European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Blair earns Gold medal sports Page 21 d Dukakis talks Tough about terrorists Page 5 o Darmstadt getting my battalion Page 9 o to viewers comment on or. Ruth Page 13 Thestel  tin official Quilic Tion of Tut . Aimed Ift vol. 48, no. 310 wednesday february 24. 1988 Good morning t 06693 a Reagan names aide As Secretary of Navy by Norman Black a military writer Washington president Reagan tuesday named White House lobbyist will Ball to be Secretary of the Navy As inc administration offered support Tor defense Secretary Frank Carlucci against criticism by Ball s predecessor. If confirmed by the Senate Ball will succeed James h. Webb who abruptly resigned monday with a blast at Carlum and his attempts to curb Pentagon spending. The budget restructuring under Way at the Pentagon now is a difficult and painful process said while House spokesman Marlin Fik water. Secretary Carlucci is doing an admirable Job. He s quite capable and suitable to the task and he s carrying out Hie president poli cies in that  Ball s nomination requires Senate confirmation Carluci says he would continue to Cut the size of the military in any future Budge reductions rather than readiness see aide on Back Page Reagan pledges to keep troops in Europe Washington Lupi president Reagan pledged tuesday that the United states will keep its troops in Europe and maintain its nuclear umbrella Strong and up to Date in the defense of the Atlantic Alliance. In an address broadcast on world not and the voice of America As a prelude to a Summit meeting in Brus Sels next week with nato Heads of slate Reagan told his european audience an attack on you is an attack on  declaring that the new arms agreement eliminating superpower land based nuclear missiles with a Range of 300 to 3,400 Miles is a Victory for nato and recognizing that ii has caused some worry about soviet military advantages the president said the approximately 4,000 nuclear weapons that will remain in Europe Ana Strong link Between the pillars of nato As arc the More than 300.000 american servicemen and women who live and work in  in said the tactical Battlefield nuclear weapons will stay where they arc until we can achieve a better balance of conventional forces on the  Reagan said the United slates remains steadfastly committed to the nato strategy of flexible response and we in the United slates will do our part to ensure that nato maintains Alt the Modem forces both conventional and nuclear needed to uphold that strategy we americans will do our part in keeping the Alli Ance Strong Reagan promised. Our troops will stay see Europe on Back Page Swaggart to undergo 2-year rehabilitation Alexandria. La. A repent ant television evangelist j Immy Swaggart must Stop preaching for Ihrcke months and undergo two years of rehabilitation including counselling Church leaders decided alter questioning him about his sexual misconduct. We accept his confession of specific incidents of a moral  Cecil Jan Way Louisiana District superintendent of the assemblies of Iod said late  Day night. Based on his detailed Rente Sion and the evidence we Obs Cru d of True humility and repentance we have offered him rehabilitation Sec related Story flit Polk 3.  made inc announcement Afier Swaggart met Here for More than nine hours with the stale Council of the nation s largest pentecostal denomination. The executive presbytery of inc 2 Mil lion member denomination in Spring Field mo., can approve or modify the rehabilitation plan said Everett Stan House assistant general superintendent. Swaggart made no comment As he left Alexandria late monday nor As hear Rived in Balon Rouge on his twin engine Saa Swaggart on Back Page trial of defector Roberts opens today of fort Dix by Chuck vim h you Hington Burciar Washington Phi. 2 Wade Rob erts the former army combat Wireman who defected to the soviet Union with his German Girlfriend almost a year ago is scheduled to go on trial today at fort Din. . Roberts. Inc first . Soldier to defect to the soviet Union since inc Vietnam War will be tried by general coun  Nal for desertion. He faces up to three ears in prison if convicted. Ronald Kuby a new York City lawyer who is Roberts civilian defense attorney said in a phone interview monday that the 23-Jcar-old san Bernardino calif., native is being unduly punished because he fled to a communist nation. He said he doubts his client can gel a fair trial at fort Dix. Kuby based his comments on the fad that Mai Gen. Rocco Negris commander of the sprawling Post in South Central new Jersey rejected his own investigating officer s preliminary recommendation  Roberts be tried by special coun Nanial. Which would have tarried a maximum sentence of sit months and instead opted for the harsher general court martial there were 1,048 soldiers processed for awol or desertion at fort Dii in see trial on Back Page Good Knight Cap Farmer defense so Ury Caspar Weinberger Sham off Bil honorary Knighthood Ensign a the badge at the order of the British Empire Ltd the Knight grand Cross after a cer Emony tuesday at  pm ice. With Weinberger ii i wife Jane. See slur on Page 1.