European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Navy Convoy mines ripped aboard the Vandegrift a four mines have been discovered in the Northern persian Gulf recently and . Naval officers say shipping will be endangered if rough Winter weather rips More mines from their moorings. . Navy officers monday said Ihrcke of the mines were spoiled Drifting on the surface after breaking Loose from their seabed anchors. As Winter approaches the Waters in the Northern Gulf get a lot rougher and that s when the anchored mines Are More Likely to break away. They re also harder to spot said one officer. We re very concerned that the situation is going to get worse in the immediate  the warning was issued As this 3,585-ton missile frigate arrived off Kuwait escorting what . Military sources said could be the next to fast Convoy of . Fig cd kuwaiti tankers to be protected by american warships. The White House announced president Reagan has decided to end the tight escort of vessels opting instead for accompanying them with warships pos Ted along the Way to provide any assistance needed. Presidential spokesman Marlin Filz water said Rea Gan acted after reviewing the cease fire Between Iran and Iraq which began aug. 20, and consulting with allies and friends in the  aboard air Force one in route to new York where Reagan later addressed the . General Assembly Filz Walcer said . Ships would still take appropriate action if american flagged ships Are directly Threal  administration officials last week said they Are con wednesday september 28,19bb in Gulf finds Loose adrift Sid Cring the zone defense plan citing reduced Gulf tensions and prospects for a . Force cutback of at least one ship. The United Stales has 26 warships in the Region 16 in the Gulf. The military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said a Convoy scheduled to leave Kuwait on tuesday would Likely be the last escorted the entire 550-mile voyage through the Gulf. The Vandygrift was designated As escort for the 81,283-ton Oil products Carrier surf City. The Navy has been escorting 11 kuwaiti tankers re flagged with the stars and stripes since july 1987 to protect them from iranian attack. Monday s Convoy the 67th this year and the 89th since operation Earnest will began brought the 294,739-ton Tanker Townsend up the Gulf to Kuwait. A second Tanker the .-owned overseas Valdez dropped offal Bahrain As they neared Kuwait Early monday the Vande grift and its massive charge sailed through Waters where the missile frigate Taylor a sister ship of the Vandegrift spotted a floating mine saturday. 11 was destroyed by Navy divers. A kuwaiti cargo vessel reported a similar discovery Friday near Hout Island 40 Miles Northwest of the Taylor sighting. The officers said a . Minesweeper s sonar located a mine aug. 19 on the seabed in a mine danger area near Iran owned Farsi Island where dozens of mines had been cleared earlier. A Day earlier the Vanda Grill was patrolling near iwo secret u.5. Navy barges in the same area when Bridge lookouts spotted a mine Bobbing 100 Yards off the port. Side. . Battleship nearly hits protesters Sydney Australia a the battleship new Jersey nearly ran Down a yacht carrying anti nuclear demonstrators As the warship mane Vered into Sydne Harbor tuesday through a flotilla of yachts canoes and surfboards. A police boat managed to secure the yacht and Tow it Clear seconds before the battleship steamed by. The new Jersey s skipper capt. Douglas Katz said his 58,000-Lon Ball Wagon probably would have sunk the yacht if it had hit the Pri Vale boat. " i had not been for that police boat pulling it off we d have split it in half Katz said. The Guy on that police boat was very  police and Navy divers jumped into the water to arrest two protesters. Katz 46, of Bluefield w.va., said demonstrators some of them from the International environmental group Greenpeace risked i hair lives coming so close to the new Jersey because turbulence from the snap s four is foot propellers could have sucked them under water. The new Jersey is visiting Australia with an International Fleet of More than 40 warships to celebrate the Bicentennial of european settlement of Australia. Demonstrators were protesting the new Jersey s presence because it carries Tomahawk cruise missiles. The . Navy refuses to confirm or deny whether the missiles carry nuclear warheads. Robot jockey a Indio controlled robot dressed u a Fentje jockey holds the reins on a. Young horse during a break tag in session at Sand in Northern Japan. To meet i severe shortage of jockeys a local electronics company designed the robot rider which makes use of a bridle i whip spurs and � Loudspeaker. World today taxi Drivers in Athens begin 3-Day walkout Athens Greece a the capital 17,000 taxi driven began a three Day strike tuesday to protest anti pollution measures that restrict cab circulation in the City Center. Taxis Are included in traffic restrictions Banning half the City s 800,000 can from a five Square Milc zone around the Center be tween 7 . And 8 . On weekdays Accord ing to Odd and even License plate numbers. It was the first strike by taxi Drivers since the restrictions were reimposed sept. 1 after a two month summer break. Sri Lanka seeking 4 killers of Cabinet member Colombo sri Lanka a police using helicopters and sniffer dogs fanned out across Central sri Lanka on tuesday in search of tour gunmen who killed a senior Cabinet minister authorities  Jaya Willeke 64. Minister of education and minister of rehabilitation and reconstruction was shot monday shortly after leaving Buddhist Temple Al Kugiya Nitiya about 40 Mil Northeast of Colombo. A police official who spoke on condition of not being identified said he Driver and a Crew member of a truck the gunmen used to escape were being questioned. Sudan questioning 45 about assisting rebels Khartoum Sudan a forty five per sons including a member of parliament have been arrested and arc being interrogated about supplying rebels in Southern Sudan with information on government movements a senior official said. Abdel Rasoul Elnour governor of Ordo Fiji Region in Western Sudan was quoted monday by the Sudan news Agency As saying the men we remembers of a heretofore unknown organization calling itself we in a Agugli. A Agugli is a major town in Kordofan 375 Miles Southwest of Khartoum. Al Naur said members of the organization were sudanese of african origin in comparison to the sudanese Arab government in the North. He said the arrests look place last month in a Agugli. Soviet dissident Hopes to Start publishing again Moscow up dissident publisher ser Gei Grigoryants tuesday said he Hopes to have his Magazine glasnost which has not been seen Tor five months on the streets again if be can persuade someone to print  and Kab agents raided his country Home in May and confiscated word processor and printing equipment and jailed Grigoryan and three staffers for a week. Following the raid Grigoryants said no one because they arc i  can t find a lawyer to fight our Case in the courts he said. They arc afraid we cannot find even one  dutch government names new foreign affairs Deputy the Hague Netherlands a the dutch government tuesday named an expert on common Market issues As the new Deputy for eign affairs minister the government information service  Van Voorst lot Voorst a 44-year old top official at the economics ministry Here. Succeeds Rene Van Der Linden who resigned earlier this month after allegations that he had misled the dutch parliament on the introduction of a new  Voorst Tot Voorst was expected to be swim in by dutch Queen Beatrix later tuesday according to information service spokesman Fred Low Uci. Before being nominated for i new position Van Voorst Tot Voorst was Deputy director Gen eral for foreign economic relations