European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes tuesday july 14,1987 news updates Arbie trial costs a on France a a la Courton saturday ordered opus Barbie it pay one franc cae pro 62 civil pinks at his rial in rims against Hur Unity As a Dias coun costs Asti Remco Al $150.000. Barbie 73, \ during world than re Stapo chief an. Wols in to need to life it Paon last week for the denotation a death of hundreds of jews Andres Istance Mceben Only j5 of the 149 i at the Rio month trial cd for top symbolic franc in ,� Trad tonally awarded in France 10 films. Flo. Medical crisis foot Lauderdale. Fia. A Florida s malpractice insurance crisis is taking ils toll on or. Thorn Mayer director of emergency Medicine for the four Hospital North Broward Hospital District As his 60-hour weeks have gone to 90 hours we re in for the Long haul. We or going to have a Long sum Mer in South Florida Mayer said last week at Broward general medical Center. Broward general was one of Only four full service hospitals in the county accepting All trauma patients for emergency room treat ment during the weekend. Fifteen Broward county Hospi tals Are no longer treating some of the most seriously injured patients because some doctors arc protest ing High malpractice premiums by refusing to work soviet tanks new Armor May outdated . Weapons new York up Many soviet tanks have been equipped with new anti tank Armor thai some officials say makes them almost Invulnerable to . Infantry and aircraft weapons the new York times reported sunday. The anti tank Armor an israeli invention appropriated by Moscow weapon strategists three years ago would put american weaponry at a disadvantage in a non nuclear land War . Military officials Lold the times. Some officials however have challenged thai conclusion and said the invention has been overrated and May be a ploy by the army to increase its military funding. The Armor which resembles Bones placed on the outside of the tanks explodes shells and deflects the explosion of shells aimed at it the newspaper said. Bui Many officials Are investigating the new Armor to see if . Soldiers would be adequately prepared to fight against such a shield and to determine whether the Shields have been thoroughly researched for use by . Forces. The new tank protectors May outdated the numerous Arsenal of anti tank mis Siles that nato nations have relied on to guard them against attack for the last two decades officials said but the Armor can be beaten by use of Large guns capable of firing heavy projectiles that must move a mile a second the officials said. The newest american and East european tanks do carry such High powered guns hey said. The number of soviet tanks however would probably outnumber the number of nato tanks by More than six to one officials said. In addition the officials said. Western commanders can no longer depend on infantry weapons to Cope with the num Bers of soviet weapons. Maj Gen. Robert Sunoll director of the army s armoured family of vehicles task Force which was created More than a year ago to study the new development is one of the officials who re Gards the situation As serious the news paper said. The problem began when the syrians captured a couple of israeli m-60 tanks during the 1982 War in Lebanon said Sunbelt. Those tanks were protected by a new israeli Armor called Blazer " " Blazer subsequently fell into Soviel hands and now Moscow s t-72 and t to main Battle tanks Are protected by in he said. Only High velocity Metal pen curator rounds fired by our latest tank Winons can get in rough  T"1 i Sunoll is preparing a report on Whit i i effect the new Armor May have on Mili a Lary preparedness. He is to present in to army officials aug. 18, he said. A con Gressional hearing is expected later although the army has known about the new Armor for several years it has not incorporated it into ils weaponry the newspaper said. Or. Joshua Epstein of the washing ton based Broo kegs Institute a research organization said the new revelation May just be a ploy to get Congress to increase funds to the military. Epstein an administration critic questioned Why the United states has spent $2 trillion during the past five years to modernize the . Defense sys tem without including these new adaptations. Maybe this reactive Armor u not As revolutionary a development As the army is giving us to believe. These scares seem to come up every 10 years when the army needs More Money for some thing Epstein said this problem May i indeed be serious but it would be a mis-1 take to succumb to technological Hyst  . Paranoid9 about soviet presence in persian Gulf Western Diplomat says Manama Bahrain uf1 the Reagan administration s concern Over a growing soviet presence in the persian Gulf May be exaggerated Western Diplo Mats indicated sunday. We lend to think that the americans Are paranoid about this soviet thing one Diplomat said. But he quickly added in the administration s defense the soviets do play a Long term game 10, 20, 30  there s been a modest increase in a soviet presence in recent years said an other Diplomat. But it s very modest in contrast to the american  the soviets established diplomatic re lations with Oman and the United Arab emirates in 1985. It now has representation in Kuwait. That is Only three of the members of the six nation Gulf cooperation Council acc which includes Bahrain Qatar and saudia Arabia. The acc has t been anxious to in crease the soviet presence Here a Diplo mat said. The soviets have always been far off and not very interested in the Gulf the Diplomat said. The soviet Union Tup plies Iraq with weapons and in Decem Ber Moscow signed an economic agreement with Iraq s foe Iran. The Reagan administration cited the concern Over the increased soviet pres ence in the Gulf As part of the reason it agreed to re Flag and protect 11 kuwaiti Oil tankers. Kuwait has asked both the United states and the soviet Union for help in protecting ils tankers which were being attacked on a regular basis by Iran. The soviets quickly agreed and leased three soviet protected tankers to Kuwait. Seemingly caught by Surprise the while House then agreed to re Flag and protect 11 kuwaiti tankers. 3,000 protest Marcos Frame up Manila Philippines up some 3.000 followers of Ferdinand Marcos staged a demonstration sunday saying the . And philippine governments framed the deposed president to make it seem he wanted to overthrow the govern ment of president Cora Ion Aquino. Re lated Lwy Page 17. The protesters who marched from a Central Park past the Seaside . Embassy said secret tape recordings released last week before a . Congressional subcommittee were doctored and slanted against Marcos. Rafael Recto one of Marcos lawyers and a Leader of the demonstration denounced what he called the Frame up and trumped up charges against former president Marcos by the government he dismissed the tapes in which mar cos allegedly plotted to raise a Force of 10.000 men and $35 million in Sysu to invade the Philippines As american  . Lawyer Richard Hirschfeld said he secretly taped Marcos negotiating to Purchase arms for the invasion in con venation at she deposed ruler Hawaii Home last May. The release of the recording prompted . Official to restrict mar coi to the hawaiian Island of Oahu american officials threatened tougher action if the deposed ruler continue hit attempt to destabilize the government of Aquino. The demonstrators dispersed peacefully after the two hour rally. Campaign enters final week in Portugal t in i n. I