European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page s3 the stars and stripes saturday november 12,1988 s briefs Reagan signs legislation to Fine tune tax Reform Washington up president Reagan signed legislation Friday making several refine ments in the lax overhaul of 1986 and providing a Bill of rights for . Taxpayers. Although while House officials had said they had qualms about the legislation particularly i connection with a $50 million Federal seizure of property next to historic civil War battlefields in Northern Virginia the terse announcement of Reagan s approval carried no statement of presidential misgivings the tax corrections act was one of few remaining pieces of legislation from the last Congress of which Reagan had not disposed. Among the Bills he must still act upon is legislation stepping up the . Effort to curb drug abuse. Iran Iraq take break from non productive talks Geneva api peace talks Between Iran and Iraq recessed Friday after seven direct ses Sions produced no tangible process toward consolidating the 12-Wcck-old cease fire. Both sides agreed 10 resume he negotiations in the near fun fur possibly in december or january said . Mediator Jan Eliasson . Secretary general Javier Perez do curl Lar has urged the two governments in n message to use the recess for deep reflection and to take Steps la move the peace process Forward Eliasson said after the to minute meeting Commerce chief to quit when Bush is inaugurated Washington a Commerce Secre tary c. William Verity said Friday he Wilt not seek reappointment when George Bush become president Jan. 20. He wants younger people and i applaud h in for that said Verity who is 71. "1 was retired when i took this Job and i guess i la be retired  Verity named Commerce Secretary in august1987 after Secretary Malcolm Baldrige was killed in a Rodeo Accident said he is ready to help Bush in the transition to the new administration. Verity retired As chairman of the Board of ,inc., a major steel firm in 1982 but remained a member for another four years. He is a grandson of George m. Verity who founded the firm. Mediators step into talks Between Northwest pilots Minneapolis a the National Media Tion Board intervened in the labor dispute betwee Northwest airlines and its 4,800 pilots averting the possibility of a strike at Midnight Friday. Northwest chairman Steven Rothmeier request cd mediation thursday As pilots voted on whether to Sci the Midnight deadline. The Union said Friday that the results were not  contract talks reached an impasse nov. 1 Over wages work rules and fringe benefits. Union spokesman Pete Quortrup said negotiators disagree on More than 100  mediation wages and work rules re main unchanged. Mediators handle negotiation until there is a settlement or an impasse at which Point the Board will offer arbitration. If either Side rejects the offer there would be a 30-Day Cooling off period before Northwest could impose a contract or the Union could strike. Democrat seeks re count in . Race for governor Providence . A democratic gubernatorial candidate Bruce o. Sundlun. The apparent loser by a narrow margin in tuesday s election requested a re count Friday. Perhaps a mistake was made of some significance said Campaign manager Kenneth haunt. I Don t think it s very Likely. Neither does anyone else really. Still i should be checked. It was very  Republican Edward Diprete was re elected by an unofficial margin of 6,299 votes after tuesday night s initial machine count not including 16,000 still uncounted for Absentee ballots and 675 Voles from one late reporting precinct. Haupt said he requested the re count because he owed it to Campaign workers and Sundlun s peace of  a Sundlun Campaign spokeswoman. Eileen Cro Chiere said the Campaign is not alleging fraud. The governor who was out of town Friday said wednesday that if he were in Sundlun s position he probably would consider asking for a re count. With All but one precinct reporting from tuesday election Diprete s unofficial machine total was 195,283 vote or is percent to Sundlun s 188,984 votes or 49 percent. New Shoreham s results were sent in thursday. A re count would begin wednesday and probably would take three Days said elections Board chairman Joseph Distefano. The re count entails opening All 1,800 voting machines and comparing the numbers on the meters with those reported on sheets tilled out by precinct workers. The last statewide re count was in the 1986 attorney general s race and did not change the outcome Diste Fano said. Mum. N m ibo Liioi general i. Fan said Stock Market goes into slump under pressure of falling Dollar new York. Api Stock prices closed sharply the face of mounting questions about the future undo lower in fairly quiet Holiday trading Friday pressured a new president. York by a declining Dollar and investor concerns about the american Economy. Analysts said the Stock Market began Selling Early in the Day in reaction to a Steep slide in the . Currency in foreign Exchange markets in