European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Home loan Bill would ease a Rutan Page 2 o Dod Bank contracts under fire Page 9 d 70th-ranked Doohan stuns Becker .page21 the St ars Andrs ripes u1hd�iieb Uno Fuci. A Ubu Ditoh Fob the , armed of Chuei voi.46.no.71 saturday Juno 27, 1987 � by or 0 8693 a Powell to retire from High court Washington a supreme court Justice Lewis f. Powell a moderate who has been the Pivotal vote in Many of the court s close decisions announced Friday he i retiring from lie nation s highest court. The announcement was such a Surprise thai he White House Learned of his intentions Only Friday morning. Powell who has suffered from prostate can cer made the announce men id a printed statement shortly after he left the Bench for the last time. "1 have advised the i chief Justice and associate justices that i have elected to retire As an associate Justice. The presi Dent will be advised today the statement said. Powell later on Friday president Reagan said Powell has had a Wist and generous influence on the Law and has earned reputation for intellectual balance and fair  Powell s departure gives Reagan the Chance to change significantly the court s ideological balance with his third appointment. His most recent appoint ment naming William h. Rehnquist to replace Warren Burger As chief Justice and appointing Antony Scalia to replace Rehnquist As associate Justice merely replaced one conservative with another. At the while House presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the first indication of Powell s Resig nation came in a Telephone Call to White House chief of staff Howard Baker from Rehnquist. Baker immediately informed Reagan Fitzwalter said. We will search and have a nominee very soon to succeed Powell Fitzwalter said. Since his appointment by president Nixon Powell has been a Pivotal member of the court s moderate Center since 1972. Powell on,-.e said i try very hard to reconcile views i May have to help put a court majority together he will be so years old on sept. 9 and recently has suffered from Prosale cancer. My health has not been robust Powell said in the statement. But he added that a recent Check up at the sea court on Page 28 Rogers fires parting Salvo at proposed weapon pack  writer shape Belgium Gen. Bernard w. Rogers Fireda parting shot at  negotiations on medium Range nuclear weapons Friday in his final news Confer ence As supreme Allied commander Europe. What Are we giving up Rogers said. The one thing they feared most the one they were determinedly capture the one thing that made our arc Dibilio by very High and that s the Pershing  topics Al the retiring commander s final quest Ion and answer session with reporters ranged from the possibility of soviet attacks in Norway to the Outlook for greek military participation in nato. But the focus remained on the future of nato without . Pershing ii and cruise missiles. What some of us Are hoping to do is keep the credibility of the deterrence As High As possible Rog ers said. If the missiles Are removed for nuclear deter rence nato would have to rely on sea launched cruise missiles 72 Pershing i missiles in Germany and bomb ers such As the f-11t, Rogers did. But missiles launched from ships and submarines pose special , we will be accused by our people of withdrawing a weapon with one hand and pulling it Back with the other he said. I Don t think that s  existing political atmosphere which could Lead to the  of Europe Means the leaders of nato nations must pursue an adequate defense while maintaining credibility Al Home Rogers said. To that end he hammered the themes of improved conventional capability Long associated with his 8-Ycar tenure at shape nato needs to add to the number of Days it can survive a conventional soviet attack without reinforce ments. It no St Mike Progress on inc follow on forces see Rogers on Page 23 Sis photo by Anile g Harald Roslnberger with Rosa the cow Man s protest of Dairying is Morov ing by Anita Cost staff writer Frankfurt Harald  has something to beef  25-year-old austrian cow boy has been walking the streets with his cow Rosa to protest the modernization of Dairy fanning in his Home land. Rosenburger who hails from Austria s Blyn province said he was fired from his Job As a cow Milker and replaced by a milking machine. He s now on the Road singing songs about his plight accompanied by a Boom Box. He Hopes to raise enough Money to buy the land he once worked on and restore the natural method of milking cows. Rosa belongs to me  said in Frankfurt Friday. She will not be hooked onto see protest on Paga 28 Dod says libyan jets flew near . Ship by Norman Black a military writer Washington libyan Jet fight ers in the first such overt military move since the . Bombing raids last year twice flew so near a Navy Cruiser in the Mediterranean sea on june 17 that the ship s Crew was forced to Man Battle stations pc lagon sources said thursday. The Pentagon in a Isaic Roant in response to a reporter s query confirmed that soviet made Mic-23 Flogger fighter jets approached the nuclear pow ered South Carolina twice. Pentagon sources who spoke on rendition that they not be identified said the nights had forced the Crew of the heavy Cruiser to Man Battle stations both times. The Cruiser was steaming with two other smaller Navy ships in the Centra Mediterranean approximately 100 Miles from the libyan coastline and above Libya s so called line of death at a Lime when no . Aircraft Carrier was in the Region. Two libyan jets first approached the Cruiser around i p.m., flying within seven Miles of the Cruiser the Pentagon said. A second flight by another pair of migs occurred around 4 p.m., and at that time the fighter flew Over the ship at an Altitude of  6,000 feet the Pentagon said. In both instances the fighters had been monitored by the Cruiser almost from the moment they flew northward from Libya Over the Mediterranean Buthie aircraft did not demonstrate hostile intent the Pentagon said. A pc lagon official elaborated by say ing the migs did not activate any Rudar for their weaponry and never Maneu Vered into a position to fire missiles. The South Carolina took every pre caution As the planes approached and was prepared to open fire Al a moment notice but the libyans withdrew without making any threatening moves the sources said. The Pentagon declined to confirm that the flights had forced the South Carolina o Battle stations laying Only thai the ship was ready for any eventuality had sea jets on Page 28