European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 28, 1986 , blocks Thiry pact on  a a 35-Nalion, is i Wick conference on improving East Wisl personal contacts ended tuesday after the United states prevented a com Promise Accord that All its european allies were ready to  Novak the chief . Delegate told he final session the proposed document was too thin containing loopholes damaging to compliance with the guideline it.  other Western delegations while acknowledging i Hill the document was weak said it would have meant at least some measure of Progress it was the first time the United Stales came out against Alt its european allies at u major human rights meeting. The document had been drawn up by Austria Switzer land and other Neutral and non aligned european nations to try to Bridge the Gap Between Western and East bloc proposals for Facil Laling reunification of divided families Ano other contacts Between people. The austrian chief coordinator of the Neutral group Rolf Torovsky voiced regret at the . Move which he said remained incomprehensible to him. Yuri Kasha cd. Head of the soviet delegation said the United states threatened us with u clenched fist and. Did nut even allow us to make u Small step1 Forward for the Ordinary people on whom they have been lecturing us so often.". Novak said the United states was uneasy about a grow ing Gap in the process Between words and compliance in the 1975 human rights accords adopted in Helsinki. The conference is one of a series designed to help put into effect Hose accords. The United Stales had sought an agreement that would have included a clause casing restrictions on travel by ethnic minorities and could have applied to emigration by soviet jews. That clause was included in the original Compromise presented by Neutral in non aligned nations but later was deleted under soviet bloc pressure. All 34 of her nations participating in the conference supported the document. However any official documents coming out of the conference must be approved by Consen sus so the . Objection prevents the group from formally approving he Compromise. Despite All shortcomings of the document we would have loved to take it Home said Wisl German ambassador Ekkehard Eickhoff. In an obvious reference to the american position he said Germany always has stuck to the principle of seeking Progress there where it is a hic  / German foreign minister Hans Dietrich cons Dierson acted Secretary of slate George p. Shultz in Washington on monday in an Effort to persuade the americans to join in the consensus.".--. ,.-  edouard Brunner the no. 2 Man in the Swiss foreign ministry told reporters that while it was not an Ideal Compromise the draft represented an improvement of at least 20 percent Over commitments made previously. Key improvements sought in the Western proposals in eluded allowing families to travel together instead of the usual soviet bloc practice of letting Only some members leave and abolishing age requirements for family visits sources said. That provision was targeted at East Ger Many which allows Only retired people to visit relatives in the West. Canadian representative William Bauer said his delegation was less disappointed at the failure to produce a new document than at the Lack of any new willingness by the East european countries to make a real substantial headway in facilitating Freer movement and Contact and the Resolution of humanitarian  from Page 1 military decorations system some critics maintain. It would appear they were passing out medals with paychecks said retired vice adm. Lawson p. Ramage of Bolh Coda md., a medal of Honor recipient in 1944. You have to wonder what kind of person is. Going to be enticed to stay in the service by n cheap medal. They decorations were obviously in tended to Honor something More than Sim ply doing your Job or staying on Active duly Ramage said an army spokesman said decoration totals for past years Are inconclusive but he can ceded thai the rend shows commanders May be responding to All Volunteer farce require ments by increasing awards. The army has historically had a tougher Lime meeting its enlistment and re  quotas. If you can make a Good Soldier stand a Little Slraight tar push his Chest out a fail further or stay in the service longer then bring on the medals said maj. Bruce Bell an army spokesman at the Pentagon. They Are not so much rewards As recognition Bel said. The services have traditionally defended the awarding of medals As effective leadership tools used 0 build Esprit and morale. Decorations arc also the military answer to private Enterprise incentives for a Job Well done such As time off or pay bonuses spokesmen say. In 1976, two years after the Start of the All Volunteer Force the army handed out 41,586 medals and decorations. Two years later the loin had jumped to 5s.s30. By 1985 the 264,321 medals awarded included 73,921 army commendation medals and 160,101 army achievement medals. Army achievement medals were established in 1981 and have been awarded with increasing frequency. They Are presented at the discretion of local commanders for meritorious service or achievement and have been likened to glorified letters of appreciation. As the services add More awards at the Bottom end of the precedence ladder membership no the top is growing smaller. Only 247 recipients of the medal of Honor the highest award for valor Are still alive and. Many from the world War ii Era arc