European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday july 20,1988 news briefs sergeant sentenced in carnal knowledge Case Span Dahlem a West Germany is a 28-year-old sergeant was sentenced to three years in prison monday after being found guilty of carnal knowledge and indecent acts with his 13 year old stepdaughter a base official said tuesday. Base spokesman capt. Jereon Brown said the offences occurred Over a 14-month period begin Ning when the sergeant was assigned at a state Side base. The acts continued after he was As signed to Span Dahlem in april 1987. Along with the prison sentence the sergeant received a bad conduct discharge and was reduced to airman Basic. He will serve his sentence at fort Leavenworth kan., Brown said. The stars and stripes is withholding the name of the accused to protect the identity of the victim. Soldier gets 10 years for passing bad checks Mannheim West Germany a 97th signal in Soldier has been sentenced to 10 years confine ment at fort Leavenworth kan., after pleading guilty to passing bad checks Worth thousands of dollars Over a three month period. In testimony before a general court martial july 13, pvt. 2 Byron Smith said he used the Money to buy cocaine and heroin a Community spokeswoman said. A Lack of evidence precluded the army from charging Smith with the drug offences she said. Smith also was demoted to the lowest enlisted rank Given a dishonourable discharge and ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances. Go charged in slaying of her Soldier husband Mannheim West Germany a Soldier assigned to the 187th personnel service co has been charged with premeditated murder in the june stabbing of her husband. Pfc. Arlene Moore allegedly stabbed her Hus band with a Kitchen knife during an argument in their off Post apartment june 15. Spec. William Moore also assigned to the 187th, died july 13 after being in a coma for almost a month. Guards in East Berlin seize 3 trying to escape Berlin up East German Border guards arrested three people who tried to flee to West ber Lin tuesday West Berlin police reported. Officials seized a Man at a checkpoint on the East West Berlin Border and a Man and a woman at a Highway checkpoint on the Border of West Berlin and East Germany a police spokesman said. The Man was arrested As he attempted to flee through the Friedrich Strasse crossing Point for foreigners to the . Army s checkpoint Char lie the spokesman said. At the Drewitz Highway checkpoint just outside West Berlin s american sector a Man and a woman were arrested after a Barrier was lowered across the Road to Block their passage the spokesman said. The checkpoint is at the Berlin end of the 110 mile Highway running through East Germany to the West German Border town of Helmstedt. On saturday a Man of about 30 who tried to flee to checkpoint Charlie was overpowered by four Eastern Border guards. By Chance a Western camera Crew was on the Western Side of the City Border and the incident was shown tuesday on West German television news shows. . S congressional Dean won t seek re election Albany . A rep. Samuel Strat ton the Dean of new York s congressional delegation and a 30-year Veteran of the House of representatives won t seek a 16th term in of fice his son in Law said monday. Stratton a Democrat reportedly has been under scrutiny in an investigation of alleged fraud in Pentagon procurement but the family spokesman Roger Mott said the 71-year-old congressman was retiring because of illness. It s health health health Mott a former Stratton chief of staff told reporters at the con Gressman s office Here. The Pentagon thing was a gnat on an elephant s rear  Jackson promised role in Dukakis Campaign from Page 1 at the civil rights breakfast praising Jackson for doing More on his own for the cause of Freedom and Justice More than the Reagan administration has been Able to achieve in the last eight  Bentsen also said no one can doubt Michel Duka Kis commitment to civil rights no one can doubt my  in the Dukakis Jackson news conference monday and in a later briefing by their top aides these details of the two Camps agreement were revealed Jackson will keep much of his organization intact paid for by party funds and will continue to Campaign for the democratic ticket. His travel costs will be paid. If the Man s got to travel we re not going to let him Fly commercial said Joseph Warren a longtime Dukakis supporter who has been involved in the negotiations. Make no mistake about it. What Jesse needs Jesse will  members of Jackson s team will be integrated into the Dukakis Campaign at All Levels although Dukakis aide Paul Brountas indicated it was not automatic that everyone would have a Job. Jackson supporters will get close to half the 25 at Large members of the democratic National committee to be appointed Friday and a new National committee vice chair. The dramatic news conference just hours before monday s Kickoff of the democratic National Conven Tion came after a meeting that started with breakfast and moved in phases through a review of the Campaign discussion of the rift and then an agreement on a new relationship. Hours later Jackson said that while he would be involved in the Campaign Dukakis must reach out to his followers As Well. Governor Dukakis must convey to those persons that. He cares for them that they Are on his Agenda. When it is All said and done the nominee must con