European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 88 the stars and stripes monday february 15.1988 dec leaders of budget Compromise Brussels Belgium not a emergency meeting of the Leaden of the 12-nation european Community reached a laboriously negotiated agreement sat urday that will permit an overhaul of its finances and ease the transition to a bar Rier free Market by 1992. A inc end of More than two Days of negotiations Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Cwm Germany which holds the Community s rotating presidency forged a com Promise on agricultural subsidies that was acceptable to prime minister Marga ret Thatcher of Britain who Hai led a fight Tor frugality. An Accord Here was widely regarded As essential to the eventual creation of a different european economic and Politi Cal order and perhaps a step toward what some Hope Wilt one Day be a Umed states of Europe. Thatcher held out until late Friday night for stiff measure that would Cap the Agri cultural subsidy system which consumes two thirds of the Conan onily s budget. On the basis of this agreement the Summit participants ratified other policies that will raise new Community revenues and Redis tribute resource to poorer members such As Portugal and Spain. The search for a solution to the agricultural question has bedevilled the european Community for years. A failure to reach agreement Here would have left the organization technically insolvent by Early sum Mer. The confrontation Over agriculture pitied Britain and the Netherlands against a Loose coalition of most of the other Community members led by West Germany and France. Bonn and Paris sought to protect Small and inefficient Farmers who have been crimped by measures to Cut prices. The Broad outlines of the Compromise included these Points the establishment of a ceiling on far spending through automatic Price Cut and other penalties once specific quota have been exceeded. The introduction of an additional sys tem of budget contributions that better reflects the real wealth of individual Community members and that effectively institutionalizes Britain s annual rebate a doubling of the dec s social and regional spending on poorer Southern Mem Bers to bring their economies More into line with inc More prosperous Northern ones. News briefs crippled danish Tanker checked for damage Manama Bahrain a the crippled danish supertanker Kate Maersk on sunday was towed into a port outside the persian Gulf where Salvage experts boarded to assess the damage and iry to determine whether it was attacked by Iraq or Iran. Regional shipping executives said they were increasingly convinced that the 339,000-Lon ship which was blasted and set afire m the South Central Gulf on thursday was the victim of an iraqi air strike. The ship would logically have been an iranian  source asking not lobe identified said suspicions shifted to Iraq after an incident Friday in which an iraqi warplane fired two missiles As it flew within eight Miles of a . Navy escorted Convoy of re flagged kuwaiti  the Convoy was not the intended target the . Guided missile destroyer handler fired hares to warn the soviet built Badger bomber to change course officers said. One of the iraqi missiles passed close to inc . Ships. The thursday night attack on the Kal Maersk. In which one danish Seaman was killed and three injured left a Large Hole and several smaller ones in the superstructure of the ship about 100 feel above the water. Fire gulled the Crew quarters. Magazine apologizes for forged Telegram Bonn not the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel said saturday that it a gritted publishing a document that purportedly linked austrian president Kurt Waldham Lowar crimes. The document was declared a Forg Ery by the yugoslav authorities week before lust related Story Page 2. When first published in Spiegel two weeks ago. The document which purported to be a1942 Telegram citing la Kun Waldheim As the authority for the transport of More than 4,000yugoslav civilians to concentration Camps appeared to provide the first evidence that he was personally involved in atrocities while serving with the German army in the Balkans. The Telegram created a considerable stir. Ii appeared a week before an International com Mission of historians was to present its report on Waldheim s wartime record to the austrian government. 2 airmen die 1 injured in Accident on autobahn we Brocken a Germany two air men died und a third was injured sunday in a one car Accident on autobahn 9, a Community spokesman said. The Accident occurred at about 3 30 . Two Miles from the air base. The airmen arc assigned to inc 26th equipment mail so Ai Wei Brincken. The injured airman . Scoll Boehmer 20, of Butler a was in stable condition with multiple injuries at the Lan Stuhl army Region Al medical Center the spokesman said. The names of the dead airmen Are being with held pending notification of relatives. Military officials Are investigating the cause of ire Accident. Dodds from Page 1 Usa eur issued a statement saying the command shares this goal of prompt and accurate solutions of the current pay problems of in , civilian employ  the statement did not address the sea s Call for congressional action. Noting that a whole lot of people were to blame the report painted a Bleak picture of the present pay system including instances of inaccurate payments and audits Laic reports and