European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 20,1989 Arfy comeback of not so plane Jones stirs Flap Gwinn. Mich. A paintings of Glamor Ous women with exotic names Are returning to the noses of some of the air Force s bombers. Some women s rights groups say the world  11-Era Art form should have been left in the 1940s. Why do they do this to us asked Junior Bridge a spokeswoman for the National organization for women in Washington after hearing a description of the artwork mostly Busty women Long on legs and Short on clothes. I would Hope that chapter had been closed Mary Ruth daughter of the National Nomen s history project in Santa Rosa. Calif., said wednesday. The paintings and the use of nicknames for planes returned in 1985 at some strategic air come bases Only said maj. Dennis Pierson at Sac Headquarters in Omaha. Neb. Sac has about 40 major bases in the United states and overseas. The program is warming the hearts of pilots in Sac s snowiest Post. . Sawyer fab on Michi Gan s upper Peninsula. They love it. There is a lot of personal Pride said it. Col. John Walther. Assistant Deputy commander of operations at the base. The command is trying real hard to upgrade How the air planes look and  the Art also adds personality said Sawyer spokesman capt. Paul bicking. B-52h-0060 is now known As Diamond girl. Bomber no. 0038 has become .38 special Dis playing a Busty figure in a Bikini while 0047 is a Leggy Classy Chassis. There Are some differences from the flashy sometimes Gaudy paintings that adorned plane sin world  ii these Days the Lovely ladies painted Over Dull greyish Black camouflage paint Are in subdued less visible hues of Dusky red and Shady Blue. Sawyer also has added subdued rainbows to the tails of its Kc-135 tankers borrowing the Rainbow logo and somewhere else slogan of local to station. Departing Reagan baffled by captives held in Lebanon Bush invites group of seven to economic meeting in . Washington a the United states has invited finance ministers from six of its largest allies to meet in Washington on feb. 3 to review the global economic situation a Treasury department official said thursday. President elect Bush who will be sworn in Friday has said he wants to have a review of the problem of third world debt which now has reached s1.3 trillion. The meeting of the so called group of seven or g 7. Would bring together Treasury Secretary Nicholas f. Brady and his counterparts from Japan West Ger Many. Britain France Italy and Canada. The official who spoke Only on condition of anonymity said the meeting also would allow the new members to get better acquainted. Brady who took Over his Post last summer met other g-7 members last september in Berlin. Tatsuo Murayama took Over As japanese finance minister dec. 27. Washington a president Reagan acknowledged thursday that he leaves office without a hint or a clue As to the whereabouts of nine Ameri cans held hostage in Lebanon and said any overt res Cue attempt could risk their lives. We Don t know where they Are Reagan said in a Farewell interview with news service reporters. The president said that while he feels badly about the hostages languishing in the hands of pro iranian elements in Lebanon the situation should not be Lik ened to the one that existed when he came to office in january 1981. Fifty two americans held hostage in Tehran were released Jan. 20, 1981 the same Day Reagan was inaugurated and president Carter left office. Reagan criticized Carter during the 1980 Campaign for having been unable to win the hostages release. On Jan. 7, 1980, while campaigning for the gop nomination before the new Hampshire primary Rea Gan said Carter s response to the taking of american hostages in Iran was too  i believe it s appropriate to suggest that anything that has been done by the administration so far could have should have been done in the first hour Reagan said. The United states should have ordered an eco nomic Boycott he said and set a deadline beyond which the boycotted country could not go without serious harm to itself. In thursday s interview Reagan did not take Back that criticism. We were facing two very different situations he said noting that in the earlier situation More than 50 people had been held in an embassy and that they had been kidnapped by the government of Iran. This is another one in which some terrorist group has Kidnap Ped several individuals he said. We know that any overt attempt at Rescue even if we did have a hint or a clue could run the risk of their assassination or execution before we could get them out Reagan said. There has t been a moment that this has t been on my mind i think the two situations Are completely  Reagan said however that at the end of Carter s term. I made a number of statements and so Forth that were aimed at helping. In other words portraying myself and the things i said to that government that was holding them that