European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday february 28.1988 Syria Jordan reject Shultz s proposals Damascus Syria a leaders of Jordan and Syria told Secretary of slate George Shultz saturday that his proposals Tor a Middle East settlement Are unacceptable. We did not reach any agreement Shultz said after a  with syrian president Hafez Assad which followed a similarly unsuccessful meeting in Jordan. We expressed our opinion in an open and Frank Way. No agreement was reached said syrian foreign minister Farouk Al Sharaa who also met with Shultz. Shultz s failure to reach an agreement entered around the involvement of the so Viet Union and the Palestine liberation organization in negotiations for peace. Jordan and Syria which has close relations with the russians want the Plo and the soviets to participate in an inter National conference on peace in the mid dle East. The United states and Israel want to exclude the Plo and to limit soviet influence. . Policy forbids american Diplo Mats to meet ranking Plo officials be cause the . Administration regards the Plo As a terrorist organization. Syria s state run television said Assad and the . Secretary of state discussed during their meeting the american ideas that Shultz earned with him concerning the Arab israeli conflict. The . Plan Calls for immediate talks on palestinian self Rule and negotiations by december on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza strip which Israel seized from Egypt and Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War. The syrian Side found that these ideas do not Lead to a comprehensive peace formula the television said. After the meeting Shultz flew Back to Israel from Damascus. Shultz took his peace plan to Syria after running into stiff resistance from Jordan saturday morning. Jordanian foreign minister Tahr Masri after meeting with Shultz also insisted on soviet and Plo participation in the negotiations Shultz is trying to set up. When Shuttz arrived earlier saturday the official Damascus radio broadcast a commentary noting signs of a positive shift in the United states Mideast policy. Referring to Reagan s statements at a news conference wednesday night the state radio said Reagan was looking for a comprehensive settlement because of palestinian unrest in israeli held Territo Ries which has left scores of arabs dead since december. But the shift was obviously not enough for the syrians. Shultz last saw Assad in 1983. He accused the syrian Leader of undercutting a .-Backcd pact Between Lebanon and Israel that year. Three years later the . Stale depart ment accused Syria of involvement in at least 40 incidents of terrorism and imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions. But Shultz on his Way to Israel wednes Day night said syrian involvement in terrorism seems to have declined and he intended to find out How helpful Syria might be in a Middle East settlement. Shultz is trying to set up negotiations by the end of the year on a final Arab Israel settlement that would resolve the palestini an problem. But israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir urged Shultz on Friday to move slowly and to  for a test period of limited palestinian self Rule. The Plo in a statement released in Jor Dan hours after Shultz s departure said it is willing to meet . Officials on any level and said american rejection of a meeting shows the United states is not serious about Arab israeli peace. News briefs soviet Airliner crashes while attempting to land Moscow up an Aeroflot Tu-134 Pas Senger Jet in route from Minsk to the siberian town of sur gut crashed while Landing saturday killing an unspecified number of passengers the official Tass news Agency said. The tul 34 is a twin engine passenger Jet that first went into service with the soviet National airline in 1962.the plane was carrying 45 passengers and a Crew of . In a Brief dispatch said there appeared to be some survivors of the crash. Navy Trident losing Streak ends with successful test Cape. Canaveral. Fla. A a Navy Trident i missile was launched successfully from a submerged ballistic missile submarine off Cape canaveral saturday ending a Streak of three Tri Dent failures officials said. The missile was fired Down the air Force Eastern space and missile test Range at 10 27 . From the Stonewall Jackson and landed in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the 55th Trident 1 launch since 1977 and the 30lh from a submerged submarine officials said. Less takes command of Middle East Force Manama. Bahrain up rear . An Thony a. Less formally took command saturday of the . Navy Middle East Force projecting american registered kuwaiti shipping in the volatile persian Gulf. Rear . Harold Bernson who guided the . Escort operation during its troubled beginning last summer and through a flawless autumn and Winter removed his lag from the command ship Corona do at Sunset and turned control Over to less. 15 die As 727 crashes in mountains on Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus a a Boeing 727 air liner flying from Turkey crashed in the mountains of Northern Cyprus on saturday killing All 15 people  chartered Jet had just crossed the coast line in its approach to Ercan Airport in the turkish cypriot sector of this War divided Mediterranean Island when it smacked into the Kyre Nian mountains. Rescue workers flown to the scene reported that wreckage was scattered on both sides of the Steep Range indicating that the plane hit a Mountain Summit. Officials said the plane was carrying 13 Crew members and two passengers. It was flying to Cyprus to pick up tourists for a chartered flight to  plane was managed by Talia airlines a Small charter outfit. 