European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. Septembers 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 Algol counts on Speed flexibility continued from Page 1 us civil and military sea lift com fleets any european maritime resupply operation will not go without losses Sharp said in an interview with the stars and stripes. The nato anti submarine face on land sea and in the Aii along with the Supply ship s Speed and flexibility  critical ingredients in sitting enough War Light ing Materiel to the troops said Sharpe now an editor with Jane a the defense publishing firm to Etc Algol is one of eight commercial ships Pur chased by the military sea lift come from sea land. The International Container corporation and delivered to the Navy in 1984, the ships proved to be a Good Deal for both parties the Navy had been looking for ships thai could pro vide Fiat transport of heavy Armor. And Sealand had realized the ships were too expensive to operate when the ant of fuel skyrocketed in the Lute 1970s, the ships were reconfigured for military use giving them the capability of quickly rolling on and Oft heavy equipment fully loaded the ships can reach 30 knots or 35 Mph making sailing time from . Ports about five Dos to Europe and two weeks to the persian Gulf via in Suez canal. Tansy be taken the lion s share of reformer exercises Sinoff they came aboard Gibion Elsaid. To Algol can carry about to descent of the equipment  a unit the size Offlie est inf div which de  this year Tram port Riley kan., to participate in the nato s autumn forge exercises. The ships Are the latest addition to the Scal Ift com Mand Force which operates about 125 ships. Add Ilion ally a fut 90 ships in the ready Reserve Force arc maintained by the maritime administration and oper ated by the military sea till come although the primary defense of the Scal Ift vessel would be their Speed contingency plans provide for the ships to be equipped with some weapons including antiaircraft guns. Crows also would be equipped with m-16 rifles officials said. But Sharpe who worked for the British intelligence and submarine communities believes nato underestimates the threat posed by the massive soviet submarine Fleet. In a May news conference marking the release of the latest edition of Jane s fighting ships Sharp said the soviets arc building a nuclear submarine every seven weeks and a conventional sub every 10 weeks. That considered the soviets have More than a defensive the super cargo Carrier Algol Tan Orr we Pitnu of Tun of War Materiel Stem the Atlantic i dec Days. Maritime strategy in mind despite statements to the contrary he said. The soviet submarine Fleet Sharp Saidt is capable of swiftly closing off the vulnerable sea lanes of the free  detailed study Doea Little to reveal Ait operational or deployment pattern which could readily explain Why they have built such a Large  the location of he soviet submarine Fleet at the time of any reinforcement Effort would be critical Sharpe said. If there were significant numbers of soviet subs in the mid Atlantic for example the nato shipping Fleet would face serious problems. Additionally the soviet s ability to disrupt nato passive sonar submarine detection equipment also would be crucial to the Success of any overseas resupply Mission. If you can disrupt passive acoustics you seriously disrupt nato s submarine detection ability Sharpe said. However Sharp agreed with Gibson that the Speed of ships in the 30-Knol-plus Argol class combined with the anti submarine warfare capability of he West makes such missions viable. We re too fast and too flexible for submarines Gibson said. The submarines would practically have to Lay in wait for us some air cover could be provided for the ships with aircraft from he United sales and from Europe. . Official  perhaps the Best defense foe the Allied Walitt would be the immense. Proportions of the Ocean  task of finding relatively Small ships sailing unpredictable louies on a Large Ocean is extremely. Duh cull Sharpe said. The fact of the matter is that finding ships is net a simple As the portray cars of space systems intelligence satellites would have you  even the largest ships crossing the Atlantic arc Hardi to spot in bad weather and High seas. Such we Alyce conditions common to the Atlantic combined Wuh the help of a nato anti submarine Force gives the Ilu is an advantage when crossing the Ocean Sharpe said. The alternative to using ships would be to Airlift sup plies an option Sharp characterized As unfeasible. For example a typical bad on the is Galaxy macs largest ear of plane would consist of one my tank and two Brad icy infantry fighting vehicles or six Apache attack helicopters according to the Jane s directory on  s resupply Effort must rely on big ships be cause airlifting supplies would take hundreds of hours of critical Flirl time from the military and civil air Fleet Sharpe said. Germans link suspects to bombings of bases Karlsruhe West Germany a two alleged Ira members captured this week arc prime suspects in recent bomb Ings of British military installations in West Germany authorities