European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                28 the stars and stripes Friday february 26.1988 Navy Supply ship leaves Crete 2 Hurt in protest 1rakuon, Greece is a . Navy Supply ship sailed on schedule thursday afternoon after an Ami-. Demonstration at the Harbor on the Island of Crete in which a Sailor was injured a Navy took Tasman in London said. The Sailor and a merchant Seaman suffered minor injuries in the proles that broke out at 6 . Wednesday against the combat store ship Saturn which was decked in iraqi Ion Harbor the spokesman said. The associated press quoted a port authority spokesman As saying four islanders also were injured when pro Eslora sprayed american go Home in red paint on the ship s Side hurled Boll fes rocks and flares and Cut one of die mooring cables. The . Sailors tossed bottles and rocks thrown at the ship Back into a crowd of More than 1,000 gathered on the  a. The Navy spokesman in London said he could not verify the incidents in the a report. The Saturn docked at Iraklion Al 7 . Wednesday to pick up fresh fruit and vegetables far 6lh Fleet ships in the Mediterranean he Navy spokesman said. Along with the air base near Iraklion there Are air and naval facilities for is. Warships Al Souda Bay in we slim Crete Greece and the u nit cd slates Are currently engaged in negotiations on inc future of . Military facilities in Greece. Though prime minister Andreas Papandreou has indicated he May be willing to allow american bases to slay in Greece Afler that Date in return for increased military and economic Aid inc Small but influential pro Moko communist party has Ali dtn.110 oppose any such move. Reagan won t forget hostages from Page 1 nista government of Nicaragua and said the soviet Union has doubled military assistance to the nation in the first two months of this year Over i987 Levels. He provided no figures. Said he has not decided whether to Tell Congress that Aid should be resumed to Panama. He has to certify thai Panama is helping in anti drug efforts hut Gen. Manuel Noriega Panama s military Leader has been indicted on . Drug trafficking charges. Reagan passed up several invitation of criticize israeli action against Arab protesters on the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. We. Don t support that sort of  was As Strong a statement As the president would make but he added quickly that there is evidence Hal the riots that provoked an israeli military crackdown were not Ponta  asked to elaborate he said we have had information hat there have been certain people suspected of being terrorists outsiders coming in and stirring up the trouble in Hose  he ducked a request for More information replying that to say More would gel into areas that violate  the subject of associated press correspondent Terry Anderson nearly three years in Captivity and the older american hostages in Lebanon arose Early in the 30-Minutc nationally televised question and answer session. We be never let up and we never will in trying to bring Freedom for All our hostages Reagan said. Asked about Robertson s claim on wednesday that his Christian broadcasting network had once known the location of some of the hostages and inc administration May have missed a Chance for a Rescue the president said "1 can Only say this. Ii would be very strange if he did have information. In t it strange that no one in our administration was apprised of it Robertson s comments came at an Atlanta news conference during which he complained that . Intelligence in the Middle East is inadequate and declared that action must be Quick when americans Are taken hostage a Robertson aide said later that the former television evangelist was referring to passengers who had been taken hostage by hijackers of a Twa flight in the Middle East. We identified in our news department at can the location of those hostages in Lebanon very shortly after they were taken and they were in a position where they could have been rescued Robertson said. They were in Beirut and they could have been  Robertson did not provide specifics and did not say which hostages were involved. Reagan said we have tried our Best and through every find of Channel o establish their the hostages whereabouts because that s the beginning of Effort to try and get them free. It s very frustrating to try and establish a location. Reagan said. But we be never let up and we never will in trying to obtain the Freedom of All the hos  asked whether he had told the Reagan administration what he knew the former television evangelist said i broadcast it on National television they Monitor our programs virtually every  later in an interview on Atlanta radio station West Robertson said the information about the hos tages was obtained by � can Attili Ald to station in Lebanon. My reporters in Lebanon had information initially on where these hostages were taken he said. Robertson said that was several years ago when the first hostages were  Roberts from Page 1 of witness Hal in fcb urary 1987 the Chain of com Mand at Roberts former unil pressured him to Stop seeing Neumann and planned to have him charged for various Alk cd transgressions triggering his Odyssey to inc East two Days later. During the court martial proceedings on the Deser Tion charge. Shaver argued thai intending to return to the West was not enough because under military regu lations a deserter is defined As someone who intends to remain away from his unit. He also portrayed Roberts As seeking to elude Mili tary authorities when he returned from Moscow to Frankfurt last november because of concern for the pregnant