European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday december 4,198b news briefs Seaman burned in fire on Nimitz Dies of injuries Lan Stuhl West Germany is the Sailor burned wednesday in a fire on the aircraft Carrier Nimitz died Friday evening at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center a spokeswoman said saturday Seaman apprentice Chadwick r. Henderson 19, died at 10 16 . In Lan Stuhl s intensive care unit where he was being treated for second and third degree bums. Mane Shaw said. Henderson was injured when an aircraft gun on the Nimitz then operating in the Northern arabian sea accidentally fired hitting a plane on the Fli Ahl deck and causing a fire. Petty offi cer 2nd class Douglas Scott Dimberg 23, was killed immediately in the Accident and Hender son was flown to West Germany. Henderson a native of Rockford iii., is sur Vived by i parents whose names were not available Shaw said information about a memorial service also was not available she said. Of officers cars collide killing Captain 2 injured , West Germany an air Force Captain was killed and a first lieutenant and his wife injured when the two Oft Cerv ear collided about Midnight Friday on a Highway near Tilburg a a disc spokeswoman said sat . Steven a. Gum 35, with the 2139th comm so since june was pronounced dead atthe air Force Hospital at Tilburg a Early sat urday morning master sol. Cynthia Hall said. Gum was killed after apparently losing control of his car and colliding with the other car on Highway 0-5 during Wal and foggy weather conditions. Hall  it. Steve Sokoly 28, an electronic War fare officer with the 81 is tac fighter so at Span Dahlem a was driving the other car an was treated and released. Sokoly s wife Ruth a passenger in the car was listed in stable Condi Tion at the air Force Hospital. Hall said. Gum a West Virginia native is survived by his wife. Lynnette and his parents Arthur , of Athens  Lula b. Mommies ,. A memorial service for gum has not Cyl been scheduled. Hall  police Are investigating the Accident. Polish officials to permit Walesa to visit France Warsaw Poland a Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa who has not been allowed to leave Poland since 1981, has been Given permission to travel to France later this month his wife said saturday. The change in policy will allow him to attend ceremony in Paris on dec. 10, marking the 40th anniversary of the Universal declaration of human rights. Soviets afghan rebels open talks on government pos Riyadh saudi Arabia a soviet officials and afghan guerrillas fighting the red army and the Kabul government held informal talks saturday in the first such meeting since the soviets invaded the asian country in 1979. The talks will Deal with prisoners of War the future relationship Between Afghanistan and the soviet Union and the future of the marxist government in Kabul. ". The informal talks began in the saudi resort of taif where formal negotiations were expected to begin later saturday or sunday sources said. But in a statement released saturday the seven party afghan guerrilla Alliance based in Pakistan said the talks Are to be held sunday through tuesday. They added that the talk were initiated by Moscow and were an indictment against a . Settlement negotiated in Geneva this year. Under that plan More than half of the 100,000 so Viet troops have pulled out of Afghanistan. The plan Calls for the rest of the troops to be out by feb. 15, but the soviets recently halted the withdrawal to protest Conti cd guerrilla operations saudi Arabia was chosen As a Sile for the talks by in afghan resistance groups because of the influence thai the pro Western kingdom wields in the islamic world As the custodian of islam s two holiest shines. The Riyadh government had stated repeatedly that it would consider establishing relations with Moscow Only after soviet troop Complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan the informal meeting began after the arrival of the soviet delegation headed by Yuli Vorontsov a Deputy foreign minister who recently was named ambassador to Afghanistan the sources said. Burhanuddin Rabbani Leader of a Loose Alliance of seven afghan resistance groups based in Peshawar Pakistan has been in the kingdom for two weeks. No representatives of afghan president Najib s Goy emment or Pakistan the resistance s main Backer will attend the meeting. Top greens resign after party endorses no Confidence vote Karlsruhe West Germany a the entire i a member leadership of the left Wing Green party has resigned after being hit with a no Confidence vote from senior members some of whom see the shakeup As a Chance for the party to Chart a More moderate course. The governing Council for the fractured and fractious environmentalist party had been dominated by members of the fundamentalist or undies faction the most Radical greens who Sec Little Worth i trying to influence government actions by working within the West German bundestag parliament. Only 44 of the 519 bundestag seats Are held by the greens. About 400 greens members gathered Over the week end in Karlsruhe for a special party conference during which a no Confidence Vole in the governing Council was proposed. The