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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. March 27.1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 missiles gone East Cirman maj. Thomai Drc Haupl opens doors of a former sol let Bangar in the City of Waren to show Western journalist that it ii comply of soviet missiles. Withdrawal of ss-i2 medium Range missiles from East Germany was Cortil Tatj last sunday the site will become a Holiday resort for workers. Eisenhower pondered nuke strike expert says Hoston a documents de classed in recent years show thai the Eisenhower administration consid ered a nuclear strike in defend the tiny islands of Quemoy and Matsu Agai nil communist China a historian says. Cordon h. Chang writing in the Spring Issue of International Security Aboul chinese rivalry Over the islands said the documents show Ilia Eisenhower. Was privately determined to defend the islands and to use nuclear weapons if necessary according to one recently declassified document one senior aide in the Eisenhower administration suggested that atomic bombs be dropped from time to time on Quemoy and Matsu if they were captured by communist forces. Thai proposal was rejected by Secretary of stale John Foster Dulles. There were also reports in 1984 and 1�8s, based on declassified documents that president Eisenhower considered using atomic weapons to defend South Vietnam in 1954 and 1955. Eisenhower actually brought the country to the nuclear Brink far closer to War than a distraught Public feared in 195i," said Chang who works at the International strategic Institute at Stanford University. Consideration of a nuclear attack began Little More than a year after Eisenhower conditionally approved a plan in May 1953 to end the korean War with 3 full scale military attack that might have included the use of atomic weapons against the chinese. When the chinese began shelling Quemoy in sep tember 1954, acting Secretary of defense Robert an Derson alerted Eisenhower to the intensity of the attack an inc nationalist held Island. The crisis was defused on april 23,1955, when pre Mier Zhou in Lai announced that his government was wilting to negotiate with the United states. A former senior Counselor who agreed to discuss Chang s article1 Only if he was not identified confirmed thai Eisenhower had considered using nuclear weapons to defend Quemoy and Matsu. He said the tentative plan called for several atomic bombs of 10-is Kilotons Aboul inc yield of the bomb that destroyed the japanese City of Hiroshima to be dropped on the coastal air bases situated in populated areas. Eisenhower and his aides recognized thai civilian casualties could number in the  Chang cited an excerpt that he said records the sub stand sofa match 28. Ii5. Discussion Between Dulles and Robert Bowie head of Eisenhower s policy plan Ning staff on the advisability of dropping atomic bombs from Lime to  or Bowie advanced the idea thai we might serve notice that if the Chicots communist chinese took Quemoy and Matsu we would in future from Lime to Lime drop a bomb on them in order to neutralize them and give the Chicots no advantage by their capture. The Secretary disagreed saying that this would be a considerable waste of armament and we would accomplish nothing but inc killing of a number of harmless fishermen whom the Chaco is would put on the Island in such an event said the excerpt remains reportedly used As teaching Aid Atlanta up  Are remaining silent Aboul report ibs the body of a Navy Pilot shot Down Over North Vietnam nearly 21 Yean ago was used As a teaching Aid in a medical school an Atlanta newspaper reported. The Atlanta journal Constitution said the Case involves i. Cmdr. Edwin Tucker a fighter Pilot based aboard the air Craft Carrier Bon homme Richard Tucker died shortly after the Vietnam Ese shot Fink tic crusader Jet out of inc skies Over Hon Gay cily on april 24, 1967. Tucker was flying ahead of eight bombers that had targeted rail lines when he was shot Down the Pilot s remains were rep aleut nov. 25 after family  officials agreed not to due wac details about the Caie that might Embarrass of Jet fighters intercept 2 soft Anchorage Alaska up. Force Jet fighters intercepted two soviet bombers flying along Alaska s Aleutian Island Chain in the North Pacific Mili tary officials reported thursday. Two air Force Al 5 Eagle Jet fighters were launched from their King Salmon base on the Alaska Peninsula to head off iwo soviet Bear h bombers flying near Alaska in the midday wednesday encounter said master sol. George Craw Ford of the Alaska air come at enc Dorf air Force base in Anchorage. Crawford said the closest Law preach to american soil by the  was 128 Miles South of a Tuftan Island in the Middle of Sheajr Titian Chain where the United  a naval air Sta Tion that erics As inc base for Navy plane Bunting soviet submarines the intercept Mission required midair refuelling by Kc-u5 tankers based in Fairbanks Crawford said. Radar detected the soviet planes entering the . Ajr defense identification zone without notification. Vietnam was buried March 4 with full Arlington National a cutlery. I Case has inf urial Fow-m1a movement the new spa ported. They claim in demonstrates the Lack of bargaining Power the United states has in dealing with the Vietnam Ese and the Lack of Good Faith and a to of the vietnamese. We knew All aiomw0ff"tney were doing with  could t do any thing alb Uhrt Taid one source familiar a who requested anonymity. La Kuy thong press officer at the vietnamese Mission in new York said he had no specific information about the Tucker Case or any of four other sets of remains that were returned at the same time. Tucker s family has refused to discuss details of the Case. After the funeral a Brief summary of tucker1 Downing was distributed by the Navy but in made my ablution of use of Tucker s a Cluj or on Tucker s  in a Nar Ive of the Case written we joint casualty Resolution cent Waii. The narrative was presented Sevi times to the vietnamese during meetings on the pow-m1a Issue. We have received numerous accounts which slate that an american Pilot was captured near Hon Gay City and taken to the City Hospital where he subsequently died of his wounds the narrative reads. The  after his death  prepared and used As Juri fing Aid in the medical Ang Ninh province in Hon. Inc narrative continues. _ hese reports were provided by person formerly associated with either the medi Cal school or the Hospital and were received Over a period of several  la. Cmdr. Scott Wilson a Navy spokesman refused to comment on the of the misuse of Tucker s re Schneider a spokesman for he  Agency which anal Yzer was on american servicemen still Urrih Wund for in Southeast Asia also on inc Tucker Case. Soaked but Safe firefighter reel Verwoerd holds Wel Cul for he and Bia ten from tie hirer Wal sral a neral european Ihm Conlogue rescued ii from i to thursday in opt Cowrt Bare overflow Irir Banki because of Henry rainfall and Netherlands the at had climbed be tree to escape flood netting mow  
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