European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Shevardnadze berates . On missile stance Page 2 n new director running sanity Check on ski Page 3 d what s in a code name not much sometimes Page 5 d suns bulls win in Aba playoffs sports Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol.48, no.28 monday May 15, 1989 Good morning if 2sc do and Sanaa d .8693 a Bush urges Noriega s ouster starkv1lle, miss. A president Bush sat urday called on the panamanian people to oust Gen. Manuel Noriega from Power saying i would love to see them get him  no i would add no words of caution he said when a reporter suggested Bush s words about Noriega might be interpreted As a Call to revolution or violent overthrow. The will of the people should be  but while figuratively showing a clenched fist to Noriega. Bush extended a Welcome to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev s announced plans to eliminate 500 Short Range missiles from Eastern Europe. Let him do what he says unilaterally. It would be Good the president , he offered no reduction in . Missiles in return saying the United Stales has already removed warheads from Western  foreign policy literally on the Fly. Bush spoke with reporters aboard air Force one in two separate sessions As he made his Way from Texas to a pair of College commencement speeches in Mississippi. No Effort will be successful until he  Bush said of the panamanian Leader whom he again accused of stealing the recent election. The president talked first with reporters on air Force one in Houston before giving two commence ment speeches in Mississippi that extolled Virtues of education family and work and did not touch upon see Bush on Back Page powerless after fire White Plains towed to Philippines base Subic Bay naval base. Philippines a a . Navy Supply ship was towed into Subic Bay naval base saturday four Days after a Blaze on Board killed six sailors and injured five others. Four tugboats towed the White Plains a combat stores ship to the Dock shortly after 10 . The skipper capt. Robert Tracy of los Angeles said the Crew needed showers sleep and to make Calls  fire broke out tuesday aboard the White Plains As it was transferring fuel to another Navy vessel about 100 Miles East of Hong Kong Tracy said. Tracy refused to give further details of the incident pending the outcome of Anavy investigation. The Navy refused to allow interviews with the Crew. All we know is we were transferring fuel and we had a Large  Tracy said. He said about 50 Crew members battled the Blaze for about an hour be fore it was extinguished. Tracy said the fire broke out in the main engine space covering four decks near the Center of the ship. Since the fire the vessel has been without electrical Power except for an emergency Generator that provided lighting in critical areas he said. The White Plains had to be towed from the scene of the fire to Subic Bay a base that includes some of the Navy s most extensive repair facilities in the Pacific . Officials said engineers would spend the next two Days assessing damage. Rear adm. I Geoffrey l. Chesbrough. Commander of the Navy s surface group Western Pacific praised the Crew of the White Plains. He said the ship had con ducted 115 replenishment since it left Guam in december to support Navy operations in the persian Gulf. The ship was returning to its Home port in Guam when the fire broke out. Chesbrough said he had visited the injured Crew members who were hospitalized at Clark a 50 Miles North of Manila. The 581-foot White Plains normally car Ries 403 enlisted men and 25 officers. Warm Welcome retired Marine it. Oil. Oliver North convicted of three counts slimming from the Sale of arms to Iran and diversion of funds  a warm Welcome at the Indianapolis 500 Lime trials sat urday. With North is his wife. Betsy. North signed autographs but refused to talk with reporters. See Story Page 21. Beep May warn submarines fishermen overhead Bidav Odiehl . Bureau University researchers May have come up with a Way of keeping fishing trawlers from falling prey to unsuspecting submariners. The problem is that they cannot pick out any noise from the net said Steve Ridgway head of Hull University s fishing systems technology depart ment. They need to know that a fishing vessel is engaged in  Ridgway and Keith Haywood think a net minding system proposed to the european economic Community will hit at the Crux of the problem sub marines snagging trailing nets from fishing boats particularly in and around the Irish sea. Submarines from the Royal Navy s base at fas Lane and the . Navy submarine so 14 at holy Loch in the Firth of Clyde Inlet routinely transit through and exercise in the area. We Are confident that we can build and test a device that will go a hell of a Long Way to solving this problem said Haywood the director of the Humberside fisheries Institute at the University in Hull England. Haywood said that for about $250.000 his Engi neers could develop a transmitter for Fisherman that would let submariners know where nets arc located. Ridgway said the giant synthetic nets often up to a half mile from their trawlers Are virtually impossible to detect. Without divulging too much detail Ridgeway said the invention would be a sort of transmitter that we Are confident that we can build and test a device. Keith Haywood would give coded information about the location of nets to submarine sonar Man. It is something that would t require any modifications to the sub he said. Ridgeway said he thinks the net minder system is Ideal reliably solving the traffic problems without compromising the submariner s location or asking the fish Crown to move. Scottish lawmakers visiting British and . Naval bases in Scotland last week received promises from sailors that they would be More diligent in efforts to avoid submarine and fishing boat mishaps. The Leader of the delegation member of parliament George Foulkes brought up the transmitter proposal to the navies and Haywood said he Hope the ministry of defense will want to know More about it and possibly help fund the project. In the last 10 years the . Government has paid out some $910,000 in admiralty claims to Fisherman who have come to grief with submarines. Those claims involved collisions sinking and settings. Since february 1987, the United states has paid out about $50,000 in three similar claims not including two recent ones still pending. A Royal Navy spokesman in London said his serv ice knows Little about the proposal  would keep its options open. V the Royal Navy is always willing to give favor Able consideration to any equipment that would help avoid collision the spokesman said i Don t think anything Concrete has been