European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                G senators say allies Back . On arms negotiations Page 2 g motherhood is Best women s poll Linds Page 4 o three ports eager to claim mighty mo1 Page 5 g bomb damages Plo boat waiting to carry deportees Page 9 aut Mohite unofpici1l Puli Tion pol the . Adm1d of tit vol. 46, no. 303 wednesday february 17, 198b 06693 a Waldheim says he won t quit Tes Ai syrians is conscience is Clear Vienna Austria up presided Kurt Wold Heim defiantly told austrians his conscience is Clear in the face or accusations he committed War crimes As a German army officer although he like others of his generation fell under the machinery of  in the clearest sign yet he mends id remain in office despite Calls for his resignation. Waldheim said Mon Day in a television address i the nation "1 can Only answer the dirt from my opponents finally with a Deni Al 1 have a Clear  Waldheim. Silling in his 1 sch a Iury office with an austrian nag on his desk again denied he committed crimes As a German army lieutenant in world War ii saying my accusers come with Mare and More charges and have always promised inc evidence. But the proof did nol come. There is no  the War years were a Billr Lime of learning which i Haven t talked about or wanted to talk about said Waldheim conceding that although he tried As Well As possible to reconstruct his War Pasi much too much remained open. "1 have great respect for the heroes and martyrs of this time Mil icy were As always in history Only a few he said. We others in my generation fell under he machinery of the  in an interview with Abc news Wald Ctm once again denied the allegations and apologi7cd to his see Waldheim on Back Page a confirms Iran has drone Nicosia c yes a1 Iraq said monday Hal its go dvrs downed two iranian drone planes ithe Southern Sec Tor of the War front confirming for the first time that Iran is Ushin pilotless reconnaissance aircraft. The official iraqi news Alevy Mon. Stored in Nicosia said both Dron i were downed sunday night. It quoted i named military spokesman As saying vie first plane crashed in iranian Lernlie and the second in Iraq. On sunday. Iran reported thai it on . Helicopters Hying ahead Ofa Voy of re flagged kuwaiti ships Eppu Rcd through the Tersian Gulf by american vessels. The Pentagon said it Jan no Evi Dence of the confrontation. J Iran recently reported to fun Home built drones have been successfully tested and Hal its War factories new were working on drone tighter Plaros. It was not Clear from the iraqi a Ioctl if the drones reportedly downed by been manufactured in Iran. F iranian officials had boasted Hal inc drones Wouch Boom the country s air Force. Ira or .-supplied air Force is outnumbered by the iraqis by an a i ratio. / Ira has had difficulty finding spare Par Flur its warplanes because of Sanc Tifis imposed on the islamic Republic after militants so Orrl the american embassy in Iran a november 1979 and held 53 Amoric Pio slags for 444 Days. Western i Mary analysts say Iran has 60 to 70 to Rerng warplanes. In raft weeks iranian Warp Linci have Jpn Active in the War with Iraq sugar filing Iran May have bought some of fir Force needs on the Black Market. Iranian officials also say Iran now makes its own version of the chinese Iii do Long Range surface to surface mis s and other projectiles As part of a the toward self sufficiency. Tru stepped up Affons to manufacture its  after the United states propos Jvan International arms embargo of Iran lab acc its rulers to agree to a . So curotto Council Call for a cease fire in the 7-yv-Oldgulf War. Iran c1aimcdxasl weekend that its forces opened Dijt fire on . Navy helicopters that  recon Naissance operations tiday ahead of a a Onvy of ,-flagged kuwaiti ships in the Gulf forcing the Amnaj an helicopters to flee. Rut a Pentagon spokesman Washington denied the report. We have no reports. That indicated that event occurred said . Air Force maj. Randall Morecr. A palestinian Points in the so where he says he and three other arabs were buried alive by israeli soldiers. The burial ground incident reportedly occurred Frt. 5 after t rial. The Knell array says l a tory on part 3. British Palace guards tantalized by tourists London a tourists Are harassing the  formed in lyrics at St. Jami Palace according to lawmakers who want the government to do some thing about it. I have quite often seen pretty tills pulling heir arms around soldiers on duty outside is. James pal Ace while their one Nodi Lake leasing photographs of them said legislator Harry Greenway. Sometimes they hug the soldiers round the neck and squeeze them it requires the patience of Job for a Young Soldier not to react angrily or indeed in any other Way he said. At Buckingham Palace Queen Elizabcth ii s offi Cial residence sentries were moved in the 1960s from outside the Gates to the Courry Aid. Where the Public cannot enter after one Soldier got fed up with being pestered and banged the Bull of his Rifle on a woman s fool. Out there s no courtyard at is. James Palace which houses Toun officials and is less famous and tourists can touch the sentries there if they dare. Greenway and sir John Biggs Davison said they will raise the matter in parliament. Biggs Davison said he will ask Home Secretary Douglas Hurd for a police report on Steps being Laken to Stop sentries being  it is very unfair Hal soldiers have to endure these unpleasant attentions without in any Way responding and in is not Good for inc dignity of Royalty or. For that matter the army Biggs Davison said. Greenway said tourists also bothered the horses of mounted sentries on duty at the hone guards in Whitehall the Center of government offices. I have often seen tourists prodding the horses with their fingers he said. That is not Only most unfair and demeaning but highly dangerous too