European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes Martina Steffi Breeze Boris ousted at . Open sports Page 21 g flexibility urged in Dod budget cuts Page 3 d foreign visitors to . Heading for new record Page 5 q inquest on ferry disaster opens in Page 28 Fortne u. Ii Loco meet vol.-16, no. 114 wednesday september 9, 19b7 / a a d 8693 a East German Leader welcomed in Bonn Bonn not Erich Hon Cockcr achieved a major Milestone in his Long political career on Man. Day when he became he first Lender of East Ger Many to step onto West German soil. He arrived id the strains or his nation s Anthem and he sigh or the East German Flag waving alongside the similar colors of West Germany Honecker s Llyushin-62 jetliner arrived with two East German flags on which a Hammer Compass and wheat sheaf Are superimposed on the same horizontal bands of Black red and Gold that appear on West Germany s lag at the chancellery in Bonn the Shori but Militar ily erect East German Leader still 1 Shook hands with the Large and Stout West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They stood Side by Side while a Mili tary band played Arisen from ruins the East German Anthem that was once banned in West Ger Many. East and West German tags alternated around the chancellery courtyard breaking another taboo. The first of the five Days Hon Cockcr is scheduled to spend in West Germany included two sessions with Kohl a formal luncheon with president Rich Ard von Weizsacker and a banquet at which Kohl was Host. The West German president welcomed Honecker As head of the East German mate and As a German among the germans in the two German Stales a cling to the same nation von i i acc scr continued echoing what has remained a Central premise in West German politics a Nilion thai raid not begin with Bismarck and did not end with Kohl in his opening statement said that the Mil Lions of germans watching the meeting find them selves with conflicting the people in Germany know there two slates which have to Deal practically with Ninny is sues he said. But he insisted the idea of the Unity of the nation is As awake As Ever and the will o keep it is still the 75-year-old he Necker who 26 years earlier helped Seal the division of Germany by directing construction of the Berlin Wail replied in his lunch Eon Oast it is dangerous and senseless to mourn the German Reich that perished so at the banquet monday night nevertheless. Kohl criticized the Berlin Wall while Hon Cockcr Sal motionless at his Side and stared straight ahead. Gulf War cools prior to peace bid Manama. Bahrain a Iran. And Iran appeared monday to have declared another informal truce in the persian Gulf Tanker War a move Arab diplomats linked with a peace Mission by . Secretary general Javier Perez tic Cuc Tor. For a second Day Iraq reported no air raids against Iran. Gulf shipping sources said they had received no re ports of iranian gunboat attacks on Neutral shipping since Friday. Related Story Page 3 diplomatic sources however reported that on saturday the third missile in a week crashed in Kuwait. The Netherlands meanwhile joined a growing list of countries sending mine sweepers to the Gulf. Arab diplomatic sources insisting on anonymity said Iraq had voluntarily decided As a gesture toward his Perez de Cuellar s Mission to Call off its raids particularly those on Iraq earlier welcomed the . Chiefs visit to the Region later this week. Webern diplomats said Perez de curl Lar made a cessation of hostilities a pre condition for his Mission which was to begin in Tehran on thursday Iraq broke an earlier 45-Day Lull in in Gulf War aug. 29 with sin Days of intensive air raids on iranian targets saying it wanted to Force Tehran to accept a july 20 cease fire Call by the United nations Security Council. Iran retaliated with attacks on shipping in the waterway declaring that no shipping limes can hi1 Safe if its own arc endangered. Gulf based shipping sources who spoke on condition of not boing identified say 23 ships were hit last week by iranian and iraqi attacks. Jim Julao holding Trot ii Dumner 7, Tinah thumbs of during labor Day put id in Pittsburgh. Jackson says he will seek nomination Washington a the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Montiy thai he will sect the democratic Nomi nation formic presidency in 1988, with a formal his candidacy to be made next month. To with the help 3jcod and the support of the Amer ican people. Oct. It during the period of the rain Bow coalition conc Nfn in Raleigh n.c., i announce my intentions that Lime to nation of the democratic try for the of Mouncy of the United states of Ambrif Racku fraid on Abc to s Good morning America to Jackson s planned entry news rib in a is Able Field of democratic . But Jackson said that four years Elf try his initial Bia for the presi Dency he has Beci Fadle to Budd a Ron surus that will bring him . Asked mite could be a mainstream Candia could Wirthe election Jackson replied. The real Issue is is too narrow. We be got to turn inc Stream into a River and make room for More
