European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. May 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Pago 9 soviets accuse . Of actions hindering chemical arms treaty chemical weapons Porton England a the first soviet experts to visit a chemical warfare facility in Western Europe on thursday accused the United Stales of undermining Progress toward a global treaty ban Ning the weapons. At � news conference the soviet and British envoys to the 40-nation treaty negotiations clashed repeatedly Over Sev eral issues including the size of the . Stockpile and America s resumption last december of the production of binary chemical weapons. Such Steps undoubtedly ran counter to the aim or a chemical weapons convention and they undermine the Confidence building process said Yun Naz Arkin chief soviet envoy to the negotiations which have been going on in Geneva since 1969. But Nazarin who led a 13-member group of soviet technical and military experts said the three Day visit to Brit Ain s chemical warfare defense Center in Southeast England had helped pave the Way for a chemical weapons ban he raid British officials were open during talks and in showing the soviets around the sprawling 7.000-acre facility at Porton Down. I now believe that it is through the open Gates and open doors of Porton Down and Shikany a soviet facility that we can and we will embark on the course which will eventually Lead to a world free of chemical weapons said Nacalvin. We firmly believe thai this Conven Tion will be achievable Britain ceased making chemical weapons and destroyed its stockpile in the 1950s and says Porton Down is Only for defensive measures such As the production of Gas masks and monitoring equip. Men in july a British team will visit the chemical warfare facility at Shikany in Eastern Russia. Western experts visited Shikany briefly last year and soviet inspectors went to a . Army chemical weapons disposal Plant in Toole Utah. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev acknowledged last year for the first time Fiat the soviet Union has a chemical weapons stockpile which he put at 50,000 ions but said production of More weapons had stopped. Western governments say the soviet stockpile totals 300,000 ions the largest in the world. The soviets say the United suites also has a stockpile 20,000 ions higher than Western estimates. . Production of binary weapons separate agents hat Are lethal Only when combined ended an 1 a year moratorium on production. It Gen. Anatoly Kunsevich Deputy commander of the soviet Union s chem ical troops said the move raised suspicions in Moscow that Washington planned to Supply the weapons to in nato allies. Tessa Solsby the British negotiator at the Geneva talks appearing rum cd by the soviet visitors attacks on the United Stales said Washington had resumed production to counter continued soviet production and to replace aging Stock piles. Mustard Gas used by Germany in world War i and relatively easy to produce Mustard Gas causes skin bums and blistering temporary blindness and scarring of lung tissue. Lethal in Large concentrations Mustard Gas seriously injures four to five persons for each one that it kills nerve agents developed during research on insecticides nerve Gas actually Vapours or a liquid impairs the body s ability to regulate muscle action causing death through asphyxiation. Colourless and odourless these chemicals Are inhaled or absorbed through the skin and kill almost immediately even in minute quantities. Biological weapons these include Bjar Emia o Ever anthrax and other bacterial viral or fungal agents. Yellow rain based on a fungus produced toxin Myco Loxen has been blamed Lor producing nausea diarrhoea heeding from the nose and Mouth Dill culty in breathing and death in Laos Cambodia and Afghanistan. The Reagan administration has charged that have been used in those countries under soviet supervision. But some scientists have challenged the government s evidence and its conclusions contending instead that be flow rain May be naturally occurring Bee Iran Iraq War Mustard Gas and More recently smal quantities of More lethal nerve Gas have been used by Iraq against iranian troops since 1964, according to the . Stale department. H Afghanistan invasion chemicals and toxins have been used by soviet and afghan government forces against Mujahideen Freedom fighters since 1980, cambodian occupation vietnamese forces have used lethal and incapacitating chemical agents and toxins against resistance forces in Cambodia since 1978. Laos vietnamese and lao troops under soviet supervision have used yellow rain against among tribesmen since 1976. Cute ago Tribune graphic sources . Department of stale and Chicago Tribune news reports bringing is Home to control drugs Borders