European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 21, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 9 Thatcher hails . Attack on iranian Oil platforms Dallas a president Reagan was absolutely right in calling Tor an attack on two iranian drilling platforms in the persian Gulf British prime minister Margaret Thatcher said. Thatcher winding up a visit to her son and Daugh Ter in Law in Dallas said she supported monday s action which was in retaliation Tor an iranian attack Friday on a .-flagged kuwaiti ship. " the attack was a measured response she told reporters it was directed at targets which were monitoring . And other shipping and which in tact were concerned at directing attacks at that ship we arc fully in support of president  the prime minister who was to return to London tuesday would not say whether she had been contacted by . Officials prior to the attack but said she is in frequent Contact with them concerning the situation in the Gulf. Thatcher also offered gel Well wishes to Nancy Reagan recovering from a Mastectomy saturday. We share everyone s Joy at Nancy Reagan s rapid recovery Thatcher said. She has the heart of a lion and we re so pleased that she will soon be  Thatcher and her husband Denis stayed wit their son Mark and daughter in Law Diane in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park. Mark Thatcher is a representative of the British sports car company Lotus in Dallas. Margaret Thatcher in Dallas with son. Mirk. Barschel posed suicide As murder report says Hamburg a a leading Ger Man newsmagazine said monday that former stale governor Uwe Barschel committed suicide but made his death look like a politically motivated murder. The former Schleswig Holstein state governor s death has dominated head lines since his body was found fully clothed in a Bathtub of water on oct. 11 in a Geneva hotel room. Notes Barschel supposedly made the Day before his mysterious death were published in the Hamburg based Stern Magazine monday which was distributed three Days ahead of schedule. The notes were found in a notebook Stem reporters said they saw in the hotel room where they found Barschel s body. The notes published in Stem describe phone Calls and a meeting Barschel Alleg edly had with an informant who was Tup posed to provide him with material exonerating him from allegation in a political scandal Barschel had been embroiled in a political dirty tricks scandal in the weeks before his death. He bad denied any wrongdoing. Pfeifler was assigned to get  bar sch i wrote in his notebook according to Stern describing the informant s account Ofa Pool against him. Reiner pfc if Fer was the aide in Banc Hal s press office whose charges led Barschel to resign As stale governor. Stern however said Barschel probably invented the informant or met one who could not give him information that would vindicate him. Police have not been Able to find the informant. Barschel wanted at the Price of his life to leave the world with the image of an innocent Uwe Barschel the Stem report said. The report also said Barschel planted confusing details and contradictory Evi Dence in addition to the notebook to indicate he was the victim Ofa murder plot. Details increasingly indicate that the former governor s death Wai not a Mur Der that should be passed off As suicide but a suicide that should appear to be a mysterious murder he Magazine said. Contradictory evidence surrounding the death includes Barschel s being found in the Bathtub fully clothed and optimistic comments he made to his family regarding the informant s Evi Dence. The Magazine Aho claimed Barschel psychological makeup indicated that he would commit suicide rather than live with a tarnished reputation. Whether Barschel committed suicide or was murdered is still unclear. Swiss police 14 said last week that an  traces of sleeping pills in bars chips body and said there was no Evi Dence of foul play. Bartcher s wife and brother however say he was murdered and have asked for a second autopsy to be conducted. Reaction to recycling Law encourages . Officials East Greenwich. . A the first phase of Rhode Island s new mandatory recycling Law the nation s first statewide mandatory recycling program opened her monday and officials said they were encouraged by the participation. We got 94 percent participation said Victor a Bell chief of the cleanup and recycling program in the depart ment of environmental management out of 304 households 284 placed materials out. That s excellent. We could t ask for  Bell said 3,720 pounds of newspaper were collected in East Greenwich along with 1,580 pounds of mixed recyclables. And everyone we talked to was extremely encouraged and Happy about it Bell mid. We were also looking in in material and in was very Good. It was very clean and had very few things that we did t want in it each participating Home was Given a re cycling bin in which to separate unbroken Glass bottles and Jare cans aluminium Plas tic soda bottles and milk jugs and newspapers front the rest of their trash. East Greenwich resident Maggie Smith said it was no trouble preparing her recyclable materials. We had a problem getting some of the labels off but otherwise it was t hat much bother mrs. Smith said. The program is under the flow control Law raised by the legislature in 1986. There have been mandatory pro Grams in other Stales communities Ona Community wide basis or a county wide basis. Bell said but we were the lint to do it on a statewide  Oregon has for a number of years had a right to Recycle Law which says there must be an Opportunity for All oregonians to Recycle if they want to Bell said and since Rhode Island passed its mandatory recycling Law new Jersey and Connecticut have followed suit he said. In two weeks. 2,750 households incest Warwick Mil begin Rhode Island s second Pilot program. In six months the two communities will be joined by seven More cities and towns. Bell said i reschedule Calls for the entire state to be recycling in three years. Tennesseans of fest milk designed to help digestion Athens Tenn. A East tennesseans will gel the first Chance in the nation to sip a new milk product containing special microorganisms designed to help digestion officials said monday. The milk contains a combined Cul Ture of Aci Ophilus and Bifi Dum two beneficial bacteria that Are naturally found in the digestive tract but be come depleted through time said officials with the local Mayfield Dairy farms and Chr. Hansen s laboratories inc. In  of the organisms in the milk ii touted As a Way to help keep the digestive system balanced. Acido Philput is used in the Small intestine and Bifi Dum affects the Large intes Tine officials said. It s not any miraculous cure All or anything. It s just sound Basic nutrition said Scott Mayfield company vice president for marketing at May Field Dairy farms. Chr. Hansen s laboratories which developed the technology for combining the two microorganisms said Mayfield Dairy farms which distributes products in East Tennessee is the first company in the country to offer no Trish a a. We Ore interested in looking for Dai Ries that Are marketing oriented and that Are innovative and we found May Field has both of those qualifications said Susan Taylor product manager for the culture at the  they re in a very Good Market for that Type of product Aci Ophilus Sells very Well Down in the South and i already has Market recognition she  milk with acid Ophilus Al ready has been introduced into the Market the mixture of the iwo bacteria adds a new dimension to the product Mayfield  new product tastes the came As 2 percent milk Laurel re Emfs . Threat to end Aid if coup succeeds Manila Philippines up vice president Sal Vador Laurel monday dismissed a . Threat to Cut off Aid to the Philippines if president Corazon Aquino is overthrown in a coup and he said the americans will Deal with whomever is in the  but Laurel in a wide ranging interview with the foreign correspondents association of the Philippines ruled out a role As figurehead president in the event of a military takeover. That would not be something acceptable said Laurel 59, who resigned As foreign Secretary last month Over Aquino s handling of the 18-year communist insurgency. Laurel said statements from Washington threaten ing to Cut off Aid to the Manila government if a coup succeeds were meant to dissuade any attempt to use Force and violence to bring about any change. One thing stands out. And i be been observing this the United states through the stale department has Todeal with whomever is on the Saddle. Thai s a fact. They can t get out of that Laurel said. The United states which annually provides some1400 million in military and economic Aid to the Philippines maintains the strategic Subic Bay naval base and clerk air base outside Manila. The installations Ore the last major . Bases in Southeast Asia. Aquino has survived five coup attempts since she took Power in february 1986 in a people Power Revo Lution that ousted Ferdinand Marcos after 20 years in Power. At least 53 people were killed and 300 wounded aug. 28 in the most serious uprising against Aquino. The most critical problem we now face is the Mili tary problem said Laurel. If the military problem snot solved we will not have an army that will be Able to fight effectively against the