 27 civilians mostly relatives of recruits were among the wounded. The attack occurred near dung Gale about 300 Yards from the wailing Wall Judaism s holiest thursday police washed bloodstains from the pavement but Glass fragments from damaged cars remained. The atmosphere in the old City was subdued few shoppers came to the outdoor Arab marketplace and several merchants refused to be interviewed. Prize from Page 1 rested in 1967 on charges of conspiring with anti govern ment rebels fighting to establish an Independent state called Biafra. He said he was tortured and held in solitary confinement during his 22-month imprisonment. Have one abiding religion human Liberty Soyinka once wrote. It works in me As a raging insurgent Force against the inexplicable propensity of human beings towards the enslavement of others. Soyinka has been prolific As a writer of drama fic Tion poetry essays and criticism but is most famous As a dramatist. He has been characterized As one of the finest poet ical playwrights that have written in English the Academy said. It singled out two plays a dance of the forests and death and the King s a dance of the forests is a half satirical and half fantastic Celebration of nigerian Independence. Death and the King s horseman embodies his philosophy that the cultures of Africa and Europe need to Cross fertilize each other. Other works include Alec the childhood years i which he recounts his childhood in a Village in Western Nigeria and the novel the interpreters which Cap Tures the idealism of Young nigerians about the development of a new Africa. Soyinka was educated in Nigeria and Britain. After graduating from Leeds University with a degree in English in 1954, he worked As a teacher and script writer at the Royal court theater in London. He returned to Nigeria in 1960. He has taught at the universities of Ife and Ibadan and taught As a visiting professor at european universities and Vale. Last year the prize was awarded to French writer Claude Simon who helped Pioneer an experimental new novel style that did away with such literary norms As plot and character development. Buchanan 67, a professor at George Mason univer sity in Fairfax vs., was cited for his contributions in new political Economy or Public Choice which embraces economic and political science. He theorized that governments like Consumers make economic decisions based on self interest. The Nobel memorial prize in economic science i not one of the original five Nobel prizes which lint were awarded in 1901 As a legacy of swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel the inventor of dynamite. The economics prize was established in 1963 by the swedish National Bank As a memorial to Nobel. It has the same value As the other prizes the equivalent of j290.000. Soviets from Page 1 _ Era years ago after refusing a bid to incriminate dam led1, a . News and world report correspondent charged with espionage in August before his release following intense .-soviet negotiations. Daniloff had urged thai Goldfarb be released a Parton Hie Deal that ultimately resulted in his release but dissident Yuri Orlov was freed instead. A son Alex Goldfarb an assistant microbiology professor at Columbia University was in Reykjavik Iceland last weekend during the Summit Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan turned Over to the soviets the names of 11,000 soviet jews being denied permission to emigrate including Goldfarb. Alex Goldfarb attended several soviet news conferences to make Public statements urging that his father be allowed to leave the soviet Union. On the Conner Cial flight Back to Washington he by Chance met soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and pressed for hit la ther s release. Hammer who has often acted As an intermediary Between the soviet government and . Administrations had been in the soviet Union since last weekend in connection with the opening in Kiev of an exhibit of his Art collection a .-Soviel cultural Exchange. Spending from Page 1 additional time to Nail Down the details and As a re sult the Senate gave final approval to the additional Stopgap Bill lasting until Midnight thursday. A similar Stopgap measure had expired at Midnight wednesday. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president who has expressed impatience with congressional delays Wai signing the latest Stopgap because lawmakers were Montog toward enactment of the Long term Bill. Because the government technically had no Money with which to operate the Federal Communia Ruops commission abruptly postponed a scheduled meeting thursday morning. A spokesman said acc general counsel Jack d. Smith bad decided any vote they take would have no Legal with less than three weeks before the elections Law makers were also under political pressure to finish up their Washington business and adjourn the 99th con Gress. The House voted 235-172 wednesday night to approve the Compromise spending Bill to fund the government through sept. 30, 1987. The Senate after Little debate thursday joined in ratifying the agreement worked out in a House Senate conference committee. Sen. Mark o. Hatfield r-ore., chairman of the sen ate appropriations committee called the bit a satisfying result to a Long and difficult year.1 holding it aloft he said it was eight inches thick and weighed l8 / pounds. However outside the agreement were some House passed amendments that needed to be settled before the Bill could go to Reagan for his signature. The sen ate quickly rejected one of the House add on a labor Protection measure. The president endorsed the Compromise even though $30 billion was Cut from his original military spending request he said that on balance it is a measure that will provide funds at acceptable Levels for the next fiscal i urge that members support the product of the House Senate conference committee on the basis of essential and time sensitive National Security concerns and other necessary programs of the Federal govern ment Reagan wrote House speaker Thomas p. O n Eill jr., a mass. Referring to the House added amendments that were opposed in the Republican led Senate retain matted on Congress to eliminate those policy pow Lions that remain of concern to me so that 1 can sign the White House budget director James c. Miller Iii Laid the provisions of greatest concern were to gig barring contractors from setting up Shadow corp Onk Lions to evade fair labor Laws and a requirement mat offshore Oil rigs use american nude equipment. The Compromise spending package contained about $290 billion for the Pentagon and defence projects in other agencies and $13.4 billion for foreign military was receiving an increase of lets Han $ percent the smallest annual Pentagon spending in crease of Reagan s presidency and foreign Aid in Cut 10 included Loo million rebels in Nicaragua. The Bill faze or slightly Cut Many Domestic Grams but did not impose the deep Oil of Cox the Prea Debl except m the Eye of Revenue with local governments a program being Titour an Nunt $1.7 a Tum was earmarked Tot i rum to fight drug abuse and u hire mow i a Flim and Milf Tail of Contra would go 3 Purcer Pajti
