European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 38 the stars and stripes sunday. February 14,1938 . Provoked ship collisions Admiral says Moscow a two . Warships were Violat ing soviet territorial Waters ignored warning from patrol Craft and a Siule dangerous Maneu vers thai led to the collision in he Black sea a soviet Admiral charged saturday. Rear . Nikolai p. Markov appeared it a a Slimy called news briefing to give the first detailed Kremlin version of the incident that happened Oft the crimean Peninsula Fri Lay. In which american warships were grazed by two soviet Navy vessels. On Friday night the defense ministry accused the american vessels or violating soviet Waters but it did not mention any physical con acl Between in Chi and soviet ships. . Navy officials said the guided missile Cruiser Yorktown and the destroyer can were deliberately bumped while scr citing i hair right to Pasa through inter National Waters. However Markov and foreign ministry spokesman Gennady 1. Gerasimov told reporters thai the . Warships were knowingly violating soviet Waters and he i j the collisions were the fault of he american captains. Unlike the United stat which claims a three mile territorial limit the soviet Union claims a 12-mile limit along its Aast. Can Utkov said . Ambassador Jack Matlock was summoned to he foreign ministry saturday when Dep Uty foreign minister Alexander rend him a Strong protest. The soviet Udo cannot but View the actions of the United states Navy As aimed at undermining the process if improvement in soviet american relations which has appeared Gerasimov said quoting from the Trottm. . Navy cmdr. Kichard Scruff a lawyer said Friday in Washington thai any country claiming a 12-mile territorial limit must allow for innocent passage by the ships of All but Markov and Gerasimov said soviet Law docs not provide Tor the right of innocent passage in Black sea Wain which hit soviets have longed claimed As their own. Markov repeatedly asked to specify what he meant by dangerous Maneu vers sail the american warships had news briefs Senate fact finding group meets with italian Leader Rome a a delegation led by Senate majority Leader Robert c. Byrd . Met saturday with Premier Giovanni Goria on the final leg of a visit to assess european concerns about the new superpower arms treaty. The european leaders want the United slates to push ahead with talks aimed at curbing chem ical and conventional weapons but agreed that nuclear arms had to remain part of any credible deterrent. Underground nuke test conducted by soviets Moscow Al the soviet Union on sat urday exploded a nuclear device underground that May have had a yield seven times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiro Shima reports in the official Media indicated. The toss news Agency said the nuclear test was staged Al 6 0i . Moscow time with a View to upgrading military Tass said the latest nuclear explosion had a yield of Between 20 and is Kilotons. Militia group in Lebanon releases 8 seamen Beirut Lebanon a eight seamen from Denmark Poland sri Lanka and Trinidad seized by a Christian militia seven weeks ago were freed saturday along with the ship Cap Tain s adopted son. After their release they boarded a ferryboat that set sail from the Christian port of Rounich 12 Miles North of Beirut heading for Warnaca Cyprus. With them aboard the ferryboat was old Custrup danish charge d affaires in Damas Cus Syria who took charge of them after i hair release. He said the freed sailors were three Danes three poles a sri lankan and a trinidadian plus the danish ship Captain s j 9-year-old son. This map showing . And soviet tubal routes in the Black so was displayed during the Mccow briefing. Been warned both before and Waters. He said the two soviet warship identified by Penta gon officials As a Krivak a class frigate and a Mirlea class escort boat were on a basically parallel course with the . Vessels when inc grazing occurred. The larger Krivak Closs vessel brushed the left Side of the Yorktown while the Caron we grazed on the same Side by the escort Craft uj5. Officials said. Both . And soviet officials have said the grazing caused no injuries according to the Chart the american warships travel ing eastward entered what soviets claim arc their Territo rial Waters about 11 . Moscow time South of Sevastopol Headquarters of the soviet Black sea Fleet. Markov said that at one time the Twa american ships were just 9.2 Miles from Shore. He said they remained in the area following the glazing. The Yorktown left the area Al 12 21 . Moscow time South of the resort City of Yalta and the Caron sailing North of the Cruiser followed about a half hour later according to the Chart. Al last notice the two . Vessels were Back to Rou Tine operations in inc Black sea Navy copt. Gerry Flynn said Friday in Washington. 