European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday May 14, 1990 a package deals offered to Swap most hostages Marj Mol a Lebanon apr the commander of israelis proxy in orce in South Lebanon said sunday he is reads to Swap detainees his militia holds for i6 Western hostages three israeli servicemen and several of his men held by shiite moslem factions. A i m not Only prepared to facilitate such a package . But i also Hope it could  said Gen. Antrim. I and commander of the israeli backed South i Chanon my. Comprehensive package Deal is possible involving american and Western hostages our Sla men held by different groups and israeli servicemen captured m  Lahd. 6. Said in an interview. Meanwhile a published report sunday in London quoted a lebanese official As saying Terry Waite an Quot anglican envoy missing in Lebanon is alive and Well after More than three years As a hostage. The mail on sunday a conservative British weekly reported that Waite is held in isolation by his kidnappers in the Southern suburbs of Beirut according to its source Akram Chehayeb. Chehayeb. Spokesman for the druse religious sect and an aide of druse Waite Leader Walid Jumblatt. Was quoted As saying Waite is held alone in Superior surroundings because he is believed to be the most important of the hostages. Lahd. A retired lebanese army officer commands a 3.odd-Strong militia. Backed by some 1,000 israeli troops the Sla patrols a Border enclave in South Lebanon. The Sla holds about 300 shiite detainees in Kharn a Small v Village in Israel s self proclaimed Security one. Which is 6 to 10 Miles deep. The Security one stretches from the Mediterranean to the Foothills of mount Hermon. Most of the 16 Western hostages missing in Lebanon Are held by pro iranian shiite factions operating under the umbrella of the fundamentalist Hezbollah or party of god. Iranian officials and lebanese clergymen said the release of detainees held by the Sla and Israel would help end the ordeal of the hostages who include six americans. They mentioned specifically the release of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid a Hezbollah official captured by the israelis in a raid on his Village in South Lebanon july 28, 1989. Asked if a Swap would include Sheik Obeid who is held m Israel Lahd said Quot i cannot specify Obeid or others. But judging from my dealings with Israel. I know that if their people were released they will release detainees. Quot if they release our people and the israeli servicemen. I la be Able to release a Large number from Khiam and from  two israeli soldiers rahamim Alsheikh and Yossi Fink were captured m a guerrilla ambush in the Security zone feb. P. 1986. They Are believed held by Hezbollah. An israeli airman Ron Arad was captured when his plane was shot Down in South Lebanon on oct. 16, 1986. News update silent submarines Stockholm Sweden apr Sweden facing repeated submarine violations of its Waters has Dev eloped an engine to make its own submarines As silent As pikes lurking in the Reeds. Test results irom the first operational military submarine equipped with a Stirling motor were presented to the tour Day International conference on submarine technology in Stockholm. Captain Leif Edman chief of operations for the 12-vessel underwater flotilla told 230experts from from 17 counties that the engine was a a major breakthrough Quot making subs even More lethal. Sweden has been upgrading its submarine defense since a soviet submarine ran aground outside a naval base in Southern Sweden in 1981. Intrusions of alien vessels have been reported through the 1980s, but none has been caught. The Navy has opened fire several times this year but so Lar its submarines have been deployed Only As monitors not undersea fighters. Or i f 1 a Michigan conservation officer Bruce Patrick stands in the wreckage of a fire destroyed Home in Grayling. Michigan Woodland will take decades to recover from fire Grayling Mich. Apr foresters say it will be decades before More than 6,000 acres of charred Northern Michigan Woodland looks whole again after a fire that destroyed half the habitat of an endangered species of songbird. Someone a Brush fire ignited the Northern Woods of Michigan s lower Peninsula last week. The Forest was tinder dry after two years of drought and not yet Green despite the Early Spring. A hot afternoon wind whipped the fire into a Wall of flames that advanced so fast leaping roads fire Breaks and even the a Sable River that the Crawford county sheriff evacuated the Tow n of Lovell More than 15 Miles away. In six hours the fire was Halfway to Lovell. During the night the rain did what every available firefighter in Northern Michigan could t do and put out the flames. But by then the fire had destroyed 86 Homes. 130 other buildings and 12 Square Miles of Woodland. It also consumed half of the nesting ground left for the worlds last 400 Kirtland s warblers. It will be half a Century before the Pine forests Are whole again said Bill Mahalak the department of natural resources area Forest manager. This week the Der will set out plans to Cut Down most of the fire killed Timber so it does t incubate a plague of blight or bark beetles. Then the state will begin test of ski device May Lead to violation of abm treaty Washington apr a leading arms control advocate said saturday that a newly tested missile tracking device could violate the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty if deployed As part of the Star wars defense system. Quot the test does not have All the capabilities you would need but it is clearly intended to Lead to a component which could be in violation of the treaty Quot said Spurgeon m. Keeny president of the Washington based arms control association. Keeny said fridays six hour test flight of the airborne optical adjunct airborne surveillance testbed stopped Short of being a violation of the abm treaty but Keeny added that a the Issue is whether the test is leading to a component which if successful would be in  the infrared tracking device was mounted on a Boeing 767 that took Oft from Boeing Field in Seattle. The device is designed to track hundreds of targets sorting missiles from debris and decoys. Three months of flight testing Over the Continental i. S replanting. Jack Pines Are already reseeding themselves within hours after the fire Cones triggered by the heal began dropping their seeds to the Ashen ground. It is the Only Way a Jack Pine tree germinates. And it is the Only Way the tiny yellow breasted Kirtland a Warbler survives since it will nest Only on the ground beneath Young Jack Pine Trees. If the Birds can survive another decade this fire will have opened a vast new nesting Range for them. But Mahalak was uneasy about such things. Quot i done to consider this fire in any Way a positive thing Quot he said. A generally there a nothing positive to anything that comes at such a High  the fire will even affect some Trout fishermen. Flames lapped right to the Waters Edge for a mile along the a Sable River and Trout unlimited will put up signs asking canoeists and fishermen not to walk on the damaged ground. Some Homes survived in Chance islands of Green. Bruce Murray a Mobile Home still stood and along with it survived three Evergreen Bushes one Nylon Windsock one red rooster and one singed cat. The fire took everything else. His Apple Trees were Black stubs. His Raspberry Bushes were turned to Ash. His wife a 100 rabbits were cremated in their cages. 1 United states will be followed by tests using air Force targets at Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The abm treaty bans space based systems designed to substitute for radar in an Ordinary system. The pact was approved on the theory that any time one Side in the cow War built an anti ballistic missile system the other would find a Way around it causing the arms race to spiral. The surveillance device that was tested Friday was described As the worlds most sophisticated Long wave infrared sensor. The aim of the flight was to determine How in flight vibration will affect the sensor which was contained in an 86-foot-Long cupola atop the aircraft. A Pentagon spokesman knowledgeable about the test could not be reached at his Home on saturday. Keeny is a former Deputy director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency. The arms control association is a private Washington based group Many of its members have been arms control officials including former Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara and former arms control and disarmament Agency director Paul c. Wamke