European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday february 15, 1988 presidential hopefuls continue Battless a i jul sin iffy my. Ital and rep Hirlu ird Gephardt d-mo., stand Inoel it Siil Uriley at a i Bjelf n guff Clynn  1 Here they clashed Over Simon s cd a Linn . It was the final debate fur lire democratic contenders be fore Ike tuesday new Hampshire Pri Mary. At right. Vice president cell Rife Bush laughs while clutching it Simball Appunn he caught As his wife Barbara shunt to the i Rover in Manchester . Bush threatened in throw ii Back but do Del. Austria s Chancellor May step Down if Waldheim controversy continues news updates Vienna. Austria Al l amid mounting political tensions. Socialist Chancellor fran Vranisky sunday said or Wilt consider resigning if the juror Mer president Kurt Waldheim continues to lbs cruet his government leadership. In an hours cog television interview Vranisky launched a Sharp attack on Viil Dhim saying he did nut Deal exactly with the truth bul he stopped Short if calling on the president id step Down. Veteran political observers could not recall a similar Public confrontation by Lucca a Chancellor and a head of state since the second austrian Republic was established after world War ii Vranisky s critic it comments came As the tabloid Kuricar published an inter View in which Waldheim magic Clear he has no plans to resign Ite said he enjoys comfortable popular support. Waldheim reportedly said. After All tie surveys. 1 am rather convinced that the great majority which is very often the silent one wants me to slay  asked How Austria could tic rec from a filiation in which the country laces a and image abroad and division at Home  said we must try to gel out of this situation by nut satisfying our selves with allowing the president not to face up to these  Van hike said it was nut enough for the president to give newspaper inter views because interviews Don t replace the a cation arid am i r game to a de  i warned that if his cup Stalions about the president conduct Are not Ful filled and it a High percentage of his time continues to be absorbed by the Wald Heim affair then i would not be Able to perform my other tasks and then he question arises if 1 can., carry on this government Post it was the second Day of increasing pressure on Waldheim from Wranitzky and other officials in the socialist party senior partner in the coalition with the conservative austrian people party. Heinrich Keller a chief socialist party Secretary reported saturday that. Tor the first Lime a majority of party members now urge Waldheim i resignation. Also on saturday via Nitzky said in an austrian radio interview that not to have been a War criminal is no sufficient qualification for a president he said after All nobody has Ever conducted an election Campaign by say ing please vote for me because i am not 3 War criminal " he referred to a report submitted monday by is military historians who said they found no evidence Waldheim involved in War crimes. But the 202-Page document established Val Dhim s close proximity 10 wartime atrocities in he Balkans and seriously questioned his moral integrity As a German army officer during world War ii. Austria has been split Over Waldheim and i world War ii past since March 1986, when austrian and . Media first disclosed that Waldheim served As a German army lieutenant in the Balkans from 1942 to 194s. Waldheim has consistently denied any wrongdoing. The Vienna government appointed the historians commission to investigate Waldheim i wartime record after the . Government put the former . Secretary general on a watch list of undesirable aliens. On Friday former foreign minister Karl Gruber stirred outrage by claiming that members of the commission were Waldheim i enemies because they were either socialist or jews. Referring to Trubert statement via Nitzky said the president must in inc very next hour distance himself from such statement As Grubor a and no wait until the Chancellor sends a Public apology and other officials express their dismay in the Kuricar interview Wallheim belatedly described Cruber s comments As unacceptable bul tic qualified his re Marks by saying Gruber was a Resis Tance fighter. I believe he did not want to express an evil  via Nitzky also critics cd Waldheim and his adviser for trying to portray the attacks on Waldheim As something orchestrated by jews and foreigners. One must advise inc president and his advisers to Stop saying it is a jewish conspiracy of worldwide i mansion he said. Cyprus car bomb fas 3 Plo officers Nicosia Cyprus a a car bomb killed three officers of Yasser Arafat s mainline Fatah faction of the Palestine liberation organisation in inc Southern port City of Limassol on sunday. Police said the bomb exploded shortly before noon apparently As the Driver tried to Start the car thai was parked out Side an apartment building in Limassol a i  official in Nicosia speaking on condition of anonymity identified the victims As Mohammed Sultan Moham med Buhlis also known As Abu Hassan Kassem and Marwan Hiya i. He said All three were officers of Arafat s Fatah group and Kayyali was also a member of Fth Flo s military Council. He said Sultan was in his Early 40s, inc other two in their late Jos. In Athens Plo spokesman Balsam Abu Sharif in Greece As part of an Effort to charter i ship to Haifa to carry palestinian deportees on a ship of return accused Israel of being behind inc staying. Israel started this open War after losing the secret War concerning the ship he said the Plo has accused Israel of waging a secret War to prevent the ship s sailing but now says the vessel will sail on monday. Police said the car disintegrated from the Power of the explosion to the Point that police officers were unable to identify its Type. Mercy killer s plea fort Maui Verdale a. A convicted mercy killer Roswell Gilbert has Askil far a new trial saying his lawyer fool Ched the Case by worrying too much about Selling Book and movie rights to the Story Gilbert s current attorney Brad icy Stark has tiled a 65-Page to lion which includes a sworn statement from attorney Joseph Varon acknowledging that he May have erred in handling the Case. Ii is quite possible thai the eco nomic Factor of the Book and pos Lible movie or television rights was prominent in my thinking and per haps swayed my judgment in some critical  Varon said in the statement Gilbert now 78, was convicted of Faircl Jeg rec murder in May 1985, two months after he fired two shots into the head of his ail ing 51-year-old wife at their sea Side condominium. Fired Airport worker Chicago Al an Airport bartender who was fired for giving a $4.95 , away to mayor Eugene Sawyer was offered his Job Back saturday bul he said he did t want in. I m Honing to hear from the mayor s office in reference to a Job instead Michael Butchel Laid. Bui 1 Don t want to be Pushy. 1 will Sil Back until they Call me. Bueschel was fired Friday from his is an linux Job at a Midway Airport restaurant for giving away food without permission manager Guy acc Uura said. The dismissal was rescinded saturday. Sawyer upon hearing about the dismissal of Murschel indicated Laic Friday Lii at the 13-year-old College Modem could end up with a Job working for him. Ill help him find one said Sawyer who ate the Sandwich on his Way to a speaking engagement in Alabama on thursday Irh Eean l find one i la give him one