European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page z the stars and stripes sunday november 15.1987 Nevis update Frankfurt fire suspect Frankfurt a prosecutor said Friday a 26-year-old Home less Man started inc fire thai destroyed the Frankfurt opera House. Officials identified the suspected arsonist Only As Michael a a homeless Man from the Frankfurt area. Temperatures , Abuaun trim an Flo Afalla minis dry Banora november 13 i la 51 39 62 o 68 x 24 18 64 30 Jur aau Kansas City Lai vegas of Mangham Bismarck Boish Boson but Lalo bundt Casp c. Of Wunej a . Do let a we Fiji Diwi Denver in Mon Detroit cd Jun Alpaio feb anti fwd Itao Hrefna Houston indu Nazaba Jackh Iwu. Jdc Ungria 69 si53 33 54 46 g4 32 54 35 52 38 48 39 76 59 is 47 47 4253 40 67 52 a 34 in tar in in Low 4 37 a duo. 3 00 Oma cd 41 37 to 37 b4 50 w in ing. In i Certeza Soldier drowns after Canoe Accident Vicenza Italy a Soldier drowned near Bassano in Northern Italy saturday morning following a Canoe Accident a Southern european task Force spokesman said initial reports indicate thai the Soldier and three companions were canoeing on a Stream near Bassano when the Craft capsized Sec. Jaime Cavazos said. The other three swam to Shore and sum or cd help. All four soldiers were stationed at Ca scram Ederle in Vicenza Cavazos condition and names of the surviving soldiers were unknown saturday he said. The name of the dead Soldier will be withheld until next of Kin Are notified. Italian authorities Are investigating the Accident he said deserter seeks discharge instead of court martial by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington pvt. 2 Wade Rob erts the array deserter who recently re turned from the soviet Union has re Quested a general discharge instead of a court martial. Army officiate said. But Roberts ii still being held on charges of desertion and no decisions will be made until an investigation into the events surrounding his defection is Complete said Dick Dowling a spokes Man at fort dts n j. All options Are still open including a court martial he said Friday. Roberts a 22-year-old former combat Wireman is assigned to the personnel control facility at fort Din bul has been moved to inc Philadelphia Navy Yard Brig Dowling said. Our facility is Only meant for Short term detention less than 72 hours he said. That s Why he was transferred to an investigator has been named to begin a routine article 32 investigation which Dowling compared to a civilian grand jury hearing the article 32 investigation determines whether there is sufficient cause to prosecute Dowling said. Roberts asked a military magistrate wednesday Tor a chapter 10 discharge separation for the Good of inc service which is often Given in lieu of a court martial Dowling said. That request has been noted he said. Roberts also asked to be transferred to a less secure facility at fort Din a request that was denied because the magistrate Felt he was Likely to flee if Given inc Dowling said the slow process of re solving the desertion charge is continuing it will continue for some time be said. This in t something that will be wrapped up next week Roberts went absent without leave from his unit in Gic Ssan Germany on March 2 and was listed As a deserter a month later. On april 1, soviet officiate said that they had granted Asylum to a . Army Soldier and his German girl Friend. The two were identified As Rob erts and Clra Neumann. Roberts was picked up by military officials in Frankfurt nov. 4 after arriving on an a Roffol flight from Moscow Wita Neumann who was Svi months preg Nant. She remained in Germany when Roberts was transported to the United Stales. Navy s 2nd test of loser beam destroys Jet powered drone of longer distance by Norman Black a military writer Washington an experimental High Energy laser system was successfully tested for a second Lime last week against a Jel powered drone this time at an extended Range the defense department said Friday. The lest conducted nov. 2 by the Navy at the White Sands missile Range in new Mexico saw the laser system successfully engage and destroy a drone target missile in flight a Pentagon statement said. The distances involved were not Dis closed but the statement said the Range to the target was twice that of the first lest which was conducted on sept. 18." the laser beam quickly destroyed vital components of the missile which then went into a spin and Steep dive into the ground. This engagement further demonstrates the potential for lasers to provide a defense against fast moving targets the Pentagon said. The Pentagon had announced the re sults of the first test on oct. 5, describing the Navy s september Experiment As the first instance in which the so called mid infrared advanced chemical laser had been fired against a flying target. Pentagon and Navy officials described the latest test As essentially the same a the sept. 18 Experiment except that the laser was fired a greater distance to strike the Jet powered drone. Navy cmdr. Bob Prucha. A Pentagon spokesman said the Range Altitude Impact time and other details of the Experiment were classified although not part of inc Star wars anti missile research Effort the Nav work has been described by the Pentagon As the most realistic to Date of the potential damage thai can be inflicted on a missile by a laser the Navy experimentation is pan of the so called balanced technology Initia Tive an Effort to determine if lasers can be used to defend surface ships against missile attack. The used by the Navy however is also Bong Stu died by Star wars scientists. The laser being tested by then by uses a chemical reaction to produce the beam of concentrated Light and was developed for the Navy by try inc. The laser itself is coupled to a beam director built by the Hughes aircraft co., and the laser and beam director Are oper ated with a control system developed by Uniss the Pentagon said. Goria resigns As italian Premier after liberals pull out of coalition Rome a Premier Giovanni Goria resigned saturday after the tiny Liberal party pulled out of his coalition government. President Francesco Corsiga asked Goria a fellow Christian Democrat to stay on As caretaker a communique from the presidential Palace said. Corsiga can ask Goria to try to form a new government. If Goria fails in such an attempt Corsiga would then Consul with political leaders before giving the Challenge to somebody else. The government the nation s 47lh since the end of world War ii was formed on july 28. Even without the liberals Goria s 3 Mottoh old coalition has a majority in parliament. The liberals have one cab inet Mim ser. Defense minister Valeric Zanone. In addition to the dominant Christian democrats the other coalition parties Are the socialists social democrats and republicans. The decision to withdraw from the government was announced by Liberal party leaders Friday night after a 4yj hour meeting at party Headquarters. We have Ait a our representatives in the govt rom Ltd 10 submit their Resig nations party Leader Renato Altissimo told reporters. The liberals said a meeting earlier in the Day of Leaden from the five coalition parties failed to persuade them la slay in the government. Goria also made a vain Giovanni Goria last minute Telephone Appeal to Altissimo. The liberals a conservative party that got 2.2 percent of inc vote in june elections claimed the government s revised budget plan had broken in earlier agreement by emphasizing increased taxes rather than budget cuts. The plan was found to be weak in confronting the structural problems of the italian Economy in a such a difficult moment Altissimo said Friday night we maintain that an extra Effort should be made toward greater reduction of the deficit and Public fhe budget plan was revised because of the worldwide Stock Market crisis and the fall of the Dollar which makes italian exports less competitive. The new plan rewrote the 1988 budget proposal to project a jsb.4 billion def Cit. The first version of the budget with a target deficit j93.s billion for next year was rejected by the Senate s Budorf com Mittee oct. Al on grounds it was t Tough enough to Deal with the of Mccu of the world financial crisis. The new budget proposal also Post pones by one year a scheduled Cut i income lax rates and reduces the number of deductible items
