European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes wednesday november 16,198b private charged in slaying of Soldier at discotheque Schwabish Amund. Wat Germany army officials have charged a private fint class with premeditated murder in the death of a sol Dier killed saturday during a fight Al a Hail Bronn discotheque West German police arcs red inc suspect pfc. Willie a Bowen jr., 19, shortly after pfc. Owen. Mcalerney 21 was stabbed three limes with a switch Blade in he ambit a disco said 56lhfield arty come spokesman maj Jerry Hart. Authorities pronounced Mcalerney deaf Al the scene Afler the 1 30 . Stabbing. Both soldiers were riflemen assigned to co c,2nd in. 4th inf. Al Badin Crof Cavern in Heil Brinn. Police believe he fight stemmed from a argument Between the two soldiers. Hart said. The army s criminal investigation come which is conducting the murder investigation still is trying to learn what prompted the argument. About 300 people were in the discotheque when the tubing occurred. Hart is in lie army confinement facility Al Mannheim awaiting trial. He also is charge with violating an order specifically a u5ar Euk regulation prohibiting soldiers from carry ing concealed weapons. Cal cry who was single is survived by his parents or. And mrs. Thomas m. Mcalerney of South Easlon memorial service will be held nov. 23, the location hns not been announced. German killed when car army 5-ton truck collide Fulda. West Germany a to year oldest German died monday after his car collided head on with a . Army 5-Lon truck and trailer South of Fulda. A military Community spokeswoman said tuesday., n Harth Orschel Lichtm Wisl Germany was pronounced dead Al the scene after the Ope caravan he was driving was run Over by the military truck about 5 p.m., said renal wife Erika 48, was seriously injured and taken to the Fulda City Hospital. The couple dog also was Kilk a stir bar said. The army truck was travelling cast on West German Highway b-40 near flip Dan West Ger Many when it tried to pass a Van she said the truck crushed Hanh s oncoming car then broke through a Road railing and went Down a10-Foqt slope. The military Driver from the combat support so. I Ith army Cav regt was not injured slip bar said. The Accident caused about $20,000 damage according to a West German police report and traffic was rerouted for several hours. No information was available on whether the american would face charges. Galvin urges modernization to Ward off electronic rust by David Tarrant suit writer Munich West Germany an electronic rust could threaten nato weapons systems if the Alliance does not move ahead with modernization programs nato commander Gen. John a Galvin Wame tucs we look at modernization we have to realize that in a technological world there is such a thing As electronic rust the . Army four Star general it is necessary to modernise because the alternative for the military in modernization is the same As itis in the civilian world and that is obsolescence. Everything becomes obsolete speaking to a defense forum lit Munich Galvin also said nato should take care not to let the euphoria Over a recent arms reductions agreement with the soviet Union mask continuing imbalances in conventional and nuclear forces Between the East and the Wisl. You might Call is inc hostage faster in which hostage once freed will often Reserve some Praise for his captors. He has a euphoria from having been freed of All of the tension and pressure Galvin said. A similar release of tensions following the treat eliminating inter medial run go nuclear missiles has created a euphoria in the West he told about 200people at the mans Seidl International symposium on defense policy and strategy. It has Given us it feeling that All is Well and peace inhere and the dangers have gone away. Out to fact the soviet military at least on the conventional Side has not changed and i Sec that As our major problem he said. During the years that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev has been in office the soviets have deployed thess-24 and ss-25 intercontinental nuclear missiles he Sard Are being produced at the rate of 280 per month while in the Navy the soviets arc continuing to produce the Kiev class Carrier the soviets also recently declared operational the Blackjack bomber which Galvin called the largest bomber in the , the soviets have 30,000 More tanks than Means that if the soviets Stop their heavy tank production today and we triple our tank production in the West. And continue it that Way for 10 years we would stil not catch up Galvin the soviets have made recent Well publicized arms reduction proposals nato should not be swayed unless conventional imbalances can be corrected Galvin said. Instead nato should adhere to its strategy of flexible response strengthen its defense through modernization and negotiate first in a position of strength he said. Calvin s remarks were greeted enthusiastically by Many attending the meeting including some who noted that Public resolve for defense spending in the Wake of soviet arms reductions initiatives was wan ing. Galvin agreed concluding the real Challenge to us in nato is psychological. It s a question of question of Alliance Unity and it s a question of will. Will to face inc real situation will to say Wail