European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page so the stars and stripes sunday september 4,1988 repairs finished Stark welcomed to Home port naval station Mayport Fla. A the Stark returned to a Low key Welcome Al its Home port saturday after 10 months in a shipyard to repair s90million Worth of damage caused by two iraqi missiles in the persian Gulf. About 100 people were on hand As the guided mis Sile frigate docked at Bravo pier where a memorial to the 37 sailors killed in the May 1987 attack has been placed. It is the same pier from which the Stork left in february 1987 for what was to have been routine duty in the persian Gulf. It s Good to be a family again instead of a Long distance family said Jennifer Hayward. Who with her three children waited for her husband. She recalled How the crippled ship was greeted by hundreds of people bearing balloons and Welcome Home banners when it returned after the attack Las year last Augusi it was a lot More emotional she said. It. Cmdr. Tim Taylor a Navy spokesman said that no ceremony was scheduled for the return of inc shark from Ingalls shipbuilding in Pascagoula miss., where in underwent repairs. We want he shark 10 be just like every other ship said Mayport commander Cape. John Mitchell. Another guided missile Cruiser the Boone also came Home saturday after a one year overhaul in new Orleans. It s no different one from the other Mitch Ell said. The Stark left Mississippi on wednesday with 16 officers and 174 enlisted men who spent the year i Mississippi helping wit i the repairs or doing other Navy work. Before heading Home the ship passed trials of its guns its ability to track air and surface targets ils engines and its steering. The repairs were completed on time and Cost Aboul $52 million less than Esti mated officials said. The searing heal from the is oct missiles destroyed inc Slark s berthing area and combat information Cen Ter As Well As radar equipment rooms and other compartments. The shark underwent temporary repairs in Bahrain after the alack and before the Long voyage Home a year ago. The government of Iraq which claimed responsibility for the attack will be sent a Bill for the repair  also has promised to compensate the families of the 37 sailors killed in what it said was an accidental at tack. News briefs la area chlorine Gas leak forces 20,000 to flee Commerce Calif. A chlorine Gas leaked from an Industrial Plant saturday and forced the evacuation of an estimated 20.000people East of los Angeles police said. Al least seven people were taken to hospitals. The Gas Cloud More than half a mile Long formed just after Midnight said los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy Dan Cox. The Wispy Smoky Gray Gas leaked from a grow group inc. Plant which makes chlorine tablets for swimming pools said Kim Marti Plant manager. Ira killer gets Day s leave to attend rites for brother Dunmoyle. Northern Ireland a the government released a convicted killer to attend the funeral on saturday of his brother an Ira guerrilla slain in a British army ambush. Hundreds of police and soldiers in riot gear formed an almost unbroken Circle around the Home of slain Ira Man Brian Mullin at simile Cross 50 Miles West of Belfast before his funeral. Mullin s elder brother Patrick serving a life sentence for the Ira murder of a school bus Driver was Given a Day s compassionate leave to attend the funeral and was released in the custody of a local priest and driven from the Maze prison in Belfast by members of sinn fein the Ira s political Wing. Rocking for rights Bruce Springsteen and backup sinner a Tel Scialfa team up on opening night fur the amnesty International concert Lour Friday in London. Springsteen urged he  to spread the sense of free Don Rock and Roll gives them around the world. The concert series will cover 13 countries in six weeks. From Page 1 As was to be expected Bui since the convention it s continued even with inc problems surrounding the Dan Quayle  Lac summer surge by Bush eroded Dukakis earlier advantages in key electoral College Battle grounds from California to new Jersey with Illinois Ohio and Michigan in Between say leaders in Bot political parties. The result is a series of tight big Silies races whose outcome will Likely decide Ronald Reagan s successor in the while House. Dukakis selection of Texas sen. Lloyd Belsen ashis vice presidential running mate transformed Bush s adopted Home slate and its 29 electoral votes into a instant tossup. But Bush has countered elsewhere the vice president seemingly has moved ahead in Florida with 21 electoral Voles As Well As making up ground in the Industrial Midwest. One poll in Massachusetts even rated Dukakis Home stale a tossup though Theap Survey still found inc state to be solid ground for inc democratic nominee. In Small and Large states the politicians who keep close tabs on the presidential race report a close con test that is unlikely to be decided until the final Tew Days. Campaign debates and unexpected International events could have a dramatic influence on the race. . Envoy urges Mcross be cuts in dec ref bloc conventional forces Warsaw Poland up the . Arms control ambassador Edward Rowny Friday called for deep cuts in Warsaw pact conventional forces which he called the primary source of insecurity in Europe. For All the Heady talk about new thinking and anew soviet defensive doctrine of reasonable sufficiency we have yet to Sec any slowdown of the growth of soviet military Power or redeployment of their forces accordingly Rowny said in a speech before the polish Institute of internal ional affairs. He said the soviets enjoy an advantage of More than 2 to 1 in Battle tanks and artillery and 2.3 to i in aircraft and continue to produce about 3.000 new tanks and 700 new combat air Craft a Jear. Rowny who is special Edward Rowny adviser to president Reagan on arms control is in Poland As pan of periodic consultations by . Officials Wilh Warsaw pact countries on arms control. His speech was not considered a direct response Tore Ceni proposals by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev for reductions of conventional troops and weapons m Europe. Rowny was met at the Airport by it col. Wieslaw Gornicki special adviser to the polish Leader. Gen. Wojcicch  had lunch Wilh Solidarity activists Bronislaw go Rymek and Krzysztof Sliwinski As Well As Jacek i Akutowicz of the illegal pacifist movement Freedom and peace. Rowny leaves for Prague on monday to attend Simi Lar meetings with government military and Independent groups. In a question and answer session he said the Geneva talks on strategic nuclear weapons and space weapons Are not stuck but arc moving slowly because of the nature of the talks which arc Many times More Complex than the inf negotiations. He also was asked Why the United states was Mak ing such a fuss about the unfinished but controversial soviet Rajar Al Krasnoyarsk in Siberia when it was itself engaged in development of space defense through the strategic defense initiative. Rowny said the Krasnoyarsk radar is a Clear Vio lation of the anti ballistic missile treaty under which All radars meant to warn of a ballistic missile attack must be placed along the Border pointing outward. He acknowledged that if the United slates decides to deploy sd1, it would have to negotiate a change in the abm treaty bul meanwhile the re search complies Wilh the treaty. That interpretation is disputed by Many Independent arms control experts