2 More palestinians killed Jerusalem a israeli soldiers killed two palestinians and wounded at least 28 in violent clashes saturday and hundreds of israeli arabs demonstrated in Solidarity with their Brethren in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. Unrest also flared in Jerusalem where arabs blocked roads near the Shuflat refugee Camp throwing stones and burning tires. Police dispersed the crowd with rubber bullets and arrested six protesters. Police doubled strength to 3,000 troops patrolling Jerusalem amid St Ppd up protests surrounding a Middle East tour by Secretary of stale George Shutlz. In the West Bank City of Ramallal police detained two american teachers on charges they carried inciting mate rial friends of the two said. Police refused comment. Elsewhere scattered protests erupted in the Territo Ries one Day after four arabs died in violent clashes Many of them fuelled by moslem Sabbath prayers. The army said it imposed curfews on areas around Hebron and extended curfews covering four Gaza strip refugee Camps restricting movement of 120,000 people or nearly 10 percent of the 1.5 million arabs. Air Force plans meetings on my Washington a the air Force says it plans to hold special meetings for residents living near 11 bases selected to handle rail mounted my missiles in order to identify environmental  the service announced a year ago it had selected . Warren fab in Wyoming to income the main operating base for any rail mounted my missiles and 10 9ther bases for consideration As additional rail  the service said Friday it had launched an Environ mental Impact study of the bases and that it would review a number of deployment alternatives including the Fielding of 100 my missiles on rail cars instead or just 50 missiles. Besides . Warren the list includes  fab Ark. Little Rock fab Ark. Whitman fab to. Barksdale fab. La. Dyess fab Texas Fairchild fab. Wash. Grand Forks fab . Minol fab. . Malmstrom fab Mont. And Wurtsmith fab Mich. Delvalle from Page 1 Dusty said the coalition hoped to totally paralyse the nation by Early this week. Still most shops and other businesses were open saturday morning although they traditionally close their doors at noon for the remainder of the weekend. Police threw up barricades Friday and blocked the Short Street in Panama City where Del Vallec s modest but modern Home is located. Other policemen could be seen in the Yard of the Small House. Noriega has run the country since 1983, controlling beating from Page 1 protesters to reduce casualties has drawn severe criticism. Several of the 69 palestinians killed since the anti Israel uprising that began dec. 9 have been beaten to death. Three soldiers Are under arrest for allegedly burying alive four youths of a West Bank Village. Vil lagers later rescued the youths. Twelve people have died in the week of National outrage that began last sunday. Since the Start of the anti Israel uprising dec. 9, at least 69 palestinians have been killed and hundreds have been wounded in clashes with soldiers. On tuesday it. Gen. Dan Shimron the military s chief of staff issued a clarification to soldiers that they can Only use reasonable amounts of Force during riots and to subdue suspects. Israeli attorney general Josicy Harish in a feb. 19 the 15,000-Mcmbcr police and defense forces. The United Stales has called for Noriega s removal since he was indicted in Florida feb. 5 on drug trafficking charges. The indictment says Noriega let colombian narcotics traffickers use Panama As a base for smuggling cocaine and marijuana into the United states receiving kickbacks from drug profits. Noriega has blamed protests that began last summer and the indictment on efforts by . Conservatives to prevent Transfer of the Panama canal to Panama by the end of 1999. American military personnel in Panama were on Alert and civilians were told to keep a Low profile. The 10.000-Lroop . Southern come which runs . Military operations in latin America is based in the canal zone. Letter cautioned that beatings must end after a suspect is arrested and should not be used to punish or humiliate. As part of a week of protests against Secretary of state George Shultz s visit to the Middle East the United National command of the uprising a Clandes Tine palestinian committee reportedly directing the protests had called for a Day of popular demonstrations  of the uprising have denounced the Shultz initiative As inadequate. The . Proposal Calls for self Rule for the 1.5 Mil lion palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and talks later on the final status of the territories. Palestinians say they will Settle for nothing less than the creation of a palestinian  London meanwhile after receiving a flood of angry phone Calls the israeli embassy said Friday that the four israeli soldiers shown on television beating two bound palestinian youths will face a court martial. The embassy said the soldiers involved were detained by military police. The soldiers would be subject to court martial and if found guilty would be sent to a military jail the embassy said