urged by William j. Bartman Washington Baravo Washington a leading congressional advocate of reducing the United states military role abroad says he would redeploy Many or the overseas troops to the Texas Mexico Border to fight drug trafficking and immigration problems. I would t advocate bringing those people Back to the United states and Hen letting them go rep. Ralph Hall a Texas told the Stan and stripes in an interview thursday. It have a 2,000-mile Border in Texas and they could help with control of immigration and the drug Hall plans 50 speeches in the House on the subject of defense Burden sharing in the months ahead. While he is working alone he is part of a growing group on Capitol kill that believes America pays for too much of the west1 defense Burden. His main target is Japan but he also believes the american contribution to nato of Between $78 Bil lion and $87 billion a year is too much. The Burden sharing chant appears to have alarmed the Reagan administration officials ranging from de sense Secretary Frank Carlucci to assistant Secretary of stale for asian affairs Caslon Sigur have defended the United states allies in speeches and statements in recent weeks. Hall said the United Stales could do More for itself with an emphasis on a wide ranging naval transported Force la watch out for the Libya the As to the commitment of Billioni of dollars and about 350.000 troops to Europe Hall Laid i consider that yesterday s defense big guns pointing at each other Over there i think we re going to see some breakthroughs after this inf agreement Between the United states and soviet Union he said. But he said his no. I thrust is going to be toward Japan and he questioned the american defense commitment to that nation when we re really so hard up for i m less interested in the Economy of Europe and i know some say it will Hurt their economics if we pull out than i am of the double digit debt figures we have in this country no. Firm pleads guilty to illegal weapons sales Camden. . A company with lies la uie Iran Contra scan dal and one of its former executives pleaded guilty thursday to charges of telling military equipment abroad without . Permission. Forway industries inc. Of Wood Bury which manufactures military parts pleaded guilty to iwo counts of a 27-count indictment. Jacobo Farber who sold his major Ity interest in the firm in october 1986, pleaded guilty to five counts of the indictment. In addition. , attorney Samuel a. Atilo said the company and three employees were indicted in san Diego in an alleged conspiracy to divert weapon parts to Iran by pleading guilty to the hew Jer sey charges Forway and Farber said that from May 1983 to april 1985, the corporation manufactured and exported military equipment without registering As an exporter. Both also admitted violating the Federal Law requiring people exporting military parts on a special . Munitions lot to obtain licenses for each shipment of military parts Alito said. Forway industries made headlines in March when it was Learned trial retired air Force maj pen. Richard v. Secord and his business partner Albert Hakim tried to buy one third interest in the company in 1986, with funds allegedly skimmed from the Sale of american weapons to Iran. . Defends Resur of on on Japan s military role Washington a . Officials on thursday strongly defended restrictions against Japan becoming a glob Al military Power As Trade and foreign Aid spending transform it into a political and economic superpower. Foreign Aid is a natural area for Japan to contribute to global stability Given Japan s policy which we fully support. Not to play a global military role said Deputy defense Secretary William Howard Taft in. Japan will surpass the United Stales As the world s leading Aid donor this year and it can still afford a further dramatic increase in Aid tall added. Tall s statement was distributed to the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee. His position a echoed in Testi Mony by other Pentagon officials and the stale department at a hearing on the defense Burden shared by the United slate and its asian allies Japan and South Korea. Aug int defense Secretary Richard l. Armitage reminded senators that after the defeat of Japan in world War ii the United slates played a major and direct role in framing the Constitution that continues to bar Japan from maintaining offensive military forces asian neighbors occupied by Japan during the War and the japanese people themselves Don t want to see rising Sun flags on strategic bombers Carrier Battle groups or other Power projection Syf Lumi nor do we Armitage added. He said Japan obviously could afford to spend More on self defense and will do 10, but in terms of military roles and missions Japan is correctly oriented Al
