European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Indiana rips South Carolina in Liberty bowl sports Page 21 the St ars and stripes �utmobi1eo Zuboff Licul pubiic�t10 i Fob the . Lehto of duct Good Myrtil nil vol. 47, no. 255 Friday december 30, 1988 surd., d 8693 a 86 installations face a panel used military value As basis for decisions by Chuck Vinci i a Hon Tun Bureau Washington the political Bombshell that capital Mill had been awaiting and dreading was detonated thursday with surprising Force when the commission on base realignment and closure recommended 86 installations be shut Down. The commission which reviewed 4,200 Domestic installations had been expected to target 20 to 30 buses for clo sure. However among the h6 Are 52 stand alone family housing units that May consist of Only a Tew buildings and technically ate not bases. The panel also recommended five bases for partial closure and 54 for realignment. Among major installations included for closure were George fab and Norton fab both in California. The panel also that port Dix n.j., be reduced to Skeleton status. Set Story Hack pane while Cost considerations and size and location of the bases were factors in the commission s work military value was our Touchstone said co chairman Jack lid wards a former Republican con Gressman from Alabama. If a base had military value we did t bother it if it was Larking in Mili tary value we took a look at the decision to realign missions and functions at Many bases was made be cause splitting such missions Between various facilities did t make any sense said co chairman Abe Ribicoff former democratic senator from Connecticut. Put them at one base and make the Mission More savings in base operating costs Are estimated at s700 million per year while Overall savings at a minimum would be about $3.6 billion Over 20 years Ilic two men said. The Independent non partisan com Mission worked in strict secrecy in nondescript offices to shield itself from the political firestorm that inc list inevitably will produce. the other 10 Mem Bers were veterans of Capitol Hill Indus try inc Pentagon and i he pm Iron mental movement. Closing military bases is politically volatile because inc bases provide jobs for thousands of voters in lawmakers sea a on Bach Page airlines beef up Security in Britain can am passengers undergo Security checks at Frankfurt Airport thursday but no extra Steps were in farce. Locker Jan. Scotland a . Airlines Light ened Security at British airports thursday us investigators tried to determine How a bomb got aboard pan am flight 103, at Heathrow International Airport s Busy terminal 3, used by both pan am and Twa passengers had to put baggage through a Ray machines As part of the new Security measures the baggage was then scaled with Tough plastic strips before Check in to prevent Tam Pering see related stories 1 Are 9. Police patrolled the Check in areas of the two air lines carrying machine guns issued to them under an anti terrorist measure imposed in 1986. Ground staff also Juiz re passengers on whether they packed their own suitcases whether their Luggage contained anything that could be used As a weapon and whether anyone had asked them to carry items for them. Hank Aurbach pan Aro s chief in Northern Europe said the airline had met All the requirements set by the department of transportation in a directive to step up Security tie refused to give details. In West Germany however inc to Tessin state Security chief at bus Frankfurt Airport said last week s crash had not led officials to order any stopped up Security for . Carriers. Security chief horse Hansleit also emphasized that individual airlines working in cooperation with pc def. See Security on Back Page unfolding Conrad spy Case stranger than fiction by Rosemary Sawyer Slaff a Rilver the Story has All the makings of a second Rale spy novel letters signed by a fictitious hungarian Ganrud two doctors acting As double agents the Cia and a retired . Army sergeant. Instead of fiction however the talc is the unravel ing of accusations levelled at former sgt. 1st class Clyde acc Conrad. West German authorities arrested the former 8th inf div Soldier aug. 23 for his alleged role in leading an International spy ring that tunnelled army and nato defense secrets to the soviet Union for 10 years. Also arrested that Day in Sweden were two Brothers hungarian born doctors charged with act ing As Conrad s couriers. Conrad 41 remains in investigative custody at an undisclosed West German prison facing charges of either espionage or treason. A treason conviction could land him life in prison. But while Conrad Waits the Story continues to a took Back at i unfold Starling with the doctors october trial in Obi Borg Sweden. Sandor 48, and Imre Hercsik x were sentenced o prison terms of 8 months each for carrying nato defense secrets Al in godly supplied by con Rad to the hungarian intelligence service. In the midst of their document running the Brothers also launched a relationship with the Cia offering to provide the United states information on the kind of nato secrets Hungary had a Cess to according to court testimony the Cia connection began when Conrad visited the pc Rasiks in Sweden and the Trio wrote a letter to the . Intelligence Agency. The hungarian language letter which was signed David said that if interested inc Cia should place a newspaper and that included the figure 99,999, the court report said. Publishing the number was to signify America s willingness to buy the info coun document said Conrad mailed the letter in West Germany and shortly thereafter the Adap geared. The scoring Ohio native allegedly Mel the Korcsik Brothers again in Sweden where they wrote a second letter in which they named a hungarian secret service Kingpin their first meeting with the american Agency according to the court report occurred later that year in Zurich Switzerland where they received 100,000 Marks about $ss,000, for their information from a. agent. " following the , agent s instructions the Trio sub sequently received 106,000 Marks about $61,600, in continued on Page 3
