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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday August 3,1988 . Bombing prompts Security review of bases London a the government ordered a Security review of All military bases after an Ira bomb killed one sol Dier and injured nine at a North London army Barracks considered an easy targe for a terrorist attack. In Northern Ireland tuesday the Ira claimed responsibility for an attack on an army patrol in Garland in which six soldiers were injured a bomb exploded in Lisburn killing a policeman an wounding 18 passers by and a gang shot and killed a part time Soldier in West Bel fast. Security was reported so lax at Ingli Barracks in suburban Mill Hill that the perimeter Fence was riddled with holes and broken traffic barriers were still in repaired after two months. The Barracks houses the directorate of defense postal and courier services where a staff of 250 handles mail for British armed services personnel around the world. It also houses some personnel from the Royal engineers the Royal Navy and the women s Royal army corps. This was a soft target and this make sit an extremely cowardly attack Archie Hamilton minister of state for the armed forces said of monday s blast. We Don t keep the military apart from the Community but we will obviously now have to review our Security arrange  conservative party legislator John Gorst whose parliamentary constituency includes the Barracks said Security was appalling. With the Benefit of Hindsight i thin kit would be Crystal Clear that it would be possible to move into this place with impunity and to move around without being challenged he said. Monday s 7 . Blast the fifth Ira attack since May against British military targets outside Northern Ireland knocked Down most of a two Story Brick dormitory and started a fire. The Irish Republican army claimed responsibility in a message to the Bureau of the British Domestic news age Cypress association in Belfast Northern Ireland. The 15 men living in the dormitory were in bed when the explosion Tore out the first floor an army spokesman  building can accommodate up to 70 people. The mainly roman Catholic Ira infighting to end British Rule in Northern Ireland and unite the protestant dominated province with the Republic of ire land. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher who is on a trip to Australia tuesday condemned the attack describing it As negation of  related Story Page 8. It is again another lesson Why no one but no one should support the Ira or any form of terrorism she said. News briefs s. Africa offers withdrawal from South West Africa Johannesburg South Africa a South Africa has offered to begin withdrawing its troops from South West Africa on nov. 1,foreign minister Pik Botha said tuesday. Botha said South Africa made the offer tues Day in Geneva during a new round of peace talks on Southern Africa. The talks involve South Africa Angola Cuba and . Mediators. Botha also said the South african proposal Calls for elections in South West Africa also known As Namibia on june 1 next year. It follows that the total withdrawal of Cuba troops from Angola will be completed by june 1, 1989," Botha said. 2 pilots Chute to safety As phantom Jet crashes Laval France up a British phantom military Jet crashed tuesday in Western France but its two Man Crew ejected and Parachute safely to the ground French civilian officials said. The Jet took off in the afternoon from French air base and crashed a Short time later in Countryside near the Village of Chantrill officials in the Mayenne District capital of Laval said. They said the Pilot and Copilot of the Phan Tom Jet ejected in time and dropped by Parachute safely to ground then gave a statement to local gendarmes. The cause 01 the crash was not immediately known. Salt Lake City attorney expected to get Epa Job Washington a president Reagan plans to nominate Lawrence j. Jensen a former Salt Lake City attorney As assistant administrator and general counsel of the environmental Protection Agency the White House announce tuesday. Jensen 38, has been acting general counsel of the Agency since Early this year. From 1985 to 1988, he was assistant administrator for water programs. Jensen came to Washington As an associate solicitor at the Interior department in 1981 after two years As an associate in the Salt Lak City Law firm of Jones Waldo Holbrook and Mcdonough. Carlucci from Page 1 rope Barrier about 50 Yards from the plane and refused to Tell them anything about it. Why do you want to know about the bomber Why frighten people asked Carlucci s Host col. Gen. Boris f. Korolkov. Korolkov first Deputy commander in chief of the soviet air Force refused to identify the aircraft whose Only markings were a red Star and a number 12 on the Tail. Soviet military Power the Pentagon reference Book says the four engine bomber is the world s heaviest and largest but the Book does not give dimensions. Jane s All the world s aircraft a respected British publication says the plane is known in the soviet Union As the Tupoljev strategic bomber is 177 feet Long has a wingspan of 182 feet and weighs 275 tons. The plane has been under development for 10 years can Fly at twice the Speed of sound has a Range of 4,500 Miles and can carry bombs and cruise missiles according to Jane s. Jane s and the defense department had predicted blackjacks would be deployed this year. Korolkov said they became operational  