enter ing their late 60s, Only 15 medal of Honor winners a re still on Active duly. The air Force has not awarded any medals for valor in the last four years according to a spokesman. Bui it too has seen the number of peacetime decorations swell from 85,971 in 1982 to 103.709 in 1985, not counting the legion of Merit frequently awarded to higher ranking of ricers upon retirement. Action Over Libya and in the Gulf of Sidra earlier this year will produce the first awards for valor presented since the inva Sion of Grenada in october 1983, the army s medal program came under soviets from Page 1 soviet spouses who have not been allowed to come to the United Stales and 20 cases involving people with dual nationalities. The Reagan administration seeking a bet Ter human rights performance by the soviet Union has made settlement of cases involving divided families one of he benchmarks. Gorbachev promised after the Summit meeting that 33 cases would be resolved and the soviets have followed through Wotli the names of 24 cases since then. The new list was provided on the eve of the conclusion of a muting of experts from 35 nations studying the possibility of new agreements toward bettering human rights under the 1975 Helsinki pact on Security and cooperation in Europe. Despite the soviet announcement the participants ended their meeting tuesday by failing to reach agreement on new human rights accords. Redman snid the United slates rejected a proposal by the non aligned bloc at the conference because it did not feel there had been adequate compliance with previous agreements. Since the 1975 pact in which nations pledged to permit Liberal emigration civil rights and toleration of religious and minority groups the United slates has accused the soviet Union and its allies of non compliance. Redman said the United Stales Hopes there might be further Progress at a follow up meet ing in Vienna Austria in november. Shiite group killing hostages caller claims Beirut Lebanon a an Anonymous Telephone caller said tuesday that american French and British hostages were being kilted by their captors bul no bodies were found. It appeared to be the second hoax Call in As Many Days the caller to the Christian radio station voice of Lebanon said the extremist shiite moslem group islamic holy War was killing live americans four frenchmen and a briton and their bodies would be left in moslem West Beirut at 2 . Police said 12 patrols combed the streets far hours but found nothing. A Man who telephoned the station monday also claiming to represent islamic holy War said two French hostages would be released by the end of the Day. Noone was freed. Lit Mic holy War whose members Are believed 10 be Loyal to Iran s fundamentalist shiite Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has claimed 10 hold five american and four French hostages who have been kidnapped Over the past 26 months. The radio station is operated by president Amin Gemayel s phalanges party which the shiites oppose in Lebanon s 11-year-old Sec tarian civil War a news editor at the voice of Lebanon said he decided to report the claim in a regular newscast rather than As a bulletin in order la emphasize the station s doubts about its authenticity. He said the caller who had a pales Tinian accent made the following statement at 1 30 . Tuesday the execution of All american hostages plus four frenchmen and a briton u under Way. Their bodies will be dumped in a West Beirut Street at 2 ." officer who died in 1 car Accident identified schwaeb1sch Gemuend Germany is Trie 56th Field arty come identified an officer tuesday who died in a single car Accident May 17as maj. Arnett j. Gray or. Gray 35, was assigned to the command s training and operations Section at Bismarck Cavern in Seh Zaebisch Gemuend he is survived by his wife Evelyn of Schwa Ebisch Gemuend his father Arnett Gray his daughter Dana and his sonar Nult All of Virginia Beach a. And his Mother. Marlene Welsh of Norfolk a German authorities pronounced Cray dead at the scene of the Accident. He was killed when his car ran off a curve and struck a tree police spokesman Gerhard Koller said Hollcr said the Impact broke the car into two pieces trapping Gray inside one half. He said the car apparently was travelling too fast to Complete the turn. Fire following thai four Day Battle for hand ing out 8.612 medals although it never had More than 7,000 troops on the Island. The Navy and marines issued e7 medals in Grenada All purple hearts. By comparison great Britain issued 679 medals among its 28,000 servicemen who participated in the Falkland War an intense conflict lasting 74 Days and costing the British 255 lives six warships and . Jeffrey record a former aide to sen Sam Nunn fj-ga., and now a Washington based military analyst was especially critical of the army s Shower of medals Fol owing Grenada when in any system of rewards the highly prize becomes commonplace the system itself becomes meaningless. The real victim of the army s medal mania is the army  record said.  by Ida naw twi turn temperatures l h to 1057 14 43 Isu n it is51 to w i 14 77 10 nil it is 83so n 7j 7111 79 m 64 17 n�1 ii a ii42 u s3 Isu 10 10 ft/90u n manioc 70 17 Honolulu n Houison � it imiinikiiti17 91  19 74 ktniaichv70 101 Lii a a ii 71 ill let Rock Albany    Birmingham  Charlo Uon , . Chicago  Dallal Forl Worth Danvir is 69 Loul Tim 67 71  n 11 Miami baach54 h Woli in. 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