Council and the fundamentalist greens had been blamed by other factions within the party for irregularities in the financing of a new party building in  no Confidence declaration was approved by a 214 to 186 vote after which the Council resigned. Jutta Ditfurth party spokeswoman and a former Council member labelled the accusations an unbelievable smear  Christian Schmidt another for Mer Council member said the shakeup May cause the fundamentalists to form their own  said fundamentalists would decide before year s end whether to stay with the greens or depart from the party the 39,000-Mcmbcr party had been moving farther left Over the past year a trend that realists feared could alien ate More voters and jeopardize the greens participation in the bundestag. Only political parties garnering at least 5 percent of the vote in National elections Are allowed to Send representatives to the  candidates got go percent of the vote during the last Federal elections in 1987. The parly that developed from a Radical Environ mentalist movement in West Germany in the 1970sformed a National organization in 1979 and won elec Tion to the bundestag in 1983. Hijackers from Page 1 soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze thanked the israelis for returning  said Shevardnadze met with an israeli consular delegation in Moscow on saturday to  thanks and deep appreciation of the soviet govern ment and soviet people regarding the Noble Way the government of Israel has dealt with this Barbaric act. Relations Between the two nations have gradually been warming Over the pail few years. The soviet Union Sev ered diplomatic lies in 1967 after Israel captured lands from its Arab Allie during the Middle East War. Three of the soviets the married couple mid one Man were sent Back on the Ilyushin a 76 that brought them to Israel the other to returned in a Tupoljev Airliner thai brought the soviet delegation to Tel Aviv on saturday. In Moscow Kiuly a. Ponomarev Deputy Kab chief identified the ringleader of the group As 38-year-old Pavel l. Yak shants Ponomarev said the Man was a drug user who first asked to go to Pakistan. . Memorials off limits to middies pranks Shi by Molly Sinclair the Washington Post Washington attention mid Frida mortal Bridge and the mall Dinosaur. The  Park police have a message for you Don t do it again. I understand pranks but there Are appropriate and inappropriate pranks. This is inappropriate because of the possible damage to the monuments said i. Hugh Irwin commander of the mall Monument area. What s More. Irwin said we Don l need people falling from the monuments and killing  Irwin said he complained to capt. Edward Kristensen Deputy commandant of the 4,500 midshipmen at the . Nava Academy in Annapolis md., about the football banners thai appeared during the predawn hours. The Captain basically told me that they would put Oul orders to the brigade that the National monuments would be off limits Irwin said but i did t get the impression that he fell this was All that  Kristensen could not be reached for comment but cmdr. Stephen e. Becker Public relations officer at Annapolis said the Academy had talked to Park police and we Are aware of the  it is army Navy week Becker said. Traditionally this results in a High de Gree of spirit enthusiasm and High Jinks and this year has been no different. In preparation for the annual army Navy game the midshipmen had a Bon fire and Pep rally on the Academy s Farragut Field thursday night in Annapolis Only hours before the bed Sheet ban ners materialized on the memorials we Are Happy no damage was done Becker said. We have passed on to mid Shipmen to be careful of National Monu ments that is not anything we would want to endanger Becker said thai the Banner hangers May have been inspired by a photograph that appeared wednesday in the Washington Post sports Section. The photo graph showed midshipmen preparing for the 1981 clash with army by standing on the Lincoln memorial and displaying a huge Banner. Arnold Goldstein assistant superintendent for the National Park service said that no damage appeared to have been done in this latest Banner hanging incident. Bui it is against regulations for anyone to climb the monuments or to mar any of them or to hang anything on them Goldstein said. John Wheeler chairman of the group thai raised Money for the Vietnam vet Erans memorial said he did t know whether to laugh or yell at the mid Shipmen Friday. Those of us familiar with the family of memorials from giant 10 Lincoln recognize thai they Are really very vulnerable he said. Bui Wheeler also said i was a Cadet at West Point in the class of 1966, the one thai stole Navy s Goat. We had him for about a week and it caused a juror we wondered where was everyone s sense of humor Wheeler said that he had to Admire what the Banner hangers had been Able to achieve. They had to go out in the mid dle of the night and they had to do in without getting caught he said. Bui their Success he added telegraphs the vulnerability of the monuments. Wheeler said that Park police Don t have quite the sense of humor that some people might have because they have to live with the possibility that the Monu ments might be damaged