University Daily Kansan, February 12. 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 11
Forces won't be cut, Weinberger stresses
By United Press International
GHESSEN, West Germany — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday assured Western European allies that the multi-billion dollar "Star Wars" defense system could be financed without forcing cuts in conventional U.S. forces in Europe.
Weinberger made his comment after meeting West German Defense Minister Manfred Woerner on the fifth day of a European tour. The tour was meant to build support for the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative before U.S.-Soviet arms talks begin next month in Geneva.
Some Western European officials have expressed fears that the cost of developing President Reagan's proposed system for destroying incoming nuclear missiles would force the US to reduce conventional forces abroad.
But Weinberger said after his meeting with Woerner that the Strategic Defense Initiative could be
financed without jeopardizing American troop strength.
He said there would be no reduction in the approximately 248,000 U.S. troops in West Germany.
The administration is asking Congress for $3.7 billion for "Star Wars" research in fiscal 1986, an increase from $1.4 billion from fiscal 1985. It is estimated the program will cost $26 billion over the next five years.
He said the administration wanted the project to be a joint effort and invited other countries to devote scientific resources to the program.
Weinberger announced that in the near future, American experts would brief Western European officials on details of the program.
Weinberger, who met Woener at a U.S. Army base in Giessen, 50 miles north of Frankfurt, reiterated Rea-ger's advice that allies to participate in the program.
Woerner said West German cooperation only would be possible if American restrictions on high technology were lifted.
U.S., Laos search site of fatal wartime crash
By United Press International
BANGKOK Thailand — U.S. and Laotian experts yesterday began excavation at a remote jungle site in search of the remains of 13 American servicemen killed in an airplane crash during the Vietnam War.
The American experts flew to southern Laos Sunday to join their Laotian colleagues in the hunt at the C-130 Force C-130 Hercules transport, airlift
An official in the U.S. Embassy in the Laotian capital of Vientiane said yesterday that work on the site had been cut but that she had no further details.
She quoted Laotian Foreign Ministry officials as saying, "Things went very well."
U. S. Charge d'Affairs Terry Tull flew to the site outside the Mekong River town of Pakse, 285 miles from Tampa, but had not returned she said.
The excavation is the first joint effort between the United States and an Indochinese nation to determine the fate of some of the 2,483 U.S. ships missing in action nearly 10 years after the end of the Vietnam war.
Laos is the only one of the three communist Indochina nations that maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.
The 13 men missing from the Dec. 21, 1972, crash of the C-130 are among the 560 American MIAs in Laos, most of them shot down by communist gunners.
The 12-member American MIA team in Laos is led by Lt. Col. Joe Harvey, head of the Joint Casualty Resolution Center in Hawaii.
"Wreckage is dispersed over a wide area but there is a crater left from the point of impact," said L.C. Paul Mather, the MIA-POW officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.
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MOSCOW — Socialist Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papadoure arrived in Moscow on an official visit yesterday, but it was uncertain if he would meet with alpine President Konstantin Chernyak.
Greek leader arrives for visit to Moscow
Western diplomats said the NATO leader was told he could meet with Chernenkov, who has been absent from public view for more than six weeks, but a Greek Embassy spokesman said a decision might not come before early today.
Papandreou has time on his schedule today when he could hold talks with the 73-year-old Cherchiev and Soviet president's health permits.
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