European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 24. 1987 the stars and stripes Navy plans to increase Seal forces censored master plan released Washington Ai the Navy plans to in crease inc Sie of us special warfare sea air land team forces by roughly 1,000 men by 1990 and in the pro Cess has embarked on construction projects from an tigua and puerto Rico to san Clements Island calif., and Pearl Harbor an internal  shows. Despite the relatively modest increase in manpower the growth is straining the Navy s ability to Tram new commandos the document indicates. Much of the new construction involves training facilities although there arc some operational projects As Well. The unorthodox commando units also Are acquiring new equipment ranging from fat Manlic boats to underwater swimmer delivery vehicles equipped with torpedoes. Details of the secretive Seal organization Are contained in a censored version of the Navy s 1986 Spe Cial warfare master plan obtained under the free Dom of information act by a Washington researcher. The master plan discusses problems Wilh training programs confirms by a Brief reference the existence of one Seal team that the Navy never acknowledges mentions a new initiative to improve joint operations Between seals and marines and suggests by a reference in the report s glossary that some Sal units can handle nuclear weapons. The text As censored makes no mention of a nuclear capability. But in an uncensored glossary the a arc vation Sadm or special atomic demolition munition is listed. Pentagon sources have previously disclosed that army special operations forces can be equipped wit Small portable nuclear weapons. The Navy document in recounting the history of the seals also noles that seals performed direct action missions during . Military operations in Grenada and naval special warfare forces supported military operations in Lebanon the Navy previously has acknowledged the participation of Seal units in the 1983 invasion of Grenada but it has said nothing about any work in Lebanon the same year. One Pentagon source who asked not to he identified suggested the seals were used merely 10 sweep the beaches of Beirut before a Force of marines landed. But recurring reports indicate that a special operations reconnaissance unit operated inside Beirut As Well. The Navy produced its first master plan for the seals in i9b2 at a time when the Reagan administration was first beginning an Effort to improve the Readi Ness and strength of All special operations forces including the army s Green berets and rangers and the air Force s first special operations Wing the Seal teams Are the Navy s  for conducting unconventional or guerrilla warfare. Members Are trained to operate underwater and on land. They can drop from planes or helicopters. The Navy master plan was updated in 1984 and again in 1986. Both plans were released in censored form last week to William Arlin a defense analyst with the Liberal Institute for policy studies in Washington. While some details have been disclosed previously in a piecemeal fashion including the Forward deploy ment of Seal teams to puerto Rico Scotland and Hawaii the censored document nonetheless shed new Light on the unconventional forces. For example the 1986 document lists Seal strength and five year Billet growth goals through fiscal 1990, the plan states that As of fiscal 1986, the various Seal teams had 1,987 men 276 officers and1,711 enlisted personnel. By 1990, the plan adds the Navy Hopes to have in creased that to 2,927 men 417 officers and 2,5 of enlisted. Those numbers however do not include another Seal team thought to number Between 175 and 200men, Seal team 6. The Navy docs not publicly acknowledge the exis tence of Seal team 6 and it was left Oul of an organisation Chart included in the master plan. That team is Iro Ion the one Navy unit trained in  an Rescue operations to augment the army s Delta team. Despite the Lack of an official acknowledgement Seal team 6 appears in the plan s explanation of upcoming military construction projects. Listed for 1986 is $3.15 million to build an indoor pistol and Rifle Range and helicopter Landing pad at dam neck va.,for Seal team 6." Overall inc 1986 master plan lists construction i Jewls around the world totalling More than $77 Milli through fiscal 1990. While the Cost estimates arc now two years old the Pla Calls for $5.5 million Worth of construction on the carib bean Island of Antigua to provide adequate training sup port facilities for naval special warfare  that Money will be used to overhaul and expand a Small Navy base on the Island that had been used As a submarine listening and communications Post. Also listed Are 12 different projects at the. Two main training facilities the naval amphibious bases at Cor onado calif., and i talc Creek. A. S3.24 million for a new building at Pearl Harbor to House classified dry deck shelters that can be attached to submarines forthe infiltration of Seal swimmers and 1790,000 fora support building at Roosevelt roads puerto Rico to provide storage and pre Mission preparation areas for the Ali 32 standoff weapons Assembly Trainer details of inc my 32 Are classified. But a Navy Admiral told Congress in 1983 he project involved in conversion of my 37 submarine torpedoes to allow their firing from underwater swimmer delivery vehicles used by Seal divers. The construction plan also Calls for j4.7 million lode Molish outdated training facilities on san Cleminte Island off the coast of California and replace the with new structures $4.7 million to build new facilities in Nyland. Calif., to support desert operations rain ing for new personnel and $3.7 million to build new facilities at the Marine corps cold weather training facility at Bridgeport calif., for use by Seal teams. Rome s traffic ban starting 2nd phase Rome not Julius Caesar started it 2,000 or so years ago by ban Ning litters from downtown Rome to ease traffic congestion. But it has been downhill Ever since so this month Home s City fathers arc imposing a Rush hour ban on cars and trucks i much of the cily Center. The idea is to re Duce traffic exhaust fumes that a sports say gnaw at the City monuments. Last monday the police began Block ing traffic from 7 30 to 10 . In a major part of the City stretching from Piazza Del Popolo in the North to Piazza Venezia in the South two traffic Bee hives and from via  to to inc tiber. The next phase starts monday when the banned area is to be almost doubled. Delivery trucks of 3 equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in front of the cily Hall have Burn removed Wilt experts decide ways to protect them. Rome first attacked its traffic head ache six years ago when Large part1, of the Center were closed to cars without special passes. But the passes were handed out by the thousands and last no vember there were signs that things were deteriorating As when traffic policemen defied official prohibitions and donned smog masks while on duly. Massimo Palombi the official i charge of traffic describes this month s measures As first Steps to Clear the ancient lanes of private cars increase the number of trams and buses and construct a Chain of parking garages around the City Center. Palombi s ban has come under attack from politicians and store owners who con lend that the Grams. Buses and garages should have come first before the traffic ban. It s All politics said Andrina Abbon Danza a communist councilwoman from the first Ward where the earliest restrictions went into place six years ago cily Hall Bosses imposed the ban she said but Ward leaders like herself had to explain them to the people. The comm Unius want talks about modifying the new measures. We know there s a problem said Vincenzo Capuano the president of the store keepers association on via Conditi. But restrictions on driving he said keep shoppers from stores already suffer ing from a Rilent decline in Lourim. His association also wants talks with the City on my sum to make downtown shop Ping More attractive despite the traffic ban. They include entry permits for can with foreign License plates he creation of More parting and shoppers centers for leaving packages resting or telephoning. The Vatican s comment came in l of scr Maiorc Romano the newspaper of the holy see which a tided the City for clip Ping motorists rights without first pro Viding alternatives such As Good Public transportation. Tree time App Tolu i lit Liti m in tiny Prim it on Fhi Hilbun at the Frankfurt Spring  is partly made of a material found on cuckoo clocks but nut usual la on Fri tax Wood the wooden mulch height by Mure than half an ounce. Slight