European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes sunday january 11,1987 Shultz lists 3 measures for ending apartheid Nairobi Kenya a Secretary of stale George p. Shutlz called on the South african government sat urday to take three specific measures to Speed the pro Cess toward a peaceful end to the apartheid system of racial segregation. Restating previously expressed policy Shultz called on South Africa to lift the ban on outlawed political parties release anti apartheid Leader Nelson Mandela and open negotiations with All relevant political groups in the country. I would have to say that unfortunately there appears to be very Little movement in the situation Shutlz said. Sulu arrived Here Friday night on his six nation tour of sub saharan Africa. He met saturday with kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi for a discussion of bilateral and regional issues Kenya is the most strategically important country on Shultz s six nation african tour. Under an agreement Kenya jives the United slates Access to it military bases and Pom. The port of Mombasa is a frequent stopping Point for us Navy vessels. Discussing the situation in South Africa Shultz Reaf firmed Bis View that the Best Way for the United states to have an influence Over the situation is to remain a directly involved As possible. You re there. You stay Here. You Don t just throw up your hands he said. As part of this policy Shultz noted that he plans to meet with Oliver Tambo the Leader of the african National Congress in Washington later this month. The Anc guerrilla group is outlawed in South Africa. Some Reagan administration officials have reservations about shull2 s meeting with Tambo noting Hal the Anc has communist members and receive military support from the soviet Union. But Shultz has said the Anc has Many moderate elements and believes its views cannot be ignored. Shultz. Speaking to reporters accompanying him from Dakar Menegato Nairobi by Way of Cameroon Friday said South Africa s expulsion of new York times Bureau chief Alan Cowell was a very negative event. I think it s important Hal our news organisations have an Opportunity to report what s going on Shultz said. Cowell had been scheduled to leave South Africa this month in a routine personnel change. However the South african government without explanation ordered him to leave by saturday ahead of his own timetable and denied a visa to his designated Succes Sor. Shultz said the action was a further signal of South Africa s growing self imposed isolation which he said also is reflected in steadily decreasing diplomatic sup port and the withdrawal of Many transnational corporations from the country. Shutlz planned a weekend stay in Kenya. He was scheduled to visit one of Kenya s wildlife reserves on sunday next he will visit Nigeria the Ivory coast andliberia.s\3 pull i Jeta Kajut 4iuulc ii leu i ill he Al Taka la Duby 11 41 i1c Wil Visol m igl to pc i Ujj Unhul tit Liberia ran Iraq Trade Victory claims As ground air fighting rages Nicosia Cyprus a heavy fighting raged the artificial Lake was created by tie in saturday in the Iran Iraq War White Iran Carmeo to have seized More iraqi positions on the Western Side of the shall Al Arab waterway overnight. The official islamic Republic news Agency said Ira Nian warplanes brought iraqi troop concentrations under heavy fire and set their equipment ablaze. Baghdad radio said Iraq tired ground to ground missiles it the cities of def ii Nanavan Bor Jerd and rat Hormoz in Western and southwestern Iran i retaliation for iranian shilling of iraqi cities. The radio conceded that important positions were infiltrated by the iranians on Friday night around an artificial Lake called fish Lake. It said iraqi forces were tightening the noose around enemy forces particularly on the strip of land Between the Eastern Bank of the take and the Western Bank of the Batt Al Arab a fail flowing Channel that forms the Southern Border Between the two Gulf War foes. The radio monitored in Nicosia said iraqi artillery backed by fighter planes pounded iranian concentrations in the area Al close Range. Baghdad radio said iraqi forces were in Complete control of the Western Bank of fish Lake which was stormed by the iranians on Friday morning. The Battleground and the Waters of the Lake Are crowded with thousands of iranian bodies the radio s correspondent on the front line reported. On Friday night iraqi television had shown scares of iranian corpses lying on what looked like the Bank of a Lake. Other bodies were piled up against barbed wire or Lay in . On the the iraqis in 1982 when they flooded Marshlands to Moke ii harder forthe iranians to Advance. Irna monitored in Nicosia said iraqi positions were seized Friday night and fighting continued sat urday. It said the iraqis suffered heavy losses. Iranian forces Friday stormed across the Shalt Al Arab. The iranians said they killed or wounded 7,500 iraqis captured 600 men and destroyed 50 tanks. Iraq has said it wiped out most of four iranian revolutionary guards divisions. A division usually num Bers 10,000 men. The area of the fighting is Only 20 Miles East of Basra Iraq s second largest City with a population of 1million. In a Blitz attack iranian troops destroyed the iraqi 3rd army s 45th brigade