2 More a est Nivans killed Jerusalem a two palestinians were shot and killed by israeli soldiers Friday in the Ecsi Bank and two ethers apparently preparing a homemade bomb were injured saturday when it unexpectedly blew up military officials said. Scattered protests were reported throughout the ecu pied West Bank and Gaza strip. The daily a Dashut newspaper reported that a secret group uniting palestini an guerrillas moslem fundamentalists and communists was leading the unrest. A military official said israeli soldiers weren t involved in the explosion that injured the two palestinians in Gaza City. An Arab reporter in Gaza City said Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim 23, suffered band wounds and Mah Moud Nimr Mohammed Elhalaby. 24. Had head and Chest injuries. They were brought to the City s ahle Arab Hospital. Gaza City was paralysed by a commercial strike the reporter said. Black flags of mourning and palestinian flags which Are outlawed in Israel flew from Many Power Lino and poles he said. In one Arab mosque a moslem preacher called on worshippers to continue inc uprising with knives stones and clubs and beware of the Arab run Palestine press service reported scattered protests and Stone throwing incidents in different parts of Gaza City and the Gaza strip As Well As in a Mullah and Hebron and Arab East Jerusalem. Four people in Gaza cily suffered beating injuries and one Arab was wounded by army gunfire the Agency said. The army command said it had no information about any protests in the occupied lands. It described the situation As the army said it lifted a curfew imposed nine Days ago on the Wei Bank town of tul Karem 37 Miles Northeast of Jerusalem. About 10,000 palestinians live there. More than 20,000 people remained under curfew in the nearby tul Karem refugee Camp and the Village of Anabu and in the Caia strip s refugee Camp of Dir Al Solan. The daily Hada Shol newspaper quoting unidentified sources said Friday that Arab unrest is being coordinated by a secret group of is people comprised of representatives from different factions. Two Arab teen agers were killed when protest flared after noon prayers Friday in the Central Nasr mosque in Nablus the West Bank s largest City. Hospital officials identified those killed As Basil Taysir Al Japan 14, shot in inc head and Bashar Al Maori 17, shot in the Chest. Story on Gays leads army to pull and Chicago a the army withdrew a full Page advertisement from the february edition of student lawyer Magazine because the Issue featured an article on homosexual Law students the Magazine s editor said Friday. The decision to pull the and came shortly before a Federal appeals court on wednesday overturned Asun constitutional the army s ban on homosexuals editor Sarah Hoban said. The cover article in february s edition of inc mag Azine a publication of the american bar association is titled the Legal the piece by chicag Ofree Lance writer Lynn Miller is an examination of homosexual Law students and contends that anti Homo sexual fears and prejudices arc common in Law schools and within Many Law practices. In a note to readers Hoban said the writer had encountered Many people who were afraid to discuss homosexuality. In the note she said an advertisement had been withdrawn from the Issue but she did not identify the advertiser As being the army Hoban told the Chicago Tribune on Friday that the advertiser was the army and that the and had been withdrawn by the army s new York based advertising firm. Young & Rubicam. Hoban said she suspected that the army might be bothered by inc article so she had her advertising director Contact Young & Rubicam and Tell the firm that the article would appear in the february Issue. Young & Rubicam then withdrew head. They did t threaten us she said. They just said they wanted to pull it. Al s their right though pm sorry they did it just a week before Sec went into production for this Young i Rubicam could not be reached for com ment by Telephone late Friday. Calls after business hours to the Agency s Chicago and new York offices went unanswered. It. Col. John Cullen. Chief of Public affairs for the army recruiting come Al fort Sheridan ell., said Young & Rubicam consulted the army before deciding to pull the and
