European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 24. 1983 the stars and stripes Reinhold Messier a photo italian Ember won f quit offer setting record Katmandu up Reinhold Messner the first Man to climb All 14 of the world s tallest peaks wants to climb two of them again via More difficult routes a tourism ministry spokesman said wednesday. Messner now wants to climb the South faces of Dhaulagiri and Lhotse at the earliest and As soon As they Are available said Murari Khali Wada of the ministry which oversees expeditions in the nepalese Himalayas on oct. 16, Messner climbed Lhotse at28,087 feet the world s fourth highest Moun Tain to become the first Mountaineer Ever to climb All 14 of the world s 26,246-foot peaks and All without the Aid of oxygen bottles. The 42-year-old italian reached the Summit of Lhotse via the West face. The South face of Lhotse and Dhaulagiri 26,795 feet demand More Effort and climbing technique. Messne has tailed previously in his tries up the South faces of Lhotse and Dhaulagiri. A member of a French Swiss team that tried unsuccessfully to climb mount Everest noted wednesday that Messner needed Only five Days to dim Lhotse because he used it route broken by the Swiss in route up Everest. If he Messner had not used our fixed ropes on the treacherous a Humbug icefall and had Loe Stablish ropes and Camp singly it would have Uken him a month to climb Lhotse said Serge Koenig. 28, a French member of the Swiss expedition. Nevertheless he is a Strong  Pago 3 nato ministers support Reagan s stance in Iceland Glen eagles Scotland a nato defens ministers on wednesday backed the . Stance at the Reykjavik Summit and urged Moscow not to let Star wars1 Block the removal of superpower nuclear mis Siles from Europe. Greece and Denmark did not go along with theother 12 nato representatives in endorsing the strategic defense initiative. Sd1 was the stumbling bloc to a wide ranging arms reduction agreement at the oct.  defense ministers communique expressed warm appreciation of president Reagan s conduct of the talk Sand fully endorsed his bold attempt to seek tar reaching arms control agreements with the soviet  called on the soviet leadership to Reaf firm its commitments not to hold an inf intermediate nuclear Force agreement hostage to any other agreement it  failure to do so would destroy the credibility of the highest soviet assurances it  Moscow soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev said in a nationally televised speech wednesday that Western circles were trying to Whitewash the destructive stand taken by the United Stales at the  repeated that the ski program was the main Obsta Cle to arms  outcome of the nato defense ministers meeting their first since Reykjavik was a Victory for defense secretory Caspar Weinberger he evidently allayed some Western european misgivings that the cutbacks proposed in Reykjavik would leave them vulnerable to attack by Superior soviet conventional  soviet bloc also Hus by Western estimates a 9 i superiority in Shorter Range nuclear missiles capable of hitting targets about 600 Miles away. Weinberger flanked by nato Secretary general lord a Anglon at a news conference stressed the United states would insist on having a credible deter rence to soviet conventional forces and Shorter Range nuclear missiles As the Price for any agreement to the Reykjavik proposals. More negotiations on the proposals Are due at the Long running superpower talks in Geneva. We never could feel we had fulfilled our responsibilities if we allowed any particular area of deterrence to be neglected Weinberger  near Deal Al Reykjavik called for the withdrawal of the .-made cruise and Pershing ii medium Range missiles from Western Europe Ana withdrawal from the european continent of soviet ss-20 medium Range missiles. In addition it envisaged a so percent reduction in the superpowers Long Range missiles. On the Star Ware program the nato minister stipulated the United Stales must Mick to the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty which both superpower agree forbids deployment of space based defences. We strongly support the United states exploration of space and defense systems As is permitted by the abm treaty the communique  said in his View this meant acceptance of the us. Interpretation strongly disputed by the soviets that the treaty permits testing of the weapon outside  certainly Hope to deploy Adf Weinberger said. Critics of inc program charge it would be unreliable if it Ever came to fruition and say it is destabilizing As an  we talk about negotiations with the soviet Union we do not give the soviet Union a veto on whether we deploy or not Weinberger  remained unclear what if any soviet concessions on