European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 news briefs the stars and stripes thursday september 22,1983 . Base talks in Greece set to resume in october Washington a greek foreign min ister Krotos Patouhas announced after meeting Secretary of state George Shultz wednesday thai negotiations on . Use of greek military bases will resume in Athens the first week of october. But there has been no change on the dead locked Issue that prompted a . Break off of the talks on sept. 5 Greece s demand for . Forces to vacate hell Nikon a near Athens International Airport Papoulias told reporters. Departing Frum wide ranging discussions and lunch with Shult and senior . Officials at the state department Papoulias said he was flying to Boston wednesday afternoon to meet Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis the democratic party presidential candidate whose parents were bom in Greece. Talks expected to resume on use of bases in Spain Washington a the United stale soon will resume negotiations on an agreement that could scale Down . Use of military base sin Spain and Cut off . Military Aid to the strategic Mediterranean country a senior state department official said. Preparations for relocating the f-16 fighter jets and Crews of the 401st tac fighter Wing from Torrejon a outside Madrid to Italy Are going very smoothly said assistant Secretary of state Rozanne Ridgway. Spain insisted on removal of the 401st from the High profile Torrejon base Early in the cur rent talks. It is expected however that . Air and naval forces will be allowed to continue using other Spanish installations. Testifying before the House subcommittee on european and Middle Eastern affairs Ridgway gave few details of the base negotiations sus Pended in Midsummer and expected to resume soon. But ambassador Reginald Bartholomew the chief . Negotiator has just returned to Madrid she said. New Hurricane forms begins to gain strength Miami a Hurricane a clone formed Early wednesday in the Central Atlantic an forecasters said the Ocean s fourth Hurricane this year had begun to strengthen As it churned across open water. A clone with sustained winds of 85 Miles per hour is the first Hurricane to form since Gilbert went on a rampage last week through the carib bean and Gulf of Mexico. The Center of Helene was about 1,300 Miles cast of Barbados according to an advisory fro the National Hurricane Center issued shortly before noon. The storm was moving West at 12 Miles per hour and was expected to maintain that course for the next Day or two the advisory said. Conditions Are quite favourable for it to pick up strength. There s nothing to Stop it Way out there in the Middle of the Ocean said Stanley Wright a meteorologist at the Hurricane Center. But it s still Way too Early to Tell if it will gel As big As  Pakistan opposition Leader gives birth to 7-Pound boy Karachi Pakistan up Binazir Bhut to gave birth to a son wednesday the first child of the country s major opposition Leader who is to contest National elections in two months her Mother announced Begum Nusrat Bhutto said the 7-Ppund baby boy was delivered by caesarean Section four to five weeks prematurely at 9 30 . At a Public Hospital in the Southern port of Karachi. Hospital sources said Bhutto 35, daughter of hanged prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was admitted to the facility tuesday night and that both the Mother and child were in Good health. Bhutto who was educated at Harvard and Oxford married Asef Ali Sardari a wealthy local businessman and landowner on dec. 18, 1987. The marriage was arranged by their two families according to pakistani custom. Responsibility Bonn official near his Home in the Bonn suburb of bad Godesberg. Officials said the attack was apparently aimed at disrupting International finance talks thai begin this week in West Berlin. Government sources speaking on the condition of anonymity said there were indications the attackers planned to Kidnap Tietmeyer Hans jul Gen fat ruler spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office said the Tetter claiming responsibility was signed by a red army faction command squad calling itself Khaled  he said it could not be immediately determined what that name symbolizes. Thatcher again criticizes United Europe group claims for attack on Bonn West Germany a the red army fac Tion West Germany s most notorious leftist terrorist gang claimed responsibility for a Shotgun attack on a senior government official authorities said wednes Day. In a letter left at a news Agency s office in Bonn the group claimed it staged tuesday s attack on Hans Tiet Meyer one of Chancellor Helmut Kohl s key advisers said a spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office. The red army faction claimed responsibility for the 19s6 murder in Bonn of West German Diplomat Gerold von Braun Huhl. Tel Meyer was not injured when his car was fired on Luxembourg a British prime minister Margaret Thatcher wednesday again lashed out at the notion of a United states of Europe a key Ideal of the european economic Community. A centralized bord Erless Europe would be a night Mare Thatcher said in a speech in which she restated the harsh comments she made in a speech on tuesday in Bruges Belgium. In Brussels the dec executive commission with held a Public reaction to her comments. Or. Clors believes that that which unites us is More important than that which divides us said one official referring to Jacques Delors the dec commission