and surrounded the 439lh and 501st brigades Irna said. However Iraq had claimed Friday thai one of those brigades the 501 it along with two other iraqi Bri Gades had encircled iranian forces. An iraqi brigade usually is made up of 4,000 men four More iraqi warplanes were downed by iranian gunners and he pilots of two of the planes were Cap lured Irna said. Iran claims to have shot Down 18iraqi jets since Friday morning but Iraq so far has conceded the loss of Only one plane. Iraq said one of its warplanes shot Down an Iranianf-5 during a dogfight Over iranian territory on Friday. It was the second plane they claimed to have downed since the iranian offensive began. Reagan greets 19 held in , Moscow a president Reagan has sent a message of support to 19 american citizens who have been denied permission to leave the soviet Union saying he was personally working to end their Perse cution Reagan said he recently received a letter from Abe Stolar 75, an american bom in Chicago who was brought by his parents to the soviet Union in the early1930s and who has repeatedly been refused authorization to emigrate. Vou have All shared in the persecution and desperation described by Abe in his letter Reagan said in his message a copy of which was made available sat urday by the . Embassy in Moscow the message dated Jan 1, gave no further details of the persecution reportedly described by solar As the new year begins i would like Abe and All of my fellow americans who Are unable to leave the soviet Union to know that you have not been forgotten Reagan said. The american government and i personally will continue to do everything possible to secure your right to leave the soviet Union the president said Reagan recalled that the Kremlin allowed the return on dec. 29 of 50 soviets who had emigrated to the United slates Over the years but found they could not Cope with . Life. No actions could give greater meaning to such humanitarian acts than to allow those american citizen who wish to do Solo return to the land of their birth Reagan said. Their release will help contribute to a Happy new year for us world today kindergarten in Spain dismisses aids victim s son Durango Spain up a 3-year-om boy whose Mother died of aids has been dismissed from kindergarten despite ctoctorj1 report thai he is no a Carrier of the disease the Basque press said Friday teachers and Parent Al the Maria Gomti kindergarten run by roman Catholic nuns in the Northern Basque town of Durango voted unanimously not to allow the boy a attend classes. It was the first known Case in Spain of a school dismissing the child of an aids victim. The regional health department said tests shewed that Israel pagalday was Noi a Carrier of the aids Sims the daily Correo Espanol reported. Austrian survives fall from 540-foot Bridge Vienna Austria full a 20-year-old Man wag hospitalized with multiple broken Bones after miraculously surviving an accidental fall from a j40-Fooi Bridge in Central Austria newspapers said. The Man Kurt Winkelbauer was inspecting the Bridge 10 determine whether it would be a Good starting Point for his Hobby of hang gliding the newspaper Neuen Volks Wittung Laid. While he was on the Bridge a car bonked an startled him. He lost his rooting and fell 540 feet from the second highest Bridge in Austria. The highest at 60s feet is on the Brenner autobahn in Southwest Austria. The Man was reported in serious condition with broken Bones and head injuries. Snapping turtles feared joining thames family London a thames River authorities Are worried thai the waterway May soon have some unwelcome Guasti vicious snapping turtles. About 1,000 of the reptiles have been imported into Britain from their natural habitat in North America and the thames water authority says some of them May end up dumped in the nver that flows through London and much of Southern and Central England. We be had cases of pet owners dumping the snapper s smaller relation the Terrapin into the thames and we now have a relatively Harmles Colony living in the quieter sections of the Oxford canal authority spokesman Brigitte Daniels told the Independent newspaper. A Ili mry Roundup major military exercise scheduled in Alaska Washington the Pentagon plans to conduct a major exercise in Alaska later this month to is the military s capability to fight in cold weather. The exercise a version of which is conducted every two years will be code named brim fast 87 and involve some 14,500 . Headquarters staf exercises will begin on Jan. Is at fort Richardson and Elmendorf fab in Alaska with actual Field training Jan.u-29. The Maneu vers will involve units from All the military services including the National guard reserves and coast guard new separation plan to exempt shortage skills Washington the Araw i Progri in to involuntarily separate about 30,000 enlisted sol Diers up to two months Early this year will allow for exceptions to the policy in 13 shortage skills. Those shortage skills by mos code Ore 43e All skill Levels. 91b20, 91c20, 91p10, 9irio,9jsio, 91uio/30, 9iv1q, 92b10. 93fio, 94b All skill level land 9sg All skill Levels. Nine of those kills Are in the medical Field one is in Field artillery one in electronic warfare and the other two Are Parachute riggers and food service specialist con put Iran Hwy ii
