European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. November 24, 1987 the stars and stripes pm to ease . Costs pay o Page 9 Tovi al1 the japanese govt run Caw inc financial Inglai of . Forces in Japan in sharing More labor costs Al i a. Bases the mass circus Lalion newspaper Asahi Shishun reported sunday. It said that prime minister Tohoru Takeshita will announce Japan s position on the matter when he vis its Washington in january Anil that  a United slates later will Start Nigolia in0tfp4tcion of the 1952 .-Japan mul of nearly $5.9 by Liq a Fol dial expenditures for the . Militar a lpns the United Stales now pays i in Japan does and Washington expects " is sir Tel Masulli . " lans. Lor the first time to pay Park sew bases starting in fiscal of tsp Nheb Calliel i. Under t around Japan while japan1ttwith bases and other facilities. Since fiscal i97s. Japan also has agreed to share the costs for welfare some allowances and retirement pay ments for japanese workers at . Military installations in Japan. The newspaper said Basic pay for the workers totals $444 million a year. Japanese workers at the . Bases arc paid in yen. Fits risen nearly 80 percent against the . Dollar in two years. That has swollen costs on i s. Bases in Japan where More than w of h american military personnel Are stationed. Day Day Olf. Government officials were not a\7rwimmjlimenl on the a Sain   War As an instrument of settling  and ban maintenance of land sea an Jaffa will As other War  _ Lull Japan s Security treaty with the United states authorises . Military basis Ini Japan and pledges  support in the event of an Attaei of Japan. Cessna that Shook the soviets French novelist Jean Loup Sulitzer walks under the Wing of the Cessna 172 that West German teen Ager Mathias rust landed in Moscow s red Square last May. Sulitzer who says he bought the plane because it is a Symbol of peace put it on display Friday Al be Bourgal Airport outside Paris to pay homage to rust. Rust 19, was convicted of violating soviet airspace and the youth was sentenced on sept. 4 to four years in a labor Camp. German ships in nato med exercise for 1st time by Robert j. Willaard aboard the destroyer Barney a a morning Crew. Tonight we re Gonna shoot up the Fri drug. Well not really of  the Bridge microphone fed capt. Frank j. Mccaff cry s voice throughout the . Navy guided missile destroyer As it leu the French port of Toulon and fell into place in a seven ship nato Convoy. That night Dud shells and tracer ammo from the Barney and five other ships rained onto the Wake of the Freiburg a West German Supply ship sailing a few Miles away. To casual observers it was another War game. But for the planners of the recent High seas shootout it held both military and political significance. The Barney and six a Thor surface ships three West German one turkish one British and one ital Ian were taking part in the semiannual deployment of nato s naval on Call Force Mediterranean. The task Force usually is comprised of ships from Italy Greece Turkey Britain and the United slates. But this year West Germany contributed ships to Anat Mediterranean exercise for the first time malt ing the Force the largest Ever to sail under the Nat Flag. The deployment of German naval ships is. A contribution to support those allies who maintain the Freedom of shipping in the persian Gulf Region an official West German statement said. German Law forbids Bonn to Send warships beyond nato s Borders. The deployment is a Clear gesture of Solidarity by the Federal Republic of Germany with our allies and a contribution to support those allies who Are maintain ing the Freedom of shipping in the persian Gulf re Gion the statement said. The Freiburg the destroyer moelders and the  have sailed before in the Mediterranean but always under German command. The recent monthlong deployment of nato s Mediterranean task Force put them and the other four nato ships at the command of adm. Sergio Majoli. The italian commander of naval forces under nato s Allied forces Southern Europe. Called the naval on Call Force Mediterranean the task Force was first formed in 1970 to meet growing soviet naval activity on nato s Southern flank. Soviet ships deployed in the area for Only Short Peri ods in the 1960s. Now Majoli said they operate in groups with logistic support ships such As lenders oilers and repair  nato thinks Moscow s naval presence in the area has stabilized at some 40 ships seven to nine submarines eight to 10 surface ships and up to 20 support ships. This makes it a Force comparable to the . 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean from which ships have been sent to the Gulf. Nato s Mediterranean task Force was deployed oct. M when the five participating navies committed seven ships to nato command. For four weeks it performed anti submarine air defense gunnery Anda replenishment operations throughout the Mediterranean. To show what it says is its deterrent nature the taskforce always comprises frigates and destroyers not air Craft carriers or submarines that Are offensive in nature. The task Force s operational language is English. But. In radio communications the Bridge of the Nic Der Sachsen pronounced the code name of its ship Leopard the German Way . Causing some confusion on the Bridge of the Barney. And although they sailed under a single command the Force s ships do not fire uniform is cd ammunition. Some fire 5-Inch shells others 4.5-Inch, revealing a continued Lack of arms standardisation that nato Secretary general lord Carrington has called a  nato has Long harboured Hopes Hal its Mediterranean task Force May one Day become a permanent standing naval Force in the Mediterranean with ships rotating in and out continuously. It now has two permanent naval forces one in the Atlantic Ocean. The other in the English Channel. In contrast the Mediterranean task Force is deployed twice a year and then disbanded. Hut Natt officials privately Sav the Chance of permanent Mediterranean naval Force coming into being soon is slim because of political problems on the Southern Hank. Turkey and Greece have joined occasional Mediterranean task forces in years past but they have also in recent years issued threats of War against each other. Another problem is France and spam which Are not part of nato s integrated military command even though their forces join some nato exercises