European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The Sta , it Houed Tutlo vol.47tno,361 sunday april 16, 1989 d 8693 a the faces of Charlie Chaplin pages 14, 15 american Security to 543 l. Eur Anutt Lewis or anniversary of libyan bombing Bymark Moore staff writer italian police and Navy Security police increased patrols of . Military facilities in Naples As the third anniversary of the april 15 bombing of Libya by . Warplanes West Germany army Security officials built con Ernie barriers at a Broburg to thwart a possible car bomb attack and air Force officials moved a machine gun equipped armoured vehicle outside the main Gate at Rhein main a outside Frankfurt. Guards at Llic Gateway to Europe flak vests and helmets. Naples High school was scheduled to have a Leach ers workday thursday with Friday a Normal school Day Tor teachers and students. However the workday was switched to Friday so Slu a cols would no to in attendance. The temporary us Fleet Center near the Navy sleet Landing was shuttered on Friday for Security reasons and As a remembrance of last year s april 14 bombing of the downtown facility that killed four ital ians and a . Sailor and injured 17. Increased Security by italian police reportedly is see Security on Page 28security Ruard Robed c. Bauer checks identification and ref iteration at main Rale to Rhi in i him a terrorist Leader denies bombing flight 103 from wire reports new York Ahmed Jabril Leader of a group suspected of bombing pan am. Right 103, denies that his organization had any role in the Annick that killed 270 people in december. Y Jabril acknowledged however that his group routinely used the same Hind of bomb investigators say was use to blow up the pan am jumbo Jet. A total of 259 people on the plane and ii people on the ground died when the bomb blew the aircraft Cut of the skies Over Lockerbie Scotland dec. 21. To an interview Friday Jabril said his first Licus Nail la Nee dal Kamoni commonly built Atid used the Type of explosive Devi Marthat downed liner / Dalka Monus in jail in West Germany after a policy raid m october that netted weapons Anjo three bomb1. Jabril insisted that his group the Syri Bush won t visit Lockerbie Washington a one Day after the idea surfaced the while House and Friday that president Bush will no visit Lockerbie Scotland the site where i pan am jumbo Jet crashed alter by stir blown apart by a officials had said thursday that Bush would tilt lock Erbie to thank the people there so pitching to on the Sirch and re Merj Effort for victims of the , White House pics Tsatte. Tary Marlin said Leri Duy it mis decided Bush would not a a it was an idea. We could t w Akk it in he said. " " Stop � As planned for curly Yunfei on the Way Buck from u nato Summit in Brussels Belgium and visits to Italy England and West Germany. An sponsored popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command. Did not bomb the Airliner. Jahr Iralson denied that his group receives Money from Iran but said he shared Iran i outrage at How the United slates last year accidentally shot Down an ran civilian passenger plane. I Sec now that the incident of the pan am is neither worse nor uglier than the destruction of the i ran Ian a i r bus Jabril told Abc news. Doth of them arc crimes against civilians whether by the . Administration or by terrorist groups who May a c blown up the pan am. They Are equally Barbaric despite Nabrit s denials investigators suspect that his group planted the Bombon an unwitting pan am passenger at the Behest of Iran. N Well Germany however prosecutors said that they have no evidence to substantiate reports that a lebanese american passenger inadvertently checked i n the bomb aboard the Al Prechtel spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office said the suspected passenger Khalid Jaafar checked k two Smalt soft bags into the plane s cargo hold and not a hard suitcase proc Hycl said that British investigators had previously indicated a hard suitcase was used i carry the bomb Kep oits fast week by lbs news and the Newport times citing american officials. Saw Hal Jaafar had been tentatively identified Vas the unwilling Carrier of the bomb we Lela. Is believed to have been concealed in a portable radio Cas Sette recorder Detonator designed logo off at a set Altitude. Cheney proposing deep cuts in defense by hi1 Washington past Washington defense Secretary Richard Cheney in his first response to a shrinking military budget in Talm by Lias recommended killing several major weapon programs and deep cuts in army troop strength Cheney would Cut the Man be corp s new. V-2 2 Oil Ray Mode uni action of the a s Carrier based of a tomcat Jet fighter and Money for Fa-18s. Money for tic air Force s Fise and some funding for development of the b-2 stealth bomber. Al least one aircraft Carrier. The Coral sea or Midway arc Likely candidates jul it s inc army that will be hit with the largest troop cuts under the Cheney proposal. In addition the recommendations include deep cuts in the army s Light helicopter Eup Cri mental Lex attack and reconnaissance copter program. There Are some generals Here Down on their Knees said one Pentagon official. A spokesman for Cheney declined to comment on the recommendations saying inc documents Are classified and the proposal n not final the proposals were issued before the announced budget agreement Between the White Houm an congressional leaders thursday slashing s10 billion from inc 1990 fiscal car defense budget rather than the previously anticipated $6.3 billion. Although the military service leaders will have a Chance to respond 10 Cheney s proposals on monday and tuesday before the final document is delivered to the while House Pentagon officials said the de sense Secretary is unlikely to accept major changes especially after the announcement of additional cuts. Chances of reversal arc diminishing they May even disappear said one Pentagon official familiar with the budget negotiations. The new admins Truxion and congressional Leader thursday agreed to Cut the Pentagon s budget authority Lor fiscal year 1990 to $295.6 billion Down " see cuts on Page so
