European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 news briefs the stars and stripes thursday. December 17, 1987 reception by Khomeini belies illness reports Nicosia Cyprus a Iran s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on tuesday received the families of War victims and of prisoners Cap tured by Iraq in the persian Gulf War Tehran radio announcement also carried by the offi Cial islamic Republic news Agency appeared designed to refute reports Hal Khomeini 87, was seriously iranian television broadcast later in the Day showed him silting in a chair on the Balcony at his North Tehran Home during the meeting staring fixedly downwards and looking frail. Khomeini did no speak. Empty greek Tanker hit by iranian gunboats Manama Bahrain up1 iranian gun boats wednesday attacked and set Abla a an empty greek Tanker bound for Bahrain he is land nation critical to . Navy operations in the persian , mayday under attack by iranian gunboats the Grcic Captain of the 29.990-ton world produce cried Over ship s radio As rocket propelled grenades struck and ignited a fire aboard his grenades crashed into the Crew quarters and a fourth slammed into the engine room killing the ship s giant motors and leaving i dead in the water off the coast of Ras at Khai Mah in the United Arab emirates. Faite 4 other captives freed paper says a anglican Church envoy term Haik one of four kidnapped col lege Edu Cauer and All three remaining French hostages snit bloc freed the sunni moslem newspaper a i Liff ported tuesday. Three of the Icv Krs Are americans the fourth an Indian wimp Cal residence in the United Stales. Lal Liwana attributed to Brief front Page statement to old cruise informed diplomatic release of All the is to take place the paper said. Waits completion of some technical arrange Mcl to the operation will include the Rele Nepf anglican envoy Terry wait and one oath inc i can teachers who has been kidnapped front Sci rut University of sergeant sentenced to year for using cocaine Hahn a. Germany its a 27-year-old air Force sergeant was sentenced wednesday to a year s confinement for using cocaine. Sol. Dairy i r. Boulden an environmental control system technician with the 50th aircraft generation so also received a bad conduct Dis charge was reduced in rank to Al and was directed to forfeit All pay and allowances in a two Day court martial a Hahn spokesman said Boulden who is from Easton. Maryland entered the service in 1979. He faced one charge of cocaine use. Soviets May Back embargo of arms to Iran Shultz says London a Secretary of stale George Shult said wednesday the soviets appear willing to support an arms embargo against Iran but he said it is too Early to consider deploying a multinational naval Force to carry it out. Shutlz told a news conference there has been expressed a readiness by soviet officials at the United nations to support a Security Council Resolution Pun Ishing Iran for its refusal to accept a cease fire in its War with Iraq. The Security Council passed a Resolution in july calling for a cease fire in the 7-Ycar-old War. Iran re fused to accept it because it did t Brand Iraq the aggressor. For months the soviets had called for further mediation efforts by . Secretary general Javier Perezic Cullar and As recently As the Summit in washing ton they rejected . Calfe for an arms embargo. Maybe we re beginning to see some Progress Shutlz said. The Washington Post quoted an Arab diplomatic source wednesday As saying the soviet Union has pro posed creation of a .-Flaggcd naval team in the Gulf to enforce the embargo Shutlz called the suggestion extremely let s Start with the arms embargo Resolution it self Shutlz said. It s if All countries refuse to sell arms to Iran it will be effective he added. Shult2 made his remarks shortly before leaving Lon Don after talks with i rime minister Margaret Thatcher and her top aides. He had five Days of discussions in other european capitals about nato strategy in the Wake of the .-Sovicl treaty signed last week to scrap intermediate Range nuclear missiles most of which Are in a news conference tuesday in Bonn. Shutlz rebutted . Conservatives who fear Western Europe will be stripped fall nuclear arms. Nato is clicking to a plan to modernize Short Range atomic weapons he said. People who say you be eliminated one thing there fore we re in danger of eliminating everything Don t quite get it Shull said. Critics of the .-Sovicl treaty including former nato commander Hurnard w. Rogers say ii appears to be the first step toward removing All nuclear weapons from Western Europe which they say is the chief soviet foreign polity goal. The treaty subject to Senate approval would eliminate All land based intermediate missiles which have a Range of 300 to 3,400 Miles. Shutlz told a news conference in Bonn that the Alli Ance is firmly behind a 1983 decision to modernize nuclear arms with ranges below 300 Miles mostly Artil Lery and surface missiles. In Light of these decisions Shutlz said the fear of total nuclear disarmament in Western Europe is he reaffirmed a nato decision i n june to make Short Range nuclear weapons u topic of East West negotiations Only after seeking reductions in Long Range atomic arms conventional forces and chemical weapons. Long Range m missiles have a Range of More than 3,400 m ills. Hart from Page 1 classified advertising today