European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 of the stars and stripes saturday May s3.1987 Thatcher attacks plan to scrap nukes prime minister Margaret thu Cher asserts that Britain will be Safe Only in conservative hands. London a with the socialists raining ground in election polls. Prime minister Margarct Thatcher attacked the opposition panics nuclear arms policies and said Britain s National Security is now Only Safe in conservative  the socialist labor party has pledged to scrap Brit Ain s nuclear weapons and Send Back . Cruise mis Siles if it wins the june 11 general election. The centrist Alliance of Hie Liberal and social democratic parties would retain a British nuclear deterrent but like labor is committed to cancelling the . Made Trident nuclear system Thatcher has ordered to replace Britain s aging Polaris vessels. Labor would abolish our nuclear weapons altogether Thatcher told party supporters during a visit thursday to her parliamentary constituency m Finch Ley North London. The sep liberals would leave us with a deterrent which would no longer deter. The people know where they stand with the conservative party. They know we will not take risks with the defense of our country. The defense of Britain is now Safe Only in conservative  Thatcher launched her attack As opinion polls showed labor Cutti no i nto the conservatives Strong Lead. A mar plan a n Friday s guardian newspaper put the conservatives at 41 percent Down two Points with labor eight Points behind Al 33 percent up three and the Alliance dropping four Points to 21. The poll of 1,517 voters with a 3 percent margin of error either Way was Laken thursday. A Harris poll for to am carried out Over four Days this week and released thursday indicated that the conservative Lead had fallen to just three Points with the tories enjoying 40 percent backing labor having 37 and the Alliance slipping to 21. White House congressional discord grows from Page 1 absolutely could not carry More Nan one exo act missile. But Pentagon officials said thursday that iraqi officials maintain Only one plane was involved. Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz told the Abc television program night me from Bagh dad on wednesday night that his country is pre pared to pay compensation to the families of the victims . Officials said iraqi fighters approached the american destroyer Waddell earlier this week in the same area where the Stark was at tacked but they turned Back after warnings. Officials said warships Are switching their de sense systems on automatic since the Stark disaster and As one authority put it the persian Gulf is not a healthy area for unidentified  the Start was on patrol As pan of a seven ship . Navy Force charged with helping pre serving free navigation in the Gulf through which about 20 percent of the non communist world s Oil Supply passes. The Pentagon has extended the deployment of the guided Missic frigate Stephen w. Groves in the persian Gulf to compensate for the Stark. The Groves will remain on assignment with the Mideast task Force for an extra two months returning to its Home port of Mayport Fla. In August instead of june 15. Iraq and Iran have attacked commercial ship Ping in the Gulf for More than three years in what has been called the Tanker War. About 230 vessels have been damaged. The attack on the Stark also appears to have put the Reagan administration s plan to sell f-15 fighter jets to saudi Arabia in jeopardy. While House spokesman Mariin Fitzwalter said presi Dent Reagan will delay sending plans Tor the Sale to Congress because of political and other fac  saudi Arabia s failure to respond to an Ameri can request to intercept the iraqi Jet that tired on the Stark has led some members of Congress la assert that despite past military Aid to saudi Arabia the United states cannot count on that country s military support in a crisis. 1 or 2 months of treatment in store for 2 Stark sailors san Antonio Texas a two sailors injured in the attack on the . Frigate Stark arc expected to spend Between 30 and 60 Days Al the bum unit of Brooke army medical Center for treatment the com Mander of the unit said thursday. Petty officer 3.c, James r. Wheeler 28, of i paso Texas and Petty officer 3.c. Lawrence m. Bareford 23, of Fredericksburg va., had been listed in critical condition but were expected to improve to serious condition thursday or Friday or. Basil a nitty said. The men arrived from Europe wednesday night. Pruitt said Wheeler suffered second degree Burns to Al percent of his body and third degree Burns to 12 percent of his body. Bareford suffered second degree Burns to 19 percent of his body and third degree Burns to 23 percent of his body. Wheeler also is receiving treatment for smoke Inha lation and is not Able to talk clearly. Pruitt said he spoke with both men thursday morning and they seemed in Good spirits. We be been asking Bareford questions about medical things. We Haven t gotten into any particulars Cythe actual attack prof to said. The risk of fatal outcome is not As great for Wheeler and less than 50 percent for  he said Wheeler might be Able to return to duty within 120 Days and Bareford within six months. Both men will have to undergo skin grafts possibly As soon As next week Fruitt said. The sailors were injured when their ship was at tacked by an iraqi warplane in the persian guff Sun Day. Thirty seven american sailors died in the attack. Meanwhile in Frankfurt Germany a military spokesman thursday said the remains of is . Navy sailors kilted in the missile attack will remain there for several Days before they Are sent to the United Stales. The remains were flown to Rhein main a Ger Many from Manama Bahrain wednesday and were transferred to an army mortuary in Frankfurt. . Army it. Col. Larry Furrow of the 21st sup port come in Kaiser Slatlem Germany said the re Mains will be embalmed before they Are sent to the United slates. The remains will be in Frankfurt for several Days but i can t give you an exact Dale when they will be shipped Back Furrow told the associated press. The 11st support come oversees mortuary services. Moslem link hostages to spying Beirut Lebanon api moslem kidnappers said in a statement released thursday that an investigation of three american hostages and one Indian hos Tage revealed involvement with . And israeli Intelli gence services. The Handwritten arabic statement from islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine was delivered id the Beirut newspaper an Nahar along with a Polaroid picture of american hostage Alann Steen. In said on the occasion of Jerusalem s International Day we declare hat current investigation with the four american spies reveals serious information about involvement of High ranking political educational and diplomatic figures in conspiring with the israeli mos sad secret service and the u a i Noel licence. We arc still awaiting the completion of this information and the necessary measures to take the Ade quate action bring the four to reckoning and announce the outcome of the  the group kidnapped Steen 48, of Boston mass., and three other professors from the Campus of the a affiliated Beirut University College Jan 24. Fine three others Are Jesse Turner 39, of he Idaho Robert Polhill 53, of new York City and i Thiles War Singh 60, a native of India and Legal Resi Dent alien of the United Stales. The earthquake is coming the statement said. Palestine will be recovered through slam and Jerusa Lem will be freed from its  the statement came As shiite moslem fundamentalists headed by Hezbollah or party of god staged parades and held mass rallies in Southern Beirut and South Lebanon As part of the iranian sponsored Jerusalem  the Liming and Content of thursday s statement indicates that the islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine might be linked to Iran. Their kidnappers have been demanding the release of 400 Arab prisoners in Israel As a condition to freeing the four educators. But Israel refused to consider a Swap and the . Administration said it would not press the israeli government to change its stance. In All 24 foreigners Are missing and believed kid napped in Lebanon since March 1985. They include eight americans six frenchmen two britons two i West germans one irishman one italian one South korean an Indian and two unidentified men. Also missing in Lebanon is anglican Church envy Terry Waite. He disappeared after leaving his hotel in moslem West Beirut Jan. 20