European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday november 3,1987 mine sweepers reopen key Anchorage Manama. Bahrain a British and French mine sweepers have reopened a key Anchorage just outside the persian Gulf thai was closed to snipping in August when mines damaged ships and killed sailors Here military sources said monday. N Washington the Pentagon said a . Navy warship in the Southern Gulf opened fire sunday on a suspected iranian gunboat that ignored warning shots and continued an apparently hostile run toward on american cargo  Small boat one of three reported in the area turned away and it was nol known whether it had been hit by the guided missile frigate Carr s machine gun fire the Pentagon said. The Pentagon said he Carr and the cargo ship the Patriot continued on their Way toward the gulfs Mouth after the 6 30 . Incident sunday near the Southern iranian held Island of Abu Musa. It said neither the iranian patrol boat nor the other two Small vessels with it fired any shall. The Pentagon did not say How close the boats had come to the . Vessels. The Island of Abu Musa has Long been identified by the Pentagon As a base for iranian gunboats and in  Bra is 2 pilots die in collision of harriers in England London a two harrier planes collided in Northeast England during a nato exer Cise monday and both pilots were killed i he Royal air Force said. The iwo harriers based Al Raf Gutersloh in . Arc taking or a sirs is blow when they collided on the Otterburn Range in Northumberland. A Mountain Rescue team from Raf Leuchars in Scotland found the bodies of the pilots who were nol identified pending notification of next of Kin. An Raf Board of inquiry has been set up to investigate the Accident. New director of Fri sworn in by Reagan Washington a president Reagan swearing in William s. Sessions As his new Fri director praised him and supreme court Nomi Nee Douglas Ginsburg As men concerned about the rights of victims of crime. The president made his comments during the swearing in ceremony in the courtyard Al Fri Headquarters. No one can better embody the Fri belief that the enforcement of our Laws must be very Lough bul very fair Reagan said of sessions. At the swearing in Reagan joked that in his typically thorough manner sessions got the ulcer out of the Way before you got the  sessions 57, spent a week and a. Half in the Hospital last month for a previously undiagnosed bleeding ulcer which twice forced posit Ozment of his installation. Pentagon from Page 1 calling family or a doctor. An employee travelling on government business calling to notify family of a change in scheduled return time due to a transportation delay or something Simi Lar. An employee travelling on government business making a Brief daily Call to his or her residence. An employee required to work overtime without Advance notice calling to notify his or her family. An employee making Brief daily local Calls to speak to a spouse or minor children to Sec How they  it is authorizing some Calls the Gas is urging government agencies 10 collect payment for unauthorized Calls for the costs of determining that Calls were unauthorized and for processing the collections. The office of management and budget recently approved the new guidelines which will be published to the Federal Register this week a Gas spokesman said. Government agencies Are free ,10 officially implement the rules any Lime after publication in the Regis Ter he said. American warships routinely heighten their Alert when escorting .-Flag ships past the Island. This reopened Anchorage in Gulf of punian Waters off the United Arab emirates port of Fuja Irah now is considered Safe for vessels British naval sources said. The Fuja Irah Anchorage is a major staging and sup ply Center for Oil tankers and other commercial and military vessels. The Pentagon has said Iran sowed mines in the area in retaliation for Irani air attacks on iranian shipping lanes and Oil insinuations. The .-opcraled supertanker Texaco Caribbean was damaged by a mine off Fuja Irah on aug. 10, Afler which searchers found sin More mines allegedly sown by Iran. Five Days later another mine blew up the 240 ton Supply ship Anita killing six of the 11 men aboard. The British naval Kaiv Ces speaking on condition of anonymity said in is now up to the United Arab Emi rates to make sure no mines Are sown near the Ancho rage and guard against any that May surface off its  Royal Navy s mine Hunters and a similar French contingent had been scouring the Waters since september outside the Strait of Hormuz the Gateway to the Gulf. The French Navy has found and exploded 11 mines. French diplomatic sources say. British diploma said the Royal Navy has located five. Officials at the Fuji Rah port could not confirm the figure. I on officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the British had completed sweeping a 33 Square Milc tract and the French would continue to sweep Waters to the North off Khor Bakkan. The , Navy had used Bolh anchorages to Organ ize convoys of .