European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 12, 1989 rough seas help break up Oil spill Valdez Alaska a or was Good news tuesday for the clean up of the nation s worst Ever nil spill when a rough sea became a churning Cal Dron that helped break up part of the Exxon Valdic. Slick. It s not proceeding any farther and breaking into tar balls that sink. Coast guard spokesman Ken freeze said tues Day thai s but Ltd than Joey gooey  a Light slice wish a thickness Fuji Siirid in molecules was spotted at Scal lured Siles inside inc Kenai fjords a lion in part but posed no serious threat. Freeze said Kelt Tud Story on Pyrc 7.  meanwhile said it will reimburse the government for the military assistance ordered by president Bush but will write off the Cost on its taxes. In the Normal course of things Cost of doing business is deducted from your income tax and hat is How it is expressed to  said Don Cornell the. Company Slop Alaska executive. The spill has killed thousands of Birds and animals and gasoline prices in the United suites have surged in the Wake of the disaster . Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner warned Oil companies against using inc spill As an excuse to increase prices. ."."1f they re doing in. They re making a big mistake he said in Cincinnati. "1 Hope the Oil Industry in t foolish enough and i Don l think they Are i Haven t seen any proof of in to think they can Lake advantage of the situation at Valdez to raise prices unnecessarily the coast guard on monday said inc Oil had stalled from its southwesterly move toward Kodiak Island which was the nation s richest fish in port last year. The weather is breaking up the Slick and that s  coast guard spokes Man Rick Midi said. In addition the Oil had travelled no far ther Southwest than Gore Point about 80 Miles Northeast of Kodiak in three Days. The weather did get very rough out there said Hal Alabaster spokesman for the National oceanic and atmospheric administration. Under certain conditions. These weather factors could be very Benefi cial.". Officials will have o Wail for a break in the weather 1o Sec How successful Waves and winds have been at breaking up the spill. There was some concern that As two storms moved closer 10 land higher Waves in Prince William sound Caulfi Wash Oil Over booms protecting spawning areas. Army from Page 1 nation hat the . Government could accept. There s nothing classified about this Effort i ridges added. The army is attempting to update ils Basic Law of land warfare Field manual which has t been revised since i ?i6, the existing manual has a definition for assassination which does t mean anything that dates to the Hague convention of 1907," fridges continued. , inc 1907 Hague Conven Tion  is  forbidden in kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or  according to Bridges Overholt s draft memorandum was authored by a lop aide w. Hays Parks and initially  in Polo bar by  advocate general in a Thor agencies for comment. Stale depart ment and Cia lawyers arc considering inc matter he said. The oct Holt memo said a prohibition against As Stuj nation will mean different tilings during limes of War and peace. War. In essence legalizes the killing of the  inc memo stated. During peacetime. Over boil continued inc Stan Dards us conduct must be defined under the , charter which recognizes the inherent right of self defense of nations a and Domenik Laws and regulations. With in inc United slaves. Then president Ford signed presidential order 12313 in 1976 Banning at tempts to assassinate foreign leaders in the intervening 13 years the nature of the threat has changed rather than the International Legal right to respond m the threat Over boil wrote in is noted that the terrorist individuals or organizations inv Mcd As appropriate to necessitate or War rant an army u response by . Military forces arc Well financed highly organized paramilitary structures engaged full Lime in the illegal use of Force the memo said. -. ,.- the Rig Lii of self defense would be appropriate to the attack of terrorist leaders or Morist infrastructure that through their actions pose a continuing threat to . Cili ens or the National Security of the United states. A National .Decisiontoemploy military Force in self a clinic against a legitimate terrorist threat would nor be unlike thai employed  to an overt conventional  missile from Pagal any decision that would so to bypass Llie december i9h7 .