European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 15,1987 German police defuse bomb found in parking lot by the Sun and Stripe German police notified american authorities monday morning i hat they had found a bomb Ina housing area parking lot a v corps message to All subordinate commands  found the bomb in a parking lot be tween the Mainz army depot and the sin Flor housing area the message said. Larry Rosenberg a Mainz Public affair spokesman would confirm Only Hal an explosive device was found in the Vicinity of the maim army depot monday morning. The message sent monday afternoon did not say when the bomb was found. Rosenberg Taid German police and military authorities Are investigating the incident and de dined further  menage describes the device As a White plastic bottle Dis washing liquid bottle approximately 12 inches in height attached to the bottle were numerous wires and a Battery. Accord ing to the German bomb squad the bottle contained an unidentified High explosive.",the device tailed to detonate and a German bomb squad defused it the message stated february Trade deficit went Over $ 15 billion Washington a the nation s Trade deficit Stilt showing stubborn resistance to yielding to the pressures of a weakening Dollar widened in february to 115.06 billion the com Merce department reported  february deficit measuring the excess of imports Over exports was up from a re Vised january shortfall of $12.27 billion. The january figure initially bad been reported As$14.78 billion. Economists expressed widespread disappoint ment with the report suggesting that declines in the value of the Dollar by now should have led Toan improvement in Trade accounts. It shows How deeply imbedded our competitive problems Are said Lawrence Chimente president of Wharton  imported $33.72 billion in Mer Chandise in february but exported Only $ 18,66billion Worth. Both categories were up from Jan uary when imports totalled $28.69 billion an exports 116.42 billion. Turkey formally applies for membership in dec Brussels. Belgium up1 Turkey on tuesday formally applied for full membership into the european Community during a ceremony at the historic egmont Palace. Ali Bozer turkish minister of state Noble for european affairs handed Turke mat application letter to his belgian Collet find cans. Lindemans is current in of the Community s Council of  is a solemn and historical moment for Turkey which wants to integrate completely into the european Community Bozer told re porters after the ceremony. The turkish people want to share the destiny of  police arrest 3 suspects in bavarian arson attack Augsburg Germany a Munich officials tuesday announced the arrest of three leftist militants in connection with an arson attack just hours after other arsonists hurled gasoline filled bullies at a bavarian slate government building Here. In Munich the bavarian Interior ministry  three suspects were arrested on monday in connection with an attack earlier in the Dayon the suburban m Unich offices at the test com Puter concern s offices in , an Augsburg police spokesman said unknown persons hurled several gasoline filled bottles at a bavarian government administration building Here Early  fire Brake out and destroyed pans of the facade of the building causing an estimated10,000 Marks i j.350 damage police said. Shultz hands Gorbachev Reagan s invitation to visit Moscow a soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev tuesday received a new invitation from presi Dent Reagan for a superpower Summit this year i Washington but he said that generally without Rea son i do not go anywhere particularly to America Secretary of state George Shultz handed Gorbachev the president s letter As they met in Catherine s Hall in the Kremlin on the heels of a bitter Public Exchange Between he two superpowers on spy charges. This cannot be just a stroll Gorbachev said. When 1will be nearing retirement Hen i May travel just for pleas ure. But now need  Gorbachev is 56. Gorbachev has persistently resisted Reagan s invitation even though the two leaders decided in 1985 to hold meetings in Washington and in Moscow. You re Welcome to come Shultz said. I have Aletter front the president and it says so,1 Reagan and Gorbachev held an interim meeting last october in Iceland and they reached extensive but tentative understandings to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. The president has not pressed Gorbachev on their1985 commitment to Exchange visits while the soviet Leader has held Back awaiting the outcome . The Issue dominated Sulu s Agenda Here. . An soviet Aims experts held separate meetings to try to narrow their differences. A dispute Over 130 Shorter Range soviet rockets has held up an Accord to remove hundreds of missiles from Europe. On a More volatile Issue Shutlz confronted soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze at the Start of his visit monday with charges that soviet spies who were helped by . Marines had Access to sensitive files at the american embassy Here. The soviets in turn have claimed there has Bee widespread . Bugging of their diplomatic facilities in Washington and new  Gorbachev and Shultz Shook hands a reporter asked the soviet Leader if he would be going to Washington this year. This is precisely what we Are going to discuss Gorbachev said. We must continue the discussion and then answer