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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, April 22, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes Friday april 22,1988 news updates Turner fined Monticello a. A broadcast Csc Cutic Ted Turner pleaded no contest to illegally importing wild Mountain Lions and was fined si.5do and ordered to produce Public service announce ments Tor two wildlife groups. Skyscraper dispute new York a a devel oper has screed to build rehearsal space for dance groups to Settle a dispute with the City Over a new72-Story skyscraper that wound up ii feet too nigh. The floor slabs of the building. City spire had to be thickened Dur ing construction by about 2 inches each to increase stability Accord ing to Howard Holstein a lawyer Tor Developer Ian Bruce Eichner. Asa result or this and some mis circulations the luxury condominium building wound up 813.5j feel High while 802.65 feel had been approved. Zichner under the settlement agreed to construe rehearsal space at no Cost to the City. Kiku Muro defense Newark . A noted Radical cause lawyer William Kunst Lerand an associate Wil taken the Case of a japanese Man arrested in new Jersey and linked to a terrorist group. Attorney Ronald , who handles cases with Kunstler said wednesday he met with the defendant for two hours and decided to take the Case without Chari. You Kikumra 35, is being Hel without bail at the metropolitan correctional Center in new York City since his arrest april 12 at a new Jersey Turnpike rest Stop in Ridge Flold. Dod against publishing details of reports on pow sightings Washington publishing de tails of reported live sighting of Ameri can servicemen missing in Southeast Asi might harm the . Effort to account for the men the Pentagon said  Pentagon s position was spelled out a the defense department opposed spending Bill requiring More information to be revealed about reports thai Tome Ameri can servicemen May still be held the Pentagon lists 2,404 is. Person Nelas missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. The official . Position i that Ute possibility thai Tome via Are being held prisoner cannot be filed out the Bill was sponsored by rep. Robert c. Smith r-n.h., who Tola a House for eign affairs subcommittee that families of the service personnel Are nol getting and have not gotten All of the information on the live sighting reports or All the in form alien in the  dozens of pow Mia family members Many of them wearing Small signs Tup porting the Bill jammed the hearing room. Karl d. Jackson Deputy assistant Secretary of defense disputed Smith telling the Pacific affaire subcommittee that our policy is to be Fon Comine with the families or missing service  we consider it essential that the families have Confidence in our efforts to account for and return their loved  said the Best Way to promote this Trust lost in earlier years is through open communication which we have sought to i Latiin with the families Jac Jonn Laid publication of information might have a detrimental Impact on pow Mia intelligence investigatory an analytical capabilities which we have gone to great lengths to develop an strengthen during Thil  the Lime View is taken by army  a. Schlauer chief of the defense intelligence Agency s special pow Mia office. Schlatter Slid the legislation would have an Advent Impact upon the ability of the i government intelligence Agen cies to collect investigate and Analyse in formation the Bill also is opposed by the nation Al league of pow Mia families whose director Ann Mills Griffiths said the measure give the families no control Over the Public release of sensitive information which could mean endangering the life of anyone still  addition. The families would have no control Over Public release of information they wish to be held in Confidence she  individuals have claimed a government is withholding information about the ii Stenci of paws. Administration officials have denied those con Len Lions. The Bill was supported by retired a Mycol. Earl p. Hopper st., chairman of the live pow committee which he said Isan organization representing 1,500 pow Hia family  Ait suspicious of everything government officials say. Including those in the Reagan administration Hopper said i evidence Don nol support the exis tence of live american prison in being held by the communists then there is no logical reason for it to remain classified and withheld from the american peo ple Hopper said. Hopper s son air Force la col. A rep. Hopper jr., was shot Down in 1968. Cardinal o Connor Castro meet corrections Havana Cuba a Fidel Castro met late wednesday with Cardinal John o Connor of new Doit a government offi Cial said after the roman Catholic prelate celebrated an emotional and historic mass. The cuban Leader received o Connor atthe presidential Palace at about 11 ., according to a spokesman for the foreign relations ministry after the Cardinal finished saying mass at Havana s Cathedral. Reporters were bustled out of the mass at 9  And brought to the Palace where they were told Castro and o con nor would be available for a photo ses Sion. But at 11 30  It was announced thai Castro cancelled the session because o Connor had been late arriving at the Palace. There was no word on what was discussed or How Long the meeting would last o Connor received thunderous applause As be walked in a procession to the altar