European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Canada to test women in combat jobs Page 3 d German sacred cow unlimited Speed Page 9 d . A Saberhagen grabs 15th Victory sports Page 21 the stars and filpes us office a publication Fob the us of Tufto Foft cel vol 46. No. Is monday july 13. 19b7 a. ,. D 6693 a catholics urge communists to give poles More Freedom Warsaw Poland a in an unprecedented weekend meeting roman Catholic intellectuals urged lop communist party officials to Grant More political freedoms and negotiate with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa participants in the meeting said sunday. About 50 representatives of Catholic intellectuals clubs in Poland took part inthe five hour meeting saturday with a delegation of senior party and govern ment officials headed by Jozef Czyryk. A politburo member and Central commit tee Secretary. The meeting was requested by Czyryk the no. 2 Man to Gen Wojcicch Jaruzelski in the communist leadership said Anonymous Catholic sources the meeting was extraordinary. Because it was the first time such a representative group of the Catholic intellectuals clubs met with the authorities at so High a said a Krakow Catholic journalist who attended the meeting Atixhe Warsaw club s Headquarters. There have been no such meetings he said speaking on Llie Condi lion of anonymity. It was just a preliminary Exchange of views but i think that further meetings in the future arc quite in his opening remarks professor Andrej Stelmachowsk the chairman of inc Warsaw Catholic group urged he government to conduct an auth Colic dialogue with the Public and Caw restrictions on Selling up Independent organizations participants said. Stelmachowsk reiterated demand raised by the outlawed Solidarity labor movement for the restoration of inc right of workers to form More than one Union at a factory. He added thai the authorities Shn id not Only meet with Catholic Intel Viunna but with representatives of factory work ers and Farmers. Sell Machowski said they would he glad if social encounters could also Etc place with Lech Walesa said another participant in the meeting. Stelmachowsk also raised inc prob Lem of Catholic clubs in five chips Gdansk Lodz Czestochowa ols in and Rzeszot thai were suspended see poles on pag9 28 Pakistan reportedly diverting stinger shipments Washington up Pakistan asked to deliver weapons to american backed rebels in Afghanistan has diverted millions of dollars Worth of stinger anti aircraft missiles for its own use with . Acquiescence intelligence sources said sunday. Last year he sources said Only one third of 600 stingers scheduled for delivery in Afghanistan arrived there. Congressional sources say hat even larger percentages Are being diverted but they gave no figures. An additional 600 missiles Are to be delivered his year. The. Diversions have created a rift among administration officials who disagree on whether the United slates should impose lighter controls on Pakistan be fore sending More missiles sources said. Rep. William Gray d-pa., has requested hat the general accounting office audit the Cia run afghan Aid program that congressional critics allege lacks Ade quate monitoring procedures congressional sources said. They said the Cia has expressed some reluctance to an a ministration analyst said he Cia which is in charge of shipping the weapons docs not Check ship ment the rebels receive against lists of what was sent. The portable shoulder fired stinger missile is de scribed by Pentagon officials As very . Intelligence officials said Pakistan wants to acquire stingers for itself but has Little Hope of obtaining congressional approval because of opposition to its budding nuclear program. Some pc Wagon and stale department officials lend to pretend not to notice the diversions which until now have been rumoured but not confirmed. Others want the shipments monitored because they worry about the so curly of the technology administration sources said. A former slate depart Cal official said we think thai the technology has already been in 1986, the United slates began to Slep up support for the rebels including providing stingers for the first time . Officials said. In prior years the United slates financed Covert shipments from Egypt of soviet made Sa-7 missiles that had been upgraded by Hughes aircraft co. Under a classified Cormaci . Offia als said the St Ppd up support also included allowing for Mer . now living in Pakistan to ruin the rebels to use the stingers in Pakistan and Afghanistan . Officials said. The stingers have a 68 percent accuracy rate and . Officials hoped they could be used 0 close three of Afghanistan s major soviet controlled airports or Down targets of Jala Labad Airport was closed for a Lime late last year by stinger attack but reopened in january when supplies ran Oul. The missiles have proved effective against soviet helicopters bombers and fighters . Officials said. According to recent British press reports stingers downed up to 18 soviet aircraft in the latter half of May alone and . Officials said that two aircraft were downed last week. Some administration officials account for Pakistan s partial confiscation of the weapons by describing it As a kind of commission they deduct for allowing us to transport them through their however one analyst said it is very much in Paki Stan s interest to limit the Success of the rebels too Many soviet aircraft Shol Down and Pakistan risks Soviel congressional sources said soviet intrusions into Pakistan s airspace have increased to More than two per Day and totalled 400 in inc first four months of this year double inc number in the same period of 1986. Anti lick congressional staffer said violations since May Are at a record High showing that impeding the shipments to the rebels in t working to a Cir soviet aggression. Some . Officials asserted that the United slates should tighten ils control Over the shipments. A former senior Pentagon official said Hal a few years ago the . Air Force prevented Pakistan from diverting to China . Air to air missiles supplied for Pakistan s f-i6 fighters by forcing the government to unload the equip Mcnol from ships. There was some sort of Swap going on another l-s-. Military official said. The Only Way to handle this is to Challenge the pakistanis from time to Irish Cyc in Champ Sean Kelly censer is steadied by teammates Acacio a Silva of port urn right and Gille Sanders of France after Fulling during helping hands Sunju s 12th Wiase of the Tuur de France in South Western franc. Kelly inter dropped jul with an injured Collarbone. A Stirry i sgt 25.
