European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes sunday october 30,1988 american Jailei in Spain wins Transfer Ijo . Madrid Spain a arrest and conviction chares Drew the general Edwin Mecs a . Prison the gov Cynthe decision to Hurt prize the Transfer of Conan d. Owen 23, of authorized during the w Friday under the prov Schange agreement betwee an american whose cocaine smuggling of former . Allor Wail be transferred to Cut said Friday. Annandale va., Wasely Cabinet meeting ans of a prisoner sex Spain and the United Ivym mint spokesman tales the office of the said Friday. To was not known we Clowen would leave his Barcelona jail. Once he in in the United states . Justice department officials could decide to Grant him immediate parole. Owen a free Lance photographer who once worked As an intern in Thuc office of vice presi Dent George Bush Wasant March 13, 1987,at Barcelona s �1 Prat Airport. Customs agents found More than 4 Pound of High Grade cocaine in a false bottomed suitcase he had checked through on a flight from Sntiago Chile to bar Celona. Czech cops break rally with clubs Wetter Cannon Prague Czecho Stovel a a about5,000 people rallied in Defiance of authorities Friday shouting shame and Gestapo a police who cleared them from historic Wences Las Square with clubs and water jets of water set shed indiscriminately into the crowd knocking some people Overand sending others fleeing town streets. Western journalists saw i least 20 people arrested some of whom were clubbed. Plain clothes officers twisted the farms of others while leading them to police bus hundreds of police some with dogs unleashes swarmed through the Plaza to disperse the thousands of All Ages who assembled on the70th anniversary of czechoslovak Independence to demand Reform and Gre after tired tear Gas into a crowd of several Hundred people watching of Jim the Steps of the National museum overlooking the Square which stretches fora half mile in Catral Prague. Reagan signs six pack radon contamination Bills los Angeles a president Reagan on Friday signed Bills calling for three year $44.5 million program to help stalls Deal with radon contamination and to reduce he threat to Birds from plastic sin pack rings ithe radon Bill authorizes 110 million a year for Grants to stale and local governments to develop radon programs and another j3 million annually for technical assistance. The balance for other activities includes sj.5 million for the environmental Protection Agency to study radon contamination in schools. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive Gas found in soil that has been blamed for As Many As 20,000 lung cancer deaths annually in the United states. F the plastic Bill gives the Epa two years to promulgate regulations that would require use of degradable materials in beverage six pack ring camera. Sist Cen states already have Laws requiring those materials. Wildlife experts have said theg plastic rings can remain intact for decades and pose a growing threat to fish and waterfowl which can become snared in them. Bush wins endorsements from correctional officers by the associated press vice president Bush speak to the Californi Highway patrol in Sacramento when he was endorsed by the California correctional police officers association and he International association officers Friday said he believes most of the who have endorsed him consider themselves l lot of mainstream americans feel Thalji tonal democratic parly in 1988 just Sim represent them any More Bush said. S you might almost say that the diff socratic part today suffers from a split personality with a rank and file made up of some of the . The silent majority he said. But the leadership much of it is a remnant of the 60s, the no left those Campus Radi cals grown old the pea of marchers and the nuclear freeze , who attended a rally in Omaha neb., on his Way to Illinois up flan California was courting votes inthe Chicago Hurbs saturday. Michael Dukakis meanwhile taunted Bush for insulting american workers and said the vice president has been wrapped in a cocoon to avoid explaining his stances. In Warren Mich a Friday the Massachusetts governor found him Ifelo a Short distance from the facility where Hejno around in a tank on sept. 13 in a Tele Vised demons ration that turned into a Public relations dial scr for Dukakis and gave Bush material for a icle lion and. Recalling a remark Bush made earlier this year while describing the efficiency of soviet Lank Maneu vers Dukakis said i am very concerned when a vice presi i of the United states who wants to be president l Back from Europe and says to the american him like to bring some of those soviet mechanics Over Fiel Wotell american workers what 10 Don t to mme need any soviet mechanics telling american workers kilo Friday in Sioux Falls s.d., As he headed for an appearance in the Watts Section of los Angeles Murday. Dukakis has been interviewed of a series of network television programs recently As he tries to make up ground in the polls and he accused his Republican rival of avoiding such encounters As the election nears. Or. Bush is out there in his Lille cocoon Dukakis said. They won t let him out we re taking our Case directly to the american nato agrees on nuke modernization the Hague Netherlands a nato defens ministers have ironed out their differences and agree on the modernization of the Western Alliance s Short Range nuclear weaponry. But Belgium maintained on Friday after a two Day conference it had abstained from speaking out immediately on the need to beef up the Short Range nuclear arms of the North Atlantic treaty organization. At Issue is the modernization of several nuclear mis Sile systems with a Range of less than 300 Miles which Are not covered by the .-sovict agreement to eliminate All intermediate Range nuclear forces. Nato officials have argued the aging weapons Needle be modernized or replaced with longer Range weaponry to compensate for the loss of the if missiles. No decisions on specific weapons systems Are required now nor have they been taken nato Secre tary general Manfred Woerner told reporters Friday at the end of the conference of nato s nuclear plan Ning group. A statement issued after the mpg conference said its members had agreed on a step by step approach toward modernization under which decisions will retaken when the statement appeared to reflect belgian misgivings that the nation would be immediately committed to the modernization plans if it endorsed them in Prin Ciple at the current Early stage at a separate news conference belgian defens minister Guy come said Belgium abstained from endorsing the modernization Issue since it consid Ersil premature to Lake on whatever commitment in that respect me added that the abstention referred specifically to a list of recommendations drawn up by nato officials last week which argued strongly for continue development work on the Short Range missile by items. The Issue of modernization must be subjected to democratic debate. Which lakes into account the present climate of detente1 Between the East and West blocs come said. A key candidate for modernization would Benato s aging Lance missile system which has a Range of about 93 Miles. Other projects being investigated include the development of a Short Range air to surface missile known in the stand off weapon. The missile which would replace nuclear Gravity bombs would allow bombers to attack a target without Hying Over it. Ies from Page 1 military bases eventually Rygh he
