European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday june 29,1987 Cut . Defense Load German reportedly asks Mainz Germany a a top adviser to Chan cellar Helmut Kohl was quoted saturday As saying europeans should study ways of relieving the United states of some of its duties in the defense of Europe. The europeans should not waste any time in find ing a common answer to the question of How they can relieve the United slates in Europe and elsewhere Horst Teltschik was quoted As saying in an interview with the Mainz newspaper ally Mccine Zeitung. Zeitschik Kohl s senior foreign policy adviser added that this would Only mean a new division of work within the nato Alliance and should not Lead to a decoupling of Europe from the United states according to the newspaper. He said there Are growing signs that the question of american engagement in Europe will be increasingly discussed in the United states the newspaper said. The successor to president Reagan will have to Deal with a budget deficit of More than $500 billion and the . Spends $120 billion annually on the defense of Europe Teltschik was quoted As saying. Meanwhile a senior official in Kohl s conservative Christian democratic party urged the strengthening of the european pillar in the Atlantic Alliance. Alfred Dregger the party s parliamentary floor Leader in an interview with the ducks Oldorf newspaper West Deutsche Zeitung also called for a european Security Union but this Union should not be an alternative to the Alliance with the United slates dragger was quoted As saying. No Frenchman no German could be interested in weakening the american presence in Europe he was quoted As saying. However the proposed Security Union would re main an empty formula if France did not assume a greater responsibility for Germany s Security dragger was quoted As saying. He said there appears to be growing understanding for this German concern in Paris according to the newspaper. French officials have Given a cautiously positive response to Kohl s proposal earlier this month for an experimental joint Franco German As my brigade. With the United states and the soviet Union edging toward an Accord on removing Short and medium Range nuclear missiles from Europe German officials recently have been stressing the need for a common european defense. Marc oses believe their destiny is to resume Rule in Philippines Washington up deposed philippine presi Dent Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda say they have left Ordinary mortal life behind and have become gods whose destiny is to return to Power in Manila. Marcos and his wife who were interviewed in the current Issue of Playboy Magazine also said thut the . Embassy in Manila masterminded their Down fall in february of 1986 with a threat to Send in the marines to oust them and that Nancy Reagan Tele phoned them during their final moments in the Manila Palace to invite them to the United states. During the seven hour interview in their Honolulu exile Home the couple also joked about report of their vast hidden wealth and Imelda Marcos penchant for buying shoes. Imelda Marcos also said her husband had quelled a Mutiny of unhappy household staff members last november with a speech invoking his namesake Ferdinand Magellan. We Are on a divine Mission to return to the Philippines to reclaim our destiny mrs. Marcos told the monthly Magazine. We Are part of the achievement of being a god he husband added. An Ordinary mortal would not be Able to stand it. All of our statements now have to prove that we have not gone Back to being Ordinary the ousted Leader also claimed he is a clairvoyant who believes in extrasensory perception and Tele Pathic messages one of which was a sign from god about returning to Power in Manila. So far the sign has been Don t move yet Marcos said. Marcos said the 1983 assassination of opposition Leader Binigno Aquino just added to ii. Resolve of the . Embassy to try and Knock me out and that former . Ambassador to the Philippines Micha Armacost masterminded Hie whole during the turmoil Marcos said he got an unsigned note from a High ranking . Official say ing the marines would be used against he said he told the unidentified official that if he note was signed by president Reagan ill surrender to mrs. Marcos said that mrs Reagan called Malaca Nang Palace As opposition demonstrations paralysed the Marcos government saying " come mrs. Mar cos i invite you to the United Stales the reagans were very Sweet and wanted us to be Ferdinand Marcos Imelda Marcos their guests she added. Unfortunately the reagans were Ted lies by bureaucrats. But i surely appreciated their humane asked whether he knew How much he was Worth Marcos joked. Yes but i m not about to Lell you. They claim i m Worth How much thirty Bil lion 1 say show me the paper and we can split Lake 29 billion give me 1 billion and let s say goodbye like friends but they have to find it first and not in pesos in american dollars once in hawaiian Enile their household staff began to quarrel it was like everybody had his own household Imelda said and the staff threatened to leave in a Marcos summoned them for an inspirational communist party leaders agreed saturday they Shoul dad immediately to overcome separatism by eth Nic albanians in a Southern province a trend they called Yugoslavia s biggest problem. The ruling yugoslav communist party s 165-member Central committee met fonday in downtown Belgrade to discuss the failed implementation of party and government policies the past six years and the flare of albanian separatism in Yugoslavia s Kosovo members said Many officials in Kosovo local government bodies legislature education culture and news Media must be replaced with pro yugoslav 1981, Kosovo courts have sentenced about 1.500 ethnic albanian separatists to jail term of up to 20 years for anti yugoslav activities including armed attacks bombings anon rape and murder. Woman drug dealer sentenced to death Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a a cosmetics Saleswoman was sentenced to death sat urday after she was found guilty of trafficking in 9 a pounds of Beng Ngoh 28, received the Only penalty forty nine people have been hanged since Malaysia passed Laws in 197 allowing the death sentence for drug trafficking. Others Are await ing appeals or execution data. Son of mafia victim killed on Sicily Street Porto empedocle Sicily a a 16 year old boy whose father was gunned Down Las september in a mafia execution was shot to death As he walked with his Girlfriend by the Seaside in this port town italian newspapers re ported boy Fcrlando Mallia was the Only male member of his family who had stayed in Porto empedocle after the sept. 21 attack that killed his father and four others who Weir sitting in a. Cafe the Rome daily i Messaggiero reported. Relatives believe the boy was Loo Young to be a target in what police says a War betwee mafia clans in the Agrigento area on the South Ern coast of Sicily. Seeking 10 put themselves out of easy reach of assassins after the september attack that killed Gerlando s 37-year-old father. Giovanni Mallia other family members have fled Italy for other european countries ii mass Aggro said. The teen Ager was shot to death by two me who came up to him and then fled As his girl Friend watched news reports said. Carter arrives in China after discussions in Tibet Beijing up former president Carter who arrived Here sunday after visiting Tibet is scheduled to meet with chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and pre Mier Zhao Ziyang during a three Day visit to the chinese capital. Carter and his wife Rosalynn were greeted at Beijing s capital Airport by . Ambassador Winston lord and vice foreign minister Zhu Qizhan. The former president who completed the normalization of . Relations with Beijing in 1979 after a break of 30 years spent two Days touring Tibet s capita City of Lhasa where he met with the Panche Lama the Region s most important religious Leader alter the exiled Dalai Lama. Xinhua news Agency said that during his meeting with Carter the Panchen Lama criticized two amendments passed last week by the House that accuse Beij ing of human rights violations particularly in Tibet. These amendments constitute an inter Ference in China s internal affairs hurting the feelings of the tibetan people Xinhua quoted the Panchen Lama As saying. Carter declined to comment on his visit to the mountainous Region. The amendments accuse China of sup pressing human rights and of imposing its Rule on Tibet by military Force. Beij ing has protested the amendments which claim that the 1951 annexation of the Region by China led to the deaths of More than 1 million natives