there has been no reduction in conventional armament in the soviet Union. Those 30,000 tanks arc still there the Iron is still on the Battlefield. And we cannot have Wishful thinking Gorbachev to Meef with Reagan Bush Washington a soviet Leader Mikhail will meet with president Reagan and presi Dent elect George Bush next month for what Reagan called a Brief get together that s not going to be anything in the nature of Summit meeting the president said. Asked if Gorbachev might bring new proposals tothe meeting the president said i have no Way of speculating. Well just have to Sec what comes Reagan commented As he posed for photographer before a meeting with West German Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl in the Oval office. We Hope we can have a Brief get together the president said of the upcoming meeting which will be his fifth with Gorbachev. Spokesman Martin Fitzal Essaid that Neil Cra Date nor a site has been set although he acknowledged thai it would Likely Lake place in new York while Gorba Chev is there to address the . General Assembly. Other officials requesting anonymity said Gorba Chev would probably meet with Reagan and Bush on dec.7. Reagan asked tuesday if the december meeting could end up like the Summit in Reykjavik Iceland to which Gorbachev brought Surprise proposals on arms control but from which no agreements flowed inc president responded that depends on whether you arc going by the Public version of Reykjavik or what Actu ally happened he did not elaborate and reporters went on to other questions. -. When a reporter noted thai Bush has said he does not need Roget acquainted Wilh Gorbachev because he already is the president replied that the vice president has Wen involved in the meetings that we be had Winall these eight years we be been Here and he has Mcl and is familiar with All the National leaders that we hem tasked then Why Bush was going to be Al the non Ling. He said i think now in this present situation it would be proper for him lobe present.". Shuttle from Pagel .,.--. Started with the launch of the . Shuttle Columbia in april 1981. Soviet Media said the Buran As Well As sister Craft being developed will have a Central Rote in the nation s space us help satellites and space Craft will return to Earth from orbit and Crews will be taken to the Orbital com plex Mir and Back radio Moscow said. Toss said the soviet shuttle is Superior to its us counterpart because of a big Ger payload capacity and us ability to of automatically. " in the future this will allow cosmonauts to pay considerably More attention to scientific experiments it also for the first time made Public the shuttle s dimensions Buran roughly the same size As a passenger Airliner is il9feetlongand 18tt feel to diameter an has a wingspan of 79 feet Brady vestment banking House of Dillon read co., brings to his office an extraordinary knowledge of financial markets experience in the private Bush cited Brady s involvement in the presidential panel that studied the oct. 19, 1987, Stock Market crash As Well As in the Kissinger commission on Centra America and the Packard commission on Pentagon management. He knows that we must resist the policies that will impede that Effort to keep inflation Low such As raising taxes or resorting to Bush said. Asked whether he was making the announcement to Calm would financial markets Bush replied no it s not particularly bin he added "1 Hope to the degree they need calming they will have that cart Rel Bills from Pagel work 190 reports were made.". Earlier in the conference Richard Vallen former assistant to president Reagan Tor Security affairs said those looking for clues .-europwm relations under a Bush administration need Only last eight pc there will b1 e no significant transition for Bush and. No uncertainly in the minds of our allies As to where George Bush stands on Atlantic partnership including nato Allen said sunday. -. Still Bush faces some potential conflicts with euro peans Over such issues As relations Wilh the soviet Union defense spending and the . Trade deficit he the question of Osl politic or relations with the soviet Union Europe and the United states might find themselves clashing Over East West Trade and the Transfer of High Lechl ology products to Warsaw pact nations he said. ? ._.?continuing to address Trade issues Allen said Europe might View . Fears about the goal of a unified european Trade Market by 1991 As slightly nevertheless. Alien warned thai the United sales Likely will Pressor firm guarantees that its product still will have Access to european markets. As the . Seems unable to resolve its. Trade deficit with the rest of inc world and if it becomes More difficult for the . To compete with its trading part ners More americans will come to the conclusion that our trading partners arc not playing fair he said. Whether this is True is Only of marginal importance the Appeal of such an Issue is irresistible to politicians for its pan Europe should not misread the . Interest in the Pacific including the Philippines South Korea and Taiwan a detracting from its traditional focus on Europe he said. Jusi As Europe in the Post-1992 Era promises to bean engine of economic growth and Prosperity so too does Asia represent an incredible potential for euro Pean Industry and
