European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reside stripes g Iran threatens to expand attacks beyond Gulf Page 2 o methodists affirm homosexual ban Page 5 d Rose suspended for 30 Days for pushing ump sports Page 21 d North says charges against him Are an Honor Back Page vol. 47, no. 17 wednesday May 4, 1988 d 6693 a coast guard won t go to Gulf Carlucci agrees ships needed at Home Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci has decided against having . Coast guard ships help inc Havy pal my the persian Gulf at this Lime the 1 in Wagon said Mon Day. Tie announcement came amid Strong congressional opposition 10 the idea on grounds that the c Oast guard is needed at Home to fight drug smuggling and con firmed a disclosure made hours earlier by sen. John Warnerr a. Warner ranking Republican on inc Senate armed services committee and a former Navy Secretary said he spoke Wilh Carlucci list week and urged that inc proposal be dropped. He Carlucci said in was his current thinking the guard is not going Ute need Era ads Mac St  inc Mew is 1-Don Teli be 1h= id is the Secretary of defense reached late monday the Pentagon issued a his decision on his own initiative but he statement agreeing the idea of deploying did listen carefully to i Host of is in con Gress including myself and the leadership who suggested that this would not be the right Lime id Lake coast guard vends from Hie United  he said Carlucci is no1 of a mind to pull Back from that proposal because coast guard vessels was no longer under consideration at this  the statement said after a thorough assessment during the past week in has been decided that the cd Franl strength and Force Mil of our task Force in the Gulf is sufficient to protect . Interests in inc Region and to defend Guin to threats to the rights of .-flagged ships. As Well As Neutral ships in distress re questing assistance in International a Sec Gulf on Back Page Ira killers May have fled Netherlands Roe Mono. Netherlands a Irish Republican army guerrillas who killed three British service men and injured three others in a car bombing and an ambush May have escaped from the Netherlands a police spokesman said monday. In is easy to escape Louis St cons Ltd reporters in to Armand us Miles from the West German Border. Lie said in takes a Short time to gel away through relatively open Borders with West Germany and Bel to.  British airman was km.,. In a Ormond when their car was sprayed with Auto Matic weapons fire Early sunday morning. An hour later a car bomb exploded in Nieuwe Bergen 30 Miles North of Ruc Arnond killing two British airmen an"1 severely injuring a third. The British government said the Sis Ait duty and unarmed when attacked. A police said the attacks on  who were visiting from their bar pm West Germany appeared to have been Cha Loco Ordria cd. The  were from an Raf Jase in i , and were members of 16 so  the car bomb victims were from Rafla Artiuch base in West Germany. Their unit snot immediately known. The victims were in the Netherlands for festivities marking the official 50lh birthday of dutch Queen see Ira on Back Page. Guards Check vehicles entering Raf base to la Arbrael West Germany a British Fortes of up Wcur Ity. 2 troop a Fth drawer proposals re dec Fec by House by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington Only hours after the pc Union released a report critical of Allied Der Csc t on Friday rejected two propos for a withdrawal of . Troops overseas if the. Situation dues not improve. Doth amendments an ached to the $300 billion defense authorization ill. Were overwhelmingly rejected although inc House unanimously adopted a much softer non binding Resolution urging the Reagan administration 10 discuss new Burden sharing arrangements wit lies. One Amcnda Ejiri Recck d Ho-120, called for Lyril rotating 30,000 troops a year from Europe and 7.000 a year from Japan until nato and Japan increase their defense spending to a rate equal to one percentage Point above their icon Mic growth. Eicr amendment rejected 332 ii  i a no withdrawal of More than from Europe unless nato cml agreed to spend the same share of Gross National product Jyh United states d Tju a Fol gon s annual Repon on no contrib Nons to the common de sense showed that the United states a the highest level of defense spending As a percentage of its Gnu with 6.8 percent. Greece is at slightly More than 6 percent Turkey and Britain arc near 5 percent and most others fall Between 2 percent and 4 percent. Luxembourg and Japan arc at around i percent. Allied defense spending has become politically hoi this year with almost All presidential candidates loud Haj one time or anti of As been Given added pm i of inc House de sense Burden shafting in haired by rep. Pal Schmo Cdr. A cob. A4ftau tee staff member said virtually cd Crawf nets who has testified before the panel has said the allies could do More for their own defense. Hut it s kind of premature to be Deal ing with these kinds of amendments he said. I think thai after the panel s final report comes out in june Ihu climate will be More amenable for dealing with the Issue in a Concrete Way maybe when we work on the Cut dec Csc aug Horitia lion  Hill staffer said Law makers May be reluctant to scale Back the . Presence overseas because the intermediate Range nuclear Force treaty is Cirg debated. It s complicated the staffer said. It s easy to Bash the allies for what they defense but. In reality we main i a sence overseas to protect our own inti Rewaj much As the inter ests of the allies. 11 would Mil be Lough under any circumstances to Pasi a Law reducing our forces overseas