European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 . Jets intercept 5 soviet aircraft record encounters occur North of Alaska Anchorage Alaska up1 air Force Jet fighters confronted a record five soviet Mill Tan aircraft Over the arc tic Ocean North of Alaska in three Sepa rate encounters thursday officials re ported Friday. Encounters Between soviet and . Military aircraft off Alaska have Hen in creasing but never before has the air Force conducted three Hack to Back intercepts nor has the air f orc Csc Rahns off so Many Kun Viii planes from Alaska in a single Day said sol George Crawford spokesman for the Alaska air it Ned at Elmendorf and. The three intercepts occurred within a Ihrck hour period thursday afternoon and the air Force made the encounters Public Friday. All five soviet planes stayed in inter National airspace hut the intercepts were triggered when the soviets entered the  air defense identification zone Buffer around american airspace. Crawford said two f-15 Jet fighters were first launched from Eilson fab Ai Fairbanks to Chase Oit an Il-20 recon Naissance plane known As a coot used in intelligence gathering and spotted flying across the Arctic Ocean toward Alaska the coot was intercepted 83 Miles Northwest of Wain Wrignt an Eskimo Vil Lage on Alaska s Northern Mast. As soon As the f-l5s showed up the coot turned North away from Alaska and the f-15i turned South toward base then came word thai two soviet bomb ers were heading toward Alaska and he same Al is turned around to meet them Crawford said. The air Force interceptors met two soviet rear o bombers 100 Miles North wot of Cape Lis bume on Alaska s North West Chukchi sea coast Crawford said. The f-15 eagles flew with the russian hears for 90 minutes before each pair of planes turned away from each other and headed Home. Bear g bombers Are Capa ble of carrying air to ground missiles. Then radar detected another pair of soviet planes in the Arctic North of alas a. Crawford said and the same pair of f-15 eagles again turned around to meet two More russian bears this Lime Bear h bombers capable of carrying cruise missiles. The Fiss intercepted the Bear h bombers 84 Miles North of Point Barrow the northernmost tip of land in the United states. Crawford described the interceptions As routine other than the record num Ber of encounters and record number of planes encountered. He said there was no communication Between the Ameri can and soviet Crews. He said Pentagon Headquarters was notified immediately the f-l5s required Aerial refuelling twice during their triple intercept mis Sion and two Kc-135 tankers were launched to do the Job. Crawford said. Asked about the significance of three intercepts in a Day Crawford replied i Don t know. We can t speculate. All we can say is they re doing their thing probing our  Tai is brings to in the number of intercept missions flown by air Force Jet fighters off Alaska so far this year. In those 18 intercepts 32 soviet planes have been steered away from Alaska nine of them since tuesday when there were two intercepts each involving a pair of soviet bombers. . Communists Parley vow to defeat Reagan ism Amherst mass. Will More than 300 communist party supporters i rom the United states Cen trial America and the Smiel Union opened a National conference Friday. Vowing to defeat the storm Cloud of Reagan  the group gathered in the Campus of the University of Massachusetts for inv 3rd annual National Conven Tion of the Young communist league. The convention will run through the weekend. A great movement is sweeping across the country league chairman John Hach Tell of new York said in his opening address. The storm Clouds of Reagan ism and big business have Bufi n  convention participants will attend workshops on the presidential election racism and apartheid and efforts to ban the Cia Fram College campuses. Delegate Sergey Kong Hkin Secretary to the Central committee of the ail Union Young Leninist communist league said the convention will be a Good influence on superpower relations. Antonio Martinez a Delegate from Al Salvador said he hoped the convention would address the problems of Central America. We in Al Salvador Hope that this will have an effect in terms of consciousness of our intentions in Al Salva Dor for democracy he said. Outside the student Union building where the convention is being held about two dozen opponents of communism Sang god bless America and chanted commies out of  anticipating pain a photo sometimes the thought of having i shot is worse than the shot itself and 10-year-old Annamaria 1 Lein of Albany ore., dreads both. She was among some 1,000 persons who were Given globulin shots for Depalatis after a Man and woman contracted the disease after eating it a restaurant in Albany. Fonda apologizes for actions on 1972 trip to North Vietnam Waterbury Conn. A actress Jane Fonda s apology for her controversial trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War apparently won t appease All her critics but others say they Are ready to forgive and forget. Veteran groups in Waterbury and Holyoke mass., have been protesting Fonda s plans to him a movie in their communities in August because of her 1972 rip to North i clean. In a television ii Mew Fonda apologized for her actions during the trip but not for her anti War Mes Sage. I am proud of mom of what i did and i am very sorry for some of what i did Fonda said in an inter View for Friday night s Abc s "20-20." i was trying to help end the killing end the War. But there were times when i was thoughtless and careless about it and. 1 am very sorry that i Hurt them she said. Joseph Griggs a spokesman for the veterans coalition against Hanoi Jane said Fonda must Back up her words with action such As returning to Vietnam to seek the return of prisoners of War still unaccounted for. I would have to say that s a very Nice beginning he said of her apology. But it s been our position for some time now that efforts have to go along with the words Griggs Sai Gaetano Russo head of the coalition called the apology typical Fonda  but korean War Veteran John Sarlo of Waterbury said of the apology i guess that s something we can be grateful for and  in inc interview Fonda said she was sorry for being photographed aboard a North vietnamese anti aircraft gun saying that was thoughtless and careless thing to have  she also apologized for saying that pos were not tortured. They suffered enough. They did t need to hear from me she said. Sana Softie in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 19,1948 american British and French Mili tary governments announced a new West German currency in order to eliminate inc consequences of the destruction of the currency caused by National socialism 30 years ago foday. June 19, 1958 Italy recalled in minister to Budapest in protest against the executions of former prime minister Imrch Nagy and Gen. Pal Macler. 20 years ago foday. J in e 19, 1968 a company of 121 Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops surrendered on the outskirts of Saigon in the largest mass surrender of the War. 10 years ago today. June 19, 1978 president Carter and his aides Back from signing inc Panama canal treaty said they were hopeful there would not be any serious problems in turning the canal zone Over 10 Panama