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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, October 25, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                J d cafes won t boost i liquor prices general says Page 2 n Kraft rejects Philip Morris bid Page 5 d sunday s pro football results sports Section the stars and of ripes Auto biped unofficial Public Tom for the . Brio forces i Obus denies j. S Val _  or Voi. 4?, n0.i9o Tuss Dav october As. Uses .�-.��, d Bess a Kohl Gorbachev open talks the ice has started to move Moscow a soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said monday that he and Wisl German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had not shied away from Dis cussing difficult problems in their first meeting of he four Day official visit. It seems we have a real Chance to come to a new level of relations Gorbachev said. The ice has started to move and we Hope it will Start to float away he concluded using an analogy to the Spring melt of Russia s Frozen River highways. Kohl arrived in Moscow monday seeking such a far reaching improvement in relations. For Many soviets this would be a significant change As the soviet Union has for decades behaved As if the nazi invasion occurred yesterday rather than almost 50 years ago. Relations have been improving markedly especially since he december superpower Summit in Washington when Gorbachev and president Reagan signed a treaty to ban medium Range nuclear mis Pilot blamed for disaster at Ramstein by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiser Simiu in Bureau Ramstein a. West Germany Pilot error caused the fiery Ramstein air show disaster that killed 69 people and injured More than 400, an International commission reported monday. The .-West German italian Board s findings on the aug. 28 catastrophe the world s worst air show Accident were re leased in a statement issued simultaneously in Bonn Rome and Washington. Organizers of he annual flu tag were absolved of responsibility. The investigating Board found that the show s organizers who were nol identified in the statement met and in some cases surpassed safety requirements mandated under nato regu lations governing air shows. Bui i he panel recommended that the allies critically review air show regulations and Aerial demonstrations to pre vent similar accidents. The disaster occurred when three ital Ian air Force planes of the Fri acc Tricolo i stunt flying team collided during an Aerial Man Euver. One plane piloted by team soloist u. Col. Ivo no Larch plunged to the ground near a crowd of spectators. The three pilots were among those killed the midair collision of the Solo Pilot with two other aircraft was deter Mcd to be caused by human error misjudge mini on the pan of the Solo Pilot the statement said. The full report was not released officials said in accordance with Standard nato Accident investigation proce dures. In the Early Days of the inquiry officials discussed offering the report for Public scrutiny. The investigating Board last met about a week  of a parallel Accident incs to sae Ramstein on Back Page Siles like the Pershing. Kohl was greeted at Vnuk ovo Airport near Moscow by soviet Premier Nikolai i. Ryzhkova foreign min ister Eduard a. Shevardnadze defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo and other lop officials Tass said. He and his wife Hannelori were then whisked to the Kremlin for a formal greeting in St George s Hail in the Kremlin by Gorbachev and his wife Raisa. Shortly thereafter the two leaders began their first format talks since Gorbachev became the soviet Leader in i9s5. They met in another part of the Kremlin St. Cathe Rine s Hall where the throne of the russian czars once was located Tass said. The meeting was marked by realism and activism Gorbachev told the press in remarks carried on soviet television personal Contact was established by the two Leaden. The development of economic lies Likely will top the round of discussions in Moscow during Kohl s visit As West German businesses seek to profit from what they say Are growing opportunities created by Gorbachev s economic reforms. The soviet president also met with business leaders of the Federal Republic of Germany monday evening. Other items on the Agenda include european disarmament East West relations tics Between Wisl Germany and Moscow Allied East Germany and the Fate of some 2 million soviets of German ethnic origin. The quest for improved relations with Moscow has been a leitmotif in Kohl s recent speeches. In his Public appearances this year. Kohl has praised Gorbachev s reforms advocated Western economic assistance to the soviets and stressed the importance of having Good relations with the Kremlin Kohl last met Gorbachev in March 1985 when he attended the funeral of communist party general Secretary Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev became party general Secretary after Chernenko s death. He became president less than a month ago. Photos of hostages were me conf for . Organization police say these photos taken from a lebanese woman s suitcase show us hostages journalist Terry Anderson left and educator Alann Steen. Milan Italy a police Mon Day said a . Organization was the intended recipient of the photographs of american hostages in Lebanon that were found in a lebanese woman s Luggage at Milan s Airport. The woman was supposed to deliver the pictures and a Handwritten letter Cann hostage Alann Sleen s name loan italian Amis trader Aldo Ang Hessa police said. The photographs were of Olcen american reporter Terry Ander son and a third Man. Ang Hessa acted As a go Between Between inc two parties. One party was a lebanese  said Achille Serra head of Milan s anti terrorist police. He said the other group was Ameri can but refused to elaborate on the identity of either organization or say if the . Government was involved. In Washington while House spokesman Marl in filiater said we arc cooperating with the incs to see photos on Back Page Baum older principal suspended by Dave Walckak education writer Baum older West Germany an elementary school principal was sus Pended monday after a preliminary investigation into allegations that she or dered at least two dozen girls at the school to partially disrobe and touch themselves in front of her. Do Lores Culmer was escorted from Smith elementary at 9 45 a.m., about an hour after Kaiser Slatlem District superintendent Candice Ransing arrived 10 investigate chaises stemming from the incident that allegedly occurred Al the school thursday. According to a petition drawn up by parents of the girls involved the incident began when a used sanitary Napkin and blood smears on a Wall were found in a girls res room. When none of the girls in the school s fifth and sixth Grade classes admitted to the vandalism Culmer or dered the students to stand outside the school nurse s office which was nol in use at the time. Culmer then took the girls into the office individually parents said. She searched the students for Evi Dence of a student having a menstrual period in varying ways including having the Slud enl s push their hand Down and Back in their Crotch area the Par Ems petition said. The petition also alleges that Culmer Felt the students Bullocks area for Coj do acc thai a student was wearing a Sani tary  some parents said the girls also were see principal on Back Page  
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