European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes -. ,. ,. Al. -. Europe by train stripes Magazine d drug use Down in army Page 3 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 d rangers Stop red sox Page 17 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 47, no. 101 thursday july 28, 1988 7s daily Ond sunday q �693 a Reagan mum on report Noriega ouster planned Washington a president Reagan said wednesday that panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio no Riega is not Good for Panama or . Relations with the Central american country but he declined to c9mment Ona report that he had authorized Covert activity to Force Noriega from Power. I am not going to comment on any thing in the nature of Covert operations Reagan told reporters As he opened a meeting with hungarian communist party Leader Karoly Grosz. Asked whether there was any Way he saw that Noriega could be removed from Power Reagan said i should t be commenting on that. Certainly he is not Good for Panama Good for our rela  White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water refused to confirm or deny the published report that Reagan this month authorized Covert activity aimed at forc ing Noriega s removal from  did say that Reagan recently reassured deposed panamanian presi Dent Eric Arturo Delvalle of . Efforts to restore  said the administration would have been required by Law to notify congressional intelligence committees within 48 hours of a new Covert action see Noriega on Back Page Safe denies report pilots using banned drugs by Deedee arr1ngton Dok Kaiserslautern Bureau an allegation that . Air Force pilots on Normal training flights routinely use drugs banned by West German authorities was categorically denied by Safe officials wednesday. The command acknowledged however that some pilots flying Long Range Solo flights Are prescribed stimulants. The German television show Monitor on the Ard network quoted an unidentified . Military officer tues Day As saying air Force pilots regularly use the amphetamine dexedrine so that they Are Able to Fly when they Haven gotten enough sleep or Don t feel fit  the report said pilots then take seconal at night to counteract the effects of the stimulant. Neither drug is Legal in Germany. In a statement released wednesday Safe said its pilots do not take medi cation for Normal Day to Day training  the drugs in question some times Are prescribed for pilots who re quest them in conjunction with longer see drugs on Back Page Pentagon Given new Mission in War against drug smugglers by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the Pentagon has been handed a historic new Mission to detect and track drug smugglers but the fiscal 1989 defense authorization Bill passed by Congress stops far Short of some proposals calling for increased military involvement in the War on drugs. While House and Senate conferees named the de sense department the Lead Federal Agency in tracking smugglers trying to Fly or sail into the United states they also dropped far reaching plans to have the army Seal . Borders within six weeks and to give the military Power to make arrests. The services have Long provided assistance to drug enforcement agencies but have never had the Mission the specific tasking in the drug Effort said a congressional staffer. The conferees decided it was time for the military to Cross that threshold and take on a drug  defense authorization Bill directs the services to begin detection surveillance and monitoring of efforts by drug smugglers to penetrate . Borders. The Bill authorizes $300 million in funding to reused for ships and aircraft to support the new Mission see Pentagon on Back Page Irish girl found on . Destroyer sailors aided in hiding stowaway Norfolk a. A an Irish teen Ager who stowed away on a Navy destroyer with the help of sailors was hospitalized wednesday after she apparently went into convulsions while being taken to a return flight to Ireland officials said. Five sailors accused of helping the girl Cross the Atlantic aboard the guided missile destroyer Conyngham remained in custody the Navy said. The girl who Navy officials said is 16 years old and who Irish officials said is 15, was found saturday eve Ning aboard the destroyer when it arrived after a 10 Day cruise from cob Ireland. She was being flown tuesday from Washington to Atlanta for a flight to Ireland when she became ill an the plane made an emergency Stop at an Airport near Raleigh n.c., Charles Coble a naval investigative classified ads service spokesman said wednesday. Coble said the girl complained of nausea and went into convulsions but she was expected to be released wednesday from a Hospital in the Raleigh Durham area. Archie Galloway an Atlantic Fleet spokesman said she would continue her journey to Atlanta on wednesday. The girl whose identity has not been released had been treated at a Hospital for dehydration and seasick Ness after she was found aboard the Conyngham. She reportedly told officials she was orphaned at theage of 13 and wanted to come to the United states to get a Job but officials said they have located her Mother in Ireland. The girl spent 10 Days inside a Small passage aboard see stowaway on Back Page boat raised a in a predawn operation wednesday a Salvage crime raises the Hulk of a fishing boat that Sank South of Tokyo last week after colliding with a japanese sub Marine. Ten bodies were found in the bartered boat bringing the confirmed death toll in the Accident to 19, with 11 missing and presumed dead. Magazine