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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 25,1992 the stars and stripes b Page 9 i unusual sight in Athens a two of Greece a presidential guards stand out against a rare snowfall during a changing of the guard ceremony at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier in Central Athens on sunday. Unseasonable cold continues to grip much of the Eastern Mediterranean As far South As Northern Israel. For More about european and . Weather see Page 11. Canada will Send troops to Yugoslavia for peacekeeping by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau the Canadian forces will contribute up to 1,200 troops to the . Peacekeeping Force in Yugoslavia and Croatia with most of them coming from Canadas two bases in Germany the forces said monday. The Canadian contingent will consist of an infantry battalion a combat Engineer Squadron a reconnaissance Squadron military observers and military police. It becomes the largest National contingent involved in the peacekeeping Mission which is expected to draw More than 13,000 troops from 31 countries. Canada also is considering a . Request for civilian police monitors. The government has committed its troops to the Mission called the . Protection Force for one year. The forces expect to set up a rotation schedule for individual soldiers but have not worked out its details yet said a forces spokesman army it. Col. Ralph Coleman. The forces . Peacekeeping troops in Cyprus serve a six month tour of duty which is typical of such operations. Coleman said the infantry battalion will be a composite Force of Rifle companies of the French speaking 1st in Royal 22nd regt from Canadian forces base Lahr and 3rd in Royal Canadian regt Canadian forces base Baden sol Lingen. The 4 combat engr regt will provide the engineering Squadron and the reconnaissance Squadron will come from the 8th Canadian Hussars. Both units Are based in Lahr. The deployment will draw support personnel from both bases in Germany and some troops assigned to bases in Canada also will join the Mission. The United nations has said it wants to deploy troops to the War zone by late next week but no decision has been made about How soon Canadas deployment will begin where its troops will be stationed what they will do there or who will command them Coleman said. Base support services offered to family members of troops who deployed to Qatar and Bahrain during the persian Gulf War will be available now to the families of soldiers who go to the crisis zone in Yugoslavia and Croatia he said. New Book claims Juk killed by secret service Friendly fire Baltimore up a a new Book based on research by a former Maryland gun shop owner concludes that president John f. Kennedy was killed by Friendly fire from a secret service agent the Baltimore Sun reported sunday. Howard Donahue 69, claimed that ballistic evidence indicates the agent was responding to the sound of gunshots on nov. 22,1963, and hit Kennedy by mistake. Donahue a Story is in the Book mortal error the shot that killed Juk written by Bonar Menninger and published by St. Martins press. It is scheduled to be released wednesday with an initial printing of 125,000 copies. Various assassination experts and secret service officials discounted the Book. David Belin former lawyer to the Warren commission said it is a just wrong a the Sun said. A i hate the word a cover up a a Donahue told the Sun. A it sounds so sinister. But the government was Between a Rock and a hard place. They did not want to admit that Kennedy was shot in the head by their own Man. They tried to cover it up with the Warren  Donahue believes Lee Harvey Oswald the Lone gunman identified by the Warren commission shot at Kennedy but did not kill him the Sun said. Donahue said an agent Riding in the follow car of the Dallas motorcade a Rose heroically to return fire on the Assassin but instead accidentally triggered a round in the wrong direction a the newspaper said. The newspaper said the agent has retired and lives in the Washington d.c., area but did not use his name. He did not cooperate in writing the Book the Sun said. Larry Howard director of the Juk assassination Center in Dallas and a firearms consultant on the film Juk said Donahue a theory is ridiculous. He said the fatal shot came from the Grassy Knoll. Donahue a firearms enthusiast who took part in a 1967 re enactment of the assassination for lbs operated a Towson gun shop for 12 years. In 1981, he left the business and became a firearms examiner. The Sun said Donahue believes Oswald fired twice a not three times a at Kennedy. His first Bullet struck the pavement spraying the limousine with fragments including some that struck Kennedy in the head. A second the so called a magic Bullet a penetrated Kennedy s neck probably a mortal wound and hit former Texas gov. John Connally. At that Point the newspaper said an agent in a follow up Cadillac stood up with an ar-15 assault Rifle later to be known As the m-16 Rifle. As he turned toward Oswald a Perch in the Texas school Book depository the agent slipped backward and the gun fired striking Kennedy Donahue said. 12th Nav Star military satellite rides info orbit on Delta rocket Cape canaveral Fla. Map a a military satellite capable of guiding warplanes ships and tanks with an accuracy of 50 feet or better circled Earth on monday after a ride on a Delta rocket. The rocket hoisted the $65 million Nav Star satellite sunday evening after a half year delay caused by flawed positioning mechanisms in other Nav Star Craft including one in orbit. The satellite is the 12th in a series of 24. It will take about two Days for the satellite to reach its final 12,500-mile-High orbit. The positioning problems were corrected by adding extra lubricant the air Force said. Engineers believe the trouble resulted from the equipments Long time in storage. . Military forces relied heavily on Nav Star global positioning system satellites during the persian Gulf War. Troops tuned in to the networks radio signals with Small receivers. The satellites guided operators of jets ships submarines and tanks with an accuracy of within 50 feet and sometimes 10 feet. The satellites contain atomic clocks with an error rate of one second every 300,000 years. The air Force wants to have All 24 advanced Nav Star satellites in orbit by 1994. A launch is planned every two to three months for the remaining 12 Craft. The first went up in 1989. Five earlier less sophisticated navigational satellites still Are  threat Strong As Ever doctors warn Boston apr despite the end of the cold War the International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War says this is no time to relax. Leaders of the Nobel peace prize winning group cited the danger of former soviet nuclear scientists Selling their expertise to hostile Powers and the risk of nuclear weapons being used by some rogue dictator or emerging country. A the likelihood that in my lifetime or my children a lifetime that nuclear weapons will explode and kill Large numbers of people is greater now than it was three or four years ago said executive committee member Lachlan borrow. The nuclear picture was clearer in the Days when fears of nuclear War focused on the two superpowers members said. Bernard Lown a cardiologist founded the group in 1980 with Yevgeny Chazov physician to three soviet premiers. Five years later it won the Nobel prize for a spreading authoritative information and creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic  Lown said he wants to refocus the attention of the groups 200,000 doctors. One of his concerns is that too Many former soviet weapons experts Are out of. Tons Are a the ultimate morality is hard currency. They could be tempted to sell their services to anyone who offers them hard Cash a Lown said. You will see a new group emerging a nuclear  membership trends which he said serve As a gauge of complacency about nuclear War indicate doctors in Europe and the third world a where membership is up a share his concerns. . Doctors done to. A some places the majority of people believe that the nuclear danger is behind us. Why not give attention to the environment crime aids drugs you name it a Lown said. A they put social concern about nuclear ism and War on the Back Burner until some calamitous event occurs. And you begin  p 9 a we guv Suidt Tilv Al a a a a  90 Many former soviet weapons experts of a Job and too Many third world a willing to pay for nuclear technology  
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