European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday november 2,19bb news briefs cemetery bomb blast kills at least 7 in Philippines Cebu City. Philippines a a bomb exploded tuesday in it cemetery As hundreds of people were visiting on All Saims Day killing at least seven people and wounding about 40, police said. No one claimed responsibility Tor the blast which occurred at 7 . During a Power Black out at the rum att Catholic cemetery in the town of Talisay 360 Miles Southeast of Manila among the fatalities were a 70-year-old woman and an 8-Ycar-old girl according to policeman Reynaldo Vittalia. He said some or the injured were in critical condition. Police initially said a grenade blew up but Vittalia said another Type of explosive went off. Imelda Marcos still trying to arrange bail in . New York a former philippine first lady Imelda Marcos remained in new York tuesday As her lawyers tried to work out a $5 million bail agreement in her racketeering Case. . District judge John f. Keenan ordered Marcos to return to court thursday with her attorneys if an agreement had not been reached with prosecutors by then. She has not been jailed in the meantime. Marcos and her husband Ferdinand Marcos the former philippine president were indicted oct. 21 on charges they plundered the philippine Treasury of 3103 million spirited the Money out of their country and into foreign Bank accounts and used it to buy prime Man Hattan real estate and Art. The 59-year-old Marcos who lives in exile in Honolulu with her husband pleaded innocent to the charges at a court appearance monday. High fever chills put mrs. Dukakis in Hospital Minneapolis a Kitty Dukakis wife of democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis was feeling better tuesday after she was hospitalized for treatment of a viral infection a spokesman said. I. M is. Dukakis was suffering a i 02-Dcgree fever and complaining of chilis when she was and Micil monday night to the University of Minnesota Hospital the Hospital spokesman said her temperature was nearly Normal tuesday. She slept Well he said. She slept five or six hours. The doctor said that is a Good sign. Her appetite has  she was undergoing fur ther medical tests tuesday mrs. Dukakis 51, was reported eager to re sume campaigning and was hoping to join her husband in Walc Bury conn., for an appear Ance thursday to Mark his 55th birthday. Greece . Resume talks on base leases Washington a greek and . Negotiators resumed their oils monday on renew ing the leases of four american bases thai expire next year. Thei Ullh round of negotiations Between the sides is not expected to yield much Progress in View of the upcoming . Elections and the illness of greek Premier Andreas Papandreou . Negotiators arc unlikely to reach any agreement that would commit the next administration that conies into office in  Dicou is recovering from heart surgery and he is nol expected to resume full activity until Jan uary.  Papandreou will face increasing Domestic opposition on the bases As he enters the Campaign for the june elections in his country. The teases expire dec. 20, 1989. In an apparent appeasement gesture toward hard line opponents of the bases Papandreou announced in july that his government would shut Down the most visible of the four facilities the . Air Force base Al hellenic in in suburban Athens the greek capita the United Stales accused Greece of violating inc negotiating agreement by announcing the unilateral move and no Progress was made at the 10th round of talks in Athens last month. Lita Ford to headline concert to Benefit Ramstein victims by Deedee arr1ngton Doke  Bureau Ramstein a West Germany a maintenance Harar will masquerade As a music Arena saturday when Rock guitarist Lita Ford performs at an eight hour concert to Benefit victims of the base airshow disaster. Appearing but not scheduled to perform will be Jon Don Jovi Ana his band. Bon Jovi and Ford along with the band Craft Are on Lour together in Europe. Forty five Hundred Advance tickets for the Ramstein Benefit concert went on Sale monday in air Force and army units based in the Kaiser Slauter military Community. They of course had heard of the catastrophe shooter promotions Adi i Escher said of Bon Jovi and Ford. They liked the idea of the concert Al Ramstein. They thought it worthwhile to help these people conceived by army sol. Jamie Westbrook As a fund Raiser for the flu tag 88 memorial fund the concert also will feature a number of local musicians and bands including Mark Patrick Force Superior the Richard head band and  addition to the event s Money raising potential in Rock test is a key to the Community s Healing process after the aug. 28 disaster according to chief master sol. Thorn Suslik senior enlisted adviser for the 377lh combat sup port Wing at Ramstein. Lustik also is coordinating ticket sales for the event. Lustik said military personnel assigned to the Community can feel through the concert that it s of to feel Good about being Al Ramstein again. It s a Chance for us to say we really do care " tickets available through unit first sergeants and com Mand sergeants major May be bought Only by Active duty military personnel. Each customer is limited to a Maxi mum of two tickets for donations of 20 per ticket no tickets win be sold Al tie door. Guests must be accompanied by an id card Holder to get Inlo he concert. Suslik said the decision to limit ticket sales to Active duty military was based on wanting to give people who had helped during