Vince people Jackson said. Both Camps said specifics Are still to be worked out now that the principals have reached agreement on what Jackson called a relationship of substance and support and  that was something the Jackson forces had said their Leader was not getting from Dukakis in previous discussions which were characterized As cordial but superficial. A top Jackson adviser Ron Brown who attended the meeting with the candidates and with Brountas said that although the candidates had met Many times i doubt very much whether any conversation of the depth of the one held this morning had previously occurred. War from Page 1 ment and expressed Hope it would Lead to an end to the conflict that has endangered commercial shipping in the persian gulfs Busy Waters and heightened the . Military presence in the Region. Perez de Cuellar said he would assemble a 10-Mern ber team and another Force of at least 250 . Mili tary observers to Monitor a prospective truce. If i m Lucky i May have a cease fire in a week to 10 Days he said. The peruvian said he also would dispatch . Teams to both countries at the end of the week to work on an Early prisoner Exchange. Perez de Cuellar whose peace Mission to both coun tries in september ended in failure said acceptance of the Resolution by both combatants is a breakthrough. The Resolution is a peace plan he said and it covers All aspects. If it is fully implemented i think it Means an end of the  the Tehran government battered by a string of recent military defeats and seeking a Security Council Call for the withdrawal of the . Navy from the Gulf said monday it would accept the truce Resolution without condition. The Security Council s scheduled meeting tuesday morning was called off and no explanation was immediately forthcoming. However the members of the Council held private talks late monday and Early tuesday. The Council was to hold private consultations tues Day afternoon on Iran s acceptance of the . Cease fire plan. It was also scheduled to discuss a . Warship s Downing july 3 of an iranian Airliner which killed 290 people. Allies from Page 1 the soviet scud a a Short Range missile that was de signed to replace the ss-23, one of the weapons the soviet Union signed away in the Deal. It is easy to see that the updated version of the scud which has a reputed Range of some 450 kilo meters could Well finish up As a replacement for the eliminated ss-23, particularly if the guidance system for the ss-23 was  Blake writes that nato also could update its Battle Field missiles notably the Shorter Range Lance sys tem to replace the outgoing Pershing. In a fairly Sharp criticism of the european nato allies Blake writes of the need for More autonomy from the United states particularly in the area of conventional weapons. He asserts that leadership should come from West Germany and the two european nuclear Powers France and the United kingdom. With the elimination of intermediate and Shorter Range nuclear weapons and the rather parlous state of the . Economy it is becoming apparent that Europe As a whole will have to look hard at its own contribution to  Blake bolsters that Point by stating that any Warsaw pact attack on Europe would Likely be by Surprise and before enough american forces could make it to the Battle. Therefore the nato countries on the Eastern Side of the Atlantic must beef up their conventional and nuclear forces to deter the threat. The editor also echoes former Royal Navy capt. Richard Sharpe the editor of the company s fighting ships Book released in May in stating that More emphasis should be put on submarines their use and the detection of enemy subs. Both editors believe that any attack from the Warsaw pact will be waged to some extent from underwater. The Book among the family of Jane s yearbooks includes listings descriptions and photographs of radar systems missiles bombs and electronic warfare systems from countries All Over the world. The Jane s books published in conjunction with Jane s defence weekly Magazine Are distributed throughout the world in military and non military Cir cles. The Book costs $187.50. Polish official plans to visit radio free Europe Warsaw Poland a government spokes Man Jerzy Urban told a news conference tuesday that he Hopes to hold previously announced talks with the polish Section of radio free Europe in Munich West Germany in the first half of september. Urban said he proposed a time and format for the visit in a letter to Gene Pell the president of the . Funded radio station and said he agreed with Pell that afterwards the discussions should be published freely. Urban first declared his readiness to visit radio free Europe at a june 21 news conference when he also invited members of the radio free Europe staff to come to Poland. Pell immediately responded by for Mally inviting Urban to Munich. Urban and Poland s official Media frequently attack the station s broadcasts of uncensored news and commentary As inaccurate and distorted. Urban would be the first polish official to hold talks at radio free Europe. I am not going there in order to fraternize with re but on the contrary to argue with it he said. It s not a favor to re but on the contrary an offer which is very troublesome for  in connection with the trip polish state radio is broadcasting three Days of programming devoted to the subject of radio free Europe the official Pap news Agency reported sunday