European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes monday july 6,1987 time has run Oul Vienna. Austria Lii Tuce hero Jean Moulin in june 1943. Before ibis trial opened my 11, verges said reverb Nioras about the collaboration of Francc i Vichy government with nazi Ger Many from 1440 to 1944 would overshadow the Cue but oot Hini new about French Colb boors emerged from the trial. Bar Bie lived in Bolivia for More than 30 Yean before being expelled and brought to France in 9. Equipment failure forces sub to cancel special port Call Bangor Wash. A the Tri Dent submarine Nevada cancelled a Spe Cial port Call a its new Home port of Bangor after suffering a serious equip ment failure the Navy says. Navy officials refused to say what Type of breakdown had occurred aboard the s50-Foonuclear powered ballistic mis Sile sub or he extent of the damage if any. The Navy did say the Crew is never in any danger. There were no injuries i a result of the breakdown the Navy said adding that family members of the Crew were being Kepi informed about developments. A statement issued thursday by sub Marine group 9 at the naval submarine base at Bangor on Washington s Hood canal said the submarine had experienced a Materiel casually which has been it is not known whether the 18,700 in sub was armed with missiles at the Lime of the equipment breakdown. The Navy never confirms or denies the pres ence of nuclear weapons aboard any of its ships. The Navy issued the statement in response to inquiries about the problem by the Sun a Bremerton newspaper which published the report Friday. The statement said the equipment fail ure took place during routine operations at the safety of the ship and Crew was never an Issue and the ship is continuing its operations it said. The nature of those operations is classified and canno be revealed t submarine group 9 spokesman said. The breakdown was serious enough thai a special port visit by the Nevada had to be scrubbed. That visit was to have been the first Chance for wives of the sub s Crew Mem Ben la visit their husbands since the Nevada ten the East coast for Bangor Las year following in sea trials. The Sun quoted unidentified sources As saying in c reunion had been scheduled o take place at san Francisco and the Crew was in Good spirits. The Nevada last in a series of eight Trident submarines scheduled to be based at Bangor this decade is scheduled to report 10 the base this summer. Navy officials have not said whether there win be any change in those plans As a result of the equipment problem. Of launches probe into allegations drop improperly tested missiles Washington to Fol the air Forte has begun an in a ligation into suspected defects in parts Nus nuclear tipped air launched cruise my a fractured by Northrop corp., Thein ton Post reported Friday. The probe of the missiles centers on allegations that Northrop improperly tested Akey part of the cruise missile placing in doubt the missile s ability to hit targets in the soviet Union in the event of a nuclear War the newspaper said. Northrop corp. Announced in los an Geles thursday that it will replace two senior officers of its electronics division which the aerospace giant has acknowledged has engaged in irregular practices in the my missile program. Northrop assigned two senior Wolfrom in electronics systems chop to take Over the management oi0cdivi-Sion. Replaced in the Ihn put were Gen Hauser the division janeral manager since 1982, and cd Roehrig the Divi Sion s senior Fiat Rel officer. No Fulgim Asci pigments were an bounced mouser and Roehrig. Arcement sources in Washin firmed the Justice department the Fri arc looking into the allegations the Post said. Most of the missiles Are deployed Onb-s2 strategic bombers. Coupled with serious defects in some vital electronic sys tems of the new by bomber the cruise missile problems could mean that part of . Defense Cap Are i old in against Normal employees entered Orlu Prany s failure to test an of Alti tude Start Lii they were in a wis and Kuman of suse armed services conf Cutter to air Force Secretary Edwal Bridge or. Thursday saying the a Lions raise Basic questions about the management oversight and performance of Coli Cal strategic modernization our customers rely on the integrity of our management and our adherence to procedures As much As on the Quality of the systems we produce said Thomas Jones Northrop i chairman and chief executive officer. Northrop has acknowledged irregularities in its Hawthorne electronics Divi Sion including the use of fictitious com panics to spendnain300,000 to buy parts for inc porus sue program. Thunder criminal inv Esli Billins certain Compo of the my missile s guidance r. Lem and for allegedly falsifying employee time cards to pad payroll costs by up to $ 14 million according to a report released last month by rep. John Row land a Conn the electronics division already four months behind its delivery schedule produces the inertia measurement unit for the guidance system of the my mis Sile. Jones said the division has experienced management lapses and errors i judgment in the administration of in actives and procedures. We Are changing the division s Nua procedures and practices wherever Rio Isary to make sure they comply with whet Fca Tirgg standards set by our customers Ahey the corporation Jones said. Northrop create ii Lilious Compa Nies because its Purcino department was plagued by problem few ring tothe los Angeles times. Air obtained by the newspaper that the Pentagon has repeatedly t Northrop about the shortcomings a snug no Viro a a powr Cauca Irr Guian Odia Meu of inc Cao Apia Tomb firme tie tha wined ado the Sion Northrop opposition group says it has proof iranian Agency orders kidnappings Washington a the main ministry parts of la organization in the latest such order resulted in Glass opposition group to the Ayatollah Ruholt fact serve As the country intelligence kidnapping the Mujahideen says. Aya Totta ish Khomeini Laid on Friday it has de tailed proof that Iran s intelligence Agency orders the kidnapping of westerners by islamic extremists in Lebanon. The Contention came As iranian presi Dent Ali Khamenei denied his nation was involved in the june 17 kidnapping of a american journalist in Lebanon and accused president Reagan of implicating Iran to achieve his Aims in the persian he we referring to Reagan i plan 10provide . Navy Protection to 11 re flagged kuwaiti Oil linkers against Irani an Ait ski in the Gulf. The Muj Thedsen arabic for holy warriors ays the kidnappings in Beirut Lebanon Are ordered directly by the fat Branch of Iran s information ministry. Although it is called the information ministry it fac apparatus known As Sava a the Muja Hedeen says. The bib Branch controls the iranian offices of the fundamentalist Shine Hezbollah organization located on Paida Wanstreet in the Northern pan of the City said an official of the Mujahideen who asked not to be named. He said there is no sign on the build ing to identify the occupants. The information on the office s activities was collected by Mujahideen agents inside inn the official said. The orders 10 the kidnappers Are relayed verbally from Iran by couriers who travel to Lebanon. The iranians do notate Telephone or written messages to avoid Ute possibility of detection b Syri an or other agents in Lebanon said the official. The kidnapping the director of the Pasmann Street office Haj Hossein Shami was sent to i Banon in Early june fora 10-Day mis Sion possibly to arrange the Glass in Duclion the organization claims. The suspected links Between Iran and the shadowy groups claiming o have kidnapped 25 fore Inen in Lebanon Over he past two years Nave never been fully proven. On wednesday Abc television quoted . Officials As saying they hive conclusive evidence that guis abduction was ordered by Iran. The Hezbollah which Means party of god is a group of shiite moslem zealots believed to be the umbrella group for the factions that have claimed responts Buiey for most of Ute abductions. Nine Ameri cans Are among those still being held
