European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d new dental plan to begin in August Page 2 d the passion for perfection pages 14,15 q san Diego cheers As America s cup returns Page 21 Utho birr unofficial pulic Tion for the . Of Limo Fouei vol. 45, no 295 monday. February 9, 1987 i Richardc. Gross up military write Washington defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said in an interview aired sunday Hal the United Stales will renegotiate the anti ballistic missile treaty when it is ready to deploy elements Ofa Star wars defensive system. He said he did not know when the first phase of the strategic defense initiative As Star wars is known officially could be deployed on he ground and in space but he estimated it could be somewhere in the 199j to 1994 Range Weinberger s remarks in an interview with the Brit ish broadcasting co. Aboul Early deployment of ski and the 1972  treaty appeared amid renewed debate about the administration s  of the pact in order to proceed with space based Star wars  and other senior administration officials briefed president Reagan last week about a Possi ble Early deployment of ski but officials said no Deci Sions had been made. Critics of he administration and ski including Saa ski on Page 28 in Damascus shiite moslem militia chieftain Nabih Herri said he believes Waile will be freed soon but backed away from an earlier statement that it could happen by monday the a reported sunday in a videotape delivered to a Western Newn Agency in Beirut hostage Alann Stern 46, read a statement on behalf of the islamic jihad for the liberation of pales Tine. The statement reiterated for a third time the group s demands and its threats to kill the hostage monday if our lives Are important to America it must order Israel to release the 400 palestinians As soon As Possi ble that is monday As a maximum an unshaven Stern read from the statement. Steen a professor of communications was abducted by gunmen with american professors Jesse Turner and Robert Polhill and Indian born . Resident alien it Nithil Schwar Singh Jan. 24 in West isei Rul. A Lent of the message read by Stycn on behalf of his colleagues was delivered along with the videotape with some wards underlined. February 9 is the last Date to release them. If they Don t gel released our Fate will be execution under lined and the islamic jihad Tor the liberation of pal Estine is serious about he Lime it so i underlined the statement said. Stern wearing a White to shirt and eyeglasses did not read smoothly. He looked uncomfortable on the six minute videotape and ended with the words see threats on Page 28 members of san Francisco s chinese Community carry a dragon along Market Street during the chinese new year Parade. The chinese on saturday Kung Hei fat Choy celebrated the beginning of the chinese lunar year 4685, the year of the Hare. According to the a Kungel fat Choy Means Happy new  soviet Crew docks with space station Moscow up two cosmonauts inspected their orbiting space station Mir sunday in preparation for months of experiments and the arrival of a space Observatory carrying soviet and West european equipment. Mission commander Yuri Romanenko and Engineer Alexander Lavi Ekin completed two Days of mane vering through space in Pursuit of Mir when their soyuz tm-2 space capsule docked at 2 28 . Sunday. Hours after they entered Mir Moscow radio reported that the cosmonauts Are checking out the state of the station sys tems and equipment. Mission control re ports that the two cosmonauts feel  although the exact duration of the Mission has not been disclosed the cosmonauts Are scheduled to be aboard Mir when a joint syrian soviet Mission is launched from the Bai Konur launch site in late july. Mir is to become the Basic unit for assembling a major research Complex in orbit which will be used for Experiment son orders of hundreds of scientific and economic organisations radio mos cow said the flight by Romanenko and Lavie Kin is the second soviet Mission since the . Manned flight program was halted by the explosion of the challenger space shuttle Jan. 28, 1986, in a display of growing Confidence both launches were shown live on television. The wide Range of experiments scheduled for the current Mission the 60th manned right by the soviet Union in clude studies in Medicine biology and Mineral re sources the two cosmonauts Wilt also use a unique space Observatory due for launch see station on Page 28 4 soldiers on Rescue Mission die in copter crash fort Stewart. A. A four . Soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in a Remote swampy area As they were lying to assist civilian Vic Tims Ofa traffic Accident officials said saturday. The aircraft was on the Way to pick up the injured motorists when the crash occurred Friday night Aboul three Miles Northwest of fort Stewart in Southeast Georgia army spokesman John Martin said. An air and land search hampered by rain and Low Clouds located the wreckage at about 8 50 . Sat urday. At first Only three bodies were found. The fourth body was found later in the Day. Army officials would not speculate on what cause the helicopter to crash. Killed were the Pilot 1st it. James Belcher 23, of Mayodan . The Crew chief spec. 4 Jerome bar Chol 23, of Midway a. And a medic Sec. Doyle Cannon 40, of Elroy urls Iii. The name of the fourth victim has not been released pending notification of his family. When the copier left Wright army Airfield at fort Stewart at 9 p.m., weather conditions were Fly Able but not Nice a spokesman said. Visibility was three Miles in fog and a fight rain. Two men injured in the car Accident were driven to the Hospital at fort Stewart where they were reported in stable condition