pay statements that left teachers and other school employees confused about what they were paid and by. The sea. Has been particularly incensed Over the operations of the 266th finance Center in Zelmen Germany. The Union has accused the Center of ignoring their Calls for Reform since pay problems surfaced in Early september. The study made no attempt to pin particular blame on the Center. We can t evaluate the management of the 266lh." he report said even with the advantage of Hindsight in her minority report sea representative Jan Pepelnjak said the Union had no Choice but to seek congressional help. Credibility in finance s ability to do the Job is severely lacking her report raid. Wilh so Many pay problems unresolved and with the current surplus of unacceptable responses the word of finance or Dodds is not  the sea contacted its Parent Union the National education association in Washington last month about the pay problems. The Nea sent a letter feb. 1 to three senators and six House members slating ill concern Over these rious and continuing problems. For thousands of Odds teachers and other civilian  Ken Mallcy the Nea s director of government operations said Friday that he experts response to the letter soon after tuesday s new Hampshire primary. Files from Page 1 missing but did not confirm the details of he Morgan posts Iory up1 reported nearly Complete nazi party membership files and files of Adolf Hitler s elite is and a troops Are among the 30 million document collection. The is was hit Ler s special police and the a was the Leader s private army whose members were known As storm troopers. The files proved useful in the prosecution of John do Manjuk an american on trial in Israel for concentration Camp atrocities. Denial records from the Center were flown to Brazil several Yean ago to identify the body of Joseph Mengele an is doctor known As the Angel of Auschwitz according to the Morgen Post report documents liken from the Center were used by Hitler diary forger Konrad Kujau in 1983. The phony diaries were sold to Stern Magazine a Hamburg illustrated weekly for 15.36 million. The newspaper report Stales lawyer for Herd Heidemann the reporter who bought the Dianes on behalf of Stem claim the documents delivered to Kujau from the Center will serve to vindicate their client. A Idem in was convicted after the forgeries were discovered and is serving time. In an interview with the stars and stripes a year ago Simon said researchers still were cataloguing portions of the massive collection. However Simon said most of the highly sensitive material had been identified and removed from the Center for safekeeping. The Berlin document Center is located in the zen Lendorf District of the american sector. Operated by the stale department since i9s3, it formerly was he Central Telephone listening Post for the Gestapo the nazi secret police in Berlin the facility was taken Over by the americans after world War ii and for four decades has been a repository Tor documents captured by the . Army during the closing Days of the War. Access to the document collection has been limited to scholars and government agencies German Justice official in Berlin could not be reached for comment sunday. Primary from Page 1 by Kemp said on Abc to meet the  asked for specifics Kemp said Robertson has said credit cards arc the Mark of the  former Colorado sen. Gary Hart said on Abc he would not end his bom again democratic Campaign if he does not do Well in new Hampshire. The latest polls showed Bush and Dole locked in a tie for the Lead in the Republican primary with Duka Kis enjoying a solid advantage among democrats. The sunday Boston Globe said ils poll of 387 Likely democratic voters surveyed thursday Friday and sat urday showed 39 percent for Dukakis 14 percent for Gephardt and 13 percent for Simon. Jesse Jackson had 8 percent. Gore 5 percent former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt 4 percent and Hart 4 percent. Thirteen percent were  was favored by 32 percent of the Likely Republican voters and Bush had 28 percent. There was a three Way lie for third former Delaware gov. Pete do font ii percent Robertson 10 percent and Kemp percent ten percent were undecided draft Kennedy Nixon tells democrats London a former president Richan Nixon said in the sunday times that sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., should run for president this year and that his character would be his greatest asset. In the first of a series of articles on the elections Ninon predicted that if there is an economic ression this year any one of the democrats will win. If therein not a recession the democrats cannot win without a charismatic candidate such As Kennedy or new York gov Mario  the Massachusetts Democrat will turn 57 in eight Days Nixon wrote. If be is Ever going to run for president a 1988 draft would be Liis Best  Kennedy is inc least discussed but most logical Candi Dite for a draft. His greatest strength Wuu be the Char Acter Issue both its negative Sid and especially its posit tide the Republican former president wrote no one will Ever forget Chappaquiddick he wrote referring to a july 1969 Auu Accident in which Kennedy was be drive Rand a woman passenger was killed. The question is whether people have forgiven him for it he wrote. If the Media hound Kennedy Over Ihal Regie Accident 19 years ago they might Weil help him rather than Hurt him