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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday Aprl 27,1987 soviet anything goes spying inexcusable Weinberger says by Norman Black Agni Loury writer Washington soviet espionage campaigns cannot be excused by suggesting the United Stales  a -i.-, jus Fig Var pm Caspar Weinberge said Friday. Weinberger addressing the society of american military engineers in san Francisco also said the United states and its allies cannot ensure Freedom and peace without maintaining a realistic View of soviet behaviour continuing the military buildup launched by president Reagan and nurturing the vision that allows a Long term approach to Security issues. The first of these three requirements realism Means thai we must Deal with the world As it is. Not As we would like it to be Weinberger said in the speech released at the Pentagon. We must Lake care not to assume thai other nations think and act As we  the most recent example of this problem he continued is an attempt by some to excuse soviet espionage by arguing that the United states does the same thing. This argument ignores the enormous difference be tween the nature of each Side s intelligence activities which reflect the fundamental differences that separate our two systems for example Given our democratic government of checks and balances our intelligence activities could never approach the scale of the any. Thing goes soviet operation and properly so. As a democratic people we demand that our nation s action be consistent with our values. Our ends no matter How Noble do not justify resort to any Means to achieve them Weinberger said. The need to maintain military strength although expensive is essential in the world of today Weinberg or said. While the United Stales and soviet Union have made Progress toward reaching a nuclear  control pact any such agreement will increase not decrease the importance of and the need for our conventional forces. The third requirement for a better world Wein Berger said is vision meaning a Clear Long term prudent perspective on Security  for example in deciding on the future of the democratic resistance in Nicaragua members of Congress Caspar Weinberger need to focus on the real Issue. And that is our Long term interest in Central America. Ait we going to accept another Cuba in our hemisphere the need for vision is also demonstrated by Rea Gan s Star Ware anti missile defense program since it offers the most reassuring Way for us to deter and defeat nuclear attack he said the strategic defense initiative As the program is formally known provides us a vision for seeking greater control of our future and rolling Back the nuclear Cloud under which Alt Peoples live Weinberger mid. The stars and stripes page3 Nasa seeking proposals for space station Washington up Nasa look a major step to the development of its planned space station Friday by asking american aerospace companies to submit proposals for detailed design and construction of the permanent base in orbit. The National aeronautics and space administration requested bids for the scaled Down $14 billion station approved april 3 by president Reagan and Tor a larger More expensive version. Under the less expensive option rotating Crews of up to eight men and women would begin occupying the station on a permanent basis in 1996. A second phase would expand the station later. Under the option approved by Reagan the first phase of the space station would include american Laboratory and habitation modules four smaller Stor age centers an unmanned Experiment platform and associated equipment two modules also would be provided by the european space Agency and Japan. Nasa said interested contractors were told to plan for the first launch of space station equipment on a space shuttle in january 1994. There arc four major contracts to be awarded design and construction of the two main space station modules four smaller storage modules and associated environmental control systems. This contract will be managed at the Marshall space flight Center in Huntsville Ala. The Boeing corp. And Martin mar Ietta corp. Are expected to compete for that work. Construction of the extensive aluminium Frame work for the station two airlocks and development of Many of its subsystem. This work will be managed Al the Johnson space Center in Houston and is expected to be sought by Rockwell International corp and Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Development of the separate orbiting Experiment platform and provisions for instruments to be attached to the outside of the station. This contract will be managed by the Goddard space flight Center Green Belt my. And general electric and Ria corp. Have performed preliminary studies in these areas. The space station Power system managed by the Lewis research Center Cleveland Rockwell s rocket Dyne division is expected to bid for this work. 90 arrested in polish crackdown sources say Warsaw Poland up author ize demonstrations nationwide ind Epen Gal pacifist Les detained about 90 dissidents in 10 Dent of the government