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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d pilots wow pm at Mildenhall Page 3 d Watson Wiebe share Halfway Lead at open Page 21 d army grounds Apache copters Page 28 Sand stripes authorised unofficial  for tic . Arme vol. 46, no. 65 sunday. June 21, 1987 As 0 8693 a Stark Captain 2 top officers ordered removed from duty by Norman Black a military writer Washington the skipper or the guided missile frigate Stark and two of his lop officers were relieved of duty Friday and Pentagon sources Seid an investigative report has recommended courts martial for All three. The action followed the report s submission to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the chief of naval operations. The Pentagon in announcing that the three officers had been relieved refused 10 confirm Friday that the military inquiry had recommended Coura martial. Bui defense department sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the investigative report As Sessing the attack on the frigate had recommended courts martial for All three officers. The order affects capt. Glenn r. Brindl the Slark s commanding officer it. Cmdr Raymond j. Gajan the enc Cutie officer who was second in com Mand and it. Basil e. Moncrief jr., the tactical action officer. The tactical action officer is responsible for the snip s weaponry. In its statement the Pentagon said Gen. George Crist the head of the . Central come has requested that these officers be detached from duly based on his Lack of Confidence in their  acting on this request . Carlisle . Trost the chief of naval operations directed that these offi cers be relieved of their duties on Board   Navy sources later explained the three were being relieved immediately because of what happened not because they Are being accused yet of being the  the recommendation for courts martial must still be reviewed the sources said. According to the Pentagon statement the decision to order the immediate Relief of the three officers was made Friday afternoon. The Stark while on routine patrol in the persian Gulf was attacked by an iraqi warplane on May 17.two exocet missiles struck the ship one of which Del sea Stark on Page 2b Poce fear Gas Routs Seoul protesters Buddhist monks Nee Tiv Gas fixed by riot police to break up an us Gote Rosenl rally saturday in Seoul. App Nom Seoul. South Korea a tens of thousands of riot police broke up protests and dispersed crowds with tear Gas saturday in a major show of strength after the government warned that nationwide disturbances must end. Demonstrator in Seoul were quickly charged by not police hurling tear Gas grenades. The protesters were also driven Back by special martial arts attack squads. Crowds of onlookers and pedestrians were tear gassed and police were seen hitting and kicking bystanders Ond beating arrested protesters. The major show of strength and the unusually rough police tactics followed a government warning that pro tests that have swept the country for 11 Days must end. They also came after a Riol police officer was killed in disturbances the night  with the military dictatorship chanted pro testers some of whom hurled firebombs and rocks a attacking police in a clash at the Bank of Korea in the City Center. Similar running clashes erupted elsewhere. Regiments of police in Green combat uniforms and Black Visorde helmets lined main streets and intersections As columns of officers in buses and truck patrolled the capital. Officials said the entire 120,000 Man National police Force was mobilized 10 halt pro  nationwide appeared smaller and less Vio Lent on saturday compared with vicious Street batiks thai have flared in Seoul and other cities since apposition groups launched a drive june 10 to oust president Chun Doo Hwan and Force democratic elections. Police firing tear Gas clashed with a procession of Buddhist monks who tried to March in Seoul after see Korea on Page 28 Shultz says Gen. Rogers Way out of line Sydney Australia a Secretary of stale George Shultz said saturday that the mining commander of . And nato forces in Europe was Way out of line when he accused the Reagan administration of pushing a soviet arms Deal for Domestic political reasons. Shutlz said the comments of supreme Allied commander Gen. Bernard w. Rogers were obviously  let Gen. Rogers put that in his pipe and smoke it Shultz said in an uncharacteristically Blunt attack on a fellow . Official. The Secretary of state spoke during a flight from Singapore to Sydney where he and defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger will meet australian Leaden Mon Day for talks on Pacific Security issues Shultz had visited Singapore for a two Day meeting of foreign ministers of the sin member association of Southeast asian nations. Relations Between the United stat Sand Australia Are Good and Strong and the reason for our regular consultations with them is to keep it that Way Schuliz told reporters on his air Force Jet. But his remarks about Australia contrasted sharply with Bis response to a question about Rogers. The Genera re tires Friday after eight years As Nat commander of Allied forces in Europe which include 325,000 american servicemen. Rogers has urged that the United slates show More restraint in superpower negotiations aimed at eliminating medium Range missiles in Europe. The general has warned repeated that North Atlantic treaty organization forces in Europe will be vulnerable to a massive soviet conventional attack with out adequate nuclear defences to deter aggression. Under the proposed agreement the soviet Union will withdraw its ss-20missiles targeted on Europe if the United slates removes its Pershing ii and cruise missiles now aimed at the soviet Union from five european countries. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev has suggested expanding the arms control Deal to include the elimination of Shorter Range missiles in Europe. In an interview published by inc Washington Post last week Rogers accused the administration of Rushing into missile Deal with the soviets so that president Reagan will be Able to leave office in Triumph rather than in Contro Versy stemming from the Iran con Ira scandal. But Shults speaking for the first Lime on the matter said i think Gen. Rog ers statements Are entirely incorrect. Inthe first place his statement that things happened in a big Rush is obviously Ridic  the proposed arms agreement with the soviets is very much in our inter est the Secretary said. Shultz noted that when the United states announced plans to deploy its mis sea Shultz on Page 28  
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