European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 news briefs the stabs and stripes Friday May 27,1988 Senate hurdling obstacles to inf treaty approval Washington a Senate negotiator worked thursday to Clear away the remaining obstacles to a u.5.-Spvicl treaty Banning medium Range nuclear missiles and headed toward almost certain approval of the first arms control treaty to be ratified in 16 years. Meetings on the remaining issues resumed thursday Between the scale s leaders and senior members of the foreign relations armed service and intelligence committees. I m very optimistic about finishing this mat Ter said Senate minority Leader Bob Dole r inn. Who noted that the areas of disagreement had been whittled Down to iwo or three. I m confident thai everybody is going in the same officials destroy canister suspected of being bomb Boston a bomb squad officers on thursday removed a suspicious looking canister from a department of health and human serv ices office Down the Hall from sen Edward m. Kennedy s and later determined it was not a destroyed the device at Moon Island in Boston Harbor with a High pressure water can non said police spokesman Jim Jordan. Presumably if in was a bomb it would have exploded and it did to Jordan said. A was t a bomb blast injures 4 in downtown Pretoria Johannesburg. South Africa a two bombs exploded in downtown Pretoria thursday and injured four women As the notional party marked 40 years in Power. A cab inet minister blamed the outlawed african National Congress guerrilla movement the attacks in the South african capital coincided with anniversary celebrations by president a. Botha s party responsible for the country s apartheid legislation. The National party has Lethe government since the Whites Only election of May 26, s94b.four White women All librarians in their 30s. Were returning from lunch when a bomb exploded in a Flowerpot at a Busy Street Corner. One woman lost an Arm a second suffered Back injuries and the other two had extensive facial bums according to a statement from . Verwoerd have minutes earlier a bomb placed under a parked car exploded several blocks away. The car was destroyed but there were no injuries. Trident missile test scores another Success Cape canaveral Fla. A the Tri Dent ii submarine missile scored its i in Success in 12 lest launching wednesday night hurling an unarmed warhead package loan undisclosed Atlantic Ocean target the Navy 44-foot, Ihrck Slage missile roared off a land launch pad at 10 07 . And carved a Brilliant path of Light in a Clear sky Asil boosted the warhead package Over a course of several thou Sand Navy reported 30 Minics after liftoff that the test was a Success. . Asks advice on Noriega from latin America leaders Washington a . Diplomats began a round of consultations with latin american governments thursday in a search for new options on bringing about the departure of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from pan Ama. Assistant Secretary of state Elliott Abrams said . Ambassadors were instructed to seek advice Tram Hie presidents and the foreign ministers of their respective coun tries. Abms spoke to reporters Afler a closed door meeting of the Senate foreign relations committee to discuss the failed administration attempt a negotiate Noriega s Resig nation As defense chief and his departure from Panama. We begin today a round of consultations with democracies throughout latin Abrams said Cable went out last night instructing our ambassadors to see the presidents of their Host countries today and the foreign ministers and to Tell them what happened in detail and to ask for their advice in helping us move Forward Republican and democratic senators hailed the col lapse of . Efforts to negotiate Noriega s departure. A lot of people an not upset that it fell apart said sen. John Kerry d-mass., the morning after Secretary of slate George Shutlz told a nastily arranged new conference that Noriega had rejected . Proposals for his resignation As defense chief and his temporary departure from Panama. Bui Kerry said in an interview on Abc tvs Good morning America that the negotiations to oust Noriega Hurt . Foreign policy and also sent terrible my Safe with respect to our ability to do some thing about the narcotics a nuns Noriega in february two Federal grand juries in Lorida indicted Noriega on charges of taking at least k6 million i payoffs from a drug ring based in Medellin Colombia to protect cocaine shipments launder Money and hide drug smugglers from Law enforcement officials. In return for the withdrawal of the indictments no Riega was to step Down As commander of the defens forces in August and go into cite until after elections fora civilian led government were held in May 1989. The stale department s View throughout the negotiations was thai dismissal of the indictments against Noriega was a Smalt Price to pay for his departure from Panama and the restoration of democratic Rule. Nato from Page 1 what we re spending in nato in Europe the