European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes thursday february 6, 1992iran reportedly Aims to control Gulf by Richard . Sia and Mark Matthews the Baltimore Sun Washington a . Intelligence reports indicate that Iran is buying at least two newly built russian attack submarines with the apparent  of controlling the narrow Straits leading into the persian Gulf. The Prospect of Iran s trying to control the Strait of Hormuz and All shipping traffic entering the Gulf has so alarmed . Officials that Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii raised the matter with russian president Boris n. Yeltsin and other top russian officials at a meeting in Moscow last week. The russian officials a Yeltsin foreign minister Andrei Kozarev and defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov a did not confirm the submarine sales but neither did they Rule them out a senior state department official said tuesday. World2 former Border guards convicted in Berlin death from wire reports Berlin a a Berlin court on wednesday convicted two former East German Border guards of killing a Man As he tried to scale the Berlin Wall in 1984, the second such convictions since Germany reunified. Judge Ingeborg Tepperwien sentenced defendant Uwe Hapke to one year and nine months in prison and Udo Walther to one year and six months. The judge then suspended the sentences and placed each Man on two years probation stipulating that they would have to serve their time it they violated the terms of probation. The two former Border guards were accused of manslaughter in the dec. 1, 1984, death of Horst Michael Schmidt who was shot As he tried to clamber Over the Wall into what was then West  enters politics Naples Italy a Alessandra Mussolini following in the footsteps of her Grandfather Benito is going into politics As a Neo fascist candidate for parliament in april selections party officials said tuesday. Mussolini 29, is the daughter of the fascist dictator s son Romano a jazz pianist and Maria Scicolone sister of italian film Star Sophia Loren. Mussolini chose to become a candidate for the party because a it is closest to the ideas of my Grandfather a she was quoted As saying in the Milan daily corriere Della Sera. Parliamentary elections arc april 5.fiat to Cut work Force Milan Italy a the italian automaker Fiat said it plans to trim 10,300 workers from its payroll this year through attrition and Early retirement because of sluggish Market conditions. Fiat planned to ask the government to let it put 4,930 workers on Early retirement a move that would Cost the company the equivalent of about $250  no s husband Dies of car wreck injuries Ramstein a Germany a the 36-year-old husband of an air Force non commissioned officer has died from injuries he sustained in a car Accident last month. William f. Carr died monday at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center in Lan Stuhl Germany from acquired respiratory deficiency syndrome according to a news release from Ramstein a. Carr had been hospitalized since Jan. 23, when he was involved in a car Accident in the town of Ramstein. No further information on the Accident or on his death was immediately available. Since june Carr had worked for the air bases billeting maintenance Section. The air Force would not release information on carry a wife other than to say she is an no stationed at Ramstein. A memorial service is scheduled for 10 30 . Today at Ramstein Chapel 1. Carr will be buried in new Jersey. Iran has been purchasing other weapons namely tanks and fighter aircraft under contracts signed before the collapse of the soviet Union according to recent Western news accounts. Rear . Edward d. Sheafer jr., chief of naval intelligence was expected to raise the military a concerns about the Prospect of russian submarine sales to Iran when he met behind closed doors wednesday with the House armed services subcommittee on sea Power. He was expected to Tell lawmakers about the submarines and about a particularly worrisome statements from the commander of the iranian Navy that his Fleet Quot plans to control the Strait of Hormuz a according to a senior Pentagon official. A Iran has ordered a couple of submarines already a said the official who insisted on anonymity. A and the Crews for the first two Are believed to be already in Naples Italy a amps a Germany established a Liaison representative office tuesday at the Naples Italy Headquarters of Allied forces Southern Europe. In establishing the office Germany brought to 10 the number of nato nations represented at the Southern Region Headquarters. Italy Greece Turkey the United kingdom and the United states have forces assigned to the Southern Region and the Headquarters in Naples. There is also a French military Mission plus Liaison offices from the Netherlands Portugal and