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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d gis have 3 weeks to Appeal on re enlisting Page 2 d woman with 3 guns terrorizes Illinois school Page 5 d getting married in Europe feature Section d celtics defeat Hawks tie Aba playoffs sports Page 21 the sofas prices utmoi1ed unofficial Quilic Tion fou the u. Mid Fob Al Mahb Bibb vol. 47, no. 35 sunday May 22, 1988 Good morning d 8693 a Boeselager wins Don t come easy byjoe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Eutin West Germany the bosc lager Competition defies the perception of armoured reconnaissance As a Jaunt through the Countryside in a tracked vehicle wit radio communications. Many of the skills tests involve worst Case scenarios. Such As the loss of reconnaissance vehicles. That s Why spec. Donald Manley Wason the Banks of the Suhrer Sec sweat dripping off his nose As Clad in a wet suit he prepared to Cross a 280-Yard stretch of Chilly 50-Degrec water. The scenario get Back to Friendly continued on Page 9 Pentagon gets go slow advice on Star wars 1st it. John Kern by Norman Black a military writer Washington a the Penta gon should take a slower More measured approach to the deployment of a Star wars anti missile defense system a scientific advisory panel said in a report released Friday. The panel a special task Force of the defense science Board said the administration s plan of setting up even an in the Overall winners from 1st so 1st Cav 1st army div overcome the first obstruction on the Boeselager obstacle course. S4s Pho ii by of it do trim phase i system All at once is too  View of the technical budgetary political and arms control uncertainties surrounding the ballistic missile defense program the panel recommends plan Ning a number of Steps in the technical development and deployment of a sys tem. Rather than a single major action the report  task Force suggested the defense department Start by deploying 100 ground based interceptor rockets As Al Lowed under the 1972 anti ballistic mis Sile treaty either outside Washington d.c., or at grand Forks fab  next step it said should be deployment of a new generation of space surveillance systems to improve our Early warning detection and assessment of a ballistic missile  could be followed by deployment of new Short Range interceptor missiles around Washington with the next phase consisting of additional bases an ground based interceptors and improved sensors to Cope with  Only then would a move be made to deploy defensive weapons in space the panel said with the final step being the addition of ground or space based lasers. This approach would allow for More confident decisions and More flexibility in the face of uncertainties and would probably not require any More time inthe Long run the task Force contended. The science Board task Force was see Star wars on Back Page Carrington cites nato successes by de Reavis staff writer Brussels in june 1984, lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington told nato he d give them four years As Secretary general and he s getting out punctually this month. Described As the Ideal International civil servant half Diplomat half administrator Carrington arrived in Brussels when nato was under fire for its policies ranging from the strategy of flexible response to the decision to de ploy cruise and Pershing ii missiles in Europe. Now bidding his final farewells car ringtone leaves with a treaty Banning an entire class of nuclear missiles All but assured and with the dialogue Between East and West More open than it has been in years. "1 think we be really come rather along Way when you consider what s happened these last few years Carrington said from his office in the sprawling nato Headquarters Complex. I mean. The superpowers weren t talking to each other Warsaw pact was t talking to nato. The fact that we got the inf treaty. That there has been a Good Deal of More understanding More negotiation Between East and West is really very re  Carrington s life defines the picture Book upper class englishman. Bom in 1919, the Only son of the fifth lord car ringtone. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst the Royal military College. He succeeded to the title on his father s death in 1938. While his official biography quickly glosses Over his role in world War ii with Only a modest mention of his being awarded a medal he in fact received the military Cross As a Tanker. The medal was for bravery at nil Megan nether lands during operation Market Garden made famous by Cornelius Ryan s Book a Bridge too  Carrington resigned his commission in i94s to take up farming which remains one of his Many interests although he claims the common Market has Mads it less profitable than it used to be. A string of political jobs including Leader of the House of lords culminated with Carrington being named Brit ish foreign Secretary in 1979 in the government of prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Then came the 1982 Argentine inva Sion of the Falkland islands a British territory off the coast of Argentina. As a lightning Rod for criticism aimed at the government Carrington resigned from the Cabinet a decision he  not re Gret. If you go to War and everybody is trying to find scapegoats and blame peo ple you arc not going As a United coun try he said. It was very obvious that the argentines did invade and the for eign office did t know they were going to invade for whatever reason and 1 think there were reasons Why they did to then 1 think one should take the responsibility for it and go and Clear the  so it was from the life of a corporate executive that Carrington was called continued on Page 3 lord Carrington  
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