amount of troops the amount of Money. A lot of peo ple in think tanks Here Are telling us that s no where our problems arc the United Stales could do More for itself with a emphasis on a wide ranging naval transported Force to Walch out for the Libya the Syrias he said. Hall said the United states is pouring about St billion to j87 billion per year into nato which "1consider yesterday s defense big guns painting at each other Over there. I think we re going to see some breakthroughs after this inf intermediate Range nuclear forces agreement Between the United states and soviet Union. With the present american Force level in Europe Hall said if War Ever Brake out again there we d see another in addition to the Tom Jon reseal zoning Allenby isaid nato military officials discussed soviet military doctrine adding that the group could find no proof that the soviet threat is diminishing we worked very hard on trying to determine changes in soviet military doctrine which the Krem Lin claims has changed by becoming More defense oriented he we found out that while we do find a lot of remarks from soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbacheva to decreasing not Only their nuclear potential but also the conventional potential we have not found out very much which justifies any decrease in our own efforts. After the superpower treaty eliminating land based intermediate Range nuclear Force missiles takes effect. Nato must keep up the strength of its conventional forces Allenburg think that after the inf treaty the need to maintain our conventional posture in an adequate relation 10 the threat is More important than Ever. So there is a relation to on Friday the defense ministers Are expected to focus on the Issue of defense Burden sharing an Issue addressed in a report published this month by the eur regroup the 1 2 european nations of nato and distributed at the Brussels meeting. According to the report called Western defense the european role in nato the european allies assume the greater part of the Alliance s ready forces in Europe and the Atlantic those contributions include 95 percent of the divisions 90 percent of the manpower and artillery so percent of the tanks and combat aircraft and 45 percent of the major warships Accord my War Tuung to Tua is a no Wonhi Tea import sure Lwi Summit Mcdonald s from Page 1 avoid overcrowding. The work was so hard thai i could not stand it any said a former employee who asked not to be identified. If my salary was adequate to the work 1 might have restaurant employees mostly Young people trained to work on counters and in the Kitchen receive about s170 a month which is slightly above the Yugo slav average we have no problem replacing those who have quit with new staff except that la newcomers have to get their training while doing their work Milosevic said. From Page 1 on monday. The meeting itself is still on As far As i know flt water said. He said he did not know which religious group might be excluded. Reagan also plans to meet separately with a group of jewish refuse mks who had been unable to obtain exit permits for Israel. Fitzwater said he was unable to verify a report that iwo of them had been intercepted by soviet authorities on their Way to Moscow from Leningrad on the official level the soviets have shown no concern Over the meeting planned Between Reagan and soviet ref Ulcnik. At a press conference to discuss the forthcoming Summit . Affairs expert Georgy a. Arbatova and communist party Central committee official Nikolai Shishlian both stated that they considered Reagan s meeting partners his own business. Reagan s first visit to the country be once denounced As the evil Empire already is clouded by failure of a . Effort to oust Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega the military ruler of Panama. After the Summit Gorbachev will preside at the first full fledged communist party conference since 1941, but there was no immediate word on whether die cancellation of the second of Reagan Gorbachev session on monday had any connection with Trepany meetings. For the soviets the party conference has tended to overshadow Reagan s fourth Summit meeting with Gorbachev since it will serve As a lest of the soviet Leader s economic Reform policies and his three years Al the Kremlin Helm. At the same time the Summit itself has lost an expectation of major results with the failure of . And soviet negotiators to Complete a treaty to sharply reduce Long Range nuclear weapons. Reagan and Gorbachev had hoped to make such an Accord the Cen Ter piece of the 17-year-old president s first trip to mos cow. In an interview tuesday with a group of West euro Pean journalists. Reagan left open the possibility of a fifth Summit with Gorbachev before he leaves office in january if negotiators can Complete the treaty la reduce strategic nuclear weapons. I won t Rule in out Reagan said in a text released thursday. I won t say it s impossible. I would Hope that we can Iron out the still undecided Points before 1