on May 1, the United Preslie cities in the biggest crackdown on the outlawed Solidarity labor Union since a government amnesty in september dissident sources said saturday. Solidarity source said Friday s detention of dissidents was intended to disrupt planning for Independent May Day demonstrations called by the Union. The detentions were the biggest crack Down against dissidents since an amnesty by the government of Cen. Wojciech Jaruzelski freed 225 political prisoners in september. The police action took place one Day after Solidarity founder Lech Walesa urged provincial Union leaders to Organ International workers Day. Similar Solidarity led May i rallies in the last four years were broken up by police. Walesa said the demonstrations would go on despite the detentions. Sources in Solidarity said about 90 activists were detained on Friday and about 47 had been freed by saturday. Bui government spokesman my Urban claimed in a Telephone inner Yew thai Only three people had been detained by police. He identified them As Krzysztof fool and Adam Slomka of the outlawed con federation of Independent Poland and Jacek Che Rutowicz the Leader of an ilk Ern Ings in movement. Slomka told press International he was re leased saturday. Some dissidents had been called in by police and Given warnings about their alleged involvement with anti gov ment publications and various thing various places Urban said. Urban denied that the activists had been warned because they were preparing to stage protests against recent food pee hikes which ranged from 10 to 25 percent. Police can hold detainees for 48 hours without charging them. Arrest is declared when an investigation begins. Jozcfa Pinion a leading Solidarity activist in the southwestern City of Wro claw said that at least 28 people were detained there. Solidarity sources also said that Aboul 30 people were detained for a few hours by authorities in plock in Central Poland. In addition nine people were detained in Gdansk three in Krakow and 14 in Poznan As Well As an unspecified num Ber in Warsaw Szczecin Lodz pita and a prow Wielkopolski Solidarity sources said. All detainees were freed in Poznan and Krakow they said. Jacck Szy Manderski a spokesman for the pacifist group Freedom and peace said some of those arrested were plan Ning to hold a mass in Szczecin sunday to Mark the anniversary of the explosion and fire at the soviet nuclear reactor at chernobyl. The disaster spread radioactive debts across much of Poland. Man convicted of brutal rape freed from prison Sacramento Calif. Up Lawrence sin Gleton was released from a state prison saturday but the whereabouts of the Man convicted of raping a teen age girl and hacking Oft her  remained a mystery. Singleton 59, was released from the California men s Colony at san Luis Obispo on the Central coast at 4 a.m., sgt. Michael Lazarde of the prison stall confirmed. He would not comment further except to say that additional information would be provided later in the Day by the state department of corrections. One thing that was certain was thai Singleton would not be paroled to Contra Costa county the slate s first Choice Tor parole. The county Friday won a court order blocking his parole to Antioch the City of 47,000, where petitions opposing the parole were signed by Throe quarters of the Community s adult residents. Contra Costa Superior court judge Patricia Herron in response to a suit by the county supervisors ordered the department of corrections to keep Singleton out of any Community in the county. Herron ruled that local peace officers could not guarantee Singleton s safety. Los Angeles county s supervisors formally asked the state not to Send him there. Singleton s native stale of Florida also refused to supervise his a Nute. Contra Cosla county was the first Choice of corrections officials because they believe it was Singleton s residence at the time of the crime. County supervisor Tom Powers said Singleton lived there in the Early 1970s, but he contends Singleton was a Legal resident of Nevada Al the Lime of his arrest. He said Singleton owned a House in Sparks. Nov. Singleton had no previous prison record before his conviction in the Vincent Case. Singleton was sentenced to 14 years and 4 months in prison. He got credit for 225 Days he spent in jail before and during his trial. Department of corrections spokesman Bob Gore said Singleton was a docile prisoner who avoided breaking rules. He worked in prison As a leaching assistant winning More Lime off his sentence. Singleton was arrested in october 1978, shortly after a 15-year-old Las vegas girl named Mary Vincent was found beside a Highway in California s Central Valley with her  hacked of below the elbows. The girl told peace officers single ctn picked her up while she was hitchhiking raped her and Cut off her . Authorities have declined to say when Vincent now a woman in her mid-20s and outfitted with artificial limbs is living. They said she is terrified Over sin Gleton s release. Singleton has always insisted lie was innocent  
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