European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday october 30,1686 ., japanese units holding major exercise Chitose Japan up japanese and  units staged a mock Battle on the North pm Island of hokkaido tuesday As part of a War game representing a soviet invasion. The threat has increased significantly an the growth of the threat has caused an increase in our preparedness said la. Gen. Charles , commander of the  Army Japan and co director of the exercises dubbed keen Edge 87. Dyke made the remark to reporters i Chitose. Inc site of a major japanese air de sense Force base on hokkaido Japan s closes territory to the soviet Union where the mainstay of the first .-Japancse military exercises involving ground air and naval forces of both countries Are being  part Are about 10,000 soldiers from Japan and the United states the largest num Ber Ever in joint exercises Between the two forces. Danish vandals strike West German offices Copenhagen Denmark up fire gutted the danish Headquarters of a West Ger Man electronics manufacturer Early wednesday and other West German property in Copenhagen was vandalised police said. The attacks which led to increased police surveillance at West German Large is were believed to be revenge by danish squatters for a police raid on a squatter Haven in Hamburg police  fire bomb was thrown through a window in a smaller exhibition building of inc age company and As a result inc entire building burned Down said dam Larson a spokesman for the Copenhagen police. Meanwhile rocks paving stones and a bottle of hydrochloric acid were thrown through the windows of the Copenhagen Bureau of the West German news Agency Deutsche or Csc Agenter causing minor  ivc right incidents followed an attack tuesday on the West German cultural Institute by unknown youngsters. No injuries were reported in any of the attacks. 1 dead 13 injured in seaplane crash Christiansted  Virgin islands a a seaplane one engine sputtering and smok ing listed sharply before plunging into the sea tuesday killing a woman and injuring 13 peo ple. The plane crashed shortly after taking of from the water near the Island of St. Croix with 13 people aboard. Witnesses said it went Dow about a half mile away near Long reef after list ing to one  policeman said one of the two engines of the 17-passenger Grumman Mallard seaplane started to backfire and started to smoke seconds before the Craft hit the water near protes Tant Cay a Liny Island several Hundred Yards off St. Croix. The plane was in route to the nearby Island Oft. Thomas when it crashed. It was operated by the Virgin wands seaplane shuttle inc., which flies to St. Croix is. Thomas and puerto Rico. Afghan official killed by rebel land mine Islamabad Pakistan a a senior offi Cial of Afghanistan s ruling communist parly was killed by a guerrilla land mine that blew Aphis car near a Western afghan Village the Afghanistan government announced  Kabul radio said Mohammad All a Mirn i car hit the mine monday near the Village of Gulbran in Herat province. La also said in the first report of his death that Samim i state Fune no tuesday was attended by top officials. The report was monitored in neighbouring Pakistan. Modem guerrillas have been fighting since the communists overthrew die constitutional Mon Archy in 1978, and the soviet Union has an Esti mated 110,000 Soldier in the country helping combat the insurgency. Rededication musical Salute end Liberty Centennial year new York a the statue of Liberty s Cen Tennial year ended with a somber rededication the swearing in of 200 new americas and a Black tie con Cert marking the lady in the Harbor s real 100th birth Day. It s hard to believe that our year of the lady isomer Lee Iacocca chairman of the statue of Liberty Ellis Island foundation said tuesday. To be honest i m still a Little Hung Over from the fourth of  president Graver Cleveland accepted the statue from France on oct. 28, 1886. The re dedication ceremony on Liberty Island and musical Salute at Lincoln Center were Low key com pared to july s Liberty weekend festivities which boasted fireworks tall ships loads of Slick Hollywood entertainment. President Reagan and French president Francois Mitterrand. In a report in wednesday s new York times foun Dation president William f. May said Liberty week end will probably show a deficit because marketing of the event was poorly conducted and tickets were Over priced. Tuesday s rededication was led by Interior Secretary Donald Hodel who used the occasion to equate love of Liberty with support for president Reagan s Star wars proposal. Lolodel dedicated time capsule to be opened in2086 whose contents included a message from Reagan essays by  And French students and news Stone this year about  Liberty state Park in Jersey City n.j., about 200 new citizens were sworn in and shared a giant birthday  Lincoln Center s Avery Fisher Hall the concert opened with an audience Clad in tuxedos