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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d terrorist threats put gut forces on Aler Page 2 d peace corps plans to double in size Page 7 d notre Dame Pitt win in College football Page 21 the s Rirs ripes  unofficial Pajtli cation fed Thi . Ahmed pc duct vol. -16, no. 190 sunday october 25, 1987 Ujj. 08693 a . Won t be pushed into pact Washington a president Reagan declared saturday that he United states will not be pushed into arms control concessions just to get the soviet Union to take part in a new superpower Summit meeting. Delivering his weekly radio address from cup David my. H Reagan said that two Days of Moscow talks involving Secretary of state George p. Shiltz and National Security adviser Frank Carlucci resulted in further Progress toward a treaty to ban All intermediate Range nuclear weapons see related Story Page 28. The president noted that no Date was set for a Summit  we re in no hurry Reagan added and we certainly will not be pushed into sacrificing essential interests just to Piave Al  officials voiced puzzlement Friday at soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev s sudden refusal to fix a Dale for a Summit but they said that should not stand in the Way of a treaty Banning intermediate Range nuclear mis Sites. In an unexpected development Gorbachev told Shutlz he was not prepared to visit the United slates unless Reagan see pact on Page 28 Sis Anxo Brj. King Crug vice adm. Kendall e. Monu Ivylle other nations taking up Slack in med patrol  Bureau aboard the Coral sea if the .Navy has to divert some of its 6th reel Force for use in the persian Gulf other nato nations arc prepared to Lake up the Slack in the Mediterranean according to the the Fleet  commander. Vice adm. Kendall e. Moranville. Added now let me Tell you something thai you May not be aware of. Even today As we stand Here other nations in nato Are picking up the Slack from countries France and Italy that have had to draw Down their Mediterranean fleets to Send forces to he persian Gulf. The German government has decided to Send German ships into the Mediterranean to Lake up the  Are things going on All the time to maintain the balance and i assure you that Weill maintain a balance in the Mediterranean see patrol on Page 26 Dod tells commanders to let military wives work by Willu Vij. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington Secretary of defense Caspa Weinberger has Given the Pentagon s official endorse ment to working military spouses following an internal air Force investigation confirming that two officers1 wives had been press Redlo quit their jobs. The policy of the department of defense is that no commander supervisor nor other Dod official will Dirac Fly or indirectly impede or otherwise interfere wit the right of every military spouse to decide whether id pursue and hold a Job attend school or to serve on a Volunteer basis i ther on or off a military installation Weinberger wrote in a memo to secretaries of All the services. Thursday s memo became official Dod policy immediately. No military member will be adversely rated or suf Kelnberger for any Adverse consequences from the decision of the member s spouse under this paragraph. Nor shall a spouse s employment be a consideration in either assignments or promotions Weinberger wrote. A spokesman for Weinberger said complaints from officers wives this summer at Grissom fab ind., that commanders had pressured them to quit their jobs lode vote More time to military affairs caused us to focus on this  internal air Force probe released two week ago confirmed the allegations of the two Grissom  investigators found that the women had been warned that their husbands would not Advance Militar ily unless the women began devoting More Lime to voluntary social and charitable activities at the  said military spouses have a proud Heri Tage of Volunteer assistance to their military and civilian communities. Their contributions in clubs emergency Aid agencies and other family support activities enhance the Quality of life in their communities immeasurably. We Welcome and encourage their  the Secretary added that at the same Lime increasing numbers of military spouses arc seeking full or part time employment. They contribute to the financial Well being of their families often gain a Sens of accomplishment and forge links at their work see wives on Page 26 blast hits pan am agent s offices in Kuwait Iran boat attacks ship Manama Bahrain a an explosion wrecked the empty Kuwait offices of the sales agent Tor pan american work airways saturday afternoon. Earlier an iranian speedboat attacked a greek owned Tanker in the Southern persian Gulf the ground floor offices of Al Gharab Aily travel i Kuwait City were destroyed but no one was Hurt. Al Gharab Aily is pan am s exclusive agent in he emirate. Gulf based shipping sources said the Tanker  i was set ablaze but there were no injuries. The Kuwait blast apparently from a bomb placed under the Blue and while pan am sign Shook the Cit Center about an hour after the airline agent s offices closed for  explosion shattered windows of the five Story building which faces dhow  saturday an iranian warship intercepted sever Al commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Gateway to the Gulf and searched them for iraqi bound cargo Marine Salvage executives  has been the scene of a series of bombings against ., French and kuwaiti installations in the past four years. The sabotage has been blamed on pro see pan am on Page 28 body of test Pilot who ejected found in Field by Dave Diehl , the factory test Pilot who ejected from a military Jet that went on to Fly unmanned for some 500 Miles was found dead Friday night near the mining Range he was to be flying in a ministry of de fee spokeswoman said saturday. Taylor Scott 40, was found by a local gamekeeper in a Meadow near the Village of Winterbourne Stoke along with his Parachute and Tife raft according to Penny Guy defense official. The Vil Lage is about 10 Miln Northwest of Salisbury. A Board of inquiry is looking into the cause of thursday i crash into the Allan tic of the British aerospace or. My Sharrier ii ground attack Jet she said. British aerospace spokesman John god Den said the Jet went Down 200 Miles South of the Southwest tip of Ireland. Scott was flight testing the new Jet thai was to be the third or. My 5 harrier i to be delivered 10 the Royal air  30 minutes into his Light from the company s Airfield in Dunsfold air traffic controllers saw the Jet leaving its intended flight path in the military train ing Range in Western England. The Jet continued on toward the at lactic Ocean where controllers watching the plane on radar directed a . Air Force c-5 to the harrier s path. The is Crew reported that the plane had no Pilot ejection seat or canopy and flew alongside " before watching the harrier dive toward the sea. Company officials on saturday Esti mated that the Jet travelled for about Art hour after Scon ejected. Scott made no known distress Calls and no one yet knows Why he left the air plane. Guy said there were no plans yet to recover inc Jet. Neither she nor company official knew who would pay for the $23 million aircraft. The Raf has a contract with British aerospace to buy 62 of the jets All to be delivered by 1990  
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