European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. August 29, 1937 the stars and stripes Page 3 Bear scare amphora a grizzly bar tries in reach venture scouts Chad Sugden and Roger Bekken after they were forced to climb tree to Nape the bar during a Camp ing trip Al Lake unlit Alberta. The Bear which was blur destroyed forced the scouts to climb inn for time during Ihetu five Day trip. Rusk reveals Kennedy plans during cuban missile crisis new York a in inc final Days of he 1962 cuban missile Cansis. President Kennedy was prepared 10 offer 10 remove . Missiles from Turkey if the soviets pulled their missiles out of Cuba according to former Secretary of state Dean Rusk. The Concession did not have to be made because soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed loan Ameri can ultimatum and removed the missiles without an explicit link to the american Jupiter missiles in tur key which were obsolete anyway Rusk said. The revelation was made by Rusk in a letter to a conference of experts on the crisis held in March in Florida and reported in Friday s editions of the new York times. The times plans an article about the crisis in its sunday Magazine. Rusk confirmed the account thursday to the newspaper. According to the Tetter Kennedy instructed me to Telephone the late Andrew Cordier a former , official then at Columbia University and dictate to him a statement which would be made by u than inc Secretary general of the United nations proposing the removal of both the Jupiter and the missiles in Cuba Cordier was supposed to put he statement in the hands of u than Only after a further signal from us that step was never taken and the statement 1 furnished to or. Cordier has never seen inc Light of Day. So far As i know. President Kennedy Andrew Cordier and i were the Only ones who knew of this particular step Rusk wrote. Rusk told the times he disclosed the statement be cause in seemed to me thai it was an appropriate Lime to Complete the  it was Clear to me that president Kennedy would not let the Jupi lers in Turkey become an obstacle to the removal of the missile Sites in Cuba because inc Pupil cars were coming Oul in any event Rusk said. Rusk said inc idea was not All thai much of a big Deal it was simply an option that would have been available to president Kennedy had he wanted to use  but James a blight the organizer of the conference and executive director of the Center for science and International affairs of Harvard University disagreed. He said it was evidence thai president Kennedy in the real dark hours of the crisis there on the last weekend was convinced that first of All War was Likely if things continued on their present course and secondly that he did nol want War archbishop of Canterbury Runcie encouraged by report on Waite London a the archbishop of Canterbury the most Rev Robert Runcie said Friday he was encouraged by the latest report that kidnapped Church of England envoy Terry Waite is alive and Well. Returning from a . Vacation Runcie Lold report ers at Heathrow Airport i m very Happy to hear a Good source saying it  Runcie spiritual head of the Church of England was commenting on a British broadcasting corp to report from ten ran Iran thursday that quoted an authoritative iranian source As ridiculing reports that Waite was dead or in Iran and saying the 48-year-old envoy was Well and in Captivity in Lebanon. Runcie said the bbl account confirms impressions which we already have from our own  Waile vanished last january in Beirut Lebanon where he was negotiating for the release of westerners held hostage by islamic fundamentalists. The bbl said thai despite Wail s reported links to disgraced White House aide col. Oliver North his captors did not regard him As an american spy. I get the impression that iranian religious officials Al the top do distinguish Terry Waite from the other hostages in this Way and that is very encouraging Runcie said. He said he now looked Forward to the Day when we can have a note or a photograph or something Defi  he said it is remarkable that nobody has Given me a reason publicly or privately As to Why Terry Waile is being  another 24 westerners eight of them american Are being held hostage. Most if nol All Are believed to be in the hands of shiite moslem fundamentalists. S. African firm threatens to fire More strikers Johannesburg. South Africa a the nation s largest mining com Pany which has fired More than 25,000 striking Black miners said 31,000 More will be sacked if they do nol return to work saturday. The ultimatum came thursday from Anglo american corp., the company worst hit by the 19-Day-old strike alter it fired about 18,400 Gold and Coal miners for defying Back to work orders. Anglo last week fired 7,000 strikers. The company has said in is hiring Short term replacements but has declined to release any figures. Anglo which produced More than 39 percent of South Africa s Gold last year employs about 180,000 Black miners. Also thursday the country s largest Black labor federation the Congress of South african Trade unions said it was considering a National strike and other Solidarity action unless inc mine workers1 wage demands were met. The miners Union members voted wednesday to reject an Industry proposal that offered slight improvements in benefits but no additional pay. The Union said in would accept a 27 percent pay raise instead of its previous demand of 30 percent but the chamber of mines refused to alter its already implemented increase of 15 to 23 percent. The mine workers strike which began aug. 9, is a Legal walkout but under South african labor Law companies May fire workers if they do not show up for work. The Union says 340,000 men arc on strike at 44 coat and Gold mines while the chamber of mines says 210,000 miners Are striking Al 29 other mines. The 18,400 miners dismissed by Anglo on thursday included 3,000 men who staged an 18-hour sit in inside the company s Western deep Levels Gold mine. Anglo did not say Why the men staged the protest but the National Union of mineworkers said they were forced underground wednesday night by mine Security. The strikers were brought to the sur face thursday afternoon Given their final paychecks and driven off the mine compound in buses some miners said. As of thursday there were no new negotiations planned. The two sides have held Only one round of Contrail talks since the nation s largest Legal strike began. In those talks held tuesday the chamber offered to in crease vacation pay and double death benefits but refused to discuss the Union s demand fora wage hike. The Union s general Secretary Cyril Rama Phosa said the arrogance of the chamber is demonstrated by its refusal to negotiate the modified wage  he said the Union remains willing Al anytime to resume negotiations and again urged the dispute be referred to mediation an idea the chamber rejected when negotiations broke Down in mid july. The chamber says Black miners earned an average 1250 per month before the raise and now make $285. The Union says miners averaged $170 a month be fore the unilateral increase. Exam sergeant receives prison sentence in spy Case san Francisco up a former air Force attempted to divulge actually reached soviet officials. Formation was revenge for an honorable but i Volun a former air Force sergeant was sentenced to five years in prison for pass ing military secrets loan Fri agent posing As a soviet spy. I know 1 made a big mistake and it was a really stupid mistake and that s All i got to say Allen John Davies 33, Lold . District court judge Stanley a. Cigel thursday. Weigl sentenced Davies to five years in prison half the maximum sentence sought by government officials. The judge said Davies should serve the in sir sentence because none of the secret information he attempted to divulge actually reached soviet officials. Davies was arrested at his Job with a defense con tractor by Fri agents in october 1986, and charged with attempting to give soviet officials details of a classified air Force reconnaissance program. Fri officials said Davies a British born naturalized american who served for nine years in the air Force met sept 21 with an undercover agent posing As an official Al the soviet consulate. The agent said he contacted Davies after he Learned thai Davies had Tele phoned the soviet consulate and left a message on an answering machine offering information. Davies Molive for attempting to divulge secret in formation was revenge for an honorable but involuntary discharge from the military in 1984 because of his poor Job performance prosecutors said. While in the air Force Davies who had a mid level secret Security clearance worked on special High Resolution cameras and other reconnaissance equipment at Rhein main a in Germany during 1983-84. Following his discharge from the military Davies said he received requests from air Force officials for two years to reimburse them for a re enlist men Bonus of 11,200 adding  Force. Defense attorneys argued Davies was mentally Dis Turbed when he Mei with Fri officials