maybe they d rather Deal with him than wait and Deal with  during the half hour interview in the Oval office one of a spate that Reagan has granted As his presidency draws to an end he said a technical state of  does still exist Between Israel and the Arab nations and . Officials believe that peace can Only come about when the principal themselves agree to  he did not know of any presidential pardons that Are imminent although he did not Rule out any Lith hour pardons. It does t seem very Likely he said. He still believes that former White House aides Oliver North and John Poindexter eventually will be cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the Iran Contra Case and he believes trials should proceed so there will be no lingering doubt about their innocence. He appreciates the potential of . Military Power and the responsibility of a president saying that i Don t think there has Ever been a moment in his eight year presidency when Dering a nuclear attack. He had to consider or i m quite sure we d never be the first to press the Button Reagan said Reagan said he would not give unsolicited advice to a file president Reagan. No unsolicited advice for Bush president elect George Bush after leaving office Fri Day but would try to help if asked. On the question of . Dealings with the soviet Union Reagan said he thought that Bush would move Forward on reducing the superpower stockpiles of Long Range nuclear weapons but that caution should reused. I think we have to realize that in these negotiations. They re not just based on what someone says. They re based on deeds he said. And i think that George will be very prepared there based on what the deeds  Reagan said he does not believe that he is less popu Lar in Europe than soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev As some polls have shown. I can t quite accept that he s More popular than Iam Reagan said. The president criticized what he called a total Media distortion of the nature of Covert . Arms sales to Iran in 1985-86 through Israel. Reagan said that the initiative got under Way at a time when everyone was saying that the Ayatollah was not going to live out the  he repeated his Oft stated position that the sales of anti tank and anti air Craft missiles to elements in Iran did not amount to trading arms for hostages. Reagan said . Arms were sold to moderates in Iran who would turn it Over not to the revolutionary government of Iran but to the regular military which had been created. In Large part by the United states. And it would give them the prestige they need if they were to be Able to take Over the government and establish a democratic government  Reagan lifts ban on Oil firm business in Libya \17aotttvt/-11 to vat Arr j _. .1 .1 of Washington a president Reagan thursday authorized american Oil companies to resume doing business in Libya after a three year hiatus saying that the move was necessary to protect . Interests there. Reagan s decision will eliminate the significant financial Windfall which Libya has been receiving under an agreement that five Oil companies signed with Moa mar Qadhafi s government in 1986, White House spokesman Mariin Fitzwater said in a statement. At the time the administration imposed Broad ranging economic sanctions against Libya three years ago the trea sury department authorized the Oil companies to negotiate so coded standstill agreements with Qadhafi s government. These contracts provided for a suspension of operations of the . Oil Compa Nies in Libya to protect the firms from charges of default on their contractual obligations to Libya s state owned Oil company. . Officials and business executives have voiced concern that if the . Companies Are still prohibited from operating in Libya when these agreements expire on june 30, Qadhafi May follow through on threats to seize their assets. This decision does not represent a change in the attitude of the . Govern ment toward Libya Fitzwater said. We remain deeply concerned about Qadhafi s continued support for terror ism and subversion As Well As libyan efforts to develop a  under the agreements the five Ameri can firms Amerada Hess Conoho . Grace Occidental Petroleum and Marathon Oil had won a recognition by Libya of their 49 percent interest inthe state owned Oil company. Under the pacts Libya since 1986 has continued to extract Oil from the Ameri can facilities while reaping the profits. The effect of the decision will be to permit the . Oil companies subject to the restrictions on Trade and travel which remain in effect to resume their operations in Libya Transfer operations to for eign subsidiaries or sell their assets the White House statement said. It noted that the . Trade embargo against Libya and the freeze of libyan assets in the United states which were renewed on Jan. 7 for one year remain in effect As do bans on travel related transactions and the use of . Pass ports for travel to Libya