European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday october 28,19b8 . To raze bugged Moscow embassy Washington a president Reagan said thursday he United slates has no Choice but o tear Down the nearly Complete . Embassy in mos cow because the facility is riddled with eavesdropping devices. Reagan walking toward his helicopter to begin a Campaign trip to Arkansas Missouri and California was asked it he had decided the embassy must be demolished. Yes he replied because there s no Way to rid it of the Many listening de news briefs vices that were built into  we have to do it. We have no Choice Reagan said. Asked where the Money would be found for a replace ment he replied Well take it away from something  we re going to Start and have an american built one he said of the embassy. The Washington Post reported thurs Day that Reagan will recommend to con Gress hat the embassy be razed and re built at a Cost estimated at 1300 million. The newspaper said it could Lake five years to build a replacement eight Story embassy on the same site with materials imported from the United states. State department sources have said Secretary of state George Shultz recommended the move to Reagan. The Reagan administration believes the embassy building which was mostly completed by 1985, includes Struc Tural elements riddled with devices that were intended for eavesdropping. Details of those findings have not been released. The newspaper said officials plan to fabricate the building s main elements in the United slates ship hem to the soviet Union keep them under heavy guard and have the building assembled by . Wori Cere taken to Moow for the construction project. State department officials said dial while the . Embassy is being constructed soviet officials in Washington will be barred from using their Long completed but unoccupied embassy office building. Ferry owners must explain Why ship sailed into storm Manila Philippines a authorities on thursday ordered the owners of a ship that Sank with up to 500 people aboard to explain Why they allowed the vessel to sail into typhoon Ruby. President Corazon Aquino threatened to sus Pend sulpicio lines owners of the 2,855-ton Dona Marilyn if the investigation finds the company negligent. Elsewhere the red Cross and government agencies said at least 150 other people were killed an land during the typhoon which slammed Inlo the agricultural heartland of Cen trial Luzon Island before entering the South China sea on tuesday. The Dona Marilyn Sank monday in the vis Ayan sea about 300 Miles Southeast of Manila at the height of the storm. Shipowners said at least 197 people had been rescued most of them on Small nearby islands. At least 33 bodies were recovered. Hostage letter found in Luggage May be phony Milan Italy a a letter bearing . Hostage Alann Stycn s name found in a Leb anese woman s Luggage appears to be a fake police said thursday. The letter and photographs of two . Hos tages were discovered oct. 20 in a false Bottom of Fth woman s Luggage after she arrived at Milan s Linatoc Airport from Beirut. Police said earlier that the photographs of Stern and Terry Anderson were reproductions of ones issued by kidnappers months ago a third photograph found with the others has not yet been identified. The lebanese woman identified As Aline Ibrahim Rizkallah 36, was arrested after authorities discovered she was carrying $ 1,000 in counterfeit . Bills and 1.7 ounces of heroin. She said she had received the pictures documents and drugs in Lebanon from a Man she identified Only As Sham a police spokesman said. The woman claimed Shant was in Contact with Hezbollah the organization linked to pro iranian extremist groups holding the hostages a police spokesman added. One faction with ties to Hezbollah islamic jihad reiterated thursday Hgt it was not connected with the woman and had not provided the photo of Anderson. Disputed radar station placed under control of soviet scientists Moscow a the soviet government is giving to its Academy of sciences a radar station that the United states contends is in violation of the anti bal Listic missile treaty and has offered to eliminate two other radar components a soviet spokesman said thursday. Gennady i. Gerasimov the soviet foreign ministry spokesman read a government statement that said the moves did not constitute an admission by the soviets that the radars violate the 1972 abm treaty which barred the two superpowers from developing new mis Sile defences. The United states already has rejected As unsatisfactory anything Short of dismantling the giant phased Anny radar at Krasnoyarsk that soviet president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev previously offered to turn Over to a civilian Agency. Disputes Over Observance of the treaty have held up superpower agreement on a treaty to halve . And soviet arsenals of Long Range offensive nuclear weapons. The soviets have charged . Plans to develop the Star wars anti missile system also would violate the abm pact. Gerasimov said the radar facility at Krasnoyarsk which the United Stales contends violates the abm treaty is being turned Over to the soviet Academy of sciences. In keeping with a pledge president Mikhail s. Gorbachev made sept. 16. The Academy is to work on converting the radar station into an International Cen Ter for the study of space Gera Siroos said. Washington has said the soviet move on Krasnoyarsk is unsatisfactory