your  stood impassively at the soviet Leader s tide As Gorbachev continued Well i think i have to be hopeful and it just cannot be thai i would avoid Amer Ica in my  he stressed that he would want a solid reason to see Reagan  and Shultz joined by few advisers then sat Down on opposite sides of a Long polished  soviet Leader turned the letter from Reagan Over to Shevardnadze who passed it to Anatoly Dobrynin the former soviet ambassador to Washington who is now Secretary of the soviet Central  needling the soviet Leader Sulu told him Don t want to interfere in your internal affairs but giving him a letter the president wrote to you.," before Shultz could finish Gorbachev said of do Brynin he has t yet forgotten being an ambassador when everything was done through him setting a Summit Date could reverse the slide in .-soviiit relations Reagan s chief of Stair Howar Baker jr., said monday at the California White House that he would not be surprised if a decision on a sum Mit emerged from Shultz s three Day visit. Marines from Page 1 Weirick on suspicion of espionage while he worked atthe . Consulate in the soviet City of Leningrad in 1981 and 1982, Weirick also is suspected of having become involved with soviet women. Sims also disclosed that Ronald s. Lauder the .ambassador to Austria had made the decision to Send the men Home immediately. The spokesman said he could not discuss Lauder decision or its timing beyond noting that As ambassador Lauder is the senior american in Austria. Sims  naval investigative service which i heading the inquiry had been questioning guards at embassies around the world including Vienna and the ambassador decided they should return for the  the spokesman  Marine who has been Callejas a witness in Lonetree s redial investigation had left Vienna on sunday. The other five Are in Frankfurt awaiting rotation to the Marine base at Quanico va.,he added. The recall of the six men has left the Vienna embassy Short staffed but that situation will be corrected soon Sims said. With the six gone the embassy has guard Force of 16 marines and two non commissioned officers remaining he  spokesman declined to comment when asked if the recall indicated invest Gaion suspect a further breach of Security at the austrian facility beyond that already alleged to have occurred through Lon Trees  offering details Sims also confirmed re ports that an internal Navy study had proposed that embassy guards be subjected to random lie Detector tests in the future. Sims  report had been forwarded to the stale department and to defense secret by Caspar Wein Berger and is under review. The study by the Navy s inspector general also recommended changes in train ing and selection procedures including improved psychological screening of guard  also suggested that the Marine corps and state department no longer rely on senior non commissioned officers to head embassy guard units Sims said radiation fro Pagal radioactive emission have been registered on the territory of the soviet Union he said. The soviets were criticized after the chernobyl nuclear disaster because they initially failed to report the Power Plant Accident which killed 31 soviets and sen radiation around the world. Claudia Conrad of the German environment ministry  increased radioactivity measured in March posed no danger to people in Germany or Sweden. It measured Only 50 Nicro Becquerel on average she said. By comparison the european economic Community limits radioactivity in milk and baby foods to 370 by quarels. Conrad  probable cause was a soviet nuclear Plant Accident although she said she could not Rule out radiation from an underground nuclear weapons test. A he european come spokesman in Stuttgart Tot the stars and stripes we have no reports of in creased radiation submitted to us during Hal  7th medical come routinely monitors the food stuffs that Are bought in Europe for consumption Byrod personnel and their families and has not detected any significant increase of radiation  Tommy Gotaas chief inspector of the swedish National radiation Protection Agency said a nuclear Plant leak was unlikely. Considering the Small amounts of radiation accidental minor reactor leak was possible but it might As Well have been a deliberately increased emis Sion while cleaning a reactor he said in Stockholm Sweden. We could Rule out that the emission came from a nuclear lest because in missed some elements he   radiation could also have drifted from a Hospital dump where radioactive isotopes were being burned. Sweden recorded the abnormal Levels betwee March 11 and March 13 and traced the source of the radiation to an ares near the Gulf of Finland Southeast of the soviet City of Leningrad. Germany s Environ ment ministry said that Between March 9 and march15 it measured higher Levels of the radioactive element iodine 131 and four to five limes the usual amount of xenon Gas. The increase of radioactivity in general was hundreds of thousands of times less than that following a nuclear arms lest or the chernobyl Accident though the concentration of iodine 131 was he largest we have measured recently Gotaas  explosion and fire april 26, i9s6, at the Cher Nobyl nuclear Plant in the soviet Ukraine sent Oul radiation that forced the evacuation of tens of thou Sands of soviets and contaminated tons of food i Europe. It was the worst nuclear Plant Accident in his tory