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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D plan 0 Mark Eiffel Tower s birthday lights fire Page 3 d Carter Heads graduation speakers Page 5 d oilers beat flyers 3-1, win Stanley cup sports Page 21 tests Helpes slut Honiley unofficial publication Fok thl vol. 46, no. 46 tuesday june 2, 1987 0 6693 a Reagan s plan for aids tests greeted with Boos applause Washington a president Reagan saying the aids epidemic Calls for urgency not panic Sun Day announced he will seek expanded testing Tor the deadly disease. Related stories Page 5. The announcement Drew scattered Boos from an audience of aids research supporters but his speech at a fund raising dinner of the american foundation for aids research was also interrupted frequently by applause. Before the speech in a sweltering tent outside a waterfront restaurant Reagan joined the audience of More Thuu 1,000 in bowing his head in a moment of silence for those who have died of the disease. The first Boos came when Reagan said he was asking that aids be added to the list of diseases for which immigrants can be denied entry or permanent Resi Dent status. He was booed again when he said he had asked the Justice department to plan for requiring testing of All Federal prisoners. After Reagan s speech actress Elizabeth Taylor National chairman of the foundation kissed him on the Cheek and old the audience there Are differences of opinion but i think in was gracious and wonderful of the president of speak As he  in his first major speech on acquired immune deficiency syndrome Reagan said while recognizing the see plan on Page 28 officials blame Stork s officers for failing to act Washington not officers aboard the frigate Stark failed to execute a Standard air defense Man Euver when it was attacked on May 17 by an iraqi Jet in the persian Gulf according to govern ment officials familiar with the Navy investigation of the incident. Knowing an iraqi warplane was approaching the ship s Captain did not begin to turn its Stem toward the air Craft. That step would have permitted die Stork s sophisticated electronic de lenses to select the launching of two exocet sea skimming missiles and o shoot them Down. It would also have presented the mis Siles with a smaller less vital pan of the ship As a target officials said. Because the ship held a course almost directly toward the iraqi Mirage Al Jet the missiles the plane fired from 12 Miles away approached the ship through Blind spot where its superstructure blocked anti missile sensors and weapons the officials who have detailed knowledge of the continuing investigation said. They provided an extensive description of what happened aboard the Stark in the minutes before the attack in which 37 sailors were killed. Details previously not disclosed or left unclear indicate that command errors rather than equipment failure were to blame for the ship s Fate. The Navy has said dial the ship never fired at the missiles or plane but has no explained exactly Why. A Navy spokes Man on sunday refused to discuss the matter in detail pending the conclusion of an investigation that is continuing in Bahrain where he crippled ship is anchored. Bui officials familiar with the inquiry suggested that the ship s commander capt. Glenn r. Brindel and perhaps three other officers could be held culpa ble. The four officers have been named As interested a lies or primary subjects of the inquiry and have been As see officials on Page 28 Beattie behaviour a photo Beattie boys Rock band member Adam Horowitz sits in police or sur rounded by photographers. Horowitz was charged with bodily assault in the True of a disturbance that abruptly ended the final concert of the band s British tour. Liverpool police said the manager of the Royal court theater called for help after bottles and other objects were thrown in the auditorium packed with 3,000 fans Only a few minutes after the concert began. Iranian envoy says . Flags won t Stop them by the associated press iranian officials on sunday called president Reagan mentally unbalanced and said America might be set Ting itself up for another humiliation in the persian Gulf. Iran s top Diplomat in London said his country would not be deterred from attacking kuwaiti Oil Lank in if such an attack were in Iran s interests just because hey Are flying . Flags. The May 17 missile attack by an iraqi Jet on the frigate Stark which killed 37 sailors was accepted by . Officials As a Case of mistaken identity. Even before that attack plans had been disclosed that the Reagan administration would provide military escorts for it kuwaiti tankers flying the . Flag. . Officials called the plan part of their commit ment to keeping shipping lanes open in the Gulf. Iran and Iraq have been at War since sept. 1980, and Iran accuses Kuwait of supporting Iraq. If the kuwaitis Are going to ask the americans to bring their Flag or their warships i believe it makes no difference for us and we made it Clear Iran s charged affaires in London Mohammad Makhou Zadeh Basti said in a British television interview. He said he could not understand Why the american wanted to get involved militarily in the Gulf after the see envoy on Page 28 soviets Likely to free teen Pilot spokesman says Moscow not Matthias rust the 19-year-old West German whose Aerial escapade set off a purge of the soviet military May be allowed to go Home without standing trial a soviet spokes Man said on sunday. Related Story Page 3. Valentin m. Falin former ambassador to West Germany and now chief of the official no Vosti press feature Syndicate said that the Young Pilot would probably not be punished for flying a sing Llie engine plane across the heavily defended soviet Frontier and Landing it near the Kremlin. On the one Side he will be thanked that he made us aware of the gaps in our air defense system Falin said in re Marks to a West German newspaper which were confirmed on sunday nightly an aide in Moscow. It could be that he will have to appear in court thai would be Normal in such a Case h Alin told the paper. Ham Burger Morga Posl in an interview to be published in its monday Issue. But 1 assume that the Young Man will soon see his parents and  a Deputy to Falin said on sunday night that the nov Oili chief meant thai rust might be required to come to court to have the charges read to him but that see Pilot on Page 28  
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