European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 9 the stars and stripes saturday december 19,1987 world today this picture at u mounted launch tub containing an ss-20 missile appeared i the Back Page of Prada soviet Public gets its first look at photograph of ss-20 missile Moscow a pravda the communist party daily thursday printed the first photograph Ever to appear in the soviet press of the ss-20 missile one of the nuclear weapons to be scrapped under the new superpower arms treaty. A 3 to column photograph showed the tube thai contains he rocket mounted on a launch vehicle. The missile itself was not visible but was presumed to be inside the tube. The picture appeared on the Back Page of pravda along with an article lauding the soviet military s role in pursuing disarmament. The soviet Union s slate run Media frequently show Western missiles bombers and other nuclear capable weapons but they rarely show their own country s most advanced military hardware. It was the Kremlin s deployment of ss-20s that led 10 nato s decision in 1979 to deploy . Perching 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe As a coun in measure. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and presi Dent Reagan signed a treaty in Washington on dec. 8 to eliminate their intermediate Range nuclear missiles which include ss-20s and Pershing 2 mis Siles. The treaty requires each Side 10 provide the other with photographs of the missiles and launch ers to be destroyed. Reports from Washington have indicated that . Officials were not satisfied with he photo graphs provided to Date by Moscow. Pravda s Alexander or Ukhanov who visited an ss-20 missile Battery at an unspecified location said the unit is preparing o dismantle its Battal ions thus removing the nuclear tent Over entire zones of  or Ukhanov said dismantling the ss-20s and other missiles was not equivalent to dismantling what he called the soviet military s defensive  according to the Pentagon s 1987 report on soviet military Power the ss-20 can carry three nuclear War Heads a Range of 3.125 Miles. Along with the ss-4, which carries one warhead the ss-20 is the soviet Union s chief longer intermediate Range missile designed to Cany a nuclear charge. Frenchman is charged with Selling arms to Iran Paris a the president of the arms manufacturer Lechaire was charged thursday with Selling artillery shells illegally to Iran be tween 1983 and 1986, in connection with a scan dal that has been called the French Iran Alc. Daniel de Wavrin was charged with forgery influence trafficking corruption of an official and breaking French taws regulating arms sales. No details were provided on the charges but 3 military report made Public last month said la chaire sold 500,000 so Clos to Iran using documents showing false destinations. The report said government of vials in eluding president Francois Mitterrand Learned of the sales in 1984 but apparently did nothing to Slop them. It said there were suspicions some profit. From the sales were diverted to Mitterrand s socialist party. Most e. Germans return after their visits to West Bonn up the overwhelming majority of East germans allowed past he Border barriers to visit the West return on schedule a West German Cabin minister said thursday. Dorothyc Wilms minister for East West Ger Man affairs told a news conference Only 0,03 percent of the 1.2 million East germans under the pension age Given permission by the East German government to visit West Germany this year did nol go Back Home. The huge Rise in the number of East germans under the pension age allowed Oul on personal business or to visit relations in West Germany reflected the improvement in East West German relations. This traffic is without a parallel since the Wall was built Wilms said. Britain plans to replace some heavy coins London a Britain s 5 and to pc acc coins will be replaced by smaller lighter coins in the Early 1990s, Chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson said thursday. The new 5-Pcncc Coin will resemble the old 6 Pence and the 10-Pence Coin will be similar to the exist ing 5 Pence. Lawson the Treasury s top official also said in a written statement to the House of commons that one Pound Bills will tease to be Legal tender after March 11. 2 Germany Swap spies for 2nd time in week Bonn up East and West Germany in their second spy Swap of the week thursday exchanged another group of convicted agents at a Northern Border crossing Point. The official East German news Agency adn con firmed the Exchange of sin agents three from each Side. West German attorney general Kurt Rebmann said there were seven agents involved with four being freed by East Germany. On tuesday East Germany traded five men and a woman imprisoned for espionage for three alleged East German spies imprisoned in West Germany. Intelligence experts said the agents swapped on tuesday and thursday were of minor importance. Adn said thursday s spy Swap took place near inc West German town of Herle Hausen. West German government chief spokesman Fried Helm Osl said the Exchange was done for humanitarian reasons. He declined to provide any details in keeping with his government s policy on espionage matters. Rebmann told a news conference at his Karlsruhe Headquarters that the West German Side released three men who had recently been sentenced in West Ger Many As agents for East German intelligence. He identified them As Fritz Brose who had been sentenced to three years and nine months Gerhard Kuphal sentenced to two years and three months and Klaus Doeblitz sentenced to one year and three  names of the convicted West German agents released by East Germany were not revealed. Some were said to be in poor health As a result of Long confinement. The agent Exchange had been negotiated by Ludwig renting or for the West German government and by East Berlin attorney Wolfgang Vogel for East Ger Many. Both Are veterans of Many spy exchanges. Rehlinger an official of West Germany s ministry for East German affairs has been purchasing prisoners from East Berlin since 1963. Vogtli played a role in the dramatic Berlin Exchange of captured . U-2 surveil Lance plane Pilot Francis Gary Powers for convicted soviet atom spy col. Rudolf Abel. West German  catches an aver age of 25 East German spies a year. Greenland wants film to verify undersea a bomb Copenhagen Denmark up Greenland said thursday the United sinks must produce a 19- car old under water film said to show a . Nuclear bomb lying on the Ocean floor off the world s largest Island. If it is Correct that the film shows an unexploded bomb we will demand that the americans remove the device said Hans Pavia Rosing a social democratic Deputy in Greenland s Home Rule parliament. The bomb was one of four on Board a . Air Force b-52 bomber that crashed near Thule a . Air base in Northwestern Greenland in 1968, following the train . Authorities said the conventional charges on the Hydrogen bombs had detonated shattering each of the casings and causing them to disintegrate. But recently a danish naval officer said that an underwater film taken from an american rain submarine flown in to carry out sea bed tests after the Accident had shown that one of the Bombi was still intact and lying on the Ocean floor. A danish nuclear specialist la. Oil. Niels Erik Jacobsen. Said it was possible that one bomb had not disintegrated and had fallen through the ice with the rest of the wreckage that Sank. Jacobsen said such ii device would hardly detonate by itself but did not Rule Oul that i could deteriorate leaking plutonium. However another nuclear expert. Huge Lund Gjorup said that if an unexploded Hydrogen bomb had been observed on the Ocean floor off Greenland the americans would have removed it Ages  Rosing said Greenland had asked the danish foreign ministry to approach the state department to request thai the film be brought to Denmark for viewing. The request was to be discussed Friday by a danish parliamentary committee