European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday. February 2,1967 Gorbachev plan called nonsense be realistic on arms control Perle asks Munich a a senior . De sense official said sunday that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s proposals to abolish nuclear weapons Are dangerous nonsense and he urged Moscow to adopt a More realistic approach to arms control. Assistant . Defense Secretary Richard Perle addressing a nato de sense seminar also said comprehensive bans on nuclear tests and chemical arms would be unverifiable and  resulting Only in a dangerous soviet military Edge. The avid West european attention to Inch soviet arms control proposals no Pean rooted in the reluctance of Washington s nato Allied to reject outright or. Gorbachev s beguiling Maneu vers Perle Aid. He also reaffirmed . Rejection of soviet demands that Washington scrap the Star wan space weapons  uld i strategic space defense would provide insurance against soviet violations of a .-proposed treaty Abo Lishing All offensive ballistic missiles. Perk a dose aide to defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger and considered hard uner on arms control made his Tough comments in a speech at the 24lh annual Weh Kunde conference Osnato defense officials and military scholars. The two Day meeting ended sunday. Pc rec s remarks reflected the stale of impasse in superpower arms negotiations since the failed Iceland Summit betwee president Reagan and Gorbachev last october. Washington s european allies have repeatedly urged movement and flexibility by Bolh superpowers but Little has resulted. Perle said Gorbachev s january 1986proposal to scrap All nuclear weapons by the year 2000 was dangerous nonsense calculated to undermine the legitimacy of weapon that arc vital to Western Security he said the North Atlantic treaty organization had refined for 25 years anatomic weapons to offset a considerable Warsaw pact superiority in conventional arsenals. The very concept of deterring the so Viet Union with conventional arms. I hopelessly unrealistic said Perle speak ing in a ballroom of a Swanky hotel ringed by police deployed Tor the Wehr Kunde. He said verification of a treaty Abo Lishing All nuclear weapons is not difficult or very difficult it is  or. Gorbachev knows in. Indeed he counts on in. It enables him to propose eliminating All nuclear weapons with full Confidence that he West cannot  pc rec said he a the added insurance that if we were so foolish As to do so the soviet Union which would surely cheat would wind up with a monopoly of nuclear  at the Iceland Summit Reagan was reported to have agreed in principle with Gorbachev in the abolition of All nuclear weapons. Bat the Reagan administration later indicated in favored Only the scrap Ping of Alt ballistic nuclear missiles. Perle said that despite widespread misgivings among europeans opposed to the arms race the United Stales would reject soviet Calls for a nuclear lest ban As Long As the West had to rely on atomic weapons to deter attack. Without testing we would lose Confidence in the weapons in our inventory argued Perle saying the Reagan administration s stance was vital to the credibility of nato strategy. A comprehensive test ban would be dangerous and undesirable even if it were verifiable which it is not he said. The verification Issue also makes Strong argument against Banning Chemi Cal weapons by treaty the lop Pentagon official said. Europe especially. The capacity to face reality has been even less evident with respect to chemical weapons than nuclear ones Perle noted. The preoccupation with a chemical weapons ban has at but obliterated the Central fact about chemical weapons the soviets possess them in Quantity train in their use study their employ ment at specialized military academies and equip themselves to fight in their midst with a seriousness wholly lacking among Western armies Perle said. He mid verification of a ban would be torpedoed by the unhappy fact that Ordi nary chemical plants could be converted for the production of lethal agents in Mailer of weeks. Perle said soviet arms negotiator should display More flexibility and con Sider Reagan a limited proposal for the scrapping of All offensive ballistic mis Biles Over 10 years the phased elimination of ballistic missiles would diminish greatly the destabilizing Shadow cast by that category of weapons uniquely capable of a first strike he sail in saturday s tint session of the Wehr Kunde three Republican . Senators warned thai economic pre wires were Ril ing in the United states for a cutback of the 350,000-Strqng . Troop presence in Western Europe but German defense minister Manfred Woerner countered that a . Troop reduction would endanger the purity of Western Europe and increase the Chance of War with the soviet led Warsaw fact. Pompidou remembered French president Francois Mitterrand and Claude Pompidou widow of the Lale French president Georges Pompidou walk beneath a Dan portrait of he late French president in Paris Pompidou Cen Ter. The has a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Center. 