European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Rogers wants tactical nuke upgrade says . Should resist weapons cuts Washington a the retired nato com Mander Gen. Bernard w. Rogers conceding defeat in his Battle to Block a treaty Banning intermediate nuclear missiles says Western governments must move quickly to modernize the 4.600 nuclear weapons they will retain in Europe. He also is urging the Western Alliance to say in if soviet in scr Miki Iai Gorbachev suggests the further step of eliminating nuclear capable aircraft. Since the soviets have twice As Many of those planes i and an offer would appear to be a magnanimous Gas i lure it would be very hard politically for som governments in Western Europe perhaps even for our own administration to give that offer  Rog i in said. Rogers in an interview in his temporary Post retirement office at the Pentagon amplified the Blunt criticism he has been aim i ing for months at the so Rorers called eur missile agreement president Reagan plans to sign when Gorba Chev comes to Washington on dec. 7. While Reagan s advisers and most senators Sec 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 Rogers who accused the Reagan administration of easing him out because of policy disagreements notably on the missile  the planned agreement All missiles with ranges Between 315 and 3,125 Miles will be banned requiring the soviets to dismantle about 1.500 warheads while the United states gels rid of about 430 warheads. In Rogers View the chief danger will be the Elimina Tion of 108 Pershing ii rockets nato has deployed in West Germany. These missiles can hit targets in the 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 in giving up Ine one weapons system inc Sovi ets feared the most the Pershing it which kept the credibility of our deterrent High he said. Shorter Range weapons that will be retained will be less of a deterrent because you have to strike them where the soviets feel pain not just Poland. East Germany Czecho Slovakia and other non soviet Warsaw pact countries. I believe the soviets won t give a Damn How Many nuclear weapons we use on those  with intermediate Range nuclear weapons an atomic War could theoretically be confined to the european Battlefield without such weapons a 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 Are still going on. 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 the United states Britain and other major nato countries is declining. Rogers said he was especially upset that . Negotiators declined to press the soviets to make reductions in their conventional forces As a condition of the missile pact that was suggested to the negotiators but their reaction was the soviets won t buy it so we won t Fly it. So they applied what i Call the principle of pre Emp Tive concessions Rogers said. The most realistic necessity now is to modernize the up to 4,600 Short Range nuclear forces that nato decided in 1983 to keep in Western Europe. With the intermediate Range weapons gone the need to improve these Shorter they sure Don t make pm like they used to an acrobatic biplane shows � sophisticated Jet fighter its smoke Trail As it makes a High flying pass. Aerobatic Ace Chris Sperou soars his Pitts special biplane Over a Royal australian air Force f/a-18 Hornet in a Man Euver during an Aerial Parade to promote the australian grand prix which was held sunday at the grand prix Cir Cuit in Adelaide. Range weapons is of great urgency Rogers said. He said nato must deploy a successor to the 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 at least 150 Miles. Rogers  it Wyr 2r-o-irf�r? Miil Nitri Irrer i can stand off from the Battlefield and fire rockets Capa ble of hitting targets at least 150 Miles Distant. Modernize the cannons that fire atomic shells. Improve the defences that protect aircraft capable of dropping atomic weapons. Rogers said he is afraid that if Gorbachev just 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 the longer Range and Shorter Range intermediate nuclear forces ifs make some More let s eliminate dual capable aircraft indeed in what appeared to to the move Rogers we re giving up the one weapons system the soviets feared the  Gen. Bernard w. Rogers feared polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski said in an interview with the Washington Post that the soviet bloc is prepared to negotiate reductions in its tank forces in return for cuts in nato s bomber aircraft. The Best of these aircraft on the . Side arc atomic bomb capable Al 11 jets based in Britain. Once the missiles arc withdrawn these planes will be the last thing we be got that can penetrate soviet defences Rogers 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 nato have the weapons platforms that can propel nuclear War Heads against sufficient militarily significant soviet targets to conjure up the perception of pain in the soviet mind 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 . Drug agent but word of the action was delayed to avoid upsetting .-mexi can treaty negotiations a newspaper reported sat  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 weeks ago the newspaper said quoting unidentified govern ment sources but they were held up by associate at Torney general Stephen s. Troll because of fears the Case would upset .-mexican negotiations on a Mutual Legal assistance treaty. Troll refused to confirm or deny that the indict ments had been returned saying that to do so would be illegal the times  said however that Justice department officials would not sacrifice the Case for approval of the trealy. 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 Avelar a Pilot who had flown missions for Ca Marena to locale marijuana Fields was Abdul cd Al the Guadalajara Airport. Nearly a month later their bodies showing Evi Dence of extensive torture were found in Zamora  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 loss billions of dollars in marijuana because of investigations led by Camarena and Caro que Mac to s Cousin Ines Calderon Quintero