European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strings d Volcker opposes further fall of the Dollar. Page 4 p West Virginia closes colleges for a week. Page 5 d How to get packed for that trip daily Magazine the St its uhor Cut re Utenich ret to Mio rate vol.-4s.n6.as4 to thursday. April 9, 19b7 08693 a better . Security pledged Reagan says new embassy May be torn Down Washington a president Reagan faced with an embarrassing spy scandal in Moscow promised tuesday to prevent further damage to our National Security and suggested the $191 million . Embassy being built in the soviet capital will be torn Down if it can not be protected from eavesdropping. Reagan already hammered by the Iran Contra affair acknowledged he was warned in 198 that the existing embassy was vulnerable to espionage and that so Viet employees should be replaced by americans. The president said reductions in soviet personnel were ordered but thai there were problems because it in t exactly a place where you can just go out and hire americans. Frank Carlucci the White House National Security adviser said that when Reagan ordered cutbacks in soviet employees action was initiated. Now peo ple can argue thai it should have gone Raster people can argue it should Nave started Back in \9v. Meeting with reporters Reagan de see embassy on Page 23 15 new Marine guards ready to step in by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Marine corps is about to begin replacing its guards at the . Embassy in mos cow for questioning in a spy scandal the defense department said tale tuesday contradicting an earlier announcement by chief Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims that some already had been withdrawn in its new statement the Pentagon said is new guards had been moved to Frankfurt in preparation for Transfer to Moscow but that the marines they Are re placing have yet to leave the soviet capital we made a mistake and or. Sims did not have the proper information said army it. Col. Arnold Wil Liams a Pentagon spokesman we thought half or the current guard Force had been moved from Moscow to West Germany but it turned out that it was the re placements who were moved to Germany Sims had spent More than is minutes earlier in the Day tuesday discussing the spy scandal that has rocked the Marine guard Force at the embassy. He told reporters that about half of the 28-Man detachment had been moved to Frankfurt and that the guards were undergoing an initial round Printer Raga Tion there by military investigators before being moved Back to the Marine base at Quanico a. Where the inquiry is entered. There Are 15 marines in Frankfurt and they Are the replacements Williams said. They arc processing see marines on Pago 28 mayor Washington re elected in Chicago Chicago a mayor Harold Washington swept to a second term tuesday defeating democratic Arch rival Edward Vrdolyak and becoming the first Chicago mayor to win re elec Tion since the late Richard j. Daley. We celebrate tonight not the Victory of one candidate but the mandate for a movement the City s tint Black mayor told a Cele Brating throng at Navy pier after he serenaded them with a Short Rendi Tion of Vrdolyak a for Mer Alderman who had spearheaded the opposition to i the mayor on the Washington cily Council admitted defeat two hours after the polls closed. "1 want to congratulate mayor Harold Washington on winning this election. I be won pm and i be lost pm but i always congratulate the Winner Vrdolyak told cheering supporters after he called Washington to concede Vrdolyak had jumped out to an Early Lead based on returns mostly from the while ethnic Ward that were Tat Strong holds. Like Daley Washington has adopted the election night practice of with holding returns from key wards until he has gauged his opponent s strength and he pulled ahead As the evening wore on. With 92 percent of the ballots counted Washington had 544,362 Voles or s3percent to 434,739 votes or 42 percent for Vrdolyak. Republican Don Haider a Northwestern University professor an lifelong Democrat until his gop draft last year had 45,23fi votes or 4 percent Thomas syncs a Democrat who dropped his third party bid Over the weekend had 8,724 Voles or 1 percent. Kotcis had swept out the last two incumbents replacing Jane Byrne in 1983 with Washington. 64. He was backed in that Vic tory by a coalition that melded monolithic Block support with a sprinkling of Liberal Whites and hispanics that same coalition proved even More formidable this time out in handing him a second primary Victory aver Byrne on feb. 24, j. Voters also approved by a 77 percent tax 23 percent margin a referendum calling of the United slates to enter into agreement with the soviet Union for an immediate and verifiable end Tonu car warhead rising from the sea the damaged Stem of the British ferry Herald of free Enterprise rises in the water during operations tuesday to right the vessel to Zeebrugge Bel Gium. Divers started searching for an estimated 134 bodies still Abowd the capsized ferry. Sixty one bodies were recovered earlier. Story on Page 2. Go chose Russia to avoid extradition Friend says b Connie Dickey and de Reavis staff writers Wetzlar Germany a . Soldier suspected of defecting ilm Nieft tic lived it was the Only country thai would t return him to the United states for deserting the army a Friend said tuesday. Hermine Basilan said she knew up a Foffi of pvt. 2 Wade e. Roberts and Iii 23-year-old Petra no a Mannind itbe1lorc they disappeared from Germany., Wade was having some problems in his unit and they took away his civilian clothes she showed up at Clra s apartment in uniform. They discussed for several Days How he could military. Russia was Vir Al Helm butt he would 4rmittan, who said she met Roberts six Zofih. And Neumann about three months ago was Neu Mann s neighbor in a High Rise apartment building in Wal Lar 12 Miles cast of Roberts duty station in gics sen. She said Neumann rented a car and the pair drove to the soviet embassy in Bonn where they asked for Asylum in the soviet Union. Haitian said another Friend whom she did not identify told her the couple Moscow a a Jill inc proper before his trouble with the army Clra and Wade planned to open a Guesthouse in Wei Lar she ,u were Boih very mucin Jove with Eal Oiher to leave him to his Fate. I Elra also told wades i _ shy sold All her and gave the neighbor her apartment keys. 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