4-naf/on Force Fos terrorists1 break out plot London up Security forces from four nation combined to thwart a planned operation by Libya and the Irish Republican army to free their prisoners from jails i Britain the sunday times reported. The newspaper citing Security sources said representatives from the libyan people s Bureau the equivalent of its embassy in Rome met Ira men i Amsterdam and Paris last summer to discuss freeing a number of Ira and libyan prisoners serving Long sentences for serious offences committed in  the meeting were detected by Security authorities i France and the Netherlands under increased surveillance to combat International terrorism and the information was relayed to British and Irish authorities the times said. It said police in both the Irish Republic and North pm Ireland investigated and discovered the Ira which is lighting to drive Britain from the province had studied escape plans at the libyans request. In Britain precautions were taken at top Security prisons thwarting the plot the times said. The Home office in charge of Law and order i Britain refused to comment on the report. The newspaper however said the libyans offered10 finance the planned escapes if the Ira organized them and the Ira would be allowed 10 include a num Ber of their own convicted members in the breakouts. Security forces in Northern Ireland have said they suspect that Libya had provided More than i million pounds about $ i. J million in 1985 to fund he outlawed Ira in it slight to drive Britain from Northern Ireland the sunday times said the Era i ruling army Council is believed to have nominated for the break outs three of its prominent prisoners including Patrick Mage the Mastermind of the 1984 bombing of a Brighton hotel during a conservative pary conference. The bombing narrowly missed killing prime minister maj Jaitt thalcher but killed five people and injun a some 30. The newspaper said Britain Bas jailed at least nine libyans after convictions ranging from murder 10 conspiracy to commit explosions. Some were members of libyan Leader foam new Qadhafi s reputed hit squads sent to kill his opponents living in Europe. The newspaper said none of the libyans to be freed under the plans were named. The newspaper Laid a month ago the Security Force decided the Ira had abandoned escape plans with Libya and they Are confident present Security precautions have deterred the joint Libya Ira plans. World today Spanish City buys Cave with prehistoric paintings Ardales Spain a the Andalia regional government has purchased Access to a Cave containing prehistoric Bas reliefs and paint Ings reported to Date from 18.000-12,000 b.c., an archaeologist familiar with the painting  Canalejo who has been working with a group of archaeologists to determine the origin and age of the 60 figures said the Purchase was taking place Friday in armales a town located 36 Miles Northwest of Malaga Canalejo said the Ardale City Council or dered the Cave closed in 1980 to facilitate clean ing and research after which he and his col leagues began to study the paintings Switzerland not Hurt by drop in . Tourists Bern Switzerland a a spectacular de Cline in the number of american Lou Risis registered in Switzerland last year was largely offset by an increase in guests from Western Europe Japan and Israel the Federal office for statistics has announced. Tourists from the United slates spent a total2. Million nights in Swiss hotels a drop of 1.2 million or 36 percent from 1985, the weak Dollar and fear of terrorism were cited is factors. In contrast overnight stays by tourists fro Germany France Britain Italy Japan As Well As from Switzerland went up by Between 3 and 8percent and those from Israel alone by 100,000 or by 30 percent. Hunting tent fire in Qatar kills three Arab princes Cairo Egypt a fire swept through Hunting party i tent in the desert killing Intee Young Arab princes and severely burning two others the Ai ashram newspaper said. Two sons of sheikh Hamad bin Saoud member of the ruling family in the persian Gulf state of Qatar and one of their cousins were burned to death Al Abram said. The Lent made of synthetic material was set ablaze by a campfire inadvertently left burning overnight the newspaper said