European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes Mikhail Gorbachev Back in Public. Page 3 q computer sales irk Pentagon Page 5 d military recruiting tactics change Page 9 d cards win 2, Meta lose Page 21 the St ars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for Thi . Adm co Fot Cei vol. 46, no. 166 thursday. October 1, 1987 0 8g93 a Ivy underestimate mine it in says Washington a the Navy underestimated the threat posed by Ira Nian mines when in prepared to carry out president Reagan s plan to protect kuwaiti tankers the nation s top military officer mid tuesday. I think it s eminently fair to say made a number of . William Crowejr. Or fran of the joint chiefs of Sta Lra the Senate armed services i did t want the Brid Pylon Zajf Flippen he said of the july 24 when a a flagged kuwaiti Tanker hit a mine in . Navy War we mad Nice mists if i he to do Over again it be Tate the Navy probably overrated our intelligence about iranian naval capabilities. The Navy is Row looking at ways to reduce the number or ships and men in the Region Crowe said but he warned that in would be a terrible error1 Tor he democratic controlled Congress to order a . Withdrawal. Crowe said la Pentagon is groping As to what the Long term level of forces should be we arc looking at ways to draw Down or forces to a More reasonable level about 10 . Ships Are in the Gulf and Tite Cin nearby Waters. In i costing a month to carry out Reagan stuff in of re flagging 11 kuwaiti tankers Antim Lavy con Voys to prefect their passage mib la he War Tarn waterway. Crowe spoke see Navy on Page Bush polish ends with tour of nazi Camps Oswie Cim Poland not a grim faced vice president George Bush toured Stark reminders of the nazi death Camps tuesday and in a shaken voice said there was no Way to express his emotions. Bush made the trip Here on his last Day in Poland to Lay a Wreath at a Monument at the Birkenas concentration Camp dedicated to 4 million victims of the nazis who were put to death there and at nearby Auschwitz. Earlier he toured Auschwitz where under a Gray sky he placed a Wreath Al the Wall of death where 20,000 were killed by nazi firing squads. The solemn occasion was disturbed by herds of Security officials Bush staff aides and reporters who recorded the vice president s moves Al several Points aides positioned members of Bush s entourage out of the Angle of television cameras to enable the film Crews to gel Clear Shou of the vice president arriving at the Camp walking toward the Wall of death. Al a news conference earlier in Warsaw. Bush said he would Tell president Reagan when he returned to Washington on saturday that the basis exists for a lasting productive and mutually beneficial situation Between the two countries. Bush was the highest ranking american official to visit Poland since 1977. The visit was seen an Effort to improve polish american relations that As have been strained since martial Law was declared in 1981. In Warsaw the polish government tuesday flatly rebuffed Bush s urging that it move toward economic end political pluralism. Jerzy Urban the government spokesman rejected the idea that application of Western economic and political models would help Poland. Bush had made his suggestions in a television broadcast monday. It came in the Wake of the Reagan administration s decision to help expedite handling of the polish foreign debt. Urban chided Bush s linkage of Reform with future american assistance As not consistent with the pledge not to interfere in internal polish affaire. Henner Frd ii Zetrov a Henry foil ii look Over a Grandfather s found at presic Roosevelt s urging in 37 years stored Ford motor co. 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