European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q How the 1987 spending plan affects the military Page 2 g Jerald Bloom selected As Dodds Pacific chief Page 9 d today s Dollar buys 1.98 Marks rates Page 27 uthosi1ed Uno Ficili publication Fok the . Timed Foicey vol. 45, no. 187 wednesday october 22, 19bb Mimir d 8693 a . Expels 55 soviets Washington api the United Stales retaliating for the expulsion from Moscow of five Ameri can diplomats on spy allegations tuesday ordered 55 soviets to leave the country by nov. 1. Al the same Lime the soviet embassy in washing Ion and the soviet consulate in san Francisco were reduced in site to correspond with the . Embassy in Moscow and the american consulate in Leningrad. State department spokesman Charles e. Redman announced the massive retaliation with reacts but said it was forced on the Reagan admin isl ration by the soviet Union. Redman whose nomination As spokesman was announced a few minutes earlier by Secretary of stale George p. Shultz said the soviet embassy would be reduced to 225 positions and the consulate in san Francisco to 26. Fifty of the soviets were ordered to leave in order to gel Down to the new level. The other five Redman said were declared Persona non grata diplomatic language used in expulsion actions. The five were identified As Vasily Fedotov olog like aches Alexander Mclerkin Counselor Nikolay Kokovin attache and lev Zaytsev Consul Redman said they were singled out because they Are persons we have reason to believe have engaged in activities inconsistent with their diplomatic this appeared to be at allegation they were involved in espionage activities out Redman did not make the charge directly. However he stressed their expulsion was caused by the unjustified action by the soviets in expelling five . Diplomats in in Moscow Gennady Gerasi nov a spokesman for the soviet foreign a misery said tuesday if the United states will insist on continuing this game of lit for Tat then this can continue indefinitely we consider in is time to a Law known As the Leahy Cohen amendment in acted last year gave the executive Branch three years to bring the diplomatic staffs in the iwo countries to Equality. The amendment permitted the administration to determine How and when to meet the deadline. A second amendment by Sens. Patrick Leahy Dot and William Cohen a Maine. Was passed and signed earlier this month. In requires that the . And soviet . Missions be brought into rough Equality within three years. Twenty five soviets who were working Al the . Mission in new York were identified As intelligence agents last month and ordered to leave. The soviets responded sunday by accusing the five americans of impermissible activities Ana giving them until oct. 31 to depart from Moscow usually the two sides Cool Down after a round of expulsions. But the Reagan administration considers see soviets on Page 28 moslem group claims arrest9 of american Beirut Lebanon an under ground group tuesday claimed it kid napped a 55-year-old american the first reported abduction of a . Citizen in Lebanon in Mart than a month. The revolutionary Justice Organiza Tion a group believed made up of shiite moslem Loyal to Iran identified the hos Tage As Edward Austin Tracy. The group said Tracy an author of children s books who is from Vermont worked for the Cia and the israeli secret service Mossad. If Tracy s abduction is confirmed he would be the seventh american missing in Lebanon. The revolutionary Justice organization claims to hold one of the previous Kidnap victims. The group made its claim in a hand written note in arabic delivered to the sea moslem on Page 28 ism to sell subsidiary pull out of South Africa new York a ism said tues Day it will sell its South african subsidy aij1 because of the deteriorating Politi Cal and economic situation in the racially divided announcement came a Day alter general motors corp., the second largest .-Bascd employer in South Africa after Mobil corp., said it would sell its South african operations to local interests. Ism said it would sell the subsidiary to a new company established for the Benefit of the employees of ism South ism South Africa markets and serv ices information equipment and employs see ism on Page 28 length of overseas fours increased at 28 locations by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington the defense department has increased the length of overseas Tours Al 28 locations in response to congressional pressure to standardize Tours among the services. The policy change effective oct 1, Calls for Lour lengths to increase at some bases in the Netherlands Greece Italy Guam Japan and other locations according to a Dod report submitted to Congress. A Dod manpower official said the change will affect Only service members assigned to these locations after oct. I. Anyone now stationed at these Sites will be Gnu fathered meaning they will be allowed to serve their original tour. The official said most of the Sites Are see Tours on Page 28 Kohl arrives in Washington president Reagan stand with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl As he Wel come bin la the White Hob toes Day. Reagan old Kohl s tote visit hid come it w opportune time. When the next agreement u finally reached with the sonet Union us i say when not if it win not be la result of weakness or timidity on the part of Western nations the president told Koll instead it will lion1 from our strength real Ltd and