Spain. Adm. Jeremy a a Mike Boorda of South a commander marked the occasion with a full honors ceremony at his Headquarters. Germany was represented by vice . Hein Peter Weyher the German Navy a chief of staff and by Brig. Gen. Roland lankers the director of the German armed forces office. The opening of the office Weyher said is a proof of Germany a intention to Cany its share in safeguarding natos interests in this  although its Liaison office is new Germany has been wednesdays deaths at the betting shop and in an ambush near the Irish Border brought to 27 the number of people killed in political and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland this year. The violence came a Day after a suspended police officer killed three people in a Belfast office of sinn fein the Legal political party that supports the Irish Republican army. The police officer later killed himself. Following the attack at the betting shop relatives and friends of the victims converged on the scene. A it was a Bloodbath it was like something out of a gangster movie a said one bystander after the betting shop shooting. The injured were taken to hospitals across Belfast and a priest was called to administer last rites.  the current iranian naval Force includes destroyers frigates patrol Craft and mine warfare ships but no submarines a Survey by the London based International Institute for strategic studies shows. Last month air Force it. Gen. James r. Clapper jr., director of the . Defense intelligence Agency told Congress that Iran and Iraq were locked in an arms race. A Over the next 10 to 15 years Iran and Iraq will continue their Competition for Hegemony in the Gulf and will seek to strengthen their military capabilities a he said. A a secular state in Iraq and a religious state in Iran Are inherently at Cross purposes a the general said. Quot this enmity is Likely to Lead to situations in which War is a distinct possibility. The renewal of warfare in the Gulf would once again threaten world Oil  an Active participant for some time in nato activities in the Southern Region. During the persian Gulf crisis Germany contributed one task group of destroyers and frigates a mine countermeasures task group and several maritime patrol aircraft plus one ship to the naval on Call Force Mediterranean Navo formed for natos operation Southern guard. In addition Germany deployed 18 Alpha jets to Southeastern Turkey and sent Hawk and Roland missile systems to strengthen air defences in that area. German naval and air units have deployed regularly to the Southern Region to participate in multinational training exercises. Germany also has taken part in every activation of Navo formed since 1988. Additionally it has announced plans to be a charter member of the standing naval Force Mediterranean when it is formed. Capt. Helmut Kunz of the German Navy is his country a first Liaison representative to the Headquarters. Kunz most recently served As the commander of the 2nd German destroyer so in Wilhel shaven. Earlier wednesday a part time British Soldier returned fire after being wounded in an ambush near the Irish Border. Police said a Man believed to be one of the attackers was killed. Police in the Irish Republic said they arrested two men under anti terrorist Laws within minutes of the ambush. Police said tuesdays attack on the sinn fein office was carried out by a policeman who was upset Over a fellow officers death. They said James Allen Moore 24, an anti terrorist officer with the Royal Ulster constabulary claimed responsibility for the attack in a Call to police and then killed himself. Germany sets up Liaison office for a South Headquarters protestant gunmen kill 5 in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a two gunmen opened fire wednesday in a betting shop in a roman Catholic neighbourhood of Belfast killing five people and injuring nine police said. Protestant extremists claimed responsibility. The outlawed Ulster Freedom fighters said it made the attack to avenge an Irish Republican army explosion Jan. 17 that killed eight protestant labourers. A it was like a butchers shop in there a said a Man who was wounded in the leg in the betting parlor a there was blood everywhere. The place is absolutely riddled. They just came in and opened up on everybody a press association Britain a National news Agency quoted the unidentified Man As saying. The Ulster Freedom fighters statement to news Media carried the headline a remember tee Bane a a reference to the location of the Jan. 17 explosion which at the time was the worst terrorist attack in the Region in three years. The Ira bomb destroyed a bus carrying protestant construction workers from a Job at an army base. Troops and police gather at the scene where a Constable shot three Peop a to death and wounded two tuesday in Belfast Northern Ireland