European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday september 25, 1987 Witt och sees no Gulf role for nato Oslo Norway a nato should play no direct role in supporting the . Military presence in the persian Gulf a norwegian candidate for the Alliance Stop political Post said wednesday. Karc Willoch who is vying with Germany Manfred worn or for selection As the next nato Secretary general said the Western Alliance should continue to restrict i i self to the collective defense of the 16 member nations territory. The Reagan administration expressed disappoint ment at the Lack of response to its request last Spring for help from he North Atlantic treaty organization in protecting the Oil shipment lanes of the gun. Nato Secretary general lord Carrington said wednesday that the Alliance was but Fried by a Good dual of criticism across the Carrington who was in Oslo to deliver a speech thursday o nato s advisory parliament the North Atlantic Assembly added dial europeans realize thai they have a vital stake in the Gulf War. Nato members Britain and France already had naval forces in the Gulf when the Reagan administration accepted a kuwaiti request to convert Oil tankers to .-flagged vessels and provide . Naval escorts. Bui Only in the past month have Italy the Netherlands and Belgium decided to support the Effort by sending mine sweepers to the Gulf. Wiloch. So is a former conservative prime min ister and chairman of the parliament s foreign relations committee. He said that while the Iran Iraq War affects Western Security the key Challenge Facin Gnato is managing relations with the soviet Union. Willoch said the United Stales was right to sign treaty with the soviet eliminating All intermediate Range nuclear missiles bul cautioned that the agreement poses Security risks for the West. The soviets will have reduced Only a fraction of their nuclear Arsenal but the result is that there Are no land based nuclear missiles in Western Europe that can reach the soviet Union while there Are an Abun dance of soviet missiles thai can reach Western Europe he said. Willoch declined to discuss his efforts to gain the Secretary general s Job which will become open next june when Carrington Steps Down. Iraq bombers raid turkish Village plaque honors Ankara Turkey a iraqi warplanes bombed Southeastern turkish Village near the Border area wednesday killing three people and wounding in three critically the state run radio reported. The turkish foreign ministry lodged a protest Over the raid apparently aimed at kurdish guerrilla hide outs. Turkey said two iraqi planes violated turkish air space and bombed the Village of Narlis 14 Miles from the Border at 9 55 . A government statement said the foreign ministry summoned iraqi ambassador Tariq Abduljabba Jawa Dand told him Iraq should take necessary measures to prevent such incidents.1 he was also told that Turkey reserved the right to seek compensation from Iraq. A similar incident occurred a month ago when Iraq planes seeking 10 Knock out kurdish rebel bases in Northern Iraq crossed the ill defined Border line and bombed turkish soil in the Southeast. One turkish villager was wounded. A 1984 agreement Between Iraq and Turkey Grant rights to both countries to operate against kurdish rebels in a six mile joint Security zone along their 186-Milc-Long Frontier. Turkey has twice launched air raids against kurdish rebel hideouts in Iraq. Keep pressure on Shch Aransky says Washington up soviet emigre Natan so Sharansky and his wife Avital met with president Reagan wednesday to urge him to keep pressure on soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev o release political and religious dissidents. Shch Aransky in his third visit with the president since his release from a soviet prison in 1986, also called on americans not to be satisfied with the release of several big name dissidents but to urge release fall soviet jews who wish to leave. He estimated thai several hundreds thousand soviet jews have expressed a desire to leave and that if the gales Are open,1 up to i million might emigrate. Shch Aransky said is message to soviet jews is our struggle continues and we will not be satisfied with less than Freedom fall our he said he and Reagan who will hold a Summit with Gorbachev agreed that the release of a few dissidents not just be limited gestures but a continuing process and that a missile treaty must be followed by Progress on human Shch Aransky said Reagan told him that Secretary of slate George Shutlz stressed human rights in his talks last week with soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. . Dead in Italy Florence Italy a a plaque has been erected to commemorate thousands of american soldiers who died in the Apennine mountains North of this Central italian City during world War ii. A group of 70 veterans from the 338lh regi menial combat team of the Custer division re turned to Italy to unveil the memorial to More than 2,000 fellow soldiers who died in the autumn of1944 in Battles to seize 9,964-foot-Hlgh mount Al Tuzzo a German stronghold during the War. The ceremony sunday was led by la col. Willis Jackson of Atlanta a former battalion commander. The 8-fool-High Bronze plaque overlooks the for Mer Battlefield near the Village of Scarperia 16 Miles North of Florence where the 33bln Regip enl spearheaded the struggle that set the stage for the defeat of the Axis forces in Italy. The Monument bears the inscription la Mem Priam to those men of the 338lh infantry regi mental combat team who gave their lives Lor free Dom. Erected by their devoted comrades and dedicated to the glory of the veterans also visited the american Mililani cemeteries at Anzio a coastal town South of Rome where almost 8,000 american soldiers died during the War and in Florence where 4,000 americans died in combat. Experts differ on Bork s fitness for High court Washington not former chief justic Earren e. Burger Washington lawyer Warre and Lloyd n. Cutler a leading and self described Liberal demo crat wean Day praised judge Robert h. Borks qualifications for the supreme court and rejected assertions that Bork was hostile to civil rights. Four other prominent lawyers and scholars including the historian John Hope Franklin urged the Senate judiciary committee to reject the nominee As a Man who for All his intelligence had displayed a Lack of Wisdom and vision by denouncing As a professor most of the major civil rights gains in his lifetime. Wednesday s testimony before the committee continued 10 be a Battle of experts on both sides of the Issue. At times witnesses seemed to be talking about two different Robert Borks one a moderate conserva Tive the other a conservative activist who would turn Back the clock on civil rights. In his testimony Burger denounced what he called a Campaign of Culler who was counsel 10 president Carter called the nominee a highly qualified conservative Jurist who is closer to the moderate Center than to the extreme bul Franklin a history professor at Duke univer sity gave a poignant account of the degradation and humiliation of growing up Black in Ibe South including a time when a rain conductor slopped the train and Pul us out in the Woods when his Mother refused to go to the negro he said of boric one searches his record to find a civil rights Advance that he supported from its inception. Nothing in judge Bork s record suggests to me thai had he been on the supreme court at an earlier Date he would Bave had the vision and the courage to strike Down a statute requiring the eviction of a Black family from a train for not sitting in the so called negro he and two other opponents cited bark s apposition to key provisions of the civil rights act of 1964 while the legislation was pending in Congress and his denunciations Over the years of some major supreme court decisions advancing civil rights. Bul Burger Cutler and other supporters of Bork emphasized his record As a respected Federal appeals court judge since 1982, Biden from Page 1 Chael Dukakis said . It lakes alot of courage to do Wyto he has done to Pul toe judiciary committee responsibilities ahead of his Futi italics where you press folks ask me Biden what s going to happen when the while hot heal turns on?1 you warned me what it was going to sen. Joseph bldg it makes me it s one More Down note said rep Patricia Schroeder d-colo., and i think we All get tarnished by thai Type of president Reagan declined comment on Biden s withdrawal saying that s Tut decision White House chief of Start Howar Baker said you hate to sat that son of thing in either party. I Bave known Joe Biden since he Tira iame to the Senate i count him As Ujj blend and i really
