European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes sunday May 17.1987 aids infection rate stable among military recruit Atlanta a a finding Hij he aids infection Rale among . Military re nits is no increasing has surprised research mfrs. According id a specialist at the National cd Fen for disease control. It s sort of cautiously Epco urging that the level has stayed basically Flat Over a 15-month period said or. Turn Dondero an aids re searcher Ai the Atlanta based cd. This is quite Foj Nikoly not what some of us were originally evicting he said for a year or two the Gene i feeling has been that the level of infection a going up parallel with the num Ber of   reported last month thai with 865.000jbilitary applicants tested for the virus that caves aids the rate of infection remained i5 out each 10,000 the same As Wax reported Jal year when 308,300 recruits had been police storm hijacked bus free hostages in Warsaw Warsaw Poland a police charged a bus freed seven hostages and captured a Youngman with a grenade who had seized the vehicle and demanded a plane to Fly him lowest Berlin witnesses reported. Police led away the Hijacker and several peo ple were taken away in ambulances but it was not Clear whether there were any injuries. An reporter at the scene said police stormed he bus which was parked on the Tarmac of War saw s Owecie Airport about four hours after the Young Man commandeered the bus. The assault took three to four minutes. The Hijacker described by witnesses As a pol ish Man about is or 19 years old was armed with a grenade said lot polish airlines assist ant general manager Krzysztof Jaskol Vietnam veterans treated for Post combat stress Boston a Massachusetts Hai opened what officials say is the Tim state sponsored residential treatment Center for Vietnam Veteran suffering Post combat stress disorder. Patients will be treated Al a 12-bed unit that opened thursday in Rutland Heights Hospital in Central Massachusetts. State officials said 25,000 of the state s170,000 Vietnam Era veterans were involved in heavy combat. An estimated 4,000 to 12,000 of them need professional help because of the Post War disorder said Stuan Forman director of the Rutland project. A team of 15 full Lime psychiatric nurses re habilitation Counselor therapists physicians and social workers will work at the Center. Andrew Dreyfus an aide to human services Secretary Philip w. Johnston said there is a six month wailing list at a facility run by the Veter ans administration in Northampton. Italian chemical blast leaves 4 workers dead Genoa. Italy a four workers were killed Friday when an explosion Tore through two chemical storage tanks filled with methanol officials said. One Man was badly injured. Nearly 300 residents were evacuated follow ing the wast at the Carmignani chemical import Export firm. Hundreds of firefighters struggled for More than five hours to control a Blaze triggered by the blast which touched off bitter criticism Mycity officials who have Long been pushing for the removal of chemical and Industrial Sites from densely populated areas. Unions called a one Day general strike in Genoa on monday to protest the incident. Nato urges eliminating All medium Range missiles Stavanger Norway a european allies urged the United slates on Friday to insist thai an Deal with the Kremlin on scrapping medium Range nuclear missiles include the soviet Union s weapons in Asia As Well As those in  nato position announced after two Days of talks in this North sea Oil port reflects what defens Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger said was president Reagan s current  ministers of 14 nato countries said worldwide elimination of medium Range missile should be a condition of any agreement. Soviet negotiators have rejected the idea of an immediate global ban noting that president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev agreed in principle at their Reykjavik Iceland Summit last october that each Side could keep 100 of the weapons on in own territory outside  also contrasts with the format . Bargaining position at the .-soviet arms talks in Geneva Switzerland. The draft treaty Washington submitted March 4 says each Side could keep 100 warheads. Weinberger would not ill reporters whether Reagan was prepared to change the american proposal in Geneva the nato defense ministers As expected did not reach a consensus on Gorbachev s offer to broaden nuclear disarmament in Europe to include Shorter Range weapons. Two or three governments had no yet decided Weinberger said. Gorbachev made the proposal april 14 during meeting in Moscow with Secretary of state George p. Shuitz. Although Shultz has spoken favourably of it the Reagan administration is delaying a formal response until common european position develops. Medium Range missiles arc effective from about 600to 3,000 Miles. The Shorter Range weapons Are accurate at 300 to 600  Carrington the Alliance s British Secretary Gener Al told a news conference that he believes nato is headed for an agreement in the no Hoo Distant future. New uncertainty arose Friday when Chancellor Hel mul Kohl of Germany said in Bonn thai he could no accept the soviet offer unless All nuclear arms