the disaster an Opportunity to attend. Souvenir to shirt will be sold at Ute concert with proceeds designated for the memorial fund. Lustik said the design will feature the National flags of the 69 people killed in the tragedy. It gives people a memento but it also reminds them of Why we re having it that s the Healing process he said. While Bon Jovi is not scheduled to perform at the con Cert inc lion maned Singer and his band whose latest album new Jersey currently lops the album charts in the United slates will preside Over several giveaways Dur ing the event organize said. Ford who first struck Fame with the All woman band the runaways recently had a hit in the top 10 with kiss me deadly.1 Dod acknowledges reducing Gulf Force Washington a the defense department tuesday said it had ordered Home one of its warships in the persian Gulf the first such reduction since this summer s cease fire in the Iran Iraq War. Acknowledging earlier press reports Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman said the guided missile Frig ate Rodney m. Davis had been detached from duly and ordered to sail for its Home port of Yokosuka Japan. The frigate started out of the Gulf tuesday Holl Man said. There have been no attacks against shipping in the Gulf since the Casc fire began on aug. 20 he said. This has permitted us to assess further the threat. The cessation of hostilities the lessening of the threat and the move to accompanying As distinguished from the Light escort procedure has allowed us to reduce our forces by one surface combatant. But i want to emphasize that the departure of the Davis in no Way reduces our commitment to the Region Hoffman added. His reference o the accompanying procedure referred to an administration decision earlier this fall to keep .-Flag tankers under Loose surveillance when Ever they sail through the Gulf but to Slop providing 24 hour a Day escorts for every Convoy. The Davis withdrawal leaves is . Navy ships inside the persian Gulf and 10 in the nearby Gulf of Oman and Northern arabian sea. The Pentagon has j  _ of to Al said it Hopes to gradually scale Back inc Gulf Force to a prewar level of about five ships if the cease fire slays in effect. The Davis arrived in the Gulf on sept. 9 and was not supposed to leave for Home until january Dukakis from Page 1 ,. Pain to convince texans that Dukakis would be Strong on defense. President Reagan was on inc Road for the Benefit of Bush and other republicans ripping into Dukakis for describing himself As a Liberal in the Mold of Franklind. Roosevelt and Harry Truman Dukakis is no Harry Truman and he s no for the outgoing presi Dent said and then depicted this year s democratic candidate As a Man pursuing the Carter Mondale lib eral Agenda v. V Lii a curious sidelight to the Campaign a top Bush fund Raiser denounced As Rotten a report implying that he was trying to use his position to land a Public relations contract for his firm with the government of Haiti. Fred Bush who is not related to the vice Percsi Dent said he had told his partner Michael Govan to forget in when it came to Haiti but his partner had ignored inc admonition and written the nation s new president using Bush s name.   Dukakis renewed his Laic Campaign populist Appeal with a five minute paid broadcast scheduled on Abc. His aides also released a new go second commercial portray ing Bush As inc candidate of he upper class. Remember the old saying he Rich get Richer now George Bush wants to make in the Law says the narrator. With Only a week to go he candidates schedules seemed stretched beyond endurance. Dukakis arranged four appearances in As Many slates then was flying to the bedside of his wife who was hospitalized with a viral infection in Minneapolis while Bush was appearing in Indiana and Wisconsin before heading to Chicago up spend the night. Dukakis1 first event of the Day was in Youngstown Ohio 3 steel producing Region nil hard by recession and his aim was plainly to win the votes of Union members. He referred to the merger mania on Wall Street and said i m nol interested in the Sharp operators i m interested in the lathe operators and the machine  he said Bush likes to talk about labels a reference to the Way the vice president attempts o Moke him seem a Liberal out of touch with inc mainstream. You know what Label i m inter led in made in America is the Label i m interested in tanks from Page 1 gradually. The egyptian Plant will Start operating this year he said Ana the first tank will be produced some time next year ". "   -.-_. The agreement provides for up to 555 tanks and associated spare parts. ". -.". Abu Ghazala also said that starting wednesday Egypt will receive .-made remotely piloted vehicles the Small unmanned air planes used for tracking reconnaissance and target practice. Without specifying a number the egyptian minister said Egypt will get one every other Day Carlucci later left for inc Sinai to visit the Headquarters of the multinational Force and observers Monitor in the bolder Between Egypt and Israel. The american organized Force deployed in 1982, was setup under the 1979 peace treaty Between Egypt and Israel. The United states has 1,100 people in the Force of 3,000.  the United states considers Egypt a Force for stability and peace in the Middle East the Pentagon said in a Sale men april is notifying Congress in had approved inc Deal with Egypt. It said Egypt needs an advanced Lank to ensure use stability of the existing regional Mili tary balance especially vis a vis