European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday january 16.1990 scowcroft Cheney differ on proposed missile ban Washington up a National Security adviser Brent scowcroft is pushing for a Mutual ban on Mobile land based missiles carrying multiple warheads but has encountered opposition from defense Secretary Richard Cheney an administration official confirmed monday. The official said scowcroft is in favor of presenting the proposal for eliminating the two major . And soviet missile systems when Secretary of state James Baker and soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze meet in Moscow on feb. 6 and 7. The Baker Shovard Nadza meeting is designed to pave the Way for the Summit meeting Between president Bush and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington in late june. The superpowers Are negotiating a new agreement with a 50 percent Cut in strategic nuclear a a Casals. In time for signing at the Summit. Cheney had Quot a difference of opinion Quot with scow Croft in seeking to ban the multiple warhead missiles the administration official said indicating that Bush was leaning in Cheney s direction. The Washington Post said scowcroft s proposal Quot which has attracted support from key congressional would bar future deployment of 50 my missiles. The missiles carry 10 warheads apiece aboard Railroad cars that can be moved from site to site to avoid a soviet attack. The soviets would have to eliminate about 20 ss-24 missiles already deployed on rail cars and pledge not to deploy More of the Multi warhead weapons. The Post reported that scowcroft and Cheney clashed Over the proposal but the administration official said the two men. Who had both served in the Ford administration were not feuding. Scowcroft the Post said has contended that wiping out both rail based missile systems would limit risks associated with a future Accord on strategic missiles by eliminating powerful weapons that could potentially escape detection by either Side. The president s chief Security adviser and others in the administration have also argued that the United states would save billions of dollars if the proposal became part of an Accord at a time of increasing pressure to Cut Pentagon spending. The newspaper said that none of the major administration players rallied to scowcroft s Side which makes it improbable that the proposal will be put on the negotiating table in Geneva Switzerland. Scowcroft does have the support of sen. Sam Nunn a Gay a chairman of the armed services committee. Nunn has warned that Congress will Likely vote to kill the preliminary construction of the rail Mobile my system if in does not become a bargaining Chip in the negotiations. Both Nunn and scowcroft favor eliminating the my and ss-24 missiles As a first step toward Banning All missiles with multiple 2 tested in secret launch from Navy sub Cape canaveral Fla. Up a the Navy secretly launched an unarmed Trident 2 missile from a submerged nuclear submarine monday pressing ahead with an accelerated test program to dear the Way for operational deployment in March. The 126,000-Pound, the acc stage missile carrying Dummy warheads was fired from the Tennessee at 11 45 . While the submarine was cruising submerged 50 Miles cast of Cape canaveral. Propelled to the Ocean surface by a powerful charge of compressed Gas. The solid fuel missile was fired toward an undisclosed target in the South Atlantic or Indian oceans. A it was successful Quot a military spokeswoman said. No other details were provided. The environmental group Greenpeace has protested recent launching and staged demonstrations on the High seas including a clash with the Navy on dec. 4 in which one of the group s ships was rammed and damaged. The spokeswoman said no one attempted to interfere with the launching monday. The Trident 2 record now stands at 21 successes and five out play dolls Ever have one of those Days when you habited sunday at the 91st inter nation feel like ripping into someone Andrew Al housewares exposition in Chicago canner of Blue Ridge the item co., of Bear the likenesses of sports figures Skyland , has just the antidote Bosses and others. Co ahead. Knock tear apart stress dolls. The dolls sex their blocks off. Noriega was gun runner Senate panel reports Washington apr Manuel Antonio Noriega Panama s former military strongman was heavily involved in International gun running. According to Senate investigators. Noriega who controlled Panama s senility apparatus was Well positioned to engage in Quot the Gray Market according to the 19x8 report of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on narcotics led by sen. John Kerry. A mass. Even before Gen. Omar Torrijos. Then Panama s ruling figure died in a mysterious 1981 plane crash Noriega had the authority to Issue certificates to legitimize the shipment of foreign to Panama. Quot once in Panama Noriega would sell the weapons to whomever bid the most for them Quot the subcommittee said citing the testimony of Jose Blandon. A former panamanian intelligence official and one time Noriega adviser. Blandon told the subcommittee that Noriega a earliest clients in the late 1970s included the sandinista rebels in Nicaragua who were successfully battling to oust that country s dictator Anastasio Somoza. Noriega s associates purchased the weapons in Europe brought them to Panama and then moved them into neighbouring f Osia Rica for shipment Totsc sandinista. I he Senate panel reported that although Noriega sold Many weapons to the Sandi Nisius. Quot Many More wound up in storage when the sandinista War ended in 1979.&Quot 1 lie committee added that Noriega also had Little locally to his old customers since he later would sell to the contras. Who Are battling the now ruling sandinista. Floyd Carlton a former Noriega Pilot testified that the a veers weapons were then Quot marketed by Panama to the rebels in Al Carlton said he and his partner. Cesar Rodriguez flew the weapons to Al Salvador in 19x0 using panamanian military aircraft. On one trip the plane Rodriguez was Fly ing w As damaged on Takeoff and crashed when it attempted to land in Al Salvador. Carlton flying a second panamanian plane on the same Mission said he pulled Rodriguez from the aircraft Pul him on his plane and Fiew to Panama where they both went into hiding. Chimp killed after biting off vets ear fingers in rampage Ligonier. A. Apr a Chimp an e went on a rampage As it was being loved Early monday morning and bit it a veterinarians ear and part of one and. Police said. Or. John c. Kelli her 42. Of Adelphi was helping William c. Holmburg Transfer two hips from their cages to a transport Cage Hen one of the animals forced its Way Rise and attacked Kelli her police said. Holmburg hit the 20-Ycar-old male him with a Large Metal pipe and Man ged to separate it from the injured vet riparian state trooper Clint Irvin said. When police arrived Holmburg Bor owed a gun from one of them and shot he Chimp four times but the animal renamed alive until another officer destroyed it with one More shot. Kelli her was flown to Prysby Tyrian University Hospital in Pittsburgh where he was listed in fair condition. The thumb fourth and fifth fingers on one hand were amputated and his left ear was bitten Oil. He was also bitten on his face head Scalp and forearm. Holmburg once ran a zoo at a Small amusement Park in Westmoreland county and has been taking care of the chimps and assorted exotic Birds since it closed about five years ago police dispatcher Marilyn Sinsabaugh said. The chimps were being taken to a Laboratory in Maryland when the attack occurred around 2 15 ., Sinsabaugh said. She did t know Why they were going to the lab
