European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes saturday june 9,1990bombers�?T missiles ordered removed Washington apr defense Secretary Dick Cheney on Friday ordered the air Force to remove Short Range nuclear attack missiles from its bombers pending the outcome of safety studies of the warheads. The directors of three . Nuclear weapons laboratories called for the removal of the weapons two weeks ago during congressional testimony. They suggested there was a Remote possibility that the weapons could leak plutonium in an Accident. The missiles Are known As the Short Range attack missile a or spam As and Are carried aboard b-52, b-1b and fb-111 bombers. The air Force has said that 1,500 of the weapons were produced Between 1971 and 1975, but the current news briefs number deployed is classified. Cheney met with the directors of the laboratories after their testimony. In a statement issued at the Pentagon Cheney said the weapons would not be placed on Board bombers that Are considered to be on a ground  those Are the nations warplanes that Are loaded with weapons fuelled and ready to Fly within minutes. Cheney a statement said the weapons would be removed from the bombers pending the outcome of the safety studies being conducted by the air Force and the Energy department whose labs and factories Are responsible for producing the nations nuclear weapons. He took the step after discussions with Energy Secretary James Watkins and the directors of the three laboratories and receiving additional information about the spam a the statement said. He did not elaborate on what that information might have been. The safety of the warheads was reviewed in 1989, and because of that review some procedures for handling the weapons were modified for safety reasons. The statement also said Cheney wanted to emphasize that a the spam a poses no safety hazards to the  the spam a is not the Only nuclear weapon carried by the air Force bombers. The planes also carry a complement of longer Range nuclear missiles and free fall bombs. Some also have a later Model Short Range missile designated As the sram-2. The spam a is an air to surface my Sile that is armed with the w-69 nue warhead with an estimated exol yield equivalent to 170,000 tons of int 11 to 13 times the Power of the both that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 although the by b-52 and fam bombers do not Fly training Mission while the spam a is loaded on Board the missile is placed on those planes det ignited As on a ground alerts status Cheney a order Means that while those planes will remain on Alert they will not be loaded with the spam a no a weapons. His statement said that the reports by the air Force and the Energy department on the safety of the weapons Are due this summer. Twister roars through Kansas town 21 Hurt Emporia Kan. Apr a Tornado touched Down twice wrecking businesses and Homes and blowing tractor trailers and cars off a Highway in this East Central Kansas City. At least 21 people were injured two seriously authorities said Friday. Related photo Page 5. Another Tornado thursday night destroyed two Homes in Central Missouri. Severe thunderstorms with High winds demolished 10 Small planes damaged roofs and buildings uprooted Trees and downed Power lines in Central and Northern Missouri. No injuries were reported in the state. The Emporia Tornado Tore a half mile Swath of destruction through businesses on the City a West Side and another about a Quarter mile Long to the Northwest police , Thatcher warn Israel on settlements Moscow up a soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev and British prime minister Marcaret Thatcher warned Israel Friday to Stop settling soviet jews in occupied territory with Gorbachev saying again the settlements May Lead to new limits on emigration. Related Story Page 3. Thatcher said that the Western world had worked Long and hard for Freer exit of soviet jews and Gorbachev had granted that possibility. A we think it is wrong for people who leave the soviet Union to be placed in the occupied territories. Belonging to somebody else and not the state of Israel a Thatcher said. Gorbachev on Friday repeated his criticism of israelis settlements and reiterated comments he made at the Washington Summit indicating emigration policies might be tightened if the soviet jews continue to be settled in the israeli occupied  in Russia put its Laws above National Laws Moscow apr lawmakers in Russia the soviet unions largest Republic on Friday approved a preliminary measure giving its Laws priority Over National legislation the Tass news Agency reported. The move which could set the russian Republic on a course similar to that of the breakaway Baltic came 10 Days after lawmakers elected Radical reformer Boris Yeltsin president of the russian federation. The candidacy of Yeltsin who pledged to work for the republics sovereignty was opposed by soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev his former Mentor. Gorbachev warned at the time that Yeltsin a policies could Lead to the a breakup of the soviet  but Gorbachev speaking to reporters Friday expressed no concern about the vote by the Congress of Peoples deputies of the russian Republic. A the russian Congress has not passed anything that would contradict the soviet Constitution a he told a news conference after he met with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. 