European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o Marine corps faulted on role of women Page 3 p big Bucks won in new York pottery Page 6 d education news specials a Section pages 8-9 d Barry Sanders wins Heisman trophy sports Page 21 the Stesan stripes 1utxohi1ed unofficial hiblic1iioh Fon the . Armed Force Good Momma vol. 47, no no. 231 monday december 5, 198s w to &�.? d b693 a military rebellion ends in Argentina Buenos Aires Argentina map the four Day insurrection by army rebels ended after negotiations Wii i the government on sunday the army said. Gen. Isidra Caceres who directed the government operation to isolate and control the rebels ordered an end to those activities. The army said rebels had agreed to give up their weapons and explosives. The rebel commander. Col. Mohamed Ali Sci Noldin met with army chief it Gen Jose Dante Caridi and worked out an agreement by which Seine Din no his men accepted full responsibility Tor the insurrection and Caridi would step Down As he army s of official rebels had demanded wholesale retirements and promotions in the military Hierarchy a bigger military budget and an end to prosecutions for human rights abuses committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorships. No mention of those demands except for Caridi s resignation was made in the Accord which was reported by the Agency diaries y Noli Cias citing political and military sources. The uprising was the worst threat to president Raul Alfonsin since his civilian government replaced a Dis graced military dictatorship in 1983. The government had refused to negotiate with the estimated 500 rebels who had seized an infantry school at a military base outside use capita on Friday then moved to another military installation a heavily equipped Arsenal on saturday. Alfonsin had wide support to quell the third rebel lion in the past 18 months and pledged to suffocate authorities used tear Gas to repeatedly disperse pro testers who threw rocks and bottles at the Arsenal in Villa Martulli a working class neighbourhood nine Miles from downtown Buenos Aires tens of thousands of people gathered in plazas across this South America nation to support a democracy thai has suffered six military coups since the 1930s. The insurrection began last thursday when Mem Bers of an elite coast guard unit robbed an Arsenal and descried their base. Officers also tried to incite troops at two other army bases in suburban Buenos Aires. Tanks backing retell arrive their ref Urc scouting of pact s farces called vital study plays Down Surprise attack by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington blunting a sur prise attack from the Warsaw pact should be less of a concern for nato than being Able to pick up Early on Easl bloc preparations for War according to a new congressional report. The Warsaw pact has an Overall Lead in conventional forces in Europe but if the War was a come As you Are affair not everyone on heir Side could show up on time rep. Laspin d wish chairman of the House armed services committee said in a press release accompanying the report. The report released Friday was writ ten by the committee s defense policy panel and examines soviet readiness for War in Europe it concludes that a True Surprise attack is unlikely because the percentage of Warsaw pact forces hat would be Able to fight right out of the Barracks would not provide a decisive Edge Over nato defenders the Large numbers that show up in traditional bean counts include an awful lot of unprepared skeletal units fro zen Beans that would require time to thaw out Aspin said. Witnesses at recent hearings also said the soviets Sec a standing Start attack As the Riskiest kind of venture they could conduct particularly because they recognize the improvements made in nato s capability and readiness during the past few years. -.". soviet leaders also recognize that if this attack was Defeated it could cause the loss of Eastern Europe and ail the soviet forces in Germany he report said because the soviets believe thai both sides possess enormous military capabilities that could not be destroyed quickly even in a nuclear attack the soviets foresee prolonged theater campaigns the report said. Rather than the Surprise attack itself the True danger for nato would be if its members failed to respond to signs that the Warsaw pact was thawing out its units and mobilizing its forces. Aspin said. In a severe crisis if the pact is Given a one to three week head Start in making ready for War we might end up fighting it instead of deterring it he said Onato has to have the kind of Clear timely warning of pact War preparations that will convince the Public particularly in Europe thai counters cps have to be see scouting on Back Paga army studio unable to find controversial or. Ruth tapes by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington real gis Don t Wear condoms. Or that s one conclusion that might be drawn from the tale of two 30-Sccond television commercials on Safe sex made for the or. Ruth was theimer that never aired and later vanished. The Story begins in Fate 1986, when soldiers radio and television approached the diminutive celebrity sex therapist about doing the to spots according to capt Dave Boggs who now works in the army s Community relations division in Washington. She came to the Pentagon to talk about the idea and she was All for it said Boggs who at the time worked for the radio and television service a com Mand information element of army broadcasting. We went to her studios in new York to do the spots and Shch provided the Laoc and the use of her facilities writers for Westheimer s syndicated television show penned the scripts which were then edited Down by producer director Boggs and his Crew. When aping wrapped Boggs sent the spots up the army Chain of command for approval the Boss said they were very Good very funny but we d never use them he said. The army just does l want to say that soldiers should Wear the Boss in question was Gen. John Wickham jr., then army chief of staff. But the spots went up sea or. Ruth Emback Page or. Ruth Westh Cimer
