European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Q three Cabinet members listed As millionaires Page 5 q Stria s West Side Story fun in the Sun daily Magazine q today s Dollar buys 2.27 Marks rates Page 27 f pipes vol. 45. No. 48 wednesday. June 4, 1986 is . 0-0 d 8693 a soviets warn . On violating Salt Moscow in Hie Soult Union warned tues Day that Washington s i in to abandon inc Salt ii Trca by a Lopardi cd another superpower Summit and inc move was exceptional the communist part newspaper pravda in the Blu test warning so far. Said the i s violation of the treaty terms could end plans for the proposed i9h6 Summit Between presi Dent Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Pravda said . Policy has fallen under the control of Hawks who want to undermine All arms control agreements including both the 1979 Salt ii treaty and he 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty that could limit the strategic defense initiative. Those arc virtually attempts at poisoning the general atmosphere in sovict-. Relations to such an extent As to make a continuation of inc dialogue Between the .s.r. And the .a. At Summit level impossible pravda said. The United Stales last week announced plans for Exten Sive deployment of nuclear armed cruise missiles aboard d-52 bombers by late in i so which would violate the limits imposed under the Salt ii terms. 1 he treaty was signed but never ratified by the Senate. However until last week. Cagan agreed to abide in the see Salt on Page 28 Kohl reacts to criticism by forming Cabinet Post Tor environmental affairs Bonn up Chancellor Helmut Kohl responded to rising criticism of his government s handling of the Chernoby Accident aftermath tucs a by creating a new Cabinet Post for environmental affairs. Kohl named Walter Wallmann inc pop ular 53-year-old Christian democratic mayor of Frankfurt As his environmental minister. Wallmann s biggest test in coming months As Kohl s Center right coalition moves toward a january 1987 election showdown with the resurgent social democrats and anti nuclear greens will be to explain the government s continued insistence on expanding nuclear Power. Since the chernobyl nuclear reactor Accident in the soviet Union. Kohl s Christian democrats have become politically isolated in their pro nuclear position. A Ven their coalition partners the Liberal free democrats have questioned the Wisdom of operating the country s new breeder reactor and building a costly recycling Plant for spent reactor fuel. The Cabinet realignment coming 12 Days before a state election in lower Saxony that the opposition greens and social democrats have sought to turn into a referendum on atomic Energy was a Clear Rebuff to Interior minister Friedrich Zimmer Mann. Zimmermann whose ministry has been responsible for environmental Protection has been under heavy attack for his handling of the radioactive fallout problem caused b the april ?6 chernobyl Accident. Most recently Immermann has been sharply Erit Ici de by Germany s opposition parties and leading austrian politicians and newspapers for making what they said was a veiled threat to austrian economic inter ests. Zimin Crunn. Who travelled to Vienna. Austria last week to discuss Austria s for Mal protest against the construction of the German plus mum recycling Plant near a Varia s Border with Austria and a ech Oslo Varia suggested that this official criticism of his government s policy could harm tourism and business ties with Germany. The minister said his remarks were mis interpreted. Immermann a member of the bavarian slate Wing of Kohl s Christian democratic party and a close ally of state Premier fran Josef Strauss also has been blamed by the opposition for conflicting information provided to the Public on the nature of the health threat from the chernobyl fall out thai blanketed much of Germany for about a week in Early May. The greens in a statement called Wall Mann s Cabinet portfolio for the Environ ment a Fig Leaf thai seeks to cover the inadequacies the government has shown in this Field so far. Social democratic parliamentary whip Hans Jochyn Vogel said the move was a desperate bid to turn the tide in the lower Saxony . Panel approves duties on Canadian steel products Washington a the . Inter National Trade commission in a move Likely to heighten Trade friction Between the United states and Canada has voted to impose penalty duties of up to 41 percent on Canadian steel products used in Oil and Gas Wells. The action taken monday affects $90 million a year in imports from Canada according to commission spokesman Hal Sundstrum. It comes As Canada prepared to slap import duties on . Computer parts books and magazines lord r Date against new . Tariffs on Canadian shingles and other Cedar Wood products. By a 4-2 ruling the commission found Canadian As Well As taiwanese firms had caused financial injury to . Companies by dumping certain steel drilling parts in this country at below production costs. Items involved include casing tubing see steel on Page 28 a mysterious piano with Sheet music snuggles against inc Schilc Stcin. Rock musicians High notes pose monumental problem see Lisberg. Switzerland a local authorities tuesday faced the task of removing a piano chained by pranksters to a Cliff above Lake Lucerne that commemorates the author of the most famous play on ,.iliam Tell Switzerland s legendary National hero. In the past practical jokers have fastened chamber pots and telephones to the Rock which was dedicated in 1859 to Ger Man dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. The Cliff rising almost straight up from the Lake is near the spot where three can tons states swore an oath of allegiance in 1291 that signalled the Swiss confederation s birth to which the Tell legend is linked. Police said the piano apparently was brought on by boat before being sus Pended some 76 feel above the Lake near the top of the Rock