1?funds from Page 1 Down in heated discussions Between Cheney and Aspin about what defense accounts would be used As sources. Cheney eventually offered a list of 37 military programs As sources for the Transfer but Aspin insisted that some of the Transfer funds come from big ticket weapons. Aspinw a list included the air forces b-2, the Navy a sea Wolf ski the army a experimental Light helicopter program and the rail Garrison my. The Pentagon a list was eventually approved by All but Aspin which left the reprogramming Issue in limbo. Two weeks ago Cheney tired of the delays and concerned that the services would have to begin laying off thousands of military personnel threatened to Transfer the funds on his own authority. But members of Congress warned that if Cheney went through with the action on his own the defense department might lose its Transfer authority in the future. In an Effort to reach an agreement Aspin and Cheney spoke by Telephone earlier this week. Soon after Aspin said he would support any Compromise reached Between Foley and  from Page 1 rope the Justice department said. Ramsay also leaked technical manuals on military communications technology and material about the coordination of nato forces. The material was passed to hungarian and czechoslovakian intelligence agents according to the court papers. A from our investigation we know it went to the soviets a Navarro said. A i know of no other Case where so much information was compromised at one  although Ramsay told the Fri he received Only $20,000, agents estimate he was paid Between $2.2 million and $5 million for his information Navarro testified. But Ramsay somehow lost Access to that Money he said and wound up sleeping in his car. Prior to joining the army Ramsay robbed a Bank in Vermont in 1981, and tried to crack a Hospital Safe Navarro said. The agent also said Ramsay told the Fri As recently As a month ago that he did not mind going to prison because he could get a Good criminal education there. Fri agents said the seven year nationwide investigation into the alleged spy ring was continuing. They refused to say How Many people were involved. Fri director William s. Sessions said the investigation was one of the most complicated of its kind Ever undertaken by the Bureau and the information passed on was a extremely  Ramsay worked directly under Conrad in the 8th inf div g-3 plans Section in bad Kreuz Nach As the assistant document custodian. The g-3 Section of a division is in charge of the units military operations. Ramsay a duties included safeguarding All classified and military documents. He held a top secret clearance. The affidavit charged that in december 1985, Ramsay videotaped hundreds of documents and gave them to Conrad for their eventual Sale to the czechs and hungarians. Conrad was arrested in August 1988. The trial judge in his Case said his offence a passing secrets to Hungary and Czechoslovakia from 1975 through 1985 in return for $1.2 million a a endangered the entire defense capability of the  it could have led to a a breakdown in the defences of the Western Alliance a and to a capitulation and the use of nuclear weapons on German territory a said Ferdinand Schuth chief judge of the court in the West German state of Rheinland Pfautz where the spying occurred. According to court records Conrad was introduced to the hungarian secret service in late fall 1975 by his supervisor in the 8th inf div former . Army sgt. 1st class Zolta Szabo. Szabo was convicted of espionage in Austria in 1989 and received a 10-month suspended  from Page 1 within nato about issuing a permanent ban on Allied forces in East Germany. However one nato official said the United states and some other Alliance members believe that a ban should last no longer than seven years. Secretary of state James Baker told a Friday news conference that the question Hasni to been worked out among the countries involved including the soviet Union. A we have advanced assurances to the soviet Union specifically that there would be no Extension of nato forces in the territories that now constitute the Cdr a he said referring to East Germany. A we Haven to agreed with respect to the period of  the nine Point plan also states that nato would not object if soviet forces remained in East Germany for an unspecified transitional period after German unification. Ultimately Baker said the decision on whose forces will be stationed in a United Germany and for How Long belongs to the germans. The ministers also said they wanted to a extend to the soviet Union and to All other european countries the hand of Friendship and  they also welcomed a statement by the seven nation Warsaw pact which met thursday that it would transform itself into an organization of Sovereign and free nations see related Story on Page 3. A we Are encouraged by the positive spirit conveyed in this declaration a the nato ministers said. Nato Secretary general Manfred Womer said the Alliance is prepared to increase close contacts with Warsaw pact members. A clearly the Warsaw pact of today is not the Warsaw pact of one year two years or. Five years ago a he said at a news conference Friday. The ministers also agreed to seek new approaches to get the stalled arms reduction talks in Vienna Aust a moving again so that a treaty might be signed by the end of the year. The West is willing to take More flexible pos Ido on the Issue of treaty verification and aircraft which have been sticking Points in the negotiations Baker and Womer said. They declined to elaborate. Baker said that he was More optimistic that a treaty could be signed this year after his meeting with soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze earlier this week. He said he got a a sense of movement trom their meeting in Copenhagen Denmark noting that be expected new soviet proposals soon. A i came away from that meeting More encouraged on the potential for concluding a cafe agreement. Baker said referring to the conventional forces to rope negotiations. A i came away from that meeting with the View that to soviets recognize the importance of future Good re Tatini with a United Germany and i came away from it Wiki generally More positive feeling regarding solving the qut tons of the external aspects of German unification