European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Iraq appears Likely to lose War with Iran panel report says Washington api Iraq appears increasingly Lindy to lost ils land War against Iran dts Pilc inc heavy . Navy presence in inc persian Gulf according o a congressional re part re leased sunday. Iraq can no longer win lie War against Iran. Bui Iraq can lose said inc report prepared by three Stafl Mem Bers of the scale foreign relations Commilles who misled Iraq and other Arab slates and interviewed . Navy officers in inc Gulf. Committee chairman Claibore Pell d-r.i., has been highly critical of he Rea Gan administration decision to a Flag and provide Navy escort to 11 kuwaiti tankers and he report echoed Pell s Call for a United nations Effort to Stem he flow of Armsto Iran and Iraq and end inc War. R administration policies Are viewed by Arab officials As confusing and incoherent and contributing to prospects for an escalating War. The report said. The main threat lies not in the highly Public cd land tar War in Ilic Gulf it said but along the 900-mile Iran Iraq Border where a worsening situation in the North and Center May ultimately Lead to an iraqi defeat on the highly contested and critical Southern front an iraqi defeat would be catastrophic for Western interests the report said. Should Iraq lose inc War in said in the worst Case scenario the United states could face the Choice Between per mitting Iran to dominate the West s Oil Supply in inc persian Gulf and direct . Military intervention on behalf of the conservative Arab Gulf the administration Lias justified the relating As in Effort to bolster Kuwait which although Neutral in inc War allows ils ports to be used for the transport of War supplies to Iraq. The . Is perceived by iranians and arabs alike As having sided with Iraq and inc expanded . Naval presence is Likely 10 invite More iranian at tacks of increasing severity said inc report. The re flagging decision was shaped us much by a Short term desire to restore credibility lost in inc Iran Contra affair As by any careful assessment of . Interests and objectives in said. All along its 900-mile front with Iran Iraq is under heavy military pressure and its ability to withstand Iran s As saults indefinitely is an open question the report said. Seven care after the War began with an estimated i million dead iranian forces Are within Southern Iraq occupy ing the Faw Peninsula threatening Basra Iraq s second largest City and tying Down the bulk of he iraqi military in grueling Trench warfare that has been likened to world War i. Meanwhile in the Nonh Iraq s Posi Tion has deteriorated dramatically due to the kurdish insurgency in said. Kurd make up about 20 percent of the iraqi population the report said and their cyclical guerrilla War against inc Central government has been heating up. And in the Central sector. Iraq s superiority in Armor could be challenged by Iran with. 2,008 Tow anti tank weapons supplied to Iran by inc Reagan administration it said. Time in their hands we Pawlo Jim Viselli and Dan its ovals Dangle from ropes 500 feel above downtown Boston while attaching new hands o one of four tout clocks Alop the and Mark custom House Tower. The work was part of a Facelift of the City s oldest skyscraper. The project is being paid for by Boston Edison co. As a lift to the City. The 71-yr-old clock has nol worked in tort than a decade. Babbitt skit pokes fun at candidate character Issue Washington a a chagrined Bruce Babbitt faces the microphones the latest 1988 presidential candidate assailed with questions about his character. It is time the former Arizona governor intones that i step up and admit that in the past i have been guilty of the injudicious use of grocery store express Democrat Babbitt the Only presidential contender so far to accept Abc to s invitation to appear on saturday night made his Tongue in Cheek confession in a skit saturday poking fun at scandal in inc Campaign in the scene mock commentator Al Frankyn admits he d like to be president but adds i Don t want to submit myself to the intrusive scrutiny characteristic of today s presidential politics. For example i d have to give up Frankyn notes thai former Colorado sen. Gary Hart was forced to drop his quest for the democratic Nomi nation because of womanizing and that sen. Joseph Biden d-dcl., was forced out of the race because he had plagiarized. Frankyn continues every one of the remaining candidates has same Skeleton in his closet some dark secret some character flaw just wailing to be uncovered. So tonight starting alphabetically i confront former two term Arizona gov. Bruce in a taped interview he confronts Babbitt with a videotape in which an overhead camera catches inc candidate trying to sneak through a supermarket express Lane with 14 items four Over the limit. Babbitt pleads with the cashier for leniency saying a c Mon give me a break. I m running for presi Dent. I m in a her jaded response next after viewing the footage Babbitt demands to know where the tape came from and Franken admits the source was the Camp of rival democratic candidate Michael Dukakis the governor of Massachusetts. In real life two Dukakis aides resigned after the governor Learned they had distributed a Lap showing that Biden had lifted other politicians verbiage. In the skit. Babbitt makes a Public apology for his supermarket indiscretion but protests that on one occasion a cashier counted a Kellogg snack pack As six items and i have Here a. Letter from Kellogg s referring to the snack pack As and i quote an item " winding up his expose Franken promised More to come next Lime Missouri congressman Richard Gephardt. Does he borrow tools and not return them stealing Small boats is big business in Fla. Fort Lauderdale Fla. Up bands of latter Day pirates aided by lax Laws Law enforcement ignorance and a haphazard identification system have made Florida the boat theft capital of the nation. The value of stolen vessels and motors has increased from $17.8 million to j26.3 million in three years in Florida the fort Lauderdale news and Sun sen Tinel reported sunday. We be got a runaway said capt. Dave Mcgillis. Of the Florida Marine patrol. National crime computers list More than 4.000 unsolved boat heats in Florida com pared with 3,301 in Texas. 2,086 in Cali fornia and i i join South Carolina. Maj. Kennelh Clark a Marine patrol commander recently returned from making a speech about boat thefts to find his it fool boat missing from his fenced backyard. Organized theft ring Are transferring stolen boats to other Stales and coun tries. Boats Are even being looted at night by teams of divers who swim up and crawl aboard to steal expensive navigation equipment. We re talking about a problem hat affects everybody in the water whether they Are a victim or through increased insurance Rales. It s mom and pop with the weekend fishing boat thai s gelling ripped off Mcgillis said. More than 86 percent of the boats Sto Len in Florida Are less than 20 feet Long according to the Marine patrol. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 20, 1947 Gen. Charles de Gaulle s Union of the French people took an Early Lead in the Paris Region in France s municipal election drawing 12,028 of the first 21,300 votes counted 30 years ago foday oct. 20, 1957 West Germany severed diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia via a sharply worded note because of president Tito s recognition of the East German regime. 20 years ago today., oct. 20, 1967 the Boston Globe reported hat the Johnson administration distributed phony lists of cities chosen for the Model cites program to find and plug an information leak. The administration denied the report. 10 years ago today. Oct. 20, 1977 the body of kidnapped West German industrialist Hanns mar Lin Seh Leycur was found in Mulhouse France in inc trunk of a car. Meanwhile defense lawyers in Bonn demanded an International investigation into the apparent prison suicides of three of the founding members of the red army faction including Andreas Baader