of the 284-Vcar-old Cathedral i Havana s colonial District. About 2,000 people crammed the bar Oque building shouting Bravo and applauding As 75 while cloaked clergy men walked slowly toward the altar. One Man grabbed o Connor hand and kissed it As he went by. There has been a mistake the Cardi Nal said jokingly in Spanish. You a welcomed me As a Pope but i am Only Cardinal a poor Cardinal the heal inside the Cash Coral was Sti fling and Many people fanned themselves with the latest edition of the communist party daily Cranray. O Connor is the first american Cardi Nallo visit Cuba since Castro came to Power in 1959 and this was his Fin a since arriving in Havana on tuesday. Manila. Philippines api the philippine air Force said one of its is Jet planes accidentally dropped a practice bomb on a sugar Plantation owned by president Corazon Aquino s family. Initial reports blamed the . Air Force for the incident last week in which there were no casualties or damage. But philippine air Force statement said a filipino plane was responsible. The practice bombs contain Small amounts of explosives and spew out smoke so pilots can determine How close the bombs come to targets during prac Tice  statement Suid the bomb fell from one of three planes which flew Low Over he Hacienda  during a training exercise. The philippine air Force operates a bombing Range near the Plantation North of Manila. The Plantation is near the .-Runclark and. 9 � Washington a the associated press erroneously reported wednesday that the . Supreme court upheld a California state order requiring the University of California to provide Rte on Campus mail delivery for labor Union literature aimed at organizing University custodial workers. The court reversed the order by Testate Public employment relations Board ruling that it violated a Federal Law granting the . Postal service a monopoly. The stripes mag yesterday for the Val we  Cannstatt runs from saturday to May 8. . Seeks alternative to bases in Philippines Honolulu a . Military teams Are scouting Pacific and Southeast asian nations for alternative Sites in i heaven new military lease agreements can l be reached with the Philippines government says America s top Pacific military commander. There is a serious minded Success oriented approach to the alternatives . Ronald j. Hays said. Hays said in an interview monday hat he has been surprised Al the intensity of issues being debated in the review of the 1947 military bases agreement under which the United states maintain facilities at Clark air base Subie Bay naval base and four smaller installation sin the Philippines. The agreement expires in september1991. However i m still optimistic about reaching an agreement. The economic Security and political implications Aso Ciales. With our departure would be astronomical Hays  declined to identify nations which might Host . Military  problem is that the nations who Are forthcoming id us on a private basis and who will readily concede thai indeed bases Al Clark and Subic Are important Are unwilling for a variety of reasons to go Public and to take an official Public position of support for the United Stales said Hays. The Admiral said it would Cost $10billion or More to duplicate the facilities in the Philippines. However he said that less than hair that amount might be available Lopre pare alternate bases which would mean reduced . Presence in the Region. Small planes collide in Italy 2 killed 2 Hurt verg1ate, Italy a two Small planes collided Over Northern Italy thursday and one crashed into a Bouse. Two people in the other plane were tilled when in crashed into a Field. Firefighters said the iwo person aboard a Cessna 1 so that crashed on the outskirts of Vergial were killed instantly. The own is near Lake Maggiore about 30 Miles Northwest of Milan. Two persons aboard a siae marchcltl260 to that crashed into the roof of a two Story House were injured and rushed to a Hospital the House was badly dam aged but no one was Home at the Lime of he crash firemen said. Police said the planes collided while preparing to land at a Small air Field. Authorities identified the dead As Al Berto Callahan 40, the instructor who piloted the Cessna and his student Gil com Nisoli 25, both italians. Those injured whose condition Wassail not to be serious were identified italian Pilot Silvano Galli and former dutch air Force Pilot Rudolf Herman Friderich from Leiden both at s7. 3rd body in apartment May be missing go Schweinfurt West Germany is German official believe one of three apparent murder victims found Ina burning apartment monday was a 3rd inf div Soldier a division spokesman said thursday. German authorities Belicov the Bod of spec. 4 Hobert a. Russell Btry c. I sign 10th Field arty we among three found by fire Fighier in a  3 35 . Monday. Army authorities however had no been Able to positively identify the body thursday the division spokesman said. Russell has been missing from his uni since monday morning. His relatives have been notified that he b missing in spokesman said. A German prosecutor identified theother two deceased As . Car Salesman Joey Mcneal and his wife Clra a postmortem showed that Joey my Neal and Russell had been stabbed Tod Pew Mcneal had been strangled,.pros-Ecutor Walter Mulier Taid wednesday. German police and army investigators Are investigating the Case  
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