European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 24,19b8 nato talks set on aging missiles bied As important routine meeting by Mark Walsh suit writer Brussels Belgium modernizing the West saying stockpile of Battlefield nuclear weapons is expected to dominate discussion at what one senior offi Cial is calling an important routine meeting of nato s nuclear planning group this week. The biannual meeting also is expected u feature briefings on the  arms control negotiation sin Geneva Progress reports on the proposed space based strategic defense initiative and a retrospective of the Alliance related foreign policy accomplishments of the Reagan administration. No monumental decisions Are expected from the two Day meeting which begins thursday Al the Hague Netherlands. This is not a watershed like the 79 meeting or 83 Montebello meeting the senior nato official said but it is an important routine  at the 1979 meeting. Nato defense ministers approved the dual track decision that paved the Way for the stationing of Pershing ii and ground launched cruise missiles in Europe. Those weapons along with a similar class of soviet missiles arc now being removed under the terms of the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty signed in Moscow in june the 1983 meeting in Montebello Canada set the nato goal of reducing through modernization the size of its nuclear Arsenal while maintaining a credible nuclear deterrent. The decision has since troubled some Alliance Mem Bers especially As a final decision approaches on up grading such weapons As the outdated . Lance mis Sile which was first deployed 16 years ago. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in particular has voiced concern that the modernization Effort when coupled with the removal of intermediate Range mis Siles under the inf Accord will ensure that his country is the Battlefield in any future confrontation Between the superpowers. On thursday Belgium announced it would Stan behind West Germany in opposing a Quick vote on the modernization Issue. Bui that decision made by a cab inet committee did not appear to mean Belgium would never agree to upgrading the weapons but rather that the country favors a slower approach. The nato official noted that the Alliance is under no pressure to make a  right now we re reviewing a lot of options. We want to make sure that when we make specific deploy ment decisions that they re right he said. The official said he fell confident that the Alliance would be Able to reach the goals outlined at Montebello. If we replace the Lance system with a More modern system we will get reductions. We won t need at Many to carry out our strategy. If we modernize our artillery because the new artillery weapons have the advantages of ease of handling better predictability longer Range we will get reductions Over what we have  normally hosted outside of Belgium the last plan Ning group meeting was relocated to Alliance Headquarters in Brussels from holding Denmark. The last min Ute move followed passage of a controversial danish Law requiring visiting nato warships to declare whether nuclear weapons were aboard. This week s meeting will be the last nuclear planning session Tor . Defense Secretary Frank Cariucci. As suming he is not retained by the next , Carlucci is expected to return to Europe for the annual meeting of nato defense ministers id de Cember. News updates pos to be freed Nicosia Cyprus a Iraq announced saturday it will release 25 iranian prisoners of War in accordance with the . Cease fire Resolution the official iraqi news Agency said. The Agency monitored in Nic Osia Cyprus quoted an unidentified spokesman of the iraqi for eign ministry As saying the unilateral decision was relayed tothe International committee of the red Cross. The spokesman was quoted As saying the red Cross was asked Todis Plach a delegation 10 Iraq to take the necessary measures to re Patriate the  rebel carmelite nuns Morri township no a the Mother Superior and five carmelite nuns who rebelled against her by barricading themselves in their monastery have extended their period of seclusion a nun at the monastery said saturday. The nuns locked themselves in the infirmary at the monastery of the most blessed Virgin Mary of mount Carmel on oct. A. They fear expulsion for oppose my liberalization at the cloister including the introduction of Candy radio and television. Mother Theresa Hewitt says the dispute centers on the five nun refusal to obey her. There Are 11 nuns at the monastery. Turkish death penalty Ankara Turkey a president Kenan Evron has said that Turkey should abolish the death Penally in most cases As part of it Campaign to become a full Mem Ber of inc european Community the stale radio reported. Speaking to reporters on his Pri vate plane on his Way Home from an official visit to West Germany Evren said that the turkish parliament has not approved any death sentences in the last few years anyway the radio said. A total of49 people were executed by hanging Between i98&-i9b3 in Turkey. There have been no executions since 1984, and 220 people most convicted of political killings Are on Turkey s death Row. Iranian says curbs will be eased on operation of political parties Nicosia Cyprus a Iran s in formation minister says political parties in the islamic Republic sharply limited Over the last six years will be allowed to operate freely provided they do no conspire against the country s political system. One opposition group called the announcement a Bluff the minister Mohammad Moham Madi re Shahri in a statement monitored in Nicosia on sunday said that As Long As the parties demonstrate their commitment to the islamic system and abide by their commitments in action they can operate  the statement released saturday was carried by the official islamic Republic news Agency. It said there would be limits on party activities but did not spell them out. Political parties were allowed to Over soviets prepare for test launch of space shuttle Moscow up the soviet Union has begun checking on Board systems for a test launch of its space shuttle called Buran the Tass news Agency said sunday. A Western Diplomat forecast that the launch could be in the next few Days or by the end of the  television showed the giant in Ergisa Booster rocket which can Eft a pay Load of More than 100 tons with the Buran orbiter strapped aboard. It looked almost like a Carbon copy of the . Shuttle the on Board systems and equipment of the Booster rocket and the orbiter Are being checked now in accordance with the preparation schedule Tass said. The two paragraph Tass dispatch did not say whether the flight would be manned but soviet space officials have constantly maintained that the test launch of the soviet shuttle would be unmanned and would blast off before the end of the year. Tass did nol say exactly when the Lauch of the enc Gina Booster rocket with the Buran reusable spacecraft would blast off from Theba Konur cosm drome in Central Asia. Ate freely in Iran after the 1979 islamic revolution that toppled the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. But rifts Between different groups led ing the Mujahideen Khaliq organization and the monarchists. The main government party the islamic Republic party and other islamic groups continued to operate legally. The pro Moscow Tudich party was not banned until Early 1984. Several groups went underground and worked clandestinely after inc ban a parties act passed by the majlis or parliament in August 1981 provided for political groups to operate legally As Long As they upheld the Constitution. Groups were outlawed if they undermined National Unity sowed discord violated the principles of islam or the islamic foundations of the country or received for eign Aid. Parliament had nol passed the act enforcement procedures and with the minister1 statement the government appeared to Lay the groundwork Tor that. In Baghdad a spokesman for the Mujahideen Khaliq scoffed Al the announce ment. Ali Racza Jaf Cruzada. Spokesman for the opposition group that joined Iraq in fighting Iran during the eight year Gulf War told the associated press on sunday that the announcement is nothing new and was made for external consume  the regime is besieged by International condemnation for its massive executions and this is an attempt to beautify its ugly image the spokesman said. The opposition group charges that tens of thousands of political opponents have been jailed and executed. Vice president Nixon left lasting impression Springfield i m a p a barbecued Buffalo Sandwich once bitten into by Richard m. Nixon is being preserved for posterity by an to lab funnily. Steve Jenne now 42, was boy scoot la his Nieft Stull in when Nixon then Rice president Unk his Ittah into the Sandwich. Jenne walked off with the uneaten portion and Hii family has kept it in a dip freeze since. It la probably stay Frozen forever Jenne said recently. 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