European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday february 21,1987 military Roundup Menetrey to take Over . Command in s. Korea Seoul South Korea a i. Gen. Louis a Man Clurcy will succeed Gen. William  Lipscy As inc lop . Commander in South Korea it was announced Friday. The announcement by . Military head quarters in scout said Man Carey would be promoted to four Star general. Menetrey a native of los Angeles now is commanding general of the 3th army at fort Sam Houston Texas. There arc 41,000 . Military personnel in South Korea. The ranking . Commander also oversees combined South korean and . Forces totalling More than 500,000troops. Lipscy commander in South Korea since june 1, 1985, will return 10 Georgia after the change of command in june the announcement said. Rear adm. Tuttle picked to head pcs staff group Washington a president Reagan has nominated rear adm. Jerry o. Tulc to become the nest director of one of the staff organizations serving the joint chiefs of staff the Pentagon said wednesday. Assuming he is confirmed by the Senate cult la would receive a third Star and inc rank of vice Admiral and assume control of the pcs staff office responsible Tor command control and common ical ions systems. Tunic 52, is a native of Hatfield nd., and is the Deputy and care of staff to the commander of inc . Atlantic come in Norfolk a. S. Korean . Soldiers begin joint exercise Seoul. South Korea a the United Stales and South Korea started their 12th annual team spirit military exercise Friday with about200.000 soldiers participating from the two countries . Officials said. No details were available on the opening phases which were described As preliminary. The main Field operations Are scheduled for mid March. The exercise ends in May. Officials said the exercise would involve Many of the approximately 41,000 americans stationed in South Korea and others from the Pacific come and Mainland United Stales. As in inc past. North Korea and China were invited to Send observers but neither accepted. France confident Western nations will agree on monetary policy Paris a France is confident this weekend s meetings of finance ministers and Central Bankers from seven Western Industrial giants will produce a formula to help stabilize currency Exchange rates officials said Friday. One French government source speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity said an agreement was Likely to focus on belter economic coordination among the United states Japan Germany France Britain Canada and Italy. Obviously we would not have called a meeting if we did not Nave some Hope of an agreement inc official said. Finance ministers of All seven countries arc to meet sunday at an undisclosed site near parts. Sources in several countries have said a meeting of the group of five which toes not include Canada or ugly is set for saturday. The . Dollar was stronger thursday after rumours of the weekend sessions were confirmed but fell again Early Friday on european markets apparently reflect ing pessimism among traders that the outcome will halt the Dollar s to year plunge. In Washington Treasury Secretary James Baker and Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker cautioned against expecting too much. But German officials like the French Friday said they saw a possibility of agreement on measures to lame the currencies the european and japanese governments Are eager to win . Support in braking the Dollar s Sharp de Cline because it has put a squeeze on their Export driven economics. The United states was expected to press for action to stimulate other economies so that they would absorb More imports and help reduce the huge . Trade deficit which totalled j170 billion in 1986. The Bank of Japan made such a move on Friday announcing a reduction in inc discount rate the interest its Central Bank charges on Loans to Commer Cial Banks from 3 percent to a record Low 2,5 per cent effective on monday Syria May Send troops to Beirut Beirut Lebanon a Syria said Friday in May Send troops into Beirut to enforce a truce Between shiite moslem and leftist militiamen fighting a bloody War for control of the lebanese capital s moslem Sec Tor. A spokesman for syrian vice president Abdul Halim it Saddam said lebanese. Prime minister rash id Karami and parliament speaker Hussein Husseini have officially requested syrian intervention to end the bloodletting in which 200 people have been killed and 400 wounded in six Days by police count. The syrian leadership is very seriously considering the request and is determined to help our people in Lebanon Haddam said according to the spokes Man after a meeting in Damascus Syria. Fighting raged on Friday Between shiite moslem militiamen and an Alliance of the druse progressive socialist party and the communist party in West Bei rut despite a syrian brokered cease fire. Haddam also brought together at his office progressive socialist party chief Walid jump but and Nabih Bern head of the dominant shiite amal move ment in their first face to fact meeting since fighting for control of West Beirut erupted sunday. The meeting also included assent Kansou. Leader of the lebanese chapter of Syria s ruling  h party. Emerging from inc talks Kansou said Syria has prepared its troops to intervene in Beirut and take Over Security  Syria sent some 500 soldiers