European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 16, 1987 the stars and stripes p Rogers wants tactical nuke upgrade says . Should resist weapons cuts in the retired nato com lion of 108 perching ii Rock cos nato has deploy Din Range weapons is of great urgency i w. Rogers conceding defeat in West Germany. These missiles can hit targets in the he said nato must Washington a commander Gen. Bernard w. Defea his Battle to Block a treaty Banning intermediate nuclear missiles say Western governments must move quickly to modernize the 4,600 nuclear weapons they will re Linin Europe. He olso is urging the Western Alliance to say no if soviet i Catler Mikhail Gorbachev Suffi ests the further step of Climi Naling nuclear capable aircraft. Since the soviets have twice As Many of those plan Sand an offer would appear to be a magnanimous Ges Ture it would be very hard politically for some i governments in Western Europe perhaps Cven for Obrown administration to give that offer up Rog i Era said. Rogers in an interview in his temporary Post retirement office at the Pentagon amplified the Blunt criticism he has been aim _ ing for months at the so Rogon called euro missile agreement president Reagan plans to sign when Gorba Chev comes to Washington on dec. 7. While Reagan s advisers and most senators see the pact As reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world Rogers denounced it As a first step Down the Slippery slope of european de nuclear nation under mining deterrence against the soviets Large armies and air forces. Rogers a former army chief of staff capped his 44-year military career with eight years As supreme Allied commander in Europe. None of his predecessors including Dwight d. Eisenhower spent More years in the Job and none of them departed As bitterly As Rogen who accused the Reagan administration of casing him out because of policy disagreements notably on the missile act under the planned agreement All missiles with ranges Between 313 and 3,125 Miles will be banned requiring the soviets to dismantle about 1,500 warheads White the United slates gets rid of about 430 warheads. In Rogers View the thief danger will be the Elimina Tio 8 Perchin deploy d in we soviet Union As quickly As 13 minutes after launching a capability that strikes terror in the hearts of Kremlin planners Rogers said. That fear he said deters aggression. We re giving up the one weapons system the Sovi ets feared the most the Pershing ii which kept the credibility of our deterrent High he said. Shorter Range weapons that will be retained will be less of a dec Neil because Youj have 1o Sirick them where the soviets feel pain not just Rolund Easi inc Musny Czecho Slovakia and other non soviet Warsaw pad countries. Believe the soviets won t give a Damn How Many nuclear weapons we use on those countries with intermediate Range nuclear weapons an atomic War could theoretically be confined to the european Battlefield without such weapons n conflict in Europe would quickly escalate to a global conflagration he said. Rogers acknowledged that despite his opposition the Senate already is inclined to ratify the plan even though negotiations to Complete the treaty arc still going an. Being very pragmatic about this sort of thing accepting the world As it is not As you wish it  it s important to focus on what nato should do next to maintain its deterrent Rogers said. His first advice is to beef up nato s conventional forces in Europe equipment such As tanks defensive weapons aircraft and other equipment and increase manpower on the theory that bigger Western armies would make a soviet attack less Likely. Given the Western economic woes however the chances of such improvements Are slim and none Rogers said. In fact defense spending in die United slates Britain and other major nato countries is declining. Rogen said he was especially upset that . Negotiators declined to press the soviets to make reductions in their conventional forces Asa condition of the missile pact. That was suggested o the negotiators but their reaction was the soviets won t buy it so we won t flit. So they applied what i Call the principle of pre Emp Tive concessions Rogers said. The most realistic necessity now is o modernize the up to 4,600 Short Range Neckar forces that nato decided in 1983 to keep in Western Europe. With the  Range weapons gone the need to improve these Shorter they sure Don t make pm like they used to an Are Abate biplane shows a sophisticated Jet fighter its smoke Trail As it Raa Kri a High flying pass. At Rob tic act Chris Speron soars Bis Pitts special biplane Over a Royal australian air Force fm-18 Honwyt in a Man Euver during an Aerial Parade to promote the australian grand prix which who held sunday at the grand prix Cir Cuit in Adelaide. Rang is of t urgency Rogers said. H flies deploy a successor to inc near obsolete Lance nuclear missile. The Lance can hit targets up to 70 or 80 Miles away. The new missile should have a Range of a least 150 Miles Rogers said. Improve Ajr to surf acc missiles so thai aircraft can stand off from the Battlefield and fire Rock cos Capa ble of hitting targets at least 150 Miles Distant. Modern ii the cannons that fire atomic shells. Improve inc defences that protect aircraft capable of dropping atomic weapons. Rogers said be is afraid trial if grf Echev jus after the agreement is signed on the 7th of december were to come Forward and say or. President we be made great Progress in eliminating inc longer Range and Shorter Range intermediate nuclear forces let s make some More let s eliminate dual capable aircraft indeed in what appeared to be the move Rogers we re giving up the one weapons system the soviets feared the  Gen. Bernard w. Rogers feared. Polish Leader Woiciech Jaru Rylski said in an interview with the Washington Post thai the soviet bloc is prepared to negotiate reductions in its tank forces in return for cuts in nato s bomber aircraft. The Best of incs aircraft on the . Side arc atomic boat capable f-111 jets based in Britain. Once the missiles Are withdrawn these planes will be the Tasi thing we begot that can penetrate soviet defences Rogen said. Even with improvements in the remaining nuclear weapons Rogers said the systems left after the missile treaty won t create the kind of perception of disadvantage in the minds of the soviets. It s not a question of the number of warheads. The question is after the agreement will Nat have the weapons platform that can propel nuclear War Heads against sufficient militarily significant soviet target to conjure up the perception of pain in the soviet  the answer to that is no Rogers concluded. 3 indictments reported in killing of drug agent los Angeles a three people were indicted in the 1985 slaying of a . Dig agent but word of the action was delayed to avoid upsetting .-mexi can treaty negotiations a newspaper reported sat urday. A Federal grand jury in May secretly indicted the three a High ranking mexican Law enforcement offi Cial a reputed drug trafficker and his Cousin the los Angeles times said. The charges were to have been unsealed two week Sago the newspaper said quoting unidentified govern ment sources but they were held up by associate at Torney general Stephen 5, Trot because of fears the Case would upset .-mexican negotiations on a Mutual Legal assistance treaty. Trott refused to confirm or deny thai the indict ments had been returned saying that id do so would be illegal the times reported. He said however that Justice department officials would not sacrifice the Case for approval of the treaty. Enrique s. Camarena a Guadalajara based agent for the Federal drug enforcement administration was kidnapped at gunpoint outside the . Consulate in Guadalajara on feb. 7, 1985. Two hours later. Alfred Zavala Avclair. A Pilot who had flown missions for Ca Marena to locate marijuana Fields was abducted at the Guadalajara Airport. Nearly a month talc their bodies showing Evi Dence of extensive torture were found in Zamora Mexico. The times said the three who were indicted were Armando Pavon Reyes a mexican Federal police com Mander who headed the investigation into Camarena s kidnapping Rafael Caro Quintero whose organization allegedly lost billions of dollars in marijuana because of investigations led by Camarena and Dro Quintero Cousin tics Calderon Quintero