European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside 3tribe8 n anti terrorism policy hailed by Shultz Page 3 g boy scouts to allow women in leadership posts Page 5 d new air Force one is rearing completion Page 6 n family sends Valentine to hostage in Lebanon Page 8 the stars Autho Ltd unofficial pu1lication ran the . Aimed vol. 46. No. 301 monday february 1s. 198b d 8693 a soviets blame . For incident claim american ships ignored warnings on Ihu United Stales and said inc . Warships violated soviet territorial a ices. Ignored warnings hmm patrol Cra Anil made dangerous  a spokesman Tor the foreign ministry Gennady i. Gerasimov called the incident in the Black sea a military provocation and likened it to he i960 Downing of a 2 spy plane that farce cancellation of a superpower Summit. Soviet anti aircraft units downed tic spy plane Pito cd by Francis Gary pow ers on May to i960, near Sverdlovsk. The resulting uproar doomed a meeting planned that year Between soviet pre Mier Nikita a Khrushchev and presi Dent Eisenhower. We Hope that this will not hinder the process of improvement in soviet Amer ican relations Gerasimov said. Cie Asimov and rear adm. Nikolai p. Markov appeared at a news briefing to give the first detailed Kremlin version ofic grazing of the . Cruiser Yorktown and destroyer Caron by two soviet ves Sels. The soviet defense ministry on Fri Day night accused the american vessels of violating Sovic Waters but did not mention any physical Contact Between so ill rear adm no Koltl p. Int kor Denis bumping was intentional. Them and soviet ships. . Navy officials said the Vork Lown and the Enron were deliberately humped while exercising their right to pass through International Waters near the crimean Peninsula. But Markov and Gerasimov told re porters the . Warships were knowingly violating soviet Waters and that the collisions were solely the fault of the american captains. If we took Back at history always when there is a tendency toward improvement in our relations we ice some military provocation Gerasimov said. Gerasimov said . Ambassador Jack Matlock had been summoned to the foreign ministry saturday morning where Deputy foreign minister Alcan Der  read him a Strong proles Over the Black sea Inci Donl. The soviet Side cannot but View the actions of the United states Navy a aimed at undermining the processor improvement in soviet american relations which has appeared recently Crasi mov said Reading from the protest. Unlike the United states which claims a mile territorial limit the soviet Union claims a 12-mile limit along its . Richard Schiff a Navy lawyer see soviets on Back Page join favors chemical arms deployment Munich a a Gen. John Gaivin said saturday that new Oil weapons should be deployed in Europe and not held in readiness in the United Stales. In an interview with the Munich based Soddy Ulscht Zeitung. Should be statio0cdji ii Lull i my fat h mail with an agreement Between that jailed states and West Germany not to replace aging chemical weapons stored Here with n new Genera. Tion of binary chemical weapons. S Al shape were unavailable _ is to his Posin among nato allies. Wet Phi if these objections cannot be resolved then have to find an alternative. Thai alternative appears to be not to station the weapons in Europe he said. Chancellor Helmut Kohl foreign minister Hans Dietrich of Escher and other West German officials re Paw destruction of horse Jungmann. A Security expert for the opposition social democrats on saturday criticized Golem s1 comments and the . Decision to build the weapons decision to begin production of binary i mfcjlltfltilhi1 " a pm Rachi Vingan agreement Lull of new Al  near future Jungmann said in a radio tin Burg. Iraqi missile passes near . Destroyer in Gulf  Washington invt a cruise missile launched by an iraqi aircraft passed close loan Ameri can warship in the i Crisian Gulf saturday night before veering away and exploding on the horizon according to the defense department and press reports. The . Destroyer Chandler had gone to general quarters just before the missile was launched and was within a minute of firing at the incoming missile and possibly the iraqi plane a senior officer aboard the ship said Juit How close the missile came was not Clear and a Pentagon spokesman said he had no further information. _ a state department spokesman said no official re action was expected sunday regarding inc incident. Last May 37 american sailors aboard the frigate Stark were killed after an iraqi Pilot fired a French built exocet missile at the ship. There have been other incidents Over the last year in which american warships patrolling the persian Gulf have been endangered by warships or warplanes of Iran or Iraq the Navy has 18 warships in the persian Gulf now and nine outside the  saturday the Chandler and the frigate Reuben Jama were on Convoy duly shepherding two Oil tank ers and two natural Gas carriers from inc Strait of Hor Rouz toward Kuwait at the time of the attack they were in inc Central Gulf about 10 mites from the War zone declared by Iran. A report written by a member of the Pentagon press Pool aboard inc Chandler Norman Kempster of the As Angeles times snid the iraqi plane a Soviel built Ledger bomber tame up behind the Convoy about 9 . And was spotted by the Chandler s radar operators. The ship s Captain cmdr. Sieve Smith said he was immediately wary because iraqi pilots often fire Ai radar blips without making sure whal i hair targets Are. Thai had apparently been the Case in the Stark episode. Having watched inc geometry of i hair attacks for some time the Captain said i was concerned thai he would be firing his missile while he was heading to Ward  said he tried to warn the Iraq Pilot away by radio but he apparently did not  that Point the complain said the Chandlers mis Siles and its Shalant galling guns were ready to fire. When the iraqi plane did not change course Smith said he ordered two flaw fired. than a minute later the iraqi plane changed course and headed away from inc Convoy. Within seconds however the iraqi plane launched see missile on Back Page Winter olympics open Page 21 v ,.- -. F a "