Europe and Tokyo despite reported intervention by the Central Bank of Japan. See conversion rates on Page 20. The currency continued its slide in . Trading pulling Down Bonds and stocks. We have the Dollar Down big Bonds Down and the Slock Market broke 2,100," said Emmanuel Croni Mous a senior vice president at the financial firm of Shearson Lehman hut Lon inc. A general malaise continues to pervade the  except for the Dollar analysts said there were no pressing factors to explain the Market s Sharp drop there s no special reason for it except a number of technical support numbers were broken. The Bon Market was virtually closed because of veterans Day said Alfred a Goldman vice president of . Edwards and sons inc. Brokerage. The Market is show ing no respect. Which has increased the fear  analysts said in the Post election environment investors had Little conviction to commit their funds in the under a. Concerns about the Economy particularly the Feder Al budget deficit and How the president elect will work to solve those problems also continued to erode investor Confidence observers said. But some analysts Saiti they were surprised by the Market s weakness. There was an unusual amount of decline despite the japanese Stock Market reaching a record High said Eldon a. Grimm senior vice president of birr Wilson and co. Grimm said that Many investors were still disappointed thai the Market did not rally following the Victory of George Bush inc Market s Choice for presi Dent. .,.-. People were wailing for a rally to sell and since it did t come they were Selling today Grimm said. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials tumbled 4 7.66 Points to close at 2,067.03.declining issues outpaced advancing issues by about four to one on the new York Stock Exchange. Nose volume totalled 135,50 million shares against128.92 million in the previous session. The nose s composite Index declined 2,85 lo151.24. .-.-, -. Police Rush Young Derrion Strat in mostly Pep Gerful polish r Warsaw Poland a Hal acted ride police attacked demonstrators Friday night after a rally in Warsaw to Mark the 70lhanniversary of the establish. Ment of the polish Republic. Clashes were reported in three other cities.  police drove through a crowd shot off tear Gas canisters and then charged about 500 to 1,000 Young peo ple near the Tomb of the unknown Soldier after some demonstrators threw Sticks at officers. The demonstrators scattered into a nearby pork and at least 10 were seen being detained."-,. Earlier More than 20,000 poles chanting "solidarity1and Independence demonstrated peacefully in the streets of the capital following e mass marking the anniversary of the nov. 11,1918, rebirth of the Poland state. Police and demonstrators clashed in three other Cit ies activists said but other demonstrations reported around the country were peaceful. R Independent marches and rallies were Neld in War saw Gdansk Krakow wroclaw Lublin and  Poznan and Gdansk demonstrators battled for hours with riot police activists said. ,. Speech from Page 1 i and Calls for his resignation. Jenninger said he was stepping Down As bundestag president because he wanted to avoid damage to the office and because he believed he lost the Trust of Many colleagues. A member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Christian democrats Jenninger has been a lawmaker since 1969 and was one of Kohl s closest aides  was elected bundestag president in november 1984. In his speech their Day Jen Mnger talked at length about the positive feelings of Many Ordinary germans Early in the Hitler dictatorship. Did t Hitler bring to reality what Kaiser Wil Helm ii had Only promised that is to Lead the germans to glorious times was t he chosen by Providence Ali her such As is Given to a people Only once in a thousand years Jenninger asked for the Fate of the germans and european jews Hitler s successes were perhaps even More fateful than his crimes and misdeeds Jenninger said. The years from 1933 to 1938, even from a Distant retrospective and in the knowledge of what followed still Are a fascinating thing today since throughout history there was hardly a parallel to Adolf s Hitler triumphant procession during the first  t it a Leader of West Germany s jewish Community defended Jennifer s speech saying he could not understand Calls for his resignation i Welcome that the parliament president described in full clarity what was happening in Germany by. Tween 1933 and 1938," said Michael furst a Deputy chairman of the Central Council of jews in West Ger Many. ,.-.- a a ,. " ,.-,. " starting with the Kristal nacht of nov. 900, 1938, the nazis made Clear their intentions to wipe out euro Pean jews on that night nazi thugs destroyed jewish Homes businesses and synagogues sending 30.000 jews to concentration Camps arid killing 91 jews. Shattered Glass covered the streets and the nazis mockingly named it Krist Allnach or Crystal night. The nazis killed 6 million jews and Many others Dur ing Hitler s Riith from 1933 to 194s