European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday. March 21,1988 Angola timetable Luanda Angola a Cuba has presented the United Stales with a proposed timetable for the withdrawal of its 40,000 troops stationed in Angola Angola said. . Neg Faion left the an Golan capital of tar id Days of talks with Gormn Cal authorities on efforts to Secu e peace in Southern Africa. American officials refused to comment on the Progress of the negotiations a on he timetable. Chemist Plant fire Berkeley Heights. . A Crews safety remove seven chemical filled containers near a flame Raj and potentially explosive can pfc in the ruins of a burned cheer Recal Plant saturday Clearing the Fay for nearly 1,500 evacuees to return Home. The bum big Gas ill cd con Tainer was bund Friday in the Gollob Anar ical services Chemi Cal Plant where an explosion and fire killed Titiye men thursday and severely injured a fourth. A canis Ter thai had teen sent to the Plant for analysis caused the explosion and aul Hodacs say it May have been in Island or contaminated. Ruling overturned Minne pious a a Feder Al appeals court has overturned a judge s re ing ordering Northwest airlines a id its 2,900 mechanics in Lomci. Lion and has Given Trie air line the r Halo impost new wages and work file in a contract dispute. The 8lt . Circuit court of appeals in 2-1 derision reversed a december ruling by is. District judge Dina Murphy that enjoined North we from imposing new wages an 1 work rules and ordered the part to Federal mediation. The Aai Eilaine ruling is a defeat for the Ingerta Lional association of machinists which represents the mechanics ind had sought Tai include them in negotiations covering another 7,009 employees who operate under we other con tracts. Missile removal ends Bern a the removal of soviet ss-12 missiles stationed in East Germany has been completed according 10 terms of the .-sovt Al great Rio eliminate intermediate Range nuclear missiles the stale run Neon Agtuca Aon reported. The last train carrying soviet missile troops and other equip ment for operational tactical mis tiles of the Type otr-22 Ssu left saturday from Neubrander Burg adn Taid. Neubrander Burg is Poali of Berlin. The r Sanoval of soviet ss-11 mis Siles fro i East Germany began feb. 2i. To byte were three other ss-12 rocket sits in East Germany according to figures released after the superpower agreement was signed if december. 54 ss-12 this Sifes Wen in place in East Germany Saud armaments Wasington a the saudi a nubian government said the intermediate ranges Turda missiles 1 has acquired from the chinese will be used for defensive purposes to protect in territory and islands holiest shrines. The is Jidi information office in a Statem no to the official saudi press Agency quoted an unidentified orc la As saying that any nation hash legitimate right to de fend itself by any Means it deem necessary but that saudi Arabia would not Arm the missiles with nuclear warheads. Services order inspections of 3 for Lack  Stratford Conn. Up the army and Navy have ordered inspections of in Fleet of three models of Sikorsky aircraft helicopters at least one of which is being used in Honduras after the company found a problem in the drive Shaft that Powers the Tail Rotor. The company said it found an Anc any in the drive Shaft but Down old the inspections saying there was Iio immediate danger. However the army  the order to inspect the Juji copiers Asse  the Hal Copus in question Are the army s it Fofoa Black Hawk the Navy s version of that helicopter the sh-60b Seahawk and the cd Helo another Black Hawk Deriv the  grounded last year Rotor problem is used As resupply and medical Hal it agon due officer Jan Bodanyi said saturday thai a Black Hawk had been sent to Honduras Witti he 3,200 . Troops dispatched Tajh Jast week but she did not know How mini other Black Hawks Are in Central America in its order issued Friday the my told operators of its 950 Black Hawks to inspect the Tail Rotor output shafts within the next so flight hours on each aircraft. The Hartford Cournal quoted unidentified sources As saying the orders were prompted by the crash of a Black Hawk derivative m the people re pub of of China. Machine markings found on the Tail Rotor drive Shaft of the helicopter suggested improper procedures in the air Craft manufacturing process the sources said. The array grounded its Fleet of Black Hawks last May after a helicopter in weal Germany lost Power la in jul Rotor and was forced to make an emergency the Power loss was blamed on a faulty coupling device in the drive train which delivers Power to the Tail Rotor. It was the fifth Black Hawk to lose Power in the Tail Rotor since the helicopter was introduced in 1981, reports of nuke Arsenal assembled by India has . Officials worried Washington Dpi India has assembled a few highly sophisticated Low yield atomic bombs that can be delivered to targets by combat aircraft according to . Intelligence sources for Mer National Security Council officials and congressional staffers. Intelligence sources also said there is Strong evidence that India has developed a nuclear warhead Tor use on surface to surface missiles with a 200-mile Range. Until now the Indian government s official position