European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 15,1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 philippine hit men learn from movies Hong Kong up leaders of communist hit teams that have killed at least 54 philippine lawmen inthe past three months say hey Leam heir deadly skills from popular films like Day of the jackal and state a newspaper reported sunday. The Hong Kong Standard quoting unnamed leaders of he Philippines communist insurgency also said the rebels Mil continue id bring their fight to the Capi Tal when so called Sparrow units Nave slain four policemen and two soldiers in the past week. You May laugh a communist Leader was quoted As saying. Actually our armed City partisans make themselves available to see movies which gives us our ideas on How to conduct Daylight operations in the City. We Don t really study Urban guerrilla warfare techniques used in other countries because every City is different and techniques have to be developed by the liquidation squads the Sparrow units named because of their speedy method of attack operate in groups of threes and an Bush their targets in Broad Daylight. They say their victims mostly policemen owe the people blood the killings primarily in and around Manila Are the latest development in an 18-year-old insurgency which until this year was fought mainly in the country Side. The Standard quoted communist sources in the Philippines saying it is a breakthrough for us to come from the provinces to Manila. The intensification of Urban warfare is advancing around Manila and it is our policy that the intensification of the Overall struggle is a source said the hit teams comprise a trigger Man support person and a Lookout with a second Lea sometimes assigned to a getaway vehicle. The final decision to go ahead depends on the Leader of the team he said. After shooting the target he is disarmed and the team members the sources were quoted As saying members of the unit would sometimes stay behind Long enough to do some propaganda by explaining the motives for the killing to bystanders. The sources were also quoted As saying Mast killings were conducted at Point Blank Range because we Are not skilled at firing at a distance and that the learns were armed Only with grenades and pistols. A source said practice with i live ammunition Lor practices soviet production lags figures show Moscow up Industrial figure released saturday bowed continued shortfalls in soviet production reinforcing soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s demand for a Roi Jor reshaping of the nation s Economy. The figures published in the weekly newspaper economic Gazette showed Overall production through the first five months of 1987 was up Only 3 percent Over a year earlier. The government plan originally had called for growth of 5.1 percent during the period. While Coal Oil and Gas production exceeded their targets the figures bowed Many categories of consumer goods fell Well Short of the plan set by Moscow. The machine building sector the area that Gorbachev has poured in vestment into to underpin economic modernization continued to do badly with production up Only 2.2 percent Over a year ago. That is less than half the per cent growth rate that would be needed to keep production in line with the five year plan set by the state at the beginning of 1986. The figures which Many Western experts suspect give too favourable a impression underscored Gorbachev s cat for the communist party s Cen tra committee to reduce the bureaucratic hold on the Economy forc ing individual managers to improve their performance. Gorbachev called for approval at the Central committee plenum expected about june 26 of a Law under which state enterprises will have to pay their own Way and Central control will be eased. His comments Al an unusual two Day meeting of officials held last monday and tuesday to prepare the plenum were published in All major newspapers saturday. The soviet Leader termed the Industrial reforms the sole real alternative to the condition in which our society found itself especially its social and economic plan Nock economic reforms later increase productivity crack Down on Wing by workers. Of More Power to Ping it. Dbl non end factory . I import form joint ventures i firms seek Tower. Behiry emf Row Ndang encourage factories to use their profits. Instead of government to finance Mot expansion. H increase Kwof computers robots and other Modem Tach Noblea. Fun roofing Revtt Falzo and Monte Finizo existing of portions efficiency reduce waste of raw materials and manpower. factory income and employee wages to Quaty Atee and profits. Chicago Tribune Ort Pulc source Chicago Tribune not Ftp Brit eur of Wun Gran aug a Pis Luis c said in developing shooting skills we just Vit air guns and air pistols. We can t afford Nitro " Palace harmed during Summit restorers claim Venice Italy a restorers of Venice s gracious Ducal Palace say that last week s economic Summit compromised 10 Yean of patient restoration work and they Are demanding compensation for the damage. In a news conference saturday Paolo Peruzza head of the restoration work called the meeting of the Leaden of the seven most industrialized countries a real foreign Peruzza presented to journalists More than 30 fragments of precious White Stone from Istrin and Pink Marble from Verona that had fallen from the facade and famous i5th-Cenlur? Pona Delia Carta the Entrance to the Palace s re Naissance courtyard. Panizza charged that it was the con Stant helicopter surveillance by Security forces Over the Lagoon City that cause the pieces to fall. Restorers sent president Francesco Corsiga a letter calling for compensation. Corsiga hosted a lunch in the Palace for the leaders on wednesday although restorers objected. The Ducal Palace situated next to s Cathedral is the former Resi Dence of the doges the rulers of Venice. It was first built in the 9th Century. The present gothic style building Dales fro the 14th Century. Soviets working on solor Energy project for space new York a the soviet Union is planning to build huge satellites that would convert sunlight into electric Ity for use on Earth and would reflect sunlight for lighting at night according to a report published sunday the new York times reported that the giant new rocket developed by the soviet would be used to lift the satellite components into orbit. The ultimate goal is to Beani Energy Back to Earth for conversion into electricity said Nicholas l Johnson an expert on soviet space programs at Tele Dyne Brown engineering in Colorado Springs Colo. They also talk about using reflectors in space to Light cities and gun i. Marchuk head of the soviet Academy of sciences and other soviet officials recently have bailed the goal of solar Power satellites. Power is a prerequisite for anything you do in space said Peter a Glaser vice president of Arthur d. Little inc. I Cambridge mass., and a Pioneer of the Tolar Power satellite idea. Proceeding with solar Power satellites will give them a number of options. They re planning Ali kinds of moves years ahead of the plan has several stages according let Western experts the times reported. First would come space based solar reflectors to Bounce sunlight to Earth for lighting at night next would be construction of huge satellites that turn Sun Light into Energy. The third step would be constructing antennae on the ground to receive Energy and turn it into electricity. William r. Graham president Rea Gan s science adviser told the times that the plan May not be entirely peaceful. There s no Strong division in their Large projects Between the civilians and the military Graham said. A substantial Power capability in space is some thing they could put to Many following a May 15 launching of the new soviet rocket Enervia Marchuk told Tass. Tiie official soviet news Agency that it would permit the placement of experimental solar Power plants in the idea was developed in the United states in the 1960s and 70s but was abandoned As Loo costly and Environ mentally controversial. Western experts say the plan apparently has several stages. The first i creating space based solar reflectors basically big mirrors to Bounce sunlight to Earth for lighting at night. The second is putting to Gether in orbit the huge satellites that turn sunlight into Energy the third is constructing antennae on the ground to receive in by from these satellites feeding electricity into the Power Grid. An artist s Conception of one plan for gathering solar Energy by satellite
