European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d . Beef gets red Light at Berlin s Green week Page 2 d . Diplomats close shop in Afghanistan Page 3 d Brady retiring As press Secretary Page 9 d 8 Canadian soldiers die in Arctic cc-130 crash Page 28 the St trs Anch stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 47, no. 286 tuesday january 31, 1989 254 daily and sunday d 8693 a nato is called key to Lance . Bureau London West Germany s defense minister Rupert Scholz said monday that the decision to modernize the Fleet of aging . Lance missiles in his country will be made this summer by nato not the West German government. The subject of Short Range nuclear forces modernization is one that will have to be decided within the framework of nato Scholz said at a news Confer ence with George younger Britain s defense minister following a morning of talks. Scholz on his first visit to Britain since taking Over As Bonn s military chief said he hoped the Alliance could come to an agreement on the 40th anniversary of nato in june about whether to upgrade the Lance. Scholz has been at the Center of the modernization Issue in his Homeland where Public opposition to the upgrade has been significant. Although nato agreed to upgrade the Lance in 1983, West Germany has since distanced itself from that decision. Leading opponents of the plan have noted that the Shorter the weapons the deader the  although he avoided specifics Scholz said there was room for reductions in tactical nuclear weapons based in West Germany. However he said his government believes there can be no further Zero option for Short Range nuclear  there is scope for reductions in Short Range sys tems in general especially with regard to nuclear Artil Lery he said. Scholz denied he was under any pressure from the United states or Britain to push for his government s agreement to modernize the missiles. The defense ministers said their talks included Dis Cussion on Low level flying by the Royal air Force in West Germany. Younger said both governments were studying the problem. Younger said both countries Are considering Safe minimums for the training and a reduction in volume to reduce  both defense ministers also said they welcomed sunday s announcement by the Warsaw pact that it planned further reductions of troops and tanks. However younger cautioned that this new apparent openness needs to be put in  citing unspecified reports younger said he believed the Warsaw pact s figures were highly selective and not in line with nato estimates. A act chief says Reagan Nof racist but and government stand Hurt blocks is Ken Georgen Acap Leader Benjamin Hooks answers a question at a Frankfurt news conference. By Janet Howells Tierne staff writer Frankfurt West Germany the Reagan administration s anti govern ment stance was a setback for Blacks although the former president was not a racist the head of the a act said Mon Day. He was never a racist said Benja min l. Hooks executive director of the 500,000-member National association for the advancement of coloured people. His problem was that he was anti government. And when you re anti govern ment you Are automatically against the things that have made Blacks  Hooks kicking off a six Day tour of West Germany for february s National Black history month credited big government with eliminating slavery setting the minimum wage Law eliminating child labor and providing social Securi  is big government that has helped people particularly the Blacks he said. The disturbing thing to me is we have not faced the fact that Reagan was be mused and blinded and bewildered by Why so Many Black leaders attacked him. It s very simple. He opposed the instrumentality which is the meat of our  Hooks called president Bush a breath of fresh  he s a different kind of Republican see a act on Back Page extreme right party gains in a Berlin vote Berlin a a former nazi is Soldier has shocked West Ger mans by leading a tiny right Wing extremist party to a Strong show ing in West Berlin state elections on a platform of ridding the City of foreigners. Sunday s vote also will Send two members of the Republican party to the Federal parliament next year the first time that the extreme right will be represented in Bonn since 1953. Kick out the nazis foreigners stay several thousand people chanted As they marched through West Berlin late sunday to protest the Republican party s Success. In the balloting Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl s governing Christian democrats lost their majority in West Berlin s legislature and said they now plan to form a governing coalition with the left of Center so Cial democrats. Kohl told the Ard television network that he was alarmed by the showing of the republicans. The 5-year-old Republican party captured 11 seats in Sun Day s voting for the 138-member West Berlin state legislature. West see Berlin on Back Page cubans admit troops set to Battle . In 62 Moscow a a cuban official has disclosed that 270,000 soviet and cuban troops were ready to go to War with the United states during the 1962 cuban missile crisis and that 100,000 casualties were expected former . Defense Secretary Robert Mcna Mara said sunday. In addition a soviet general confirmed for the first time that one third of his country s nuclear warheads designed to strike the United states were in Cuba at the time. However he and another soviet official said the warheads had not been mounted on missile launchers and were not ready for firing. Cuban Leader Fidel Castro was urging the soviet Union to ready the missiles and launch a nuclear at tack on the United states Abc news reported. The revelations came during a review of the cuban missile crisis at a weekend conference in Southwest Moscow. Pierre Salinger then president Kennedy s press Secretary a conference participant and now an Abc Cor respondent quoted a top soviet source sunday As say ing in a private conversation that on oct. 27, 1962, Castro urged soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to immediately fire the missiles at the United states to head off an invasion. The new. York times had a similar report monday quoting unidentified americans As saying the report originated with Sergei Khrushchev son of the former soviet Premier. It said Sergei Khrushchev subsequently denied making the comment. The report that Castro had urged the use of nuclear weapons also was denied by Aleksandr Alekseyev so Viet ambassador to Cuba in 1962. Soviets and americans have met before to discuss the soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba and the . Response a blockade of the Island and a de Mand for the rockets removal. But this was the first joint meeting with cuban officials who guided their country through the crisis. Khrushchev eventually withdrew the missiles in Exchange for Kennedy s pledge not to invade Cuba. At a news conference wrapping up the conference sunday Mcnamara said the figures on Cuba s War readiness and casualty estimate were provided by Jorge Risquet a member of Cuba s ruling politburo. They say they had armed 270,000 men. They were determined to fight to the death of every Man and they believed there would be 100,000 cuban and soviet casualties Mcnamara told reporters. It was not Clear whether the 100,000 casualty Esti see cubans on Back Page