-Flaggcd kuwaiti tankers and warships preparing to enter the Gulf until the danger of mines forced Illo find alternative rendezvous Loca  British task Force has completed its operations in the Fuja Irah Anchorage and determined that the mine threat was now minimal said a British source who could nol be named under policy rules. It is now entirely commensurate with the lifting of any restrictions on the use of the  he  is assumed that local arrangements will be made against further mine laying or rogue  the British mine sweepers were reported monday at Udam a naval base provided by Oman for the Dura Tion of multinational mine sweeping operations. Ginsburg from Page 1 which handles judicial nominations said sunday night i certainly want to ask him about this. Every j Edge has to avoid even the appearance of a conflict so we should look Al  _ Rogers has about 450,000 subscribers in Arizona California Minnesota new Mexico Oregon and Texas. The company is about the 20lh largest Cable operator in the United Stales and with extensive Canadian franchises the third or fourth largest in North America according to company officials. Ginsburg was assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division at the Justice department when the Reagan administration filed a Friend of Lac court Brief in a  Angeles Cable television Case. During his confirmation hearings last year gins Burg wrote the judiciary committee thai the Cable Caw was among the 10 most significant litigated mailers that i personally  i was a principal participant in determining the government s position. And supervised the drafting of our Brief he wrote of the Cable Brief which he signed along with the solicitor general and the counsel to the Federal communications commission. The co signers solicitor general Charles Fried and former acc counsel Jack d. Smith said they were not aware uni ii told by a reporter sunday thai Ginsburg had any investments in Cable companies. Asked whether Ginsburg should have participated in the Case Charles Ruff who served As an associate Deputy attorney general under president Carter and As the final watergate special prosecutor said it would come Down to the appearance Issue. My instinctive reaction is that i would seek advice from the ethics office on whether i should excuse  break ins from Page 1 quoted As saying. Several Pentagon officials contacted by the associated press monday said they knew of no such Soviel incursions at Subic Bay or other far East installations. One source demanding anonymity added he could not deny the report because Spe Snaz forces Are known 10 have practice infiltration techniques in Western Europe. This source added however there was Little reason for soviet commandos to infiltrate Subic be cause filipino workers Are employed at the base. No one gets into the restricted areas on the base the source asserted. But if the soviet wanted to reconnoitre the layout quite frankly they could use a foreign National. They Don t need to Send in a com Mando team to do  the . Naval investigative service is investigating Newsweek said. Meanwhile intelligence officials in new York Are ques lining a pc Snaz trained defector Valery Gerasimov about spying in the United Stales Newsweek said. Naval Spe Snaz units in min submarines infiltrated swedish Waters in 1982, the Magazine said citing unidentified Washington sources. Guards from Page 1 said the gunmen had fled but they did not find the gunmen. Ramos said he believes the gunmen belonged to the communist new peonies army which operates in the Clark area. Authorities have said they suspect the re bets of last wednesday s attacks although there has been no credible claim of responsibility in the staying. In Manila police said iwo gunmen approached con stable first class Rolando Del Rosario and a compan Ion sunday night in suburban Mandal Yong and Shoi them from close Range. Del Rosario died instantly and his unidentified companion was seriously wounded. The tabloid people s tonight newspaper said Del Rosario who was wearing civilian clothes was on an intelligence gathering Mission. It was he first killing of a policeman or Soldier in the Manila area since last thursday which capped a three Day Bloodbath in which at least 10 people in the capital were slain. The communist Alex Bongcayao brigade claimed responsibility for some of the killings bul in did not immediately say if it was behind the latest slaying. The left leaning daily Malaya quoted a senior officer in the brigade identified As Sergio Romero As saying his group expected to expand operations from assassinations to commando style raids in the near  Romero was quoted As saying the rebels expected to reach a rough equivalence of forces with the Aquino government Wilhm three to five year. Meanwhile the philippine Alliance of human rights advocates asked the supreme court on Mon Day to tree 39 people arrested the Day before in a police raid on the Campus of the give moment run poly technic University of the Philippines. Police said the detainees were spa guerrillas and supporters. But University president Nemesio Pru Dente told a news conference monday they had fled to Manila with i hair families from the Island of Leyte to escape abuse by government sanctioned anti communist vigilantes. The rights group said in in petition that police had acted illegally. It said police had a warrant allowing them to search for weapons on specific floors of specific buildings not for people and not in the building where the 39 were found. Police said they found three hand grenades in to unlocked drawer in i Cabinet in the bathroom of Pru Dent s office. But mercy Contreras spokeswoman of the rights group claimed that police planted the grenades. She quoted a University Security officer As saying he was with police when they searched prudence s office and the officers did nol Lake anything. The Manila prosecutor s office charged Prudente with illegal Possession of explosives which could Lead to life imprisonment but he remained free monday. Prudente was among the political prisoners freed by president Corazon Aquino after she look office in february 1986