European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strides d Midway will be 2nd Carrier to be mothballed Page 2 d sh-60f helicopter s troubles called exaggerated Page 4 d Boycott Exxon Campaign goes nationwide Page 5 d with help lost brats find one another Page 9 and stripes vol. 48, no. 17 d 8693 a a Dupion to nato Riff possible i., w. Germany Ponder 4 of ans by Ihi-1 of West German Chancellor i i Clemul Kohl also signalled Washington the United so pcs and Wisl new flexibility saving he is very optimistic urn a Germany Are moing toward a to Compromise can be reached by the time 1 resident their dispute Over Short Range nuclear Mehes and Bush travels to Europe in three weeks. See related May Patch up the rift in Lime for nato Lea few to Story. I re 3. Celebrate their regained Unity at a Summit meeting few i am ready to make a contribution to that Compro month. Officials said tuesday. T Misc and Sec Good chances of one Kohl told reporters administration officials said they have proposed -tfj0"10several solutions to the quarrel within nato which %. And West German officials said at least four some us. And Kuropcak diplomats have called the possible solutions have been discussed in consultations most serious dispute in the -10-year history of the Alii among % 1 nato governments amx. An announcement thai the United states would v unilaterally reduce. Nato s 88 aging Lance Short Range missile launchers while it is installing a smaller number of More modern missiles coupled with a Chal Lenge to the soviet Union to reduce its estimated 1,400 Short Range launchers to the same level. A. Call for negotiations with the soviet Union on Short Range missiles As soon As substantial Progress is made in the current Vienna talks to reduce conventional armed forces in Europe. Agreement by West Germany to develop an accurate and powerful non nuclear missile that could even see nato on Back Page Naples Sailor charged with desertion , Cruger and Candida Sansons. Mediterranean Bureau Naples. Italy a 22-year-old Petty officer missing since july was charged with desertion tuesday and her father said she seemed to be glad that it s i a Tiv officer 3rd class Jennifer Muir once thought to have been a victim of foul play was to he flown wednesday to Rota. Spain where she will be confined in the naval Brig it. Dave Morris a Navy spokesman said. Police in Southern Nlaly picked Muir up before Dawn monday after her father Tom Muir. Appeared sunday night on a nationwide television program from Rome that attempts to track missing per sons. I have not been alone with her at Muir. An ism systems Engineer from Trumbull conn., said in an inter View tuesday afternoon. He visited his daughter tuesday morning in the naval Hospital in Naples where she had been taken for medical evaluation. We did t talk about the nine months she was missing or Why new ent away because there was always a Security per son present he said the fact that she s alive and Well and. Sas Oary Millar Tom Muir father of Petty officer 3rd class Jennifer Muir. During injun new. Safe Are the important things. Yesterday it was my problem today it is her prob Lem. She needs to Deal with the prob Lem. There is no taking away from the fact that she ran away and stayed away. And she needs to Deal with Muir said his daughter told him she was going to Call several times but for various reasons she was afraid. Not that anyone slopped her he said. She does t seem displeased with being caught. She seems to be glad thai it s Over. I Haven t had a Chance to think about my feelings about her running away and not contacting anybody. I told her. I m not mad at you yet she said i know you you la be mad in a week or two " in. He said he answered yeah. 1 Proba will commander of naval support activity Naples where Muir was a comm with the military sea lift come. Isto appoint an officer to deter mine in a hiring whether Muir will be sent to capt Airt Mast non judicial punishment or Rocen a court martial mor Ris said. If convicted by mpg sacral court mar tial Muir could receive no mum sen tence of three years in confinement forfeiture of All pay and Flo Wancus see Sailor on Back Page shortened countdown begins for shuttle launch Cape canaveral Fla. A Aji abbreviated countdown began tuesday for launching the space on a once delayed planetary Mission. Astronaut David Walker who a i command the flight and his four Prev. Males flew Here tuesday afternoon from their training base in Houston where they went Afler their flight was scrubbed Friday just 31 seconds before the planned liftoff because of a Short circuit in a fuel pump. Technicians working around the clock replaced the pump and a Leaky fuel line in half the time expected and Nasa was Able to schedule the launch attempt at least a Day earlier than it had thought it could. There Are no major problems in sight Robert Crippin Nasa s Deputy director for operations said after a mis Sion management meeting. We re press ing on toward a thursday he said liftoff is scheduled for 1 48 . Est. The shuttle will carry the $550 million Magellan probe a robot spacecraft bound for Venus. It will be the first . Planetary Mission in 11 years and the first to staunches from a space shuttle. Air capt. Thomas strange said in weather Outlook for thursday was favourable. The biggest problem and it , he said might be High crosswindsv1hal could be danger Ous it Atlantis had to make an emergency Landing on a runway near the launch pad. Damaged furred on Iowa can be fixed Navy says by Richard iia Loran Washington not the Navy says the Turret aboard the Battle ship Iowa severely damaged by a gun powder explosion two weeks ago can be repaired but has made no decision on whether to proceed because the Cost of the repairs has not been determined. Shortly after the explosion capt. Fred a Moosally. Skipper of the 58,000-ton warship said at a news conference in Norfolk. Va., that he did not know whether the technology existed to repair a Turret nearly 50 years old. At that time he said an option would be to Button up the Turret if in had been too damaged to repair or too costly to replace returning his ship to sea duty and relying on its other two turrets with three 16-Inch guns each. That decision has now Evi Dently been narrowed to the Cost fac Tor. The Iowa has been moved from a pier at the naval station in Norfolk to an Anchorage in the Bay where the Gunpowder remaining in its magazines can be unloaded. Seven minutes after the explosion Moosally ordered the Magazine which is outside the Turret on the Bot Tom level to be flooded to prevent further explosions. The ship s damaged Turret has been Sec Iowa on Back Page
