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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, November 6, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page o the stars and stripes Friday november 6, 1987 major iranian offensive predicted Washington us l . Intelligence Wiiki a say Iran k Pri paring in launch a huge land of Trimm " Ign Insl Iraq Early in m year and the iraqi Iii line already has curbed air attacks in or Para Linn for repelling Llic Nuis Ivl ground assault. Taif sources said  although the United Stales Isnoel assisting Iraq in any tactical missions if  government is fed .-gathered Intelli gence that includes reconnaissance satellite derived data and photos from sophisticated High Altit Despy planes. They said evidence shows Iran is busily con St i Ling Supply depots and storage facilities and improving its logistical transportation. The belief that such activity is a prelude to an attack is widely shared by experts in virtually All . Intelligence services. An administration official said the severity of the new attack will depend on How much munitions and equipment Iran has been Able to store since the Las offensive a year  the associated press reported that the iranian government said millions marched in its cities cd it ulay. Chanting death 10 America on the eighth anniversary of the Day a mob stormed the . Embassy a d seized hostages who spent 444days in Captivity. Hashemi a Sfanjani speaker of Iran s parliament declared a week of mobilization to con front american  iranian leaders joined the marchers on Tehran s avenues. The official islamic Republic news Agency said More than i Mil lion people marched in the capital the a reported Roberts fro i Page 1 Fin the slip Doss the Border into East Germa Trunka rented car seven months  Rowls who was assigned to Accra when he defected to the by in Eberlin told the Assoc weeks an he was prepared logo trial on Curges of desertion. Since in he had been in consular of ficus at the . Embi acid said hews charged with Betout leave Fruci his unil but no serious crime Debenion. Neumann is expecting and Tass said tic couple India by was the prion by Factor leave. There Are no  Roberts As swing registered and she band is in West Sci up there were difficulties of our child in Washington i mediate comment on Thi whether Roberts . Military custody., generally when control he in attach of the offence Anil commander what disposition the commander Lar duty its court martial Roberts was declared absent from his unil Germany on m Ritner and Dro april 2. Neumann were living Ash Kaif the Central asian of Public of fore their return to to Bow Sev n Westem Bas two to face with con in Moscow absent with ill the More baby any Day her pregnant air decision to lives the Agency lir marriage is not i. Besides her Hus and in Ashkhabad. F registering the birth agon declined imme report or to say been taken into i returns to military a amt for investigation Igon Slement said. The ides on a be by Case basis normally return to regu Ipar Alion or  incl i Nini Stratioti Hout leave 2 and was i from the declared army s Rolls Robert bad Capil turkmen Cral week Robert of Riverside calif., has said face defected Drusche disliked military Serenk and Hud Pul two years two months and 28%ys when i left the army base in Gissen Ger Many. Cla Ifield and iranians Chanti no death to America March in Tehran on he anniversary of t he taking of the us embassy. Talks set on . Bases in Greece Athens Greece a foreign minister Carlo Papoulias on wednesday said upcoming negotiations on the future of four United Stales military bases Here will be Long and difficult because of diametrically opposed views on the Issue it is nol easy for either Side especially with com ments made by the . Side. We have a climate of diametrically opposed positions Papoulias said. Negotiations for a new agreement on the . Mili tary installations begin monday. Both countries have already formed negotiating teams. American officials have said they Are interested i drafting a new agreement by the end of 1987 and would Tike to keep regional politics out of the  current five year agreement ends dec. 31, 1988. The bases arc a key Issue for Premier Andreas Papandreou s socialist government which came to Power in 1981 pledging to shut Down the installations an pull Greece Oul of nato. His government signed a five year base Accord in1983. At the Lime Papandreou asserted the bases would leave when he agreement expires. But relations Between the two countries have since improved and Papandreou is now willing to negotiate a new agreement that will be subject to a National referendum enc the Early 950 s the United states has oper ated four military bases in Greece to near Athens and two on the Southern Island of Crete As Well a 20 smaller installations around the country. Stark bound for Mississippi for repairs Mayport is Fla. A the Stark left its Home port wednesday for Pascagoula miss., where it will undergo repairs some six months after 37 Crew men died when two iraqi missiles slammed into the frigate in the persian Gulf. The Stark has been docked at Mayon since Early a gust when it returned after preliminary repairs in Bahrain. The frigate is expected to spend about a year a Ingalls shipbuilding where it was built in the Early 1980s. It was expected to arrive there saturday. The vessel was scheduled to leave tuesday but rough seas caused a delay. Only a handful of the Crew s family members Gath ered at the pier to watch the Stark Sicam away. The families of the Crew arc very upbeat about what s going on said Maureen Noll wife of the Slark s skipper cmdr John Noll. The Crew will perform some of the repair work while the ship is docked at Ingalls including structural re pairs and replacement of equipment Tost in the missile attack. The ship s combat information Center and its electronic defences and weapons were destroyed. So far $41 million in contracts have been awarded to Ingalls and Sperry corp., which will rebuild the electronic combat systems. The total repair Cost is expected to reach s142 million. After repairs Are completed in August or september the ship will return o Mayport the ship was attacked May 17 while on routine patrol in the persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain. The iraqi government claimed the Jet Pilot who fired the missiles mistook the Stark for an iranian ship. Newsman Wellington Long Dies Bonn up wow a Cimer Bureau manager of uni cd press Merna wednesday of liver cancer. He was 63. His wife use said there Wou that her husband s  be buried in a Bonn cemetery Jmc Nai months. Bri 1924 As the eldest son of a farm Bumon kan., became one of the Bucsi own foreign political correspondents in West Ger Many after world War ii. He was really1" mall Wesr said Hoben up executive who knew Long Well. He cbverctrmmii0" world War ii to sports to  As a 22-Ycar-Oid during . Army and was posted to Europe t try unil in Belgium and then As a military i after his discharge in Berlin at the end of the War. Long signed on briefly with the stars and stripes and Hen Swilch cd to up. Today in stripes Magazine  
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