European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Nasa probes equipment thefts Page 5 q Mats Gooden to enter drug clinic Page 21 o Canada mine fire kills 1, traps Many Page 2b the subs vol. 15, no. 348 Friday. April 3, 1987 08693 a soviets claim go defected . Officials unable to confirm report Wychuck Vonch Lori Bureau wash1nc say an army Soldier based it has defected to the soviet Union with his German wife and has been granted Asylum but Pentagon european corny and . Army Europe officials have thus far been unable to confirm the report. Soviet foreign ministry spokesman Cannady Gerasimov said at a news briefing thursday that William e. Rob erts and his wife identified Only As p. Neumann had been granted Asylum i cause they were afraid of being Zed for their progressive Vic App ing to an associated Pra Teton from Moscow. Gerasimov had been persecuted while stationed in Germany the a report said. He did not provide details of when the couple entered the or How they had arrived nor Home town. Military officials said there. William a Roberts on army Rolls. Two private first warrant officer both Assam of the 2nd army Cav been accounted for by pm manding officers army officials said. La. Col. William e. Roberts is assigned to the staff of the . Military Academy Al West Point. He s also accounted for an army official thursday said. He just gave a class this Pentagon officials now the search to the Oiher Golf Bui the problem turn a common said. And keep in Nal the Only source we have on Oviel official. So who knows if Roberts or Robert Williams it s going to take Sorric Lall these the alleged defection would be the first by a . Military member to the soviet Union since the Vietnam War but in would be the second defection to a communist country within the last year. Pfc. Hugo Romu Almeida assigned As a Laboratory technician at the army Hospital in bad Cansian Germany defected to Cuba last August. ,. A naturalized . Citi Orn in Cuba told cuban authorities he was an army Captain he was Nopar Nelly unhappy with the military s ruling that his doctor of Medicine credentials earned in the dominican Republic did not qualify him fora commission. A Usarek enlisted Soldier deserted to Czechoslovakia last october but he later was handed Back 10 . Military is and has since been court mar to defect join a at the end of a Long walk Home Long journey four years to be Newman returns Home to Beth Ohio around the world which and Steve Newman and his the tearful Homecoming wednesday through 20 nun Orivs. See san her Marcan t help but cry As marked an end to Newman s walk the last he soviet Union we cancer specialist from granted Asylum after claiming he been hounded out of his Job because of his opposition to . Defense policies. Lockshin 47. His wife and three children arrived in the soviet Union oct. 8. President Hunts votes for his veto Washington a j president Reagan journeyed i Capri no Hill thurs Day for an extraordinary personal Appeal in Republican senators to sustain his veto of an ass billion Highway Bill and Sparo him from defeat in a showdown with llu1 democratic majorities of con Gress. Who aides and cioi1 Senate allies unable to find the votes needed to sustain inc vein. Keagan s trip represented a decision to plact his political pro Siligi on Hie line he met firs Wajih ail gop senators who greeted him with a Landing if Ilin. Then according to crop hour pcs Kingan was ushered into i Sec Ond hessian with tin1 1.1 Cir in Vulors who sided with democrats on wednes Day in a preliminary vote on the veto. Helping Ragan make his Pilch were vice president George Bush. Chief of staff Howard Baker and Eliza Belli Duke earlier. Mrs. Dole s husband Senate Republican Leader Boh Dole of Kansas said "1 advised the president 1 was t sure it would the senic voted narrowly to sustain the Vico on wednesday but freshman see veto on Page 28 new . Ambassador starts Job in Moscow most Wuant . Ambassador Jack f. take up his Post and said he embassy communications feared com promised in the marines Kab espionage Case will be secure by the time Secretary of slate George Sulu arrives. Matlock 51, told reporters Ait he did not wish to comr uial Al Nice sex and spy i Mil i Helm ff1imi in in the arrest of three Marin corps Security guards and inc recall of the 28 guards posted Here now. See related Storfer pages 3, Hubli Peiu is Toj we secure Matlock pc added i m not going to com ment on any conduct at the embassy be fore i see Matlock replaces Arthur Hartman who left feb. 19 after five hours the longest serving .ant new us this Tutor is on of the United states top experts on _ cultures and his or and pros ii no Rej Girn i special Cimpean a flairs in has been a longtime key Smula in til". Policy tin1 Staniel Santook part in in m of the Summit sessions incl Lim lit Mikhail Gorba Diw tlu11 a Balisy he will run is plagued by an esp mag sly Nold flue i a. Jilt i i tics believe Coni Prumis taxi us i nmn i ii thins three i Onner Marine guards the embassy Art under miliary arrest a. see Moscow on Page 28