because it docs not include Complete dismantling of the radar. Cracks from Page 1 plane ejected safely. General electric said it contacted the air Force about the potential for such cracks months before the crash. However be and the air Force initially believed the cracks occurred Only in engines with thou Sands of operating hours a company spokesman said in july. The air Force has never confirmed be s statement the plane involved in the Hermes Keil crash had 555 operating hours on its engine. Another be spokesman this summer cited the cracks As the potential cause of the april i g crash but company officials later denied the statement. However the air Force crash investigation report states that three of the first stage compressor Blades were cracked in the dovetail portion of their  one of the Blades failed due to fatigue and broke off at the base causing an engine surge overheating and finally the fire that led to the engine s failure the report said. In late May of this year engineers from be and the military tested two out of service. High use of Llos at ran Stein a West Germany. Both engines showed the same Type of cracks in the Blades and at the same locations. Although both engines had been used for thousands of hours engineers decided to remove and repair All f 110 engines with 550 or More operating hours. The report also said that the engine of the fighter that crashed in a Field near Hermes Keil had been re moved for repair a few months before the Accident. Al that time Many of the engine s Rotor Blades had cracks requiring repair but none was in the key dovetail base Section the air Force report said. Crash investigators also found that a lever Arm pin on one of the engine s Inlet guide vanes which direct the flow of air into he Turbine compressor was not hooked Inlo its connector links for undetermined reasons. The resulting misalignment could have resulted in compressor failure the report said but apparently did not contribute to the crash. Seventeen Safe fr16s have crashed since january 1985, including seven in Europe this year. Not count ing the last two crashes for which reports Are not yet available six of the mishaps were engine related. General electric since has come up with a Way to reduce stress on the engine s dovetail joint the fix is to be made to the 650 Al i of already in service and on All new f-110 engines according to air Force officials. Development of the f-110 engine was solicited by the air Force several years ago As a Way of increasing Competition among manufacturers of tighter engines. Most f-16s use a Pratt & Whitney engine. The Al 10 became available in 1986. A variant of the engine is used on the trouble plagued bib super sonic bomber. Be officials had no comment on the Hermes Keil report. Bush plan called treat9 for Rich trick for rest by the associated press Michael Dukakis renewed his attack thursday 911 George Bush s plan to reduce capital gains taxes suggesting it would merely help the Rich hire a second  Bush acc pied the endorsement of the 50,000-member National Marine Engi Neer beneficial association and praised . And soviet teams that have been try ing to free two ice trapped whales. Campaigning four Days before Hallow Een Dukakis said in Evergreen 111., that Bush s lax plan was like halloween come Early a treat for the wealthiest one per cent and a trick far the rest of  Bush has proposed reducing the top tax rate from 3j percent to 15 percent for capital gains such As profits from sales of stocks Bonds or real estate. The Republican presidential nominee has de fended his plan As a potential Boon to the  Economy contending people Bene fiting from the reduction then would in crease their investing. Who s he kidding Dukakis asked supporters in Evergreen Park a suburb of Chicago. What arc they going to do with the extra Money hire a second but Ter a lifeguard for the Pool president Cagan meanwhile was out seeking Voles for his vice president. In remarks prepared for a rally in Little Rock ark., he noted that the democrats have complained about negative gop campaigning and he said on nov a go into that polling Booth and do some negative campaigning of your own the right kind of negative campaigning say no to new taxes and yes to the Republican  the latest National poll by Abc news Washington Post showed Bush holding an eight Point Lead Over Dukakis a smaller advantage than the double digit margin the gop nominee had in two polls this week. The Survey of 1,242 Likely voters put the contest at 52-44 percent closer than the 13-Poinl Gap in a lbs news new York times poll and the 14 Points among Likely voters in a Gallup poll re lease tuesday the Abc Post poll was conducted during the seven Days ending tuesday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. In Hopes of turning the tide Dukakis was continuing his television appear ances with an interview on the lbs evening news thursday. Gop vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle was in Asheville n.c., where he renewed his description of Dukakis As a Liberal and said liberalism is a philosophy of the past. Ii is a philosophy Hal  democratic vice presidential Candi Date Loyd bin Lson Lold an audience in los Angeles that . Allies in Europe and Japan should pay a greater share of defending their own Borders. He also said Dukakis was committed to renin Taining America s defense and said re publicans had twisted the truth 10 Sug Gest otherwise