European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 26, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 this photo tilled dirt Fox won third plan for stalls it Edward Mooradian in hatching a Winner the military life category for color prints in the 1986 army photography contest. Moo Radun is with co a 1st in 36th inf in dessert Germany. La fest Kidnap victims were foolish to be in Beirut former hostage says by the associated press a former hostage in Lebanon said the three americans and an Indian holding . Residency who were captured sat urday were foolish to be in Beirut while three senators took the Reagan administration to task for its Middle East policies. I m in a slate of Shock said David Jacobson who was freed nov. 2. I thought that All of the americans in West Beirut were out and the news came to me like a Boll out of the Blue Jacobsen interviewed in his Home in Huntington Beach calif., said the Vic Tims should not have been in Lebanon. It was foolish on their part at this time with at the kidnappings that Are going on he said. The four identified As educators Alann Sleen Jesse Turner Robert pol Hill and Milf Ileshwa Singh were kid napped on the West Beirut Campus of Beirut University College by four gun men disguised As police sen. Claiborne Pell d-r.i-, said he thought the kidnapping could have been perhaps in part a result of the fruit of the negotiations we be been having with Iran with the arms for they be Given some encouragement to where we re headed in this stale department officials could do More to encourage americans to leave Lebanon said Pell interviewed from his Washington d.c., Home. They can be As insistent As. In the Case of Libya where we said very flatly that we cannot take any responsibility for the safety of american citizens and that they should go out in accordance Wilh american in Boson two demo cratic senators John f. Kerry and Edward m. Kennedy said the United slates must make terrorists pay for Tak ing . Citizens hostage people have come to believe that Tak ing hostages has a Benefit said Kerry. Hopefully we re going to find a via to reinforce the original american policy that it will not have a Benefit and that those who take hostages Are seriously going to pay a real what has been american policy Over recent months asked Kennedy. The United states has to speak clearly unequivocally on the Issue of terrorism. That is what is missing at the present Senate Republican Leader Bob dote of Kansas in a statement issued by his Washington office urged the immediate closing of the . Diplomatic Mission and the return Home of americans in Lebanon the Security situation in Beirut has deteriorated so badly that we re no longer in a position to do anything Worth while there Dole said. We re Only inviting More trouble More kidnappings by leaving our diplomats so the Rev. Benjamin Weir who was held hostage in Beirut for 16 months said it is hard to predict How saturday s abductions will affect negotiations to free other american hostages there. If it s the same group that abducted the other americans it would be a very serious event Weir said. If it s not the same group then it May not have much effect on negotiations at Weir a presbyterian pastor was freed in 1985. Pakistanis want talks with India Islamabad Pakistan a prime minister Mohammad Khan Junco called sunday for urgent talks to Avert a Border confrontation with India but he warned thai Pakistan was ready to de fend itself against aggression. President Mohammad Ziaul Haq who is also commander of the army backed the prime minister s Siat Cmunt saying in a statement to reporters before leaving sunday for a Summit in Kuwait that Bath countries should act to establish Friendly relations. Junco addressing a special session of parliament called to consider the in creased tension said massive Indian Mil itary movements close to the Border had forced Pakistan to take precautionary measures. He warned that the deploy ment had created a dangerous situation Junco said Pakistan wants Pood rela Lions with India and was awaiting a response from new Delhi to the offer it made Friday for talks to Case tension. Zia in his statement said the Effort should be from both sides. To defuse the situation and to Sec How Best we can As Good neighbors live comfortably Wilh Trust and Junejo told parliament the situation had been created by India concentrating hundreds of thousands of soldiers close to Pakistan s Border. He said the Indian movements were the largest military exercise Ever held in South Asia. The extent of the Indian deployment was a potential threat to Pakistan that could not be ignored Junco said. Junejo branded As totally false Indian statements thai new Delhi acted because pakistani forces had moved up to the Bor Der. He also criticized what he said was an Indian demand thai pakistani forces pull Back even though new Delhi had not said what its troops would do. The Indian demand for unilateral withdrawal by the pakistani forces to peacetime locations was manifestly in just he said. Pakistani forces had been engaged in Normal Winter exercises he said and some units already had returned to their permanent bases. Pakistan had been obliged by the new situation to take appropriate precautions the prime minister said. Junco said Islamabad had been seek ing to build peaceful relations Wilh India for the last 15 years and was determined to continue its efforts including holding talks on this last Cal dispute. My government is prepared to hold these consultations Al any appropriate level immediately so that normalcy and Tranquility Are quickly restored he said. Junco said Pakistan nonetheless was determined and ready to defend itself against any aggression. Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their creation in 1947 from the partition of British India. Relations Between the iwo nations Are often Lens. Japan ends military spending hike restriction Tokyo not Japan formally rid itself saturday night of a policy that had put a specific Cap on yearly increases in military spending. Bui it coupled the action Wilh a Promise to stay a peace Lov ing the fundamental defense concept of Japan under its peace Constitution is to maintain an exclusively defensive pos Ture and not to become a military Power that presents a threat to other nations the government said. The statement was intended 10 direct anticipated criticism As prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasonc s Cabinet us expected swept away the last vestiges of a decade old requirement that had con fined the annual military budget to less than i percent of the japanese Gross National product. The abandoned policy established in 1976, was breached for the first Lime last month when the government approved a $23 billion military budget for 1987, equivalent to 1.004 of official projections for the Gnu. The action saturday was a landmark for Japan in that it eliminated the i Pur cent limit entirely As a Basic National , in seemed Clear that the government would not stray far from that level at least for the next few years. Instead of a specific yearly ceiling the Cabinet adopted a multiyear military program. For now this will be a five year plan approved in 1985 and calling for 18.4 trillion yen 1120 billion Al the Percsi no Exchange rate to be spent in a period that began last april and ends in March 1991. That works out to 1.04 per cent of the projected Gnu for the period. Wilh the japanese Economy slowing in recent years it had become Clear that in would be virtually impossible for the country to achieve its stated military goals while at the same Lime staying under the old ceiling. But the govern ment reiterated the intention to stay close to the 1 percent Mark. The share of Gnu devoted to the Mili tary became an Issue As Japan Buill up huge Irac surpluses against us american and Western european partners who spend much larger percentages on de sense. In the United states the military Bud get this year comes to 6.1 percent of Gnu. According to the International peace research Institute comparable figures in 1985 were 5.4 percent Lor Brit Ain 4.1 percent for France and 3.3 per cent for Germany
