European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n Robin no Hood fans insist Page 3 d Texas realtors Center of aids dispute Page 5 o Mcaa nit basketball tourney Fields Are set sports Page 21 q contras have problems with no . Aid Page 2b Mito Uku Miculs  cont . Muir Rotti vol.46.no.33d tuesday. March 15, 1988 Good morning t d 6693 a Reagan urges ski support Washington upi1 president Reagan Mon Day warned thai a failure of Congress to support his Star wars anti missile program would leave the United slates dangerously unprepared la counter soviet advances thai could pointed the Way to a future where peace is based on Security rather than  with myriad technical questions still unanswered Reagan said ski is justified nol Only on its possible merits but also As a response to a tar More ambitious soviet Effort dubbed red shield by the administration. Reagan not Only pointed with alarm Al the much larger soviet investment some 1s times the Cost of the . Program said by experts to reflect a Range of related air defense programs the United Stales has forgone or abandoned but said it shows the Kremlin my be preparing to Brent out of the 1972 anti bal Islic missile treaty which bans deployment of abm systems. In that eventuality he said without ski we would be dangerously  snowbound in St. Anton a Gall no station in Slanton Austria sits Burud under noun runs of Irish Snow monday after  on sunday round Donn on the ill Mart Itman killing at least seven people. In All 10 people Vete kill to by Malk Mclim Orer the we end. 11 win the wont Winter sports death toll for a single weekend in Austria in decades. See Twy pig 8. Army to use Armor made of uranium to upgrade Abrams tank Protection Washington up the Mia i Abrams main Battle tanks soon will be protected with Armor made of uranium whose radioactivity has been exhausted and the move will result in a significant improvement in . Non nuclear defense capabilities the army said monday. The steel encased depleted uranium has 2vi times the hardness of steel and has a Broad spectrum of civilian uses the army said in a Pentagon statement. The Abrams upgrade represents a significant enhancement of . Conventional defense  giving the tanks significantly better Protection Hie statement said. Welded into the tank the depleted uranium will have a very to level of natural radiation Well within the acceptable Range set by the . Nuclear regulatory commission