European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes thursday novembers 1980 pcs briefs 1 Greece l talks on f Byl washing ctr resumed talks to four american base the Lith Roun peeled to yield m upcoming . Al Premier Andreas . Negotiator agreement to com that comes into o recovering from ported to resume Papandreou i position on the a for the june elect expire dec. 20, 19 in an apparent hard line oppose announced in jul shut Down the to the . Air fora ban Athens the g the United Slat the negotiating a unilateral move i the 1 oth round of cemetery at least 7 Cebu City 1 cd tuesday in a c were visiting on people and wound no one claim which occurred a out at the roman of Talisay 360 m among the woman and an 8 a iceman key Bald injured were in or High Feve mrs. Duk Minne Apoll democratic presi Kakis was feeling hospitalized for to spokesman said. She was suf Terii planning or chills to the University Hospital spoke so nearly Normal tin she slept Wel hours. The Docto appetite has Rutur ther medical lest mrs. Dukakis sume Campaign husband in a s. Teams renew or base leases associated press greek and . Negotiators a on renewing the leases of Liat expire next year. Of negotiations is not sex Ich Progress in View of the ions and the illness of greek Andreou. Are unlikely to reach any nit the next administration c in january. Papandreou is Art surgery and is not sex 1 activity until january. Ace increasing Domestic opes As he enters the Campaign is in his country. The leases appeasement gesture toward s of the bases Papandreou that his government would l visible of the four facilities. Base at Hill Anikan in suburb cd capital. S accused Greece of violating element by announcing the to no Progress was made at iks in Athens last month. Bomb blast kills n Philippines Flippines a bomb explode Meier As hundreds of people 11 saints Day killing seven no about 40, police said. Responsibility for the blast.1 . During a Power Black Catholic cemetery in the town is Southeast of Manila. Alii ies were a 70-Yearold ear old girl according to to italia. He said some of the ical condition. Chills put Kis in Hospital Kilty Dukakis wife of Zentia nominee Michael do renter tuesday after she was Almont of a viral infection a a 1 02-degree fever and com Hen admitted monday night of Minnesota Hospital the i said her temperature was Day. He said. She slept five or six said thai is a Good sign. Her  she was undergoing fur tuesday. 1, was reported eager to re and was hoping to join her Surv. Conn., for an appear acc thursday to Nark his 55lh birthday. Leftist  in Salvador kills 4 at go lard building san Salvo Bels launched u c tack tuesday on ters killing tour people the defend among the in col. Jose hit Mai shrapnel wound in a broadcast by i Seremos said the As recently promoted including new Chie who assumed comi. Col. Jose Galilei off grenades St proc compound during were Able to exl Ingi q i Al Salvador leftist re t bomb mortar and Rifle at l e National guard head Quad Goldien and wounding 37 ministry reported. C de were guard commander o Gomez who received a i leg and seven civilians. 1 rebels Clandestine radio Van so just was a Welcome to officers changes in the armed Fortes h f staff col Rene Brailio Ponce to and tuesday v 3 Torres said rebel mortar ire set aside the main building in the the 45-Mimne alack. Firefighters Riih the Maze he said. The rebels also parked two cars loaded with explosives about a Block from the guard com Pound in Northern san Salvador and one blew up a defense ministry spokesman said. Army munitions experts deactivated explosives in the second vehicle the spokesman said. . Frigate Davis leaves reducing Gulf Fleet to 26 by Melissa Healy the los Angeles times Washington in a Low key statement tuesday that belied the event s significance the department of defense announced that the Navy s guided missile frigate Rodney m. Davis had begun steaming out of the persian Gulf thus trim ring the size of the . Armada to 26 skips from the 27 that had been protect ing Tanker traffic in the Gulf for 16 months. . Officials believe that the departure of the Davis Wilt usher in the final stage of a costly and sometimes violent american military commitment that Many critics had complained would be dangerously open ended Pentagon officials foresee the gradual reduction of the . Naval forces to their pre-1987 level of roughly four ships. By standards set within the Reagan administration the persian Gulf operation was a strategic Success. It contributed to Iran s decision to end its eight Yucai War with Iraq according to the administration. It thwarted possibility of a kuwaiti bid to gain Protection from soviet ships and helped limit Moscow s persian Gulf Armada to a least few mine sweepers. And in the eyes of America s persian Gulf allies it has boosted Confidence in american will to use Mili tary Power on their behalf. It s been an unbounded Success which accomplished everything we set out to do said former de sense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Creer who launched the program. The fact that we re Able to wind it Down now is the clearest indication of  but critics charge thai the Navy s persian Gulf operations raised the Levels of violence in and along the troubled waterway attacks on Neutral shipping in the Gulf actually Rose and exposed dangerous inadequacies in the training and intelligence of the very forces most Likely to be dispatched to future third world hot spots. Some also question the administration s claim that the Navy s presence in the persian Gulf was a key Factor in Iran s decision to Hall its War with Iraq. A senior Arab