European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday july 12,1988 news briefs Aquino doubts Shultz will get pact on bases Manila Philippines Secretary of state George Shultz begins talks in Manila on tuesday on the future of vital . Military bases in the Philippines but president Corazon Aquino says their meeting is unlikely to break a impasse in ongoing negotiations. Shortly before Shultz s am Val monday Aqui no was asked whether she expected the talks to Lead to an agreement on compensation to the Philippines for continued use of Clark a Subic naval base and four smaller facilities. No because the review is still going on and it will be up to the review committee to discuss that Aquino told reporters. Shultz is not Parton the review panel. It is . Ambassador Nicholas Platt and on our Side foreign Secre tary Raul Mang Lapus. Air traffic controllers in Greece begin strike Athens Greece a greek air traffic controllers on monday started an indefinite Hun Ger strike and claimed they would abstain from sleep until their demands for better pay and work conditions were 480 controllers want an immediate 15 percent wage hike and retirement after 28 in Stead of 3 5 years service. An air traffic controller with 20 years work experience currently earns 110,000 drachmas $786 a month. As we re always being mobilized when we strike we be resorted to taking this kind of action instead said controller Maki Petrou. To Stop previous strikes by controllers the socialist government has ordered their mobilization they have been mobilized six times since 1984. American gets 20 years in slaying of prostitute Madrid up a court sentenced a 30 year old american aerospace Engineer to 20 years in prison monday for the slaying of a prostitute. At his trial David Baxter Noyes pleaded that Jet lag and alcohol had provoked temporary in sanity and was arrested March 3, 1987, after a 35 year old prostitute was found dead in a room beneath his sixth floor hotel court said Noyes had strangled Rufina Sanz Caviedes during an argument Over pay arrived Here from St. Louis two Days ear Lier on a business trip for the aeronautics firm Mcdonnell Douglas. Aaa Noyes was also sentenced to pay $165, in damages to the victim s family. Damaged shuttle Booster should t delay launch Washington a a Booster rocket that was to be tested in two weeks in Utah was damaged when a Workman incorrectly installed a test gauge but the National aeronautics and space administration said monday that the Accident is not expected to delay the resumption of space shuttle space shuttle discovery is poised on its launching pad at Cape canaveral fla., for liftoff on sept. 4. The successful outcome of the boost or rocket test in Utah is a requirement for the launching to take spokesman David Garrett said the test motor will have to be disassembled As far As the Center Field joint for evaluation and possible re pairs and then be he said will require rescheduling of the test from july 25 to at least but he added we do not expect it will affect the sts-26 launch ,sts-26 is the official designation for the first flight of a space shuttle since a 1986 explosion destroyed challenger and killed seven Crew members. Nasa spokesman Edward s. Campion said a Morton Thi Okol worker damaged the test rocket Over the weekend while attempting to install a gauge that was to be used during a test firing. U.s., soviets of Steps to avoid armed tensions Washington a . And soviet defens officials monday said they will form a joint working croup to avoid dangerous incidents Between superpower military forces and to Exchange visits by senior offi soviet chief of staff. Marshal Sergei Fakhro Meyer and the chairman of the . Joint chiefs of staff adm. William Crowe also announced agreement on a two year Exchange of visits involving warships senior Field and staff officers military Histo rians and marksmen from the american and soviet armed met with president Reagan at the White House immediately before announcing the agreement at a Pentagon news conference his second since arriving in the United states last tuesday. The soviet marshal who was visiting new Yor Klater monday before heading Back to Moscow took an unprecedented tour of the United states sailing on a aircraft Carrier peering into a by bomber ? visiting missile training site eating Barbecue watching a Rodeo and donning an Indian headdress. No other senior soviet officer has received such treatment at least since world War the visit Crowe questioned Fakhr Omeyer on what the soviets Are advertising As a new military Doc victims from Page 1 Essary action by consequently he said details concerning time amount and other matters remain to be worked out. Fit water also reiterated the . Position that Iran bears a heavy Burden for allowing the Iran air plane to Fly Over an area where a firefight was raging Between the Cruiser Vincennes and iranian gunboats. Minutes before Fitzwater met with reporters Rea Gan As much As confirmed that compensation would be for photographers with salvadoran president Jose Napoleon Duarte and asked about the matter Reagan commented Well i have said from the Start that we Are a compassionate Reagan has said that he regretted the shooting Down of the Iran Airliner on july 3 by the Vincennes a Navy guided missile Cruiser whose Captain had thought the ship was under attack by an f-14 iranian fighter Jet. The Pentagon says the Vincennes sophisticated Aegis radar and tracking system had picked up a radio identification from the iranian passenger plane Broad cast on a frequency used Only by military aircraft Lead ing capt. Will c. Rogers Iii to conclude that his ship faced attack from an f-14. But the president also told reporters last week that he did t want to move too quickly on the question of ship from Page 1 e. Nordeen was assassinated by a Booby trapped car that exploded As he drove past in his Bullet proof car on his Way to work. The terrorist organization novem Ber 17 claimed responsibility. Four palestinian terrorists on oct. 7, 1985, hijacked the italian luxury liner Achille Lauro during a Mediterranean cruise. The terrorists killed american passenger Trine on defensive sufficiency but the american Admiral said he came away unconvinced of any actual changes in the Warsaw pact Force said some of the changes apparently the withdrawal of soviet ground forces from easter Europe must be negotiated with the West. Asked to Point to actual changes in the soviet Mili tary Fakhr Omeyer said that in the past soviet Mili tary doctrine allowed for both offensive and defensive military operations. Now we Are introducing some changes in order to make the military Doctone purely defensive in of course we realized that our methods of troop training were a matter of concern especially in euro Pean countries he said. In accordance with the new defensive Doctone we Are beginning to introduce some changes in the organizational Structure of the soviet armed forces in order to impart a defensive nature to the armed forces but this will demand some time he said. The Complete realization of the changes. Bearson bilateral Steps. Therefore we must sit at the negotiating table and address the outstanding issues be tween us he said his conversations with Fakhr Omeyer showed that we do have some differences. Obviously we did not try to paper those compensation saying at one Point that i will await the result of the investigation by a naval investigative team sent to the persian , when asked during the Oval office picture Tak ing session monday whether he had decided that compensation should be granted the president said. We Are a compassionate people and i think we All have compassion for the families of those unfortunate peo he said that a statement would be forthcoming a reporter responded i assume it s going to be in the nodded his agreement. Asked about Public opinion polls showing that majority of americans surveyed had said they oppo a
