European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Bonanza actor lome Greene Dies at 72 Page 4 d Navy cancels port Call Over aids dispute Page 7 d reservist takes charge at fort Hood Page 28 the stars and Fries Febi Trutho Biseo unofficial publication for the us. Ahmed Forcht vol. 46, no. 148 sunday september 13. 1987 01,4. D 8693 a Pope reaches out to protestants jews App Lolo the Pope in White prays at St. Peter s Church in co Lumbia . New Orleans a Pope John Paul ii Lold jewish leaders that future generations must learn about the holocaust so that it never again happen Sand then reached out to protestant denominations in a joint prayer for Unity. After delivering his message in Miami and Colum Bia ., the Pope arrived late Friday night in new Orleans a predominantly Catholic City where he was welcomed at the Airport by a jazz band playing when the saints go marching in a strongly worded speech in South Carolina the pontiff blamed the breakdown of families on a false notion of individual America you cannot insist on the right to choose without also insisting on the duty to choose Well the pontiff told an ecumenical prayer service. Already there is much breakdown and pain in your own society because fundamental values essential to the Well being of individuals families and the entire nation arc being emptied of their real before flying from the Columbia Airport for new Orleans he met briefly with former president Jimm Carter and his wife Rosalynn for a private Chat. In new Orleans where he was Given a rousing Wel come by the olympic brass band the Pope quickly got into a limousine that took him to the residence of certain strike Man Euver area historic East West Battle site . Bremerhaven Bureau soldiers from the . Ill corps won t oel a first warriors to throw their strength against an lit Vader on the North German Plain. Charlemagne defended the Fords across the upper Elbe River in the eighth Century. The East and West have Long converged in he Northeast Corner of the German state of Amer Sachsen. Many towns in the sparsely be Tyro area South of Hamburg and near the East Seaman Bor Der carry slavic sounding names As a result. More recently russian and . Forces met at the Elbe near the end of world a ii. Monday 78,000 Nat if oops converge on the area for the certain Sylce Field exercise. The Elbe forms the Northend Boundary of the 3,700-Square mile Battle grupa of the Orange and Blue forces. The 35,000 . Troops in certain strike will operate under the Northern army group one of two nato army groups in Central Europe. The group is for defending about 75miles of West Gernan Border from Hamburg on the Elbe Ray to Kassel South of the Harz mountains. To Central army group area of Respo Sibili Tancl lots South of analysts have Long feared that North a Date t have enough soldiers to Stop aggressors moving Wint along the North German Plain inva Sion route note. Length of Flat country stretches from the ural mountains in the soviet Union to the English Channel. Some analysts feet this stretch of open country More suitable to tank Mam vering than the Hills of Southern Germany is More Hefly to Bear the Brunt of a Warsaw pact attack than for example the Fulda Gap Region Northeast of would bet that it Northern Germany would be where the main Battle will be fought said Gen. Sir Martin fam Dale commander of the Northern army group and the British army of the said modernization within the military see strike on Page 28 archbishop Philip m. Hannan. On a Day devoted to improving relations with other faiths the Leader of the world s 850 million roman catholics exhorted protestant and orthodox leaders to work toward the time when it will be possible for christians to confess together the one Faith he told a delegation of prominent jews in Miami that he wanted to emphasize our Faith in the on god and that As a result of the suffering of jews in the holocaust the Church experiences Ever More deeply her common Bond with the jewish beginning his first full Day of his . Tour with a Long awaited meeting with jewish leaders in Miami the Pope said joint efforts at education which arc Well developed in your country can help prevent another horror As the murder of 6 million jews by the nazis. In saying never again John Paul forcefully echoed a slogan adopted by world jewry. For the Pope to say it loudly and clearly it s Vrr. Very moving said Abraham Foxman National director of the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith. For 2,000 years. Jews were summoned to the vat ican to debate and defend said Foxman. Who was bom in Poland. For the last 22 years we be talked at see Pope on Page 28 army revamping procedures for chemical disposal Washington a the army blamed human error for two hazardous incidents in its disposal of chemical weapons and said Friday that organizational changes will Prevc Fany recurrence. Two reports issued f riday dealt with a leak Jan. 28 at the tootle army depot s chemical agent munitions disposal system x Utah and the handling of a cleanup March 4 at atoll cards in the Pacific near Hawaii in Kwh cases the chemical involved was the toxic nerve agent go. Said army spokesman it. Chal a. In neither incident was the Public threatened Al though four workers were sex fused to go in the Johnston is omd Case the army sad in a summary of the report r4qne of the four Hax any symptoms of nerve aunt poisoning the army said the army in an Effort to get rid aits aging Stock piles of chemical weapons by 1994. Begin the cards project at tootle in 1979. Work at tootle with toxic chemicals Hai been sus see army on Page 28 Spanish defense chief wants . Troop Cut Barcelona Spain a Spain defense minister wants the country la reduce the number of . Troops on its soil to the minimum level necessary a newspaper has reported. Neighbouring Portugal meanwhile. Hopes to renegotiate a treaty giving the United states use of an Atlantic air base a spokesman for the portuguese prime minister said Friday. Defense minister Narcis Serra. Made his comments thursday at the opening of the annual conference of the International Institute of strategic studies held for the first time in Spain. The daily Al pais reported that Serra Saio spam would allow the return of . Troops in a Cristl .-Spanish negotiation to reduce the american military s 12,500-Streiaj presence in Spain Are stalled after to rounds. The talks began in july w86. Spain Mii Iii to close Torrejon about Side Madrid and Zaragoza a. It also wants the . Air Force to withdraw the 401st tac air Wing f-16 fighter jets from Torrejon. Another round of negotiations will begin in Madrid in october. In Lisbon the prime minister s spokesman said Portugal wants to renegotiate the treaty because it it Duma tied with the Juno a of american Adloe country is receiving. The official. Fernando Lima said the Lisbon government a would insist on re negotiating the treaty nest fibr Vitry. The earliest Date possible under the try Muon the Accord that allows the United states use of the air base at Lajes Field azores. Lajes Field on the portuguese Island of Terceira is a key mid Atlantic refuelling Point and Center for anti submarine War fare. It a beat leased by the United sates since 1951. In december 1983, the United states and Portugal initiated a seven year Extension of the agreement. A clause in the treaty allows either Side to Call for a renegotiation after feb. 4, 1988. Lima said . Aid to Portugal de Eraa a from s207.5 million in 1985 to $189.3 minion in 1986. He said Aid for1987 would drop to $ 147.36 million
