European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday. March 14.1988 Republican presidential hopeful Pat Robertson shakes Hinds with Robert Sherman who works for the american atheist press during a rally for the Friendly disagreement a photo religion stressing candidate saturday at a Church in Oak Park ii Robertson is a former to evangelist who gave up his ministry to run for the presidency. Redington regains Idit Rod Lead As dog teams keep on mushing Kaltag Alaska a smoking Joe Reding ton streaked through the blackness Early sunday to regain a slim Lead in the id Tarod Trail sled dog race As the front runners reached the last checkpoint on the Yukon River. The 70-year-old Redington checked into Kaltag at12 33 . Sunday with Only nine dogs. He was Fol Lowed 23 minutes later by Martin Buser of big Lake with 13 dogs still in harness. Defending champions san Butcher arrived at the tiny Village at 2 28 ., also with 13 dogs. From Kaltag 798 Miles from the race s starting Linein Anchorage the Niu share turn West toward the coast. The next checkpoint is Unalakleet some 90 Miles away on the coast of Norton sound. From Unalakleet the teams run North along the coast open to the Region s sudden storms and raking winds. The race ends at Nome 1,130 Miles from the Start ing line in Anchorage. Redington paced the race for More than 400 Miles then lost the Lead saturday to Busch As the team charged Down the Frozen Yukon River. Buser pulled out of Galena an hour ahead of Redington and arrived tint at Nulato. Warm tempera Tures forced the two to wait until dark to leave for Kaltag. Poor communications with the checkpoint at Nulato left race officials in the dark Early sunday about the rest of the Leaden. Aspin declares of is part of my problem1 Washington a rep. Los Aspin d-wis., said sunday the air Force is part of what he called a problem in the guidance system Tor the my missile but the service says once again the weapon is reliable and accurate. Aspin chairman of the House armed services com Mittee said his panel s investigation of the 10-Warheadweapon shows there is still a problem in producing the missile s inertia measurement unit Miuor guidance system. Aspin s latest criticism of the my was contained in a speech he plans to deliver on the House floor Mon Day. A text of the speech was released sunday. Aspin has previously criticized Northrop which is building the Imus at a Hawthorne calif., Plant. Documents recently received by the House armed services committee show that while Northrop is undeniably having its difficulties the air Force is part of the problem according to Aspin s speech. He said the documents obtained from person whom he did not identify show that the sen ice considered accepting one Imu without inspecting it and also protested the use of a process exempting Small components from testing. An air Force spokesman capt. Jay Cfrank said we stand by the Imu s reliability and  be answered Many of the charges in his statement. There is nothing new  the my is the Centrepiece of president Reagan s nuclear buildup. Reagan originally wanted to build 100of the missiles and put them in silos in Wyoming and Nebraska but Congress limited the total deployment to so because of fears about the weapon s vulnerability to a soviet strike. The air Force now wants to build 50 More and put them aboard trains. Defense Secretary Frank c. Cor Lucci has said he would like to put All 100 of the weapons aboard trains. The my weapons tested thus far have shown but scr than  accuracy and the air Force has consistently defended the ability of the weapons deployed to thus far 34 my weapons have been deployed but Only 22 have the proper Imus. The other dozen still Lack guidance systems Cfrank said. Northrop has promised to accelerate production of the guidance systems and All 30 of the my weapons arc scheduled to be deployed by the end of 1988. One of the Imus cited by Aspin failed after Only 200 hours on Alert atop an my missile according to his speech. That would mean that it fell far Short of the service Standard of 3,000 hours allowed Between fail ures he said. But Cfrank said the 3.000 hours is a Standard mean time meaning it is an average. To criticize the air Force for one Imu failing is meaningless because it the mean time Between failures that is important and we re meeting that he said. . Bugged Noriega s Home Book says Washington a agents from the Pentagon planted listening devices in an apartment of panamanian military Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega several years ago but the bugs failed to pick up any meaningful data according to Book excerpts published sunday. The Noriega bugging Story is one de Tail in a widespread secret Effort by the Pentagon that included efforts to Rescue . Hostages Aid the contras in Nicara Gua and collect information on potential enemies around the world according to secret warriors inside the Covert Mili tary operations of the Reagan Era excerpted in . News & world report. The Book by the Magazine s senior editor Steven Emerson says the Pentagon set up several secret units to carry out Covert paramilitary operations after the failure of the 1980 attempt under presi Dent Carter to Rescue american hostages in Iran. It says some of the operations were not disclosed to Congress or to senior officials. The Lack of coordination that led to the failed Rescue Mission prompted the new administration to establish Snowbird to be ran by a group of men in the  s new special operations Divi Sion the Book says. Emerson said his findings Are based on a yearlong investigation including in formation from hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents obtained under the Freedom of information act. The Noriega microphones were planted in 1983 by a defense department group called the Quick reaction team which specialized in electronic surveil Lance according to Emerson. The agents initially tried to Bug Noriega s luxurious residence but they were scared off by Barking dogs and guards who opened fire the Book says. Another attempt met with better re sults the report said. Ort agents succeeded in planting a Bug in a lavish no Riega apartment but six tapes each 90 minutes Long failed to yield any significant intelligence on  the United states is now applying massive economic sanctions including freeze on Panama s Bank assets in an Effort to Force Noriega s resignation. The general also has been indicted on drug charges by a Federal grand jury. Other findings from Emerson s boo include . Officials negotiated with the Palestine liberation organization and libyan intermediaries to obtain the re lease of americans being held in Leb anon according to classified portions of private notebooks of fired Marine it. Col. Oliver North a National Security Council aide who was a Central figure inthe Iran con Ira affair. One plan which later collapsed called for $10 million in Covert payments to Sheik Fadlallah Leader of the Hezbollah organization holding the hostages and to the Leader of the islamic amal militia. At . Request the Plo actually transferred some Money to Fadlallah to get the hostages out but nothing happened. In 1983, . Intelligence identified the location of the House where five of the six american hostages were being held in Lebanon. The site was reconstructed by . Intelligence agents As part of a portable Mim Model used by . Officials to prepare a Rescue opera Tion. A detailed military Rescue Mission was planned but it was scrapped when the Iran con Ira affair began to unfold. Csc sources said the Man behind the kidnapping of the hostages was a shiite named i mad must Misc. However North said that my Gemye s wife whose relative was being held in a kuwaiti prison for terrorism was running the show. Ollie said Mughnie was going to get any sex until his wife s rela Tive was released says one excerpt from the Book. Pentagon agents who discovered that the soviets had ordered a Fleet of opel automobiles in 1983 entered the manufacturing Plant at night took apart a car and embedded a transmitter in the Frame. Agents were then Able to Trail the car without being seen. The Mission was so successful that a number of soviet agents were identified and several rus Sian codes were