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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, February 7, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d say no1 Campaign gets big Yea Page 3 d Hollings wants draft revived Page 5 d Frazier 4 others elected to basketball Hall of Fame Page 21 am Lpes Ruth Onico unofficial Hibl cation vol. 45, no. 293 saturday february 7, 1987 in freed Deni d 8693 a Zurich. Switzerland a Street journal reporter Gerald f. Seib said Friday he was not physically harmed Dur ing nearly a week s detention in tech Iran and flatly denied he  Denie i am still not sur Juh or How i wants flt Seib old report no at Zurich Airport on Tissair flight from Tehran. Iran had Ini Seib lasted a Ilmer minutes a answer questions. He would not say where he and his wife Barbara Rose wit also a journal reporter were going. The couple is based in Cairo Egypt. I was simply doing my Job. I am a journalist and that is All i am he told out 30 reporters in a vip lounge at. 1 after arriving at 2 35 .  1 to Buchere said  m 31 is birthday. And just being i Best birthday present  the reporter thanked the Swiss government whose diplomats had tried to obtain his release since his detention on saturday. The Swiss embassy has been handling . Interests in Iran since the . Embassy closed after american diplomats were held hostage in Tehran at from 1979-1981. The iranians of spying for Ati i know is see Seib on fags 28 econom a political squabbles of if eaten nato office adj say ulc Ozby Wriler Brussels Belgium economic and political bickering among nato nations undermining Allied commitments and the strength Ota Alliance officials of member governments said Friday Stephen Ledogar acting . A Bassal rep nato said member nations in Europe must non tape increasingly vocal Calls for a reduced american presence overseas some europeans even believe that he .j a ailment because it is in the . Interest constant regardless of the policies or Rheuva med governments or parties May adopt le4jf said. I caution you Don i believe  Ledogar spoke to about 200 re my officers from nato countries at the  of the inter Allied confederation  optic cars at nato Headquarters in Nisi in morning meetings Beer Ament and military offi Cial detailed current mfr Cal military and economic problems faced by the Juliance. Ledogar blamed a Pat Tern of growing a Wasity toward the Alliance in Europe and in Thea Ethiley states for causing increased criticism and arrangement among nato countries. Thai  cannot indefinitely withstand the grow tendency of some allies and political Par tin Taj Kepi Only those parts of the bargain which Are table to them Ledogar said have already seen the warning signs in the Lopes persist of Bill Hakim cigarette ychuck1 to sen. Jeff Binga ipes for a Bill Intro w Mexico Democrat prices in military a percent. Staffers say they have any More support for. Isky car when Bingaman it Albino lied by the Nate armed serv. It went to floor vote As an another Bill a it was Defeated washing Man said they diced this week that would raise Wilities by As much but other no indication Thi the idea than the introduced an t that Bill w ice commit amendment there 57-" we yet it has a much a Bingaman aide. " uralic Jority we think the comi my Cobre favourably disposed Towi of a Senate armed services discounted that claim. It s not see prices on american body politic Junere is a considerable body of opinion in the  that believes either that the . Should Jan slowly to withdraw from Europe or that  can by maintained at lower  leap called for political realism on both sides of the panic. T this Cycle of criticism reaction criticism gels out and it May not be in the Power of the bust intentioned of governments to gel it soon Back under control. The debate in the . Is already under  the european Side of the equation Juergen Ann a minister of state in the German gov also called for understanding and dialogue. But As Dho Pean Unity strengthens the dialogue must be betwee Anuial partners he said. Nato Nat Raht face economic and political prob lems such As  terrorism and a changing economic  can cause difficulties for the Alliance As a whole Taid. These Are serious Cau Kph dissension among the allies he said. But we All   among the participants in thebe inference was Gen. Glenn k. Otis commander of the to army in Europe who addressed military conces Thuc Alliance. The speeches Friday morning were part due tee Days of meetings sponsored by the  officers association. The association acts As a lobby ing group in represented countries to support nato policies. Med Fleet scale a  commander Yuri Alexander Lav Eikin tm-2 spaceship wave from a launch pad at the a in the soviet Republic of to Dock with the Mir space kind. See Story Page 28. And night Crew of he before left incur Cosmah they lion this own continues As Carrier anchors at israeli port Washington a two Marine amphibious groups linked up in the Eastern Mediterranean sea on Friday As the Pentagon continued to reduce its naval forces off he coast of Lebanon. Pentagon officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said one of the two 1,900-Man Marine groups would be allowed to sail for Home Early next week after being formally relieved by the second group. In the meantime the aircraft Carrier Kennedy one of two carriers that have been patrolling in the Eastern Mediterranean began a port Call Friday in Haifa is Rael As four of its escorting warships prepared to sail Tor the United states from Spain. The Kennedy was scheduled to remain in port until wednesday but that could change quickly if there was an emergency the sources said. The Carrier Nimitz and its Battle group remains at sea off the coast of Lebanon on routine patrol they added. The Pentagon spent the last two weeks building up its forces in the area in what it called a precautionary move prompted by rising tensions and a wave of hos Tage talking in Beirut Lebanon. White House and de sense officials repeatedly said the United states was not planning any kind of retaliatory military strike but wanted to be prepared in Case terrorists began executing hostages. In another development witnesses said they saw Church of England envoy Terry Waile in a Beirut Lebanon suburb thursday with an escort of about 10 gunmen and four shiite moslem sheiks. The witnesses two taxi Drivers told the associated press they saw wait in a Southern suburb of the Leb anese capital. A report earlier on thursday by the mass circulation German newspaper Bild said Wane had been shot and critically wounded a hic trying to escape people who were holding him captive. It quoted Beirut Security  the sources said a three ship Mediterranean amphibious ready group carrying 1,900 marines linked up Friday with a five ship Force carrying a similar number of marines South of the Island of Crete. The two Marine groups will steam together through the weekend and then one will set sail for Home Fie sources said. The turnover originally had been scheduled More than a week ago in Spain but the Pentagon decided instead to dispatch both group to the Eastern Mediterranean As part of its buildup. Four of the Kennedy s escorts a destroyer and three frigates remained in port in Rota Spain on Friday but sources said they would probably sail for their East coast Home ports Over the weekend  
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