European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 4, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 dec chiefs urge fast end to barriers Rhodes Greta a the dec nations rail Craid on saturday their commitment to free Trade Afler a unified european Market is created in 1992, but acknowledged they must move fatter to abolish internal barriers. At inc end of their two Day Summit on the greek Island of Rhodes the leaders of the 12 european economic Community nations also reaffirmed their guarded support for Lle Plo s recent declaration of a palestinian slate. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher French president Francois Mitterrand West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and inc other nine euro Pean leaders said in a statement the Europe of 1992 will be a partner and not a fortress Europe the single Market will be a decisive Factor that will contribute to a greater lib ral Izal Ion of International Trade the leaders also pledged to cooperate with the administration of president elect George Bush. The Community and its member Stales will. Work in close cooperation with the United slates to maintain an deepen the solid trans Atlantic relation ship they said. The free Trade statement was aimed at allaying . And japanese fears thai after 1992 their in ports will be shut put of the lucrative Market of 322 million West europeans. In a separate statement the european Leaden said inc dec must move faster to dismantle remaining barriers including those affecting transport and Energy and the free movement of person but they said this must be linked to Progress in intergovernmental cooperation to combat terrorism International crime and drug  Thatcher has expressed fears that a Frontier free Europe will attract terrorist and International criminals including members of the Irish Republican army which has units operating in Continental Europe. On the Middle East the dec nations Christmas clone might get some Bah humbugs East Lansing Mich. A a Michigan stale University scientist said Friday he s on he verge of discovering How to clone the perfect Christmas Tret but the notion in expected to Needle some yuletide traditionalists. The test tube Trees ire created by chemically stimulating a. Fragment of an Ideal tree into reproducing it self. Mid Michigan state uniter Silty geneticist junes w. Hanover. Hanover who b doing Troe a toning research at the Etui Lansing univer sity said his team is about five years away from perfecting be process. The technique eliminates the Natu. Ral genetic variation of seeds that causes some Trees to develop awkward holes and pm Ltd twisted branches Graven who now pay about 20 cents for a seedling would pay 75-80 cents but would earn higher profits by Selling each tree Hanover saw. The process already is used by Mercial in Man snob As Gary w to raise Small ornamental tree about 10 to 15 percent of our Trees. Are Low pad said Rissen owner of Mathieson Tret farms inc. In Green Rilk. They re either sold at less Money or Are just thrown away. With cloning we could virtually Harvest 100. Percent of Nur  com Esson leaders Margaret Thatcher of England Caraco Silva of Portugal and Charles Hoghey of Ireland seek shelter from rain. Reaffirmed their stance on the Declara Tion by the Palestine National Council the Plo s parliament in exile of a pales Tinian state despite opposition from Greece France Italy and Spain. The four countries expressed their opposition during discussions. The palestinian declaration issued nov. Is implicitly recognized Israel s right to exist on nov. 21, the dec welcomed the declaration but stopped Short of recognizing an Independent Palestine. The dec Leaden also agreed to sen their . Ambassadors to a planned special session of the United nations in Geneva to hear Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat French foreign minister Roland Dumas said. The . General Assembly is to meet in Geneva because the United Stales re fused to Issue a visa to Arafat so he could address the Assembly in new York. The dec leaders made no comment on the visa rejection. Dumas said ii dec states will Send their , envoys to the Geneva session and Greece will sen foreign minister Karo Las Papoulias. Papoulias whose country holds the rotating chairmanship of the dec Wilt rep resent the economic Community at the session. The 12 dec nations arc Britain France West Germany Italy Luxembourg Bel Gium the Netherlands Denmark Greece Ireland. Portugal and Spain. Cyclone that hit Bangladesh India left More than dead Dhaka Bangladesh up the worst Cyclone to hit Bangladesh an pans of Eastern India his Century left More than 2,000 people dead some 6,000 others missing and nearly 3 Mil lion homeless officials and reports said saturday .-.-. Authorities began assessing the dam age to wildlife in the Sund cubans the world s largest mangrove Forest that bore the full fury of last tuesday s storm and has been severely depopulated of tigers Deer and monkeys. Officials said recent search operations yielded 225 More bodies and boosted to 1,125 the confirmed death toll. However the stale run Daminik Bangka newspaper put total fatalities at 1,500 and reported that casualties to property and cattle were "enormous.". In Calcutta Indian officials said the Cyclone killed More than 500 people in the coastal districts of West Bengal another areas where some 50,000 head of cattle also perished. There is every possibility of the death toll increasing to 700 when All the re ports Are fully in said Ashim Dasgupta West Bengal finance minister. Other officials said 450.000 people were homeless in the Batler cd areas of India where the feared an epidemic could begin because most supplies of drinking water were contaminated. The Cyclone the most powerful to i the area since 1876 crashed out of inc Bay of Bengal and Tore a path of destruction across much of Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India before dissipating Early wednesday. It brought in 110-Mph winds that Cre ated 15-Foql-hign tidal Waves. A lpns on panel blame 1985 crash i n a by Folk and i d n d in ice a ppr says Louisville by a most Mem Bers of a Canadian panel studying a 1935 air plane crash in Newfoundland believe ice on the wings caused the Accident thai killed 248 . Soldiers returning from a Middle. East peacekeeping Mission according to a report published saturday. A majority of he nine member Ca Nadian aviation safety Board concluded that ice on the Arrow air plane s wings caused  stall and then crash the Cou Rier journal reported citing a defense department official and a lawyer for a Row s  safely Board s final report on the crash will be released in Hull Quebec on thursday four Days Short of the anniversary of the dec. 12, 1985, Accident Canada s worst air Accident Ever. However the defense department source and lawyer John Martin said one or More Board members Are expected to file a dissenting report saying the Acci Dent May have been caused by an explosion aboard the pcs or the inadvertent deployment of a reverse the Ester used to slow the plane during landings. We re expecting a dissent but the majority theory is that icing caused the crash said the defense official who asked not to be identified because of Ca Nadian requests to keep the report secret. The jetliner crashed seconds after Tak ing off from Gander Newfoundland killing All aboard including eight Crew members and inc soldiers who were re turning to fort Campbell ky., after serv ing in the Sinai desert with an International peacekeeping Force