Diplomat who called the operation one of the Premier successes of the Reagan administration nevertheless said that the commotion caused by the . Naval Force had spawned As much terrorism and hostility in the Mideast Asil was meant to Avert. The origins of the escort operation Dale to March 1987, when Kuwait citing increased iranian and iraqi attacks on Neutral snipping in the persian Gulf turned to the Unius states and the soviet Union for naval Protection of its commercial tankers. Washington won a kuwaiti Promise to exclude the soviets and the United states in july launched opera Tion Earnest will. American warships began escorting 11 kuwaiti tankers newly re flagged under the Slars and stripes through the perilous Strait of Hormuz to Kuwait s Oil complexes in the Northern Gulf. In May 1987, even before the a flagging of the Lank cars formally began 37 sailors aboard he guided mis Sile frigate Stark were killed when an iraqi warplane mistakenly hurled two exocet missiles at it. And the formal escorts immediately proved dangerous. The newly re flagged kuwaiti Tanker badge ton one of two ships under escort in the first naval Convoy of the opera Tion Hil a mine while under escort july 24,1987, . And iranian forces clashed no fewer than 10 times. Eleven More , servicemen were killed including two marines who went Down with a cobra helicopter during the april 1988 us. Attack on iranian Oil  other nine deaths were not in combat three sailors and one airman for example died when their helicopter crashed into one of the patrol ships. From Page is to Block formation of a coalition and the religious parties which appear attuned to liked and Are forecast to have enough Between liked More ideological get 18 seats Israel Tel vision Svitil polls predicted liked would have an Edge in for Mhz a governing coalition. A smiling Shamir Tou supporters at Campaign head quarters he believed lined could control a majority of 61 seals. -.-. V based on he facts we Aye before us it seems that the situation commands an of Nables the liked to form Israel s next government Shamir Saidt a nationally televised speech. / in a later to interview  the idea of a National Unity government like he one formed after 1984 elections ended in Deal Doc with labor winning 44 and liked 41 scats. T the 65-year-old percs rim faced said at labor Headquarters his party a still in Contention. The results of Ihnn Section arc not yet final he said. Jf1 he urged Hijo Flowers Lei s not lose Faith and let s consider us options for forming a government in the next 24 wfrs.".  the defense minister and a leading figure to labor. Said the key to who will put together a government is in the religious  polls from Page 1 new one minute and entering on the"9 gel Richer and claiming Dukakis s pointed to a als Jaf califor i the a would be fairer to the Middle class. Dukakis aides said their private poll race that was narrowing. Privately expressed doubts while Abc said its Nia showed Bush a Leader by so lion s most populous state. A lbs news poll released. Holding a 12-Poinl Lead Over of Altos 53-41 the Survey of 1,065 probable voters was saturday through monday. Dan Quayle Bush s ruffling mate expressed ii lion with gop  after they abrupt switched his schedule cancel a trip to South ind. The same i Lynch was visiting. Democratic vice a residential candidate Lloyd Bent sen climbed into Ibe cockpit of an f-16 Jet fighter for the Benefit of television cameras As he renewed his Campaign to persuade texans that Dukakis would be Strong on defence. President Reagan campaigned for Bush and other republicans,1 ripping into Dukakis for describing him self As a Liberal m the Mold of Roosevelt and Truman. Dukakis it no hairy Truman and he s no for the outgoing president said and. Then depicted this year s democratic candidate As a Man pursuing Ibe doer Mondale Liberal  transition planners were on a schedule that could t of Ait Tor the election. Stationery bearing the politically it Correct Letterhead office of the president elect was s. On order to suit either Bush or Dukakis. Abush behaved like a Man who thought he d be using that stationery. In his speech at notre Dame he said Rrt Sefc a Ogress has been nude in superpower relations during the Reagan Yean and added that ii was important for he and Gorbachev to size each other up  he said he would ask Hii Secretary of state to make in Clear that 1 am prepared to meet with general Secretary Gorbachev at the earliest time that would serve the inter ests of world  my purpose in such a meeting would not be to achieve any grand breakthrough but to engage in a  direct examination of where we Are and How we can Best go Forward toward further arms reductions a decrease in regional tensions and further adherence to human rights and thus toward a surer peace he said. Bush could t resist a few Sharp digs at Dukakis saying now was no time for total inexperience in diplomacy and adding that his democratic rival would name doctrinaire liberals to the supreme court. The vice president was heckled periodically by it two dozen people but he told Hift rest of Bis hence of 2,000 thai he had come to expect it As a Pampa life on the Campaign Trail ire Campaign Mailer thai Dukakis jumped on in Start fat a lop Bush fund Raiser denounced As Rotten a  that he was trying to use his position to land a Public relations contract for his firm with the Golem Manv f Haiti. Fred Bush who is not related to the vice pres meet said he had told his partner Michael Goyan to Forte it when it came to Haiti but his partner had Ignont the admonition and had written the nation s new president using Bush s name