were removed from Europe including tactical Battlefield weapons with ranges below 300  appeared to conflict with nato nuclear policy goals described in the defense ministers statement Fri Day. It said nuclear weapons were an integral pan of Alliance strategy in Europe and it is committed to main Taining and improving its nuclear forces. Government officials in Bonn a incr denied thai Kohl s statement was a rejection of the soviet proposal and said the Chancellor was Only laying Down what he thought were important  is not a decision in one Way or another said one senior official in Kohl s office speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity. We Are just saying this Battlefield weapons ares must be  s conservative party has expressed fear that accepting the Gorbachev formula would leave Ger Many a the Only nato nation with . Nuclear weapons and thus a More Likely target of soviet attack. The proposed .-Soviei missile Deal would mean the withdrawal of .-built cruise and peril Ling ii missile but some american tactical nuclear weapons would be left in  said the Alliance still favors eliminating . And soviet medium Range missiles from Europe but also wants to keep the Kremlin from retaining some in soviet Asia. No one Here wants to have 100soviet missiles in Asia he said. "1c vital that we stale that conclusion in their joint statement the defense ministers said we stressed the requirement to eliminate All United Stales and soviet medium Range missiles and called upon the soviet Union to drop its demand to retain a portion of its ss-20  Reagan from Page 1 ported diversion to the contras of Money from the secret Sale of . Weapons to Iran Reagan answered questions in a meeting with out of town reporters. In the separate Magazine interview according to an account to be published in . News & world report Reagan spoke of comments he made shortly after North was fired last november. When 1 said to him. That i still saw him As National hero that was in response to the fact that he has medals for valor and valorous deeds in the Viet Nam War Reagan said. As for the hostages Robert Mcfarlane the presi Dent s former National Security adviser testified thursday he had conferred with Reagan about a bribe and Ransom program to win the americans release. He said that the legalities and so Forth were handled by the attorney general and it was a matter of consensus Between the attorney general the president myself. And i talked to the president about it Mcfarlane said Reagan he approved the program in writing and it probably is a Mailer of record. Asked about Mcfarlane s comments Reagan said i m having some trouble remembering Hal but then i want to Tell you Hal there were so Many things going on and so Many reports and some of this was during the time that 1 was Laid up in the Hospital for cancer surgery in july 1985, "1 Don t recall Ever anything being suggested in the line of  Keagan said the administration was constantly exploring possible ways to free the hostages and be added it s possible that what we re  was use of Money to pay people and hire individual who could effect a Rescue of our people there and. I be never thought of hat As Ransom. But. Again i m having some trouble just u Bud Mcfarlane had some trouble himself with some of the questions that were asked him Reagan said. There was an awful lot going on and it s awfully easy to be a Little Short of memory. Although Tome polls have shown that a majority of people think Reagan has not been telling the truth about the Iran Centra affair the president said i have been telling the  arguing that he did not know about Money  to the contras Reagan said i am a Lull Wail ing to find out the final details of where did that extra Money come from who did it belong to and where did it go f however he said concerning efforts to help theron Rafi there s no question about my Beisig in formed i be known what s going on there. As a matter of fact i was very definitely involved in the decisions about support to the Freedom fighters. It was my idea to begin  me asserted anew that he Wai not directly engaged in soliciting contributions from other countries for the centres bul said that even if he bad been it would not have been prohibited by . Laws. Lonetree fron its of failure los piracy to commit. _ obey regulations and five court conduct provisions. By stripping away the m Lonetree actually allowed soviet  the embassy Pricr san reduced  s Case essentially to allegations Shause Ianne gave the soviets certain  stolen from the embassy. He ajs4jbwusej of passing along the floor plans and office assignments for the . Embassies in mos cow and Vienna Austria and with identifying to soviet agents the american intelligence agents assigned lathe Moscow embassy. William Kunstler one of Lonetree s two civilian de sense l "1 ltinkjiii�lll8nfflffliri6justiiy five flute Cong bul they gave us the most manager to of the Case he added. I predict he s going to _ Lii Jit conviction on fraternization which we be a3? the Marine it ten a spurt Raa Tui tentatively is scheduled to begin jul . Lonetree will have a Choice of electing  alone trial before a jury of officers or trial before a july of officers and senior enlisted marines