and evening gowns standing to Ting the  And French National anthems As the new York philharmonic played. It continued with the world premiere of on free Dom s ground an american cantata by William Schuman with text by Poel Richard Wilbur. The music then took a lighter turn with a segment entitled love songs for the lady featuring performances by singers Charles Aznavour Julio Iglesias and Pracido Domingo. This has been our year Iacocca said. Arnerich year to celebrate America with the lady standing tall to remind us of where we came from and who we Are. And maybe where we should be  2 Deoms vying to develop fighter design los Angeles a the Navy has awarded contracts to two teams of aerospace companies to develop a new secret fighter with designs due by next summer a newspaper reported wednesday. Citing unidentified sources the los Angeles time reported Northrop corp. And Grumman corp. Have been teamed against Mcdonnell Douglas corp. An general dynamics corp. To produce designs for a Jet dubbed the advanced tactical aircraft or Ata the project could produce As much As $35 billion in business for the winners the times said. Officials for the four companies declined to com ment the newspaper said. That is a classified program and i know nothing about it and frankly i Don t want to know anything about it said Peter Connolly spokesman for general dynamics. Earlier this year Navy Secretary John f. Lehman  the Navy plans to buy 450 Oft be Ata by the mid 1990s to replace the a-6 attack jets on Navy aircraft it would be designed to Fly Low Altitude bombing missions and would probably have stealth characteristics to make it difficult to Detec. By radar or infrared sensors the times said. The Ata would be the Navy s third current attack aircraft joining the a-6 and the f/a-18 fighter and attack Jet. We will be arranging for full scale engineering development soliciting proposals and selecting the Tenta Tive Winner or winners this coming Calendar year said rear adm. Stuart Plait officer in chaise of ensuring that Navy contracts Are awarded competitively. If All goes Welt the contracted should be selected and at work developing plans and cutting Metal try next summer he added. Seven aerospace firms were involved in the bidding Platt said. Northrop is based in los Angeles Mcdonnell Doug Las has its production facilities in St. Louis general dynamics Are in fort Worth Texas and Grumman Are on new York s Long Island. Hasenfus from Page 1 in 10 arms drops to the contras from bases in Al Salvador and Honduras and that the operations were coordinated by the Cia. He has said tons of arms were stored at the tightly guarded to tango base then shipped to the rebels who Are fighting the Nicaragua government. Menfus was captured oct 6 after nicaraguan sol Diers shot Down a c-123 transport plane with has Ofui and three others aboard. The plane crashed near h tule about 90 Miles Southwest of Managua. Former  Attorney general Griffin Belt meanwhile was leaving for the United states wednesday after Kara Guan authorities barred him from meeting with Haseoo Flinto help prepare his defense. He said he would return to Nicaragua on sunday. Bell said the Gor emment s refusal to permit the meeting was a moral  Qadhafi from Paga 1 prime minister Charles Haughey would win the coun try s next election and predicted that would Lead to the development of greater Trade Between the two nations. Rte said the interview on the program today tonight the result of an approach by libyan authorities was conducted in Qadhafi s bomb damaged Home on the outskirts of Tripoli an Rte spokesman said the broadcasting firm bad sent another team to the libyan capita for what was promised As a similar interview last year Only to be kept waiting in vain for a week. In the Irish interview Qadhafi also said Britai would regret in expulsion of syrian diploma and the severing of relations with Damascus that resulted from the conviction in London of a jordanian on terrorism charges last week. British authorities Laid Syria had backed the plot i which Nesar Hindawi tried to Send his unsuspecting wig Nant Irish Girlfriend aboard an israeli b Al Airliner at  s Heathrow Airport with a bomb to blow up the plane Qadhafi told Rte London was completely alienating itself from the Arab world and would eventually regret  soviets from Paga 1 live in the entire process of nuclear disarmament . He charged that the  Prop aus were based on a distorted rather thin True Accord on oud ear Arma ments that hid been reached in Iceland Charny Stev repeated Kremlin Contention Barnev and Reagan agreed to eur Molnau All to Rateik nuclear weapons not just ballistic missiles within 10 Yean and he complained that the United states to bowing sign of softening to in tence on continuing re search into Tate weapons. Are not the us boil of the instructions1 to the a. Negotiating team in Geneva merely aping to to wort the Tina which an intended to  Obj toss started in  Asid