conventional and Shorter Range missiles in Europe the United Stales would demand Lor a separate agreement on eliminating the cruise and penning missiles British officials stressed in Glen eagles that prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government would no think it Worth threatening a medium Range Deal by seeking other  Germany which unlike Britain has no nuclear arms of its own remained worried about any mid Range Deal without other soviet concessions. France and Iceland nato members were not at the meeting in keeping with their Holidej of not being involved in the strategic deliberation soothe organization. Big stride9 toward arms cuts made at Summit Gorbachev says Moscow a Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev told the soviet Public wednesday night the Iceland Summit brought the United Stales and soviet Union closer to agreement while clearly Denning the Many obstacles to arms control. Speaking on National television for the second time since the Summit with president Reagan Gorbachev said the oct. 11-12 meetings in Reykjavik encouraged the soviet leadership on the possibility of reducing nuclear arms. It was perhaps the first time in Many decades that such a big stride was made in the quest for nuclear disarmament the communist party general Secretary said according to a radio Moscow translation of his address. I still consider that As a result of the meeting we achieved a. Higher stage not Only in analysing the Situa Tion but in defining the Aims and framework of Possi ble agreements agreements on nuclear disarmament he said. However. Gorbachev said the Summit also threw into bold Relief the difficulties on the Way to a nuclear free world adding that circles associated with militarism were frightened by the Progress made in Reykjavik. In Iceland the superpowers reached tentative agreement on making huge cutbacks in their nuclear Arsenal. But the agreement foundered Over Reagan space based missile defense program known As Star  kidnapped Beirut professor freed after 5 months Beirut Lebanon a a Christian professor atthe american University of Beirut kidnapped More than five months ago has been freed University authorities id wednesday. The report of the release of a by Malar 36, came the Day after an underground organization said it kid banned Edward Austin Tracy one of a handful of amen Cali left in moslem West Beirut. Uni Venity spokesman Rodwan Mawlawi said alar an associate professor of cultural studies was freed tuesday night in West Beirut and was in fairly Good  he s Back Home with his wife Mawlawi said. Buie offered no explanation As. To Why Malar was freed. Matar. A lebanese citizen we kidnapped May 7 Ashe wafted from Bis Home in Modem West Beirut s Ras Beirut residential District to the nearby Campus. A croup calling itself the Independent movement for freeing civil War Kidnap victims claimed respond  abduction in a statement May 18. The Troup said malar1 abduction  of it Campaign to Force the government of president Amu Gemayel a Christian to determine the Fate of about2,200 missing moslem allegedly held by Christian militias. The group also claimed it killed several Armenia christians in West Beirut last May As part of its Campaign to pressure the government. A Handwritten statement in arabic signed by the Landol. The statement accused him of working for Lutecia and the israeli intelligence service Moussai about 60 foreigners have been kidnapped in Wea Beirut since january 1984. Christians control the East Ern sector of the capital where the us. Embassy dislocated. Almost All of americans living in West Beirut fled in recent Yean As the 11-year-old lebanese civil War continued unabated. Seven americans Are Aron no the 20 kidnapped for Eigners missing in Lebanon. The revolutionary Justice organization which ii believed made up of suite moslem Loyal to Iran earlier claimed to have Kidnap Ped another of the missing americans. The group Hax also aimed it holds three frenchmen. The Brief statement did not by where or when Tracy a kidnapped. \ Sute no Beirut radio quoted police sources it  identify As saying he disappeared Friday accompanying the revolutionary Justice statement was a color photograph of Tracy How ii him front the Waist up with a rough Beard and we inf a Blue thin. He sued dully Al the camera. A photocopy of the first Page of his american pass port also tent with the statement Cave hit birth Dale Askov. 20.1930.a us. Embassy spokesman who commented a condition of anonymity said he could no Tracy bad been abducted but Ftp Liere i by to oame of Edward Tracy foot Ortii was bom in 1930, our latest information i lived in West Beirut lately Bat we Haven t the statement reporting the abduction made no ran a Sora demand