European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q rite will Honor . In read Page 3 d big top appetites circus cuisine pages 14-15 d Derby Winner Al Sheba wins Preakness sports Page 21 authorized unofficial publication Fop Thiu a. Ftp met foflckfvol.46, no.31 monday May 18, 1987 0 8693 a Hall exit a a frito Fure he former secretory to fired Mitt it Security Coo old a Lac Oliver North Ives Etter Boase la Washington after appearing before a Federal grand jury investing Mem die inn cant j9ur. Sec Ttorp putt 28. Bonn minister cites necessity of missiles Hamburg a defense minister Manfred Woerner was quoted saturday As saying thai scrapping All nuclear missiles in Europe could uniquely threaten Germany by eliminating an important tactical counter to a soviet conventional invasion. The newspaper Welt am sonntag quoted Woerner As saying he backed a drastic reduction in Shorter Range nuclear missiles in Europe rather than the Zero solution proposed last month by soviet Leader Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. The interview underscored serious objections among Chancellor Helmut Kohl s governing Christian democrats to soviet missile Cut offers. As nato s front line country Germany is concerned hat a superpower treaty Banning missiles with a Range of 300 to 620 Miles would expose the nation to the East s Superior conventional forces stationed in neighbouring East Germany and Czechoslovakia. We must prevent a situation where n special threat would be created Tor us germans. Therefore we Raust also obtain a drastic reduction in the conventional arms superiority of the Warsaw pact the defense minister was quoted As saying. Kohl s coalition government is divided Over the so Viet Shorter Range missile offer and has slowed efforts to reach a common West european position on the soviet proposals. The . Government awaits such a consensus before it responds to Kremlin proposals Al superpower arms reduction talks in Geneva. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher and his Liberal free democrats while also seeking East West balance in conventional forces support the Elimina Tion of Shorter Range missiles. The free Democrat believe German Security would remain protected by . Nuclear bombers and submarine missiles that would be unaffected by Gorbachev s proposed missile part. However Woerner contended that the removal of Shorter Range missiles would help the invasion capabilities of the Warsaw pact the paper reported. We need a landscape Fin Central Europe in which no Power will dare to pick up weapons and pursue War he was quoted As saying. In an interview the same Day with the state owned do Uisch Welle radio network Woermer suggested that nato Mignol have to deploy More nuclear missile with a Range under 300 Miles if a pact were struck on Hose with a 300-lc-620-Mili Range. Lindy lives again Paris a an american Pilot flying Solo to commemorate the non Slop Atlantic crossing by Charles a. Lindbergh set three Speed records before binding in Paris on sunday afternoon. Aviator psychologist Richard Gilson 43, was grated with Champagne by a crowd or about so people at be Bourges Airport near Paris at 2 . Sunday. Gitson s wife who had arrived by commercial flight earlier in the Day was among those wailing on the Airstrip under sunny skies. Gilson said shortly alter Landing thai his Mooney a limbo charged single engine four seat aircraft Ushers in a new Era for Speed Range and Altitude capabilities see Lindy on Page 28 off Lowright prescription president Keig a Ulette and turn of the Penta gon s medical school u he leaves commencement ceremonies it the Kennedy Center in wishing Len saturday. He addressed 155 and nit of the uni formed services University of the health so fences which trains medical officers for the us. Jerroed forces and Public health service. Military trying people s court by Daryl e. Green Tpaul Cozby  Bureau while the people s court entertains television viewers in she states a similar idea offers an alternative to lawsuits in two military communities in Ger Many. The programs help solve personal disputes and May serve As prototypes for ail army and air Force Legal offices. " the people s court that you Sec on to is nol a Small claims court. It s private arbitration said Ken Neth j. Allen the army s answer to the show s judge Wapner. Arbitration is the same thing As a Small claims court with one exception the person who it codes is not a judicial  on the people s court a retired California judge arbitrates disputes involving Money Bel Huen parties thai agree to abide by his decisions. The Parma sons military Community where Allen served As the administrative Law attorney and arbitrator before recently going Back to the Stales started its private arbitration program last year. Since the Mili tary does nol have the authority to enforce decisions on private Legal matters the arbitration process de pends on the twp panics contracting to abide by the arbitrator s decision after the Case is heard. The court deals mainly in disputes concerning child care contracts and used car sales. However we could possibly hear any Case thai you would take to a Small claims court Allen said. The ram Sicin a Center opened dec. 6 and follows essentially the same guidelines As the Parma sons pro Gram. Two parties with a dispute fill out an application for arbitration and have a hearing Dale assigned. A hear ing takes place within 10 Days followed by a decision in no More than 15 Days. It s open to All id card holders and will help resolve any civil matter cancer ing amounts up to $1,000, said capt Jeffrey s. Gard Ner the assistant staff judge advocate at Ramstein who Heads the Center. Officials see advantages in the programs for both americans and for the judicial system in a Host nation. Because the military has no jurisdiction Over private Legal matters the Only other option available to sol Diers airmen and their families has been to go through the German Legal system. This can be costly and time consuming. The arbitration process costs the people involved nothing and is flexible enough id be scheduled Al times most convenient to All parties involved. It also reduces demands on local courts. We be checked with German judges and they think it s a great idea Gardner said. For those involved in a dispute the process is fairly easy to follow. It Wos really kind of informal said spec. A Ralph t. Tap Pun a defendant in an arbitration Case in Pir see court on Page 28