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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, March 31, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 exploring in Home Waters a phew the turkish Oil exploration ship Sis Early saturday past a memorial to Ibe during world War i. The ship under testing in Turkey s Saras Bay us ten Ffllk-1 mores out of the Dardanelles 150,000 soldiers who died at Gall poll escort by two warships begun seismic Sions eased with Greece. Thousands join March in Madrid against drugs Madrid Spain up thousands or demonstrators chanted drugs out. Drugs out in a March sunday to demand Toucher police action against drug Deal ing in the capital. Twenty women at the head of the demonstration wore while head scarves that read Mother of a drug addict and showed two hands snapping a syringe. The March culminated a Mon Klong Campaign led by a group known As mothers United against drugs and other anti drug organizations to protest what they View As police failure to curb dope peddling. At the end of the protest a spokeswoman read a to tement denouncing police Connivance and official indifference to heroin and cocaine sales. The Campaign began March 3 when Sev eral anti drug groups presented parliament with a list or 49 bars garages and private apartments mostly in Madrid s Industrial Bells where drug traffickers operate. Spain has one of Europe s worst drug problems with heroin addicts estimated at More than 100,000, a Lenth or them in the capital. Britain May plagued by London a Britain May scrap its Fox Unfer radar system Des tined for the Royal air Force s Torna do f3 fighter aircraft because it is six years behind schedule and does not work London s sunday Telegraph re ported. Scrapping Fox Hunter whose development by Britain s general electric firm has already Cost $1 billion would be the second major blow within months to British defense technology. In december the government gave up on general electric s attempts to develop an airborne Early warning sys Lem and decided to buy Boeing s Azacs or airborne warning and control system. Development of Cec s Nimrod system had Cost British taxpayers about si.6 billion. A defense ministry spokesman re fused to confirm or deny the sunday Telegraph report. A statement on the Fox Hunter radar is in preparation by the ministry of defense and will be available Short scrap Fox Hunter radar problems paper says by a ministry spokesman told the associated press. The spokesman who in accordance with British civil service practice declined to be identified said a parallel statement would be made by the com Pany. The sunday Telegraph said that be cause of the shortage of even sub Standard Fox Hunter radars some of 16 Tornado f3 fighters based at con Ingsby in Central England Are flying with Cement ballast m their noses in Stead of  the defense ministry " s looking around for possible alternatives said the report by the newspaper s defense correspond pm Simon o Dwyer rus sell. In time of War the Tornado f3s would have o engage and destroy so Viet aircraft approaching British air space. The Fox Hunter radar is supposed to detect and track up to 20 enemy air Craft simultaneously at ranges of 1 id Miles Over the North sea said the newspaper. The report added that during two trials in Sardinia and Cyprus last year. Tornado pilots said  was embarrassingly  we had to rely on ground based radars to guide us on to intruders an unidentified Pilot was quoted As say ing. The paper also quoted a senior de sense ministry source As saying we be been along this Road before with Gec Over the Nimrod farce and we simply cannot afford to sit and do nothing for what could turn out to be years until Gec solves Fox Hunter s  David Fletcher Gec s controller of airborne radar projects was quoted As saying we arc confident that the pro Gram will be seen to a satisfactory conclusion the scrapping of Nimrod in favor of an american alternative was regarded by Many legislators As a blow to National Pride technology and Trade prospects. American woman missing after Crocodile attack Perth Australia a a Large Crocodile at tacked an american woman swimming in a Remote River grabbed her and disappeared police said Sun Day. The woman is missing and believed dead. Police reported Ihm the woman was swimming be tween a rubber raft and a yacht anchored in the Mouth of the Prince Regent River in the Northern part of Western Australia when the attack occurred. The area is known for its targe till Wilc r crocodiles. The 9-Foomong Beasl hit nol been sight d since Lite attack said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the woman was pan of a group or tourists but could not provide her name or other in formation about her. A growing number of american tourists have been visiting Remote parts of Australia following the popu Larity of the film Crocodile Dundee which tells the Story of a Crocodile Hunter. In the movie a Crocodile attacks the heroine but Dundee saves her police said wildlife Odicio is and police with High powered rifles arranged to leave Perth by seaplane monday to meet the yacht Al the Mouth of the River and Hunt for the huge reptile. Officials Sai j no decision has been made on whether to kill the Crocodile if it is found. The Prince Regent River is about 200 Miles North cast of the Small town of Derby in the Northwestern pan or Western Australia. In is inaccessible by Rand. Volunteers from Korolan Island North of Derby were scheduled to Send two boats to the area on monday morning officials said. La lakes Boul five hours by boat from Derby to the Prince Regent River i Oli ctr said authorities found Oul Abdul the attack when overseas telecommunications operators in Dar win picked up a message from the yacht via ship to Short radio link. The operators passed the message to Darwin police uha contacted authorities in we Stern Australia. Police in Broom about 100 Miles West of Derby said the yacht was registered in Brisbane and was bound from a room to dam in  
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