European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Olivier at 80 the greatest actor of our generation Page 13 o celtics top pistons take 2-0 series Lead sports Page 21 d the Dollar through monday buys 1.76 Marks rates Page 27 the St is and stripes iut Robileo unofficial publication for the . Armed Force vol.46,no.36 saturday May 23,1987 0 6693 a Reagan eulogies dead sailors 2,000 attend memorial service at Home port Mayport is. A. Of president Reagan Friday led the nation in mourning the 37 sailors killed aboard the Stark idl ing Ihetu survivors hat their loved ones were Ordinary men who did extraordinary thing. Yes they were heroes in a somber memorial service held in a hot hangar at the Start s Home port. The president said the sailors killed in sunday s missile attack in the persian Gulf gave up their lives so thai. Wider War and greater conflict could be  two thousand people filled the Han Gar including 300 relatives and friends o he victims whose remains have not yet been resumed to the United slates for burial. Among the Houmere were Crew members at Home on leave when an iraqi Jet carried out its Surprise attack. Reagan and his wife Nancy flew to the base near Jacksonville Tor the service with Secretary of defense Caspar Wein Berger and other dignitaries. In the hushed steaming hangar mothers and children fanned themselves with pro Grams and hugged one another. In was the Start of a memorial Day weekend made even More real by the week s events in the Middle East half a world away. Rear adm. John Mcnamara chief of naval chaplains spoke first praying to god in this aircraft hangar made your Temple to console us now with the Faith conviction that one Day we will be with them again in your  lord these Young sailors invested their life s blood in the future of Ameri Ca. May we redeem that investment by our own Devotion to the land they loved Mcnamara prayed. The new Secretary of the Navy James see Reagan on Page 28 these defense department pictures show the successful test to which a Lance rocket is urn left intercepted by the experimental missile Center and destroyed. Test of Star wars prototype missile successful Washington up a missile under development for a Star wars defense against Battlefield missiles streaked 3,200 feet per second and successfully destroyed a Lance rocket 12,000 feet up thursday the Pentagon said Friday. The 12-foot missile carrying 0 radar guidance system that was improved to Home in on Small targets destroyed the Lance on Impact without explosives 6.94 seconds after launch. The missile blasted o t 100 seconds after the Lance was launched officials said. The 20-foot Lance which has a Maxi mum Range of 75 Miles is similar to the soviet ss-21 tactical missile. It. Gen. John f. Wall commander of the army s strategic defense come said the missile was successfully tested the test the first of three in a series of the $10 million flexible lightweight agile guided missile Experiment or Flage was carried put by the army command at the White Sands missile Range in new Mexico. A second test is scheduled Between now and october Wall said. The experiments which were con ducted in the atmosphere Are consistent with the 1972 anti ballistic missile trealy the Pentagon said. The Flage missile could be used against Short Range missiles which have a maximum Range of 600 Miles As part of the layered defences envisioned for the strategic defense initiative known As Star  other countries Are working on Simi Lar anti tactical missiles for sol including Israel which has developed the Arrow. Wall said comparisons will be made with Allied efforts to determine if they arc duplicating each other s work. Some of the technology could be applied to Hii to Kil missiles that would be deployed As part of last ditch ground based sol defences against incoming nuclear warheads launched by intercontinental ballistic missiles said Jeri an Drews the Flage program manager. Sol has been focusing on non sex Plo Sive kinetic kill missiles As both ground based and orbiting space based vehicles for destroying icbms shortly after take off and heir warheads. The Experiment was conducted to test the Flage missile s inboard improved radar. The missile s transmitting Power was increased and its receiver made More sensitive soil could pick up Small targets such As the Lance Wall said. The missile initially was guided from the ground by a Patriot Anli aircraft missile radar. The inboard radar look Over from the Patriot system in the final iwo seconds before Impact Andrews said. The Flage hit the Lance 14 degrees off Cen Ter he said. In previous experiments the missile had been fired against bigger stationary targets to test its radically new guidance system thai is designed around 216 Fin Ger size rocket motors. About 60 of the motors fired in the last half second be fore Impact with the Lance to Correct ils course. And news said. A color videotape showed tic Lance blasting off Tien pm to the launch of the Flage the Flage flames spurting behind it streaked toward the Lance and destroyed it in n Ball of flame debris spewing from he Cloud of smoke. Usa eur stiffens penalties for driving drinking b , Kominicki staff Wriler Heidelberg in its latest move to de glamorize the use of alcohol by soldiers the army has tightened up the penalties for Drunken driving in Germany. The latest version of usage aft regulation 190-1, which quietly went into effect March 31, contains stiff new penalties for army personnel assigned m Ger Many who 31 f found to be under the influence of Alco hol and behind the wheel. Although the regulation outlines driving and vehicle registration rules Lor All service members in Germany Safe Law enforcement officials Friday said they arc nol sure the tougher penalties apply to air Forte personnel in inc Federal Republic since some sections refer airmen to separate air Force regulations. The officials said they had just received the regulation and were reviewing it. A spokesman for the army s motor vehicle registry Iii Heidelberg said thai although blood alcohol Levels in the regulation have remained the we we remade what happens Ai those Levels a lot More  under the new regulation. Drivers wish an alcohol Reading pfo.5 10 0.79 per Neil Lillier of whole blood will lose their License for 90 Days be assessed six traffic Points and be asked to attend remedial driving and see penalties on Page 28