European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Authoh1zcd unofficial Uhic Tio of pfc Tel . Ahmed pm Rcpt /.i.on-, d 6693 Avol. 47. No. 8 tuesday april 26, 1988 inside stripes d 10,000 cubans expected to come to . Page 2 d nation sell at risk Over schools Bennett says Page 5 n Ike augments Navy s might in Mediterranean Page 9 d what did the o s do Don t ask Page 21 it s a drag Charlie Simpson of fort Myrre Fla gets in a anal puff t new York s Laguardia Airport be fore boarding his sort tent airline flight a Federal ban on smoking on Domestic nights olm Thafel two Tours weal into effect saturday and North Mil has banned smoking on nearly ill or Flat a Lac flights. Diesel sub burning off the Florida coast Norfolk a. A an explosion and firetruck the diesel submarine Bonefish off Florida Sun Day injuring is sailors three seriously and leaving three missing the Navy said. The Bonefish one of the last diesel submarines in service in the Navy surfaced 160 Miles East of Cape canaveral Fla., where u was on a routine exercise said cmdr. Fred lieder spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet. The injured Crew members were transferred to the aircraft Carrier John of Kennedy. I. Cmdr Bill son Flag of the Atlantic Fleet Headquarters in Norfolk said. The Kennedy then beaded for Mayport Fla to Transfer the injured to he naval Hospital at Jackson Ville and was expected to arrive Early monday. Sonntag said the submarine carries a Crew of 92officers and enlisted men and 89 of them had been accounted for. The frigate Mccloy and Carr were searching for the missing crewmen said capt. Brent Baker a spokes men for Atlantic Fleet said. We Don t know whether they Are still aboard the submarine or whether they Are in the water Baker Aid. The 4 30 . Fire was believed caused by an explosion in the 30-year-old submarine s Battery Compart ment sonntag said. Because of fire and tonic fumes the commanding officer ordered the vessel evacuated he said lieder raid the can would attempt to Low the sub Marine to either fort canaveral or Charleston s.c., he Bonefish s Home port. There apparently was no serious problem in keeping inc Bonefish afloat sunday evening lieder said. He said he did not not know whether he submarine would be abandoned completely or left with a Small Crew. Nor did he know if the fire had been Enlin  we know right now is that it is tied up to the Carr sonntag said. They Are trying to decide wherein will be Lowed and what to do with inc  a Cedar said thai it would take considerable time to Low the Bonefish into port i can make about 3 knots under Tow a senior naval officer said he also said he did not know How Long it took the submarine to surface or How Long it tool the Carr to reach it but added it was fairly Quick As far As i can determine now the Bonefish was taking pan in routine exercises in what is called the local Jacksonville operations area. Sonn Lai said adding that he did not know How Long it was supposed to be out. The Bonefish was commissioned in 1959 and is used see sub on Back Page Carlucci says ski fundamentally sound Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Is Lucei sunday defended be Star wars missile defense system laying a panel of non government experts believes the system is fundamentally  he disputed a report in sunday s Edi Tion of the Washington Post that quote Dan unpublished congressional study As laying the system would suffer a Catas trophic failure if it were used against a multiple missile attack by the soviet Union. That s about like saying 10 years be fore we had helicopters thai helicopters were doomed to failure Carlucci said in an interview on Abc to s this week with David Brinkley the study was conducted by the office of technology assessment a non parti san scientific Arm of Congress. Carlucci said he had 8 panel of non government technicians and engineers evaluate Star wan and it concluded thai the program is fundamentally sound and that we can build a militarily effective ski strategic defense Initia Tive program and that is the  Carlucci said the defense department has been studying the congressional re port which he described As Long and Complex but he said there has been no official comment on it. Meanwhile the Post reported in Mon Day s editions thai a High level Pentagon panel has recommended to Carlucci thai he sharply Cut the proposed initial deployment of the ski program from a sys tem of space based weaponry to a less costly and much less effective system of ground based rocket. Quoting unidentified senior Pentagon officials the newspaper said the pane see ski on Back Page Mitterrand Chirac to vie for French president Paris a socialist president Francois Mitter Rand won the first round of the presidential election sunday Selling up a May 8 Runoff with conservative Premier Jacques Chirac who finished a Distant Ond related photo on Page 2. With 93 percent of the ballots counted and tabulating Fust Tiad Tot the Day Mitterrand had 34 percent of he vote in his quest for a second seven year term. Chirac 55, had 19.9 percent. Former cd Nice right Premier Raymond Bare. 64, was third with i6.s percent. He conceded defeat and called on Bis supporters to bark Chine. Making a Strong showing in the Field of nine Candi Date was Jean Marie be pen 59, Leader of the extreme right National front with 14.5 percent the big loser was communist party candid Teandre a Johnie whose 6.8 percent showing was the lowest in the history of the party which has been on a steady decline since 1981, Tuin Oul in the election was estimated at 82 percent. Compared with 81 percent in the first round of the1981 elections. The 7 i year old Mitterrand whose popularity fell to unprecedented lows at mid term Only to soar in the last two Yean will face the hard driving Premier who has run the government since conservatives won the 1986 legislative elections. Now the Choice is simple Mitterrand said in a Brief statement. To All of you who serve France we see France on Back Page document Syndicate North May have lied to Fri Washington