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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday january 15,1988 new arms control talks aim at possible treaty this year Geneva a . And soviet arms control negotiators thursday opened a new round of talks aimed at concluding a treaty to Cut intercontinental nuclear forces by so percent. Such a treaty could be signed at a Summit meeting in Moscow planned for later this year. The first meeting was a lunch hosted by the soviets for the lop negotiators Alcuri Obukho of the soviet Union and a tramp clean of the United states. Obukho accompanied by negotiators Lem Mas to Rovand Yuri Kusnic Tusov greeted the . Representatives in front of the soviet Mission where the meet ing was held Obj Thov said the agreements reached at the super Power Summit in Washington last month were a Fine basis for our work Here. He declined further com ment. The talks entered their ninth round following a tvs Wick break. Both Kampelman and Obukho said in separate arrival statements that it would be possible for the iwo sides 10 Complete a treaty in time for the Summit. However they noted the two sides remain far apart in some areas Damn clean said wednesday thai there Are sinous remaining differences of importance which must be  the iwo sides have agreed on general areas Sueh a reducing their intercontinental forces to 6,000 War Heads and 1.600 delivery vehicles and they Are work ing on a joint draft treaty Lext. The joint Lext however contains Many bracketed passages reflecting the two sides different positions. For example they must still agree on a timetable for reductions and on Ami cheating or verification Mea sures. Another Polc Oliai obstacle is soviet opposition to the . Strategic defense initiative. American j aimed in Nicaragua hears indictment read in court Managua. Nicaragua up James Denby. The Illinois Farmer shot Down in his plane Over Nicaragua made a tumultuous appearance in court wednesday to hear accusations that he violated stale Security Laws by helping .-Backcd Contra rebels. Denby who turned 5s in a nicaraguan jail cell tuesday fidgeted nervously As the presiding judge irid to read the indictment against him and warned jostling defense lawyers and reporters to maintain order. Marie Denby s wife pushed aside Security guards and gave her husband an emotional Hue As he was being led out of he courtroom. It was the first time she had seen her husband since nicaraguan troops fired at Denby s single engine plane and forced him to land on a deserted Beach dec. 6, im7. Denby was flying from his Home in Carling ill to a farm in Northern Cosla Rica and has said bad weather forced him to enter nicaraguan airspace. The government claims Derby allowed . Backed Contra rebels to use his strategically located farm Jusi across the Border from Nicaragua. It has charged him with taking up arms against the government and seeking to submit Nicaragua to foreign domination. Reynaldo Mon Scurcy the president of the anti so Moia people s tribunal the special court by which Denby will be tried asked Denby whether he would like to respond to the charges but Denby exercised a right to take two Days before submitting a plea. Since his capture he has been held in a state Security jail cell in Managua and has been allowed to meet several times with his brother William and his lawyers a team of three american and iwo nicaraguan Law. Yers prepared a document in which Denby denies any wrongdoing and challenges the right of the special to Bun afto try him. In the past Denby has publicly admitted sup porting the contras. He has said the rebels used his farm bul that he never provided military support to the rebels. The trial is expected to Las about a month. Denby said he was flying his Cessna 172 along Nicaragua s Caribbean coast from Honduras to Cosla Kica when he was forced to enter Nicaragua Anil look for a place to land because of bad weather. At least six bullets tired by sandinista soldiers struck his plane As he was flying Over a Remote nicaraguan Bench. App had James Denby in Sundi Lala custody since it. 6, kisses his wife after making his first court Ipp Nince. Fossil site May avoid being dump Wiesbaden a the governor of the slate of i Lessen said wednesday he May drop controversial plans Low one of the world s most important animal Fossil excavation Sinei As a garbage dump the Mestl site South of Frankfurt has yielded numerous important Fossil remains since 1975. They in clude the dog size ancestor of the Modem horse and the id million car old hand of a possible human fore runner. Palaeontologists and environmentalists have for years been fighting 10 preserve the site which is world renowned for its collection of fossils found virtually intact a stale court ruling last month that the govern ment s garbage dumping Ptan was not specific enough to meet Legal requirements has barred use or the site for Ilie next few years. On wednesday. Hussen minister president Walter Waller Man. In a major turnaround said he May request his Cabin a to leave the site to the  he said stale optic gals must first find an alternative site for the garbage dump government spokesman Ems Martin told the associated press. Hess in slate officials pressed to find More places to put ions of household wastes in 1981 Drew up plans in use the Meisel site As a garbage dump. The site i located some 21 Miles South of Frankfurt Messol is one of the most important Fossil finds in the world Pale oncologist Jens Franz of the Frank Furt based Sneckenberg Institute for palaeontology told the associated press the Institute oversees the Massei site. World today chinese experts expect in Vitro Panda cubs soon Beijing of scientists Are gelling closer to being Able 10 reproduce the rare Giani Panda in a Laboratory test tube a newspaper reported. The people s daily said scientists have deter mined what conditions arc needed for Frozen Panda sperm to regain enough momentum in a test lube to penetrate the membrane of a Field mouse s  report did not say Why the scientists used an egg from a Field mouse rather than a Panda. The Experiment was conducted last year by the chinese Academy of sciences animal research in . Pandas have a Low natural Fertility rate and scientists fear that without artificial help the Spe cies will become extinct. The Beijing zoo in 1978 succeeded for the first time in Breeding a giant Panda through artificial insemination. Small plane s crash kills German tourist in Africa Harare. Zimbabwe a a West Ger Man tourist died and three companions were injured when a Light plane flying them Over the. Victoria Falls crashed a Wesl German embassy spokesman said wednesday. Spokesman Christian sch Aga told the associated press thai it was against policy to release the names of the victims. The victims were in a party of germans who had flown from neighbouring South Africa to visit the Falls in Northwest Zimbabwe. The Pilot of the United air Charters six seat twin engine Piper alter air plane. Xavier Van Den Berg was also slightly injured in the crash at the resort s Airstrip on  said engine failure was believed to be the cause of the  air Charters head John Berry said the cause of the crash is being investigated by Zimbabwe s civil aviation department. Bottled message arrives by Ocean express mail London a american schoolgirl Kim Berly Corbisiero could have a big future in cd p Al Beriy. A third grader at Public school 32 in Slaten Island n.y., stuffed b message in a Boltuc and tossed it in the Atlantic Ocean near her Home dec 10.just one month later it had washed up on the South coast of England it came Over in record time said British science teacher Brian Darnton whose pupils found Kimberly s bottle sunday during a Fossil Hunting expedition near the coastal City of Way Mouth Kimberly kept her package Light and darn on speculated the tar covered plastic a pills Rode his enough in the Waves to be carried by the Westerly storms that blew across the Atlantic last  three students of St. Edward s school who found the bottle Michael Long ii Adriane strange 14. And Chris head 11 opened it to find a letter an envelope and a Dollar Bill. S. African paper appeals suspension of publication Johannesburg South Africa up the weekly newspaper new nation said thurs Day that it is seeking court action to prevent president Pieter Botha and Home affairs min ister Stoffic Botha from suspending the newspaper under slate of cmdr Ncncy regulations. The Appeal was filed in the Johannesburg supreme court wednesday and will be heard on Jan. 26, the newspaper said in a front Page Story. The newspaper founded two years ago by the Southern african Catholic Bishops conference also asked the court to Issue an order invalidating emergency Media restrictions allowing the government 10 suspend publication of newspapers for three months if ii feels that subversive articles Are being published. We Khe Sisulu the new nation s editor has been in emergency detention for the past 13 months and the newspaper was twice warned by the government that it was exceeding emergency restrictions  
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