Tuu been that it possessed the capability to build nuclear weapons but had not actually assembled such devices. Administration officials View with deep concern India s reported Progress in developing a nuclear Arsenal because of its historical conflict with neighbouring Pakistan. These officials fear an escalating nuclear arms Nee Between the rival hindu and islamic nations. Intelligence sources said Pakistan now has enough fissionable material to build two to three atomic bombs and is accelerating its nuclear weapons program. One analyst said Pakistan is engaged in � worldwide search for beryllium a rare natural Alloy used to encase atomic weapons and to enhance their explosive Power. Several congressional staffers or intelligence sources justified Pakistan s activities by pointing to India s actions. Pakistan s program in t taking place in a vacuum one said. On March 2, the Cia gave a classified briefing to staffers of the House foreign affairs committee on India s plutonium reprocessing program congressional sources said. But a recent report by the Carnegie endowment s task Force on non proliferation said that India s nuclear reactors could theoretically permit India to pro Duce enough plutonium for nearly 30 weapons  the report stopped Short of saying India already has stockpiled weapons but a Cia source told United press inter National India did not Stop in 1974" after it exploded its first device in May of that year. He said that the new Delhi govern ment possesses a nuclear Arsenal that is sophisticated and miniaturized Selig Harrison an expert on India s nuclear development said India is developing in nuclear option in a number of ways including development of an intermediate Range nuclear ballistic missile called the advanced space launched be  in a 1983 lest India launched a rocket with a Range of 3,300 Miles. The rocket is capable of delivering an 880-Pound War head Harrison said. He said India claims publicly that the program is for civilian space purposes but said it had obvious military implications. Harrison said he has no Independent knowledge that India has produced weapons but said it would not Surprise me Given the nuclear environment they re working  one analyst stressed however that Pakistan s nuclear program is puny compared with India a another Taid that India could produce five to ten times As Many weapons As its rival. . Officials dismissed As Loo High re cent press estimates that Pakistan Al ready has four to us nuclear weapons. They said that Pakistan s weapon weighs less than 400 pounds and is based on a chinese design. Iran fires missiles into Baghdad in response to Savage attacks i a Nicosia Cyprus a Iran said it deluding women and  launched two Long Range missiles that hit Baghdad Early sunday in retaliation for iraqi missile and air raids and claimed that 5,000 kurdish civilians died in iraqi chemical bomb attacks. In the persian Gulf Iran attacked a liberian Flag Tanker sunday riddling it with rocket propelled grenades but inflicting no reported casualties Gulf based shipping executives said. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency said the missiles were launched at the iraqi capital in response to my age attacks by the Baghdad regime sunday s pre Dawn tissue attacks came As iranians celebrated the persian new year. Iran said in a communique that the missiles were aimed at two important military Center in the iraqi capital a City of 5 million. The official iraqi news Agency reported that one iranian missile demolished an apartment Block in Baghdad killing or wounding a number of civilians in arts from both capitals in Nicosia. Fighting i both War have various types i ies and border., eruption in., Etc 29. Hun missiles of _ Jer j main cil since the la Leal the cities of civilians have reportedly died in the wives of iraqi fight pounded Iran s big chars Island Minal in the Northern persian Gulf urday leaving at least two tankers a Blaze. Iran said it shot Down three iraqi warplanes Irna reported that at least sue civil ians were lulled in iraqi missile attacks on Tehran saturday night and in air raids on the Western cities of Delful Hamadan Bak Tahran Brou Jcurd Qai Vin and Arak. The Agency quoted foreign minister Ali Akbar Velamati As disclosing that i ,000 kurdish civilians were killed and 4,000 wounded when iraqi planes chemical bombs on the towns of know my Halaja and do Jaila when Ira Nian forces captured them thursday. Irna said Vela Yali giving the figures in a letter Loun. Secretary general Jay. Ier Prtt de Cuellar critic used the United nations for failing to Force Iraq to Stop using chemical weapons banned under a iv25 Geneva agreement. The iranian gunboat attack on Ibe 84,631-ton Atlantic peace was the fourth in three Days near the Strait of Hort nut in the Southern persian Gulf. The Strait s the waterway s Only outlet. He ship was hit about noon off the Kef shariah in the United Arab Emi Raics in sailed northward into the Gulf  said. The attack Nicoals were not described but the ship was hit by several of inc shout Der Fred rocket grenades commonly used by speedboat borne iranian revolutionary guards. Iran has attacked Neutral shipping in the Gulf in retaliation for iraqi raids on Veu cts doing business with Iran