European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Side stripes d 10,000 cubans expected to come to  Page 2 g Bill Calls for redesign of . Coins Page 7 d jetliner Hijacker reportedly traced to Lebanon Page 9 g what did the o s do Don t ask Page 28 the stars and stripes amt noun. Quilic pro ran it i a Rytti vol. 7. No 7 monday april 25, 19bb Good morning f d 8693 a coast guard May get Gulf role ran an gunboat attacks saudi owned Tanker Washington api defense Sec relay prank c. Carlucci said sunday the United stain is considering sharing up its persian Gulf Fleet with coast guard ships but . Officials downplayed any immediate retaliation for an attack Sun Day on a Neutral vessel. Adm. William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the join chiefs of staff said the level of violence is much less in the attack against the saudi owned Tanker than in the mining incident that touched olt last week s . Retaliatory strike against two iranian offshore platforms. We consider our response on Mon Day a suitable response Tor the indiscriminate mining and we do not contemplate any More violence unless Iran continue what we would say is an indiscriminate and a threatening pattern Crowe said on lbs to s face the  and us you saw year old Iran Iraq War although it has used . Warships to guard american flagged kuwaiti tankers from attacks since last summer. Reagan administration officials said Fri Day the escort policy had been revised to allow the Navy Fleet to assist Neutral vessels under attack in inc Gulf. Previously the Navy was not permitted to intervene in raids on non american vessels. The expanded policy comes in he Wake of the mining of the . Guided missile frigate Samuel b. Roberts on april 14 find last monday s fighting in the Gulf where the . Heel Sank or crippled sin iranian vessels that challenged hem after the americans destroyed Tarj offshore platforms. Tie iranian attack on inc saudi owned sea trader on sunday came one Day after president Reagan in his weekly radio and lire warned Iran that continued military and terrorist attacks against non belligerents and refusal to negotiate an end to the War will be very costly 10 Iran and its  Carlucci refused to comment on see coast guard on Back Page it s a drag of Pho Charlie Simpson of Fen Myers fb., gels in Anil puff at new York i lag Irli Airport be fore boarding is Northwest air T Light. A Federal bin tin smoking on Domestic Fugn of ten than to hours went into effect saturday Tut Northwest has banned smoking on nearly All of its Domestic flights. Catastrophic failure of ski Likely Congress study finds Washington up a study by a congressional research office says Star wars is Likely to suffer a catastrophic failure on the first try because computer software to run the missile defense cannot be produced any time soon the Washington Post reported sunday. The newspaper obtained a summary chapter from the latest report by the office of technology assess ment a non partisan scientific study group of con Gress that analyses technical programs on president Reagan s cherished space based missile shield. The 900-Page report which has not been publicly released said in its Overall conclusion that despite five years and ji2 billion in scientific research Many questions remain about the feasibility of meeting inc goals set for the program. Speaking on Abc television defense Secretary Frank Carducci declined to comment directly on the report but he accused the Post of taking selected quotes and drawing its own conclusions. Carlucci told this week with David Brinkley an outside panel is looking at the program and they told me the program is fundamentally  in March 1983, Reagan unveiled what is officially called the strategic defense initiative to put futuristic weapons in space to protect the United Stales against enemy nuclear missiles. Under intensive study Are projects to place sensors and Battle stations in space that would detect hostile missiles shortly after launch and destroy them with space guns firing swarms of pellets lasers or mini mis Siles. There also would be ground based sensors and stations with systems to lire missiles or pellets to catch those warheads that got through earlier defences and were entering the atmosphere. Estimates of the Coil of 3 credible . Defense against missiles of Ai kinds Range from a Low of $40 billion Given by proponents to is trillion or More predicted by opponents. But Congress has Cut the administration s annual requests for Star wars Money by roughly 30 percent and barred elaborate tests of space weapons needed in the initial deployments. The Ota which has issued previous reports critical of Star wars said in the study that the defense sys tem Likely would not gel past its first use because com Puter software 10 operate the program ii Enol be produced in the foreseeable  the Star wars timetable that would Start deploy ment in the mid-1990s, the Ota report also said would require an act of Faith in assuming that the system could indefinitely Slop a substantial portion of soviet missile because there is no scientific evidence to Dale to support the Assumption. Jettra poliing from past i Perince. It appears to Ota that the complexity of Star War the uncertainty. Of the requirements it must meet and the novel 1 of the technology it must control would in Soe ski on Back Page North May have lied to Fri papers say Washington up1j it. Col. Oliver North May have lied to Fri agents in May 1936 to gel them to investigate his political adversaries according to newly released Fri documents and sources close to the inquiry. North told the Fri he was followed that his car was vandalized and his dog was poisoned the documents showed. After several months of investigation into the charges Fri agents came to believe North May have concocted the harassment Story to Spur a criminal investigation into several people he believed threatened to a. Pose hism Contra Aid network sources close to the investigation said. North s alleged Effort to manipulate the Fri backfired when Bureau agents eventually turned their sights on him the sources said. Oliver  executive Fri director said in sworn testimony to con Gress made Public last week that at one Point in Early 166, he turned aside a North request for an investigation of Sev eral people he perceived As political adversaries. I told him thai is what we Don t do Trevell said in the june 11 deposition to the Iran Contra committees. North whose nov. 25,1986, firing by president Reagan broke open the Iran Contra scandal was indicted March 6 with former National Security adviser John Pai Dexler on charges of conspiring to defraud tin government by divert in millions of dollars to the nicaraguan North s attorney Brendan Sullivan declined to comment on the newly re leased Fri documents. Bui the Bureau files shed new Light on the lengths to which North went to shield his secret Contra support network during a congressional ban on official . Mili tary ass Ishanee. According to the documents North met with two Fri agents at his White House office on May 9, 1986, to com Plain about harassment and surveillance from political adversaries challenging his support for the contras. The agents initially believed him the documents show. Monti told Fri agents that he was see North on Back Paga