European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is1 san Antonio i set la loves ii henry9 Page 13 authorized Runoff Licat up Ltd Tiosh Forth . Aflame to forces vol. 47, no. 240 wednesday december 14, 19bb Good morning d 8693 a Arafat offers plan for talks with israelis Plo Leader Yasser Arafat gives the a for Victory sign after his speech in Geneva. Geneva a the Plo chair Man Yasser Arafat offered a three Point peace plan tuesday calling for negotiations with Israel at an International peace conference and . Supervision of israeli occupied territories. In a speech to a special session of the . General Assembly Arafat referred a Israel several times and appealed to its leaders to join peace talks. I ask the leaders of Israel id come Here under the sponsorship of the United nations so that together we Ean forge thai peace Arafa said. He also appealed to the israeli people. Come he said let us make the peace of the bold far from the arrogance of Power and the weapons of destruction far from the occupation and oppression and humiliation and murder and Tor  in Jerusalem prime minister i wreak Shamir dismissed Arafat s initiatives saying the Plo had not changed its policy of terror. He called on Washington not to recognize the Plo we know what hides behind his Arafat s words Shamir told a news con Ference. We know that As they arc spoken acts of terror  cited an incident tuesday in which a palestinian shot and killed two israelis in he occupied West Bank Iri Washington state department spokesman Charles Redman said Arafat jailed to meet conditions for opening a dialogue with the United Stales because his speech did not clearly recognize is Rael s right to exist. The. Speech contained some inter Esting and positive developments red Man said but it continued la be ambiguous on key issues including recognition of Israel renunciation of terrorism and acceptance of , resolutions 242 and 338. Arafat s three Point plan called first Tot a serious Effort to Convene an International peace conference in Geneva under . Auspices. His second Point urged that occupied palestinian land be placed under temporary , supervision that peacekeeping forces be deployed and that israeli troops withdraw. He did not say whether see Arafat on Back Page private travel a 51 i7t offices m West Ger Ninny Dyn orm Zeigler travel Wittsr the information Tours and Traver offices at 51 army communities through of West Germany will be replaced by a private contractor travel Agency next year officials said. Whether the switch will mean higher prices for trav Elers remains unclear but Here should be no interruption of on Post Ravel service during the phasing out of itts and the opening of a contractor travel Agency a Usa eur official said. Barring unforeseen circumstances it itt will be. Turned Over to a civilian contractor said Ronald Hamas. Chief of the Enie Prisc Branch of Usa eur s Community and family support Agency. No similar change is planned for air Force itts said Doug Moore Safe Public affairs spokesman Hamas said his office was developing a transition plan and itt personnel would not necessarily Jose their jobs in the change v. The travel contractor will be required to offer the right of first refusal to qualified itt personnel he said meaning itt employees would get first Chance at jobs Wilh  =.-.,. ,.vAnother Usa eur official who requested anonymity said the decision was not made because inc army was dissatisfied with itt service. The search for a new travel contractor began when the army ended its contract with the former on Post travel Vendor Barbarossa Rise service a Mph in March 9s7, the official said. Since then itt has provided Many of the travel services previously handled by Barbarossa and Ameri can express before it. This was described by the army As having been Only a temporary measure until a new contractor could be found it was never intended for itt to be a full service operation  the Usa eur official said Richard Cru scr itt director in Stuttgart mid he was aware that itt took Over travel services on a Stopgap basis after Barbarossa left the scene. What was not Clear he said was that itt would be eliminated when a new contractor was found. The army estimates the annual volume of business at the 51 locations to exceed 1100 million. The travel company getting the contract will pay 5 percent of its Gross turnover to the army. The Concession fee is 10 be computed monthly for each location and paid to  " " sea itt on Back Page quake survivors face new enemies cold Lack of tents Yerevan .s.r. A survivors of the armenian earthquake Are freezing to death at night because Only a fraction of the thousands of tents sent to the disaster area reach the homeless a soviet newspaper re ported tuesday. Rescuers struggled to haul heavy equipment into the disaster area and evacuate victims de spite roads jammed with grieving relatives a Mountain snowstorm and temperatures that dropped below Wro fahrenheit related Story on tuesday the foreign ministry put the official death toll from the dec. 7 quake at 55,000 and the number of injured at 1 3,000. Hope dwindled for those trapped in the ruins and the smell of decaying corpses filled the air. Rescuers have pulled 18,500 bodies from the wreckage in the past four Days but Only 5,400 of them were alive. Foreign ministry spokesman i see quake on Back Page