said thursday. Authorities also said the men were caught with a weapon believed to have been used in a shootout in the nether lands that killed a Royal air Force Mem Ber in May. An arrest warrant issued late wednes Day says the two men Are urgently suspected of taking part in two bombings and an attempted murder in West Ger Many the Federal prosecutor s office said. The warrant was issued after a Federal court hearing in Karlsruhe said the prosecutor s spokesman Alexander Prechtel. Under West German Law issuance of an arrest warrant Means the to me May be held indefinitely in custody until they Are formally charged the suspects Are being held at a Maxi mum Security prison Prechtel said. Prechtel identified the suspects As Gerard Thomas Hanratty and Terence Gerard Mcgeough both 29.they were arrested late tuesday after crating the dutch Border into West Germany near the town of Wal Feucht British military installations Are near the town 45 mites Northwest of  found two Kalashnikov ak-j7 automatic rifles and three ,38-caliber Pis Tols if their  experts believe that one of the rifles found in the car is the some one used in the july 13 attack on the British army Barracks in Duisburg and in the May i shooting of a British Soldier in the Netherlands tech Tel  May i three Royal air Force members were fired on from Point Blank Range in the Southern dutch City of Rcck mond. One airman died instantly and his two colleagues were injured. On july 13, two bombs planted by Theira exploded at the Duisburg Barracks injuring nine soldiers. At about the same time shots were fired from a passing automobile at a police car in the same area. Other evidence links the men to an Ira bombing on aug. 5 at a British army Barracks in Dusseldorf j Rechell said. Three British soldiers and a civilian were injured in that attack. The suspects were arrested while driving a Peugeot sos car rented in Mainz 27 Miles West of Frankfurt where they also rented a car from aug. 3 to aug. 8, said Prechtel. The arrest warrant also says the two arc suspected of illegal Possession of weapons and falsifying documents pre Chloel said. Hanraty was arrested Wilh a falsified British passport and a Driver s License Prechtl said. No documents were found on Mcgeough. Hanratty said he was bom in Belfast on Jan. 26, 1959. Mcgeough said he was Bora in Cany Castle on sep. 2, 1958. The two men gave the court no further information. We Are reasonably Sun that these Are their Correct identities Prech Elsaid. The men also were found Wilh seven full magazines for the rifles Irish Money an dutch License plates. Nixon called too inept to operate taping system Washington a we lie to Etc infamous White House taping system was being planned president Nixon suggested that he have a Button to turn it on and off manually but was dissuaded by an aide who says he thought the president was too Clumsy. So a voice activated system was in stalled and Nixon quickly Tost aware Ness that his every conversation was being recorded says former White House chief of staff , Haldeman in an article for the National archives publication  the tapes led to Nixon s Resig nation in August 1974, when they provided damning evidence that he had consented to the White House cover up of the watergate break in. Haldeman said Nixon had resisted the idea of taping conversations but reluctantly agreed it was the Best Way to gel an accurate record of meetings he suggested we might install the same Kinstof switch or Button oper ated machine that Lyndon Johnson had  Haldeman wrote. That would allow him to turn the system on or off As he thought Best. I responded. Or. President you la never remember to turn it on except when you Don t want it and when you do want it you re always going to be shouting afterwards when if s too late that co one turned it on i added silently in my own thoughts thai this president was far to o inept with machinery Ever to Moke x Success of a switch1  taping system that finally was installed was activated by the secret service s locator system which keeps track of the president s whereabouts. Eventually five microphones were put in the president s desk two were in Wall lamps at each Side of the fireplace on the opposite Side of the Oval office and there were others in the Cabinet room Nixon s office in the old exre live office building and at Camp David mil., the presidential Retreat. The historiography of the Nixon administration will eventually be much the Richer As a result of Richard Nixon s decision to tape record his meetings and Telephone conversations Haldeman writes. Ninon was not thinking of historians when he made this decision but they will Bethe ultimate  Moddeman s account is much softer ire tone and less critical of Nixon than when he described the same events Ina 1978 Book the ends of Poer which he said was unfortunately sensational in. Many instances where 1 would Hove preferred in to be More reasoned and  in. The Book Haldeman said Nixon had1 fudged the tape Story in Var ious ways climaxing with the Asser Tion on television in 1977 that he had ordered me to destroy All of the  there is no reference that in the prologue article