-Snvict treaty that eliminates intermediate Range nuclear Rte Chrles with a Range of 300 to 3,000 Mil. Tic Short attn be missiles have a ran a of up to .10q Miles. Nato Welense ministers Aret discuss inc Issue in the nuclear planning group meeting m Brussels on Panl nato has 88 launchers for the Lance missile which has a Range of about 70 Miles to c Uris cd Stales supported by Britain would like a signal from its european allies endorsing the development of a replacement of the Lance so that Congress would be wilting to approve funds for the program  where most Lance launchers Are deployed and w hich fears it would become the Battlefield on which Short Range missiles might be used argues that it is not i Jim to decide on actual deploy men of a modernized missile it says the lances we a remain operational until 1995. Star wars laser works in simulated space test by Norman Black a military writer Washington a High powered chemical laser developed for the Star wars program has been successfully tested for the first Lime in a vacuum chamber simulating the conditions of space the Pentagon said monday the test described As major Milestone by the defense department was conducted Friday at a Spe Cial facility in san Juan Capisi Ranu Calif. While the Alpha laser generated a laser beam for Only one fifth of a second the initial first huh test was sufficient to verify the theoretical calculations Hal were made. In designing the device said Neil Griff the program manager for chemical lasers Ullh the strategic defense initiative organization. The Alpha device has Long been described As the Pentagon s most promising technology for a Small lightweight laser that could be Bull Woltti enough Power to operate As a weapon in space. This is the first time we have demonstrated a laser we believe is scalable in Power to meet ski requirements Grill said. He declined to disclose at what Power Levels the laser operated in Friday s test saying the inform lion was classified but he agreed thai they were considerably smaller than what would a needed for an orbiting space weapon. French police Hunting for clues in Airliner crash that killed 22 Valence France a investigators dug through the wreckage of a twin engine Fokker f27 aircraft tuesday hoping to find the flight recorders that might shed Light on Why the plane crashed killing All 22 people aboard. There  immediate explanation for Whai caused the plane to smash into a 300-foot Cliff in the wooded in uni Airbus arca 15 Miles East of Valence at about 9 10 . Monday. Within hours of the crash rescuers had recovered the bodies of the. 19 passengers and three Crew Mem Bers aboard the uni air plane chartered by Europe Aero service in route to Valence from Paris the crash spread wreckage Oyer several Hundred Yards police said. They said victims bodies were taken to a nearby Chapel for identification. Valence is on the Rhone River 41 Miles South of Lyon. Investigators searched tuesday morning for the Flient Dflia recorder and cockpit voice recorder that might reveal what happened in the final moments of the flight. Air controllers at the  near Lyon said the Pilot reported a routine approach to the airport1 and no particular problems during his lust Contact about eight minutes before the aircraft was scheduled to arrive they said the plane was flying at an Altitude of about 3,000 feet win re disappeared from radar there was a Light fog. A ceiling of about 5,000 feel and  at inc time of the crash. Takeshita admits getting Money from firm linked to bribe scandal Tokyo apr prime minister Noboru Takeshita said tuesday he received about 51 million in political donations from the company Al the Center  major Bri cry scandal Bill he rejected opposition demands to resign. I am aware that the recruit scandal is inc most serious Mailer i Haw Ever experienced m the 38 Cors of my political  said in a nationally televise cd Stasion  s budget Corn Micire Politica re form is essential to overcome the current situation arid Resl orc Public Trust in  take Salta s admission Tuest Lay was a reversal of com ments he made before parliament last october when he said he had not received any Money from recruit co., an informal Ion and publishing conglomerate. I do not remember the details of a Sale mini but 1 probably did not have a Clear recollection of the . In recent Days Takeshita. Has acknowledged to report ers that he received donations from recruit. The disco prompted his explanations before parliament on tuesday in Welense of his administration "1 am feeling my political and moral responsibilities very strongly t3 a Sola said i think it is important to Settle this matter legally and politically As soon As Possi  prices on the Tokyo Stock Market had fallen for so eral Days As investors worried Over the reports and what might yet come in the expanding scandal. But following take Shila s tuesday statement the nikkei Slock average shot up More than 0.75 percent. Talc Shita said nothing Dorsc than thai Haj already been disclosed said Kanji Ishizu Knof Daw securities. Takeshita said recruit and its subsidiaries gave about is million Between 198s and 1987 to his political support groups in the form of donations and purchases of fund raising party tickets while he was finance minister and Sec relay eneral of the ruling Liberal democratic party the pome minister said the funds were handled strictly As political donations