to West Beirut last summer to help the lebanese army restore Security to the chaotic sector of the lebanese capital. But that plan failed to rein in he militiamen. The size of the new Force being considered for West Beirut was not immediately known. But one source speaking on condition of anonymity said deployment. Of the syrian regulars could begin As Early As saturday. Reagan from Page 1 to serve in the a for 28 years then by god it was a blot on the a too he said. Reagan picked Koehlor to Sec that Reagan s goals for the coming two years Are clearly and effectively articulated to me american  he is to succeed Patrick Buchanan whose Resig nation becomes effective March i. Kochler was born in Dresden which is now in East Germany. He served in the . Army and army re serve from 1954101967. At the a he was a newsman in Seattle a foreign correspondent in Berlin and in Bonn chief of Bureau in Newark n j., and an executive Al inc news cooperative s new York Headquarters. When he retired he was assistant general manager and managing director of the world services division Oft Heap. Since his retirement he has been president of Koehlor International ltd., a consulting firm specializing in Public affairs and communication in Stamford Conn. Cover up from Page 1  of their advice to the president 1 Don t have any  the account of Mcfarlane s purported testimony to members of the pc Sidon tally appointed review panel headed by former sen. John Tower. A Texas was not the Only embarrassing news. White House officials were faced with a Washington Post Story that Robert gales the president s nominee to head inc Cia helped draw up plans in 1985 for Egypt and the United slates toll act Libya in a bold Effort to Force libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi from Power Filz Waler s comment there was no decision directive to invade Libya. I Don t know about discussions and so Forth. But there was no policy or plan  in  the Host also reported computer Mes sages retrieved by the presidential panel probing the arms Sale revealed that i. Col. Oliver nun gave Iran top secret intelligence information. The Baltimore Sun said the while House commission will criticize Secretary of state George Schuliz and defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger for Noi being aggressive enough in their opposition to the arms Deal. Of the proposed libyan attack the Post said Iran s Rote in freeing hostages held aboard a hijacked Twa Jet in 1985 led to the shift in . Policy for dealing with the iranian government and to the proposed invasion of Libya. The National Security Council and Gates Drew up plans in the summer of 19b5 for Egypt to attack Libya capture half its territory with . Air support and then use this position to Force Gad Hafi out the Post said. Mcfarlane along with his former Dep Uty vice adm. John m. Poi Douer and another National Security Council aide Donald Fortier reportedly devised the plan. The drive was to embrace the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and demolish Qadhafi the Post said quoting an administration official involved in inc policy making. In was though that Iran because of its assistance in the june 1985 hijacking of Twa flight 847, could be of further help in gaining the release of other americans held hostage by pro iranian groups. Gates then head of intelligence Analy Sis for the Cia and now acting Cia director wrote a paper in mid july 1985 saying a .-egyptian attack on Libya would present an Opportunity to redraw the map of North Africa the newspaper said quoting sources who have read the document Shutlz considered the plan crazy and summoned Nicholas a. Veliotes then ambassador to Egypt Home on a secret weekend Mission to help thwart the proposal the newspaper said. Although the slate department tailed to Slop a Mission to Cairo Egypt by Poindexter it did succeed in limiting his authorized discussions to contingency planning rather than preparations for military action the newspaper said. As for the relaying of secret Intelli gence to Iran the Post quoted two sources As saying the evidence in inc computer messages discloses thai North passed on intelligence data that was designated Nofort meaning in was not to be seen by any foreign National. The newspaper said it Wai unclear what Type of intelligence North bad provided. In other developments the Wall Street journal reported that in january 1986, Reagan signed an order authorizing the Cia to Kidnap terrorist suspects abroad and bring them Back to the United Stales to stand trial. That authority has not yet been used to Kidnap anyone the journal said. The order which had been opposed by some in the Cia and the Fri came about after the United slates tried with out Success to find the hijackers of the Twa flight the journal said. Fit water s response that was the Story thai there was a finding and i just won t comment on that intelligence. I will not speculate on any action we might take to hold terrorists responsible at the Justice depart men spokesman Patrick Korten said we weren t involved in anything illegal the los Angeles time Friday re ported North made secret payments to nicaraguan guerrilla Leader Arturo Cruz of some $7,000 per month from lost of Lober through january. Cruz through a spokesman acknowledged receiving the Money which he said was needed to sup \ part himself