president. But belgian foreign minister Leo Lindemans called Thatcher s comment  Thatcher said in Bruges that Britain is committed to the european economic Community but she warned against concentrating Power in the Trade bloc when it drops its internal Trade barriers by 1992 with the creation of a single Market. To try to suppress nationhood and concentrate Power at the Center of a european conglomerate would be highly damaging she added. British opposition panics and commentators expressed fears that Thatcher Long accused of being an  european has damaged Britain s role in the 12-Nationeec. Thatcher on a three nation swing through Europe was to arrive in Spain later wednesday. Aides said she wanted to use the trip to spell out British policy on the eecasl992ncars. Flights 100,000 hours compared to 3.1lours in fiscal 1987. From Page 1 expected they were close to 17,300, the air Force said. The reductions were achieved by several Means including limiting the length of the flights to about 50 min utes lowering the minimum number of Low level Light needed by air Crews to maintain proficiency and by cur tailing Low level nights on weekends and at night. Galvin said Low level flying is necessary because Modem technology allows the newer generations of radar to pick up aircraft flying at higher Levels. It s much easier to be selected lying at higher Levels and thus to be shot Down he said. "1 still sink there will probably be a certain amount of bother that is created by this. But we will gel that Down to the lowest level possible consistent with the requirement for  Galvin also defended the record of the air Force s f-16 fighting Falcon which has had several accidents in Germany in recent months. If we talk about statistics and you count the Acci dents that the plane has had. The f-16 turns out to be the safest air plane that we be built As a fighter air plane for a Long Lime Galvin said. The current Accident rate for Safe for fiscal 1988 was 4.3 accidents accidents per 100,0 a Safe spokesman said there arc no identifiable trends in this rate As to  Galvin also praised recent suggestions by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to reduce Warsaw fact troops in Eastern Europe by 500,000, although he re minded reporters that the soviet arms buildup has not slowed since Gorbachev came to Power in 1985. The soviets have made a proposal going into conventional stability talks. The proposal a to first have a data Exchange and then have a reduction to parity and then have a reduction of 500,000 after that Galvin said. My personal response to that is let s take phase one let s go to the conventional stability talks and get parity. If we can get that that would be an enormous move. Then we can see what would happen after that Galvin said the the 20th annual return of forces to Germany exercise Likely will rank As the Best Ever staged. I am very pleased with this exercise because t think it shows very Well our capability to deter War by show ing readiness he said. Man Euver damage estimates Are quite Low said Galvin which he attributed to Good weather to the care the soldiers Are taking to avoid Man Euver damage and to the Good interrelationships which we have with the local German people who live in the area where the exercise is taking  Cia from Page 1 Wright s claim that the administration used the Cia to foment civil unrest in Nicaragua. Fitzwater said Reagan continues to support the peace process in Nicaragua. He refused to address directly Wright s assertion that the administration has secretly sought to undermine that process. Filz Waler questioned repeatedly during the daily news briefing about Wright s claim said the administration s policy is to refrain from comment on reports involving Covert intelligence operations. We often Don t deny problems that Are in Titis category that we Don t believe Are True be said. I can t speak to the Validity of what he had to say Fitzwater said. We Are somewhat concerned that be would choose to divulge what he Calls secret Intelli gence data and rightly or wrongly in seems to us it plays a Little Loose with the relationship thai we redeveloped with the intelligence committees to discuss programs with them and various intelligence  Fitzwater also said the speaker has always been More than willing to take the positions of the Ortega government when pressed to elaborate on his implication that Wright has been supportive of president Daniel Orte. A who Heads the marxist run sandinista government Fitzwater said his statement spoke for itself. Wright said be opposes the claimed Cia activity As detrimental to regional peace efforts because it has led to government crackdowns on the opposition and complicated already hostile relations i do not believe it is the proper role of our govern Mentlo try 10 provoke riots. Or deliberately to try to antagonize governing officials into foolish of Creao tons he said. We should be using the influence of the. United slates to encourage the peace process not discourage  but he also said the sandinista regime was foolish to respond to the protests with crackdowns such As the Clos ing of opposition Media outlets like the newspaper la Prensa and radio Catolica a Church run radio station. I be made that unmistakably Clear to people in Nicaragua they have to demonstrate their commitment to the democratization they Bave announced in ear Lier peace agreements he said. Wright said he did nol know which specific anti gov Emmen actions were due id Cia sponsored agita Tion