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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes. D gop democrats both predicting Victory Page 3 q ski funding called pork barrel politics1 Page 5 d sunday s pro football results sports Section the St ars  Gial publication fag the . Ahmed fobce1 vol. 45. No. 193 tuesday october 28, 1986 a d 8693 a Many heed Pope s truce Call new York a governments and guerrilla armies in almost a do in wars around the world agreed 10 Honor Pope John Paul la s Day of peace on monday but he i Ruck quiz Kly broke Down in Lebanon and minor violations were reported elsewhere. In at least a dozen other conflicts from Moy Tanbi que to Northern Ireland to Afghanistan the roman Catholic pontiffs world Day of prayer for peace simply went unheeded by warring group5 As the Day s Centrepiece he Pope fasted and prayed with spiritual leaders of 11 other religions in the ital Ian Hill town of Assisi Birthplace of is trances for weeks tin Vatican s diplomats had worked worldwide o win agreement from insurgent move ments and governments to Lay Down their arms for 24 hours monday. The Vatican listed positive replies from one or both panics in 12 wars. Bui the list included such conditional responses As Iraq president Saddam Hussein s message that his army would hold its fire if his iranian foes did likewise in their 6-year-old Border War. The outcome was quickly evident Iran reported shooting Down an iraqi warplane monday As it made a bombing run on Irani an targets. Iraq however denied any plane was shot Down. In Lebanon Beirut newspapers reported Muslim and Christian Milia leaders  ordered their forces to observe a 24-hour truce. But the cease fire fell impart As the rival factions traded machine gun and Roeker propelled grenade fire in the lebanese capital liven heavier fighting continued in South Lebanon by Queen palestinians and shiite moslem. The Vatican also reported a positive response from the Irish Republican army fighting to end British control of Northern Ireland. But the Ira s Public statements had been More ambiguous and the mostly Catholic guerrilla group disregarded the truce Call by see Pope on Page 28 frightened passengers in thai air ways Airbus Wear life jacked and oxygen masks As the jetliner plunges to Waid Earth after suddenly losing fearful descent pressure. The Airbus an a sunday night flight from Bangkok Thailand in Osaka Japan fell nearly five Miles be fore Landing at Osaka. Sixty two of the a photo 247 people aboard were injured. The photograph was taken by one of the passengers. Takahiro Watanabe. Story on Page 28. Sex a a morn arrested on spy charges san Francisco pull an employee of Ford aerospace communications corp. Has been arrested an charged with espionage for trying to pass military secrets to the soviet Union. Justice department officials on Mon Day said Alan John Davics 33, a former . Air Force member was arrested try ing to turn Over . Defense information at the soviet consulate in san fran Cisco where 14 people recently were ordered to , a naturalized . Citizen from Britain works for Ford aerospace communications corp. In san Jose jus Tice department officials said. He did not have a top secret Security clearance. Davies served in the air Force for 10 years an official said and was Given a administrative discharge in 1984. In announcing the arrest in washing ton officials stressed the latest development in an ongoing .-Sovicl espionage Battle would not affect relations Between the superpowers. However Davics arrest follows an unprecedented series of lit for lat expulsions of . And soviet diplomats which . Officials said was triggered in part by Fri concerns that soviet espionage under diplomatic cover in the United states was  us official told reporters thai the sept 17 expulsion of 25 soviet spies see spy on Page 28 White House won t release Summit notes Washington a the White House refused monday to release records of president Reagan s Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The refusal comes in the Wake of soviet contentions that Reagan tentatively agreed to eliminate All offensive nuclear weapons in 10 years. Presidential spokesman Larry Scales reiterated his position that Reagan Dis cussed abolition of All nuclear arms by never proposed More than destruction of All ballistic missiles in to five year phases. The distinction is a strategically important one because the . Position As now stated would leave both sides with substantial arsenals of cruise missiles nuclear bombs and tactical nuclear weapons fired from conventional Artil Lery pieces. Reagan and his spokesmen have insisted the United states is prepared to pick up where we left off at the sum Mit in Reykjavik Iceland to attempt to negotiate substantial weapons reductions. Asked if the while House would re lease its own notes of the meeting taken by an official Nole Lakeland an interpreter during the talks oct. 11 and 12, Speakes replied no asked Why he replied we just Don  Speakes added thai there is no official transcript of the session inasmuch As no stenographer was present and no tape recording was made. But the United Stales reconstructed the talks from the notes available and Reagan has re viewed a written account of the meet Ings the spokesman said. Gorbachev monday criticized what recalled Gross misrepresentation by Washington of the Reykjavik Summit and repeated that weapons in space Mustbe linked with other arms control issues. However Gorbachev said there was room for negotiation on arms control despite the breakdown of the Iceland talks. His comments came in a statement issued through the Tass news Agency that was addressed to the organizers of a writ ers meeting in Sofia Bulgaria. The soviets contend the iwo sides Leftoff with an understanding that All Offen Sive nuclear weapons would be destroyed if some Accord could be reached on the future of Reagan s strategic defense initiative a research program to develop a shield against nuclear weapons. To Back up their argument the soviets on saturday quoted Reagan As telling Gorbachev at the Summit two weeks ago if we agree that by inc end of the 10 year Pend All nuclear arms arc to be eliminated we can refer his to out delegations in Geneva to prepare a agreement which you could sign during your visit to the United  up cakes refused monday direct cow sea notes on Page 23  
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