Neumannn and because he got tired of his Job on a soviet Snake farm. But Kuby Anil capt. William Gade military defense attorney said Roberts tried to Lum himself in but was hampered by what they called bureaucratic inefficiency by . Slate department personnel in Bonn and military officials Al the . European come in Stutt Gart. Roberts testified that on the night he and Neumann arrived in Frankfurt on an Aeroflot flight from mos cow he first contacted the embassy. After several delays he was referred to Neucom where a military official allegedly told him Hal since it was almost Midnight it was too late to do anything just then but that Roberts Sho ild get his butt to the Frankfurt my station first thing in the  Roberts and Neumann were picked up shortly afterwards by a military police investigator As they win Dow shopped in the Sachsenhause District of Frank Furt. Pauley took Only 20 minutes to deliberate on the desertion charge before handing Down his verdict of not guilty. The court then began hearings on sentencing for the awol charge during which Sciaver tried to show thai morale in Roberts former unil plummeted after new of his flight to the soviet Union became known. Kuby and Gade effectively countered that by getting capt. Benjamin Ivy former commander of Roberts Battery to admit that the unil took top honors in a Balla Lionide inspection shortly after Roberts had left. In final arguments on the awol sentencing. Shaver pushed hard for the maximum penalty. But Kuby said a longer sentence than the four month Roberts Al ready had spent in the Philadelphia Navy Yard big was unnecessary to deter other gis from going to the soviet Union and ending up on Snake farms. Kuby said the easiest solution was to put Roberts out of the army. La i Clear he s not Cut out for that life Kuby said. The army does t need him and he docs t need the  Pauley apparently agreed quickly handing Down inc bad conduct discharge with no elaboration. Roberts was scheduled to sign out of the big in Philadelphia thursday afternoon and Complete paper work processing Cade said. He could be free to return to Germany As Early As Friday. F-15 unit in Iceland wins air superiority award keflav1k, Iceland is the 57ih fighter in Lecce poor so. Has been named the air Force s top air superiority unit for 1987, a spokesman for the Iceland defense Force said thursday. This is the third time the Iceland based f-15 unit a captured the Hughes trophy which since 1953 has been Given annually to the air Force s lop air superiority unil. Said chief Pelly optic or Dave Evans. He said the Black knights of the 57th won inc award in 1970 Hying the f-102 Delia Dagger and inc f-4c phantom in 1976, the award is based on operational performance readiness and achievements Evans said. In 19s7 the 57th had More Active air defense scrambles than any of her air Force unil. Evans Jaid the s7lh intercepted some 134 aircraft Many of them soviet aircraft entering the Iceland military defense identification zone Evans said two people from the unit were cited for their achievement in 1987. Pilot maj. Mark de doll was picked As the 1st air Force flight commander of the year. Capt. Or Hal Richardson the unit s flight sur Geon was Given the military Airlift Cornel s Jolly Green save of the year award Evans said. Richard Soa flew is search and Rescue missions with the base 67th aerospace Rescue and recovery so Del 14. Richardson ii credited with saving five lives in 187. Evans said the 57th s other achievement included various exercises and deployment including uie nato exercise Ocean safari in the nor begun set he said the 5tlh helped with identification and surveil Lance of soviet aircraft dying against Allied naval forces. The 57th was also awarded the Tae Airlift come night safety award for its safely record for 1987. Maj Gen Jimmie v. Adams the 1st of commander presented the Hughes trophy to the s7lh earlier in the month Evans said. Missiles from Pago t scene said the containers were packed wild parts of dismantled 552 rockets and mat the train s destination was the soviet Union where the missiles were to be destroyed. Scores of East German soldiers were also on hand for thursday s ceremony. Thank god they re leaving said one East German army lieutenant refer ring to the soviet missiles. For the pail four years 1 have had to accept being u possible target of a Western  it is Good the rockets Are going added Iona Hammil a 31-year-old kindergarten teacher. No one jokes to live near military Largis. Thai is the same everywhere. The rockets withdrawn from Bischo Swerda were Shorter Range ss-12 missiles which Are covered under the .-soviet treaty. Fifty four ss-12 mis Siles have been based in East German at four separate Sites. Missiles also were being removed thursday from one of the other East German Sites. In Czechoslovakia the state run ctr news Agency said �0 soviet bloc report ers watched the removal of ss-12 mis Siles from Tranice. More than Iso reporters travelled to Bischo Swerda a town of some 12,000 people not far from inc czechoslovak and polish Borders in Southern East Ger Many to watch the missiles departure. Another group of Western reporters travelled to Kaaren about 60 Miles Northwest of Berlin for a similar Cere Mony. Western diplomats expressed Skepi cism about Thun Day i ceremonies. They said that until the superpower treaty goes into effect there Are no forma provisions far verifying How Many missiles arc with drawn. Until the arms treaty is in place there is no Way of confirming what we arc seeing and what we arc being told is actually what it All appears to be Aid one Western Diplomat