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Hawke, faced with grow- ing opposition in his Austra- lian Labor party, decided to withdraw a four-day old offer to allow U.S. planes to use Australian bases to monitor long-range test firings of the MX missile. The missiles are to be fired from bases in California and splash down off the eastern coast of Australia. The Australian decision was reported to have been made without advance con- sultation with U.S. officials. Hawke, who arrived in Washington on Tuesday for three days of talks with President Ronald Reagan and other officials, no doubt will be asked about the re- versal. His decision put further pressure on the ANZUS alli- ance. Washington, already has warned the pact is threatened because of New Zealand's ban on port calls by U.S. navy warships. New Zealand's prime min ister, David Lange, has ban- ned all nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed warships, say ing they make this country a nuclear target. DENIES ACCESS He says his government will deny access to U.S. war- ships as long as the United States refused to say whe- ther the vessels are equipped with nuclear weapons. The United States traditionally has declined to provide such information. U.S. officials expressed unhappiness with New Zea- land’s decision and said the Reagan administration was reviewing its ties with New Zealand. At a news conference to- day, Lange vowed he wouldn't be swayed by U.S. actions to protest the ban. “I regard it as unaccep- table that another country should by threat or coercion try to change a policy which has been embraced by the New Zealand's people,” he said. Hawke abandoned his MX offer after senior officials warned he might not have the votes to get it approved in a party caucus and would suffer a humiliating defeat. Anti-nuclear groups, leftist politicians, trade union leaders and others say the MX is “a first strike” weapon that poses a threat to world peace Gibralter talks set GENEVA (AP) — Britain and Spain, seeking to put aside almost three centuries of disagreement over Gibral- tar, say they soon will open formal negotiations on the disputed British colony. After the first meeting ever held between the two countries to discuss Gibral- tar, Britain's foreign secre- tary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, said British, Gibraltarian and Spanish officials would “meet as necessary to advance co-operation in a number of areas” on the colony. The meetings — on topics including economic and cul tural co-operation, tourism, the environment and trans- portation — might begin this week, he said Tuesday. After the day-long meet ing, the Spanish foreign min. ister, Fernando Moran, told reporters there had been “perfect understanding” be- BORDERLINE TRANSMISSION tween the two sides. 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ISRAEL EYED COMMANDO RAID TO GET MENGELE ‘The man who caught Nazi Ger- hmann says Israel considered a Josef Mengele, the infamous ed Israeli agents ina JERUSALEM (AP) — man war criminal Adolf Eic' commando raid to capture Auschwitz Angel of Death, after he elud Aires urb. oer Harel. ‘i former Israeli intelligence chief, made the disclosure in Jerusalem, where a mock trial is being held this week by Jews who survived Mengele's experimentation on twins and dwarfs at Auschwitz bomen eaas age in his of genetically superior Germans. each ales aocore Tuesday that he ordered Israel's Mossad intelligence agency to break up neo-Nazi movements in in the early 1960s - : greadinl believed to be living in Paraguay, is the Nazi most wanted by those seeking to capture and try war criminals. He is accused of sending 400,000 people to gas chambers and picking others — mainly twins and dwarfs — for his genetic experiments. ‘ ae said he Toubted Mengele could be extradited and d he should be d if found. “If it is impossible to bring him to trial, I would find another solution, a final solution for Mengele,” he said Harel, 70, retired in 1963 after 15 years as Mossad's director. ‘The trial of Eichmann, who directed the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews, was the first extensive publicity on the Holocaust. Eichmann was kidnapped from Argentina and hanged in Jerusalem in 1963. CONFIRMS REPORT Harel said that during the Eichmann operation he confirmed a report that Mengele was living in Buenos Aires. He said that while Eichmann was held for 10 days in a safe house, Harel’s agents planned to capture Mengele, only to discover shortly before moving in to take him that the fugitive had left the address a few weeks earlier. Three times in the next two years agents picked up Mengel’s trail, but the constant watch of armed bodyguards prevented any move to seize him, Harel said. He added that Israel abandoned considerations to capture Mengele in a raid because the government feared an international uproar might undermine the impact of the Eichmann trial. Harel said Israel traced other Nazi criminals who could not be brought for trial, “and we dealt with them in a different way.” One was Albert Zukors, who was accused of killing Jews in Latvia and who was assassinated in 1966, Harel said. He refused to give details or say how many other war criminals were found. Mossad started an intimidation campaign against neo-Nazis in the 1960s, after swastikas began appearing at Jewish sites around the world, with the first desecration coming on Christmas Day 1959 in West Germany, Harel said. He added that he told the parliamentary committee which supervised Mossad operations that “we won't let neo-Nazism raise its head. FOR MISSILE LAUNCH U.S. air force approves women WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. air force has decided women can serve as launch-control officers for its most advanced strategic nuclear missiles, but only by going down into its underground bunkers with other females. The decision, announced Tuesday, means that two- woman launch crews for the Minuteman and MX missiles could be deployed starting in the spring of 1986. Three months ago, the air force said female officers who served on its Titan missile crews would have to transfer to other duties as those aging missiles were retired, in effect turning the launch-control crews into a “male only” preserve. As it did last November when the issue was raised, the air force denied Tuesday its new policy was based on a fear of hanky-panky between men and women on a 24-hour shift. Instead, it cited the lack of privacy in the Minuteman and MX bunkers and the extra stress that might be placed on crew members and their families. Maj. Michael Perini, an air force spokesman, said the Strategie Air Command has decided to allow women to work as launch control officers on the newer missiles “in response toa special headquarters study on the utilization of women.” SUPPORTS FINDINGS The study, while recommending the introduction of women into the Minuteman and MX crew force, continues to support earlier findings that the cramped physical facilities and lack of privacy during extended crew duty preclude the introduction of mixed crews, Perini said. “Both the Mi and MX pe per require two-officer crews, and in each case, women will serve crew duty only with women.” The air force has about 75 women serving on the launch crews for its Titan missiles, the oldest still in service. The Titans are scheduled to be retired by 1987 The Minuteman is the workhorse of the U.S. ballistic missile arsenal, with about 1,000 deployed in underground silos. The MX, meantime, is the newest U.S. strategic missile. Congress has approved construction of the first 21 MX missiles and deployment will begin next year. The Titans are controlled by a four-member crew from a large, three-level underground bunker. The air force said the size of the bunker has made it Possible to ensure privacy for the two sexes, and thus women were allowed to join Titan crews seven years ago. Women officers were always restricted to the Titan, however, because of a difference in underground facilities. The control bunker for the Minuteman, and eventually the MX, is a single room with a toilet at one end and a cot in the middle of the floor. The lack of Privacy does not lend itself to a mixed crew, the air force said. 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