Carlucci inspected a Mig-29 fulcrum fighter first then turned to the nearby bomber. As he did so two blackjacks emerged from Patchy Clouds and roared by. The american visitor inspected the Blackjack s Underbelly then climbed Orange stairs through the open bomb Bay doors and entered the cockpit. He told reporters later he could not reveal technical details of the aircraft but compared it to the by in the ability to Fly at Low altitudes and carry Large payloads. I m not a qualified intelligence officer said car Lucci a former senior Cia official. I m not a qualified observer. They let me sit in the cockpit but i could Tell one instrument from  he said his four Day visit to the soviet Union which began monday is largely symbolic a Way of continuing the dialogue Between our two military is  at Lubinka Carlucci also inspected an Ilyushin-78tanker plane and Mi-26 helicopter and watched an acrobatic display by four Mig-29s. Carlucci then travelled 12 Miles Southwest to the Headquarters of the Taman motorized Rifle division to watch War games. Defense minister Dmitri , Carlucci s Host stood next to him on a two Story building overlooking a huge Field of mock Battle. Mi-24 helicopters flew past the building with gun firing. Artillery blasted targets in the Field. Infantry vehicles bounced Over terrain pocked with Shell craters and a Azov joked to Carlucci it s no very comfortable to  another guest was the defense minister s 10-year-Oldgrandson, Oleg Losik. He Rode around the Taman base on his 64-year-old Grandfather s Lap next to Carlucci in the Back seat of a Black limousine. When the games were Over Carlucci asked Oleg if he wanted to shoot like the soldiers but the boy appeared too shy to answer. Oleg told a reporter later wearing an oversized Mili tary officer s jacket to keep warm that the War games were very interesting and Only the second he d seen. On Carlucci s schedule for wednesday is a visit Tob Lack sea Fleet Headquarters on the crimean Peninsula. Reagan from Page 1 president s intention in not exercising a veto was to prod Congress into action on other legislation rather than to take some heat off Republican presidential candidate George Bush. Dole said Reagan is swallowing something that he does t totally like in order to get us off the dime on separate legislation overhauling the . Trade Laws. The senator noted that there Are Only 25 to 28 legislative Days remaining in this session and that several crucial issues remain including new assistance to the nicaraguan rebels and drought assistance to Farmers. Assistant Republican Leader Alan k. Simpson of Wyoming said there Are no More than 23 votes in the Senate for upholding a veto saying the reality is it s Avery difficult exercise to get 34," the number of votes necessary. Dole said that Reagan very much wants a Trad Bill passed during this session and said the president is willing to Swallow a Little bit even though he does like  both d9ie and Simpson have been mentioned a possible vice presidential running mates with Bush. Both said they did not think politics played any role i Reagan s indication that he intends to let the Bill be come Law. I Haven t lost a bit of sleep thinking about that Simpson said. House Republican whip Trent Lott of Mississippi said that while there might be a Chance in the House to sustain a Reagan veto of the Plant closing Bill i would be very  the Battle is Over and we ought to move on to the next Issue Lott said. He said that congressional democrats would merely attach the same Plant closing pro vision to subsequent legislation if a veto were upheld and said that lawmakers should not play with this cat any longer. Aids from Page 1 aides. Moments later he spoke at a Cere Mony in the White House Complex Hon Oring senior Federal employees. The official White House response tothe aids commission s 597 recommendations was coordinated by or. Donald Jan Macdonald a special presidential assistant and director of the drug abuse policy office. Defending the administration s refusal to support the aids commission s Cal for Federal anti discrimination legis lation Macdonald told reporters that 36 states already have similar Laws. Moreover he said discrimination snot a problem in new York los an Geles or san Francisco cities with the largest populations of people with aids. Macdonald maintained that by calling for government wide application of of guidelines for Federal workers the president clearly puts himself out front i crusading against discrimination aimed at people with the aids virus or his. Although a Little Over 65,000 people inthe United states have been diagnosed As having aids Federal estimates put the number actually infected with the virus at Between 1 million and 1.5 million. Scientists Are increasingly coming to the conclusion that most if not All of those infected with the virus eventually will succumb to the disease and die unless a cure is found. No one is known to have recovered from the disease. Retired Navy . James d. Wat Kins the aids commission chairman had characterized the panel s Call for anti discrimination legislation As the Keystone for All its other recommendations. At a breakfast meeting with reporter sin Advance of the White House release Macdonald acknowledged with Watkins that he was not Likely to be pleased with the administration s failure to heed that Call. Watkins was out of the country an could not be reached  
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