in stripes Magazine quickly added that his prospects were gravely weak ened by the questions about his personal values. Indeed a poll of new Hampshire votes said Hal 53percent of respondents said he should not have re entered the race. From Nashua Hart was heading to Dover n.h., to deliver a foreign policy speech at a High school and then to Portland. Maine to Campaign on the Street. Hart said after his announcement that he would give himself a few months to decide whether he has set off on a doomed and Foolhardy quest. In an interview on Abc to s nigh Olinc on tues Day night 1 hours after he filed As a candidate in the n. " no shirt primary Han suggested he might be willing l Settle for less than the presidential Nomi nation. His Baseline he said is having some influence on the positions the democratic party lakes in its plat form. I m not going to perpetuate a Campaign that s not going anywhere or dues t have any popular support or that does t have at least the Chance to take enough delegates to the convention to condition the platform and the policies of this party into the 1990s," he said. Hart said he was t going to discuss his involvement last Spring with Miami Model Donna Rice. Disclosure of that relationship led to portraits of Han As a Womanizer and to his withdrawal As a candidate. As for questions about his personal behaviour "1 know what s coming. I m not naive. There will be some very bad stories. But Uherc is no Way in the world i intend to respond to Rice was not available for comment. Her Mother Miriam Rice of Irmo s.c., said in a Telephone conversation thai neither she nor her daughter wanted to discuss Hart s decision. She said her daughter who moved from Miami to los Angeles to pursue an acting career several months ago is doing "ok., t Benjamin Bradyce executive editor of the washing ton Post was quoted in his newspaper wednesday As saying the Post would not publish the name of a woman other than Rice with whom inc newspaper said. Hart had a Liaison. The affair came to Light in a report by a detective hired by a Man who suspected i Ian of having an affair with the woman the Post said adding that it had obtained indirect confirmation from the woman on the condition she not be five words on the state House Steps i m Back in the race Hart Shook up inc political world. He and his wife then spent he rest of tuesday getting with , i m Gary Hart and i need your support he told one person after another As he made his Way Down main Street in Concord and later through a Nashua mall. Hart introduced himself to Holiday shoppers at Small slopping to talk to a Mother holding her Young daughter signing the autograph of the Young woman behind the cookie counter thrusting out a hand to a couple Silling at a table. Not even near blizzard conditions could Stop him on his first Day Back. The bad weather possibly helped him win at least one vote a woman whose car was stuck in the Snow along Hart s Campaign route Hart helped push it i Don t have a National organization. I think the primary states arc a belter Chance for us than the caucuses but we re going to try everywhere we can Hart mrs. Hart i believe in this country and us future. Whatever grief we experience is nothing com pared to what is it s hard but we believe so much in dad my Mother myself and my brother do. There was no other Thoice for us 23-year-old daughter Andrea said in a television interview in Denver. Han paid tribute to the perseverance and stamina of his six announced democratic opponents but he made it Clear that he thinks no candidate of sufficient stature has emerged. The other democrats gathered for a debate in Edin big Texas on tuesday night but did not mention Hart s name. Roh from Page 1 if Roh were declared the Winner. In Washington inc stale department termed the election historic and praised what it called the South koreans determination to Roh appealed to koreans to accept the outcome in ing. We must begin an Era of reconciliation the governing party has presented itself As the nation s Only guarantor of stability. It says Only it can provide the conditions necessary for sustained economic growth and for the orderly staging of the 1988 summer olympics. The games have taken on a significance beyond the athletic Competition and have become a Symbol of South Korea s emergence As a nation to be reckoned with internationally. All police and military is remained on Alert across the country to Deal with possible protests. About 77,000 riot police guarded polling and Vole counting stations and the army was on combat Alert. Squads of riot police in Green fatigues stood guard at key government buildings and major intersections in Seoul and other cities in Case of demonstrations. The Only serious violence erupted in inc southwestern City of Kwangju where hundreds of people screaming that the government was stealing the elections battled rim police who fired tear Gas. The City is Kim Dac Jung s main Politi Cal elsewhere was peaceful As Al most 90 percent of the country s 26 Mil lion eligible voters cast ballots. The National coalition for democracy a leading opposition group that fielded about 100.000 poll watchers nation wide charged inc governing party and government officials used bribery multiple voting and phony ballots in their bid to retain Power. The coalition said it had reports of some 3.000 raws of fraud in Sci jul atm
